849 Meditation for Socially Difficult Situations

Daily Meditation Podcast

Mary Meckley

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Alternative Health

4.1 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2016

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Settle yourself in as we launch into a meditation series on how to manage difficult social situations. Discover how to use a meditation technique to build confidence when faced with difficult social situations. Learn what to do if things do go as planned.

This is part 1 of a 7-Part Meditation to Manage Socially Difficult Situations Series, Episodes 849-855.

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
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*a Free Sleep Technique to Sleep Better
*a Free Instant Calm Breathing Technique
*a Free Guide to Get Started Meditating.

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

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

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Music composed by Greg Keller.

Also music provided by Christopher Lloyd Clark licensed by
RoyaltyFreeMusic.com.

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0:00.0	You are listening to episode 849.
0:05.0	Welcome to the Daily Meditation Podcast.
0:09.0	I honor you for being right where you are as you get ready to receive some daily
0:18.4	meditation inspiration that you may bring into your day or that you may sit right down and meditate after I share
0:28.1	the meditation technique with you today. I'm Mary Meckley and I'm a meditation guide who shares a different
0:36.9	meditation technique every single day on this podcast and each technique is always customized around a weekly theme.
0:47.1	And when you explore a weekly theme, experimenting with different meditation techniques each
0:52.0	day, you really get to go in depth and master a particular topic.
0:59.0	And I also share a lifestyle technique for you.
1:05.6	So it's not just meditation,
1:08.0	it is truly a lifestyle.
1:11.5	So our theme for this week is a fantastic theme I'm excited to share with you.
1:19.1	Every single Sunday, this happens to be a Sunday as I record this I launch into a brand new
1:26.9	meditation series and I announce our new theme well the theme for this week is by request from a listener as are
1:38.1	most of the themes that I share. This theme was so good I wondered why I didn't think of it before. So the theme
1:47.9	you'll be exploring throughout this week is how to use meditation in socially difficult situations. So a
1:57.7	listener reached out to me and asked me to create this theme. She said that she is a pretty outgoing person with people
2:07.1	she knows and in situations that she's familiar with. But when it comes to going out of her comfort zone or being with people
2:19.3	that she's not really that familiar with, she freezes up and she feels so much anxiety that she has a hard time
2:29.4	tapping into her inner stillness so if she's having a conversation with someone, she says that she'll try
2:37.6	doing a meditation technique such as a breathing exercise or a moodra and she finds that unless she closes her eyes
2:47.0	does the technique with her eyes closed she can't focus and she has a hard time managing social anxiety and so this is a very common
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