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.

And each technique is customized around a weekly theme.

And our weekly theme this week is inner stillness. So in each episode this

week, seven episodes for you all about stillness, you'll be guided using a meditation technique

that you can do during your meditation if you so choose.

You never have to do the techniques I share with you.

But you can also do these techniques when you are right smack in the busiest part of your day.

Meditation techniques really help you to bring your meditation lifestyle

off the cushion and into your day-to-day life. Well, in today's meditation, this is for a Thursday.

Now you don't have to follow these meditations in sequence.

Every Thursday though, I do do a guided meditation using a chakra.

So I'll be sharing a chakra meditation technique that you have the option to do.

Chakras, if you're not familiar with them, they're simply considered

to be energy centers throughout your body. And by energy centers, what I mean by that is

it's where your emotions settle, your memories, and just different life experiences, and they influence how you live your

life, choices you make, how they affect your health as well. And so each chakra is considered

to have a center that even corresponds with different organs in your body, different colors,

textures, all kinds of different qualities that are associated with that particular chakra.

Well, in today's meditation, you're going to be guided in a meditation focusing on your fifth chakra because the fifth chakra is all

about deep inner stillness. So it's perfect for this week's meditation series. And the kind of

stillness that I challenge you to seek is the stillness within yourself that

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