This is the Meditation portion of Podcast Episode 21: Meditation on the Bike; uploaded here separately from the full episode for you to utilize with more ease. #1) First of all, we'd prefer ideally free to pick flat or mostly flat terrain, terrain that is not obfuscated with a lot of things like stoplights and potholes and people not a busy bike path. Not a lot of turns, not a lot of rolling hills. #2.) And the second point that directly stems from that is, no matter where you are in this meditative process, you need to understand that you are responsible for and obligated to always keep a direct awareness of your environment. Just because you're zoned out and thinking about your pedal stroke doesn't give you license to ignore cars that turn in front of you, dogs, cats, ice, sand, potholes, small children, flying objects, whatever else you might encounter on the bike. So we're here to be aware, you've got to accept the fact that during cycling, we need to have our reticular activating system on which is a low level alert for threat." - Colby Pearce Waking Up App - https://app.wakingup.com/  Soma Breath - https://www.somabreath.com/  FasCat - https://fascatcoaching.com/tips/meditation-for-cyclists/ Ziva Meditation - https://zivameditation.com/  Michael Holt Meditation Teacher - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZJo2ZDCNTv1QtKfKaSn64A