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Adult Talk: How to Get Your Kids to Meditate – Emily Fletcher with Dave Asprey : 817

Apr 27, 2021

Emily Fletcher, founder of Ziva Meditation and creator of the Ziva Technique, joins to discuss the power of meditation for kids. She shares insights on the new zivaKIDS program aimed at teaching emotional resilience and coping strategies. Emily emphasizes the importance of making meditation accessible without pressuring parents or children. The conversation covers practical techniques to engage different age groups, from toddlers to preteens, and highlights the connection between meditation and children's mental well-being.

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ADVICE

Motivating Kids to Meditate

Frame meditation as a tool for improving activities kids enjoy, like soccer or debate.
Focus on the benefits, like enhanced performance, rather than making it a chore.

INSIGHT

Similarities Between Meditation and Sex

Both meditation and sex involve transcending the left brain and connecting with a sense of totality.
Ecstasy, historically, has been a method for cleansing, purification, and connection to the divine, similar to meditation.

ANECDOTE

Parenthood's Impact on Personal Time

Dave Asprey shares how having children significantly impacted his and his wife's personal time, including meditation and intimacy.
He highlights the common challenges parents face in maintaining personal practices after having kids.

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When your kids are calmer and learning how to work with their thoughts and emotions, your quality of life as a parent goes way up. In this episode of Bulletproof Radio, Ziva meditation creator Emily Fletcher joins me to talk about helping kids learn to meditate and her new zivaKIDS program that gives kids new superpowers.

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For over a decade Emily has been teaching her own ZIVA meditation technique. She’s reached more than 40,000 students so far, including Oscar, Grammy, Emmy and Tony award winners, Navy SEALS, NBA players, entrepreneurs and anyone looking to make their life better. Busy parents, too.

“I wanted to take the pressure off of parents,” Emily says. “Especially right now, parents are being asked to do an extraordinary amount of things: homeschool their kids, learn to become science teachers, deal with the emotional and psychological ramifications of isolation,” she says. “The last thing I wanted parents to do was have to become a meditation salesperson or a meditation police officer.”

She’s worked with Sesame Street, leading child psychologists and professors from Harvard, to create zivaKIDS. Emily knows that getting your kid to meditate is no easy feat, so we talk a lot about how to encourage them to take that next step in an open, honest and age-appropriate way. She has a practice for 4-to 8-year-olds and 9-to 14-year-olds. She also offers training for parents or other adults in the child’s life on how to be a good sidekick.

The Ziva technique de-excites the nervous system to induce deep rest, so much so that it can heal stresses from both the present and the past. These stresses apply to humans of all ages, and that’s why Emily is so passionate about her practice.

“If you learn these tools at [a young] age, your resilience and your ability to metabolize high demand situations for the rest of your life will be better,” she says.

She says meditation is not a magic pill to bury your emotions. When you’re sad or angry you can’t fix it by just counting your breaths, but instead meditation can teach us how to change our state when we’re ready.

Emily’s view of meditation, for both kids and adults, is practical and flexible. On this episode you’ll learn how your practice (and your kids’!) will ebb and flow, but how you will always carry the power of the practice within you and have the tools you need to feel safe with your body, your emotions and yourself.

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