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Daily Meditation Podcast

Stress Management, Day 5 Loneliness Project

Daily Meditation Podcast

Mary Meckley

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Alternative Health

4.1 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2021

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Your emotions are valued. Express your emotions in a healthy way by journaling.   Even before the pandemic, loneliness was considered to be an epidemic. Loneliness doesn't necessarily have to do with other people. You can feel quite content by yourself but you may feel alone in a crowd. You may even feel lonely with loved ones around you. Loneliness is more about feeling connected with others, yourself, and the world. Explore ways to feel more connected with meditation techniques all week long.   You're invited to join our Combatting Loneliness Challenge. Begin a new journey by trying something new, or reaching out to someone who needs help.

This is day 5 of a 7-day meditation series, Loneliness Project, episodes 2439-2445.

YOUR WEEKLY CHALLENGE

Combatting Loneliness Quest

This week, connect with something that fuels your passion. As you do so, you may encounter like-minded people who share a similar passion.

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MEDITATION TECHNIQUES:

Day 1:  Visualization  Day 2:  Affirmation Day 3:  Breathing Technique Day 4:  Mudra Technique Day 5:  Chakra Technique Day 6:  Layer Meditation Techniques Day 7:  Reflection + Introspection   SHARE YOUR MEDITATION JOURNEY WITH YOUR FELLOW MEDITATORS   Let's connect and inspire each other! Please share a little about how meditation has helped you by reaching out to me at Mary@SipandOm.com or better yet -- direct message me on https://www.instagram.com/sip.and.om. We'd love to hear about your meditation ritual! 

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All meditations are created by Mary Meckley and are her original content. Please request permission to use any of Mary's content by sending an email to Mary@sipandom.com.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is Episode 2,443 of the Daily Meditation Podcast.

0:07.4

I'm Mary Mechley and welcome to Day 5 of our series this week.

0:14.0

This week, you are exploring loneliness.

0:18.8

The theme is called a loneliness project and you have this special challenge to connect with

0:27.5

and reach out to others by pursuing your passions.

0:32.9

Those things that light you up and make you excited to get out of bed in the morning.

0:38.5

This is undeniably one of the best ways to connect with others in an authentic way.

0:49.3

So when you think about your hobbies, your talents, those things maybe you want to learn,

0:57.7

those are pathways to reach out to others, people who may become friends,

1:06.4

people who may become part of your circle of loved ones.

1:10.7

This is such an important way to manage loneliness.

1:15.8

Now you might find that you're not able to get out quite as often as you normally do because

1:22.6

of the pandemic, but what could you study up on?

1:25.8

What could you research?

1:27.1

What could you begin to learn about so that when you are able to get out there a little more,

1:35.7

you are already prepared and learning about something that excites you.

1:42.6

I know that for myself, the best ways I've been able to connect with others

1:49.2

through my many moves and different locations, different places around the world

1:55.2

has in fact been connecting through like interests.

2:02.0

And I'm still lifelong friends with many people that I connected with

2:07.6

through the many places that I've had the pleasure of living.

2:12.1

So I know this works from first-hand experience.

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