This is episode 1,769.

Welcome to the Daily Meditation Podcast.

I'm Mary Meckley and I welcome you to day three of our seven part series this week where each day you are

discovering a meditation technique that you can do as you meditate or as you go about your day to manage stress, distractions, and overwhelm. And our theme this week is all about

body cleanse. You are going to be guided through techniques that help you to cleanse negative thoughts,

negative thoughts, negative energy from your body, and as you meditate and work on cleansing your body.

Know that one of the most powerful ways

to instantly calm your body,

which means to cleanse it of stress, is by using your breath.

And if you can layer on an additional technique or two that engages your senses, this will help you to manage your emotions as well as your body's response to a stress trigger. Your breath and your emotional state are interconnected.

So the breathing technique I'll guide you through today is a breathing technique that will

have you focusing on a color. Color therapy is powerful and when you think of different colors you may feel a particular way.

And I'll also have you focus on an element

by combining a color with the visualization of an element, this can calm your emotional state

right along with feeling as though your body is being cleansed of stress.

If you want to take this technique a little deeper into your consciousness

than you could focus on a chakra, which in essence is what the color and the

element represent. So this is a quadruple layered breathing technique where you will focus on your breath as well as color

as well as an element and a chakra.

Chakra's are simply energy that you hold within yourself

that represents your emotions and your memories.

And the ancient yogis believe that just as you have a physical structure to support your frame, you have your bones and then you have your

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