Welcome to the Daily Meditation podcast. I'm Mary Meckley and I'm honored to guide you through a meditation today.

And in today's episode, which is episode 690, you're going to be guided in a meditation where you focus on a chakra.

Now you always have the option to do the meditation techniques that I share each day.

I share a different meditation technique every single day. or you can simply do the meditation without

the technique.

You always have that option.

Now, I have to say that for the most part, when I first started meditating, I had meditated

for about over a decade, really, before I started to focus on the chakras and mudras.

And now those are some of my go-to meditation techniques.

So I encourage you to just try it if you're not sure what a chakra is and chakras are new to you, just kind of go with it

and see how it feels for you.

Now chakras are simply energy centers in your body that the ancient yogis believed harbored

your emotions. So just as you have different organs that help to run the

different functions in your body, such as your heart pumping blood, your lungs taking in air,

well, they also believe that there must be somewhere where we process our emotions and where even different experiences we've had in the past are harbored.

And so they came up with the system of chakras.

And the chakras coincide with many of our organs as well. So I'm going to be

guiding you in a chakra meditation today. Now in this week's meditation series, it is pure

meditation where I'm going to be guiding you directly into a meditation without giving you

too much context.

It's all about enjoying the process of meditating.

So as you get ready to meditate, just honor yourself where you are. If you're new to meditation,

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