I breathe and notice my breathing, I count, then I like to imagine colours, sometimes I imagine a walk by a pond, colourful pond over a bridge in a Japanese garden...
My yoga teacher yesterday said to count from 108 to 0 - as counting backwards makes us really concentrate so that the mind doesn't wonder...That was useful, as my mind does wonder...
I like to imagine water lilies like in the paintings by Monet...I imagine walking bare feet on warm grass, and with each step a lotus flower opens...
I like this mindful walking, I imagine it and I am lucky to do it at least once or twice a week in the rose garden and the flower garden of Greenwich Park , and just to walk in peace watching the blossom trees and the birds, the squirrels is enough to make me relaxed and happy; and I walk and I smile.
It is important to take a few minutes , a few times each day, to connect with the higher worlds...
In our daily lives, we usually feel pressured to move ahead. We have to hurry. We seldom ask ourselves where it is that we must hurry to.
When you practice walking meditation, you go for a stroll. You have no purpose or direction in space or time. The purpose of walking meditation is walking meditation itself. Going is important, not arriving. Walking meditation is not a means to an end; it is an end. Each step is life; each step is peace and joy. That is why we don’t have to hurry. That is why we slow down. We seem to move forward, but we don’t go anywhere; we are not drawn by a goal. Thus we smile while we are walking.
Thich Nhat Hanh
I discovered a new blog so take a look too!
http://www.zenmoments.org/zen-and-the-lotus-blossom/
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