Walking Meditation: Instructions and Benefits Explained
Walking meditation is a great practice for those of us who experience pain or discomfort when doing sitting meditation. At full day retreats, it is common to interchange sitting and walking meditation so that one hour sitting meditation is followed by half an hour walking meditation. Walking meditation can increase our concentration and mindfulness especially when our mind is extremely distracted or agitated. In this video I give some simple instructions on my favorite walking meditation technique and I explain the benefits of practicing walking meditation in general.
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I've actually been doing this spring my lunch break at work. I do walking meditation a few blocks away to a tree, then I sit under this tree and do sitting meditation for 10 minutes. Following this I do what I like to call 50 mindful push-ups followed by 50 mindful sit-ups. I then do walking meditation back to work. I've been doing this for 2 weeks and I've noticed better concentration at work, greater love for my co workers, and myself:)
@indognito8448
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the routine 🙏🏼
I like to do standing-up meditation!
thank you for posting. I recently had a stroke and drs. have suggested physical therapy for regaining balance. Instead, I have decided to return to a walking meditation practice. I am grateful you modeled this one. In the past I have used the words rising, moving, falling. Changing to lifting, moving, dropping is what my body needs to remember and the connection of words to actions will be helpful for recovery. I am going to start this using my walker. Again, thank you.
Thank you ☺ I have meditated properly by staying focused on the breath but when I do mindful walking, I use the power of visualization to see my body beneath the skin, in motion, working. I isolate muscle groups, see them in my minds eye, working, increasing the positive flow of energy, that activates and stimulates our whole body system. It works great when walking faster, but at a slower pace.
Thank you! Simple, easy, and explained very well.
Aloha 🌴 Appreciate Joy for your teachings as a Blessed Compliment to my Meditation Teacher's style and our supportive Sangha. Yesterday I was very Grateful to enjoy Walking Meditation barefoot and then Sitting Meditation in a grassy business park while waiting for my vehicle to be seviced. 🌈🦋🧘♂️ Mahalo Nui Loa for your Love and Light, Sangha Sister 🌺
Love this video, I find sitting meditation makes me more agitated. Walking meditation has really helped me, thanks!
Love ur video. Love the details. Thank you for make sure I don't have any confusing in what I do.
I love your enthusiasm
LOVE THIS. Always wanted to learn this... thank you.
I'm so grateful for you and your instruction. Hop you are safe and well; and may be able to return to sharing your thoughts with us one day. 🙏
Excellent work on your site- good on you. Walking meditation is called the 'engine' of ones practice in some strands of the Thai Forest tradition...builds mental 'agility' and flexibility in ones practice, and is also good for people who get too 'precious' about everything having to be quiet and still around them (and inside)when meditating. This video with hyper slow movements with all the naming is only one Burmese style. Its based on Abhidhamma theories and commentarial approaches, very unlikely the Buddha or anyone before the early 20th cent did this method, though many people seem to find it useful. Just remember that 'meditation' is not any technique, rather it is states of mind. You can also just walk at an ordinary pace up and down on a 'formal' walking meditation track. The pace will slow down or even turning into standing meditation depending on the needs of the level of contemplation. You can also have a seat set up next to your walking track in case you find you need to move into a sitting posture. Also just go for a walk and contemplate what your attention is interested in. John
I haven't tried this before, but I really want to check it out. I feel that I sometimes reminisce to much about the past or have a lot of hopes about the future. I need to learn to be better at being here and now instead. When I paddle my canoe or walk in the forest it also helps me to be more in the present moment. I notice the wind, the waves, birds, insects, fishes, the sky, beautiful formations in the nature, flowers, trees, finding nice stones, rocks, the way the forest smell, the smell of the water being so different in different places and so on.
Thank you so much Mindah-Lee!! Before watching this video I always had a hard time slowing down when attempting walking meditation, but thanks to your fantastic tips it's much easier and now part of my regular meditation routine!
Many thanks. Easy and simple to understand. Couldn't ask for anything more. Blessings
Useful Walk Of Goodness And Awareness.
Very helpful, thank you.
I find this very useful ! what a great way to get rid of daily stress !
This is great, thanks! :) I love walking and thats is what first made me start to meditate and really consider to get into meditating daily, it is great to know that you can still meditate whenever without being bound to sitting still on the cushion.
Thank you for this video
Thank you !!!
Thank you Mindah.
very helpful
alright, time to practice walking meditation Thank you for the video, its very useful!
Benifitial❤🙏
Lovely, very genuine, and gracious. Thank you!
Thanks really great, would love it if I could develop a faster paced one for daily walking, really enjoying walking meditation.
G'day Sheliah !..............right on
Blessings you
I like it a lots
Hey Mindah, please do some more guided meditation videos, they're all really good ^^
Thank You Mindah, Metta Sadhu Sadhu
Than you. :)
Hi, Mindah. Great video! Can sports somehow be compared to meditation practices? What I mean is, when practicing physical activities, ideally I would like to keep focus on the movements my body has to perform to complete something, like throwing a ball into a basket, or stroke my arms and legs in the most efficient way to swim faster. So to reach full performance my mind has to be completely focused in the present. Does this state of mind compare to meditation? Much love from Brazil :)
I'm starting to do this as apposed to sitting before bed because I can't stop falling asleep.
Could I do this within a lucid dream so that I can maintain my lucidity within the dream?
This was a bit of a challenge for me. I spent most of the time struggling to keep my balance, than actually meditating. I think I'll stick to sitting.
Walking meditation rearly found in another countries but only Myanmar. Have u been to Myanmar?
I the dance when two is born from one, When the body is dropped And the breath no longer inhales. There is a sense that I still exist, In completed silence, Perceiving space No form, Identity or face, No emotion, no state The dance of breath is felt, Eyes open It seems I am back, Although this completed silence I had never left Never meeting another to forget, miss or remember I could not be alone as I had never been together
I have just started in my room walking meditation. Problem I hv chemical imbalance were I get anxiety fear
OK, looking at your shoes now you officially won me over.
"Keep awareness on the feeling at the soles of the feet..." www.dhammaloka.org.au/articles/item/1204-walking-meditation-in-the-thai-forest-tradition.html That's the basic - beginner should go this way. Mahasi Training Rare video of Mahasi Sayadaw (Mahasi Vipassana Tradition) ... just sharing
Isnt this a bit like Ti-chi ?
I’ve noticed that anything that requires extreme stillness and focus can do this. For example I’m always much more calm after shaving myself with a straight razor for that reason. As long as you can stay detached from the results and can focus long enough to finish. Takes me on average 2 hours to do but the benefits of the concentration are huge.
kaunis jutt teil
What is this...
Why you meditate
Her accent 😂 Was expecting American
I use running meditation simply because I burn more calories. But running is one of the worst exercises for the body, so Im changing over to walking.
You do not look pure chinese, plus your last name is Indian, where do you originally come from? Accent is definitely Australian but the looks is so mixed, you cld even pass as an arab by the way.
@Kendah1978
8 жыл бұрын
kool 😊😊😊😊 what a kool mix..love your videos Mindah...keep it up💪💪
@deepak6586in
8 жыл бұрын
+Mindah-Lee Kumar (The Enthusiastic Buddhist) Nice inputs from three great nationalities....