THE WALK AND THE LACK OF TIME. PART I

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I believe that the availability of time and its administration is one of the fundamental characteristics for the success of this WALK-RWD program, both for the purpose of carrying out activities and leisure, essential for any action we wish to carry out.

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We always complain about the lack of time, and this is a disconcerting perception that arises more in the city than in the countryside. It seems that everyone lacks time; time for everything, to do the everyday, to do something new, in short, we lack time; however, paradoxically, on many occasions we hear people say: “here I am, killing time”; and there is no need for someone to answer: “Tell me where you left it, to make it come alive, and use it.” Of course, the expression of killing time contains, on a greater frequency of the times, on the one hand, trying to rest from the overwhelming of activities, either by being repetitive (which generate fatigue or aversion) or by being intensive in the effort that is destined (physical or mental), or on the other hand, unconsciously free from boredom.

When there is or persists in the person a discouragement, reluctance or apathy -mood or psychological – is a problem more difficult to solve, but not impossible. Even with all the time, the individual is not willing to take a step to do anything: he does not want to go for a walk. Of course, in severe cases, it is necessary for the person to be treated psychologically and emotionally; however, if we start from the idea that walking is not a mandatory activity, that is, if we could truly feel within our being that going for a walk is to dedicate our time (free) to what we like and not to something that imposed on us, we will have taken a firm step to free ourselves from this pathological reluctance; and I mention the word free ourselves because walking can help us to discharge from that energy overloaded by our organism that prevents us from understanding, on the one hand, our inner self (internal reality), what we feel and why we feel it and, on the other, to know and understand the external reality. The WALK-RWD system, applying it comprehensively, reading, writing and drawing, while we walk, balances, compensates and harmonizes us in our interiority in relation to negative emotions, and keeps us at some healthy distance from the unpleasant concerns and relationships of all types (social, family, school, work, etc.).

Proper time management is one of the most important elements in the WALK-RWD system, as well as in all other important activities that we develop in life. We are worried about using it wrongly. Sometimes we feel that it is not enough for us and that it happens too fast, and other times that it goes too far. Sometimes we want to be doing several things at once, because time flies. Regardless of which situation we perceive, we must become aware of the here and now “Hic et nunc” (See writing THE “HERE AND NOW” WITH THE SYSTEM). Concentrate on our walk, in reading, and the best way is to ally with Mr. Time (Future writing WALKING AND FREE TIME. PART II). That our mind does not drag us into the past or the future, let’s stay with Mr. Time who accompanies us at every moment in our life, let’s enjoy your company in the present, experiencing the WALK-RWD system and learn to manage it.

I enclose 2 plastic works from the CHRONOPATENIA series, where clocks are observed that are puzzled and delirious for not being able to keep pace with Mr. Time. They are exhibited in light structures, with virtual montages, located where time has been passing with ease and transmitting its abundance. They have the purpose of highlighting and confronting the awareness of the time that the human being has used (the hours, the months, the years) repeating routes through those places.

358. CRONOPATENIA I

We must give ourselves time to find a “free time”, that friend we feel is far from us, and that sometimes we perceive him as an executioner with his deadlines or sometimes he refuses us. Let us talk to our inner selves and enter to review the “cloisters” that absorb our time and that prevent us from deciding independently (unconditionally) what we really want to do in our free time; to those blockages (obstacles) that we ourselves build, impediments that interrupt the passage to approach that friend and that close doors and windows to not let him in.

We must invite him -at free time- to be with us, not to be missed, to accompany our deep intimacy. He will advise us how to combat and banish from us that pretext that becomes an obstacle and our enemy: the “lack of time.” Do not let this adversary and the cloisters that we have built (labor, professional, scientific, intellectual, academic, technical, teacher, doctor, organizer, professor, manager, etc.) make us feel like a stranger in our own home.

Those cloisters that are so equal -among themselves- in this matter of the availability of time, that they are always needing all the time for them and other activities are spared, arguing that they need more time for them.

By stepping aside these “cloisters” momentarily, we will be able to locate that dear friend, the one who has hidden for many months, and perhaps years, the “free time”.

Later we will present the theoretical positions that have been manifested, to understand what free time, social time and leisure time, have meant for the human being, throughout different epochs (Future writing WALKING AND FREE TIME. PART II).

One question that we must ask ourselves regularly is: What activity will I use or waste time on? Of course we cannot know for sure. We must for that reason separate the times we dedicate to the “cloisters” to know in which of them we use it and to what extent. As well as evaluate the result of how we feel by taking advantage of our time in them: Happy, unhappy, satisfied or dissatisfied?

Now, since we have realized that that part of the time we require is there, it has always been there, we will achieve its availability towards us, in everyday activities, let’s eradicate that “shackle” from our lives: convince me that there is no lack of time, and so we can spend 30 or 60 minutes to develop a walk, which when combined with the structural activities of the WALK-RWD system (read, write and draw), will drive us to others levels of satisfaction, awareness and creation.

Let us seek immediately, and above all, the encounter with the “true” free time. Let’s make this search a vital opportunity.

Let us keep in mind that there are needs that we cannot avoid satisfying, such as work to obtain remuneration for sustenance, attention to our family, social commitments, cultural and educational development, and others; there are also certain conditions that force us to develop certain activities unconsciously, such as having our free time for entertainment, sports, television, which we must at least become aware of, and finally, we must remember that we must take actions concrete for what we are passionate about -or looking for passion- because that way we can help ourselves to have plenty of time.

RECOMMENDATION: A concrete way to use our free time, and ensure that we do not lack time, is by developing a specific program, daily or weekly, where you can clearly appreciate the different periods, slacks, durations, regular and cyclic activities, work times, family activities, etc., in order to be able to perfectly outline the free time that is available, where all those activities that the person can freely assign the hierarchy and importance to themselves can be developed, and that of course must incorporate the WALK-RWD system, where you can reach your freedom by reading, writing and drawing, while walking.

A premise to develop this program is to abandon the mechanisms that we use in the work itself and that completely control us. Let’s avoid that this program is an extension of the work or its consequence; let’s prevent it from becoming a residue of it. The first thing we must do is remove the mandatory application of the WALK-RWD system; we will only have to look for ways to carry it out with pleasure, with passion. I think we can always find time to develop activities that we are passionate about.

If you are one of the people who do not like to develop programs, then simply, decide to dedicate this system 10 to 15 minutes daily, and it will take you to extend those 10 minutes, in an imperceptible way, as you will increase your free time. For this, since the system is self-motivational and you will see how life changes (See writings THE SYSTEM IS MOTIVATIONAL BY ITSELF; ABSTRACTION AND MOTIVATION WITH THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM, and THE ENIGMA TO RESOLVE: THE MOTIVATION). You will discover that the lack of time does not exist, because passion eradicates that fallacy (Future Post LOOKING FOR PASSION IN THE REALIZATION OF THINGS, WHILE WE WALK).

Post PART II. WALKING AND FREE TIME.

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