WALKING IN THE RAIN. PART I.

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The title of this post is due to the fact that, a few weeks ago, while dancing a little bit of tap dance with a selection of songs, a little bit old, I realized that several of them that I have recorded to make some sequences of this dance, have in their lyrics this phrase “Walking in the rain”. And it seems incredible that, until this Christmas of 2019, I have not noticed these songs -which I have danced all my life- have a relationship with the walking blog.

I would like to mention that I have two books where I have been able to transmit this dance being performed at the same time with poetry and plastic arts; one of them is “Tap Tap and Poetry” and the other is “Tap Tap, Plastic and Poetry”, and in both of them I try to transmit my experience of creating music with Tap Tap percussion to harmonize Poetry and Plastic Arts, together, in a tri-artistic harmony. I emphasize that I don’t use any commercial music, but fundamentally I set to music the percussion of the sound created by the Tap Tap dance.

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In spite of this way of dispensing with commercial music, I now find several melodies, I repeat, with the phrase of walking in the rain, which truly surprised me and I decided to make them participants of this synchronicity (Post READING AND SYNCHRONICITY-PART I, and the future post WALK-RWD SYSTEM AND SYNCHRONICITY-PART II), because it truly fills me with joy to be a participant in these meetings.

One of them is Houston, sung by Dean Martin

Another is Just walking in the rain, sung by Johnny Ray

Another one is Singing in the rain, sung and danced by Gene Kelly

And the last one is Walking on the sunny side of the Street sung by Frankie Laine, a situation totally contrary to the previous ones (the sun rays), but within the context of walking.

It has no other purpose than to comment that my inclination for dancing and walking has led me to this synchronicity, which encourages me to try to investigate and experiment more about how interesting -and possibly healthy- walking in the rain could be.

Already in Post WALKING BAREFOOT, PART I, I had commented the following: “Walking barefoot on different types of ground are experiences that we must have, all of us. Practices as unexpected and surprising as – I take the opportunity to say it – walking in the rain ”; However, I had not considered it so important to develop this option, which may be transcendent. I am going to take this communication from my unconscious into account and proceed to investigate and further experiment with this alternative.

In Post THE ANCIENT MAYAS AND THEIR WHITE ROADS PART I, I have commented on the monumental arches and the white roads; we said that the ancient Mayas associated those ritual arches with the rainbow phenomenon, symbolizing the great threshold of the vault of heaven, being the celestial doors, which led the human works into the space of the divine; That threshold was at the same time an arch and a way, because it united the heavenly kingdom with the earth with the element RAIN, being this the heavenly flow that inseminated mother earth, granting her life and new beings that would germinate in her entrails. It also said: “This artistic and cultural architectural binomial ‘white road-arch monumental’ of the ancient Mayans allows us to lead us through a spiritual path that crosses a portal of time to enter the various moments that this ancient people had to walk in their daily lives, as well as cross each arch as spiritual thresholds to use them in so many different artistic and constructive uses.

Although I have eventually experienced walking with some rain during the day, and also at night with “rain in the form of dew”, I do not have many conscious experiences about this walking under the rain.

Everything indicates that I should take more into account this uniqueness of walking, under the circumstances of walking in the rain.

So, I will begin to investigate about this but above all I will experience the different options of walking under the rain, and independently of this, I invite you to experience it immediately and give it more strength and power, through this absorption of energy by the contact of our body with the rain, to the mind and the spirit.

There are different intensities of rain, and of course I will have to select light rains that will not cause me any discomfort.

I consider that it is not difficult to define in which type of rain by its intensity we should be able to walk without complication.

According to the form of manifestation of the rain, we will be able to walk in periods of dew and drizzle. Also surely, according to the gender of the person (male or female) and the ages of each one, in rain that is called “Liquid”.

What is not advisable is to go out for a walk during “heavy shower”, of course, less with stronger rains.

In general, it is advisable with intensities with weak type of rains (less than 2 mm/hour or 2 inches/24 hours) and also with moderate rains (from 2 to 15 mm/hour or 2 to 15 inches/24 hours). From this level of rainfall, greater than 15 mm/hour (or 15 inches/24 hours), STRONG RAIN, is no longer recommended.

It is not easy to know what these numbers refer to in terms of rainfall, even when it is raining, because we cannot measure these intensities; however, that is why we just have to keep in mind: whatever level of rain makes us feel uncomfortable or at risk, let’s not go out for a walk. On the other hand, the experience of walking under a light drizzle is very pleasant.

We should experience it to know what direct effects (real and evident) the rain has on the organism, the sensations it provokes, how our senses respond, and what are the mental and emotional effects (levels of satisfaction and well-being) that a short walk in the rain generates. It is something we are not used to do, let’s go for a walk one day with a light drizzle.

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