Learn to walk with purpose and clarity.
Each and every day we do things that, though potentially rewarding, are too easily taken for granted or performed on auto-pilot. 5-Minute Mindfulness: Walking is designed to help you take a mindful approach to these commonplance experiences and activities, making them more enjoyable, fulfilling, and relaxing.
Walking is the perfect activity for reflecting and relaxing. Approached mindfully, it can provide a window of calm in our everyday routine. And yet we tend to focus on simply getting from A to B, giving little thought to how this time might be used more productively. 5-Minute Mindfulness: Walking contains thought-provoking essays and short exercises that will help you follow the path to inner calm while on the move as well as meditations that can be completed in just five minutes. "Five Second Thought" feature boxes that take just a few moments to read will give you food for thought for an entire day. These books work in harmony with the fast pace of modern life.
Author(s): Baker,Douglas
Publisher: Fair Winds Press
Year: 2016
Language: English
Commentary: Walking, Minfullness
Pages: 188
Tags: Walking, Minfullness
Introduction
What is Mindfulness?
How Mindfulness Works
The Practice of Mindful Walking
About This Book
1 Walking as Meditation
Mindfulness in Walking
Simple Movements Simplify the Mind
2 Walking to Settle the Mind
The Body Has No Opinion
Letting Mindfulness Come and Go as You Step
Your Brain on Mindfulness
Wise Walking, Easy on Ourselves
3 Walking Is Sensational
Know That You Are Walking
Three Stages of Walking Meditation
4 Positive Mind States
Beneficial and Unbeneficial Mind States
Lost in Thoughts, Found in Beauty
5 The Medicine of Walking
Who Walks With Me?
Transcending the Burden of Self
For the Benefit of All
6 The Time is (Always) Now
Becoming and Being
Each Walk, and Each Life, is Fleeting
Mind of Curiosity
7 Relieving Stress
Understanding Stress
Stress and Freedom
Creative Hopelessness
From Trash to Treasure
8 A Path Well Chosen
A Practice and a Path
Choiceless Awareness
Holding Steady
9 Walking in Nature
Flowing with the Go
Walking Small Amid the Grand
Connecting to Nature
10 Walking Mindfully in the City
Riding Waves in the City
The Mundane to the Mystical
11 Mindful Walking in Everyday Life
Emotional Rescue
In the Clutches of Craving
12 Maintaining Mindfulness
The Little Things of a Big Thing
The Practice of Cultivating Wisdom
The Stuff of Mindful Living
The Three Refuges on the Path
Conclusion
Why We Walk
Each Walk a Pilgrimage
Index
About the Author
