Welcome to the Daily Meditation podcast. I'm Mary Meckley and I'm a meditation teacher who shares a

different meditation technique every day on the podcast based on the customized theme for the week.

And so today is a Thursday and every Thursday I share a chakra technique.

Now you never have to do the meditation techniques.

You can simply be guided through the meditation.

But I do challenge you to try the technique.

You can do the techniques whether you're seated in your meditation space

or whether you're busy moving about your day. Now in today's meditation you're going to be

guided in a meditation focusing on your first chakra, your earth chakra, to be calm.

And this is episode 587.

And my challenge to you this week has been to think about things that you do in your life,

maybe something you do every day, that causes

you anxiety or where you feel a little rushed and tense, maybe when you get ready to

leave your house in the morning or even go to bed at night or driving in rush hour traffic.

Whatever it is, try to add calm to it.

Try to think of how you could rework or disrupt that routine and make it more calming.

You can visualize yourself going through the routine in a calm way and think about it.

What would you need to have in place in order for you to feel more calm in tense moments of your life.

We often don't think about this because we just think, oh yeah, this is just one of those tense times, but actually if you consider what you can do to make it calmer you may be very

surprised at how much you can improve the quality of your life by improving and

thinking about in advance how you would improve all the little

habits that you do each day. Well go ahead and sit up straight. Let's get you

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