Marisa’s guest today is Emily Fletcher, who teaches meditation to help you get better at life, not to get better at meditation.Emily is the founder of Ziva Meditation and the Ziva Technique which teaches a powerful combination of mindfulness, meditation and manifesting. Emily’s work has featured in the New York Times, The Today Show, Vogue and ABC News. She’s been named one of the top 100 women in wellness to watch, and has taught more than 50,000 students around the world. Emily expertly explains what happens to the mind during meditation, and how this impacts our day-to-day functioning. Her knowledge and research into the neuroscience of meditation is unrivalled, and lifts the lid on many misconceptions around the practice. Emily endorses that meditation is the single most important piece of mental hygiene we can do every day, as a way to clean the mind, and close the many ‘open tabs’ we have running that slow down our cognitive function.Marisa and Emily’s conversation covers:The mind-body connection; why we need to change our neurochemistry if we want to change our biochemistryHow to overcome stress, and why it’s making us stupid, sick and slowThe “I’ll be happy when” syndrome and why her dream career as a dancer on Broadway didn’t deliver the happiness she expected it toVisit Emily’s website here:  https://zivameditation.com-------------Please subscribe and rate the podcast, and catch up with Marisa’s longer videos on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/user/MarisaPeer1Stay up to date with Marisa on Social Media:Instagram: @marisapeertherapy https://www.instagram.com/marisapeertherapyFacebook: @marisa.peer.therapy https://www.facebook.com/marisa.peer.therapyTwitter: @marisapeer  https://twitter.com/marisapeerResource Links:➡ Download Marisa’s FREE ‘I Am Enough’ meditation: https://bit.ly/MP-Audio-iamenough➡ Explore audio hypnosis shop, for issues from smoking, to weight loss to low confidence: https://bit.ly/MP-Audio-Hypnosis➡ Boost your self-esteem with Marisa’s FREE workbook: http://bit.ly/Self-Esteem-workbook-download➡ Discover how you can train with Marisa Peer in Rapid Transformational Therapy®️: http://bit.ly/rtt-masterclass-watch