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Daily Meditation Podcast

#3047 Day 5: Emotional Flow: A Sacral Chakra Meditation for Balance (Mood Mastery Meditations: From Reactive to Regulated)

Daily Meditation Podcast

Mary Meckley

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Alternative Health

4.1 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2026

⏱️ 15 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

In Day 5 of Mood Mastery the Samurai Way, inspired by the steady inner discipline of Miyamoto Musashi, we focus on the Second Chakra (Sacral Chakra)—the center of emotional flow, creativity, and resilience. When moods feel stuck, heavy, or unpredictable, it often helps to soften control and allow feelings to move through you with calm attention. This meditation guides you to reconnect with the body's natural fluidity, easing emotional tension and restoring a steadier, more graceful relationship with what you feel. Leave this practice feeling lighter, more open, and more emotionally balanced—able to meet the day with quiet flexibility rather than resistance.

Featured focus: Second Chakra (Sacral Chakra) for emotional balance and flow
Best for: moodiness, emotional tightness, creative blocks, irritability, feeling "stuck" or drained
Takeaway: Balance isn't forcing calm—it's allowing emotions to move with steadiness.

ABOUT THIS WEEK'S SERIES

Welcome to Mastering Your Moods—a meditation series designed to help you stop feeling at the mercy of your emotions and start feeling steady, clear, and in charge of how you respond. Moods can shift fast—one message, one memory, one stressful moment—and suddenly you're anxious, irritated, heavy, or overwhelmed. In this series, you'll learn how to work with your nervous system instead of against it, using simple daily practices that help you regulate in real time—so you can come back to yourself without spiraling, snapping, or shutting down. This isn't about pretending you're fine; it's about building emotional skill: noticing what you feel, understanding what's underneath it, and shifting your state with calm, practical tools you can actually use in your real life.

This is day 5 of a 7-day meditation series, "Mood Mastery: From Reactive to Regulated,"  episodes 3043-3049.

THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE - "Mushin (No Mind) Quest

Musashi was known to advocate for the concept of mushin, or "no-mind," in combat. It involves acting without conscious thought, free from hesitation, fear, or distraction. By training himself to enter into a state of mushin during duels and battles, Musashi could maintain emotional equilibrium and react instinctively to his opponents' movements.

THIS WEEK'S MEDITATION JOURNEY 

Day 1:  Focus Visualization

Day 2:  Affirmation: "I embrace both light and shadow with equanimity."

Day 3:  Hara Breath:

Inhale deeply through the nose, allowing the belly to expand. Exhale fully through the mouth, drawing the navel towards the spine. This technique promotes relaxation, stability, and groundedness

Day 4:  Diamond mudra for focus

Day 5:  Second Chakra to flow with change

Day 6:  Focus Flow meditation, combining the week's techniques

Day 7:  Weekly review meditation and closure

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! 

WAYS TO SUPPORT THE DAILY MEDITATION PODCAST

SUBSCRIBE so you don't miss a single episode. Consistency is the KEY to a successful meditation ritual.

SHARE the podcast with someone who could use a little extra support.

I'd be honored if you left me a podcast review. If you do, please email me at Mary@sipandom.com and let me know a little about yourself and how meditation has helped you. I'd love to share your journey to inspire fellow meditators on the podcast!

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.

FOR DAILY EXTRA SUPPORT OUTSIDE THE PODCAST

Each day's meditation techniques are shared at:

SIP AND OM MEDITATION APP

Looking for a little more support? If you're ready for a more in-depth meditation experience, allow Mary to guide you in daily 30-minute guided meditations on the Sip and Om meditation app. Give it a whirl for 7-days free! Receive access to 3,000+ 30-minute guided meditations customized around a weekly theme to help you manage emotions. Receive a Clarity Journal and a Slow Down Guide customized for each weekly theme. 

2-Week's Free Access on iOS

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sip-and-om/id1216664612?platform=iphone&preserveScrollPosition=true#platform/iphone

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.Let go of repetitive negative thoughts.

Music composed by Christopher Lloyd Clark licensed by RoyaltyFreeMusic.com, and also by musician Greg Keller.

THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE - "Anxiety Reset Que Challenge"

Choose one daily "reset cue"—each time you touch a door handle, open your phone, or sit down, take one long exhale (or one round of your day's breath). Track it with 7 checkmarks (one per day) and notice the moment your body starts to relax faster—proof your nervous system is learning.

THIS WEEK'S MEDITATION JOURNEY 

Day 1:  Anxiety Reset Visualization

Day 2:  Affirmation: "I trust myself to meet this moment."

Day 3:  Anchor Breathing: inhale 4, exhale 6–8, repeat 8 rounds.

(If 6–8 feels too long, do 4 in / 5 out.)

Day 4:  Prithi Mudra for clarity

Day 5:  Third Chakra for compassion

Day 6:  Anxiety Reset Flow meditation, combining the week's techniques

Day 7:  Weekly review meditation and closure

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! 

WAYS TO SUPPORT THE DAILY MEDITATION PODCAST

SUBSCRIBE so you don't miss a single episode. Consistency is the KEY to a successful meditation ritual.

SHARE the podcast with someone who could use a little extra support.

I'd be honored if you left me a podcast review. If you do, please email me at Mary@sipandom.com and let me know a little about yourself and how meditation has helped you. I'd love to share your journey to inspire fellow meditators on the podcast!

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.

FOR DAILY EXTRA SUPPORT OUTSIDE THE PODCAST

Each day's meditation techniques are shared at:

SIP AND OM MEDITATION APP

Looking for a little more support? If you're ready for a more in-depth meditation experience, allow Mary to guide you in daily 30-minute guided meditations on the Sip and Om meditation app. Give it a whirl for 7-days free! Receive access to 3,000+ 30-minute guided meditations customized around a weekly theme to help you manage emotions. Receive a Clarity Journal and a Slow Down Guide customized for each weekly theme. 

2-Week's Free Access on iOS

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sip-and-om/id1216664612?platform=iphone&preserveScrollPosition=true#platform/iphone

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.Let go of repetitive negative thoughts.

The beach waves were composed by Mike Koenig.

Music composed by Christopher Lloyd Clark licensed by RoyaltyFreeMusic.com, and also by musician Greg Keller.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to episode 3,047 of the Daily Meditation Podcast.

0:06.4

I'm Mary McLeckley and I welcome you to day five of this week's series where you are

0:13.5

exploring how to master your moods, not just manage your moods, but rather how to master your moods and know that

0:27.2

people all over the world do this, especially high performers, especially people who are

0:35.5

athletes or who are in the military or who perform at the highest level in any

0:43.2

endeavor.

0:44.2

And you can do this too.

0:46.6

I want to share with you your insight for today and then you are going to be guided

0:53.8

in a meditation to break bad habits and you're going

0:59.8

to do this by letting go of patterns in your life that cause your moods to spiral downward and these patterns are often simply habits now I want to

1:15.2

mention to you that when you're creating a new habit as with any new habit consistency is key

1:23.1

so make sure you are subscribed so you do not miss a single episode.

1:29.0

I share a daily meditation and daily insight with you because I want you to have that consistency in your life.

1:40.8

So I'm sharing with you my own meditation ritual.

1:46.8

So again, make sure you subscribe and pass along this episode or any episode to someone you know may benefit from meditation. I honor you

1:57.6

for all you're doing for yourself as you show up for yourself today and as you reflect

2:04.8

on this year as I record this we are in the middle of the second month of a new year and at the

2:15.4

very beginning of the year if you were were with us, you can always go back

2:19.1

and listen to those episodes. You selected a word to represent your year. And many people

2:26.8

choose New Year's resolutions, and we selected a word. And this is a word to act as an anchor for you and how you want to feel

2:37.0

throughout the year.

2:39.0

Many people selected peace or focus or limitless was a popular one.

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