Walking Meditation: The Path to Balance and Health

    You don’t have to sit in one place to meditate. Walking is an excellent way of staying in balance. It acts like a stress relief mechanism in that, as you walk, the rhythm of the footsteps is like an inner metronome. After a while this puts the brain into a more relaxed and balanced state. The central nervous system becomes calmer. The steady rhythm helps to maintain an open and healthy root chakra. If you go for long enough, after a while it is possible to enter into a kind of mild trance state, which is a form of moving meditation.

    If you want to not ever get seriously ill, take your shoes off in the park or a garden and walk barefoot on the Earth every day. By putting the energy centres in the soles of your feet in contact with the ambient energies of the natural environment it will help to harmonise your whole system. This slightly lessens any imbalances that have built up, which are a major cause of physical illness.

    Through following these routines, I haven’t suffered a single day of sickness in many years. I have walked around in heavy snows in the middle of winter wearing only light sandals without any ill consequence. I’m not some kind of superman – any healthy person can do the same if you live in a way that’s balanced and healthy, fully in tune with the rhythm and flow of your body’s energy patterns.

    A part of the reason to meditate is to calm the mind and bring to a minimum the inner monologue and other mental noise which only serves to divert our energy and distract us from our true selves. When you really commit to it and you’ve been meditating every day, after a while your mind will start to shift from the everyday Alpha brainwave state of consciousness to the Delta state and then down to the even slower Theta state, the period of sleep where rapid eye movement and dreams occur. When that happens, visions will come to you, and you will start to get glimpses into other realities. You will gradually gain new insights into the world. It doesn’t happen overnight: you need to commit to it every day. How soon you will get there is something I can’t tell you, as every person’s circumstances are different. Some take years. Others might only take six months. I can say from my own experience that the results are definitely worth it!

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