Welcome to episode 3, 203 of your daily meditation podcast. I'm Mary Meckley and I

welcome you back to this week's series where you are cultivating a samurai mindset and as you do so I'm

guiding you with insight from the recommended book this week called Samurai

Wisdom by Thomas Cleary. So the theme this week is The Samurai Mind, a series for focus and discipline,

two of the most sought after qualities of the day and they were

also sought after qualities during the time of the samurai.

So I'll share insight with you as I always do.

And then I'll introduce you to the featured

meditation technique of the day,

which has you focusing on your third chakra which is all

about your zest for life your passion and you're guided in a meditation.

So in yesterday's episode, I shared as your insight

how one of the qualities of the samurai involved embracing failure

and they embraced failure, they felt that learning from their mistakes provided

valuable life lessons for them and made them even stronger. They not only analyze their failures, they identified the root causes and

then they made adjustments to avoid repeating them. And this is what you do when you settle

yourself down to meditate each day. You tune into your emotional state showing up for yourself as you are.

So you're not trying to create this inner peace

immediately when you sit down to meditate, you're first honoring how you truly feel.

Maybe you feel anxious or maybe you feel restless or fearful. You acknowledge this and you begin to notice what may have triggered this.

And then you begin to work with it. You begin to adjust yourself so that

you feel more at ease with all the emotions we experience as humans, the emotions that spiral

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