Try a Walking Meditation
Continued from Meditation and the Wandering Mind…
I used to have this very same problem with meditation…I was expecting my mind to become perfectly still and expecting some sort of psychedelic astral travel kind of experience. But it wasn’t happening. And I had been trying for years. I was getting results with my meditations, but I was not enjoying them. And they were not matching my expectations.
The teacher I was studying with at the time (this stuff is in my book Unforgettable: A Love and Spiritual Growth Story) told me to try a walking meditation. Amoram told me that I had too much energy flowing to sit still. He also told me that a walk in nature would help release that energy and allow my mind to gravitate to more creative and positive contemplation.
That is when I shifted to mostly doing walking meditations. I nearly stopped doing sitting quiet and still meditations, I change to doing them only once or twice a week. It worked well for me for many years. I was also listening to a lot of channeled material nearly daily and reading spiritual books daily. So I did a lot of contemplating and prayer too. I consciously worked on reprogramming my thinking. I advanced in my understanding of life and gained experience and wisdom as a result of these practices. I continued on this way until I had my Self-Realization experiences, which as I said earlier motivated me to get serious about a sitting quite and still meditation practice again.
Meditation became a daily practice for me again at the end of 2003. Wanting to understand the process more I took Kriya Yoga training at the end of 2004 because of the writings of Paramahansa Yogananda in his book Autobiography of a Yogi. I have also been reading books like “The Path of Fire and Light” by Swami Rama and “The Esoteric Practice, Christian Meditations & Exercises” by Dr. Stylianos Atteshlis known as Daskalos in the book “Magus of Strovolos.” I choose these two books because both of these authors were very advanced mystics who were able to consciously and deliberately go into the states of Samadhi, travel instantly to distant places, and manifest themselves in some way that was physically perceivable by others. Of course there have been other trainings I have received over the years as well.
To be continued…
Love and Blessings,
Michael Skowronski
Author of Unforgettable: A Love and Spiritual Growth Story
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