Welcome to episode 3,224 of the Daily Meditation Podcast. I'm Mary Megley and I welcome you to day

five of our series this week. You are on a journey to heal with silence.

And you have selected a particular part of your life to focus on this week to heal with silence.

And in today's episode, the focus is all about deepening your self-awareness.

And I'll start off as I always do with daily insight about the week's theme.

Then you'll be guided in a meditation to put it all together as you focus on the featured meditation

technique today, which is a chakra.

Now a chakra is a particular region in your body that encompasses your emotional state, your memories, and the ancient yogis

believe that just as we have a skeleton, this structure that holds our organs and this is how our body is held together.

They thought that there surely must be some kind of system, although we cannot see it,

that has to do with where we harbor our emotions and our memories. So they called it the chakras

because they noticed that certain regions of the body seemed to be associated with certain emotions.

So for example, you think of love and you likely think about your heart or maybe fear and you think about

maybe your stomach area your gut clenches you feel this fear also there are positive and negative aspects of each chakra. So just as you might

experience fear in your abdominal area, you also experience excitement and your fire in your belly,

your zest for life so there are positive

and negative poles of each chakra and it doesn't mean that a negative emotion is bad

the emotions have more to do with what they seem to do to you emotionally and also physically.

So when you're really scared, sometimes you may actually feel as though you're going to vomit.

This is an intense physical reaction to fear but it is common among people. Or for example,

you feel this heart ache, you feel your heart aches when you're sad or you're grieving

and your energy is low. So some emotions spiral your energy more downward

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