Welcome to the Daily Meditation Podcast. This is Mary Mickley and I honor you for giving yourself permission to slow down and connect to the very best part of who you are.

And that's what you do when you meditate. And in today's guided meditation,

you are going to be guided in a chakra meditation. Now you don't have to do the technique I'll be

sharing with you. You can simply relax and be guided through the meditation without doing the technique. You're going

to receive the same benefits. But I like to offer you options because I love to share techniques

because they can be done throughout your day. And sometimes that's when you most need the benefits of

meditation is when you're right smack in the middle of your busy day and so I like to

offer a technique with you also the techniques are wonderful at helping you refocus your mind

when you meditate. A wandering mind is such a big challenge for all meditators, even long-time

meditators. And so when you have a meditation technique to focus on, when your mind starts to wander as you're going deep into the stillness of your meditation, you can bring it back to a meditation technique and refocus.

So if you live in the United States, as I do, I want to wish you a happy Thanksgiving. And I was thrilled that today's

meditation every Thursday, today's a Thursday, every single Thursday, I share a chakra.

So I was pretty excited that we are doing a gratitude meditation series in honor of

Thanksgiving and so this whole week we've been doing a meditation challenge and I was

thrilled that this is a chakra meditation for Thursday, Thanksgiving, because I want to share a fourth

chakra meditation with you. And the chakras are one of my favorite ways to meditate. So if you're

new to chakras, don't worry at all. You can simply meditate without doing any kind of focusing on a chakra.

But chakras are simply energy centers throughout your body where you can focus on releasing certain emotional tensions.

So just as you have a physical spine and different organs to represent all the different physical capabilities of your body,

the ancient yogi's thought, you know, there must be some kind of system we have within us that we may not be able to see

it, but it's some kind of system where our emotions are filtered.

And so the chakras represent different aspects of your experiences, your memories, and your emotions.

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