851 Breathing Technique to Reduce Social Anxiety
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2016
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Discover a breathing technique to manage social anxiety that you can easily remember to do when you are experiencing stress in the moment. Also, discover how to posture your body to feel confident.
This is part 3 of a 7-Part Meditation to Manage Social Anxiety, Episodes 849-855.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to episode 851. |
| 0:04.4 | Welcome to the Daily Meditation Podcast. |
| 0:08.0 | I congratulate you for giving yourself permission to slow down today and connect to that best part of who you are |
| 0:19.0 | that meditation brings out so beautifully. You are doing a very good thing for yourself as you get |
| 0:27.0 | ready to meditate. I'm Mary Meckley and I'm a meditation guide who shares a different meditation technique every single day in the |
| 0:36.7 | podcast and each technique is customized around a weekly theme so you get to explore a particular topic in depth. This helps you |
| 0:46.4 | to really master those qualities. And I also share with you a way to make meditation part of your lifestyle. |
| 0:58.0 | So this is for a Tuesday's meditation and every Tuesday I share a breathing technique and I also share a |
| 1:09.2 | technique to help you improve some part of your body. |
| 1:15.0 | So the theme for this week is all about managing social anxiety. A very important topic and this was a |
| 1:27.4 | request from a listener and so throughout this entire seven-part week-long series you'll be exploring ways to use |
| 1:37.2 | meditation techniques and how to incorporate a meditation lifestyle to manage those situations where you feel quite a bit of social anxiety. I think we all have this social anxiety to some degree |
| 1:55.8 | over certain situations. We might be really good at managing these situations in other settings or with other people, but if it's an unfamiliar |
| 2:09.0 | place or an unfamiliar crowd of people or even one unfamiliar person, |
| 2:15.0 | it can stop us in our tracks. |
| 2:18.0 | And it's as though we freeze. |
| 2:21.0 | We're not sure what to do, how to act, what to say, we feel as though our |
| 2:27.4 | confidence just plummets. And so I have some suggestions for how to use meditation techniques to help you with that. |
| 2:37.0 | So I'm going to share the meditation lifestyle tip with you and then I'm going to share the |
| 2:46.2 | breathing technique to help you manage social anxiety and I encourage you to take these into your meditation today. |
| 2:57.0 | So practice it here with me and then do it in your meditation today. |
| 3:04.1 | And if you really aren't sure how to do a meditation |
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