There's a list of ways you can practice walking meditation.
You can do this super slow walking where maybe you find 10 yards in your house or outside and you just kind of walk back and forth very slowly.
If you don't want to go at a slow speed, you can just take a normal walk or take a walk in nature.
I do that with my wife or child.
In moments when nobody's speaking, I can just tune into whatever's coming through the senses.
And then every time I get distracted, start again.
You know, in the airport, instead of walking and looking at my phone, which I also do,
I can put the phone away and just feel the raw data of the physical sensations of the body moving through space.
What's coming in through my eyes and my ears.
We are moving so often.
You know, even if you're in a wheelchair or you're differently abled,
we tend to move whatever parts of our body we can move and to create this positive Pavlovian response where the body starts moving.
And that's just a reminder.
Oh yeah, wake up.
We live so much of our lives on automatic pilot.
Anything you can do to wake up is something you should probably consider doing.
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I'm Dacher Kelltner.
These days,
people like myself tend to track their daily steps more closely than ever with smart watches that tell you precisely how far you've walked and how many calories you've burned.