{"id":232,"date":"2013-06-20T12:09:56","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T12:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jenmaroney.com\/blog\/?p=232"},"modified":"2013-06-20T12:09:56","modified_gmt":"2013-06-20T12:09:56","slug":"walking-meditation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jenmaroney.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/walking-meditation\/","title":{"rendered":"Walking Meditation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have 3 kids 5 and under, had a house fire and have been dealing with insurance and a renovation for a year and a half, and have a very big job. It&#8217;s been very stressful so I&#8217;ve put some habits in place to help me stay calm and clear throughout the craziness. One of my favorites is walking meditation.<\/p>\n<p>I was taught this practice by reading Thich Nhat Hanh, a great buddhist leader. His writing on it is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dhammatalks.net\/Books2\/Thich_Nhat_Hanh_A_Guide_to_Walking_Meditation.htm\">here<\/a>, but I also recommend his lovely books. It&#8217;s a wonderful meditation practice because it can fit into the busiest of schedules. Even if you are just walking to get your lunch, you can do this.<\/p>\n<p>Simply focus on walking, your steps on the ground, and count your breath matched with your steps. If your mind wanders return to your breath. I used to work in Soho and would do this in the mornings walking down Spring street. I was able to remain in the moment so happy to walk down such a beautiful street to arrive at an office where I loved my work and the people I worked with.<\/p>\n<p>One of my former employees, an amazing UX architect, had in a former life also been a buddhist monk and this is his favorite meditation practice too.  You can do this walking down the hall in your office. It&#8217;s truly changed my life&#8230;give it a try and let me know how it goes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have 3 kids 5 and under, had a house fire and have been dealing with insurance and a renovation for a year and a half, and have a very big job. It&#8217;s been very stressful so I&#8217;ve put some habits in place to help me stay calm and clear throughout the craziness. One of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jenmaroney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jenmaroney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jenmaroney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jenmaroney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jenmaroney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jenmaroney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jenmaroney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jenmaroney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jenmaroney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}