Stress Less, Live More: Meditation for Moms with Emily Fletcher of Ziva

Episode Highlights With Emily Her unique journey into meditation and how it led to her work today How she had insomnia and was going grey at 27 before finding meditation What makes her method of meditation different and how it gives your body rest that is 5x more effective than sleep Investing just 2% of your day helps the other 98% be even more amazing The mind thinks involuntarily, just like the heart beats involuntarily Ziva is based on something 6,000 years old that means “big results based on action barely taken,” and how this helps us reach a fourth state of consciousness How meditation can be less about focus and concentration and more about carving out space to be unfocused and avoid focus fatigue that's especially easy for moms This method helps de-excite the nervous system and create more coherence When you give the body true rest, it knows how to heal itself and sleep is not the only form of rest we have If we only have sleep as our method of rest, the body has to use sleep to process The sleep, immune, fertility, and productivity connections We meditate to get better at life, not to get better at meditation Some tactical tips for making meditation a habit and how to incorporate this as a mom Resources Mentioned Her Instagram Ziva Online and Ziva Magic Why Isn't Everyone Doing This? - Emily's podcast Stress Less, Accomplish More: The 15-Minute Meditation Programme for Extraordinary Performance by Emily Fletcher