We could assure that in all cultures reading has been practiced aloud, especially of poetry (Future writing WALKING READING POETRY IN A LOUD VOICE). It is very likely that this activity was carried out by instinct and has a close relationship with some functions of the body and mind.
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We were already commenting that the brain stabilizes and compensates with this activity: “You should also consider making the readings, while walking, performing them out loud, as this generates a better catharsis in the walker”.
J. Arnau in his book”The word against the vacuity”,explaining the thought of the Buddhist philosopher and monk Nagarjuna, expresses to us: “The work [of Nagarjuna] is written in a type of stanza called karika. […] Writing philosophy following this metric technique was a common practice in Indian thinking. This type of literature was written to be recited aloud… ”.
Information -of all
kinds and by any means- that reaches our brain can generate positive or
negative effects, processed in feelings or emotions. It is mentioned that the
mind, when receiving external stimuli that unbalance it – of the negative type
– must respond to maintain the balance of the Central Nervous System and the
Neurovegetative (Sympathetic, Parasympathetic and Enteric), and one of those
recommended forms is to share them with other people or at least express those
who are altering our emotional balance: that way is to express in a loud voice
all those things that are bothering us.
The sound voice and the sense of hearing are a sensory -SOUND-AUDITIVE- binomial that serves to give greater efficiency and energy to the human body and mind. Positive and pleasant vibrations are transmitted to the body, spirit and brain through the sound voice. All the data and information that is introduced by this means to our body -sound and ear- are processed by the brain generating sensory and emotional responses, in a state of balance and relaxation.
Although it is very difficult to quantify the benefit obtained (of all kinds of advantages and benefits) by reading aloud, it is undoubtedly that it has various effects on human health and conduct, whether in its behavior or in its performance behavior organic body functions.
We must permanently consider the importance of reading aloud while walking: read any text, poem, own or any poet: WALKING READING IN LOUD VOICE.
I recommend experiencing out loud what we have to say, or when reading, or when writing that we can also read our own work out loud. Qui scribit, bis legit: Who writes, reads twice. Even when we are alone we can experience reading aloud either a text or a poem, own or by any author, famous or not, but still walking.
Malcolm Cowley in one
of his essays on Lafcadio Herun-san,
makes relevance about reading aloud, by extracting one of the texts of his work
“The Story of Mimi-Nashi-Hoichi” which deals with a Japanese legend:
“’ At that moment Hoichi felt some iron fingers grab him by the ears and rip them off! But although it hurt a lot, he didn’t scream. The heavy and heavy footsteps backed down along the railing, -they descended into the garden-, they transposed the path, -they ceased. On both sides of the head, the blind man felt a warm trickle; but he did not dare to raise his hands’.”
Cowley says: “We no
longer like the signs of admiration of the first sentence or the commas
followed by scripts of the third; but it is that the author followed his own
theory about punctuation, which for him, was a guide of the reader’s voice. He
wrote for the ear, not for the eye; the piece and its context sound good to us,
if we read them aloud. ”
Indeed, when reading aloud, sometimes, certain characteristics that words, including letters and numbers, are revealed: sounds, resonances, meanings, musicality, rhythms, silences, that reading with sight, pass unnoticed.
We must also mention
that in prayer, in various religions, the oral sound expression is used, the
modality of praying loudly in an individual and mostly collective way is used,
although praying is a private dialogue with God with the most intimate part of
being.
It does not require
any formula or procedure but is the expression of the believer’s inner feeling.
Praying loudly on an individual basis, for example the Rosary or the Hail Mary,
which keeps the devotee focused and abstracted in his pious attitude, the
prayers he recites remain in his memory all his life. If this oratory action
out loud is done collectively, a synergy is generated that injects greater
strength and certainty in each of the speakers.
In the Hindu,
Buddhist and Jainist systems we also clearly observe the use of this technique
of oral sound expression to achieve liberation. The syllable A-U-M is said
during the singing of spiritual texts and very emphatically during certain
meditative activities of Yoga (In the Stadiums or Paths of Concentration,
Meditation and Abandonment centered on the Yantra of meditation or Samadhi). It is commented that this syllable OM or AUM-Yoga,
is in the cordialis center of this darsana or philosophical system of
India, and represents the unity of the 3 fundamental human being entities:
mind, body and spirit. It is very common to be sung three times at the
beginning and also at the end of a Yoga session.
The next time we
walk, let’s do it by speaking out loud, either reading, remembering a poem or
repeating some phrases that we hear by some electronic means.
We have already talked about why and for what to read in writing WHY READ AND WHAT FOR? THE GREAT BENEFITS we will now dedicate a few pages to what we believe is required to be a good reader. For those who have not dabbled in the reading activity, it is recommended to go to a library or a bookstore, visiting the section that arouses their interest. Within that chosen section, randomly review the titles and authors, and then examine the Contents of the pre-selected works. Make the decision and choose the document or literary work that will accompany you on your walks. To become a good reader we must take into account 2 fundamental aspects, in this field.
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The qualification of
“good” is oriented, on the one hand, to enjoyment, recreation and entertainment
with reading, and on the other, it is related to education and learning. Both
perspectives allow the achievement of being a good reader, and must be
addressed in the same way. However, it will depend on the person himself who
performs the reading activity, to lean more towards one or another stimulating
aspect, at a stage of his life. There is a large collection of books that tell
us how to read to learn and be instructed, few that tell us what to enjoy
reading. I consider that there are several topics that must be taken into
account, in both perspectives: the “what”, the “how”, the “when”, the “why”,
the “how much”, the “with whom” and the “ where, ”and again, each individual
may have greater inclination over any of them, and devote more attention to
motivate themselves and achieve their reading mission.
In addition to these 2 essential aspects, let’s keep in mind, as we pointed out in writing READING-WRITING-DRAWING: VIRTUOUS CIRCLE that every good reader can become a writer. We must take into account the level of inclination that each of us has about this activity, whether you have the desire to acquire the habit, or to develop it more, or expand your knowledge, to those in which reading activity has been relegated, and for which it would mean a real venture into it. The good reader will advance according to how he becomes passionate. The purposes and particularities that must be considered in both perspectives, to proceed in the reading activity, are:
• Understanding
• Pleasure and taste
• Selection and
options
• Volume
• Periodicity
• Irregularity
• Learning
• Study
• Knowledge
• Specialization
• Conceptualization
• Ignorance
• Satisfaction and
joy
• Writing styles
• Writing genres
• Preferences
• Discrimination
• Abstracts
• Anthologies
• Indifference
• Extension
• Authors
• Place and space
• Language
Of course, some
people recommend that you can rely on different actions to carry out the
reading, that some others do not accustom them to: underline the phrases that
the reader considers most relevant, write certain important notes on the margin
of the pages of the book, relate texts with some other authors, documents or
books, reflect on whether or not we agree with what we read, relate some
outstanding data with previous readings, etc. Keep in mind that the notes
written by you during the reading, either on the pages of the book or document that
you read, or in a separate block of notes (this is more recommended), will be
the first steps of the good reader who will project it to a future writer, if he
wishes to do so; do not exclude or relegate.
Also keep in mind that while writing you are also reading your own writings, Qui scribit, bis legit: Who writes, reads twice.
Regarding the second aspect about the perspective in reading, preparation and education, we have as absolute representatives environments to the school (in its different school levels), the research, the academy (in its different grades), the self-taught (self-educated, self-taught ) and work in any type of company (public or private).
In this “obligation” scenario, we require more effort since it requires us to respond according to the demands and guidelines that are requested to make the reading of a “required” document. There are many methods that have been developed for the large number of fields of learning and teaching, and they can be used to improve our personal goals. I will mention some of the characteristics and aspects, which should be addressed in this perspective of reading, according to the literary genre:
• Purpose of the document
• Content
• Structure
• Purpose of the author
• Questions and answers
(from the author and the reader)
• Understanding
• Notes
• Document highlights
• Summary or synthesis of
the document
• Memorization
• Important phrases of
the text / author
• Ideas generated by the
reader
• Outstanding ideas of
the author
• Re-read some
outstanding parts of the document
Of course, depending on the literary genre, this list can be modified, reduced or increased, however, its complexity conveys that more effort is required than what is needed for the first stage, where we only look for fun and entertainment. In this, with this extraordinary effort (work) we seek constant questioning about what is being read, since for learning, instruction and education, more time is required, more analysis and introspection of the different topics that each Document brings with it. However, the WALK-RWD system allows us to make these efforts with greater encouragement and efficiency.
Now, in the perspective of reading for fun and entertainment, you should only choose for “taste”, according to personal enjoyment – that nothing is forced; select gender; the author; the place (to read walking); the reading period: you should never feel obligated – or forced – to finish a book until the end, if it “falls out of your hands”, leave it and choose another, because later when you already have the habit and taste for reading, you can return to them to finish them, if they are interested in reaching the end.
About self-education,
which can appear in both perspectives, is one of the safest processes of
reading to become a good reader, depending on the most particular interests
that an individual has in his personal development.
Let’s select our books, spaces and schedules for reading and get ready to walk accompanied by those books, to enjoy learning.
We have already mentioned in past writings and fundamentally in “READING-WRITING-DRAWING: VIRTUOUS CIRCLE” that these 2 reading and writing activities potentiate and feed each other. We have also mentioned that every persevering, permanent and enthusiastic reader manages to be a writer in the future.
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We must be clear in our minds that the only thing we could achieve, by implementing this WALK-RWD system, is to be a “dynamic reader”, an “authentic writer” or an “expressive drawer”. To pretend more of this would be an excess on our part. Dynamism in the reader means being frequent, lasting, enthusiastic, practical, but not intense; the authentic in the writer represents a confident, positive, serious, certain, practical and firm individual; the expressive in the drawer includes the two previous ones. Drawing involves the two activities of reading and writing, in a graphic way; that is, being a “dynamic reader” leads to being an “authentic writer”, but being an “expressive drawer” implies the two previous personalities, in a graphic way.
It is ideal to write
– precisely – all the good ideas that are generated by reading, because to that
extent more information is required. This virtuous and continuous circle
produces the real driving effect of the information we require in both
directions.
Now, there are various means that we can use to facilitate and organize our reading; it can be done in e-books or audiobooks; also through Smartphone or your Tablet. The Lap Top is not recommended because of the difficulty of carrying it while walking.
You can read in the
Mobile Apps for iPhone and Android, and listen on WiFi.
The daily reading of
the newspaper in any of the forms: printed, Tablet, Smartphone, etc., or listen
to the news by Smartphone while we walk.
Writing can also be
achieved through a recorder that is recorded as you walk.
Music is an important
element in life because it “moves” our body, our cells, our moods.
That is why it is also advisable to listen to music when we walk.
Each individual can process that information and data according to their natural rhythm of creative spirit, with their particular and singular literary genre, each human being is unrepeatable in art as Edel C. Piñera expresses us – in his book Method to releasing the artist that we all carry inside– and produce their own work, according to the processing of the selected information -consciously or unconsciously-; let our spirit process the information that is being introjected and let’s do it by storing the information that we should keep in memory, mentally processing it, to generate the literary products that our creative being decides. We do not grieve if we observe that the product obtained is not an aesthetic beauty, if we do not like how it was written, even if it resembles (much or little) something we have read, in terms of content or style.
Edel C. Piñera in his book presents a novel method to meet and release the incognito artist that we all have inside, suggesting concrete steps to achieve it; it reveals the way to discover that creative seed and energy on art and discover that creative nature and the unlimited possibility that each of us have to be able to perform as artists, causing us a true liberation, which can transform -through its reading- the future of who accepts the challenge. Through its pages it gathers part of its concern and its own experience about the artistic potential that every individual possesses and shares his knowledge to manifest them. Invites the reader to reflect on the multiple possibilities of an artistic type that could be developed, without distinction of age or sex, with the conviction that everyone can achieve it, just by proposing it, with the consequent accumulation of discoveries and satisfactions, because to Piñera we all have an artist inside. Through his method, she guides the reader in the problem of his inner freedom and self-knowledge, confronting him with his creative nature, which is the distinctive characteristic of the species, stimulating him to discover and express his aesthetic essence, without external conditioning.
I want to clarify
that here I do not intend to advise anything about the quality of the writing
or the intensity of the reading, nor about which books and authors are
recommended; plain and simple we must do it according to our tastes and needs.
It is not a study program or a literary creation workshop. We must read with
the speed we want, with the care and interest we have. We must read according
to our tastes and take advantage of those moments by acquiring knowledge, and
if desired, write as well.
Many books distract and teach; all enrich our knowledge and improve our ideas and thinking. Each book can be transformed into a dialogue with the author, and the synthesis obtained from it can be transmuted into a compendium of ideas that we can always organize as a new work written by us. This dialogue is carried out with oneself and the author serves as an intermediary and pointer. You talk to yourself, considering that the author may be listening to you in your reinterpretation, and you can address him as if he were present with your thoughts. Remember: it is not a study program, nor a literary creation workshop, but you can make it work as you wish.
For both activities –
reading and writing – we can facilitate its development in terms of the
difficulties that arise for its practical execution. In the case of reading we
can acquire the appropriate device to listen through headphones, of course it
is necessary to have the work in the audio-book system. This way you will run
less risk of tripping or falling by reading or writing during your walking
exercise.
For writing we can
recommend that you use a recorder during the walk and then transcribe it in any
word processor and incorporate it to the objective that is pursued, or use the
digital equipment that allows us to write on a screen – while walking – and
directly It is recorded to the processor. With regard to audio-books, as well
as having the advantage of facilitating reading they also have several
drawbacks from my particular experience. However, these disadvantages do not
determine their elimination to avoid considering it as a valid option. It will
depend on everyone and especially on the difficulty you have to make the
reading without the risk of tripping or falling.
In my personal case, I like to review some texts that reinforce my understanding of the ideas presented in the respective book, which can also be done in the audio-books although with more difficulty. I am also inclined to periodically review some parts of the book that I am reading, such as the names of the chapters and countless needs that are presented to me when I am re-reading, which we could also do in the audio books, even with some difficulty. In addition, there is in me the urgent need to underline and cross out words and phrases from the books I read and in addition to writing notes all over the book that falls into my hands, a situation that can hardly be done in audio- books.
However, these are a
real option for those who consider it a risk to read when they walk. The annotations
(notes, marks, apostilles, references, data, etc.) that we make on the texts,
help us to locate the specific places in the text of our observations that we
are making, however, if we need more space to develop better our own ideas and
comments that we have generated by reading the text, we must use a special
block of notes for this, where we can keep a record of all those ideas that
occur to us as we read the text. There are also the computer books (e-book or
electronic book) that through them we can store a fairly large number of books
and read through the digital screen, with the convenience of being able to
carry out the same activities – and even more easily – what can we do with
traditional books: review texts, underline and cross out words, write notes,
etc.
Now, we can ask ourselves Why read and what for? In the generality of human communities that have historically had access to reading, there has always been a percentage of people who like to read and who wish to read, which by the way, has been a low percentage; as well as another percentage that they can’t or don’t like to read; this has been much higher. See writing WHY READ AND WHAT FOR?
The purposes pursued
by those individuals who read are varied, however, there is a group that does
so to know how they think or what other people think. This activity can be done
without the need to generate a discussion or confrontation of ideas and without
the obligation to go to an enclosure to be able to listen to them. It is really
simple to take the thought of an individual anywhere and be able to hear it at
the time we want it; carrying with us the book where that person poured his
thoughts; we can open it and close it when we want to hear it; those ideas,
speeches, experiences, poems, in short, any thought that the author had
exposed, described or referred to in his work.
Now, why does a sector of the population need this type of information? There is a fundamental reason in people and that is that they require these experiences, that information. Either consciously or unconsciously the human being seeks answers to his inner self; that is, the chosen work is part of the answer they are looking for, but they really want their interiority to respond to them. In a group of people who belong to the same culture and with a similar socioeconomic level, we find individuals who are inclined to read and others do not, and the essential reason is that the former have the need to know themselves better (Nosce te ipsum: know yourself) and reluctant to read prefer to live life without questioning anything. Marco Anneo Seneca, the Latin philosopher of the 1st century A.D., in its Morales Treaties, expressed the following regarding reading and writing:
“Come here, turn into your hands those works that are celebrated with much work of your ingenuity; the verses, I say, of the two authors that you translated in such a way, that although they did not have their composition they have left their grace; because in such a way you passed them from one language to another, which (being such a difficult thing) all the virtues followed you in others. You will not find in all those writings any book that ceases to give you many and varied examples of the human variety and of the uncertain events and vain tears that, already for this, and for that cause, are shed. Read what with great spirit in great things you sang, and you will be ashamed that it will soon be over and fall so high in style. Do not do so that those who have little admired your writings ask: how is it possible that such a fragile spirit has conceived such great and solid things? Look over these things that torment you to the many who comfort you, put your eyes on such good brothers, put them on your wife and your son. For the health of all of these, fortune was agreed with you for this portion: many of you have to be still. ”
I strongly recommend
that the person be internalized in writing or reading, as much as possible, so
that walking develops unconsciously. Walking is one of the motor activities
that the human being performs instinctively, that is, it is not necessary to be
attentive to perform it.
Finally, I would like
to say that we often observe, through the various print media, that new devices
are designed for girls and boys, of school age, to study while on the move.
These equipment are provided with platforms and mechanical circuits that invite the infant to walk or exercise by means of pedals, which allow him to set in motion some of its members, alternately, both arms and legs. All these devices are at the top of a table so they can do all their work, homework and learning that include school programs, since they can place all kinds of notebooks, books and other teaching-learning articles.
Educators promote
these means and devices – in some schools – because they have already
experienced it in previous years with high rates of achievement and are
convinced that with greater movement of the body children learn better and
faster.
Another stationary equipment could also be designed for the same purposes and to walk, but we can explain this in a future writing “OTHER MEANS AND DEVICES TO MAKE A WALK”.
This specialized type of equipment has been classified under the name of kinesthetic desks or tables, from gr. kineo: move, kinesis: movement; statos: stationary, stay.
No matter what means
we use to implement the WALK-RWD system, let’s read and write while we walk.
We can always combine
walking with the game. Let’s see how.
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First of all I would
like to say a few words about the importance of playing for the human being. We
should not consider that any type of game implies competing. There will be
opinions that say that not all games have to be developed as a competition;
others will present cases of primitive groups -and that still exist today- that
played games without competing; and others, using some kittens or puppies as an
example, arguing that they only seek to “have fun” while playing.
Expressing it in this way has the purpose of raising awareness while playing,
which can lead to conscious or unconscious competition. In this practice of
playing when walking with the other structured activities of reading, writing
and drawing, we should avoid competing as much as possible. When I point out
that the game is competitive, I do not mean that it officially specifies that
there is a challenge between 2 or more individuals (or
2 groups or more), although a high percentage of
the games are carried out under this confrontation rule.
One form of
competition that we can carry out, without creating harmful effects of the
emotional type in our interior, is with ourselves, but it is not very healthy
either; however, this could be a way to avoid competing with the rest of the
entities and people that make up the physical-social environment in which we
are immersed. Thus, the only competition that we can successfully overcome
throughout life is with the same competence, in order to overcome it and not
follow its steps, its teachings, or its subconscious instructions.
The dance, which for
some means to play and for others not -I do not wish to argue in it-, I have
selected it and I put it as an example because everyone has experienced it and
there is no doubt of its components; can be practiced 1) under a competition;
2) as a show, or 3) just for the fun of it. In cases of the second type, it can
be considered that there is no express competition, since there is no official
event, however, the performer must make their best effort so that the public
appreciates and qualifies properly and gives their approval; otherwise they may
not retain their position as dancers in that work; in conclusion, they compete
to keep the position of dancer. In the third case, the possibility may arise
that each dancer who participates solely for fun, competes with himself.
How could it be shown
that the game itself, and in general, possibly means a competition for the
player? Think of those games in which no rivalry, dispute or combat is
stipulated within its rules, nor is it officially declared as competition, nor
is there a jury that will give its opinion or ruling. We could think, for
example, of the “solitaire” game, which is played with cards and is done
exclusively individually. The player who successfully solves this game is
satisfied and in certain cases, this can reach his joy with euphoria; that is
to say, that it feels to have won with pride, and this would correspond to an
analogy of triumphing in a competition, which in this case rivals (it is a
competition) with itself. You may agree with this or not, no matter what; the
relevant thing is that we realize that there is always the possibility that in
games, including individual, there is a risk of being competing in an
unconscious way, which can lead to harmful stress. Performing a game individually
involves several phases in human behavior. That some recreational activity is
pleasant, acceptable, approved, of course by ourselves, falls into the line of
having dominated the game, which in turn means having won in that playful
experience. This means that we are superior to ourselves. This initiative to
dominate the game responds to a need to be superior and to achieve this I must
put myself to the test, to the extent that I demonstrate my abilities to win
over others. So far we only want to win, but that is not the most important
thing in a game, the important thing is to be number one, the one who triumphs
over others and therefore attains power. Finally, any game could be an example
of this development of the human being that seeks, not to have fun, but to
obtain triumph and fame, in order to dominate and have power over the rest of
the people.
The dominate-win-compete play trinomial
reflects the fundamental elements of a high percentage of game types. Within
our WALK-RWD system, we will propose -in future posts- various special games to
have fun while we walk, which will be combined with the development of some of
the structured activities within the WALK-RWD system (read, write and draw).
They will be simple, but fun games, and they all intrinsically seek to develop
any of those 3 activities. Although my philosophy of behavior is that of not
competing -and thus I have designed the structure of these games that I will
expose-, the mind of the human being is conditioned and exercised to find
mechanisms of competition for the achievement of dissimilar objectives, in the
vast majority of the “games”, even if they do not manifest it openly.
So each practitioner of the system will have to strive to ignore any hint of
competition that he perceives in the respective games. I repeat: In the games I
have designed, the competition will not be sought, nor will the competition be
sustainable; only fun, entertainment, and specific objectives achieved through
the WALK-RWD system will be sought.
I would like to
comment something about kittens and puppies, or another type of puppy of any
kind. They truly play without competing … until a certain age. Could it be
that when they begin to grow they begin a conditioning of competence to achieve
their food, their survival, the conservation and proliferation of the species?
In other words, only the games of children (very small) and those of puppies,
in general, do not manifest themselves in competition? So let’s make an
abstraction of our conditioning. Can we achieve this? Hardly; but possibly, by
becoming aware of it, let’s reduce it.
Let’s play alone. This is possible, and this will ensure, in part, non-competition. However, it does not mean that to get rid of competing, we have to live alone. What we have to achieve is to assimilate (introject) that the competition contains 2 main vectors, true and unfailing; one is that the energy that we store (Vector A) during that daily and unbeatable competition that we sustain and suffer, consciously or unconsciously, with the rest of the people and circumstances that we experience by the limits that we impose ourselves, we projects in a direction of progress, on a personal level and as an integral part of that great mass -collected- of the human race, progress that is mentioned, and not sparingly, that it is an erratic, unhealthy course; and the other vector (Vector B) that contains different magnitude, but above all different direction and meaning, orients us towards a gorge where we inevitably find stress, anxiety, contempt, pride, envy, greed, jealousy, rivalry, resentment, ambition, falsehood, disloyalty, meanness, and a dozen other mood discomforts that avoid tranquility, the pleasure of living, fun and sometimes immolate ourselves same.
The
“patent” competition in the game does not mean that there is a
contest declared and established by rules and regulations, or that a jury will
issue its ruling to designate one of the disputing players as winner. The
competition exists without these regulatory elements, without the award
procedure, and without the manifest selection of a winner. All these principles
and elements, even if they are not declared openly in certain games, exist in
the mind of each individual, by conditioning, at the moment that is involved in
any game. For these conditions the human being, in most of the times and in
most of the people, is forced to develop extraordinary risks, expose his best
skills and abilities, perform excellent calculations, undertake any activity
with his best value and courage , do your best, give your best, as if you were
in an open and manifest competition.
Let us, then, in our
unconditioned form, our own effort to walk and carry out those activities -including
simple games- that entertain and excite us, and do not get carried away by
playful competition.
We are fully aware
that the WALK-RWD system is not an entelechy, that it can solve all our
problems and achieve our desires, however, we can state that it can help us, in
some way, in all our difficulties and aspirations.
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The system is a
complete movement that stimulates creative thinking, the generation of ideas,
of great ideas; it is an engine that improves the functioning of our body, and
gives us dynamism generating changes in our way of feeling, thinking and acting
before life. Not only is walking but it is structured with 3 basic activities
that allow evolution and mental and emotional revolution, a permanent exercise
that moves us positively and transcendentally into the future, making us live
our existence in the here and now.
When we walk we generate certain substances (Future writing THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM AND THE SELF-PRODUCTION OF ORGANIC SUBSTANCES) that favor the development of the body in all its functions; some of them benefit the tasks and the good progress of the brain activities, for that reason they facilitate the fertilization of ideas, which otherwise would not have been procreated originally, even helps us to capture the great ideas (Future Post THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM ENCOURAGES CREATIVE THINKING. PART I). Walking is potentiated precisely by practicing these 3 structured activities within the WALK-RWD system, reading, writing and drawing.
Most of the people who are dedicated to research on how to promote the good performance of the organs and systems of the human body: improve memory, how to be more creative, promote physical and emotional intelligence, be in good health, improve sexual activity, sleep better, and 2 dozen more benefits, invariably discover that walking is the fundamental activity that must be practiced, to achieve the optimal achievement of that function that they are investigating and that they are trying to improve. The same goes for any medical or illness, whether physical or emotional, that is sought to be resolved: specialists always resort to the recommendation of walking.
Once we manage to create the habit of walking and conjugate it with these 3 activities, the system itself allows us to preserve and affirm our creativity and tranquility, within an acceptable state of physical, mental and emotional health.
Good health is the sustenance of everything.
Tranquility is the prelude of happiness.
To be creative is to
have the keys to open any door.
With these aphorisms
I only wish to convey that we cannot reach chimeras such as immortality, but we
can be and keep healthy; not keeping ourselves in total happiness but achieving
mental and spiritual tranquility; not to be a genius but to develop great ideas.
In the following
diagram you can see this process of the great benefits that are achieved:
• HEALTH: ENERGY, STRENGTH AND
RESISTANCE.
• CREATIVITY: IMAGINATION, CREATION OF
IDEAS, GOOD THOUGHTS, CREATIVE IMAGES, GOOD INTUITIONS, COMMON SENSE, GOOD
IDEALS.
• TRANQUILITY: ECUANIMITY, PATIENCE, DOMAIN
OF ITSELF, EMOTIONAL STABILITY, RELAXATION, TRUST IN ITSELF, CERTIDUM AND
DEPREOCUPATION, SENSE OF LIFE, POSITIVE ASPIRATIONS.
Following the
principles of Eastern philosophy, which recommends not retaining anything that
affects us mentally, emotionally and physically, we conclude that, in apparent
contradiction with our way of thinking, it is positive not to make efforts to
retain health, creativity or tranquility, so that they reproduce and affirm
themselves in a natural way, and walking helps us decisively in this regard.
Precisely, walking
allows us instinctively not to retain ideas and with this we incite and induce them
to sprout permanently through our mind.
Certainly, walking
gives us mechanically not to partially retain health and let it flow
permanently throughout the body and mind.
Just, walking automatically provides us with not partially retaining tranquility and with it we allow her to remain free, which in turn leads you to sprout permanently throughout our being.
This search implies that we should not retain these three beneficial states in being, but that, as some of the Eastern philosophies define that they should be allowed to flow freely, we should not keep them subject. In the future we will talk about each of these stadiums and we will see that with just walking we can reach those levels, which for our western thinking is heard contradictory and paradoxical.
I have no doubt that most of the great thinkers and creators had the habit of walking, and that consciously or unconsciously, they carried out it periodically, practicing it by routine or inescapable necessity (imperative) for their physical environment and social; the same could be said of those who have had a longevity beyond the average of their social environment and who have experienced throughout their lives a healthy existence, almost free of diseases and ailments.
Nietzsche once
commented that only good ideas arise when we are walking.
Homer said that one of his mythological characters -he did not mention which one- walked with such punctuality and effort every day, that he had no doubt that it drove him to make his adventures with success and greatness, and he -to Homer- would make him transcend the history.
Herodotus expressed that we must walk history to be able to write and tell it.
Heraclitus claimed
that his habit of walking every morning had allowed him to live healthy every
day of his life and realize that the landscape changed as he walked.
Aristotle knew that
walking, accompanied by other people, could better convey his ideas and his
companions understand them better.
Finally, I would like
to underline that the mere fact of walking fertilizes us with this generational
and directive state of development (creative and corrective impulse)
intellectual, emotional and physical health, and also, that it is potentiated
by combining it with the other three activities of reading, writing and draw,
as we have already mentioned.
Keep in mind that
health, creativity and tranquility lead us to other physical, mental and
cultural stages.
I invite you to walk,
reading, writing and drawing, to observe how we reach these stages, in our
being.
