Manage Social Anxiety

Daily Meditation Podcast

Mary Meckley

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Alternative Health

4.1 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2019

⏱️ 13 minutes

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This is part 1 of a 7-part Manage Social Anxiety Meditation Series, episodes 1837-1843. For full guided meditations, give our new sip and om app a test drive for 2 weeks free. Receive access to 1,800+ fully guided meditations customized around a weekly theme. Select from over 200 series to fit your mood with a Clarity Journal and a Slow Down Guide customized for each theme. Brand new themes are introduced each week with brand new meditations offered daily. Connect with other meditators on the private Facebook group for app subscribers. All meditations are created by Mary Meckley and are her original content unless otherwise specified. Please request permission to use any of Mary's content by sending an email to Mary@sipandom.com. Resources: Music by Christopher Lloyd Clarke and Greg Keller.

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0:17.8	Welcome to episode 1,837 of the Daily Meditation Podcast. I'm Mary Meckley and I'm excited to welcome you to a brand new meditation series we're launching into all about how to manage social anxiety and this is part of a four-part collection of meditation series all about confidence. In this series you will
0:42.1	discover how to be more confident as you interact with others to help you manage
0:50.8	social anxiety. Most of us have experienced social anxiety at one time or
0:59.0	another or maybe for you it's ongoing because social anxiety can be chronic it can last for years or it can
1:09.8	last a lifetime it is a treatable condition by a medical professional if you see a
1:20.9	counselor or a therapist to help you if you have pretty extreme social anxiety,
1:31.0	to where social interactions can cause irrational anxiety.
1:37.0	Well, I want you to know that, as with many anxiety-producing types of conditions, managing social anxiety can be helped tremendously by meditating.
1:55.0	So you are in the right place to help you get started with feeling more comfortable in your own skin to feel as though you are enough.
2:11.7	Social anxiety is the fear of social situations that require you to
2:19.7	connect with other people.
2:24.0	And it involves being fearful that you will be judged negatively by other people.
2:34.5	You may find that you're pretty outgoing and confident in some social situations, but in others you can feel this sense of anxiety. It could even be in
2:49.5	relationships with loved ones where you just don't feel like you can be yourself.
2:57.0	If, for example, you had a parent who had really high expectations and you feel as though you always
3:07.7	seem to let them down. You can find that you may have some social anxiety when you interact with even a parent or
3:18.0	someone close to you.
3:19.8	Experiencing social anxiety could even have been the reason why you decided to listen to a
3:28.4	meditation podcast. Social anxiety can be painful when it happens. You can experience physical and emotional and mental discomfort. You can find your heart rate begins
3:49.6	to pound when you were in social anxiety-provoking situations or you even may feel nauseated.
3:59.3	You can also feel so down like you've let others down as well as you've let yourself down.
4:11.2	So this can be a very serious issue if you do suffer from ongoing social anxiety.
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