You are listening to episode 809.

Welcome to the Daily Meditation Podcast.

I congratulate you for giving yourself permission to slow down and connect to the best part of who you are.

I'm Mary Meckley and I'm a meditation guide who shares a different

meditation technique every day on the podcast and each technique is customized around a weekly theme so you get to

explore a particular topic in depth so you can really master it using different meditation techniques to help you do so.

You can try many things to see what might work best for you, to see what you could use while you're seated meditating and what you could pull into your everyday life to help you manage, as in this week's series to help you manage negative people. This is our topic

for this week. So every day this week we are exploring different philosophies of

thought leaders and how they manage negative people. We started off with how Marcus Aurelius, a former Roman emperor, and one of the big contributors

to the Stoic movement at that time, the Hellenistic period, is when this took place.

You learned what he considered an effective way to manage negative people. Basically he said just

keep doing your own thing and do the right thing. There'll be people you run into

day in and day out who make you angry, who upset you, who cause

you grief, who are just plain annoying. cause you

to do the right thing.

That's his philosophy.

And then we discovered yesterday Robin Sharma, who's an author and a very inspirational speaker from Canada.

And he

coaches many of the best way that he knows of dealing with negative people and he coaches

many of the world's most successful people in business, politics, and in life in general, he said

he notices that successful people just really focus with a laser sharp concentration on what it is they're pursuing in their own life.

So it's almost as if they build an impenetrable wall around themselves

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