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Meditation
Walking Meditation
In accordance with Jon Kabat-Zinn Director of the Stress Discount Clinic on the
College of Massachusetts Medical Center, one simple way to carry awareness into
your life is thru walking meditation. "This brings your consideration to the
precise expertise of walking as you're doing it, specializing in the sensations
in your toes and legs, feeling your whole physique transferring, " Dr.
Kabat-Zinn explains. "You can even combine consciousness of your respiratory
with the experience."
To do this exercise, focus the eye on every foot as it contacts the ground. When
the mind wanders away from the ft or legs, or the sensation of the physique
walking, refocus your attention. To deepen your focus, do not look around, but
maintain your gaze in front of you.
"One factor that you find out when you have been practicing mindfulness for some
time is that nothing is kind of as simple as it seems, " says Dr. Kabat-Zinn.
"That is as true for walking as it's for something else. For one thing, we carry
our thoughts around with us after we walk, so we're often absorbed in our own
thoughts to at least one extent or another. We're hardly simply walking, even
once we are simply going out for a walk'. Strolling meditation entails
deliberately attending to the expertise of walking itself.
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