As we have already mentioned in several of the Posts published to date, the exercise of walking puts into action all our senses, both external (Taste, Smell, Sight, Hearing, and Touch) and internal (Orientation, Spatial, Common Sense, Intuition, Memory, Perception, Cognitive, Imagination, Fantasy, Muscular, Movement, Temporal, Proportions, Aesthetic). For this, it is not necessary that we do it with some style or special forms, but simply, with walking in a natural way.
In the Future Post THE WALKING AND CARDINAL POINTS I’ll explain how both categories of the senses work to guide us; all of them act and deploy their functions with different degrees of participation, according to the different solicitations and inclinations that our organism develops when we are walking.
In relation to the sense of sight, the examples we can use are endless. In the Post WALKING WITH COLORS. PART I, we expressed: “When our eyes observe the colors, there is a transmission of impressions to the brain, which in turn retransmits them to the external and internal senses, transforming them into knowledge, understanding, feelings, sensations and emotions”. We could affirm that most of these perceptions are not conscious, and in the same way, what we capture with the sense of sight, working permanently, we do not rationalize it in its greater time of operation, nor do we become aware of its functions at all times. Each person receives in a different way and intensity these impressions that we send to the brain, through the senses, and specifically through sight. “Each color represents for our physical-mental perception a different vibration for our senses, both external and internal. Although there is a biunivocal relationship between colors and feelings (emotions, perceptions and impressions of the soul type), the effects they generate – as already mentioned – may vary from one person to another.”
Surely the external sense that works the most, while we walk, is the sense of sight, and on a second level is the sense of hearing. We can affirm that it is through both perceptive faculties that the most important information is transmitted to the brain when we are walking. The brain is in charge of transmitting the sensations and stimuli from the outside to the rest of the systems, organs and glands of the body, and also to the rest of the senses, including the internal ones, and perhaps the most stimulated are the sense of balance and the sense of orientation, while we are walking.
Now, the sense of sight is biunivocally related to the WALK-RWD System, due to the fact that it is based on the second principle of the WALK-RWD system:
2nd Fundamental Principle or Principle of Dynamic Balance:
“Keeping the body in physical movement through walking, generates by itself a vibration of the brain, which causes it to enter into an imbalance and normal functions are carried out and effects are generated, of the dynamic type, on the different systems, organs and glands of the body”.
Let’s perform some exercises in order to demonstrate this.
During the pre-heating exercises or some others that we develop inside a room, we can always turn on a lamp to observe directly its incandescent light, which we usually reject because it irritates our eyes. A shock effect should be created by opening and closing the eyes, and observing the luminosity of the lamp, while we perform the pre-warming exercises.
Also, while we walk outdoors we can see indirectly the sunlight (Caution: Never observe the sunlight directly) by opening and closing our eyes, permanently and spaced, during some lapses that prolong the walk, in order to create a state of shock on the eyes, with the effects of the luminosity of the sun’s rays, taking care not to hurt the eyes.
In both cases, by stimulating the sense of sight we will provoke in the brain a considerable increase (enlargement) in its functions.
Let us develop this process in the same way but without walking, standing in a static state. Let’s do the same, but sitting down.
We will observe that the type of information that is generated towards the brain and towards other parts of our body are different in the 3 options mentioned.
We have explained that the coordinated movement that is generated in walking causes the brain to produce several substances (Post THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM AND THE SELF-PRODUCTION OF ORGANIC SUBSTANCES), same that stimulate in turn, the development and full functioning of neurons, increasing considerably the number of connections between them and the functional areas of the brain itself (Future Post THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM AND THE NEURONAL SELF-GENERATION OF THE BRAIN). We also said that the same walking in a coordinated way generates that the brain seeks to “COMPENSATE” the physical imbalance or state of alertness, which in turn causes an “unleveling” in its chemical elements and neurotransmitters (Future Post BE MOVING TO MOVE THE NEURONS).
By adding one more source of imbalance and alertness to the brain, such as indirect and unexpected light in the eyes (different luminosity), during all this period of exercise, the brain will seek to “stabilize” itself, giving instructions to its own organic unit (brain convolutions and neurotransmitters), as well as to other systems, glands and organs, to reestablish “its balance” again. Some vicarious parts of the brain will try to make up for the insufficiency of some others that are affected by the loss of that “balanced and harmonious state” generated by the activities developed, such as reading or writing or drawing while walking and that has been marginally increased by that different and strange luminosity (light) in our eyes.
Let’s walk with our eyes open and with our eyes closed (Future Post WALKING WITH EYES CLOSED) and in this way we will have to put to work all our senses, both external and internal.
I must point out as a preview to what I will analyze in future posts (Posts THE INTERNAL SENSES AND THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM, and WALKING AND THE EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL SENSES) another of the benefits of the WALK-RWD System. Some illnesses such as neurosis generate in the brain a great sensitivity in the senses; that is said and it is true as far as the repulsion that is generated in the five external senses, that surely also in some of the internal ones, perhaps in all of them. The neurosis declared in an individual leads him not to support strong degrees of the stimuli that make his senses vibrate; that is to say, for example, his ears do not support a light degree of noise, or the worst, there comes a moment that they do not support to hear the music of any type as the classic one, the one produced to relax, and less the thunderous one. They cannot stand the smell of food, whatever it may be. And so on, it happens with sight; any luminosity out of the ordinary, hurts their eyes and they do not support it, that is why in the mornings we do not want to get up, among other discomforts and sufferings. The WALK-RWD System put into practice daily, in a structured way, manages to disappear these unbearable situations regarding the external senses not supporting stimuli of any degree; WALK-RWD System transforms the unacceptability of the senses towards normal and abnormal external stimuli.
Let us not only put to work and exercise (exert) the eyes, but the rest of the external senses and also the internal senses (spiritual and intellectual) such as Fantasy, Imagination, Common sense, Memory, Intuition, and Perception.