Sometimes when I feel sleepy in the morning, I do walking meditation before sitting.
Do you recommend it for every session?
How can I understand the best moment to shift from walking to sitting?
Yes, we recommend walking before every round of sitting, a formal meditation.
Now, in daily life, it's sometimes inconvenient and even undesirable to do walking before each round, potentially because you've been walking during the day, you've been physically active or you're drained at the end of the day so often.
It can be often the case that they'd rather just do sitting.
On the other hand, you'll find that sometimes walking is more helpful for you.
After a long day of stress, it's sometimes difficult to sit down.
And you'll find that walking allows you to calm down, allows you to focus yourself, center yourself before you have to sit.
And it sets you up for a good meditation.
Our rule of thumb is to do half walking and half sitting.
Except in the case for an advanced meditator who is deeply involved in meditation, eventually, and this is for someone who is practicing intensively, means all day, potentially all night, they can come to a point where they decide for themselves to do walking as long as they wish and then sitting.
This is in our tradition.
in our tradition we almost always prefer to do half walking half sitting one good reason because otherwise you just follow your partiality you're partial to one and so you do it and in fact that that is the wrong reason that's the reason you should switch to be able to break and let go of the partiality wanting to sit so you walk wanting to walk and so you sit and so
The half and half thing, equalizing, doing them equal amounts helps to break that attachment.