This is episode 1,838.

Welcome to the Daily Meditation Podcast.

I'm Mary Meckley, and here you are getting ready to give yourself a little more peace, energy, and clarity today

as you get ready to meditate. I'm excited to share with you a meditation technique today called

an affirmation. Affirm, are positive statements you can repeat throughout the day to help you focus

your thoughts on an intention. This week we are exploring the theme of managing social anxiety and this

is part of a confidence series of meditations. Social anxiety is one of the top anxiety triggers and it's one of the main reasons why people seek a psychologist

or a therapist for anxiety treatment.

So if you experience social anxiety,

you are definitely not alone. The top social anxiety-producing act you can do is, you may already know this, but it's interesting all the same.

It is public speaking.

Now that doesn't necessarily have to mean speaking before a group of hundreds or more people.

It could be speaking before a small group of even two or three people. Anytime you are placed in a position

where people are able to judge you. That is the main reason why people experience social anxiety

is that feeling of being judged negatively.

There was some new research about how to improve managing social anxiety.

And it's been shown that cognitive therapy

has been helpful throughout the years for people who do suffer from all kinds

of anxiety, but especially social anxiety. Well, there's a new term, it's a few years old, from 2016,

a group of Scandinavian researchers, came up with the term

Medi cognitive therapy.

Metacognitive therapy, and I'm reading this from the science daily, is working with patients' thoughts and their reactions and beliefs about those thoughts.

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