Hello there. Welcome back. I'm Mary Meckley and this is episode 2,900 of the Daily Meditation

Podcast and this week you are being guided in a meditation series where every day this

week you are gaining insight and meditation techniques to create a positive body image. And I'll

start off with the insight and then you'll be guided to settle yourself down to meditate.

In this week's series you also have a challenge where every day throughout a weekly series,

you're encouraged to do something to take you a little deeper into the week's theme.

Well the theme with a positive body image has you this week reflecting on the parts of your body

you're not so excited about or maybe you feel as though your body has deceived you in some way if

you're fighting an illness or a disease or maybe you have an injury that is constantly nagging you.

I invite you to think about something for a moment. Is it wrong to be experiencing what you may

perceive as lack and society often conditions us to feel is though we're not supposed to feel

pain but there are other societies especially the more primitive societies where pain is an

important process in life. In fact pain is often perceived as a gift and that's a very common

premise in yoga and meditation so the ancient yogis felt as though there was a reason for our

experiences for what caused us pain, what causes us joy, what angers us, what frightens us,

all these big emotions and they determine that they settled in certain locations in your body

and I think we intuitively know this for example if you say my heart is aching over the loss of someone

you love or you're frightened so you feel as though your stomach clenches or you're carrying the

weight of the world on your shoulders so we feel certain emotions in certain areas of our body

well the ancient yogis came up with a term for this they call it the chakras so today I'm going

to guide you through a meditation where you have the option if you so desire to create a little more

dynamic meditation today if you do focus with me on your second chakra this is located

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