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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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It is important to have knowledge of the purposes and motives of why a person writes, both in his own and intimate manner and by traditional commercial and lucrative forms, since the practitioner of this WALK-RWD system could reorient his intentions and aspirations. I have already commented on the writing WHY AND WHAT TO WRITE FOR? that in the first instance, writing allows us to express ourselves and that would be a sufficient purpose, since it leads us to express our feelings and thoughts more sincerely, without any other objective.

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For this reason, and although it is not the intention of this blog to channel efforts through commercial and lucrative scenarios, I allow myself, in a brief way, to describe these different purposes and motives, for those who wish to venture along those paths of the writing. Before that, I would like to define the words “purpose” and “motive”, because between them there is a thin line that separates them into their meanings. Purpose, according to dictionaries, is “Intention to do something, purpose or objective that is intended to be achieved”; while motive, is “cause or reason that determines the realization of a thing”.

Thus, the traditional “purposes” of why to write are, succinctly, the following:

1. Explain and describe. The meaning, value or symbolism of anything, how it works or develops in space and time, why it happens. Why something fails.

2. Persuade. To do anything, to be created in some situation, opinion or idea, or action, to do something. To convince others about personal ideas about something or some situation or ideology, to convince about certain personal judgments about a book, food, images, impressions, affections, etc. To persuade them to enroll in a course, vote for someone for an administrative or political position, or buy a product or service that is being advertised.

3. Inform. About the content of something. On a subject, fact, data, sensations, emotions, pains, feelings, people, events and news of general interest.

4. Investigate. About some ideas, opinions, questions; to examine how much your ideas and those of other individuals have changed about a particular issue; to ask questions that do not have simple answers; and thus share your thoughts, criteria and results, by reflecting on your writings and findings, with other people.

5. Share. Communicate your ideas, thoughts, reflections, judgments, reasoning, advice, warnings, concerns, meditations, speculations, about the important issues and topics that you have been working on and that become clearer in our minds as you write them.

6. Entertain and have fun. These activities of entertaining teaching and fun communicating can be developed as a primary and unique purpose; however, they can also be carried out in a shared way, that is, combined with the other 5 previous purposes, in addition to being used to induce readers on any topic considered important, doing so with humor, joviality and an agile and creative language.

7. Know ourselves better. By writing we let our unconscious out and that way we are more sincere in what we feel and in what we think.

Perhaps an activity that we could point out as a common denominator in the previous 7 purposes, is to teach, with its synonyms and derivations: educate, guide, document and instruct.

Now, on the “motives” of why it is written, we could well resort to what some writers have expressed, such as George Orwell, at the time mentioned that, leaving aside the need to make a living, “I think that there are 4 great motives to write, at least to write prose. They exist in varying degrees in each writer, and specifically in each of them the proportions vary from time to time, depending on the environment in which you live. These are the motives:

1. Acute selfishness. Desire to appear clever, to talk about one, to be remembered after death, to recover from the elders who despised one in childhood, etc., etc. It is a falsehood to pretend that this is not a very important motive. Writers share this characteristic with scientists, artists, politicians, lawyers, military, highly successful businessmen, that is, with the top layer of humanity. The great mass of human beings is not intensely selfish. After thirty years of age, they abandon individual ambition -many almost even lose the impression of being individuals and live primarily for others, or simply drown them in work. But, there is also the minority of the well-endowed, the volunteers determined to live their own lives until the end, and the writers belong to this class. Serious writers, who tend to be more vain and selfish than journalists, should be said, although less interested in money.

2. Aesthetic enthusiasm. Perception of beauty in the external world or, on the other hand, in words and their right combination. Pleasure in the impact of one sound on another, in the firmness of good prose or the rhythm of a good story. Desire to share an experience that one believes valuable and should not be missed. The aesthetic motive is very weak in many writers, but even a pamphleteer or the author of textbooks will have pampered words and phrases that will appeal to him for non-utilitarian motives; or it can give special importance to typography, width of margins, etc. No book that is above the level of a railroad guide will be completely free of aesthetic considerations.

3. Historical momentum. Desire to see things as they are to find the true facts and store them for posterity.

4. Political purpose, and I use the word ‘political’ in the broadest possible sense. Desire to push the world in a certain direction, to alter the idea that others have about the kind of society they should strive to achieve. I insist that no book is free of political nuance. The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is already a political attitude in itself. -And he ends by saying: I write because there is a lie that I want to expose… I see that I have made it appear that my motives in writing have been inspired only by the public spirit. I don’t want to let that impression be the last. All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives there is a mystery. Writing a book is a horrible and exhausting struggle, like a long and painful disease”. So far Orwell’s words about why I write?

It remains in us, to validate each of all the purposes and motives that have been mentioned, in this and in other posts. The important thing is that we want to walk simultaneously with the activities of reading, writing and drawing, when we feel the urge to do so.

Sooner or later we will realize what our purposes and motives for writing, were as we walked.

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It is you who is deciding to do the walk because you like it and know that it will help you in various ways and senses.

The reason for this, the fundamental thing is that it is undeniable that for the mind to flow better the body must be in good condition, and what better than walking enough. The body is the support of the mind: Mens sana in corpore sano.

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This phrase has been used since ancient times until today, representing the indissoluble health binomial between body and mind.

And there is no doubt that walking is one of the means to comply with this maxim. Walking is healthy.

Let us then comment on how we can be a good walker.

As we have already mentioned in writing ALTERNATE VARIETIES IN THE TYPES OF WALK, there are several ways to practice walking, and all of them can be applied within the WALK-RWD system, with the fulfillment of certain characteristics that obey the type, the place, the equipment, and other elements for its practice and development. But regardless of that, the results are almost identical.

The qualifier “good walker” we use it in two scenarios. One of them, just as important as the other, is that it serves us as an effective and safe exercise, giving adequate results to improve our health, both preventively and correctively.

The other scenario is to make us like or passionate about walking.

As I said, both have the same hierarchy in importance and, if one of them fails the other could not be achieved. They are co-responsible and corresponding.

My personal experience about feeling the pleasure of going for a walk I mentioned in several previous posts, and fundamentally supported by the 3 structured activities within the WALK-RWD system, however, a subtle organization is also required to go for a walk and the condition physical and mental disposition to develop the variety of walking that we like to do.

The numerous benefits that we have mentioned, generated by walking, are enough to be a good walker.

However, these scenarios of health achievement, or that of the combination with reading, writing and drawing, are sometimes not enough to be passionate and motivate us to walk.

We know that walking is good for our physical and mental state; it prevents diseases, corrects them, and we can also improve our behavior and attitude towards society and within our work.

Anyway, my experience tells me that with all that knowledge we have about the activity of walking, which drives us to do so, it would be enough to transform us into an excellent walker. However, a high percentage of people do not feel like doing any type of walk. Let’s transform into a good walker. But how?

I will not repeat what I mentioned in the previous posts, about how to motivate ourselves to walk.

I will mention on this occasion 5 conditions by which some people are unable or unwilling to go for a walk:

1. That you have suffered an accident that prevents you from walking

2. That he is bedridden by a surgical intervention.

3. Suffering from angina pectoris, arterial hypertension or coronary stenosis

4. Arrhythmias with great difficulty breathing

5. High fever.

 

If you are not in any of these circumstances, then: What do you expect to do your walk?

Let’s not expect a medical prescription that prevents us from walking or being in a situation like the previous 5, to tell us how would I like to go for a walk! I would love to go for a walk!

Let’s get moving, because the good walker is achieved by walking.

Enjoy and have fun walking to be a good walker.

The daily adventure can be achieved by good walkers, who are those who walk every day.

The good walker is achieved through the awareness that he is not immersed in the 5 negative circumstances we have just listed, and that he can enjoy an outdoor walk, hic et nunc. (See writing THE “HERE AND NOW” WITH THE SYSTEM).

If this awareness manages to repeat it daily, for a whole month, it will have managed to be a good walker.

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