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Symbolic language has always coexisted with human beings since their first steps on earth. His need to communicate led him to create different languages. Undoubtedly, oral language, linguistic language, was the first language used to satisfy this intrinsic need. Art, mathematics, religion, are other languages that were incorporated into his development in all its physical, intellectual and spiritual aspects.

Each of them contains different levels of abstraction and also fulfill different purposes.

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The oral language developed in an ingenious way to the human being, on a par with others such as plastic art, whose manifestations and cave testimonies have been found developed since the Paleolithic era -development of several hominids-. Nevertheless, this great need for communication placed Homo Sapiens in a position that led him to develop writing after many millennia, in order to satisfy it.

Approximately 5,000 years ago, human beings began to expand their verbal language, creating symbols to represent oral sounds, spoken gutturally, associating signs and characters for each of the words, giving rise to written language by means of codes and writing spelling, in different regions of the planet.

It must be understood that writing has always been associated with reading, so they were born together and developed hand in hand.

The plastic, pictorial, relief, sculptural, etc., language was too abstract for certain tasks that human beings needed to express themselves and communicate in other manifestations of social-commercial type and with greater precision. It was necessary for these other spheres of communication to be met with another language: written language; a language with other symbolic specifications that would allow it to satisfy those other demands of communication, and not be exposed to confusions and communicative or expressive inaccuracies.

With these requirements, writing and reading were born, assimilating more concrete and precise specifications, which could allow a more concise and methodical communication, with a translation by means of special, concrete and differentiated signs.

It is known that the human being has an inner plastic artist, which allows him to communicate some emotions and feelings that he has loaded in his interiority; a language that cannot be substituted, although some experts comment that it can be replaced with the sum of 2 or 3 of other languages. Its conformation contains springs that can hardly be found in other symbolic languages. This inner being is born with Homo Sapiens and its manifestations almost immediately after its appearance on earth; to keep this being awake and acting is to help sustain and nourish it with strength and life.

Now, just as physical Nature has directly participated in our change from nomadic to sedentary, Homo Sapiens has also contributed to it, since it has been creating those artificial, extraordinary and effective “crutches”, both technological, economic and of human development, so that we avoid putting our feet on the ground. We have already shown in Post HOMO-ITER: MAN-WALKER. PART I and in Post ..HOMO-ITER: MAN-WALKER. PART II, how in the course of 1.5 million years Homo Sapiens became a being that practically does not walk anymore; I do not doubt that he himself will also manage to “discourage” his process of reading and writing; recent activities, as we have already noted, since they were forged only 5,000 years ago.

We expressed in Part I, of the posts mentioned above, how the human being has been abandoning the practice of walking throughout the last 10,000 years, having been, since the most remote times, a perfect walker in his erectus and nomadic characteristic.

He will surely create other “crutches” to stop reading and writing. One way to avoid reading is to create “chips” or complex integrated circuits, and place them in the human brain, which would store all the knowledge that Humanity has created up to the historical moment that this graft is given. On the other hand, the activity of writing could be developed by certain special robots built with powerful computers that would allow them to increase and perfect this human communicative and artistic creation. Both technological forms are close to being developed, they are just around the corner.

An example that we are currently experiencing, and that will prevent both activities of reading and writing, is the learning of other languages; in addition, this will prevent another fundamental aspect in the mental development that is achieved with the learning of another language in addition to the mother tongue, which we can call linguistic extension, related to the philological conceptualization (etymological and grammatical) that achieves a mental intensification of the brain. These devices are digital language translators.

Graphically we could venture to predict globally this futuristic process, as suggested below, that we would pass from phase A) Historical situation, to phase B) Probable future situation:

A) HISTORICAL SITUATION

B) PROBABLE FUTURE SITUATION

NOTE: For construction and clarity of the graph, the horizontal axis is disproportionate. The line below shows the points of the graph at the correct scale.

Is stopping walking an evolution or a regression?

It is very likely that some of the diseases that are affecting us, is because we have replaced walking, by using devices of transportation, for having stopped walking. The man of the future will perhaps be the HOMO-ITER, the one who will be more aware that he must now replace some equipment of transportation (Post THE ANCIENT MAYAS AND THEIR WHITE ROADS. PART I), to go back to walking, and other activities that he carries out standing he must start walking, and others that he carries out sitting, he must develop them standing and/or walking. (Post HOMO-ITER: MAN-WALKER. PART I and Post HOMO-ITER: MAN-WALKER. PART II).

Is stopping reading and writing an evolution or a regression?

In several posts I have already mentioned the great benefits we get from reading and writing, when we walk. It would be inopportune to repeat them again, however, we can add that we have already achieved the sedentary lifestyle of walking, but reaching the “sedentary lifestyle of reading and writing” would be one more step we would take to provoke a backward step in the human being, and it will surely generate in his physical and mental development, an absolute degeneration and difficult to escape from it.

I would like to emphasize the following: We read and store; we write and download information processed from our interiority. When we read and write, whether notes or texts, while we walk, our mind receives information through the senses and that information is not received in a passive way, but it processes -analyzes-, composes -makes up, shades- and recomposes -decomposes, accommodates, organizes, corrects, modifies, reforms, integrates-, in such a way that the external stimuli are transformed into images that each of us performs in a very particular and unrepeatable way. It moves our whole brain and mind, generating an appreciable number of messages to all the organs, systems and glands of the organism. A true Fountain of Youth. (Post THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM ENCOURAGES CREATIVE THINKING).

It would be very profitable to list, speculate and imagine the different and possible technological-digital innovations that in the very near future will prevent us from reading and writing. As I said, they are just around the corner, or are already in our midst acting unfortunately against these powerful processes of human mental development, as we have pointed out when using digital language translators. We could also imagine digital systems implanted in the human brain functioning as creative draftsmen or plastic artists, not to say painters, sculptors and graphic designers.

Now, I have been able to present a possible scenario by considering that in the future we could solve part of the repercussion that sedentarism has generated in the human being, by foreseeing that a new being could emerge, the HOMO-ITER, who would be a striving individual -man and woman- who has become aware that walking is the QUASI-FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH.

The stage that I am now describing could be limited and even disappear, if we become aware of what awaits us if we continue along this path of accelerated “technologism”, without analyzing the negative effects that it can cause in the human being.

In 2005 the short story “Apocalipsis Literas” was awarded in the Short Story Contest, which I would like to quote some of its parts that I consider outstanding, as a premonition of what may happen in the future. The author of this story, Edel C. Pinera, foresees a “linguaecide”, and expresses: “It seems that just as the minstrels, bards, scribes and amanuenses, lithographs and printing presses disappeared in the past, so did word processors, readers and writers. Apparently, the era of the users of the written word, and with it, of verbal communication, had come to an end. …] The written word was ostracized, especially after the promulgation of the “2nd Law 3.1416” concerning the worldwide prohibition of writings and writers on any subject that was not one hundred percent scientific-technological. This 2nd Prohibition Law ‘added severe punishments, including the death penalty for repeat offenders’, for any party detected making use of them in their conventional or literary form – oral and written – by uttering, dictating, writing, reading or hearing them. Any word joined to other word(s) that did not refer to some numerical, mathematical, accounting, financial or cybernetic content, would be considered as subversive. […] The invasion of digitized viruses attacking any type of text that was not mathematical, written on the net and by any other electronic means, ended up making any attempt to rescue language succumb; verses and prose bled together in symbiotic agonistic mutilation (agonist). […] The step to such levels of linguistic suppression was simple, considering that 70 percent of the world’s population was already illiterate since the beginning of the 21st century and that in those times it was suggested to the complaining population better “not to read” in order not to learn about the problems of the societies of that time.”

So, before we begin to be illiterate beings per se, by the analog-digital way, let us look for ways to become from this moment on Homo-Lectorem and Homo-Escriptorem and that with this conversion we can advance towards the future without decadence or degeneration by avoiding our brain activities that have served and may continue to serve as engines of food and energetic and nutritional propulsion, besides being the main sources to place us in this stage of unimaginable development.

We can further consider that we deserve to try to consciously “create” people with 2 or more functions in one and the same: Walker-Reader, Walker-Writer, or even Walker-Reader-Writer.

Is stopping drawing an evolution or a regression?

To defeat the plastic artist we have inside us is to act against nature.

Let us not doubt that we must participate in the creation of those types of creative and healthy human beings, through reading, writing and drawing, while we walk every day.

Also, I must not fail to mention that, although the human being has congenital an inner plastic artist, the time could come when that human nature of plastic creator atrophies, if we do not take actions in that sense to foster, nurture and self-reproduce those different HOMO that we have developed up to these moments.

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This post is the first of 9 that respond to a practical structure and that have the purpose of presenting a new functional paradigm, which humanity requires for FUTURE DEVELOPMENT IN ITS WALK.

This effort will allow the orientation of the investigations carried out in the near future so that they are directed towards a specific solution to the problem of the future walk of humanity.

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I am certain that there will be many thinkers and researchers worldwide, men and women, from their specialties, who could collaborate to shape (define) a new paradigm that the human being urgently requires to move willingly, comfortably and safely in their walk, transforming those physical elements and legal, nomothetic and nomological, natural, regulatory, non-regulated instruments, etc., that may give the current provisions a better perspective on the essential aspects and forms of walking and in the different functional and productive spheres, such as habitability, recreation, work, housing, urban planning, etc., which are related to this natural activity, which condition the human being forcing him to move in a different way from his normal gait, and modifying his nature of transporting by himself and that he has also disrupted his traditional and customary environments of his daily life, which he has treated to maintain forever, but that growth and industrial and technological development has been winning the battle.

The Industrial Revolution, whose beginning has been historically determined in the decade of 1770, has its roots in the incipient capitalist system that had already begun 100 years before, since it already existed in some regions of Europe, that inclination or entrepreneurial spirit long before this historical moment, which is identified with the invention of the steam engine. It can also be seen that its fertile fullness occurs towards the 50’s of the following century (1850). The appearance of the Industrial Revolution is a concomitant effect of the crisis that arose in Europe during that precarious and embryonic capitalism.

I consider that, at the beginning of this new process of development, it has been essentially affecting the human being – in his pristine (archaic, original) nature – with regard to his natural habits of walking to transport himself to places, near or far, in order to satisfy his needs in general. At this historical moment, parallel to the industrial development, an opening in their creativity, a first human generation began to see this mental function from other aspects, more formal and with other perspectives of personal and collective development.

Some experts consider that innovation, the result of human creativity, was not an essential cause for this period of industrial boom. However, personally, I believe that a new modern way of approaching and impacting human development was generated, in all aspects, as a process -also revolutionary- that began at that time with the first generation that proceeded with a nascent mentality of what creativity meant for the production models that began to take shape. A novel process of thinking, creating and producing that has been enriching this mental function up to the present day, when it has evolved to the 9th generation of creativity, which must have -I repeat- a revolutionary approach in itself. Perhaps it is the greatest challenge that it itself can imply, that it be a Revolutionary Creativity.

Both revolutionary events, that of creativity and that of industry, made it possible to replace the use of animal and human power with a new energy generated by steam – at its inception. The productive and transportation systems became more efficient and with much lower costs, which impacted all economic sectors that have been improving steadily since that innovative era.

Since that period, human beings have been gradually substituting their strength and physical work potential with the extraordinary help of substitute machines.

In the transport sector, he has amazingly transformed his own nature of transporting himself, that natural capacity to do it on his own feet.

We are now in the 9th generation of creativity of the modern era (*), a process that began – as we have already mentioned – in the Industrial Revolution. It is therefore necessary to reactivate that transforming form in human creativity to induce a new paradigm that places us, from this moment on, in the future, and that we should not reach it, without a clear idea of what we will have to define in that new scenario, which will give comfort and security to the expectant walker (Future Post A NEW WALKING PARADIGM).

Let us try in this period of creativity to place Humanity with a new thought of what it will represent to renew and rejuvenate its walk, moving with its own feet. In all this process let us become aware of the need to generate a combination of multidisciplinary contributions (Future Post THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM AND THE INTERDISCIPLINARY FLOW OF IDEAS) that clearly define the investigations that will be channeled towards a hybridization, also disciplinary, (Future Post WALKING: A NECESSARY DISCIPLINARY HYBRIDIZATION) containing healthy objectives and quantified goals, which will positively impact on a new paradigm of human walking and its specific solutions to the future problem of moving on one’s own feet.

Let’s walk on a new perspective so that we can all think better and be healthier.

(*) For purposes of analysis in this and other works, I allowed myself to consider 30 years as the average time between generations on creativity, in the modern era. The 9th generation started in 2010 and will end, according to my estimations, in the year 2040. The generations of creativity advance according to the development of the sciences (exact, physical, social, natural, etc.) that human beings have been perfecting, as well as the creative advances in the arts; and of course in technological activity, in all its fields. The generational periodicity of creativity was comparable in time to the generative biological evolution of the human being.

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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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We have already described certain important aspects of procrastination in Post WALK, DO NOT PROCRASTINE, DO IT NOW, and in this post we will try to address this problem, which a significant percentage of the population suffers from.

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PROCRASTINATION, according to its classic definition, is the result of delaying or postponing the performance of an action, or failing to perform an activity by postponing it for another day, week, month or year. Two characteristics are common to all procrastination and if they were not present, we would not find ourselves in a representative case. One of them is that it invariably provokes “feelings of guilt” in the procrastinating subject; the other is that a different activity is generally performed instead of the one that should be performed; in other words, we will find ourselves in a case of procrastination, if every time an activity should be performed it is postponed and gladly exchanged for another, and also provokes a “feeling bad” for not having performed it at the moment when we are aware of it. These 2 characteristics are fundamental to take into account when dealing with the problem of procrastination and its link with bad habits.

Many specialists use to point out the different types of procrastination according to the different ways in which the human being can procrastinate, and invariably they do it according to their knowledge, experience and criteria. These categories or classifications are carried out taking into account the different elements that intervene or are related to procrastination itself: according to the time of procrastination; the fear of incurring in faults for carrying out certain activities; personality problems. I am convinced that it is convenient to make a typology, but to do it from the point of view of facing the causes of its generation; that is to say, as we have commented, procrastination is a symptom that results from bad habits and also from negative emotions, or from a combination of these two sources (Post WALK, DO NOT PROCRASTINE, DO IT NOW). Using these 2 strands of causality, we will focus our efforts, using the WALK-RWD system, which we have already successfully tested, to eliminate both bad habits and negative emotions, and thus address the wide variety of cases of procrastination that are commonly incurred (Post COMBATING SOME ENEMIES WITH THE WALK-RWD: OBESITY).

Thus, procrastination can be a symptomatological behavior of one or several bad habits or negative emotions. In this post procrastination will be analyzed and addressed as a negative habit, so we will propose concrete solutions using the WALK-RWD system to eliminate procrastination generated by bad habits. The procedure to eliminate it as a causal manifestation coming from negative emotions will be presented in the future post PROCRASTINATION AND THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM AGAINST NEGATIVE EMOTIONS. I have decided to present the procedures for both aspects independently because habits and emotions are treated differently.

Now, let us keep in mind that every habit is the result of an unsatisfied need; that is, within every habit in us there is an “inner need” (at least), which we must attend to. Generally, all of them – the needs – manifest themselves, directly or indirectly, in a symptom or external effect.

If we attend to the “inner need” that we manifest, we will be able to disappear the habit that has been formed. It is relatively difficult to identify that correlation between Need and Habit, or sometimes we do not even want to identify it. However, it is essential to find that link in order to meet that need and thus “break” the negative habit.

In other words, we must become aware that we have a problem with ourselves. This is the first step we must take.

Once we are already aware of it, through a conscious and sincere knowledge, that we have a negative habit or an addiction, the next step will be that we manifest openly and really that we want to change our attitude, in that sense of not postponing our commitments with ourselves or with other people, in that way we can move on to the application of the WALK-RWD system, which in this case will be as we proposed in the posts: THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM AND THE HABITS, NEGATIVE HABITS AND HOW TO COMBAT THEM-GENERAL CASES, and COMBATING SOME ENEMIES WITH THE WALK-RWD: OBESITY.

Procrastination is not a decision making problem, it is not a time management issue, it is not abulia, it is not laziness, it is not cowardice, it is not an inability, it is not a lack of interest; it is all this as an effect of a problem of bad habits. Therefore, we must focus on breaking bad habits (Post NEGATIVE HABITS AND HOW TO COMBAT THEM-GENERAL CASES).

Let’s start from the fact that the individual who procrastinates must lead himself to a better management of his bad habits.

The procedure to combat bad habits has been presented in a general way in the 3 posts mentioned above, however, I will proceed to describe briefly the most outstanding aspects that I have exposed in those posts to combat them.

There is no doubt that the will and discipline required to carry out this type of practices are difficult to achieve, because not all of us have that ability, and it is certainly more difficult than we can imagine. We will have to dedicate at least one hour a day to maintain a balanced state of health.

In any case of procrastination there is an endless circle of 1) Postponing the Activity (PA), 2) Performing another more Attractive Activity-Satisfaction (PAAS), 3) Feelings of Guilt and Frustration (FGF), and 4) Creating a Bad Habit (CBH); is a four-link chain that always leads to procrastination, and procrastination leads to depression and anxiety, which in turn leads to more neurosis; however, we can modify it if we introduce the “walking, reading, writing and drawing” link.

Indeed, this Vicious Circle is fed back by the neurosis itself, which provokes in the individual different neurotic states, which rest on the Inner Need, which takes different specific forms of behavior and attitude towards the apparent reality, Idea of Idealistic Perfectionism (IIP), being Superior to Others (SO), Egolatry (EL), having a Superior Power (SP), Egocentrism (EC), Dominating Others (DO), Narcissism (N), a number of neurotic states that invariably lead to depression and anxiety, which in turn translates into bad habits and permanent procrastination. As can be observed, this Inner Need is, in general, a mental-psychological need that has degenerated into neurosis, obsession, paranoia, psychosis, or any other mania or neuropathy.

That Inner Need -specific- that “seeks to satisfy” the individual suffering from neurosis -or any other neuropathy-, cannot be easily achieved in reality, and it is demonstrated that behind a condition of neurosis all those states are fed back by the same neurosis, which makes them unattainable and strengthens its own degrading force, a subconscious force that drives the individual -as a pretext- not to do anything, it is a pretext that allows him to deceive himself, and that places him outside of reality.

The Inner Need generates, by erroneously channeling the efforts, an apparent Idealistic Perfectionism (IIP), Superior to Others (SO), (EL), (SP), (EC), (DO), (N), ETC., which permanently “moves and paralyzes” the procrastinating individual.

These endless circles or Vicious Circles can be broken with an external stimulus, creating a new action or activity within the usual chain of events of the procrastination habit. In this way we can move, in a healthy way, the person away from the vicious circle of the procrastination habit.

Undoubtedly, this type of habits are complicated and quite confusing that deeply and daily disturb the individual who suffers from it; however, we can always define an activity that is a “switch” that prevents and disconnects the chaining, modifying it to redirect it towards tasks that benefit physically and mentally -psychologically- the individual. In our case, the “switch” is the integral system “walking, reading, writing and drawing” that we can use at any time to face procrastination, which is creating negative situations and attitudes -conscious or unconscious- in our being.

We must point out that, in general, the activities of the WALK-RWD system are not linkable with those that are procrastinated, i.e., the daily postponement of the activity of “keeping the kitchen area clean” has no practical linking relationship with walking, reading, writing or drawing.

Invariably we will have to analyze the specific chain to determine the “Inner Need”, which in turn will make it easier to identify the point in the chain on which we should implement the system as a “switch” to it.

It goes without saying that from the analysis of each case and its evaluation, will depend on the location of the point where we will have to place the “switch” to obtain the most immediate and positive results. With the certainty that if it is not the appropriate point, it will not cause any additional problem in the behavior of the person who is carrying it out and we will be able to remodel it more conveniently, looking for another node for the application of the WALK-RWD system.

In general the system works in such a way that the “Inner Need” is eradicated in an unconscious way, however, it is almost certain that the appearance of this need is recurrent and recovers its psychological dissatisfaction, so we will have to be attentive to apply the WALK-RWD system again, in the same point of the chain or perhaps it has modified its original structure with which we were applying the system, and again we have to analyze and evaluate the new psycho-dependent chain.

Let us keep in mind that by walking (WALK-RWD System) we can leave behind any type of Vicious Circle, and concretely the psycho-dependent one of Procrastination.

As we have already pointed out, there are innumerable negative emotional enemies and unpleasant habits that govern our existence on a daily basis.

The following process will guide us more specifically in combating procrastination, which I have conformed into 3 phases for its control and correction.

PHASES X, Y and Z to address bad habits and procrastination.

With the purpose of having clarity in the process that we must carry out to eradicate procrastination, next we expose the 3 phases of the procedure that the WALK-RWD system contemplates.

PHASE X.-IDENTIFICATION of bad habit (or several) and CORRELATION of the Inner Need with the Habit.

First of all we need to desire to change our attitude or desire to feel good about ourselves. Just coming to truly desire is a very important step in this process.

The WALK-RWD system allows us to combat all cases of bad habits through a general method. However, each habit has its special characteristics, so it is indispensable to identify and characterize it. For each one of the negative habits the WALK-RWD system leads us in a special way to present a specific front to combat them. To identify the bad habit it is necessary to first determine its correlation with the Inner Need that generates it. To get to correlate it we must resort to the procedure defined in Post NEGATIVE HABITS AND HOW TO COMBAT THEM-GENERAL CASES, where we review as an example the Vicious Circle in eating habits, and we recommend detecting that Inner Need in the area of insecurity, scarcity, deprivation, anxiety, dependence, emotional imbalance, hesitation in decision making, irresponsibility, self-doubt, etc.

Once we have completed this phase (identification and correlation) we can move on to the next phase.

PHASE Y.-CORRECTIVE PROCESS OF THE BAD HABIT (OR SEVERAL).

Once we carry out phase X, fulfilling the 2 steps indicated (identification and correlation), we will pass to phase Y which is the corrective process of the bad habit, applying the WALK-RWD system as we exposed it in the 3 posts previously indicated (posts: THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM AND THE HABITS, NEGATIVE HABITS AND HOW TO COMBAT THEM. GENERAL CASES, and COMBATING SOME ENEMIES WITH THE WALK-RWD: OBESITY).

PHASE Z.-AVOIDING AND CONFRONTING PROCRASTINATION.

In parallel to phase Y, we must apply phase Z, a positive attitude, which consists of subtracting ourselves from the apathy of not wanting to do anything or postpone everything, trying to perform certain small actions tending to banish the procrastinator being at 100 percent, that we bring inside. Let us perform any action (task or activity) that is inconsequential, but that has some relation -small at least- with the activity we have been procrastinating. This will work in two directions or courses of behavior. During the first course of behavior, the mind and the body will surely start sending messages against this positive attitude (signals of abulia, tiredness, listlessness, etc.), which will be nothing but more procrastination, which will have the function of keeping us delaying and postponing any kind of positive action we have undertaken to carry out our tasks. This negative state will try to boycott us from our interiority to prevent us from developing that minimal or insignificant action (task or activity). At this moment we will begin to realize the great variety of resources used by that SPECIMEN of procrastination nested within ourselves; let’s write down all those boycotts and analyze them one by one, in order to counteract them in an effective and conscious way. To do this, the best way is to always develop an insignificant action in parallel, keeping us active even minimally towards the achievement of our productive tasks that we have procrastinated. Let us keep in mind that this phase takes place in concordance and feedback with the Y phase. That is to say, even if we have detected and corrected the negative habit(s), when we are in this phase Z, we will have to feed back the previous phase Y.

The other behavioral sense in which this minimal action of ours will work is that we will have an extraordinary result. Besides starting to destroy the habit -or the addiction-, it is very probable that this corrective dynamic, taken to its happy conclusion, can provoke the disappearance of the primordial causes of our neurosis or of any other psychological ailment that we have and that is the cause of the habit (or addiction) that we are attending in this process, using phases Y and Z. I emphasize, this can be achieved if we fight the procrastinator that we bring inside, until eradicating it, when we may have also defeated in parallel its “neurotic brother”, which surely also nests in us.

The realization of all this process is facilitated by applying the WALK-RWD system because it is motivational by itself, it induces us to go ahead with optimism and immediately teaches us to carry out activities with enthusiasm.

Taking as a guideline this 3-phase process and the points on the eradication of vicious circles of bad habits, I present a concrete case of procrastination, of daily and generalized course, which will serve us as a model to solve practically all the situations of procrastination that arise.

Case to solve: KEEPING THE BEDROOM FIXED.

Once we have completed phase X, identification and characterization of the bad habit (Inner Need), we can continue with the correction of the bad habit.

Applying the WALK-RWD system as we exposed it in the case of obesity (Post COMBATING SOME ENEMIES WITH THE WALK-RWD: OBESITY), we can eliminate it by substituting it for any of the combinations of the structured activities within the system.

This case is divided into several parts according to the furniture that make up a bedroom, therefore, it should be analyzed according to those elements or lots:

1.            Closets: rearrange and clean them.

2.            Beds: change their sheets and remake them.

3.            Chests of drawers: rearrange and shake them.

4.            Lift and arrange the untidy clothes.

Let’s start the process by taking as a concrete example the last one, number 4, which we have designated as Specific Activity: “Lift and arrange the untidy clothes”, to place them in the appropriate drawers provided for this purpose, and hang some of them in the closets. The solution of this case will be equally usable for the other 3 previous to this one. In order to lift and arrange the clothes, we decide to start washing the dirty clothes and thus apparently we are satisfied because we are doing an activity (Substitute Activity) as important -supposedly- as lifting and arranging the clothes and we will also think that washing is prior to arranging; however, we are convinced that we do it because it is more attractive to us, we do it with pleasure, and therefore we can satisfactorily postpone the other one. The reality is that we do not want to do that activity number 4, for some emotional, neurotic, etc. cause, which we have already identified as an Inner Need. After having procrastinated the Specific Activity and washed the clothes (Substitute Activity), feelings of recrimination and frustration begin, simply because we have postponed the arrangement of clothes for many months and they are scattered all over the bedroom.

In the first scheme, we can see that nodes 2 and 3 feed back on each other (Vicious Circle of Procrastination), and always do so indefinitely, so the person never gets to perform the activity he/she procrastinates.

We must break this reluctant and eternal vicious circle.

The performance of a Substitute Activity becomes a “co-habit” that complements the procrastinating habit of the Specific Activity, either as a repetitive act with the same specific activity or with another one, which we will have to extirpate, by means of the WALK-RWD system (Phases Y and Z). When we are in the proximity of the exchange of the fundamental activity to be performed by the Substitute, let’s go for a walk and initiate the application of the WALK-RWD system as we indicated in Post COMBATING SOME ENEMIES WITH THE WALK-RWD: OBESITY, which will allow us to eradicate the Substitute Activity and likewise any type of habit, and later we can voluntarily and with pleasure, fix the bedroom.

Finally we will eliminate Procrastination.

The release of energy walking, which is transmitted to the brain, will provoke the procrastinator inner subject that we bring inside, a compulsion that will place us in the bedroom to start its arrangement, that we will have destined our energies to eliminate the negative habit.

In order to achieve this reaction of the unconscious in communication with the neurotic conscious it was necessary to identify and become aware of the negative habit (in this case a substitute) to eliminate it from our behavior, and with a positive attitude put into practice the WALK-RWD system in order to directly combat the procrastinator subject that nests within us, by eliminating its customary ally of the negative habit, a process that must be permanent and repetitive, until it is eradicated.

Any procrastinator attitude can be eradicated by following the steps and process outlined above.

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Of all the mythologies, the Greek one is for the Western world the most extensive, differentiated, exciting and stimulating; so in this Western universe it is usually expressed: “We must resort to the Greeks”.

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For every one of the gods, semi-gods and heroes that participate in it, two myths are described that are truly descriptive of human behavior. All the emotions, feelings, attitudes, anguish, enthusiasm, exaltations, passions, achievements, failures, victories, frustrations and revenge, are described by their writers, playwrights, essayists, poets, philosophers and historians, all of them Greeks, who over time transmitted it to us in their respective works, which in turn served to exemplify the human condition, in other fields such as psychoanalysis. A limitless source of inspiration and answers for writers, artists and preferably for researchers in the psychoanalytical sciences.

Of these myths, one of them we are interested in presenting, that of Prometheus, with the purpose of understanding as much as possible his capacities and skills that he used to support the human race in its development, during those mythical times, when he was just beginning to understand about its existence.

Prometheus is a symbol for the entire human race for the struggles he waged to overcome adversity and achieve progress toward his destiny, transmitting to humanity that it must above all assert itself as a species, dominating Nature. One question that we must ask ourselves at this precise moment is the following. This domination over Nature can be observed from two points of view: Is it by abusing, destroying, conquering, desecrating, or on the contrary by honoring, respecting, admiring, appreciating, sharing and restoring?

This mythological character was a source of knowledge and skill, which had been taught to him by Zeus himself, King of the Greek Olympus. He was extremely skilled in every art: Astronomy, Architecture, Medicine, Mathematics, Metallurgy, Navigation and, in general, everything necessary that he should know to fulfill his predestination and be able to convey it to human beings so that they, in their turn, may reach their own destiny.

Among the knowledge that he transmitted to humans and that is related to our fundamental activities, were about astronomy, astral data, cosmography, mathematics and certain important observations about the Sun: the measurement of time, astronomical guidance and orientation, and fire.

Regarding fire, Zeus forbade it to human beings because of a bad play -during a challenge- that Prometheus made to him; therefore, he asked Athena to help him go up to the Olympus to take the fire from the same Sun, and going down to Earth he gave it to men. Both actions were made by Prometheus without Zeus’ permission, so he did not forgive him and punished him by asking Hephaestus (God of Fire, Vulcan) to make unbreakable chains and to fasten him with them at the highest part of Elbruz Volcano, which was 16,400 feet high, and was constantly erupting, and from whose crater lava and fire emanated.

So Prometheus, chained on the summit of the Caucasus, waited for a vulture, which during the day attacked him and devoured his liver, and whose suffering was repeated, because at night he regenerated again, completely replacing all his entrails during the night, which made torture eternal. Fire and agony, daily.

Regarding time, its measurement was taught to humans, since he began to receive the first lessons directly from Zeus. He considered it important to convey to them that time could first be measured by the daily sunrise and sunset. He allowed them to count those daily cycles in order to calculate their journeys walking behind the herds of animals to hunt their food. In the same way he taught them the different phases of the Moon, for the same purposes but with longer cycles.

Likewise, he also transmitted to them the positions of the stars, the Sun, the Moon and added Venus as a morning star and as an afternoon star, to the constellations and sidereal compositions. The knowledge that the Sun always went out by the same orientation, the East, and permanently hiding itself by the same opposite point, the West. The same occurred with the Moon and Venus, with the knowledge that a wider period of time everything repeated and started again.

All this in order to be able to guide and orient oneself by day, and over all by night, to be able to reach places, without getting lost and not spending too much effort in their walks, and to locate points where the herds of animals went (Post WALKING AND THE ARCHETYPE “MAGIC”. PART I), season after season, and year after year. But above all, they could return to their places of origin, when they needed to.

Prometheus was recognized as very lucid and skillful in many disciplines, but never with the title of “Semi-God of the Walkers”, however, the teachings he gave to humans about all these arts, were essential for the entire human species could move over long distances to regions that were occupied over 2 million years (Post HOMO-ITER: MAN-WALKER. PART I , Post HOMO-ITER: MAN-WALKER. PART II , and future Post CHRONICLE OF A DISAPPEARANCE ANNOUNCED IN THE PLEISTOCENE). In addition to being the protector of the walkers, he was their guide and teacher.

11-PROMETHEUS-CONQUEST OF FREEDOM.

Advancing the times, in the time that goes from the 3,000 to the 2,000 years B. C., the Hellenes descendants of Prometheus’ grandson, Prometheus was worshipped by a celebration that took place every year, when Venus was presented brightly as the Morning Star. These celebrations consisted of walking competitions, whose name was “Promethean parties” and later they were simply called Ionics. They consisted of walks with torches, which represented the symbolism of the resistance of the Hellenic peoples and the permanence of the fire with the humans, since the contenders carried a torch fed with the direct fire of the Sun, and had to endure long walks until the torch went out. The winner was the competitor who had walked the longest distance. Legend has it that the greatest distance was walked by a descendant of Zeus, who walked for 7 days and 7 nights.

The winner was a member of the Ionians tribe or Ionians, who had always distinguished themselves as great walkers, a nomadic people par excellence, and considered themselves descendants of Ion (eponymous hero of the Ionians tribe), son of Juto and grandson of Heleno, whose name means walker. The legend also tells that the winner of the contest whose fire had lasted seven days and seven nights, his father Zeus, the highest god of Olympus, had sent him to Earth, to the region of Euboea (formerly Thessaly and part of the Peloponnese), where the Ionians inhabited, for this future contest. His name in Ionian language was Greiko (Greek).

From that time on, the Greeks started to call themselves children of Greiko (Greeko), belonging to the dominant tribe of the Greikoi (Greekoi: Greeks) or of the Grekaii (Greekaii: Greece) territory, and their language the Greika (Greeka: Greek). The people of permanent fire and resistance in walking; the race of eternal fire and indefatigable walking (Future Post WALKING IN THE HELLENIC PEOPLE-THE OLYMPIC).

Let us seek and reclaim that Promethean fire, but above all let us become aware that we must break those chains that bind us to sedentarism and accompany Greiko in his walks.

It seems that Prometheus’ message to the human being -once he broke the chains- was that his only unavoidable mission to be carried out indefinitely was: “To walk on the planet Earth”.

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