Stopping meditation from Neale Donald Walsch

If you’re on my Spirit of RichThinking mailing list, you’ll have seen the article about How stopping instead of starting saves you time (read it here).

In repsonse to this, a colleague sent me a ‘stopping’ meditation from Neale Donald Walsch, author of the Conversation with God series.

Here it is — and I recommend it, it works really well:

Stop whatever you are doing for the moment and pay full attention to something about it. Focus closely on this aspect. Peer into it deeply. Eg while doing the dishes, look closely at the at the water, count the drops on your hand etc, walking down the street, fully observe a dog, a garden etc.. Get inside your consciousness and deeply experience this moment in a totally singular way. Do this for about 10 seconds. Now pull out of it, blink, snap your fingers, snap out of it. And notice what you noticed in that moment of meditation. Notice if what you’re doing takes on a new quality when it’s been fully appreciated. Do this 6 times a day – set an alarm if necessary.

Apparently, Neale says this can be transformative. But he strongly recommends combining it with a 15 minute morning walking meditation and a fifteen minute sitting meditation in the evening.

If you’re allergic to the word meditation (which I have definitely been!) then simply think of it as silent sitting, or closing the eyes while you’re still awake. Just a simple change of thought can free you from your judgments, fixed ideas and challenges with ‘meditation’.