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We can practice walking meditation either indoors or outside. It's especially wonderful along the banks of a river, or on a forest path ? but it can be done just about anywhere! So choose your location Cheap Womens Air Max 90 , and then begin by simply standing, in a balanced way, with your arms hanging down at your sides. Try to arrange your feet so that they're parallel (neither pigeon-toed nor duck-footed), and so that you're taking an equal amount of body weight on your right foot and left foot; on the heels and base of toes; on the inside and the outside of your feet. Play with this for a few minutes, noticing your habitual patterns, and ~ with an attitude of kindness ~ trying to bring more balance into how you stand.
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Once you're comfortable with this much, you can add to the visualization, in the following way: continue to imagine, when placing each foot, that you're kissing the earth Cheap White Nike Air Max , and then imagine also that as you lift each foot away from the earth (to begin its next step) that in the place where that foot just was, a beautiful lotus flower blooms. So that as you walk, you not only ~ with your gentle mindful stepping ~ kiss the earth, but you also leave ~ in your wake ~ a long line of blossoming flowers! After practicing like this for five or ten minutes, or a half hour, notice how you feel ? And notice also how the world around you now appears.
Another way of exploring this practice is to say internally, with each inhale~step, the word ?yes? ? and with each exhale~step the words 'thank you.? So as we inhale and place one foot down we're saying ?yes? to life: to all its beauty as well as to the suffering that exists around and within us Cheap Black Nike Air Max , and we're opening our hearts to receive all that life has to offer. Then as we exhale and place the other foot down we're saying 'thank you,? expressing our gratitude for this wonderful human life, this human body, the trees and the grass, our friends and family; gratitude for this opportunity we have to be here, practicing, and for all the wonderful teachers & guides who have come before us. After practicing like this ~ yes, thank you Cheap Mens Nike Air Max , yes, thank you ~ for five or ten minutes, or a half hour, notice how you feel, and how the world around you is now appearing.
And feel free to share this practice with others!
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