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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.

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When passion leaves us, life runs away from us hiding behind it.

We have commented in the writing ” PASSION AND TIME WALK TOGETHER” that the WALK-RWD system, by itself, creates a passion for the activities of walking, reading, writing and drawing, so that time passes without realizing. We affirm that the system generates a process of harmonization in our mind and body with these activities, placing us in an excellent stage of enthusiasm and motivation, subtracting hierarchy from all other daily obligations (social, family, work, religious, etc.). Now, in this post I would like to deepen the passion that awakens when we develop any activity.

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Let us take into account that there are two scenarios: the one in which we are far from having some passionate inclination towards what could call our attention by our own rational decision or by external conditioning; and the scenario of intrinsic passions, whose roots lie within us since we were born or we have been paying them over time, during the first years of life.

The first scenario is the most difficult to put into practice, since there is no latent inclination in our nature for what we want to be passionate about. In the second scenario, the work of igniting the passion is less difficult and we should only discover those actions that we are passionate about and proceed according to the method we describe for the first.

Let’s put it in a general way and then we will present the details of each scenario.

We can always find time to develop activities that we are passionate about. But how to achieve passion in the realization of things? Whether we are in the first or second scenario.

A person can become passionate about performing (developing) a certain activity if he manages to have great enthusiasm and pleasure in doing it, or that passion will be achieved if he becomes fond of or getting used to it. Getting fond to something is achieved when a positive personal feeling is associated with its realization (execution). In short, passion is achieved through extraordinary satisfaction in carrying out any action that makes you feel good and satisfied. In this sense, we must be aware of what we ourselves have experienced in relation to the attractiveness or not, with the satisfactory or not, that certain activities turn out. Some we do with reluctance, others with pleasure, but there are others, the least, that we do with passion. We say that an activity is carried out with passion, or passionately, when we feel immersed in a backwater, we abstract ourselves in time and space, we truly enjoy what we do and we isolate ourselves in such a way, that we are not aware of the time that has elapsed or where we are.

This is to feel the passion in the accomplishment of any activity, when we are in the process of its realization.

Now, for those people who believe they have no passion for anything, how is passion for something achieved? Is there any method or procedure?

Let’s get to the point of this major problem for the whole human being and quite unfathomable.

If we are not passionate about something, it does not motivate us.

When we feel rejection towards something, we must raise awareness about why that rejection.

The passion for certain activities is held by our own being (second scenario). However, we can be passionate about other activities that do not wake us up (first scenario).

Getting fond to something is one of the most direct ways to get passionate about any activity. The other is the habit. Similar mechanisms but they are not the same. Habit is a rational routine and discipline. We have already commented in the writing THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM AND THE HABITS how to achieve a positive habit. We expressed: with respect to the acquisition of a new habit, the repetition of an action is generally recommended, a certain number of times, and under certain identical conditions, until it becomes inherent to the being itself. Let’s go to its definition: Habit is the custom acquired by the frequent repetition of an act or action. It simply suggests what is in its essence of conformation. It is correct, however, in addition to the concrete action, the entire chain of links that lead to its performance and acquisition must be considered, becoming aware of the attitudes and activities that are exercised in a controlled environment, and of the behavioral behavior of the person who I am putting it into practice. On the other hand, getting fond is an inclination that is achieved when we associate an activity with a positive feeling and that is carried out with enthusiasm throughout its development. “Getting fond to” and “positive habit”, we can make them walk hand in hand.

Getting fond is a previous step to passion. In fact, when we know that an activity we are passionate about is because some time ago we became fond of it. Let us take into account that “getting fond” has 3 components: liked or enjoyed, enthusiasm (be keen on) and attachment. Each of them behaves independently but forms a unit; that is, they are co-responsible for the action of getting fond to.

The procedure is simple to understand, but it takes a little while to be fond of. Each of its components must be cultivated to achieve the required “getting fond to” and therefore, passion.

If we don’t like something, then we reject it.

If something does not excite us, it is because it has no interest for us, nor does it excite us.

If we do not feel attached to something, it bothers us or is indifferent to us.

Motivation and passion we must reach them in the same process, together, at an exact moment, so that they can sprout at the same time.

Now, let’s ask the following questions: Why do we reject it? Why do you have no interest for us? Why does it bother us?

If we respond truthfully to these 3 questions and analyze them deeply, we will find the possible “cause” and we can get to know ourselves better, as to what we feel and why we feel it. This will bring us closer to the “cause” for which we cannot become fond of that activity. If we look in the “cause” for positive aspects for each of the negative issues, we can take a firm step to get closer to it and start to relate better. Keep in mind that “getting fond to” is achieved through repetitive acts that, although consciousness rejects them, the neurovegetative system (Sympathetic and Parasympathetic) and the unconscious receives and processes them. Let the unconscious and these other systems that work of making the “cause” inherent to us and in a not very long term (3 or 4 weeks) will have created in us a “be fond of” that will begin to transmit, on an acceptable level, the passion for that activity that didn’t appeal to us before. There is no recipe to get passionate about something, achieve passion for someone or an activity; however, it should be noted that through certain considerations we can approach it. In general, each individual keeps in his interior a passion for some things and begins to realize it, until he manages to have contact with them. No one can say a priori that he has a passion for something, until he has the experience of his personal relationship or contact with that something.

Now, let’s comment on those considerations that we can take into account to ignite a passion for anything (first scenario).

1st Consideration. Let’s define what we want to be passionate about.

2nd Consideration. Let’s analyze that (objectively), according to our experience and inclinations – rational and sentimental – if we like it and if we don’t feel rejection for it. It would be almost impossible to achieve a passion for something that does not appeal to us, if we do not like or feel disgust (physical, emotional or mental).

3rd Consideration. Let’s make 2 written lists. The first list will be formed by the positive, good, pleasant, profitable, utilitarian, fun, valuable, healthy and beneficial aspects presented by what we want to be passionate about. Be it an activity like gardening or a sport, researching a certain topic, or simply contemplating nature. The second list will consist of its negative, bad and unpleasant aspects. What feeling causes us to imagine developing that activity (new or old) in my life?

4th Consideration. Let’s put ourselves in touch with each other or contact us with what we decide to be passionate about and observe our behavior regarding each of the positive aspects that we list in the 1st list: How we feel, the degree of satisfaction, the fatigue we feel, etc., and evaluate the intensity of its impact on our emotions Is its effect on us very positive? How excited are we? Do we feel pleasure? Do we feel passion? ( Future writing WALKING: FEELING AND ENJOYING).

Once we have completed this evaluation with each and every aspect of this list, let’s review the second list and re-analyze whether we were correct in its negative aspects. Let’s write new aspects, in both lists, or delete some. Let’s reconfigure the 2 lists.

5th Consideration. Let us repeat what is described in the 4th Consideration, with the 2 new lists. If there were no modifications, move on to the sixth.

6th Consideration. Let’s select a single positive aspect of what we want to be passionate about, the most positive and valuable. At most 2 aspects, but they should be implemented separately and independently, from this point. Let’s get involved – enjoyed or not – of what we want to be passionate about only through the enjoyment – or not – of that selected aspect. Let us observe our inclination towards what leads us to become passionate. Let us abstract from the rest of the positive aspects and especially the negative aspects. Let’s just enjoy the nice ones.

7th Consideration. (Second scenario) Regarding what we have said that each individual from birth feels an attraction (perhaps passion) for certain activities, and at an early age, unconsciously, he achieves certain habits and “be fond of” that incline him more and more than others, we proceed to discover those hidden passions through an introspection to recognize them and get in touch with them. The method is very simple, just remember what types of games or activities we prefer, or what kind of activities made us feel better, during and after doing them; there we will find our hidden enjoyed, enthusiasm and attachment, and thus we will discover the clues of our sleeping passions. Once identified, we repeat the procedure from the third consideration to the sixth, for each of these passions.

As an additional comment, I would like to say that the vast majority of the activities we carry out have negative aspects -or that are not very pleasant- that transform them into non-exciting situations. If we could only carry out these activities, without those unpleasant aspects, perhaps we could transform them into exciting moments or actions, all of them. For example, a person wishes to walk in the morning, but suffers from 3 unpleasant situations -for her- which are: getting out of bed, dressing and moving to the path. What does that person decide? Do not walk. However, walking for her is an activity that fills her with passion when she walks on the chosen path. For this person, the walk is exciting in itself, but not its collateral activities (ex-ante and ex-post). As a general recipe, we must be aware of what we have just described, because all human activities are like that. No activity takes place pristinely, all of them are collusions of others, and we have to look for ways that the negatives -or not very favorable- do not hinder those we are passionate about. Specifically -and following the example-, we will consider the pleasure of walking on the path, outdoors, without conditioning, without haste, with pure positive thoughts. Let’s not speculate on ex-post actions, such as returning from the path to the house, taking a bath and getting dressed again. Let’s think about what we can give ourselves: avoid the everyday, get rid of the usual obligations, and that we will introduce ourselves, for 30 or 60 minutes, in an “isolated tunnel” or a RECLUED ENVIRONMENT, where we will take to contemplate nature and listen to what our interiority will tell us on this occasion, that perhaps we had no knowledge of it.

PASSION LEADS US BY THE HAND FOR UNUSPASSED ROADS.

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Walking with shoes or barefoot using the WALK-RWD system generates different results. The effects that are generated through the WALK-RWD system vary according to the type of ground or road, and if you walk barefoot or with shoes.

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In this post we will briefly define the different types of ground that we can use to walk barefoot, without suffering discomfort and enjoy our walks. Having direct contact with the ground causes different sensations in the walker and also generates different effects on the body, mind and spirit.

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It is not the same to walk barefoot on the sand or on the asphalt, even if they are cold, fresh, temperate or hot.

From the origins of Humanity and surely for several hundreds of millennia, our ancestors from all corners of the world walked barefoot, on any type of ground they were traveling on: valleys, steppes, mountains, plains, forests, savannas, beaches , estuaries, canyons, ravines, summits, plateaus, wastelands, deserts, hills, cliffs, icebergs, steppes, jungles, glaciers, riverbanks, sand, coasts, marinas, dunes. They were always in contact with Mother Earth, through the soles of your feet.

In the same way that we have been abandoning walking -helping us with other means of transport- in the last millennia, so we have also covered our feet avoiding direct contact with the different kinds of ground.

Walking barefoot on different types of ground are experiences that all people, men and women should have. Practices as unexpected and surprising as that of – I miss the opportunity to say it – to walk in the rain.

I will allow myself to recommend that you carry out some practices that I have done over the last few years, when walking barefoot on different types of ground.

We choose, according to our possibilities and our desires, to make walks on the following type of ground, without any footwear and without socks:

• Grass

• Asphalt pavement

• Wood floor

• Carpeted floors

• Granite or marble floors

• Sidewalks and cobbled floors

• Soft sand (hot and cold)

• Coarse sand (hot and cold)

• Clay soils

• Rocky floors

• Pebble floors

• Ground soils, dry and wet.

• Smooth cement floors

• Glass floors

• Ice floors

• Wet floors

Care must be taken, of course, not to hurt the feet, or the soles of the feet, for being the different floors: hot, cold, rough, pointed, sharp, spiny, uneven, angular, difficult, acute, frozen, frosty.

Finally, it is advisable to lie down for a few minutes on your back and also facing the floor; and then roll over it, taking care not to hurt yourself, doing it carefully and slowly; appropriate clothing.

The more direct contact we make, during our walks, with our “earth,” the more energy flows within us.

I invite you to walk barefoot from time to time and give you energy and power, through this absorption of “energy sap” by the contact of the feet with the ground, to our whole body, to the mind and the spirit.

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The WALK-RWD system, in its integral application, is a practical and effective SIMULATOR that we can use to experience life in various vital events of human behavior, in different moods, psychological and cultural, observing our attitudes and decision-making, and also in the conformation of the character and personality of each walker.

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The individual who knows (dominate) to be alone and enjoys loneliness, have emotional capacity to integrate healthily into society. Some one can recreate himself in his own solitude can get to know himself and consequently improve his understanding of the social environment in which he is immersed.

Therefore, that person who feels good can be and trusts in his own feelings, is apt to be formally included in society.  (See post WALKING AND THE ELECTION OF LONELINESS. PART I).

Walking is a free flow of our being that allows us to leave ourselves, and each of the walks we do, we can serve, most of the time, as a simile of our existence of life. Thus, walking alone is a practical and very effective analogy of real life, which helps us instruct ourselves to understand the meaning of our existence; it is a learning SIMULATOR for illustrations in how we can be independent, responsible and modified to make certain decisions for ourselves.

Moving forward while walking is a natural process that is performed during the application of the WALK-RWD system, in the same way that the process we face in the daily event of our existence is performed.

Walking alone is like an analogy of a discontinuous part of our life, of our experience of living. A walk in solitude can guide us in the comet of advance in our daily existence.

Without a walk bringing together the total development of each of the various vital stages (Future writing WALKING AND VITAL OPPORTUNITIES), it does represent many of the crucial moments that appear in each and every one of them (See WALKING, AN EXISTENTIAL METAPHOR, PART 1 OF 4).

Walking in solitude allows us to reflect on our possibilities to perform away from external conditioning. For all types of life and at any stage that we go through, we have found ourselves alone; and in these circumstances of loneliness we have to talk with ourselves, questioning, encouraging, critics (self-criticism, usually not very convenient) and many other forms of examination -consciously and unconsciously- how we feel, with the ultimate object of publicity in what way we will take the next step in our socio-psychic-economic environment (See writing THE WALK AND THE LACK OF TIME that mentions important aspects about leisure time).

Each walk offers us that simile of each of the possible moments where we are presented with different options for acting in daily life, which we can scan away from that crucial moment that many times we do not know how to react, or, we do not understand the True, how we should conduct ourselves. These moments of loneliness can instruct us before seeing ourselves immersed in these behavioral dilemmas – in solitude – that we can hardly find someone who can guide us in how and when. Only we ourselves must face these difficulties, and usually face them alone.

That simile that we can make of those crucial moments, through our walks, which during everyday activities, come upon us and suffocate us, can be summarized in the following actions:

• Alone we must start the walk and decide the right moment of its beginning.

• Only we should finish the walk and decide the right time.

• In solitude we must decrease or increase the speed of our walk.

• We alone must decide if we continue on one path or another.

• In solitude we must make various decisions to read, write or draw, or simply keep in contemplation.

• Feel free so that in solitude with ourselves we think about a specific topic; either we observe the birds or any element of the environment that surrounds us.

• Our senses (the 5 external physicists and the other internal ones) must have them awake and alert, without being interrupted by other people, to put them in conscious attention to what we want to perceive, during our walk.

• In solitude, we can and should decide, during the walks, if we talk, listen, see, smell, etc., in certain circumstances and moments.

• During the lonely walks, we will contemplate and perceive the things that please us, or we will not do it, without having to listen to opinions about it.

The awareness of all these small experiences in solitude – while we walk – will help us to better withstand the conditioning of the social world, by the same awareness, but also, because the walking system, coordinated with reading, writing and drawing, we it releases during the time that we make the walk, embedding in our essence a sense of satisfaction that exceeds that period, giving us confidence in our attitudes, actions and decision making towards the complex and committed world that surrounds and overwhelms us.

Let us now decide to make the next walk thinking that it will be a true analogue journey with our particular and intimate existence, with which we will learn to travel it with greater care and tranquility, because, at least, our decisions in solitude will be observed from another perspective.

In solitude, you walk along paths that lead you to your inner self, to know yourself. (See writings WHO DO I WANT TO BE? WHO I AM?; DRAWING, TO KNOW BETTER OURSELVES; DRAWING AND THRESHOLDISM, TO KNOW OUR INNER SELF) In it, in solitude, you can better understand each of your emotions, your feelings and attitudes, and their respective antithetical forms, to certainty and uncertainty, constancy and inconstancy, precision and inaccuracy, to security and insecurity, stability and instability, consistency and inconsistency, perseverance and neglect, possibility and impossibility, strength and fragility, tenacity and renunciation, discipline and indiscipline, firmness and weakness, mobility and immobility, patience and impatience, dependence and independence, decision and indecision, to differentiate between options and alternatives, voluntary decision and indecision, and thus many of those states of social conditioning, mood and psychological for those we go through and who constantly question us in life. The loneliness, while you walk, will help you build, consciously and unconsciously, your character and your personality.

Walking alone is an analog practice to experience life. Let’s grab the loneliness of the hand and accompany us with it on the next walks. Let us realize that walking with her can guide us in the daily affairs that bother us and sometimes suffocate us. During the journey, we can surely find similarities with some difficult social, work or family experiences, which we have not been able to solve and thus we can visualize a quieter existence.

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