This is episode 1,617. Welcome to the Daily Meditation Podcast. I'm Mary

Mechley. I welcome you to our series on self-care. We've been exploring all week long and in today's

episode you are in for a treat. A fellow listener reached out to me on Twitter asking me if I would

create a floating down the river Blue Lotus meditation. There are many titles to this but it is a

beautiful meditation visualization that provides you a deep sense of inner peace. And so I did some

research listening to various meditations guiding people through this Blue Lotus floating down a river

meditation and I created some modifications to the meditation to make it my own to put my own little spin on this beautiful

meditation. Now the full guided meditation is on our Sip and Own meditation app which you can head over there and try out for two

weeks. Absolutely free. And in the guided meditation you are taken through the full meditation visualization. Here on the

podcast I'll get you started and tell you what to do and then you go ahead and guide yourself as you do this meditation. It'll be a lot of fun. I hope you

enjoy it. So now as you settle yourself in I want to point out that this is a great meditation for you to focus on your

fifth chakra. Chakras are energy centers representing various emotions and memories you've had. So your fifth chakra is at your

throat and it has to do with a deep inner stillness and how you show up in the world and how the world perceives you. The color of this

chakra is the deep indigo blue. So it's perfect for the blue lotus floating down a river meditation and the chakra also has to do with the

quality of your voice, the words you speak, your neck, your vocal cords, your throat. So you can visualize these areas as you do the

meditation if you'd like. So settle yourself down and here is how you do my spin on the blue lotus meditation. You visualize yourself seated along the shores of a river. The river has a nice steady

current. You're seated next to it, gazing out across the river. You notice the rush of the water. You feel the air on your face. You inhale the fragrance of this river.

As you're gazing out at the river, you begin to notice softly, tiny, glowing sparks of light.

The lights emerge before you and you see that these are actually flickering candle light from individual candles placed within tiny banana leaf

boats, banana leaves folded by hand to hold a candle as it floods down the river. Soon you notice hundreds, a thousand of these tiny

lights floating down the river in the banana leaf boats carrying away troubles, cares, the prayers and wishes of others.

As you gaze at the flickering miniature lights in their little boats, you decide to add your cares and worries.

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