Managing Your Emotions When Verbally Attacked, Day 3: "The Art of Listening" meditation series

Daily Meditation Podcast

Mary Meckley

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Alternative Health

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🗓️ 14 May 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Be guided with a breathing technique to manage your emotions as you listen to others expressing anger towards you in today's guided meditation.

Welcome to "The Art of Listening: Deepening Connection Through Presence," a 7-day meditation series dedicated to enhancing your listening skills and cultivating deeper connections in your life.

In this series, you will explore the transformative power of listening with intention and presence, learning to connect more deeply with others and ourselves. Each day, you will be guided through a meditation practice designed to help you become a more attentive and empathetic listener, fostering stronger relationships and a greater sense of connection.

Listening is more than just hearing words; it is about being fully present and open-hearted, creating a space for others to be heard and understood. As you embark on this journey, allow yourself to let go of distractions and judgments, and immerse yourself in the art of listening.

Through these practices, may you deepen your connections, foster empathy and understanding, and experience the profound joy that comes from truly being present with others.

This is episode 3 of this week's 7-day meditation series, "The Art of Listening: Deepening Connection Through Presence" 3114-3120.

THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE: SPEAK LESS LISTEN MORE QUEST

As you go throughout the week, consciously listen more to what others say, even non-verbally. speak less and allow others to say more.

A DIFFERENT MEDITATION TECHNIQUE EVERY DAY FOCUSED ON A WEEKLY THEME:

You are guided with a different meditation technique every day that is customized for the week's theme. Weave the techniques into the most stressful times of your day to manage difficult emotions. The meditation techniques help to calm the "monkey mind," when your thoughts continuously interrupt your meditation.

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**All of the information shared on this podcast is for your enjoyment only. Please don't consider the meditation techniques, herbal tea information, or other information shared by Mary Meckley or any of her guests as a replacement for any medical or psychological treatment. That being said, please enjoy any peace, energy, or clarity you may experience as you meditate.

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 3,116 of the Daily Meditation Podcast. I'm Mary Meckley and I want to let you know that I honor you for taking part in this week's series with the theme we are exploring,
0:20.0	the art of listening.
0:23.0	And as you're exploring the art of listening,
0:26.0	you're learning different ways to express yourself
0:31.0	when you are listening and also what you're going to discover in today's
0:37.5	episode you're learning how to listen when others are struggling,
0:45.7	especially if they are perhaps verbally attacking you.
0:49.2	Maybe they're angry at you.
0:52.4	And so you are trying to remain calm and figure out what is actually going
1:00.6	on and to be your best during such a situation.
1:07.0	And so I thought I would share with you some of the top ways that came up as I did a little research on how to remain calm and present
1:18.9	when you're being verbally attacked. And here is what I discovered so I'll share your
1:26.5	insight with you as always and then you're going to be guided with a breathing
1:32.0	technique because when you do a breathing technique when you are being verbally attacked
1:38.6	This can instantly calm your mind and body.
1:43.2	And the breathing technique I'll be sharing with you
1:45.7	is called the Box Breathing technique.
1:49.0	It's a classic technique that has you inhaling through your nose, holding for the count of four, and you
1:59.7	inhale to four, you hold your breath for four, exhale for four and then you hold your
2:05.4	breath again for four and you do this for four rounds so after your insight
2:11.3	you'll meditate and I'll guide you through this breathing technique
2:16.4	and then you can take it from there.
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