Walking in the present moment is an enriching, pleasant, and calming experience. It's simple to create a spontaneous feeling of pleasure.
Consider walking as a kind of “staying in the present moment.” If you haven't yet recognized the pleasure, make a deliberate effort to do so, and even encourage it.
- This is a critical point. Your mind gets more united and strong as you develop joy. Walking in the woods or in lovely settings is particularly enjoyable.
- Use the methods of Nine-Part Stepping and Following Sensations, outlined here, to make your attention more steady and your perception sharper and clearer as you continue your walking exercise.
Peripheral awareness should become more metacognitive in nature.
Extrospective consciousness fades away in sitting meditation, and metacognitive awareness becomes mainly introspective.
- Extrospective awareness, on the other hand, is always strong in walking meditation.
- This implies that the metacognitive experience is one of observing the mind as it attends to feelings in the feet while being aware of the surroundings.
- The emergence and passing away of moments of attention and times of extrospective consciousness is the goal of metacognitive introspective awareness moments.
You may be drawn to things other than the meditation object in the two techniques below, and you may wish to investigate them with attention. Refrain from succumbing to this temptation.
- Instead, cultivate heightened peripheral awareness to enjoy such things.
- Information about the surroundings will be projected into peripheral consciousness as your mind gets more unified, without the purpose of it being the focus of attention.
- As a result, sustaining a single focus of attention becomes more simple.
- Simultaneously, by setting your goal to enhance peripheral awareness on a regular basis, you'll progressively raise the amount of times of peripheral awareness and your total consciousness power.
You'll eventually arrive at a natural, metacognitive state of prolonged undivided focus and robust peripheral awareness.
