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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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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.

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