Digital Social Hour
Why Modern Professionals Need Meditation to Succeed | Emily Fletcher DSH #1165
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Are you ready to unlock the secret weapon for modern professionals? In this insightful episode of the Digital Social Hour with Sean Kelly, we dive into why meditation is the ultimate game-changer for success. Join Sean and special guest Emily Fletcher as they break down the science behind stress, share how meditation boosts creativity, improves sleep, and even enhances relationships (yes, including your sex life! ). Learn how just 15 minutes a day can reverse your body’s age, supercharge your energy, and transform your mindset. Emily also shares her incredible journey from Broadway performer to meditation expert and reveals how Ziva Meditation can help YOU thrive in today’s fast-paced world. This episode is packed with valuable insights, real-life examples, and actionable tips to tap into your full potential. Don’t miss out—your future self will thank you! Watch now and subscribe for more insider secrets. Hit that subscribe button and stay tuned for more eye-opening stories on the Digital Social Hour with Sean Kelly! #holisticsexualhealth #erectiledysfunction #mentalhealth #sexualwellness #mindfulness #selfimprovement #anxiety #mentalhealth #breathingexercises #mindfulness CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Intro 00:28 - Stress and Sex 01:40 - Stress Medication 04:17 - Unfelt Feelings 06:47 - Emily’s Psychedelic Experiences 08:55 - Activating DNA Memory 10:46 - Emily’s Egypt Trip 11:39 - Emily’s Insomnia 15:10 - Meditation and Sex 20:06 - Manifesting Techniques 23:13 - Toxic Positivity Issues 24:53 - Feel Good, Get Good 26:40 - Misconceptions about Meditation 30:25 - Increasing Meditation Practice 32:50 - Spiritual Recovery Journey 35:00 - Sexual Energy Exploration 37:10 - Adapting to Change 38:05 - Next Retreat Plans 39:59 - Advanced Technology Insights 42:50 - Dancing to Clear Energy 44:28 - Truth vs. Love Vibration 46:11 - What's Next for Emily APPLY TO BE ON THE PODCAST: https://www.digitalsocialhour.com/application BUSINESS INQUIRIES/SPONSORS: [email protected] GUEST: Emily Fletcher https://www.instagram.com/emilystellafletcher/ https://linktr.ee/zivameditation https://linktr.ee/zivameditation SPONSORS: Specialized Recruiting Group: https://www.srgpros.com/ LISTEN ON: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-social-hour/id1676846015 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Jn7LXarRlI8Hc0GtTn759 Sean Kelly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seanmikekelly/
Chapter 1: Why is stress detrimental to sexual health?
Well, the thing is, so let's just talk about some of the stats on that. If women are too stressed, if their cortisol levels are too high, they become physically incapable of orgasm. If men's cortisol levels are too high and also their adrenaline levels are too high, they become physically incapable of having an erection. Wow.
Because adrenaline is trying to keep that blood everywhere else in the body. You've got to outrun a tiger. You can't afford to have an erection. All right, guys, got Emily here. We're going to talk Ziva magic here today. Yeah, we are. Just did a wonderful breathwork session. I feel good. Thanks for doing that for me. Yeah. My pleasure.
Yeah. Breathwork is powerful. Wim Hof is my first kind of foray into it. What I love about Wim is that he managed to make his name a verb about breathing. Talk about branding expert. Yeah, he's definitely done it. Were you doing breathwork before him or? Yeah. I mean, I'd say probably 15, 16 years. Wow. Yeah. Meditating every day, twice a day for 16 years. Whoa. Twice a day.
Twice a day. That's what we do at Ziva. That's impressive. Thanks. Are they long sessions? 22 minutes for me. But what I teach in our online training is 15 minutes twice a day. Nice. You can do a lot in 15 minutes twice a day. Yeah. It's digestible.
Yeah, people think they don't have time, but it's like, let me see your phone. Like, let me see how many minutes you spend on social media a day, and you probably could fit in an extra 15. Oh, yeah. Because then you're smarter, you're faster, you're more creative, you sleep better, your decision-making is better, your sex drive is better.
It's like, actually, the stress is making us stupid, sick, and slow, and so we don't realize... The opportunity cost of not recharging, of not plugging in, of not like, you know, bathing your brain, if you will. Yeah. I'm very aware of the danger of stress these days. But when I was younger, I was a workaholic. I still am. But now I'm just aware of if I'm too stressed.
He says on his seventh podcast of the day, I used to be a workaholic. But before I would just let it compound and not address it. Yeah. But these days I'll have techniques to kind of de-stress, you know. And how's that been for you? Like now that you're utilizing techniques for stress?
It's helped a lot. Yeah? In what way? Well, I'm not on medication anymore. Okay. So that's great. I was on Xanax before.
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Chapter 2: What is Ziva Meditation and how can it benefit you?
Okay. And just relying on that. I had no holistic techniques. Yeah. People have called Ziva nature Xanax. And I really love that. Yeah. It feels like a big compliment. That is a great compliment. Yeah. Because it's the whole deal is like nature has installed inside of us this internal pharmacy of medicine. Right.
And anything that we would take exogenously is working on some sort of internal receptors. You know, if you put LSD into the brain of a lizard, it does not trip because it doesn't make that particular like God chemical. Wow. I never knew that.
And so there's a reason why the things that we take impact us is because there is some receptor in our brain that we could do internally. So it's like if you can get high on your own supply, let's start there. Look, I'm a big fan of psychedelics as well. I'm a big fan of using tools when they are helpful. Yeah. But I think they're just going to be more impactful if you know how to do it yourself.
absolutely i'm big on psychedelics and learning about the biohacking space i know how powerful the body is now at healing before i think there's a lot of programming on like just take a quick pill you know growing up that's what i thought to heal yourself well it's the same kind of divorcing from our healing potential as we divorce ourselves from our divinity right it's like we forget that we're so creative we forget that we're so powerful and that's been done on purpose right if people stand to gain from you
forgetting you know that you could actually plug in directly to source yourself that you could actually heal yourself then you're going to be you know people are incentivized to help you forget that Yeah. Yeah. Instead we're taught a quick pill. I remember playing soccer. If I was sore, I would take Advil after the game and that was normal.
I used to do that on Broadway, you know, cause you're dancing eight shows a week, six days a week and your feet are swollen and your legs are hurting, but you got to do two more shows today. And so sometimes you're like, okay, I'm going to take the Advil. Crazy.
Yeah. But I used to ice my feet. I remember when I first learned to meditate, I asked my teacher, I said, Hey, can I meditate while I ice my feet? He was like, no, no, you cannot. That's funny. Yeah, I was so relying on those and I took like 10 years off. I just had to take one last week and I was dreading it. 10 years off of Advil? Yeah. Okay, that's pretty good.
Yeah, I was dreading it. My back locked up and it hurts so bad. Oh, I'm sorry. But I do not try to rely on those anymore.
I can give you, because I used to have really intense back pain and two things that have really helped me. One, and I don't know what your issue is, but there's just some pillows that have helped just my structure. Really? The other thing is that I'm really starting to believe that a lot of our pain, not all of it, but a lot of our pain is unfelt feelings.
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Chapter 3: How does meditation compare to medication for stress relief?
What does understudying mean? It means that you show up to the theater and you have no idea which character you're going to play. What? And they can just switch you from one to the other. Or you could just be chilling in your dressing room having a snack. And then someone's like, Emily Fletcher, we
you're on stage and so it's very it's like this constant fight or flight even if you're not on stage wow i didn't know broadway operated like that i thought everyone knew their role well they do but imagine if the lead breaks their ankle imagine if the lead gets sick you know you gotta know everyone's lines well you gotta know the people that you understudy these lines so i understudied three of the leads and that's a lot of lines it's and also a lot of choreography a lot of different harmonies a lot of it's yeah that's stressful so you found out that wasn't your path
Well, I honestly, when I learned to meditate, I was just doing it to be better at that. And it did. It made me a much better performer. Not just from the stress, but also just like spiritually. I think if you don't have a way to plug yourself in, if you don't have a way to fill yourself up with fulfillment, then of course you're going to look for that fulfillment externally, right?
Like maybe this boyfriend, maybe this zero in the bank account, maybe this next job, then I'll be happy. But with meditation, you're flooding your own brain and body with dopamine and serotonin. You're like actually getting high on your own supply. And then you can see those things as opportunities to deliver your fulfillment versus where you need to go to fill yourself up.
And so that shift, it gives you this level of detachment, gives you this level of like leaning back, which is sexy. It's attractive. It's magnetic versus like, please date me. Please hire me. Please like me. Like that neediness is not sexy. Not attractive.
No, but if you're like, I'm God pretending to be human, I've got everything I need right here. If you want to date me, cool. If you want to hire me, great. Like this is a much more fun way to go through life and it becomes more magnetic. I love it. So meditation helped with your sex life. Big time. Let's go. Big time. You're connecting a lot of dots for people.
Well, the thing is, so let's just talk about some of the stats on that is like if women are too stressed, if their cortisol levels are too high, they become physically incapable of orgasm. If men's cortisol levels are too high and also their adrenaline levels are too high, they become physically incapable of having an erection. Wow.
Because adrenaline is trying to keep that blood everywhere else in the body. You got to outrun a tiger. You can't afford to have an erection, right? Because it's going to slow you down. So if your body is constantly in fight or flight, you always think there's a predatory attack around it. the meat suit is not designed to procreate in a dangerous situation. Body has to feel safe first.
And so if you get out of fight or flight and into what I call stay and play from that place, you just have more energy available. And then also with meditation, there's something called mirror neurons that get fired. And so mirror neurons is why porn is a multi-billion dollar industry. It's like,
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Chapter 4: How can meditation enhance your creativity and performance?
Six years ago. Okay. Yeah, I like to do that with guests. I like to see like what they were talking about a long time ago. What was I talking about? You said only 8% of Americans meditate. I looked up the new statistics. It's at 14. So it's gotten a little better. I'm going to call that a win. I'm going to put that in the W category. I'd say you played a role in that. I would say I have too.
That's cool. Even if not me directly. I mean, I've taught probably 60,000 people to meditate directly. I think it's been 950,000 people who've done my training on other platforms. But I think more importantly, like the people who I've taught. You know, I've talked at Google and Apple and Viacom and Harvard Business School and athletes and Tony Award winners and Grammy Award winners.
And, you know, you have one Oscar Award winner tweeting about like, hey, this is what meditation has done. And then it starts to be cool. Right. You know, I'd say Tim Ferriss has played a huge role in that. He says 90% of his podcast guests start their day with meditation. Whoa. Nine zero. And he's the high performance guy, right? Yeah. That's a great podcast.
Yeah. And Ziva, we started all about meditation for extraordinary performance because I believe we meditate to get good at life, not to get good at meditation. And so it's like not about how many or few thoughts you're having in the chair. It's like, how good am I interviewing? How present am I? How good am I at being a dad? How good is my sex drive? Do my coworkers like working with me?
You know, how is my heart rate variability? Like all that stuff. Like that's why we meditate not to clear your mind. Yeah. That awareness that comes from it is good. That intuition, right?
yes the intuition because then like think about all the time you waste making bad decisions versus just being like boom this yeah right and and you know dave talks about this or he's like the mitochondria are actually making the decision for you um i would say that there's
like the right brain is the intuition and the left brain is the intellect and you need both but you want the intuition to be the king and you want the intellect to be the advisory committee and i think because a lot of people don't have access to their intuition the advisory committee has become the king right and i think that that is playing a role in the imbalance of society and i think if we can get back into that intuitive more right brain more feminine balance doesn't mean that like only women rule the world it means that all of us
are balancing our masculine and feminine energies. We have the containment and the flow. We have the intellect and the intuition. It's like the amount of joy and creativity and regeneration that is possible as a species on the planet. If we can get into that state of consciousness, I don't think any of us can even conceive of right now.
Absolutely. I can't wait. I think we're spiritually getting there too. I think so too. I think we're... I think we're having this like K-shaped spiritual recovery right now. It's like having like a K-shaped economic recovery. Like post COVID, you know, the rich got richer, poor got poorer. I'm seeing the same thing happening spiritually.
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