This is episode 1196. Welcome to your daily guided meditation. I'm honored you're here and

welcome to the middle of the week. This is the fifth episode in our seven

part series and we continue exploring forest bathing,

sheen earning yoko and in today's meditation you're going to be guided in a beautiful

visualization to help you feel rooted and connected to a forest.

And if you're outside meditating in a forest,

that's fantastic, You are receiving tremendous benefits. I know it's not always easy to go outside and meditate or to find a forest.

You may live in a city and so you just don't have real easy access to a forest or even a park with green trees or it may be cold outside or even snowy

weather and so you're not able to do this. That is fine because there is research showing that even

gazing at a forest scene can give you tremendous benefits.

In fact, there was a Japanese study that showed that gazing at forest scenery for as little

as 20 minutes, that's it, just 20 minutes, reduced Salavary cortisol levels by 13.4%.

This kind of forest therapy can also lower your blood pressure and heart rate and trigger a dramatic increase in the activity of natural killer cells produced by the immune

system to ward off infection and fight cancer.

So if you are simply gazing at a forest scene or a wooded scene, you're still doing some great things for your

immune system, for your

physical and emotional state.

So now go ahead and settle yourself in and let's meditate.

You're going to have the option in this meditation to focus on your chakra.

Now a chakra is simply an area of your body where you have particular emotions that congregate in that particular

part of your body.

And so, for example,

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