1242 Affirmation for Loneliness
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2017
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Look for opportunities all around you to connect with others in a meaningful way.
This is part 2 of a 7-Part Feeling Socially Isolated series, Episodes 1241-1247.
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| 0:00.0 | This is episode 1,242. |
| 0:05.0 | Welcome to the Daily Meditation Podcast. |
| 0:08.0 | How are you doing today? |
| 0:10.0 | I honor you for what you are doing this week as we explore a series dedicated to |
| 0:20.4 | social isolation and loneliness and in today's episode you're going to |
| 0:28.3 | discover an affirmation you can repeat when you sit down and meditate today. |
| 0:34.0 | Of course, as always, you can do this technique, not only when you're seated meditating but when you're right smack in the busiest part of your day. |
| 0:48.0 | And I'm Mary Meckley, I share a different meditation technique every day here on the podcast and it's an honor |
| 1:00.9 | to have you here. I share full guided meditations that last a half an hour, |
| 1:08.0 | so a little more than just a technique in case you want to go a little deeper with your ritual and that's at my website at |
| 1:16.1 | sip and ome.com it's sip sip sip sip sip sip sip sip sip sip |
| 1:22.0 | just like you're sipping T, A and D, O M. And there you can try for two weeks, absolutely free, |
| 1:30.0 | a membership site where I release a new meditation, a full half hour meditation, |
| 1:36.7 | along with a journal and a guide for each week's series. So if you want a little more support, that's where you can find it. |
| 1:45.0 | So for today's episode, I want to share with you a little insight into the importance of what you're doing for yourself this week. |
| 1:57.3 | And that has to do with improving your body and brain as you manage loneliness and isolation. |
| 2:10.4 | This is from an article from the New Republic.com and Judith Schullevitz wrote |
| 2:19.1 | the lethality of loneliness. We now know how it can ravage our body and brain. And in this article she writes that psychobologists show that loneliness sends misleading hormonal signals and this rejiggers the molecules on genes that govern behavior |
| 2:59.0 | and this wrenches a slew of other systems out of whack. These are her words that she's using to describe this process. And she goes on to say, they have |
| 3:06.3 | proved that long-lasting loneliness not only makes you sick, It can kill you. Emotional isolation is ranked as high a risk |
| 3:20.4 | factor for mortality as smoking. |
| 3:25.8 | And just a partial list of the physical diseases thought to be caused by or exacerbated by loneliness include Alzheimer's |
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