I just published “What I Talk About When I Talk About Meditation, Day 3: Dread” medium.com/p/what-i-talk-
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Glad you like it! Sure, the open awareness stuff is pretty straightforward vipassana (but any similar technique should work).
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Accepting all sensory impressions, incl. thoughts/feelings, observing without lingering on anything. Same technique for walking.
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It is definitely the simplest technique of the 3, at least in the setting of sitting down to meditate for an hour.
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For walking, I think there are some detailed techniques out there. I just decided to decide to walk & meditate, and it worked.
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As for vipassana, the problem is it's too simple to teach easily. It ends up like that joke about aerobics:
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Mmh, walking is like breath. It's tied both to automatic and "voluntary" mechanisms. Walking awarely = realizing you are not there
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For some, the distractions of public spaces may be too much. But I just find it makes me more lucid. I struggle more sitting down.
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