MOVING
MEDITATION
The practice
If sitting still is not your thing, moving meditation may be the practice for you.
The technique may involve anything from making your bed to ecstatic dance.
Through repetitive movement, the practitioner calms the mind by shifting focus to the task at hand, with laser beam attention on the senses engaged, typically touch (the feel of the sun or a breeze or gravel underfoot). The aim is to create greater awareness.
The Tradition
This one’s ancient.
Yoga may be a form of moving meditation. All that’s required is that shift in focus. It can be done anywhere, at any time.
The practice is as broad as traditions like qigong, tai chi and aikido, as well as walking a labyrinth, and Sufi whirling. One of my favorites is Even dance movements can form the foundation for moving meditation.
MY STORY
Though I’ve practiced everything from 5Rhythms to qigong to daily task meditation, in the book I focus on the tantric practices I undertook. If you’d like to be on the Advance Reader Team for Blissful Thinking: A Memoir of Surviving the Wellness Revolution, sign up below.
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Silent Meditation
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Blissful Thinking: A Memoir of Overcoming the Wellness Revolution
Never give up, especially on yourself.
What would you do if your partner ended your marriage, over the phone? From another country?
Blissful Thinking is the raw and honest account of L.L. Kirchner's recovery, a quest that took her from university halls in the Persian Gulf to the streets of Manhattan to a sex cult in India.
The author was living in Qatar, separated from friends, family, and life as she’d known it when her marriage imploded. Feeling unable to move forward, she decided to take a time out in India. That time out turned into an odyssey that spanned years and crossed continents, zigzagging between silent meditation retreats, gurus, and finally a psychic in Florida.
If she applied herself, Kirchner was sure she could be rid of the flaws that had caused her ex-husband to leave in secret. But once she started looking, the list of her failings was a never-ending well.
Read along as Kirchner bravely searches for radical honesty. And a second date.
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