1221 Affirmation for a new start

Daily Meditation Podcast

Mary Meckley

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Alternative Health

4.1 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2017

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Affirmation to open up to a new journey as you manage loneliness.

This is part 2 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.

For free meditation tools to help you start meditating please head over to my website at www.SipandOm.com, and there you'll find a multitude of free resources to help you on your Meditation Journey.

Sample from a selection of resources including:

*a Free Private Facebook Group to connect with meditators from around the world

*a Free Meditation Bundle to get started meditating

*a Free Sleep Technique to Sleep Better

*a Free Instant Calm Breathing Technique

*a Free Guide to Get Started Meditating.

If you'd like to receive fresh daily fully guided meditations 7 days a week you can subscribe to Slow Down Nation, a monthly subscription membership site and app. Not only do you receive a brand new daily fully guided meditation, you also receive access to over 800 meditations customized around weekly themes.

***All meditations are Mary Meckley's original copyrighted content unless otherwise stated, and may not be shared without her written permission.

Resources:

The beach waves composed by Mike Koenig.

Music composed by Christopher Lloyd Clark licensed by RoyaltyFreeMusic.com, and also by musician Greg Keller.

I'd love your feedback! Please let me know how you're enjoying the meditations by leaving me a review on iTunes.

To be guided in a daily meditation where you learn a different meditation technique customized around a weekly theme head over to www.SipandOm.com to subscribe to Slow Down Nation daily meditations guided by Mary Meckley.

Want to connect with other meditators from around the world who listen to the daily meditations? Join our free private Facebook Group at https://www.SipandOm.com .

**All of the information shared on this podcast is for your enjoyment only. Please don't consider the meditation techniques, herbal tea information or other information shared by Mary Meckley or any of her guests as a replacement for any kind of medical or psychological treatment. That being said, please enjoy any peace, energy or clarity you may experience as you meditate!

Transcript

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0:00.0	This is episode 1,222.
0:04.0	Welcome to the Daily Meditation Podcast.
0:08.0	How are you doing?
0:10.0	We are launching into a brand new series this week.
0:15.2	Today is the second episode of that series
0:18.1	and it's all about an important topic
0:21.6	and that is loneliness. In today's episode you're going to be guided in a
0:29.0	meditation using an affirmation or a positive statement to help you focus your thoughts to help you manage
0:40.5	loneliness. I'm Mary Meckley and I share a different meditation
0:46.4	technique every day. I honor you for being here. Our techniques are customized around a theme we explore all week long.
0:57.0	We do this so you can master a particular topic.
1:02.0	And this is where you a particular topic.
1:03.9	And this is where you really start to see the results when you meditate.
1:09.2	So you're not just mindlessly sitting down, meditating, you're meditating with a specific intention in mind.
1:18.0	Now as I mentioned, loneliness is a pretty important topic and here is why people are feeling more and more loneliness. In fact, it's considered to be a chronic modern day epidemic.
1:40.5	And I did a little research on this topic and there was a lot out there. I came across something from fortune.com and this is an article by Laura Intis and in this article she discusses how
1:57.6	humans were not designed to be solitary creatures. We evolved to survive in tribes. The need to
2:07.3	interact is deeply ingrained in our genetic code. So much so, says John Casiopo, that the absence of social connection triggers the same primal alarm bells as hunger, thirst, and physical pain.
2:31.0	So John Casiopo is the director of the University of Chicago's Center for
2:38.2	Cognitive and Social Neuroscience. He's also the author of loneliness, human nature, and the need for social connection.
2:47.0	And he's been studying loneliness for more than 20 years. He feels that loneliness long term can be dangerous.
3:05.0	Loneliness is different from having a lone time such as when you meditate.
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