WALK AND READ IN LOUD VOICE

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We could assure that in all cultures reading has been practiced aloud, especially of poetry (Future writing WALKING READING POETRY IN A LOUD VOICE). It is very likely that this activity was carried out by instinct and has a close relationship with some functions of the body and mind.

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We were already commenting that the brain stabilizes and compensates with this activity: “You should also consider making the readings, while walking, performing them out loud, as this generates a better catharsis in the walker”.

J. Arnau in his book”The word against the vacuity”,explaining the thought of the Buddhist philosopher and monk Nagarjuna, expresses to us: “The work [of Nagarjuna] is written in a type of stanza called karika. […] Writing philosophy following this metric technique was a common practice in Indian thinking. This type of literature was written to be recited aloud… ”.

Information -of all kinds and by any means- that reaches our brain can generate positive or negative effects, processed in feelings or emotions. It is mentioned that the mind, when receiving external stimuli that unbalance it – of the negative type – must respond to maintain the balance of the Central Nervous System and the Neurovegetative (Sympathetic, Parasympathetic and Enteric), and one of those recommended forms is to share them with other people or at least express those who are altering our emotional balance: that way is to express in a loud voice all those things that are bothering us.

The sound voice and the sense of hearing are a sensory -SOUND-AUDITIVE- binomial that serves to give greater efficiency and energy to the human body and mind. Positive and pleasant vibrations are transmitted to the body, spirit and brain through the sound voice. All the data and information that is introduced by this means to our body -sound and ear- are processed by the brain generating sensory and emotional responses, in a state of balance and relaxation.

Although it is very difficult to quantify the benefit obtained (of all kinds of advantages and benefits) by reading aloud, it is undoubtedly that it has various effects on human health and conduct, whether in its behavior or in its performance behavior organic body functions.

We must permanently consider the importance of reading aloud while walking: read any text, poem, own or any poet: WALKING READING IN LOUD VOICE.

I recommend experiencing out loud what we have to say, or when reading, or when writing that we can also read our own work out loud. Qui scribit, bis legit: Who writes, reads twice. Even when we are alone we can experience reading aloud either a text or a poem, own or by any author, famous or not, but still walking.

Malcolm Cowley in one of his essays on Lafcadio Herun-san, makes relevance about reading aloud, by extracting one of the texts of his work “The Story of Mimi-Nashi-Hoichi” which deals with a Japanese legend:

“’ At that moment Hoichi felt some iron fingers grab him by the ears and rip them off! But although it hurt a lot, he didn’t scream. The heavy and heavy footsteps backed down along the railing, -they descended into the garden-, they transposed the path, -they ceased. On both sides of the head, the blind man felt a warm trickle; but he did not dare to raise his hands’.”

Cowley says: “We no longer like the signs of admiration of the first sentence or the commas followed by scripts of the third; but it is that the author followed his own theory about punctuation, which for him, was a guide of the reader’s voice. He wrote for the ear, not for the eye; the piece and its context sound good to us, if we read them aloud. ”

Indeed, when reading aloud, sometimes, certain characteristics that words, including letters and numbers, are revealed: sounds, resonances, meanings, musicality, rhythms, silences, that reading with sight, pass unnoticed.

We must also mention that in prayer, in various religions, the oral sound expression is used, the modality of praying loudly in an individual and mostly collective way is used, although praying is a private dialogue with God with the most intimate part of being.

It does not require any formula or procedure but is the expression of the believer’s inner feeling. Praying loudly on an individual basis, for example the Rosary or the Hail Mary, which keeps the devotee focused and abstracted in his pious attitude, the prayers he recites remain in his memory all his life. If this oratory action out loud is done collectively, a synergy is generated that injects greater strength and certainty in each of the speakers.

In the Hindu, Buddhist and Jainist systems we also clearly observe the use of this technique of oral sound expression to achieve liberation. The syllable A-U-M is said during the singing of spiritual texts and very emphatically during certain meditative activities of Yoga (In the Stadiums or Paths of Concentration, Meditation and Abandonment centered on the Yantra of meditation or Samadhi). It is commented that this syllable OM or AUM-Yoga, is in the cordialis center of this darsana or philosophical system of India, and represents the unity of the 3 fundamental human being entities: mind, body and spirit. It is very common to be sung three times at the beginning and also at the end of a Yoga session.

The next time we walk, let’s do it by speaking out loud, either reading, remembering a poem or repeating some phrases that we hear by some electronic means.

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