What is walking meditation?

Start meditation with walking. Walking meditation is a form of meditation in action. In walking meditation we use the experience of walking as our focus. We become mindful of our experience while walking, and try to keep our awareness involved with the experience of walking. Actually, there are several different kinds of walking meditation. We’ll just be looking at one of them in detail, although we’ll touch on the others. Once you’ve mastered one form, you’ll easily be able to pick up the others.

Obviously, there are some differences between walking meditation and sitting meditation. For one thing we keep our eyes open during walking meditation! That difference implies other changes in the way we do the practice. We are not withdrawing our attention from the outside world to the same extent that we do when we are doing the sitting meditaiton.

Start your walking meditation with very slow and mindfulness. First, try to balance your body while your walk very slow. Second, you should be very mindfulness when you change your steps. Next, one should know that process of steps like, right food lift up, in the air, touching the ground, left food lift up, in the air, touching the ground. Keep repeating this process again and again with mindfulness. This meditation will build up our concentration.

Mindfulness of Breathing or Metta Bhavana (development of lovingkindness) practices. We have to be aware of things outside of ourselves (objects we might trip over, other people that we might walk into) and there are many other things outside of ourselves that we will be more aware of than when we are doing sitting - especially if we sit inside. These include the wind, the sun, and the rain; and the sounds of nature and of humans and machines.