This post arises in part from Post THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM ENCOURAGES CREATIVE THINKING. PART I, when I express: “The therapy of psychoanalysis, described in a simplistic way, is to try to become aware of the repressed desires (repressed impulses, which are repressed by the consciousness and are not conscious), through communication to the therapist, lying (accommodated) the patient on a couch, relaxed and in a state of immobility, to come to understand by recognizing them -those repressed contents- as the fundamental cause of the psychological illness he suffers from; after having extroverted those repressed impulses, he feels comforted, and to a certain degree, by using this therapy, the patient is cured. The catharsis can be improved by applying the WALK-RWD system by provoking that when walking and performing the other structured activities, the brain constantly seeks to preserve and restore the equilibrium -during the period of the walk- to rebalance itself mechanically, psychically and neurologically with the usual propagation of nervous-neuronal impulses towards its other functional areas (dormant or asleep) of the brain itself (stunned cerebral convolutions and neuro-mechanisms) and other organs, systems and glands of the whole organism. A therapy similar to the one expressed, but walking, always walking – is what gives the greatest effectiveness to the treatment of emotions”.
In my novel, GOD GOES TO PSYCHIATRIST (*), published in 2016 (2009 Spanish version), I already expressed something about this subject of performing catharsis while walking; in one of the scenes it is exposed: Ernesto used to walk long distances -when he was a child- with his little dog Troter, and somehow he realized that this improved him in many of his psychic functions. As an adult, when he was already a psychiatrist, he would give his patients his consultation by walking them through some of the parks near his office. He knew that sitting them on a couch was not very cathartic.
On the other hand, the meaning of Lacerate or Perforated or Swollen Feet that the Greek appellation of OEDIPUS has in Greek must at some point have meant to Dr. Freud a coherence with walking. However, in none of Freud’s writings is there any reference to this natural practice of the human being. Already in Post OEDIPUS, THE ONE WITH SWOLLEN AND LACERATED FEET I have explained that this is what his adoptive father named him when he was given to him, since he was found hanging from a tree where the baby had been abandoned and that he had completely swollen feet, which presented sores and lacerations. The myth describes that Oedipus, after having removed his eyes -himself- for having had sexual relations with his mother and having killed his father, started walking on eternal paths that would keep him walking during the last stage of his life. This mythical information did not provoke in Freud any idea or relationship that could have indicated to him that he should have considered walking within his theory; that is, to make his patients walk, while they performed their catharsis.
In future Post BRAIN GYMNASTICS BUT WALKING, I mention the following: “However, we should also mention that to perform these exercises of Brain Gymnastics without walking, is like going to the psychiatrist and doing the catharsis sitting or lying down”.
The WALK-RWD System works as a psychoanalytic catharsis when we propose it and we resort to it, to eliminate some of the negative emotions that make us sick. With the passage of time I have been recommending this WALK-RWD System and presenting -in various Posts- its concrete application in specific emotional and psychological cases, namely:
Published Posts:
EMOTIONS AND THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM
THE POWER OF EMOTIONS
AUTOLIBERATION OF NEGATIVE EMOTIONS THROUGH SELF-SUGGESTIBILITY
WALKING AND READING ALOUD
COMBATING NEGATIVE EMOTIONS WITH THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM, SOLUTION TO PROCRASTINATION.
In the future I will expose other cases of importance, in which the WALK-RWD system is applied:
Future Posts:
METHOD OF RELEASED EMOTIONS.
PARADOXICAL EMOTIONAL PROGRAMMING
WALKING READING POETRY OUT LOUD
I have to emphasize again, that its application -in all cases- is directly effective through the 3 activities structured within the System itself, reading, writing and drawing. Practice and results that are obtained effectively and whose procedure I expose in each of the posts I have published (Post UPDATED DYNAMIC INDEX OF POSTS 1-120, where you can observe and choose their titles and also link directly to each of the selected ones).
This part of the System is the most comprehensive and effective because walking rests on the conjunction of these 3 activities that make it universal and generates outstanding impacts in all spheres of human activity, as well as tangible and immediate benefits throughout the body, both physical, mental and spiritual.
Returning to our central theme of showing the WALK-RWD system in an analogical way to Psychoanalysis, but walking, I will allow myself to point out below a slight procedure for its cathartic practice, without any concrete expression of any psychological or emotional ailment, but simply, its regular application, for any case.
STEP 1.
Decide to practice the WALK-RWD System.
STEP 2.
Choose one of the 3 structured activities: reading, writing or drawing. One or several.
STEP 3.
Accompany us with the necessary implements to carry out the selected structured activity: pencil, recorder, notebook, sheets, notepad, etc.
STEP 4.
Start walking.
STEP 5.
Whichever of the 3 activities we have selected, we will have to say out loud what we are doing: reading, writing or drawing. This part together with the walking, always walking, provokes that the unconscious presses the consciousness to bring up the stimuli and unwanted impulses that our consciousness repressed (Future Post THE UNCONSCIOUS AND THE CONSCIOUS IN THE APPLICATION OF THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM).
STEP 6.
Continue like this for 15 minutes. Rest for 10 minutes, dedicating yourself to meditation and contemplation.
STEP 7.
Restart the application of the System, with the same structured activity or with some other, for 15 minutes. It is recommended to perform this dynamic for 4 periods of 25 minutes, equivalent to 100 minutes.
END of the procedure.
The System works. All we have to do is decide to walk and follow these 7 steps. It is only 100 minutes that we need to take away from our commitments and our “lack of time”. Our unconscious will start working immediately when we start walking, supporting us in the other 3 activities, and talking out loud. Let it act and we will be able to observe its effective results in our emotions.