In this lesson we'll be discussing meditation and chakras. what is meditation? It is thought, concentration, focus, contemplation, reflection, spiritual introspection, heightened spiritual awareness. How do you perform meditation? There's actually many different ways. You can sit and do meditation.

You can be lying down and doing meditation. Walking, believe it or not, in a group with other like minded individuals and transcendental which Maharishi Mahesh you Yogi is actually the first person that they know that coined the phrase Transcendental Meditation. It is with mantras, which are just small phrases that you can say over and over again, kind of like affirmations that take about 15 minutes and two times a day, sometimes with your eyes closed. So it's just using a mantra or a small phrase, such as an affirmation. And you're using that over and over again to say, either in your mind or out loud, to keep your monkey mind that's what they call it is monkey mind your mind from going all over the place, from going to your shopping list to your to do list what you forgot to do before you started meditating. All of those things will come up for you.

And so having this mantra will actually help you to stay focused on completing your meditation. If you ever listen to Deepak Chopra's I think they're 21 day meditations, a lot of his have mantras that you can say over and over again to help you to help bring your mind back to the Thought for the Day or the meditation that you're doing. So how can you work with your chakras during meditation? You can use guided visualizations you can visualize. You can set an intention. Focus on a chakra, or chakras.

Use your palm energy as a focus. Using sound will help to focus on a chakra and help that same frequency just come into balance using yantras. And Mandela's will actually help create a focus point for you to work with. Next up, we'll be discussing energy healing and how it relates to chakras. I'll see you there.