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 on the podcast. And I customize each technique around a weekly theme. And our theme for this week in episode 616 is all about managing and

overcoming loneliness. Loneliness has reached epidemic proportions in many places of the world,

especially places that are technologically advanced. People spend

so much time on their devices. But even so, I think that many people live in neighborhoods

where there's no reason to really connect. People are often transient, living a very transient lifestyle,

where they're only at a location for a few years. And so they don't really feel the need

to reach out and make friends when they're going to be moving in just a short amount of time.

And so if you find yourself in a situation like this, you can feel very isolated and

and lonely.

And you could also feel lonely if you're very connected in your family with your friends

and your community, but you feel like you've outgrown your

community meaning that you want something different or something more there's nothing

there that really inspires you that you are searching for something new and if

that's your case I've been in both of those situations and if that's your case, I've been in both of those situations.

And if that's your case, I encourage you to start a quest. And I guided you through a meditation

yesterday where you discovered how to start a quest, where you select something that you want to learn more about,

something that inspires you, and you feed your soul with this.

You might do something every day like I'm doing with this meditation quest that I'm on,

where I share a guided meditation every day.

That helps me to create a lifestyle of meditation where I'm constantly researching, attending events and classes.

I'll be attending one this weekend, and you are going to learn so much when you focus your energy and

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