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Why Meditation is the New Caffeine | Emily Fletcher | Talks at Google

Emily Fletcher, one of the world's leading experts on meditation, will explain the differences between the two most popular styles of meditation, how they affect the brain differently and the impact of stress on performance.

Emily Fletcherguest
Jul 30, 201450mWatch on YouTube

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EPISODE INFO

Released
July 30, 2014
Duration
50m
Channel
Talks at Google
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Emily Fletcher, one of the world's leading experts on meditation, will explain the differences between the two most popular styles of meditation, how they affect the brain differently and the impact of stress on performance. Emily will also lead you through a simple breathing technique and guided visualization that will help balance the right and left sides of the brain. This talk will cover:

  • How the fight or flight reaction can work for you or against you
  • Why emotional intelligence is so important for not only personal happiness, but professional success and how anyone can learn it
  • How to not let goals get in the way of success

About the Speaker: Emily Fletcher is the founder of Ziva Meditation and the creator of zivaMIND, the first online meditation training program. She began her meditation training in Rishikesh, India and was inspired to become a meditation teacher after experiencing the profound physical and mental benefits it provided her during her 10-year career on Broadway, which included roles in Chicago, The Producers, A Chorus Line and many others. With her high performance background and eight years of meditation experience, Emily is perfectly suited to teach busy people how to incorporate this simple and effective practice into their lives. Emily has taught meditation to a wide range of individuals and companies including Coca Cola, Relativity Media, Colbeck Capitol, Ogilvy & Mather and in public schools in the Bronx. She is a regular guest on Huffington Post LIVE and has been a speaker on the Dr. Lisa show and with Eckhart Tolle at the Global Alliance for Transformational Entertainment For more information: http://www.zivameditation.com http://www.zivaMIND.com

SPEAKERS

  • Emily Fletcher

    guest

    Meditation teacher known for teaching Vedic meditation.

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Talks at Google, featuring Emily Fletcher, Why Meditation is the New Caffeine | Emily Fletcher | Talks at Google explores Meditation as sustainable energy: deeper rest than coffee’s adrenaline boost Emily Fletcher reframes meditation as a productivity tool, comparing it to caffeine but emphasizing meditation’s restorative pathway versus caffeine’s stress-chemical pathway.

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