Will you discover the power of the "who do I love" morning walking meditation because I do this in the morning and it helps me out a lot to remain centered, to think about how may I best help people today and to feel good first thing in the morning?
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Who Do I Love Morning Walking Meditation #191
The basics of the meditation work like this. I get out in the morning and walk first thing, as often as I can, with my dogs and we just walk a couple of blocks. So, maybe a five or ten-minute walk.
It helps me in the morning to get outside because I've been sleeping inside all night, which is a luxury, but at the same time it's good for my body to have some fresh air, to get the sunlight on me, to wake me up and to see nature, see the trees, see the grass, see the clouds in the sky.
That helps me to get a state of mind that's more similar to that. I often wake up in a fog first thing in the morning. I'm not sure what I want to do. I often just kind of rat race, jump into something that I think ought to be good, and what helps me is to take my dogs for a walk and do this meditation instead.
What I do, I leash up both of the dogs, we go out on a walk in the morning, and I think about, "who do I love?"
What I do is I try to picture each person that I love. I picture each of my family members like my wife.
I picture my daughter.
Now, that's often easy because I've seen them first thing in the morning, so it's kind of easy for me to do a walking meditation with me having just seen my wife and my daughter.
I then start picturing the rest of my family members. I picture my brother, his wife and daughter. I haven't seen them in a while. I picture all my other family members. I picture my mother. I actually forgot my mother this morning on the walk.
"Sorry, Mom."
I picture my wife's brother and sister, and their children.
I picture my friends and family members.
All right, I already said that.
I think of all the people upvoting and watching my videos. I think of the people on Steem with me and the people taking my courses.
I think about my neighbors and often at some point I actually get to myself. I think, "Thank God I love myself. I love this beautiful body that exists here today."
Often that takes a good five or ten minutes on the walk and what happens when I go through and think about "who do I love," then I get this elevated perspective. I get this perspective that is, I know what to do next from a lot clearer point of view.
I often wake up confused and I rush into something and lots of times the things I've rushed into, it had been better if I literally did nothing at all, like if I sat on the couch all day and just pet my dogs, that would have literally been better than whatever I decided would be a great idea instead.
Today, I was intending to film some more on my new video course I'm making "The Complete Live Streaming Course" and I don't commit to doing something until I do my walking meditation. I did my walking meditation with my dogs, and then doing my walking meditation with my dogs, I felt like the best thing for everyone to do would be for me to talk about this walking meditation.
I've been doing this for months now and my counselor, my coach, recommended it to me to just relax in the morning because I've been saying I get overwhelmed and I get all these thoughts and what do I do about all these thoughts?
I told him I have these racing thoughts and I'm feeling anxious, and he suggested a morning walk and meditation.
Now, for me, I've read a lot of books saying the power of meditation, but I sit in an AA meeting almost every day for an hour, I sit with my wife and daughter often at night. Basically, I have lots of time, enough time, where I can sit, and in the morning I want to be amped up, I want to be excited, I want to be ready to film a video.
For me, the idea of basically sitting down for 10 minutes before I do a video wasn't appealing, and then that's where this walking meditation came in. I thought, "Wow, this walking meditation gets me active, gets my blood flowing, gets me outside. It's perfect."
A walking meditation is nice also because it allows us to feel our bodies in motion and pay attention to them. A lot of us already have enough time sitting during the day and we can do a sitting meditation if we are at work, we can do a sitting meditation easily while we are driving.
It's nice to have a walking meditation, and then the idea with meditation is to make it a constant practice throughout the day. I think this is in the "Power of Now," if not several other books I've read. It's much more valuable to essentially do a little bit of meditation all day, every day, than it is to do 10 minutes or so in the morning, and then go throughout the rest of the day like a mindless zombie having forgotten about meditation.
Or, it's better to do 60 one-minute meditations throughout the day than to do one 60-minute meditation in the morning.
That's how I do it.
I try to just essentially practice meditation all day, every day, to pay attention to what I'm doing because that allows me to not get pulled into completely what's going on. It allows me to have some peace about me throughout the day, no matter what happens.
I'm very grateful I've been willing to try this because one of the biggest barriers to doing this is, I don't have enough time. I need to get started. I need to make my videos. I don't have enough time to go walking my dogs for 10 minutes in the morning and do a meditation.
That by itself is a real power move.
Today, for example, I woke up at 9:30, which is later than usual. I have my AA meeting to go to in a few minutes here. I spent the beginning of the morning with my wife and daughter helping a little bit. I'd slept a couple hours in my daughter's room so she'd be able to sleep in a little bit more. She called me in and I did so.
I was useful this morning and my wife had time to do some articles. We got up late this morning, and of course, the mind wants to rush in and say, "You've got important stuff to do, Jerry. You get these video courses filmed before you go to your meeting. This is all the time you have to work today."
The walking meditation helps a lot with that because it allows me to step back and say, "You know what, nothing I have to do is going to get done very well if I'm not in a good state of mind."
If I feel like I'm in such a hurry, that I don't have time to take my dogs for a walk, that I don't have time to think about who I love before I get to work, I've learned the hard way the quality of my work suffers. The quality of what I produce is bad when I do it like that, and one of the last days I did just rush into it.
What I did that day I would have been better off doing nothing, literally just not doing anything at all. A lot of us don't think of essentially negative work where we are essentially really costing ourselves money by working or we are lowering our reputation by working or aggravating someone with what we are doing.
This walking meditation helps to avoid doing stuff like that. It helps us to see, what's really important that I might do today? What's actually worth doing? Instead of what seems like a good idea.
I'm grateful today that after my walking meditation, this is what I felt like would be best to share, even though in the short term this isn't going to make me the most money. In the short term this doesn't contribute to my goals of, "I want to get this course filmed, and then be able to sell that and have all the tutorials up for people to watch."
In the short term doing this today does not meet my goals in the same mental fashion that filming some video lectures in my new course would have.
However, this might make a much bigger difference in your life today than me having filmed a couple of tutorials on how to light your studio at home, and that's what it's all about, making the biggest contribution to the world, and not contribution in terms of what gets rewarded, but contribution in terms of what truly helps another human being.
My walking meditation helps me focus on what truly helps another human being because my default in the morning is often self-centered, and sometimes it takes me half the walk to focus because I'm so amped up. I'm excited or I'm scared. I'm so amped up it takes me five minutes to just focus on "who do I love?" Other times I think about, I love my wife, I love my daughter and I love my wife's mother and father, and then I will get off, "Well, I'm going to do this video today."
When I do that, I come back in a loving way. I don't beat myself up saying, "There you go again. See, you can't even think about who you love." I don't do that crap anymore.
"Oh, whoops. We've deviated over into something else. Who do I love?" and I just bring myself back and ask the question again.
"Who do I love?"
I try to picture people in as much detail as possible. I try to picture say, my nephew. I picture him jumping around and having a good time with my daughter. I picture his father, my wife's brother. I picture him laughing with my daughter and with someone else's kid, my wife's friend’s child who was at our Easter party the other day.
I try to picture people in as much detail as possible, and then today I realized, "Wow. I don't even remember what my wife was wearing and she just walked out the door after I did my walk like 10 minutes before. What am I paying attention to?"
Now, I'm excited to see what she's wearing.
The idea is not to do the meditation perfectly or to prove that you are a great person. The idea is to just get the feeling that comes from it, and some days it just helps to see how my mind is all over the place, and to bring it on to something that's really worth looking at.
It's worth considering who I love every single day and it's nice every day new people get in there. I will think about my massage therapist one day. I will think about my neighbors one day. I will think about someone I saw in an AA meeting the day before who was just coming off the street and desperately needed help, and now it's a week later and I'm wondering if they are coming back. I get as many different people in, but many of the same people are featured on a regular basis.
It's amazing how long it takes to just remember to be grateful for this body that I'm in, that I spend all day in, that my immortal soul has spent a lot of days in recently. That helps me to detach a bit from the day-to-day things that happen, to remember my immortal soul, that's who I am.
I don't need to believe in it, I remember it. This is who I've been forever and this body is a temporary thing that I've made and I've been through a lot of other bodies. This walking meditation helps take that consciousness to a higher level and when my consciousness is in heaven, when I ask, "who am I?'' and I get an answer like, "divine immortal soul," what I contribute is on a whole different level.
I don't need to just think about, how do I make some income for my family and survive today? I am freed to let my angel wings out and do the full level of my service. I'm free to have an amazing life today and communicate that, and that's the power of this walking meditation for me.
Thank you very much for enjoying this with me.
I hope this is useful because I started doing this based on a suggestion I got from someone else. If you have found this helpful will you please let me know it's been helpful for you because I'm just recording this by myself?
The way I know things like this are helpful, and to do more of them, is because I see comments saying, "Jerry, thank you. This worked really well for me."
Or, "Jerry, this is stupid. I'm never doing that again. I took my dogs for a walk, and then he bit me."
This is miserable. Fine. I appreciate all kinds of feedback.
I love you.
You are awesome.
I hope you have a wonderful day today.
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Jerry Banfield with edits by @gmichelbkk on the transcript from @deniskj
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morning walk is very good for health. meditation and exercise also very helpful.
Hey Jerry! Awesome,wishing the best from Latvia!
Can somebody please find ways so that the steemit community flourishes. I don’t see people actively engaged to steem.
Walking is a great way to clear your mind , peaceful thinking time , we all need it sometimes :) great post Jerry/
This is really great, I know I'm seeing this a bit late but better late than never! I feel like this kind of active meditation is perfect for people with kids or people that tend to wake up with a lot of energy. Me personally I kind of slosh out of bed. I like to curl up and reflect on my dreams and sit in a space with positive affirmations like, may I be aligned on a path for my highest good, may I be in the flow of love today, thank you for today, may my guides, ancestors and angels for my highest good be with me today and guide me. I wish I was diligent at doing it EVERY day but it certainly helps when I do. I love yours though! Really simple, really great! I guess a morning chakra balancing or activating meditation mantra might be great too... like I "thank you creator and spirit for my safety and support, thank you for my ability to create, love and share, thank you for my strength to be who I am, thank you for the ability to love myself, friends, family, and community, thank you for my ability to share and express myself, thank you for my clarity and insight, and thank you for my connection to life itself." Haha wow this post really gets the creative meditation ideas flowing doesn't it!?
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I am also love it very much and i do it regular at my walking field besides my resident
Its very good practice, morning walk refreshes both our body and mind, thanks to share it.
A good walk helps clear the mimd. I do it quite often myself too.
Wonderful post ..thanks for sharing...Best of luck friend ✫
I love meditation! In all its manifestations: from the feeling of total unity with the Universe to awareness in thoughts and actions, from deep meditation to stretching exercises! To be honest, it's not every day that I spread out a rug or sit down to meditate. Interfere laziness, domestic and family chores, their own intentions and internal inconsistency. But when the desire for happiness, natural for any person, wins, then I push everything else into the background and direct my gaze inward.
Good post....
That is a great practice, I do it in the evening, every night before I go to bed, I write for 15 minutes what I am grateful for and what I love in this day, ever since I started doing it, this practice changed my life.
Thank you for sharing your meditation.
Jerry you cannot be an expert in everything.
I agree that meditation is very important, its make us find many mistake or some goal in our life. My opinion in life we look for happiness and it only find in good relationship.
About love I suggest everyone loving family and all human is way for success
I'm so love about your post @jerrybanfield you will hold the world l like your self
You're so lucky to have enough time to sleep while also earning for your family. I wish I'd be like that, too. :)
Hi, Jerry!
I like your post, indeed, meditation and yoga are excellent for a good mood. Have a great day!
Walking keeps the man's heart healthy, walks and minds are good.
Walking is a great way to clean your mind, peaceful thoughts, we all sometimes need it।
Thanks for sharing.
I love walks! I usually do them late afternoon or early evening in the wood or on the beach. They definitely help me gather my thoughts and plan for the next day. In the morning I get up take the dogs out, exercise and then have breakfast. While I eat breakfast I'll watch an episode of "Comedians in cars getting coffee" the Jerry Sienfeld show on netflix. It's only 15 minutes and it they always me laugh. So now I'm happy and ready to get my day going!!!
As a new meditator, this was very helpful and insightful! Thank you!
I love this idea of a "who do you love" meditation, and of being sure to include oneself, as well as extending it beyond one's family. The more people we can include in the list of who we notice that we love, the greater a world we help create.
hey @jerrybanfield your self moment is very lolling !! i enjoy your moment !!
very good article !!! go ahead jerry !!!
Good stuff!
I practice qabalist meditations, tantric sex and my own intuitive form of kundalini yoga.
I walked with the kids to the kindergarten 4 days a week in the morning. Walking is nice good excessive. I hove to do that as well.
Thanks @jerrybanfield for sharing. I too find it hard to find the time in the morning especially with 2 young kids that need to get ready for school. I find 10-15 minutes is the maximum I can handle for 'sitting' meditation. I'll give the walking a try.
I also find that reminding myself each morning and night of 5 things I'm grateful for, gets me into a better mind state.
Have a great day.
Cheers
Alan
"Who do I love " sounds like an interesting topic to meditate. I believe those are the most important people in our life.
I will try it out. Thanks for your kind sharing.
Nice post about morning walk meditation my friend @Jerrybanfield.
Gooood meditative morning, @jerrybanfield!
I love the way you start your day. Thanks for sharing so many of your productive processes and insights with us.
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I used to walk every single morning @jerrybanfield - quite a distance too - about an hours brisk walk, but as we live in the city I found the exhaust fumes almost suffocating! These days, I opt for sitting in my garden early in the mornings...
To my mind, anywhere where you are surrounded by nature is equally as powerful and beneficial.
Walking meditation is best. I recently went out at 6am. City was empty and looked as if everything was there just for me. :)
Hi Jerry, this may be completely inappropriate but I stumbled across this guy's post the other day about his kid and rare diseases:
https://steemit.com/en/@themerge/luyn6n7f7
I don't know him. But I felt completed to do what little I could to help get his post up in Steem for some reason.
Side tracking on one of your posts is completely not OK, so apologies for that. I just don't know any way of PM people on Steemit. And also asking you to upvote something is probably breaking some taboo.
I've seen a couple of your posts, and you helped me discover Minnow Booster. So anyways to cut a long story short, I just thought I'd go out on a limb and ask if you would just upvote the linked post.
I know that sounds kinda scammy, and I can't vet that the guy is 100% legit, but I live in a world where I would hope someone wouldn't lie about their kid having a rare disease just to make some cash.
Anyways won't intrude again, just thought I'd try see if I could get his post up there, and help a stranger out.
I know you can't do this for every unfortunate charitable post or you would do nothing else I am sure if people bothered you all the time.
Good job @jerrybanfield. post that I always wait for
Hey buddy, I don't know why people hate you on Steemit and shit, but I don't want them to hate you.
Please tell me if what you are doing, the way you behave is actually a scam?
This is what people speculate - they think that since you behave so "differently" and "weirdly", you're a certified scam. But people are quick to judge sometimes; they judge because they don't know that there are people who socially behave like that, people who are usually called as socially awkward.
If that is the case, then I truly wish to inform people and make them aware of your "natural awkwardness" and help you stop all the bullying.
I kinda regret being mad at you now.
Seems like I was too quick to judge, maybe. Maybe.
Look man, I don't know your past, alright? You could be the biggest scam artist who uses psychological tricks to deceive people into thinking exactly what you are making me think right now - to give you sympathy.
But, I don't care about your past. Sure, some people out there whom you probably scammed are behind your throat. That's between the scammer and the scammed one.
See man, I say this because we all have the power to move on; to move over and get over our past. This is me, trying to give you a chance to be in my good books; in all of our good books.
So, this is my plea to you:
Give us ALL the reasons for why people are hating on you on Steemit and calling you a SCAMMER, and give us a solid reason as to why they shouldn't.
If you're able to convince me, you have my full support from now onwards.
However, if you ignore this lengthy message of mine that took me considerable amount of time to write up and used up a bit of my energy, then you shall forever remain in my bad books.
Just an idea, if you're bothered at all by all the community harassment and want it to end.
Thank you for reading and for your time.
Cya man.
PS: Yeah, I felt guilty of grilling you with tough questions in your live chat; not my fault you're a natural sympathy gainer and question-dodger. Have better arguments and points next time.
PRO TIP: Don't run away giving an excuse that your "family was there" in your 'studio' (a workplace) when you're being asked a tough question.
ESPECIALLY when you're being asked a tough question and it shows that you're at a loss for an answer. Just admit your mistakes man, wtf.