Welcome to the Daily Meditation Podcast. I'm Mary Meckley and I'm a meditation teacher who shares a different meditation technique every day customized around a weekly theme. And in this week's theme, we are focusing our mind.

So the theme is focus.

And in today's episode, which is episode 6001, you're going to be guided using a chakra meditation technique. So every Thursday, as I record this,

it's for a Thursday meditation. I share a chakra meditation technique. And if you're not sure what

chakras are, no worries at all. Chakras are simply energy centers where your emotions and your feelings and

memories are harbored. So just as you have a physical spine to support your different organs

that help your body function on a physical level, well, the ancient yogis over 5,000 years ago,

determined that there must be certain centers within us that harbor our emotions, our

memories, and our feelings. And so they came up with a system of chakras, and the chakras

correspond with different emotions and different elements and even different minerals and stones.

You can take it pretty deeply. I just touch on the main attributes of the chakras, but I had a listener reach out

to me recently who requested that I mentioned the different stones or crystals that can be

associated with each chakra when I share that in each chakra's meditation and these are just ways to help support your meditation ritual

Like I said, you don't have to do the meditation technique

You can still receive the benefit of the meditation without doing the meditation technique

Well, I also want to mention before I guide you into the chakra meditation of the meditation without doing the meditation technique.

Well, I also want to mention, before I guide you into the chakra meditation, that I had a listener reach out to me who mentioned something very important.

And she mentioned how her biggest challenge was being consistent with her meditation ritual.

And as she focused on her feelings this week, which is a big part of what we've been discussing in this week's focus meditation series,

how a lot of times we consider focus to be a tool or technique. And really, if you consider

where your emotions are taking you, that has so much to do with how well you can focus so

if your emotions take you way out of your center that feeling of feeling centered or connected to your authentic self, then you're going to

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