The first thing that happened when I learned about Walking Meditation is that my whole idea about what meditation IS completely vanished, to be replaced by a much more clear and concise picture of what was going on. For me, meditation always meant "clearing the mind of everything," leaving the space for "the emptiness" to appear, so that I could move in consciousness into "the nothingness that is The All...", or something like that.
      

What I was supposed to be trying to do, I thought, was "empty my mind." I was supposed to try to sit in one place, close my eyes, and "think of nothing." This made me crazy, because my mind never turns off! It is always thinking, thinking, thinking of something. So I was never very good at sitting with my legs crossed, closing my eyes, and concentrating on The Nothing. Frustrated, I hardly ever meditated-and envied those who said they did (although I secretly wondered whether they really did, or simply went through the motions, doing no better than I was able to do).
      

Then a master teacher in my life told me that I had entirely the wrong idea of what meditation was about. Meditation, she said, was not about emptiness, it was about focus. Instead of trying to sit still and think about nothing, she suggested that I do a "walking meditation," and move about, stopping to focus on specific things that my eyes would light upon. ~   Neale Donald Walsch