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Major corporations are starting to realize what meditation can do for company performance. Aetna, one of the largest insurance companies in the world, offered mindfulness courses to its workforce. Demand for the programs continues to rise.
The author distinguishes between mindfulness, meditation and manifesting. mindfulness helps you deal with stress in the present, meditation gets rid of stress from the past and manifesting helps you clarify your dreams for the future.
Harvard study found that in only two months, meditation can change the brain enough to be visibly detected by MRI. Emily concludes that study by saying that meditation is literally mind changing. I think that's just another case study to reinforce and highlight the transformative and profound and the powerful impact that meditation could have on one's physical and emotional self.
The shrinking of the amygdala during stressful times really allows you to put the stress aside and respond in a common, collected manner. With meditation, you learn to be happy in the here and now. The idea of “all be happy” syndrome is one of the biggest reasons why I encourage people to get out and read the book.
Discover More challenges our audience to experiment with a meditation practice. Try your absolute best to do seven days of meditation consistently and let us know how it goes.
This week, we’ll be reviewing Stress Less, Accomplish More by Emily Fletcher @emilystellafletcher on Instagram. This book is a how-to meditation book for achievement minded individuals who believe they either don’t have the time to mediate or the ability to meditate consistently. Emily tells the story of how the stresses of a 10 year career on Broadway, led her to India to study the only thing that got her through those crazy years, meditation. She shares the wisdom she learned while studying Eastern meditation in India for 3 years. She then explains the Z-Technique, the meditation practice that she developed for the ordinary person and used to start her meditation company, Ziva. This book is packed with science-based studies around the neurological benefits of meditation that explains the transformative power of meditation. The compelling research and immutable results of meditation, paired with Emily’s remarkable story-telling, makes for an incredible page-turner that can make a profound impact on reader’s lives. In the first few chapters, Emily poses a powerful question, “Would you be willing to invest 2 precent of your day if you knew it would improve the other 98 percent?” We believe this is a no brainer. She explains, “Meditation is simply a tool to help you reach your goals; it’s never the goal itself. We Meditate to get good at life, not to get good at meditation.” Both Beniot and I have been meditating every morning for the past year, however this book transformed the way we look at and approach our practices. In this episode, we will discuss our biggest takeaways from Emily’s book, the many scientific benefits that she presents, as well as our significant experiences with and from meditation. We hope this episode brings you an effective toolkit that allows you to find a sense of calmness and composure amidst this challenging time.
