After years of habitually practicing and corroborating the custom of some of the Greek Peripatetic philosophers and sages of “walking reading”, and having edited the book that consigns this integrated personal experience as a method on how to increase and improve our creative performance in all areas whose process I share here; and because I became more aware of what the system represents and the benefits it provides, I have been able to confirm that the best ideas I have had during this period have been when I have been reading and / or writing when I walk; that is, in the process of walking. I am fully convinced that the human body produces one or more substances that seek and increase the generation of ideas, and not only of the habitual and simple, but of those that go out of the ordinary; in the moments when I’m walking and reading. It is a process that increases memory, understanding and allows the formation of great ideas, which break the balance and calm of the traveler-reader-writer, causing him to fall headlong into the “muse” that is incorporated into his normal activities of contemplation and creation.
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Or it is simply a moment where the concentration, so intense that it is provoked when walking – reading or writing -, generates in turn those great ideas.
I would like to share with you some experiences I have had with my 10-year-old granddaughter from her reading walks. When returning from doing them in a very good mood, although sometimes in the hot summer afternoons she looks a little bit tired, his eyes shine and his capacity for perception and discovery expands and becomes more agile. This I have been able to verify it when after not finding the figures of the “lost objects” that there is to locate in the pages of their books of entertainment, for example “Where is Waldo?” As soon she returns to house and continues with that activity, begins to discover them immediately and to detect all those objects and figures that before going to walk had not been able to see them, having spent so much time before walking, and being on the verge of surrendering the change is impressive.
It is obvious to correlate the increase in brain efficiency linked to the exacerbation and greater skill or capacity in their senses with this kind of walking and reading. Including perhaps a higher level of awareness or concentration and focus.
This type of improvement in the perception as well as in the capture of new ideas of creative type are recurrent after about 20 minutes of walking reading (any type of textbook or fiction) that has nothing to do with the fun book ( of drawings) to which I refer above.