Shamash Alidina: "Beginner's Mind" Walking Meditation

Our guest this week is teacher Shamash Alidina.

He shares a simple technique for opening and strengthening your awareness and curiosity about everyday things. This walking meditation is designed to help you:

Practice seeing the world with a "beginner's mind"

Get outside, move, breathe, and give your churning mind a break

Notice things in a new way through your senses

Shamash Alidina has been practising mindfulness since 1998 and runs his own successful training organisation. He is the author of Mindfulness For Dummies and the forthcoming Breathing Exercises for Dummies. He frequently pops up in newspapers, magazines and on radio shows. Based in London, he runs online trainings and speaks at conferences all over the world. He's been teaching mindfulness full-time since 2010.

The transcription of this guided meditation will be online and in our app at Mindful.org next week.

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Show Notes

Find more from Shamash Alidina here.

Go Deeper

Nurturing a beginner's mind doesn't mean we pretend we don't know stuff. It just means we get more intentional about pausing to ask if our assumptions about people and the world are always correct. To learn more about building this mindful skill, check out these resources from Mindful.org: