Having experienced the benefits of guided meditation when I began my own self-inquiry or spiritual journey I have come to share meditations as a guide myself. Especially in the beginning stages of meditating the focus can be problematic and a guided meditation can provide that focus and assist you in making a meditation a routine part of your life. Once meditation is a routine part of your life just the health benefits are amazing and well proven. 　　These two meditations are important to me and hopefully to you as chakra cleansing is an important piece of working on ourselves as well as keeping negativity as far away from us as possible. The more often we clear the chakras, even with a more general meditation such as this, the more prepared and protected we are against negativity. This general chakra cleansing mediation hopefully will show you the way to work on the individual chakras more and more, which can take up more of your time but it is so worth it because you release old patterns that no longer serve you. I actually spent a whole lot of time on some of them to where I now am doing alright with general, daily chakra cleansing (for which I also apply energy healings). 　　The second, and shorter meditation, "Gratitude Connection" is a mirror of my life in many ways, something I have come to learn and fully embrace. The more we open up to gratitude the more it comes into our lives and then our lives can be so much easier! However, initially expressing our gratitude honestly can be challenging, which is why I am sharing this meditation with you, leading you into opening up to those expressions and embracing aspects or characteristics that society may rule "negative". All of them make you and me the wonderful beings that we are... so we can be grateful for them. Not to mention that once we do embrace them they are much easier to release, if necessary. 　　I hope you'll enjoy these meditations as much as I do, as I continue to use them often myself, and that you will reap the benefits that are embedded in them to have a much happier, healthier, and more positive life!