The Joys of Walking Meditation

Instead of Doing Something I Will Live To Regret, I Found A Solution

You can listen to my Audiobook, too!

I don't know about you, but I am at wits end with all this talk of war and Trump and Kristi Noem shooting her dog in the head and the violence on college campuses and Fatties For Palestine and lions and tigers and bears oh my! It’s enough to make me scream. It’s almost like I can understand how these random acts of violence are happening across the country. America needs to implement a new law: the Mandatory Walking Meditation Bill, and Congress needs to take this up stat!

If you want to live in this country, every American must do a 30-minute Walking Meditation at least once weekly. I’m a peace-loving ex-hippie, and all this angst is driving me to the brink of hysteria, which is not in keeping with my vibe. And it’s not a good look (see Fatties for Palestine here). Hence, I found a solution to quell sounding like one of these angry lunatics stinking up America.

Walking Meditation is an awesome way to get centered in light of the times that we're living in. There are 168 hours in a week, so there is no excuse that you can’t take 30 measly minutes out of your busy schedule to shut the fuck up—I mean do a Walking Meditation. It’s a great way to start the day.

Breathe in, feel your feet connected to the ground, hold your head high towards the sky, consider your posture, straighten your shoulders, and breathe out.

What a lovely way to start your day. Use this time to avoid thinking about the many things you must do that day; instead, allow yourself to imagine what else you would like to do in life. Get in touch with your quiet side because soon enough, your day will be awash with nonsense between friends, lovers, family, coworkers, and the media—social and otherwise.

Breathe in, feel your feet connected to the ground, hold your head high towards the sky, consider your posture, straighten your shoulders, and breathe out.

Don’t you just love this new-found centeredness and being at peace? Let’s face it: Peace is the one thing we don't see enough of in the world at the moment. Peace is ultimately the goal. For many years, I used to say. “Do as I say, not as I do.” I've always been a great advice giver and a good listener. When I was a little, short, fat kid in grammar school, the pretty girls always wanted to tell me about their boyfriend problems, who wouldn't ask them to dance at the basement parties, who kissed who. This prepared me for a life of great advice-giving. And I was always right, instinctively.

Later in life, I became a consultant, which is what all know-it-alls end up becoming. I was hired to tell companies what kind of events, marketing bla bla, you know, all the things that consultants do best because somehow, we know better.

I still believe that you should “Do as I say,” but now I have reached a new high point—not literally, figuratively—where I have begun to listen to what I tell others to do, and now, I do that, too. I know; it came as a complete shock to me, too. It’s the most incredible turning point in my life as a know-it-all. Yet, I am the happiest I have ever been, so if you haven’t taken my advice, start now.

Naturally, I have daily issues and dramas to deal with and foibles to confront (sloth, etc.), but with Walking Meditation, suddenly everything seems manageable—until it doesn’t anymore. I will do this daily to feel grace, gratitude, and joy. I will be kind to myself, and in turn (perhaps, hopefully), I can be kind to others, despite all the conflicting bullshit that is happening around us.

Hence, Walking Meditation: because you can feel a sense of grace as you own this moment of self-reflective, quality time that nobody can take away from you. Except you. So I guess we’ll have to work on that shit going forward. First things first.

Peace—literally & figuratively…
Abe
PS…Listening to my Audiobook while walking can be very meditative and hilarious. Yes, Barbra Streisand and me in the same sentence has me fatootzed.

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