You're listening to episode 881. Welcome to your daily meditation. I'm so honored that you're here,

getting ready to meditate. It's one of the best things you can do for yourself. I'm Mary Meckley,

and we continue on our procrastination journey this week, where each

day this week you've explored a different meditation technique to help you manage procrastination.

And in today's meditation, you're going to be guided using a chakra technique.

Now, as always, you never have to use the techniques I share with you if you're not really

sure what a chakra is. Chakras are simply areas where you might harbor certain emotions and your memories and really it's a way you process your emotions.

You can still be guided through the meditation without doing the technique.

You always have an option. You also always have an option to sit in this meditation for as long as you feel comfortable doing so,

always ending the meditation on a high note.

So if after five minutes you feel pretty ready to go,

most people sit for 10 or 15 minutes, but it's really up to you where you

are on this journey. And I always play the music extra long after I guide you so that you can sit

and do your own meditation where you sit in stillness. Of course if you sit even longer after the music

stops, just continue your meditation and silence. However you do it is just right. Never

force yourself to meditate for a certain amount of time. So the meditation technique, as I mentioned, is a chakra technique, your third chakra.

So settle yourself in, straighten your spine.

Close your eyes gently, keeping them slightly elevated as they're closed,

is keep your thoughts uplifted as you meditate.

Relax your face and your jaw.

Soften your neck.

Relax your shoulders.

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