What is walking meditation?
Learning to focus the mind to be in the present moment is the point of meditation. So often our minds wander. We may go out for a walk under the moonlight, in a night filled with billions of stars, but where is our mind? Did we leave it home rehashing the last television show we watched or replaying the last discussion we had with our partner? Perhaps we sent it on ahead to ponder the dental appointment we have tomorrow. I’m sure you get the picture. Wherever it is it is not here and it is not focused on the Now. Most often even when we think we are in the here and now we really aren’t. It takes great mental discipline to really be in the present. What happened five minutes ago is not in the present. What happened two minutes ago is not. What happened 15 seconds ago is not. The very present is just what the word says, the VERY present. In walking meditation no matter what you are doing focus on the Here and the Now, the very present, without analyzing or evaluating.
