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 in today's meditation, you're going to be guided as we explore

chakras in episode 734 every single Thursday I share a chakra I share a chakra meditation

and the theme for this week is all about managing your negative reactions.

That can be one of the biggest challenges we face as we go throughout our day. And in fact, you may find yourself

having negative reactions while you're seated in your nice, calm meditation space trying to meditate.

That can be one of the most frustrating things of all, and you may feel that you're not cut out for meditation if you can't seem to calm your thoughts.

I think sometimes people have this idea that meditation is this mystical experience where you're supposed to sit down and everything is just supposed

to flow for you as you are seated meditating and all this peace and calmness is supposed

to wash over you.

But in fact, even with longtime meditators, it can be a battle when you sit down to meditate.

It can be a battle because you're trying to be calm on the inside.

You're trying to reach your inner peace.

But you're still engaged and connected to what's going on outside of you,

whatever happened to you that day. Maybe somebody cut you off in traffic, or you had a negative

conversation with a coworker, or you're just feeling so stressed and

overwhelmed because you have so much to do and you feel like you don't have enough

time for yourself so as you're seated meditating it can be hard to pull away

from that and to reach an inner sense of stillness.

And that is perfectly normal.

That is why I so honor you for showing up for yourself day in, day out.

When you show up for yourself, regardless of

whether or not you had a great meditation, you start to respect yourself. You start to gain

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