Article by Kaylee Murphy
Are you one of those antsy-type of people who are often and persistently bouncing a foot, tapping a pencil, chewing your nails, or otherwise fidgeting? Do you find that sitting still for extensive time periods is a challenge?
It could just be that sitting still to meditate is not the right type of meditation for you. If you would like to learn the simplest way to meditate, then walking meditation might actually just be a better choice for you.
If you have never heard of walking meditation before – don’t worry. It is not as strange as it sounds. It is easy to learn and very effective tool for combatting stress, especially when it is used on a regular basis.
Walking meditation comes in a slew of unique forms. However, an easy one for you to get started with is to just solely focus on your foot hitting the solid ground with each step — saying, “Left, right, left, right” with the relevant step.
The purpose of walking meditation is to encourage you to focus your thoughts as you pay attention to your feet hitting the pavement or walking up a flight of stairs; rather than just allowing your thoughts to rampage.
Here are a few ideas to help you get started with walking meditation.
1) While you are walking, you should shift your interest to your feet.
2) Be sure to walk at a typical pace, or even thinking about walking at a slower pace in order to allow you to have expanded focus on your steps.
3) Pay attention to the sensation that you feel as you take each step. Do you feel pressure, tingling, prickling?
4) As you take each step on your left foot, silently say to yourself “left.” Do the same for your right foot until you are in a steady tempo of “left, right; left, right.”
5) If you see yourself getting mixed up and suddenly realize that you are getting your lefts and rights mixed up then you’ve lost focus. Simply begin over again from step # 1 and you’ll very quickly be back on track.
Set aside a bit of time each day to do your walking meditation; you can simply make this a practical part of your day. Try it when you walk to and from the train station, while taking your dog for a walk in the morning, or going up a flight of stairs in your home.
Make a goal for yourself to see just how many ways you can easily fit walking meditation into your life each and every day! What a great way to keep moving in a productive way that can also help you to focus and relieve a little bit of stress!
About the Author
Kaylee Murphy is a psychotherapist who helps people manage and reduce stress inorder to have more joy, freedom and better health. To get her free ebook so you can learn easy and clever stress reduction techniques visit her website today =====> https://secrets2meditation.com/goto/?url=http://www.kayleedmurphy.com