WALKING AND THE ELECTION OF LONELINESS. PART II

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In this Part II of the post The walk and the election of the solitude, we will expose the different states of mind that society generates in the psyche of the human being, at the present time, and the benefits that are obtained when introducing us to the threshold of the solitude, by means of the application of the WALK-RWD system.

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In a concise way, we can point out several psychic effects that the current society (city, family, jobs and professions, lack of money and work, lack of physical exercises, sedentarism) provokes in the human psyche and in its physical-corporal response:

– Rejection

– Absorption, Disposal

– Stress

– Press

– Turbation

– Emotional disorders

– Exhaustion, apathy

– Sadness

– Pessimism

– Nostalgia, melancholy, homesickness

– Fear

– Blame

– Disappointment, hopelessness, disappointment, despair

– Grief, despondency, boredom, tedium, listlessness

– Discouragement, apathy, boredom

– Annoyance, indifference, indolence

– Disgust, anger, irritation

– Dislike, boredom

– Hate, harassment, anger

– Impatience, exasperation

– Indignation, frustration

– Distress

Some of these manifestations are signs of more serious problems, and that most likely, the periodic recourse to a “rest in solitude” can help you prevent and correct them to some degree.

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Returning to the first stage, the suggestion I make requires practice; only in this way can we enjoy that place, that rock, that landscape, the solitude, being alone, almost completely alone. Only in this way can we understand what it means to be in the 2 stages in which the human being can enjoy his 2 ways of feeling life, of enjoying his existence: accompanied and in solitude.

Besides, it is probable that in that state of solitude, only your eyes have appreciated that space, that landscape, that panoramic view, and that experience can be very valuable for the walker.

This search for solitude with ourselves is recommended, just like the walks, for a brief period of time, from 1 to 2 hours. We are not, by any means, suggesting that they be carried out as the recommendations of spiritual retreats for 1 week or more. The results that we obtain are much more reconstituent since we do not stop being in contact with the society that has propelled us to move away from their relationship. Coming into contact with loneliness in a recurrent, measured and constant way, allows us to obtain its benefits in a habitual and reiterative way, which makes it truly revivifying and healing.

Of course, what we are demonstrating and achieving with this recurrence with brief lapses, by walking in solitude, is that we are definitely not responding to a call from the conscious – or subconscious – to “run away”. A flight that is usually motivated by the absorbing and overwhelming mechanisms of society, work and family, among others. Of course, this need to “flee” is a process of emotional disorder, which is usually unconscious in our mind and apparently we wish to solve all the existential problems generated by that binomial “freedom-solitude” that we have briefly pointed out in the first part (WALKING AND THE ELECTION OF LONELINESS. PART I). We are sure that by letting this pressure escape periodically, through “recurrent solitudes” we can stop looking for an unconscious “escape” and reach full tranquility.

Let us not get absorbed by those confused states generated by the freedom-solitude binomial, which are well expressed by certain thinkers. Walking can dispel that state of confusion, since it can be a true “maker of solitude” to enjoy it and allow it to operate in a beneficial sense.

The Walk-RWD system can harmonize the two stages in which solitude manifests itself, since its intrinsic activities jointly create a mechanism of solitude, which installs itself in its own natural space and time.

We have a personal obligation to seek our virtuous circle of SOLITUDE in order to discover ourselves: What we are and what we wish to be. (Post WHO DO I WANT TO BE? WHO AM I?)

It is important to get away from this mechanism of loneliness, while we walk, because there are many benefits that are achieved by entering this threshold, which can effectively correct the various negative emotional states that we have pointed out, and that society generates in the human being, namely:

– It is a creator of ideas

– Encourages inspiration

– Drives reflection

– It is edifying and stimulating, because it is accompanied, if we wish, by silence

– It generates and stimulates dialogue with ourselves; and in that mechanism it allows us to be more authentic, since in our unconscious dwells the truth.

– It heals stress, anxiety, anguish, uncertainty, restlessness and impatience.

– Renews the energies of the body and mind

– It naturally stimulates catharsis, which allows us to eliminate emotional overload.

– It teaches us to be happy also in that same state of loneliness, so we become aware that we do not necessarily need to be surrounded by crowds to be happy.

– In the same way, it teaches us certain ways to allow us to understand, tolerate, digest and accept our sorrows and sadness, without needing to be surrounded by people, and it teaches us to be more tolerant and understanding of our afflictions.

– Our truths are nested in our unconscious, in that deep healthy interior, and we can extract and reveal them, calmly, silently and plainly in solitude, in a dialogue with ourselves.

All these effects achieve, in the human being who manages to subtract in solitude, correct the various states of mind in which we are immersed daily by the society that overwhelms and suffocates us.

An element attached to loneliness is leisure. This is an important factor that we can associate, as it has been analyzed by experts, to that stage that we achieve when obtaining the individual solitude and that sometimes we look for in and with freedom and we find to rest and to recover the lost energy, because it allows the human being the development of the personality, the satisfaction of the same one and the self-realization.

As I have pointed out in Post WALKING AND FREE TIME-PART II, the leisure is carried out inside the availability of the free time but that the human being carries it out with an absolute freedom to choose the activities that he prefers, that he likes, and that they are not inside those needs, obligations and conditionings, conscious or unconscious, that are given inside those environments of commitment and quite overwhelming. Leisure is a natural and vital behavior of the human being, in which he feels a freedom to do or even to do nothing, but it is not synonymous with laziness, negligence, indolence or disinterest, or wasting time.

Leisure is to be able to be fully conscious of both taste and enjoyment, and of freedom; it is a more qualitative than quantitative concept and each individual must realize it according to his or her own desires and tastes, and always according to his or her own sphere and intellectual foreshortening of freedom (Post WALKING THROUGH STREET FORESHORTENINGS).

We could point out that doing nothing and being in complete solitude could fall into the basket of leisure, since that is what that person wants to do, to be alone and do nothing.

The individual who can have leisure time and also knows -dominates- being alone and enjoys solitude, will have the emotional capacity to integrate himself or herself healthily into society; and on the other hand, the one who can and does enjoy solitude, will be able to get to know himself or herself and also understand the social environment in which he or she is immersed. Therefore, the person who feels good about himself, trusts his own feelings and seeks solitude occasionally, is fit to be formally included in society.

Let’s concentrate on those activities that we can develop in solitude in the sequence that we propose in the mentioned post, of organization, disposition and use of free time and leisure (Post WALKING AND FREE TIME-PART II). Which ones can be practiced in solitude? Some of our leisure activities are best developed when we are alone. How far do we look for solitude to carry them out, consciously or unconsciously?

Let’s go for a walk, let’s hold hands with solitude so we are not completely alone and let’s record all its sensations and benefits.

Or, let us prepare ourselves to experience that recollected reading, that which is done in a solitary way, while we are walking.

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