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It is very opportune, I think, to reflect and advise, at this stage of the blog, not invariably postpone the activity of walking, coupled with reading, writing and drawing, for aspects such as lack of time, commitments, other activities most important, etc. (Post THE WALK AND THE LACK OF TIME).

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Let’s analyze the concept of procrastinating, very briefly.

For this we must start that we are not lazy or irresponsible. Etymologically procrastination means postponing for the next day.

If every time we have to carry out an activity, we postpone it and exchange it with pleasure for another, making us feel bad about not doing it at the moment we are aware of it, we are procrastinating.

Why do we feel bad? Because surely the activity we procrastinate – we postpone – we know, think and feel that we should do it before we exchange. We recriminate ourselves because we postpone and avoid doing that activity at a time that we feel we should do before any other action.

Permanently, the whole human being – at a certain age – knows that it is convenient for him to act by prioritizing his preferences for the attention he must pay in the performance of certain activities over others. This precedence (praelatio action to put before) in human activities is a custom that is acquiring -in some more people, in others less and in others it is not acquired- as we develop in life. It is the preference we give -mental action and discernment- to certain actions to carry them out, some before others.

If this action of precedence is an irrefutable fact in human behavior, then why do we procrastinate? It has been answered in different ways, both “in favor” and “against”: “Because procrastination is irrational”; “Because it is not bad”; “Because it is a way for everyone to manage their time”; “Because it’s something we do against ourselves, but that’s not the case”; “Procrastinating is not a disease”; “Procrastination is a chronic disease”; “The task is not evaded, only postponed”; “They are passenger moods”; “They are negative emotional states that restrict positive attitudes”; “Procrastination is the sum of moods of insecurity, laziness, disability, frustration and boredom”; “Procrastination is a state of depression and anxiety”; “Procrastinating is synonymous with aversion to performing a task”; “Procrastination is the result of stress.”

All these answers have some truth and together answer the question, although some seem contradictory. Is procrastination voluntary or involuntary? It is voluntary, because we decided not to carry out that activity that we consider more important than others.

This question I would like to face with an “ism” that I have been working on, building and analyzing it in recent years, and that I have called Acronism; this unveiling system allows us to become aware of the process of creation about an artistic work, in such a way that it prevents us from losing creative moments that unconsciously gravitate above all artistic creators. It helps us to investigate those acts and movements that affect ex-ante the representation activities of an artist to carry out his creative work. This places us inexorably in a “state of creative alertness” trying not to lose any moment of creation, that is, not to access for any reason to procrastinate in any way.

In addition to the above, we also have a clarity that the result, in general, after circumventing the procrastination, results of having feelings of guilt in us. That is, this procrastination phenomenon is a vicious circle very similar to those I mentioned in previous writings (THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM AND THE HABITS, and NEGATIVE HABITS AND HOW TO COMBAT THEM-GENERAL CASES) and what drives and provokes higher rates of procrastinating in person.

The following diagram illustrates this POSTERGATION-SATISFACTION-HABIT circle:

In these cases of procrastination we can show (patent and confirm) the problem that is presented to people who want to escape or flee from the reality that suffocates them.

Is it possible that unconsciously we try to avoid thinking about the future and go back to the here and now (in the present)? Or vice versa?

In the first place I would like to mention that procrastination is a phenomenon of attitude towards life, which we must clarify if they are strictly related to activities that we postpone to represent medium or long-term efforts, and therefore we choose those that are of immediate realization, even if they exist cases that patent it. We must also consider, that sometimes the individual who procrastinates considers -he really feels in his intimate jurisdiction- that those activities that he postpones do not correspond to them, because they must be carried out by another person and not him, because he supposes are the responsibility of others. Its realization is so unpleasant that it uses very personal mechanisms -perhaps they are part of a state of neurosis- that allow it to refocus its attitudes and actions by subtracting from that responsibility.

Procrastination provokes in the subject two sensations: a situation of displeasure for not having done it and it is for the same animosity towards the activity that must be carried out; and the other, a perception of satisfaction by allowing oneself to be relieved of the commitment, freeing it from its fulfillment. A double effect: a positive one: liberation; the other negative: frustration. This frustration felt by the procrastinator is never enough to carry out the postponed activity; and liberation reinforces procrastination. An endless circle, as we mentioned before.

Now, it seems that the problem is in managing our emotions better (Post “EMOTIONS AND THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM“).

Procrastination is not a decision-making problem, it is not a matter of time management, it is not extreme apathy, it is not laziness, it is not cowardice, it is not a disability, it is not a lack of interest; It is all this as an effect of an emotional state, but it is also a problem of bad habits. Therefore, we must focus, on the one hand, to know the power of emotions, and thus be able to free ourselves from the negatives; and on the other, to break bad habits (Post NEGATIVE HABITS AND HOW TO COMBAT THEM-GENERAL CASES). Let us start from the fact that the individual who procrastinates must lead to a better management of his bad habits and negative emotions. We have presented the procedure to combat bad habits in a general way in the writing NEGATIVE HABITS AND HOW TO COMBAT THEM-GENERAL CASES and in particular, to combat obesity, in writing COMBATING SOME ENEMIES WITH THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM – THE OBESITY.

Perhaps the major problem that arises in the phenomenon of Procrastination is to identify the emotional cause for which one has the attitude of postponing all activities, all the time, as much as possible. But once this causality has been identified, the application of the procedure we have indicated is more comfortable and effective.

In the next 2 post on procrastination, we will present – in a general way – how to identify the specific causes for the different cases (Future Post FIGHTING NEGATIVE EMOTIONS WITH THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM, SOLUTION TO PROCRASTINATION); and in another one, the application of the procedure for the break with procrastination, as a treatment towards bad habits (Future Post COMBATING BAD HABITS WITH THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM: SOLUTION TO PROCRASTINATION ).

For now, let’s try to walk and choose any of the 3 options that are indicated in the previous image, in the intelligence that any of them will set us in motion towards an activity, trying at all times certain satisfactions and will be acceptable to our attitude towards life.

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We have, carry and hide in our interior, several “vital vessels” that we fill as we develop physically, emotionally and mentally, throughout our lives, and that we use permanently to act before the surrounding environment (social and natural).

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All those vital vessels that we are shaping throughout life, are intercommunicated and interdependent; these are:

• Behavior

• Experience

• Thought

• Profession or Occupation

• Responsibility

• Art or Vocation

• Feeling and Emotions

• Relational communication or personal communication

• And others

I have called them “vital vessels” (VV) because they are partial collections where we store different types of information that we receive throughout our lives, processing it, and that we precisely use it to achieve vital nutrition – physical and emotional- for our subsistence, seeking the conservation and proliferation of the species.

The VV of “Behavior” is one that works to store (collecting, depositing) and accommodating customs, norms, dogmas, habits, traditions, rules, canons, criteria, principles, according to our experiences and during all our stages of growth and development, in turn and distributing its foundations according to our character and personality achieved and according to our needs and the stimuli we receive from abroad.

Without exception, all the “Vital Vessels” have the emotional-functional characteristic that the hierarchy granted by each individual, woman or man, is different; that is to say, each person as he develops in life uses his own conformation of “Vital Vessels” and organizes them according to his temperament and his personality, giving each collected element a particular importance that uses it under his own and unrepeatable individuality.

Writing is the ideal means to know the different “Vital Vessels” that we have under our emotional psychological domain, by allowing us, by this means, to extract some or several of the elements that make up each vital vessel.

Likewise, writing is a creative medium that allows us to discover and express what we think – and how we think – and what we feel – and how we feel; and thus, it guides us in the knowledge of ourselves. (WRITING TO ACCEPT BETTER TO OURSELVES, WHILE WALKING)

The benefits that we obtain through writing are varied, when applying the WALK-RWD system, which we list and describe in writing  WHY AND WHAT TO WRITE FOR?

In addition to these benefits, we have listed the purposes and motives for which we write, in most cases (See writing PURPOSES AND HABITUAL MOTIVES IN WRITING).

The purposes, in general, are the following:

1. Explain and describe.

2. Persuade.

3. Inform.

4. Investigate.

5. Share.

6. Entertain and have fun.

7. Know ourselves better.

Surely an activity that we could point out as a common denominator in the previous 7 purposes, is to educate, that is, teach, guide and instruct.

According to George Orwell, the reasons or motives that led him to write were the following:

1. Acute selfishness.

2. Aesthetic enthusiasm.

3. Historical momentum.

4. Political motive.

It is up to us to validate each of the purposes and motives mentioned. The important thing is that we want to walk simultaneously with the activity of writing, when we feel the urge to do so.

Sooner or later we will realize what our purposes and motives were for writing, while we were walking, so we can know some of the elements that make up our vital vessels.

As we can imagine, everything that we accommodate in the “vital vessel” of Behavior, is within the acceptable, to a greater or lesser extent, to face life; however, this is not always the case, and sometimes we behave in the wrong way and do not want to acknowledge that we have incurred a bad attitude; and if we do, we don’t necessarily have the will to correct ourselves.

Writing is the ideal means to expose, before ourselves, even without consciously proposing, those wrong or misdirected aspects, and understand them better; in addition, it will indicate if it is convenient, and if we decide, modify our approach and behavior.

Now, let us move on to the vital vessel process, and see how we can improve, specifically our way of life in terms of the different elements that make up each vital vessel, using writing within the WALK-RWD system.

Each vital vessel is transformed, through the WALK-RWD system, into a communicating vessel between all of them and between the different activities structured within the simultaneous walking system itself.

Let’s follow the subsequent phases of execution:

PHASE 1: WALK AND WRITE ON THE VITAL ELEMENT

1. Let’s start a walk alone.

2. Select a “vital element” (VE) that is shaping our “Vital Behavior Vessel” (VBV) as it may be a custom, a criterion or any other that feed it, as one of those listed above and that we consider pleasant, compromising or disturbing , to carry out the experiment.

3. Let us relate it to some stage of our life, in order to sensitize the importance it has for oneself and the stage where we were presented in a more conscious way.

4. Let us write about that element indicated by us. I clarify that we can do it through the other two structured activities of the WALK-RWD system: reading or drawing, but we will expose it in other posts.

5. Let us write spontaneously, explicitly and frankly sincerely. We can be concise, simple, sober or complicated. The important thing is to write down the ideas, thoughts or feelings that emerge in our memories or experiences already lived; Or even better: for wanting to live them, since the desires and aspirations (registered in the unconscious) are also part of the “personal self” (personality) and serve for the self-knowledge of the self.

PHASE 2: ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF THE VITAL ELEMENT

1. Reading and analysis of the text about the vital element (VE), written by ourselves, during the walks.

2. Signaling of key ideas.

3. How important and transcendent is the vital element?

4. What are the problems that are related to the selected vital element?

5. In what aspects does the selected vital element affect us, positive or negative, in the behavior?

6. Point out previous experiences with the selected vital element. Observations.

7. Selection of other texts that deal with the vital element

PHASE 3: READING TEXTS THAT TREAT ABOUT THE VITAL ELEMENT (VE), WHILE WE WALK.

1. Reading other texts.

2. Outstanding ideas about the behavior and the vital element selected (VE).

3. Analysis and confrontation of the texts. Observations.

4. Conclusions of the confrontation and the analysis performed.

PHASE 4: WALK WITH OTHER PEOPLE TO DIALOGUE ON THE VITAL ELEMENT (VE)-optional phase-

1. Schedule walks to talk with other people – specially selected for it – to talk and confront the results obtained on the vital element (VE).

2. Review the conclusions and observations obtained in the 2nd and 3rd phases.

3. Confront and examine the opinions of other people, for and against our own ideas.

4. Conclusions of the confrontation and the analysis carried out

PHASE 5: IMPROVEMENT OR CHANGE OF ATTITUDE AND CONDUCT

1. Application of the conclusions to our behavior.

2. Our behavior is acceptable or not

3. We must modify or not our behavior and attitudes

4. We recognize or not our bad behaviors

5. Do we have the will to correct our bad behaviors?

6. Correction of our attitudes and behaviors.

7. The vital element (VE), after the experiment, is pleasant, compromising or disturbing?

Let’s decide to walk and try to get to know some of the vital elements that make up our energetic and vigorous vital vessels. Let us know and understand the greatest number of elements of each of our vital vessels, using writing, as we walk.

Let’s get that confident, positive, serious, true, practical and firm writer to know ourselves better. Let’s take out that “authentic writer” and “self-connoisseur” that we can all achieve.

As far as possible, we will be programming the analysis and practice (execution) of some other vital vessels with the WALK-RWD system, in order to better understand those psycho-social elements that make up each of them and improve its functionality (operation) and efficiency. For now, let’s let our imagination run wild, think and visualize (speculate) what are those psycho-social elements that make them up and that we can strengthen and energize.

Let us know and understand the greatest number of elements of each of our vital vessels, using writing, as we walk.

Let’s get that confident, positive, serious, true, practical and firm writer to know ourselves better. Let’s take out that “authentic writer” and “self-connoisseur” that we can all get to know because he is within us.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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