THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM IS AN EFFECTIVE METHOD OF RESILIENCE

The WALK-RWD system allows us to respond by its authentic structure of positive functioning to the adverse situations in which we are involved.

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The word resilience was taken by the science of Psychology from the technological branch “Strength of Materials”, which defines it as a rate that certain materials have to recover their original shape after having been subjected to deforming stresses; that is, those materials that are subjected to the effect of an external force bend up to a certain degree of deformation, without breaking, and can recover their original shape.

Steel is the typical case par excellence. It is common for a bar of this material to be tested under increased and accumulated stresses, to observe in the laboratory its resistance capacity up to failure, where it does not return to its initial position because it does not recover it, and that point defines the maximum resilience index of the steel bar.

Applied to human beings, resilience is the capacity they have to withstand the negative actions of the external environment (physical and social), and to be able to maintain an acceptable attitude regarding their emotional state. A capacity to be able to overcome these harmful external stimuli and still come out of them feeling encouraged and settled, both physically and psychically (psychological and emotional).

Some specialists include within the definition of resilience, the adaptation of the individual and his competitiveness, however, this consideration of both concepts should be analyzed and discussed regarding the validity of their incorporation.

By extension, we could also consider that a person with resilience capacity is one who is capable of making good sense of negative things and transforming harmful experiences into positive ones; in the same way, we could include those individuals who maintain their serenity and sanity in the midst of the “storm” that surrounds them, preserving their emotional balance.

In addition, I would like to mention that Homeostasis is a general principle that living beings have to regulate and rebalance their “internal milieu” and that allows the human being to maintain a stable physical and mental condition, within certain limits. In the future Post THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM AND HOMEOSTASIS, we will present this homeostatic capacity to give healthy responses by varying the functioning of the human body systems in an appropriate way for the stabilization of the physiological constants.

Now then, the WALK-RWD system, by means of its functional structure, allows us to acquire certain mental capacity to support, compensate and remedy the damages, disorders and adversities (damages, prejudices, deteriorations, mishaps, setbacks, grievances, annoyances, disturbances, alterations) generated by the negative external agents that affect us emotionally. Likewise, it provides us with a certain potential to advance satisfactorily towards the goals we have set for ourselves. In itself, the system allows us to achieve a great LONGANIMITY, that is to say, a strength, a balance and a spirit in the face of the different stumbling blocks, setbacks and adversities that are presented to us on a daily basis.

How do you provide and manage these mechanisms for the achievement of Resilience?

I will try to be synthetic, and I will refer to the posts where I have already mentioned it.

We can always refer to the respective posts, but I will briefly mention once again the help we can obtain by incorporating the WALK-RWD system in our daily actions.

In a concrete way it helps us to increase our physical, mental and emotional capacities to respond to the society before the problems that overwhelm us.

Of course, it helps us to affirm our physical, mental and emotional health, as well as to reach acceptable levels in the creation of new and better ideas that serve to solve some of those problems that worry or stress us, and also to achieve a satisfactory tranquility, the basis of all human behavior to achieve personal goals. It motivates and induces us to reach our goals.

An additional virtue of the system is that it provides us with assistance in eliminating bad habits and procrastination, as well as controlling negative emotions.

It helps us to know ourselves better – who I am and who I want to be – through its 3 structured activities (reading, writing and drawing), which in turn allows us to take better attitudes towards bad experiences.

I have been transmitting this WALK-RWD system from a small manual that I wrote in 2009, and the posts that I have written and published are the ones that have allowed me to expand this transmission of my personal experiences that have given me throughout my life to practice it, intensifying and perfecting it in several of its functional sections.

Further on, I mention the posts that I consider to be related with greater incidence in the topic of RESILIENCE, regarding some of its outstanding topics.

Each of the posts that serve as support contain the functional mechanisms that I myself have experienced in the application of the system with excellent results, so let’s not waste time. For our body -physical and psychic- to respond with resilience, we only have to select the convenient and adequate post -according to the topic we have to solve- that brings the practical and functional processes to apply the WALK-RWD system, according to the indications and procedures included. With the warning, that all the instructions contained in the WALK-RWD system, are designed within its functional and natural essence, which is walking; walking is always included in them.

Let us keep in mind, as Prometheus transmitted it to us in those mythical times, that the only unavoidable mission that we must carry out is: “To walk on the planet Earth“. The same can be said and assured, paraphrasing Ortega y Gasset: “Man has a mission to walk on earth. This mission has not been imposed by anyone or anything. He carries it within himself, it is the very root of his constitution”.

The following is a functional bridge-guide to transmit the aspects that can be improved by applying the WALK-RWD system for the achievement of resilience, by means of the mechanisms and methods that we have exposed through the blog posts, both present and future.

The aspects that can be remedied, improved and transformed, attending to the resilience capacity of the human organism, and through the application of the WALK-RWD system, are the following:

– Physical Body

– Mind-Brain

– Emotional

– Spiritual

– Psychological

For this reason, we point out below all the Posts that can be used to satisfy these aspects, as well as the topics and/or themes that are addressed to achieve resilience.

It is worth explaining that the anachronistic aspect that could be contemplated, when we point out: “both present and future”, is due to the fact that this guide will be updated as we publish new posts, through which we will have the opportunity to deal with other aspects and topics in the future; in other words, this post will permanently serve to apply the WALK-RWD system, according to the subsequent procedures that we will incorporate in new future posts.

To proceed and determine the post or posts to be used, we must have in mind the aspect we wish to attend to of our organism and the topic or theme related to resilience, and with it enter the following list, to select and go directly to the adequate procedure or method of resilience defined by the WALK-RWD system.

If you have already chosen a post -or several- that can help you, you will only have to select it so that you can follow the indications and the procedure indicated in it.

INCREASE OF MENTAL CAPABILITIES

EMOTIONS AND THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM

ABSTRACTION AND MOTIVATION WITH THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM

WHO DO I WANT TO BE? WHO I AM?

THE ENIGMA TO RESOLVE: THE MOTIVATION

WRITING TO ACCEPT BETTER TO OURSELVES, WHILE WALKING

NEGATIVE HABITS AND HOW TO COMBAT THEM. GENERAL CASES

PRESERVING AND AFFIRMING HEALTH, CREATIVITY AND TRANQUILITY

LOOKING FOR PASSION IN THE REALIZATION OF THINGS, WHILE WE WALK

DRAWING, TO KNOW BETTER OURSELVES

THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM AND ITS BENEFITS IN HEALTH

WALK, DO NOT PROCRASTINE, DO IT NOW

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II.-PRE-HEATING EXERCISES: ARMS-HIP-WAIST-BACK-LEGS

These exercises # 2 of pre-warm-up have different effects on other parts of the body and on additional specific movement systems, although there are similarities with Exercises # 1, proposed in a previous post (I.-PRE-HEATING EXERCISES: LEGS- BACK- WAIST). It is important that we perform several series of these exercises, because one aspect that is generated with the realization of exercises -whichever they are- is the constant repetition of them, which leads us to create a habit, which is positive; however, we must recognize if we begin to perceive monotony, to alternate them.

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We recommend, for any type of walking, these Exercises # 2 of warm-up, although they are not essential. They can be performed according to each person’s needs and physical condition. One only, two of them or several.

We must also consider that each person can make some modifications to the exercises, according to their needs, their comfort and their unique way of adapting to them, in terms of duration, style and sequence; however, in generic terms, they should be performed as close as possible to what is specified, detailed and explained. Each individual has his own characteristics that guide him to perform the exercises in a very personal way, so it is difficult for everyone to perform them in the same way and it is practically impossible to put them into practice in an exact and identical way.

These and all the exercises that we recommend should be based on the fundamental principle that they should be performed in a harmonious way with respect to the vertical axis or alternating the 2 respective symmetrical limbs (Future Post THE SYMMETRY OF THE BODY, ITS BALANCE AND WALKING).

Walking is a natural exercise in the human being, so no warm-up is required. However, the following warm-up exercises are recommended for any type of walking, although they are not essential.

They can be performed according to the needs of each person and the physical state in which he/she is, as we said, only one, two or several of them.

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THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM BOOSTS PERSONAL FULFILLMENT

As we have been able to point out, throughout the 100 published posts, the systemic structuring of the WALK-RWD method, allows great and numerous benefits in all the orders of the human condition, and one of the most important is that, its integral practice, is a coadjuvant in the personal fulfillment.

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For this purpose, I will allow myself a definition of what we will understand by “personal fulfillment”. Regardless of the field to which it may refer, what is essential is the value that is given to it associated with our own self-esteem. This concept of “self-fulfillment” is oriented to the satisfaction that an individual must, should or could feel and think about what he has accomplished or could accomplish during a period of his existence. In this regard, of course, you can feel something positive but also negative issues, however, it is usually oriented to what results as a balance of this sensitive and intimate evaluation.

We say to ourselves: “I feel satisfied with what I have achieved up to this stage of my life”, or perhaps: “at my 40 years of age, I am not reaching the goals I set for myself”, and so on; some of us do not have clearly defined objectives and therefore our evaluations are not very quantifiable; but for other people the opposite happens, they have their annual goals specified and make their periodic evaluations based on them, in a precise manner.

It is a rather complex field to analyze and to put into practice, since we also get confused with some of the ways that society shows us as acceptable, or “indispensable” for personal achievement. All of them must be left aside, and we can only remain with our own ideas and authentic feelings. I always carry with me an aphorism that contrasts a lot about what society induces us to feel that we have succeeded: “Fame is the prize that society gives to the sleeping; it punishes the awakened ones”.

The WALK-RWD system leads us towards the improvement of our personal fulfillment. Its mechanisms are diverse and most of them are channeled to make the individual who practices it feel good, starting with the daily satisfaction of having been able to give attention to his body, both physically and mentally.

From those moments that are put into practice, the person will become aware that all his actions will be carried out satisfactorily, since he has started the day making the right decision to start walking and has carried it out, and therefore, the following decisions he will make will be easier for him.

It will generate a sensitivity and a sense that it will be more comfortable to affirm than to deny, and this will lead to acceptance of yourself and others around you.

As the first hours of the day progress, as he -or she- goes about his daily activities, with the positive decision making and actions that go with them, the various dilemmas and fears will dissipate. Some “bad companions” such as nervousness, anxiety, pessimism, procrastination will flee from him -or her-, so that in the middle of the day, he/she will be ready to perform even the unpleasant tasks. Apathy and tedium will be puzzled because they will not explain to themselves what is happening. Here you will be beginning the 2nd part of the day -the illuminated part-, and it is when you will begin to acquire conscience that having taken the decision to practice the WALK-RWD system has allowed you to change the face of the 1st part of that day: the tiredness disappeared, the energy to develop activities has multiplied, you will have greater self-confidence, and you will be becoming more conscious that you feel better than the previous day, and it is possible that you have forgotten that once you felt so good.

At some point you will wish for the new day to dawn to perform the same dynamics and verify that you will be able to repeat that state of mind and vigor, or perhaps you will think that you had a beautiful dream. You will want to repeat the whole process identically to validate it.

In this second part of the day, you will surely dialogue more willingly with yourself, and this will be very invigorating and motivating.

Positive thoughts will begin to dance in a revelry and crowd into your inner self. You will become more aware of your self, and you will probably begin to laugh, without having a reason to do so. You will enter into a restful silence of satisfaction for what you has done during the day and how you has felt during the hours that have passed; you will ask yourself: Am I daydreaming?

Now, if this can be achieved in one day, let us conjecture what we would achieve if we could repeat it for 1 week, 1 month or 1 year.

The energy of realization is potentiated.

There will be people who are pessimistic or suffer from some discomfort that forces them not to believe in this type of simple dynamics. This system also works for them. Of course, we must consider that not every day can be so vigorous and positive, some will be good and others not so good, and that there will also be one or another unsatisfactory day; but we must take the first step walking and the path will open that first day, and others will follow that will lead us to walk the paths we have always wanted to walk, and all towards positive and authentic personal fulfillment.

To start the walk on that first day, where we will undertake a determined support to our personal fulfillment, we must first define what we want to do, what are the activities we will carry out and what are our goals in life. To be able to determine this, first of all it will be necessary to know ourselves, and generally, this is something difficult to achieve. Nevertheless, the WALK-RWD system allows us to approach this knowledge. There are several posts where I expose the procedures to achieve it:

DRAWING AND THRESHOLDISM, TO KNOW OUR INNER SELF.

WRITING TO ACCEPT BETTER OURSELVES, WHILE WALKING

DRAWING, TO KNOW BETTER OURSELVES

WHO DO I WANT TO BE? WHO AM I?

DIALOGUE WITH OURSELVES, AS WE READ AND WALK

Independently of the procedures indicated in these articles, we can proceed to write -while we walk- the answers to the following questions, in an honest and sincere way, with the style we wish, and that in some way will lead us to know ourselves better, of what we wish, like and dislike, and that also have the purpose of obtaining an experiential balance when answering them, by writing them down.

– How do I visualize myself during the next 5 or 8 years?

– What are the most outstanding events that I have lived and that I would like to live again?

– What job would I like to do?

– What is the worst job I have ever had?

– Where would I like to live? In the city, in the country?

– How happy have I been?

– What kind of house would I like to live in: cottage, house, apartment, etc.?

– What are the activities I would not like to do?

– What are the activities I would always like to do?

– Write or draw about any other event or activity that has been relevant in your life.

Each question can be developed by writing it down -while walking- and after you have answered all of them -in one, two or three pages- dedicate a couple of hours to read them again and analyze them -while walking-, in order to extract those experiential aspects and your own experience (Post THE CONCEPT OF EXPERIENCE AND WALKING) that allow you to have a better knowledge of your intimate self, so you can write in detail the objectives you want to achieve in life.

# 425.- SINGULTUS. (Poem: A LOST SELF IS SOUGHT).

The achievement of this phase is indispensable to be able to define the objectives and to give meaning to our life, which should be in accordance with the search for our personal fulfillment. However, we must be aware that the objectives we seek in life are not strictly fixed, but vary a little as we move forward with our experience (Post THE CONCEPT OF EXPERIENCE AND WALKING).

Once these objectives have been described and expressed -and if we can also specify quantified goals-, we will be able to start defining commitments with ourselves, in the short, medium and long term, with the purpose of being able to determine some actions -of all kinds- that will lead us during a certain period of time towards the achievement of what we wish to achieve.

These actions are family, work, sports, recreational, educational, artistic, professional, which can be translated into daily activities that we will have to carry out to achieve our goals, as we have pointed out at the beginning of this post.

Let us keep in mind that when we are at the beginning of this phase, perhaps we will have already acquired the healthy habit of walking, if we use the system for the search of the knowledge of ourselves, of identification with our sense of life, of the objectives, and perhaps some procedure of the same system, to improve our health or some function of a certain type that we have relegated, such as creativity, reading, writing or meditation.

We will have to be with the greatest mental clarity, that the activities that we develop, from now on, will be congruent with what we really want to be and do, with our particular objectives, with our sense of life, because only in this way we will be on the way to achieve our authentic “personal fulfillment”.

# 695.- NO, YOU: HUMAN CONSCIENCE

Finally, I would like to repeat that we must always keep in mind that these types of objectives (feeling good about ourselves, personal fulfillment, meaning of life, etc.) can change over time, according to our experiences and above all, because we do not always know what we really want to do and what we like to do, but we must have the capacity to achieve it; so we can also change as we advance in life. In other words, we must be aware that the specificity of our “personal fulfillment” can be modified, but we already know how to regenerate and improve it.

For the time being, let us begin our first walk with the objective of searching for and finding our personal fulfillment.

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UPDATED DYNAMIC INDEX OF POSTS 1-180

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Include the titles of the posts in chronological order as they have been published. You will be able to access the post you want from this one.

1             THE EXPERIENCE OF WALK.

2             HARMONIC DEVELOPMENT.

3             INCREASE OF MENTAL CAPABILITIES.

4             JUSTIFICATION OF THE SYSTEM.

5             HOW TO START?

6             WE ALL CAN ACHIEVE IT.

7             ONE STEP ONLY.

8             PASSION AND TIME WALK TOGETHER.

9             PLANNING-EXECUTION-AND GOALS.

10           OBJECTIVES OF THE SYSTEM.

11           WHO DO I WANT TO BE? WHO AM I?

12           REASON TO SHARE THE SYSTEM.

13           HARMONY OF THE BODY WITH THE MIND.

14           THE RECOMMENDED DISTANCES.

15           A SMALL MANUAL THAT EXPLAINS THE SYSTEM.

16           THE “HERE AND NOW” WITH THE SYSTEM.

17           EFFICIENCY AND PRODUCTIVITY IN OTHER FIELDS.

18           THE ECSTASY IS ACHIEVED DURING THE WALK.

19           THE SYSTEM CAN BE INCORPORATED TO COMPANIES.

20           PHYSICAL TESTING BEFORE STARTING.

21           HOW TO WALK WITH ENTHUSIASM?

22           ABOUT MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCES OF CREATION.

23           DRAWING, TO KNOW BETTER OURSELVES.

24           THE SYSTEM IS MOTIVATIONAL BY ITSELF.

25           READING AND SYNCHRONICITY.

26           READING INDICATORS WHILE WALKING.

27           THE CONTEMPLATION DURING THE WALK.

28           WALKING, MEDITATION AND CEREBRAL WAVES.

29           SELECTION OF BOOKS.

30           THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM AND ZEN.

31           DRAWING AND THRESHOLDISM, TO KNOW OUR INNER SELF.

32           WHY AND WHAT TO WRITE FOR?

33           ABSTRACTION AND MOTIVATION WITH THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM.

34           CHOOSE WHAT TO WRITE DURING THE WALKS.

35        READING-WRITING-DRAWING: VIRTUOUS CIRCLE.

36           THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM AND THE HABITS.

37           RELAXATION AND CONCENTRATION WITH THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM.

38           WHY AND WHAT TO DRAW FOR? THE GREAT BENEFITS WHILE WALK.

39           THE ENIGMA TO RESOLVE: THE MOTIVATION.

40           WALKING AND FREEDOM.

41           ALTERNATE VARIETIES IN THE TYPES OF WALK.

42           WHAT WOULD THE GREAT THINKERS RESPOND ABOUT WALKING?

43           WHY READ AND WHAT FOR?

44           EMOTIONS AND THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM.

45           NEGATIVE HABITS AND HOW TO COMBAT THEM. GENERAL CASES.

46           ADDITIONAL BENEFITS IN THE CONDITIONING OF THE BODY AND THE MIND.

47           DYNAMIC OR ACTIVE MEDITATION.

48           ANCIENT ROADS.

49           WALKING AND THE ELECTION OF LONELINESS. PART I.

50           THE WALK AND CIRCADIAN RHYTHMS.

51           WALKING AND ITS SYMBOLISM.

52           THE FUTURE OF HUMANITY: WALKING.

53           THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM AND ITS BENEFITS IN HEALTH.

54           COMBATING SOME ENEMIES WITH THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM: OBESITY.

55           WRITING TO ACCEPT BETTER TO OURSELVES, WHILE WALKING.

56           I.-PRE-HEATING EXERCISES: LEGS- BACK-WAIST.

57           THE ANCIENT MAYAS AND THEIR WHITE ROADS – PART I.

58           DRAWING AS SYMBOLIC LANGUAGE.

59           WHAT IS REQUIRED TO BE A GOOD WALKER?

60           WALKING, AN EXISTENTIAL METAPHOR. PART 1 OF 4.

61           HABITUAL PURPOSES AND MOTIVES FOR WRITING.

62           THE WALK AND THE LACK OF TIME.

63           WALK IN SOLITUD, AN ANALOGY OF LIFE.

64           WALKING BAREFOOT. PART I.

65           LOOKING FOR PASSION IN THE REALIZATION OF THINGS, WHILE WE WALK.

66           PRESERVING AND AFFIRMING HEALTH, CREATIVITY AND TRANQUILITY.

67           PLAY AND WALK-PART I. NO TO COMPETITION, YES TO FUN.

68           OTHER DEVICES TO READ AND WRITE, WHILE WE WALK.

69           WHAT IS REQUIRED TO BE A GOOD READER?

70           WALK AND READ IN LOUD VOICE.

71           VITAL VESSELS AND WRITING.

72           WALK, DO NOT PROCRASTINE, DO IT NOW.

73           WALKING AND SEXUALITY.

74           WALKING AS A PHYSICAL PRACTICE AND AS A ALLEGORY.

75           MAGIC TREKKING. PART I.

76     HOMO-ITER: MAN-WALKER. PART I.

77      HOMO-ITER: MAN-WALKER. PART II.

78           THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM ENCOURAGES CREATIVE THINKING. PART I.

79           WORK WHILE WALKING.

80           WALKING AND THE ARCHETYPE “MAGIC”.

81           THE BLOCKED WRITER AND THE WALKS.

82           WALKING AND CAPSICUM (THE CHILI).

83           DIALOGUE WITH OURSELVES AS WE READ AND WALK.

84           WALKING IN THE RAIN.

85           WALKING THROUGH STREET FORESHORTENINGS.

86           THE WALK AND THE INSTINCT TO LEAVE THE PLACE OF ORIGIN.

87           TOTEM AND WALKING. PART I, ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASPECTS.

88           WALKING, AN EXISTENTIAL METAPHOR. PART 2 OF 4.

89           THE PATH OF VACUITY.

90    THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM AND THE SELF-PRODUCTION OF ORGANIC SUBSTANCES.

91           ROAMING THROUGH THE ALLEYWAYS.

92           WALKING AND FREE TIME. PART II.

93           THE CONCEPT OF EXPERIENCE AND WALKING.

94           THE GAME AND THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM. PART II. NO TO COMPETITION, YES TO FUN.

95           THE PILGRIMAGE: AN ANCIENT PRACTICE OF WALKING.

96           WALKING WITH UNCHAINED PROMETHEUS.

97           COMBATING BAD HABITS WITH THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM: SOLUTION TO PROCRASTINATION.

98           WALKING AND THE ELECTION OF LONELINESS. PART II.

99           THE 9TH GENERATION OF MODERN AGE CREATIVITY AND WALKING.

100         HOMO-LECTOREM AND HOMO-SCRIPTOREM.

101 CHRONICLE OF A DISAPPEARANCE FORETOLD IN THE PLEISTOCENE ERA

102 UPDATED DYNAMIC INDEX OF POSTS 1-100

103 THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM BOOSTS PERSONAL FULFILLMENT

104 II.-PRE-HEATING EXERCISES: ARMS-HIP-WAIST-BACK-LEGS

105 THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM IS AN EFFECTIVE METHOD OF RESILIENCE

106 THE POWER OF EMOTIONS

107 SCHOOL, HOME AND WALKING

108 WALKING AND SHORTCUTS

109 LISTENING TO OUR BODY WHILE WALKING

110 THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM AND THE INTERDISCIPLINARY FLOW OF IDEAS. PART II

111 WALKING AND SONAMBULISM

112 WALKING WITH COLORS. PART I.

113 WALKING AND THE CARDINALS POINTS

114 THE FUNCTION OF THE UNCONSCIOUS, A FICTITIOUS OR REAL PATH? WORTHY OR DANGEROUS?

115 WALKING WITH WEIGHTS ON LEGS OR ANKLES

116 THE SYMMETRY OF THE BODY, ITS BALANCE AND WALKING

117 NOT WALKING IS LIKE TURNING INTO A SWAMP

118 DROMOMANIA

119 AUTOLIBERATION OF NEGATIVE EMOTIONS THROUGH SELF-SUGGESTIBILITY

120 WALKING: A NECESSARY DISCIPLINARY HYBRIDIZATION. PART III OF IX.

121-THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM AND THE KAABA CENTER

122-WALKING: KING OF THE EXERCISES

123-BODY PARTS FOR WALKING-THEIR CARE

124-HOMO SOCIABILIS OR SOCIALIS? HUMAN AGGRESSION WALKING IN CROWDED PLACES. PART IV of IX

125-WALKING AND PERIPATETICS

126-READING IS WRITING, WITHOUT STOPPING WALKING

127-THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM AND COGNITIVE PERFORMANCE

128-III.-PRE-HEATING EXERCISES: WAIST-BACK-HIP-LEGS

129-FIGHTING NEGATIVE EMOTIONS WITH THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM, SOLUTION TO PROCRASTINATION

130-THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM AND PETS

131-THE TROT OF ALI

132-OEDIPUS, THE ONE WITH SWOLLEN AND LACERATED FEET.

133-PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM.

134-THE SENSE OF SIGHT AND THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM

135-THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM AND PEOPLE WITH REDUCED PHYSICAL MOBILITY.

136-THE UNCONSCIOUS AND THE CONSCIOUS IN THE APPLICATION OF THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM

137-ANOTHER ENIGMA: WALKING, GENDER AND PINEAL GLAND

138-THE PROPER MANAGEMENT OF “SLACK TIME” IN THE DECISION TO WALK

139-THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM AND THE CELLULAR SELF-GENERATION OF THE ORGANISM

140-WALKING ALONG 2 IMPREGNABLE SUMMIT OF FREEDOM

141-WALKING WITH EROS AND THANATOS.

142-WALKING AND INSTINCTS

143-WALKING, AN EXISTENTIAL METAPHOR. PART 3 OF 4

144-CEREBRAL GYMNASTICS WHILE WALKING. EXERCISES.

145-WALKING WITH VENUS-MORNING AND EVENING STAR

146-WALKING TO THE RHYTHM OF THE STOICS’FEET

147-WALKING AND EATING IN THE MAYAN REGION OF THE 4 SEAS

148-WALKING WITH HERMES

149-WALKING AND VITAL OPPORTUNITIES

150-EMPIRICISM OR THINKING WITH ONE’S FEET.

151-THE ALPHA MALE AND HIS CONDUCTIVE WALK

152-THE BLOCKED PLASTIC CREATOR AND THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM

153-WALKING TOWARDS THE CONCEPT OF FREEDOM OF 20 THINKERS. PART I.

154-RHYTHM, COMPASS AND CADENCE IN OUR WALKING.

155-WALKING FEELING AND ENJOYING

156-WALKING INSIDE A RECREATED HOUSE. REMEMBERING VAN GOGH

157-WALKING AND SLEEPING: FUNDAMENTAL ACTIVITIES OF BEING

158-THE SILENT SOUND OF OUR FOOTPRINTS HEALS US.

159-WALKING AND DANCING

160-WALKING IN J.J. ROUSSEAU

161 THE SPECIAL FORMS OF WALKING OF LAW, FREEDOM, HISTORY, JUSTICE, AND OTHER VALUES

162 WALKING, HUNGER VERSUS APPETITE. PART I

163 PROMETHEUS’ PUNISHMENT AND ITS PSYCHOLOGICAL ASCENDANCY. NEUROCOGNITIVE ASPECTS

164 WALKING AND STRETCHING

165 THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM AND LIGHT. PART 1 OF 2

166 WALKING WITH THE TREES

167 THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM AND HOMEOSTASIS

168 WALKING BACKWARD

169-SARUTAHIKO, GOD OF TRAVELERS IN ANCIENT JAPAN

170 THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM

171 PLAY, WHILE READING AND WALKING

172 WALKING IN A NEW URBAN PERSPECTIVE. PART V OF IX

173 ARISTOTLE AND HIS SPEECHES DURING HIS PERIPATHETIC WALKS

174 DRUMMER WALKER

175 CONTROLLING AND MEASURING SUGAR WHILE WALKING

176 THE WHITE ROADS AND THE WHEEL IN THE MAYANS

177 THE PATHS OF TAI CHI

178 WALKING AND THE ETERNAL RETURN

179 SENECA AND HIS PHILOSOPHICAL WALKS. A REFERENT OF THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM

180 ENJOYING OUR PERCUSSIVE MUSICAL WALKING

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CHRONICLE OF A DISAPPEARANCE FORETOLD IN THE PLEISTOCENE ERA

With this post I start the 4th year of the Blog and the publication of 100 posts.

The Pleistocene era corresponds to the Quaternary period, and began approximately between 1.5 and 2 million years ago. Hominids such as Neanderthal man and Cro-Magnon man existed. The following chronicle is mainly focused on the latter.

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The Pleistocene has been divided into 3 parts, the Lower, which corresponds to the oldest, which began 1.5-2 million years ago, the Middle, which began 500,000 years ago, and the Upper, which began only 200,000 years ago.

I will divide this post in two sections, one to express what could have happened in that period of (our) history that has been called Pleistocene, with respect to one of the creatures that inhabited the earth; and the other section I will represent in a cartoon what happened to that specimen, through which I try to communicate what could happen to homo sapiens if it becomes an absolute sedentary.

Homo sapiens is a hominid that surely coexisted with Neanderthal, Cro-Magnon and some others, but above all it is placed in the Holocene epoch (10,000-15,000 years ago), with the title of Modern Homo sapiens, from 15,000 years ago to the present day.

I would like to complete the first part by commenting on the following graph that shows the historical development of man walking on planet Earth.

This same graph was presented in Post HOMO-ITER: MAN-WALKER. PART II.

The graphed period covers 1.5 million years, from the time when there were several hominids walking on Earth: Pithecanthropus erectus, Neanderthal man, Cro-Magnon man, Homo sapiens, and a dozen more of the homo species, with the essential characteristic that all of them were in an upright position and walked only on their 2 lower limbs, although there were some differences between all of them, regarding their feet, height, hands, skull, eyes and some more of organic and physiological type.

I will explain the most relevant aspects of the graph in a brief and concise way.

On the horizontal axis, time is recorded in a historical horizon of 1.5 million years.

On the vertical axis are recorded the averages that man has had the need to walk on the earth in feet/day.

From [-12,500] years ago, the different hominids walked an average of 11,500 feet daily, either to hunt and gather, or to move from one region to another to carry out these same activities but in new lands with better hunting and gathering potentials. They were one hundred percent nomadic.

From this point on, a sedentary lifestyle begins at a general level, as they begin to discover some activities that allow them to settle longer at each stop. Agriculture and cattle raising began to take place, although not as we know it today; nevertheless, this kept them in certain places and reduced their eagerness (need) for nomadism.

At this time, a true revolution in the history of mankind began, as the construction of the first semi-permanent settlements began, with the domestication of plants and animals. He began to sow the same seeds that he collected, to feed and breed certain animals for the use of their fur and meat.

In each period shown in the graph we can observe how the average walking, from this point on, decreases. We can perceive that towards the point [-2,500], 10,000 years after the beginning of sedentarism, the daily average of walking is reduced to half, to 5,750 feet/day. And by the beginning of our Christian era, the daily average becomes only 4,600 feet/day, that is, a reduction to 2/5. The most serious thing is that the slope is constant and in only 14,500 years we have reached an average of walking of only 500 feet/day, only in 1% of the time since we began to be sedentary with respect to the analyzed horizon, we have practically come to a standstill, to be completely stationary (static). It is clear that in the present time we practically DO NOT WALK at all.

As a technical fact, I would like to comment that in the “Holocene Calendar” the year zero is considered precisely when the human being stops being nomadic to become a sedentary being, stops collecting fruits, grains, roots, etc., and dedicates himself to cultivate and domesticate animals. This Calendar marks the year 1 as the beginning of the life of the Humanity. It is the period that begins 10,000 years ago, which is called the HOLOCENE GEOLOGICAL EPOCA, which coincides with the NEOLITHIC STONE AGE. However, our analysis has nothing to do with the calendrical-numerical aspect of the Holocene calendar, but with the coincidence that in this geological epoch the human being begins a transformation from nomadic to sedentary, 10,000 years ago.

In order to illustrate this process of sedentarism, we have a graph of PEOPLE AGED 60 to 85 YEARS, IN DIFFERENT EPOCHES OF HUMANITY:

The horizontal axis shows the years in that period of life, from 60 to 85 years of age.

On the vertical axis are recorded the walking averages in miles/year.

In the prehistoric period, at these ages, an annual average of 800 miles was walked. We note that in ancient it drops to less than half, to 300 miles per year, and throughout the Middle Ages it varies from 200 TO 50 MILES. In order to arrive in an asymptotic way to the modern era, the elderly do not walk at all, being that this segment of society should make an effort to walk, either by their own decisions or stimulated by the health institutions of each country.

The second section, as I mentioned, is a comics that will allow me to represent what happened to this Pleistocene specimen, due to his change of life.

The main character of our story and of the cartoons is the Cro-Magnon Man. This specimen was found in the Cro-Magnon cave, France, and hence its name. He lived in caves and was a nomadic hunter-gatherer.

Cro-Magnon man may have been a cross between Neanderthal and Homo sapiens, a possible hybridization, but this cannot be conclusively proven.

He had characteristics very similar to the rest of the other specimens of Homo Sapiens, however, he had 2 peculiarities that made him different: one, that the bone of the tibia was very flattened transversely, what we now call placticnemia; this disease –placticnemia– is a deformation of the tibia, of the congenital type, which presents transversal flattening in both faces of the bone, in a laminated form.

IMPACT THAT THE TIBIA RECEIVES WHEN WALKING AND RUNNING

The other peculiarity he had in his feet; he presented a shortage in his development since the big toe was still placed in a semi-opposite position to the rest of the other four toes, which gave him the prehensile function; and for the same reason, his walking capacity was reduced to cover long distances; it made him less dynamic in this activity and he surely tired more quickly, apart from the fact that he could not develop considerable speeds in running.

Let us analyze this characteristic from the physical observation of the feet themselves and from the point of view of their footprints.

Evolution of the feet of hominids. (A) monkey. (B) Cro-Magnon man. (C) Homo Sapiens

In its physical form we can observe the big toe. In the previous image we see it separated from the rest of the other 4 toes, both in monkeys and in Cro-Magnon man. The foot was evolving and shaping in hominids, from the monkey phase (A), through the foot of Cro-Magnon man (B) to the foot of today’s Homo sapiens (C). This transformation took place over thousands of years until reaching the development seen in image C. Most probably this transformation in the feet that we observe in the 3 previous images is what allowed Homo Sapiens to place itself in a superior position with respect to the rest of the animals, above mammals and their hominid brethren.

Observing the footprints left by these three, we can detect the difficulty in walking or running. In the following images we see that the footprint of the monkey (A) rests less on the ground, this allows us to infer that although it could represent greater speed, it is definitive that the fact that the foot does not settle completely the foot subtracts balance and support for walking or running, besides not exposing a complete erect position, which also represents a lack in the symmetry of walking and in the stability of the body when running or jogging (Future Post THE SYMMETRY OF THE BODY, ITS BALANCE AND WALKING).

Footprints of hominid feet. (A) monkey. (B) Cro-Magnon man. (C) Homo Sapiens

In the footprint of Cro-Magnon man (Footprint B) we observe a greater position on the ground, but even so, he did not manage to settle it completely, which gave him less stability and some difficulty in walking long distances and reaching speeds that Homo Sapiens (Footprint C) was able to achieve.

Gaston Bachelard tells us: “The organ is constructed through function” […]”For a long time now we have been astonished by the fact that the different animal species are coordinated both historically and functionally. The order of succession of species gives the order of coexisting organs in a given individual.” (THE INTUITION OF THE INSTANT, F.C.E. Gaston Bachelard). Limbs, organs, all of them become specialized according to their functions and therefore the order that is generated in the evolution of higher species responds to this functionality and in turn dictates their conformation.

1060. PRAKRTI – ESSENTIAL NATURE

Now we will move on to the story of Litos and Litas who were two hominids -of the Cro-Magnon species- who had a very difficult time in those pre-historic times.

It was said that because I belonged to the Cro-Magnon family, I got too tired during the long walks in search of food,” said Litos, “and for that reason I could not survive, and I disappeared. Some companions from other tribes told us that we did not like to hunt; that we were too lazy to chase the animals. We resisted and preferred the comfort of gathering fruits, vegetables and roots.

I would like to tell you about a daily passage of my life, when I returned exhausted to my cave to be with my wife. This happened about a million years ago. Every time Litas came to receive me, after two or three days of being absent to get food… listen to what we talked about; of course, I have allowed myself to transcribe the primitive language we used.

This is what was heard when entering the main part of the grotto:

I would like to point out that it was not all bad news, because one could surely say that this was the proto-historical occasion of the invention of shoes.

To be continued…

Learn in the next chapter how Litas invented, in those prehistoric times, the moccasins and tennis shoes…

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