Re: [at-l] HIking as Meditation?

["Cora Drake" <cora_drake@hotmail.com>]

i try the "empty your mind completely" meditation notion and what happens is 
that the present tunes in loud and clear -- sights, sounds (aches, pains  
*v*)

jpjane

>From: "Lynn Setzer" <hikester@mindspring.com>
>To: <at-l@backcountry.net>
>Subject: [at-l] HIking as Meditation?
>Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 07:29:15 -0400
>
>The other day I was talking with a friend about meditation -- how to do it,
>what you get from it, that sort of stuff.
>
>After listening to her response, it occurred to me that, for me, hiking 
>*is*
>a form of meditation.  Whenever I'm out there, just walking along, I can
>clear other thoughts from my mind, and I get lost in the walking aspect of
>it, just watching the world go by at, of course, a very low speed.
>Sometimes it's like the walking creates a hypnotic trance.
>
>Anybody else out there have this sort of response to hiking?
>
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