Walking with Glenn Berkenkamp by Glenn Berkenkamp

Author:Glenn Berkenkamp [Berkenkamp, Glenn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781623174743
Publisher: North Atlantic Books

How to Do

Dress appropriately for this nighttime walk. Carry a flashlight if you’d like.

Walk in an area, be it a field, a beach, an open parking lot, an empty roadway, or a forest path, where you feel safe walking with your attention often directed upward.

Turn off your cellphone, switch it to airplane mode, or leave it behind. (Or, if so desired, leave it on and use one of the many star-identifying apps to tell you what you are viewing. Just turn on the app, point your cellphone at the sky, and the app will identify which planets or stars are in view.)

Perform your GBS Pre-Walk Check-In.

Begin walking.

As you walk, allow yourself to be drawn into the heavens above, but remain aware of your feet feeling a deep connection to the earth below.

If you’re familiar with astronomy, feel free to search for and identify the stars and planets above you.

Take time to contemplate the bigger questions you may hold—or just the sheer magnificence of life itself.

Think about what the heavens above and the earth below can tell you, or inspire within you.

Breathe. Count the stars. Open to possibilities. Open to change. Open to greater understanding.

If it feels right, take time to settle into a larger, more expansive identity, and consider yourself as being part of the stars.

Allow your eyes to soften at times, taking in the heavens above and your earthly surroundings with a relaxed, yet expansive, gaze. (Visit the Soft Gaze Walk on page 191.)

Conclude your walk knowing that even when they cannot be seen, the stars above are always there shining for you.

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