Welcome to episode 3,019 of your daily guided meditation.

Welcome to day five of the series.

This week you are guided as you navigate a brand new year.

Or you may be on a new journey listening to this series at some other point in your life when you're

embarking on something new. In this week's series, you're guided using meditation techniques

that are going to help you realize your goals. And as you set different resolutions for yourself doubt and fear and anxiety can set

in you can begin to feel intimidated by your resolutions or to feel as though you won't really be able to accomplish what you set out to do.

Sometimes before you even get started on your resolutions.

You often think about, oh, this is what I'd really like to do.

I'm going to set this as my resolution.

And as you take steps to do it, you realize, I think this is going to be too difficult for

me. I think I need to set the bar a little lower. Well, that's exactly what I don't want

you to do. And one of the reasons why this can happen is because you may have such big experiences in your life that have contributed to feeling within your body

and within your mind something that may have happened that put doubts into your mind.

You may have even failed at what you are attempting to do this year.

You never really fail unless you give up. But you have so many experiences that you've lived throughout your life.

And those live within you.

And in yoga and meditation, they are referred to as chakras.

And chakras are simply energy patterns within your body from your past experiences.

And you know this, so we don't really have a name or expression for it in English or in a lot of westernized countries, but in Asia, this is considered to be a system of chakras.

Those experiences we've lived in our life that leave an indelible mark upon us.

So when you think about your resolutions, chances are you are pulling from these experiences

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