Learn Powerful Meditation Techniques - Quick 10:00 Guided Walking Meditation Instructions

Episode Date: September 26, 2022

Study after study find that meditation provides a wealth of benefits for your body, mind, and soul. It naturally reduces stress and lowers blood pressure. It builds focus and memory. But what if you��ve tried meditation and just can’t sit still? What if you have medical issues that cause great pain if you attempt to sit or even lie down stationary for a long period of time?For these, and for a thousand other reasons, walking meditations should be a critical part of every person’s tool kit of useful skills._________________________________________________________________________________________A Life Of Transformation Begins With Action...GET STARTED TODAY WITHOUT ANY RISK!Get 7 Days of Unlimited Access Right NowFor Free When You Download Our App! There are seven stages of meditation instruction on a single platform. Live monthly Zoom coaching and training sessions. Get unlimited free access to the Meditation Life Skills app for 7 days by downloading it now! Visit MeditationLifeSkills.com For More Information. _________________________________________________________________________________________What Is A Guided Walking Meditation?Guided walking meditation involves bringing yourself into a meditative state while moving through an area. You are no longer trapped like a bald saffron-robed monk in a high tower of a Himalayan monastery. Instead, you are roaming freely through a beautiful wood with birds singing high in the trees and the sun glistening down through the leaves. Maybe you are strolling along a river walk, taking in the ducks as they skim along the water’s surface. It could be you are mindfully navigating a labyrinth through a garden, watching as its twists and turns take you ever more closely toward its center.That is the beauty of walking meditation. It can be done anywhere. At any time. Even in the comfort of your own home.How Does A Walking Meditation Work?Learning how to meditate can often seem very complicated. Meditations can seem to involve special, embroidered cushions of just the right height. A piece of ideal music is often recommended that has just the right balance of soothing tone and swirly melodies. With guided walking meditation, though, the world is your soundtrack. Nature itself provides the atmosphere.Some people like to do a walking meditation through a city landscape, taking in the full diversity of humanity which forms our global community. Other people prefer to do their walking meditation in a park or garden, where the “civilization” falls away and we connect more closely with the world as it once was. The beauty of walking meditations is that you don’t have to limit yourself to just one option. One day you can choose to walk through an awe-inspiring art museum, pausing before each object to draw in its unique message. On another day you can walk through a quiet forest, allowing each rustle of leaf-on-branch"Be the person your soul wishes you to be." - Don WeyantOffering step-by-step instructions for beginners. Try binaural beats, solfeggio frequencies, guided meditations, and healing meditation music. Our top-rated podcast, with 34 million downloads and 100,000 Spotify followers, explores the profound benefits of meditation. Visit Our Main Website: https://www.MeditationLifeSkillsPodcast.comPodcast Disclaimers: This podcast is not medical advice or a substitute for professional diagnosis or treatment. This podcast needs expert advice and independent verification to reach conclusions. Content-related losses are not our responsibility. AI language models were used to create podcast content for information and enjoyment alone.

We appreciate your interest in today's meditation life skills podcast. We sincerely grateful for your support. This is a mindful walking practice. For us to practice at home, in a quiet room, where we have a little space to walk around, or perhaps outside, if we have some quiet outside space. And it can help us to more fully notice sensations of walking if it's possible to remove our shoes.

So, if possible, starting by removing our shoes, if this is okay for you, and then finding a place to stand, standing with the feet about a hip widths apart, with each foot firmly grounded and planted on the floor, standing upright and straight, but not stiffly, and allowing our arms to hang loosely from our shoulders, allowing our shoulders to drop

and our head to remain upright, supported by our neck. Bring awareness to our body in this moment, What sensations are around right now? Allowing the breath to breathe itself in the background whilst directing our awareness to our feet and the contact between the soles of our feet and the floor beneath. What sensations are in this part of our body right now?

And then, bringing our awareness up our legs, into our hips, pelvis, into our back and abdomen and chest, our arms, shoulders and head, and just standing. Starting now by gently bending our knees just slightly and then straightening our knees a couple of times. So bending and straightening. And when we do this noticing sensations in our legs,

in our feet, in our upper body, what happens in our body as we bend and straighten our knees? perhaps noticing changes in the muscles as we move, tightening and loosening, noticing changes in our sense of balance. And now, with an knee straight and feet firmly planted on the floor, starting by gently moving our body forward towards the toes, keeping our feet on the floor.

What's happening in the soles of our feet as we shift our body weight forward towards the toes? noticing changes to muscles and the legs in the back. Now bringing our body weight back to the centre. And then shifting our body weight gently backwards towards our heels, keeping our feet firmly planted on the floor. And noticing sensations in our body as we shift our weight, sensations in our feet, our legs, our back,

and coming back to the centre once again. And whilst keeping our feet on the floor, shifting our body to our left foot, What do we notice in our body? Now shifting our body to our right foot. What do we notice in our legs? In our right leg, our left leg as we do this. Then returning to the centre,

with our weight evenly distributed between our left and right legs and between the front and the back of our body. And now, with the next in-breath, slowly beginning to move the right heel upwards keeping our right toes in contact with the floor bringing our full awareness to any sensations in our body in our feet in our legs and now lifting our right foot off the floor

moving it slowly forward and with an out breath placing the right heel down on the floor what's happening in the body right now and now allowing the right toes to move down to the floor, whilst at the same time, bringing the left heel up with an in-breath, noting the contact between the soles of our feet and the floor,

between our heel and the air, the sensations of movement, and now with the right foot firmly planted on the floor, lifting the left foot slowly up and forward, and, with an out-breath, placing the left heel down in front of the left, of us, allowing the toes to follow, whilst the heel of the right foot begins to lift with the next in-breath. And repeating this movement, slowly, and bringing our curiosity and interest

to each sensation that we notice, each small movement, bringing the heel of one foot up with an in-breath, bringing a heel down with an out-breath. And now, beginning to walk slowly around the area you are in in this way, keeping our awareness in our body. Noticing sensations in the soles of our feet as we walk, noticing sensations in our legs. What's happening in our legs, in our muscles, our bones, the contact between our skin and the clothes we're wearing as we move?

what's happening in our back and shoulders, our arms and head, and bringing our full interest and curiosity to each new step, remembering that each step we're walking for the very first time synchronising as best we can. The in-breath as we lift the foot up and the out-breath as we place a foot down. walking in this way, paying attention to walking. And if the space allows where you are, practicing, changing the speed of the walk, perhaps walking a little more quickly, practicing making slower movements,

and all the while bringing our interest and attention to the sensations in our body as we walk, And now with the next step, coming to stand. And again, bring the feet parallel, our hip widths apart. Just gently rocking on the feet, forward and backwards, from left to right, before bringing our body back to the centre, standing. And allowing the arms to hang loosely from the shoulders. And just as we bring this practice to a close, bringing awareness to the whole of the body.

awareness of the breath in the background breathing just taking a few moments to settle before bringing this practice to a close and knowing that we can bring mindfulness to walking in other parts of our day