1220 Loneliness
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2017
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Awareness of loneliness is the first step toward managing it.
This is part 1 of a 7-Part Loneliness series Episodes 1220-1226.
As always, you don't have to do the meditation techniques -- they are simply there to help you transition from your busy day to a state of stillness. The techniques also help to calm "monkey mind," when your thoughts continuously interrupt your meditation.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is episode one thousand two hundred and twenty. |
| 0:04.0 | Welcome to the daily guided meditation. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Mary Meckley and I honor you for giving yourself permission to slow down and connect to the best part of who you are. |
| 0:19.7 | We are launching into a brand new series this week on loneliness. In today's episode, you're going to discover a meditation technique. You can do whether you're seated |
| 0:35.8 | meditating or whether you're right smack in the busiest part of your day to |
| 0:42.4 | help you manage loneliness which has become an epidemic these days. In fact, despite being connected with people all over the world at |
| 0:58.8 | unprecedented rates through social media and access to traveling more than ever to |
| 1:10.3 | destinations all over the world and despite community involvement meetups, |
| 1:18.9 | we are feeling, according to many researchers on the topic, we are feeling |
| 1:29.0 | lonelier than we have been over the past few decades. |
| 1:36.5 | And I am going to share with you |
| 1:40.1 | meditation techniques this week |
| 1:42.4 | to help you manage loneliness. Now loneliness |
| 1:48.8 | doesn't necessarily have to be something bad. In fact, when you recognize a feeling of |
| 1:57.7 | loneliness, if you start to notice cues, triggers, and then start to notice patterns, this can reveal to |
| 2:10.6 | you important aspects of your life that may lead you on to you |
| 2:15.0 | on a different journey than you may currently be on |
| 2:19.0 | on a currently be on. |
| 2:20.0 | And loneliness does not necessarily mean you are in fact alone. |
| 2:28.0 | You can feel lonely in a crowd. |
| 2:31.6 | You can feel lonely with loved ones. |
| 2:36.0 | Loneliness often has to do with feeling as though you're not connected with the people or your environment where you live. |
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