You remember who you are – who you truly are, as your authentic self. In the guided meditation, you get centered and think about who you no longer want to be – and who you’re ready to become. Just like you’ve done seated, I’m now asking you to evolve your experience and practice something similar while standing. When you begin, you’re standing still with your eyes closed. Here’s what you might experience when you practice the Walking Meditation. ‘Walking’ You Through a Walk: Embodying Your Future Self If we can consider our seated or lying-down meditations as a rehearsal, then Walking Meditations are more like the performance: the act of becoming. Walking Meditations give us the opportunity to do just that. Our goal is to rise from our meditation as a new person, feeling new feelings, thinking new thoughts, and committed to new behaviors … and then to stay awake in our day, practicing what it feels like to embody that new character. We’re not practicing for that hour each morning – becoming no body, no one, no thing, no where, in no time entering the unlimited realm of unknown potentials awake in our coherent hearts and brains – to then rise, unchanged, and default back to the automatic patterns of the old personality. It’s important to remember that all the time, effort, and practice we put into our meditations – seated and lying-down – is not simply to have a good meditation. And that’s how I developed my approach to Walking Meditations. It’s about practicing with our eyes open. In terms of our work, when we practice feeling elevated emotions, thinking new thoughts, and behaving in new ways in meditation, it’s so we ultimately can sustain those feelings, thoughts, and actions in our daily lives. In the parlance of the acting world, the work actors do to inhabit a new role – memorize the script learn their lines practice speaking and moving as that new persona – is ultimately for a performance, where they fully embody that character for the duration of the show's run. Now, we’re at a point in the journey where we encounter an important question: what is all this repetition and rehearsal for? In Part II, we focused on rehearsal and repetition as essential practices in becoming a new character – with some open-ended questions designed to help us envision how we’ll think, feel, and behave as that new personality creating a new personal reality – as a protagonist becoming a hero. In Part I of this series, we examined the idea that life in this 3-D world is all an act … that we’re all actors on a stage – heroes on a journey – in this plane of demonstration.

Recently, we’ve been exploring the talents and methods actors use when they take on a new character – and how we can apply similar skills to our own practice.

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