Welcome to the Daily Meditation Podcast. I'm Mary Meckley and I'm a meditation teacher who shares a different meditation technique every single day customized around a weekly theme.

And in today's episode, which is episode 611, you're going to be guided in a meditation on loneliness.

And this is part one of our seven-part theme this week on loneliness.

This was a request, a special request, from a dear listener who I have gotten to know, who's

listened for quite some time now, and she reached out to me and asked me to create a

meditation series on loneliness. And I was thrilled to do this because I have been doing research on depression and

loneliness because many of the listeners in our private Facebook group, which I invite you

to join, it's absolutely free.

And if you go to my website at sy sipanome.com or send me a

message on the public facebook page of sip and om just send me a message and say hey add me to your

group please then i will gladly add you to that group and we do a challenge based on the theme. And so many people had requested, I had put

out there, you know, what are some different themes? People would enjoy meditation series.

And depression, isolation, loneliness came up.

So I'd been doing some research on this.

So I'm delighted to share the very first day of our loneliness meditation series.

Now I always launch into this series with more of a mindset type of meditation.

And then throughout the week I provide you with tools or techniques,

affirmations, mudras, chakra focus, herbal teas, breathing techniques, and throughout the week. So you learn tools to help you manage whatever it is our theme is about.

And then on Saturday I leave a walking meditation because I like you to get out and connect with nature

and to reward yourself for all the hard work you're doing.

For what a good thing you're doing for yourself.

So let's get ready for the loneliness meditation. So here's your mindset

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