This is Episode 1126. Welcome to the Daily Meditation Podcast. And I welcome you to today's episode on peace.

It's all about peace. As we continue to explore this week's series, which is all about beach meditations for tranquility.

And I'm Mary Mechley. I share a different meditation technique every day here on the podcast.

And each technique is customized around a weekly theme. So you can explore this theme in depth to really master a particular quality in your life.

And I happen to be recording this series at the beach. I am at Sanabelle Island. Actually I'm in the northern part of the island called Captiva.

And I am recording these meditations for you at the beach. So I am surrounded by palm trees and white powdery sand with lots of seashells.

Sanabelle and Captiva happen to be great locations to gather seashells. The currents that flow into the islands come from many different parts of the world.

And the islands actually face east-west. So when the waves carry the shells onto the shore, they don't crash onto the shore.

Like they do with the island is facing north-south. They kind of drift up and land on the beach and they're intact.

So you get many varieties of seashells here from all over the world. And so I've been collecting lots of seashells as I walk on the beach.

And of course I'm sharing the techniques with you that I'm creating as I go about my beach walks and sit down and meditate here and there along the beach.

Well in today's episode you're going to explore a meditation technique with the option to use a chakra.

Chakras are considered to be energy centers within your body that harbor your emotions, your feelings, and they also correspond to different organs within your body as well.

It's the whole mind-body connection. And as you do this guided visualization technique I'll share with you, you could focus on one of your chakras.

Or if you're not really sure about the chakras, you can simply focus on the visualization.

Well if you do the chakra and I challenge you to try it, these techniques are ancient. Over 5,000 years old people have been doing these techniques and they're very work, they're very effective.

So you might just try a new technique.

If you do choose to focus on a chakra it will be your second chakra which is located right at your reproductive area.

And this represents being open to life's flow and it represents your sexual organs, creativity, birthing, and idea.

New opportunities and not being so set or stuck in your ways. So it's the chakra to open up to new ideas.

And I think that's what the beach helps you to do. It helps you to feel as though there are many possibilities, especially if you're at the ocean.

It's a mincity that makes you feel as though anything is possible. And so this chakra, the element, there's an element associated with these chakras, well this element is water.

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