This ties into what I was just talking about. If you do too much Reflection, it's easy to get tired. It's easy to get restless and agitated. So switch over into body awareness. When you think of body awareness type meditation, you have the breathing, you have the walking, you also have body sensations. Switch over. Just be aware of the body. Let the mind rest more, on something that's not using the mind quite so much. With Reflections we're trying to generate thoughts with the mind. With the awareness of the breathing, with watching just some sensations, with walking, the mind's usually more rested. So use that more whenever you're getting agitated during the day feeling that you're trying to think too much.
In general life, when people ask us, what sort of ratio to use, what sort of balance to use, as to Reflection meditation or not Reflection meditation. We often say start with 50/50 % and see how it goes for you. Some people may want to do a little more than 50% on Reflections with less of the other. Balance it for yourself, you have got to experiment for yourself. But in general we say start with 50/50. Now, if you just love doing Reflections while you're sitting, then the 50/50 can come in by doing the walking meditation.
I might also add here that a lot of people when they leave retreats, they go back to their normal lives whatever it is, and they don't do walking meditation. Lots of meditators, all they do, is sit a little bit after they wake up, sit a bit before they go to bed, if they even do that much, and they drop the walking meditation totally. They often find at the end of the day they're tired, they're exhausted, they sit down, they just want to sleep, so they end up quitting.
Walk, when you're tired! OK? Walk, don't think. It's a great way to relax, actually, and it helps a great deal. As well, it keeps that body awareness part of the practice going very strongly. Remember the talk on Unpleasant Physical Sensations, to have more body awareness. More body awareness helps relieve us of a lot of mental agitation. It really does, this connection of knowing sensations in the body compared to thoughts and emotions in the mind, dropping out of your thoughts, seeing more of the body. The body's very gross, it's a very neutral object basically, it's our mind that likes and dislikes, it's not the body. To have more body awareness helps balance the mind, it'll help give more of the equanimity that was asked about before. It'll give more balance because you're dropping the main thing that disturbs equanimity, and that's your wrong thinking. Again and again, when you think of your mental Dukkha, it's coming from wrong thoughts. If you can have Right Thoughts your mental Dukkha is going to end.