COMBATING SOME ENEMIES WITH THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM: OBESITY

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As we have already pointed out, there are innumerable negative emotional enemies and unpleasant habits that govern our daily existence.

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We can fight against each other by applying the WALK-RWD system, in different modalities, in terms of the very combination of their own activities that constitute it. We have mentioned that we can activate pleasant or positive emotions by creating a Virtuous Circle through the WALK-RWD system (See writings: READING-WRITING-DRAWING: VIRTUOUS CIRCLE, and NEGATIVE HABITS AND HOW TO COMBAT THEM. GENERAL CASES); as we know, the mere fact of walking encourages us, elevates our self-esteem, and reduces stress and depression. Likewise, with that same Virtuous Circle we can face the unpleasant emotions as well as fight, in general terms, negative habits.

For each of the negative habits there is a special form of the WALK-RWD system that allows us to present a specific front to combat them.

Regarding the use of the WALK-RWD system to deal with overweight, certain categories should be defined, according to differences or marginal increases with regard to the weight of an individual, be it woman or man, determining exactly the pounds for each of the categories, and depending on this, within the WALK-RWD system, decide and define the specific actions that must be carried out, in order to achieve the reduction of a certain amount of pounds. For example for overweight we could have the following categories: lean, skinny, thin, fit, chubby, fat, obese. As for the section of thinness we can mention: skeletal, skinny, slender, puny, and as for the large we can mention: corpulent, robust, beefy, bulky, fleshy, and none of these -categories- requires modification of weight; however, we will have to check if we say: potbellied, paunchy, heavy, buttery, because it may require another kind of medication.

Let’s see how the Vicious Circle of Obesity (VCO) works.

The system of “walking, reading, writing and drawing” can help correct other discomforts, not only in the physical sphere, but also in the mental and cultural sphere. There are many and varied benefits that can be obtained using minimum times and at no cost. It seems that the will and discipline that the individual requires to carry out this type of practice are very difficult to have; we do not all have that capacity and it is surely more difficult than we can imagine, to dedicate an hour a day to our health.

What is highly recommended, to lose weight, is to walk daily, and not to perform intense exercises, because these only burn (or spend) the body’s glucose, that is, only sugar, and not fat, as it does the walk; this allows us to reduce, by its daily performance, about 70% of the fat. So, for obese people who want to lose weight, it is advisable to walk daily, for periods of 1 or 2 hours, and not the intense races of medium or high speed. In short, any intense exercise that generates fatigue or muscle pain or shortness of breath, or any combination of these symptoms, is definitely no better than the walk to lose weight.

As we have already mentioned, within each habit in us there is an “inner need” that we must attend to. In general, all of them manifest, directly or indirectly, in a symptom or external effect.

If we attend to the “inner need” that we have, we can eliminate the habit that has formed us. It is certainly difficult to discover the correlation between need and habit, or sometimes we do not even want to reveal it. However, it is essential to find that relationship to meet the need and thus “break” that Vicious Circle of negative habit.

We will use some of the sequences and schemes used in writing NEGATIVE HABITS AND HOW TO COMBAT THEM, since in this the general cases of negative habits were analyzed.

We all know the endless circle of 1) Depression, anxiety (D), 2) Need for food (F), and 3) Weight Gain (G); it is a chain of three links that always leads to fatness and this, to a greater depression; however, we can modify it if we introduce in it the link of “walking, reading, writing and drawing”.

When a person is exceeded in his weight, his heart has to make greater efforts to carry out his function. High blood pressure and diabetes present a probability of 3 times more in an obese person than in one that has normal weight. Also, obese people are doubly exposed to having high cholesterol levels and to suffer a myocardial infarction. If a person obese of high blood pressure, will manage to lose weight, by walking, using the WALK-RWD system, because for every 4 pounds that lose weight, blood pressure can lower it by 1 mmHg.

This is, in general, a typical case of the Vicious Circle in eating habits. The solution: lose weight; but how?

The Vicious Circles are broken by an external stimulus, creating a new action or activity within the usual chain of events of the analyzed habit. In this way we can remove, in a healthy way, the person out of that vicious circle of habit.

However, we can also solve the problem of negative emotions, which we have described in the writing EMOTIONS AND THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM, which we can reduce through the WALK-RWD system.

Be the chain “D-F-G” of Depression-Food-Weight Gain, which we can all understand:

CHAIN or VICIOUS CIRCLE “D-F-G”

Every time we have finished taking food we must get up from where we are and put the system into practice. This will work in two scenarios, one that we have explained with all its benefits; and another, which will also work, in this type of case, as a discouraging mechanism to continue making us “harm”, by eating food that we do not need. If we can consciously know that we will have to carry out future activities to eliminate that “desired damage”, we will look for ways to avoid it. My experience tells us that if this new link in the chain “D-F-G” is included and it is executed, it will not repeat three times in which it desists to continue punishing, eating unduly and unnecessarily.

Of course, there is always a comfortable tendency to return to the original pattern of behavior; do not allow it.

All weight-loss programs include “X exercises.” The one we propose include them, but it has highly motivating activities, such as reading, writing and drawing -as well as walking-, which will be able to break -after a certain time- with that destructive circle. There is a real possibility of exchanging the critical link that obesity generates with that of “walking, reading, writing and drawing”. In the science of psychology, it is demonstrated that there exists that unconscious mechanism that tries to carry out that substitution.

In any “psycho-dependent” or “psycho-depressive” circle, such as the one just described with respect to obesity, it is possible to define an activity (or more) that is a “switch” that prevents and disconnects the chain, modifying it to reorient it towards tasks that physically and mentally benefit -psychologically- the individual. In our case, the “switch” is the integral system “walking, reading, writing and drawing” that we can use at all times to face the habits that are creating negative situations and attitudes -conscious or unconscious- in our being. We must be alert to detect these neurotic-depressive chains of behavior that create us states of imbalance (see writing EMOTIONS AND THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM), both physical and mental, that once analyzed can incorporate them, at some point in the chain, our “switch” system. It also functions as a trigger mechanism for positive processes and attitudes.

Invariably we must analyze the specific chain to determine the “internal need”, which in turn will facilitate us to identify the point in the chain on which we will have to implement the system as a “switch” of it.

Undoubtedly, any circle of mental dependency of “n” links theoretically has a point where we can include the integral system between the two nodes Ai and Ai + 1, and be able to modify the sequence pattern and of course, eliminating -like consequence of the corrective process- to some or several of the nodes of the original chain, obtaining a new sequence and creating in this way a new and positive circuit of activities. The system will also function as a trigger for effective and positive processes and attitudes.

For example, if we have detected a chain of six related activities, which feed back and generate negative effects on a person’s health, we can apply the integral system.

We have to suppose that we have determined, through relationship analysis: internal need versus habit, that the integral system (WALK-RWD) should be included between activities A3 and A4.

And we can achieve the possible reconfiguration in such a way that it is positive and also eliminating the actions A2 and A4, finally being:

With this action we can “break” the habit within the chain that makes it up.

Needless to say, the analysis of each case and its evaluation will depend on the location of the point where we will have to influence the “switch” to obtain the most immediate and positive results. With the security that if it is not the appropriate point, it will not cause any additional problem in the behavior of the person who is carrying it out and we will be able to remodel it more conveniently, looking for another node for the application of the WALK-RWD system.

The time it will take us to carry out the “interruption” and modification of the “psycho-dependent” circle will depend on each particular case. In general, certain symptoms of improvement may begin to manifest after 2-3 weeks of having put into practice the insertion of the system (always walking). With the full assurance that overweight will begin to decline in this small period and what remains is to continue to apply the system permanently until we have reached an adequate weight. In general, the system works in such a way that an adequate weight is achieved and the “inner necessity” is eradicated in an unconscious way, however, it is possible that the appearance of this need is recurrent and it recovers its psychological dissatisfaction, so that we must be vigilant to apply the WALK-RWD system again, in the same point of the chain or perhaps it has modified its original structure with which we were applying the system, and again we have to analyze and evaluate the new psycho-dependent chain. We can ensure that the system works properly in most cases of psychological dependence. In the events of loss of a loved one, assault or theft, where a depressive state is generated in the affected person, it is advisable to “walk, read, write and draw” to help in recovery, which will reduce the state of depression that comes, many times, to completely incapacitate the people who suffer it. Let’s not forget: walking we can leave behind any type of Vicious Circle, and specifically the psycho-dependent of obesity.

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