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In this post we will deal with pointing out and briefly describing the most important physical roads that have been traveled to a greater extent by the human being, from the most remote times.

We must clearly differentiate between what are the paths that have been built in history and what the individuals, men and women, comment on walking and what their particular objectives have been.

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Well we can divide the roads in those of Antiquity that goes back to us several thousands of years in time and those that have a less remote past, around 1000 years before our era. Both can be subdivided according to the type of use to which they were destined: commercial (goods, animals and slaves), religious (pilgrimage, crusades, processions, penances, celebrations, ceremony), military (conquest and invasion), migrations, transit and circulation of persons, funerary and mortuary (death, funeral, mourning), etc.

There are several important regions and countries in the world that merit mention for their distinction in the construction of roads that were made in antiquity about their territory, which were distinguished by their extraordinary features in their lattices and configurations, by their design, stroke, amplitude, architecture and construction. China and India are the most outstanding nations in this line, in the most remote periods. In the most recent epoch, of 1000 years b. C., we can point to the ancient nation of the Mayans, the Inca roads with the Chaskis, and those built by the Roman Empire on the many lands conquered.

The great roads were initiated by the need to exchange merchandises and goods between nations. Originally they were performed on foot (pedestrians, walkers), however, they were incorporating to those crossings the animals of load, and later, with the invention of the wheel (3000 years b. C. in Mesopotamia) a greater exchange was achieved by using carts thrown away for animals. The world civilization advanced as the need to transport and market large volumes of merchandise among the peoples increased, so that road communication had the imperative destiny to develop mostly.

There are records that from the sixth century b. C., in the territory of Persia, they began to connect certain cardinal roads with others, arriving to have important networks that communicated commercial zones separated by 1500 to 2000 miles of distance. With the invention of the wheel, in the 3rd millennium b. C., there was a considerable increase in the connection of these roads and the construction of new ones in the region of Mesopotamia, Egypt and the Indus Valley (Pakistan, Afghanistan and part of India).

The most important route, probably, was the one that was built for the commercialization of silk, in China, in the 11th century b. C. Likewise, in this same nation, in the third century b. C., the most important road system was developed, allowing a network of communications throughout the country.

Already in a closer time (2nd century b. C. to 3rd century AD), the Romans built a network of road communications, the famous Roman Roads, which united all the provinces and peoples conquered with their city-state Rome, which allowed them to have the administrative and governing control of all of them. The total development of Roman roads was 55 thousand miles, equivalent to 80 thousand kilometers, joining together all of Europe along with North Africa.

In America, during the second millennium of our era (Empuaries Huari and Puquina), one of the most important road networks was built, the Inca Roads, which communicated large areas of land in the south of the continent, from Peru to Chile and Argentina, including intermediate countries such as Ecuador and Bolivia, which had an extension of 7500 miles of development. It is important to note that the rugged geography that it had in some parts of its route (rivers, ravines, canyons), forced to build hanging bridges.

In the same American continent, in its central part, the ancient Mayans built a network of roads (1st millennium AD), called “White Roads” (in Maya Sacbé or Cuxan-Sum). Unlike the Roman Roads, the Mayan Roads were not defined to address a hegemonic center, because there was not, but obeyed the strict communication needs for the flow of people and goods, among all the villages and housing centers of this nation.

Let us praise those ancient roads by daily practicing our walks along the paths near the neighborhood.

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As we have already pointed out in some of the previous posts, the walk along with reading, writing and drawing work in a similar way to the different methods and practices of meditation.

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Meditation is the technique that uses the generality of mystical sciences and seeks, through its practice, to modify the conscious stage in the person. There are a great variety of methods by means of which one arrives at meditation, all of them are philosophical disciplines that are related to mysticism. Our system allows us to achieve results similar to those obtained through Tai Chi, Yoga, Shaolin Kung Fu, Buddhism and others.

All this great variety of types of meditation, however, we can group -for our purposes- in two categories, the introspective and the concentration, since our system, like some others, covers these two fields of meditation. Yoga is representative of the concentration meditation, while Buddhism is more identified with the introspective type.

Any type of meditation allows us to reach a greater perception, both external and internal, as well as in our particular case, we can increase understanding and acquisition in reading and in literary and artistic creativity.

Although it could be thought that meditation involves only abstraction from reasoning and thought, that is a mistake, since the objective of meditation is also to get a focal attention on some object, aspect or theme, free of emotions and worries. Walking -jointly reading, or writing, or drawing- is a meditation activity that, in our system, does include the function of thought, which causes a high degree of sensitivity of the physical and cultural environment in the subject that executes it surrounds, and a greater creative index regarding the parallel activities that develops during his walk. The application of the WALK-RWD system generates an increase and amplitude in the perception of the individual, who before starting the walk did not have it; state of inner penetration that is generated by releasing awareness of the ties that obscure those mental processes that are related to inspiration, imagination and creativity.

There will be opinions that consider that as long as we have this intermediate level of consciousness, at the same time that we walk, read, write or draw, a deep level of relaxation and diminution of the senses is not reached. There are different levels of rapture when using meditation; the maximum leads to what mystical philosophies call Nirvana, Illumination, etc. Specifically, what we intend is not to reach these degrees of abstraction and loss of consciousness and the senses, but an intermediate level that leads us to creation in any of its forms, related to writing and drawing; achieve what we have described as ecstasy during the walk (See writing: THE ECSTASY IS ACHIEVED DURING THE WALK)

It is true that the maximum degree that is reached through meditation can be the total disappearance of thoughts of the rationalist type (they call it transcendental meditation), however, our purpose is not such; it is convenient to reach the level where we stop having concerns and ideas that distract our attention regarding the interest of reading or writing. There is no discipline or philosophical current that does not consider this last phase of enlightenment as the most important, although there are other intermediate such as achieving good health, both physical and mental, tranquility, happiness, abstracting from material things, relaxation, etc. Specifically, with our WALK-RWD system we seek, on the one hand, to achieve physical and mental health through exercise and relaxation; On the other hand, by reading obtain greater knowledge; and finally, in writing and drawing, artistic creation, what we have called dynamic or active meditation.

When do we know or we realize that we are absorbed or ecstatic in our walk? That moment is when we stop measuring our efforts, wishes and requests with ourselves in the development of the walk: the number of kilometers or miles traveled, the number of hours or minutes, the number of pages read, the number of pages written, etc. In that moment of unconcern, we began to avoid letting ourselves be carried away by time, by distance and by numbers.

I have pointed out on another occasion: Both space, time and number are continuous and infinite magnitudes, and they are pure intuitions. Space and time provide the logical foundations for number, for mathematics, and only under the regulation of these three intuitions can the representation of the remaining things be realized, that is, by means of which phenomena can only be produced. in the human conscience. These 3 magnitudes permanently place us tied to the reasoning and do not allow us to meditate calmly and imperturbably in the objects, without the participation of them. Ernst Cassirer has enough solidity and meaning in his ideas when he assures that access is made to existence -of any condition- by space, time and number. Each factor or entity that constructs itself independently achieves a hypostasis that structurally considers the principles and norms of an entire functional system in which it is immersed.

Let us try to give ourselves an opportunity to withdraw, for a short time, from these 3 magnitudes and experience what happens inside us, in the body and in the mind.

Surely we will experience ecstasy, meditating on what is also truly important to us, and not paying attention to it in the daily life of our existence.

Thus, the fundamental objective of all meditation is to help the individual to develop, deepen and amplify his mental capacity; this process of greater knowledge of reality, and that we have described as an unconsciousness of the mind. This transformation of mental capacity giving greater participation to the unconscious I have described in my book Synchronicity. Predictable phenomenon, EMULISA, 2007 (*).

The ecstasy that is achieved, apart from moving away from the number, of losing consciousness with respect to the passage of time and the loss of understanding of distances and space, generates a kind of insensitivity to our body, because we get to not feel the contact of our feet with the ground, our 5 senses are obscured, because they cross a misty threshold (brumal axis) that seems to stop working, we do not perceive any fatigue, in such a way that it simulates (resembled) that the wind suspends us with he or we are mounted on clouds.

The truth is that the WALK-RWD system introduces us into a semi-unconscious state, and when we wake up from that condition, we realize that we have walked several miles, read several pages of a book or that we have written several pages or a poem.

Let us prepare ourselves to enter that world, achieving dynamic meditation.

(*) LoyaLopategui, Carlos, La Sincronicidad. Un fenómeno predecible, EMULISA, México, 2007. Disponible en Amazon, Edición Kindle: https://www.amazon.es/dp/B0CXZDPSSY.

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Walking under a routine (be it habit, custom or rule), more or less strict, allows us to teach our body and mind that they will permanently receive certain “exercises” almost equal in periods of time, quality, duration and effort .

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Those 2 fundamental parts of our being learn that in the time “T” (minutes) should react, according to the functions of each of its parts, in a certain way and during a lapse “L” of time (1-2 hours, or fractions of an hour) that these “exercises” last; these are composed of instructions, executions, behaviors, practices, marches, movements, walks, breaks and rest (training, procedures, field trips, work).

The level and speed in the physical-neuronal fixation are achieved according to the person who performs the conditioning and the type of body and mental information that is impregnated to the organism, in a period of time “G” (weeks); In general, in our case we apply the WALK-RWD system in a period of 6-10 weeks. After this time “G”, having performed the exercises in an uninterrupted manner, we can say that our organism has fixed them in their physical-neuronal interiority, and will be invited to repeat them, within the parameters learned T, L and G, in such a way that in the usual schedule -in which the walk will begin- just thinking that we have already made the decision to go for a walk, some organs, systems and glands of the body, begin to work before giving the first step of beginning of our walk.

None of the 3 parameters T, L and G, should be considered as immovable in their magnitudes; that is, we can make them vary appreciably, in such a way that they do not become a traumatic or obsessive commitment.

So, that learning achieved by our body begins to bear fruit even before you start to exercise walking. Perhaps a small percentage of the organs that send messages to prepare themselves in their respective functions, as well as those functions, are only carried out at a small level of operation.

On our part, with conscious will, we have to comply with the complete routine, in such a way that the functions of all the organs must be carried out 100% in a satisfactory way.

The only thing that is recommended, when aware of this phenomenal existential process, functional learning by our body, with our own experience, is not to betray that effort you have made to learn physically and mentally, that you are being treated as it deserves . I think it is necessary to say that once a week, that the exercises are omitted, or 2-3 times a month, we will not incur a disappointment with our being.

Regarding the variations that we can make in terms of where, how and when, we can comment that they are normally varied in some of their characteristics by the change of the season, by the climate, by the place of exercise, the spaces chosen, the same degree of exercise that we perform from one week to the other, the stretch of the walk, and the schedule, however, we must be aware that the parameters of the exercise do not vary much.

To achieve the habit (virtuous circle) there must be some commitment and precision in the realization of these parameters, that is, there should not be much variation in periods or intervals of duration, in quality, effort and in the frequency of realization of the exercises. Let us be aware that we are giving ourselves an opportunity to teach our being and learn from him.

The “memory of our organism” should not be lied to, for its response is always painful for itself.

So, if there is no doubt that our body has a great memory, let us put it to the test but without stopping walking every day, and we will observe, in the respective times that it is instructed, it will be adjusted and able to respond, that its manifestations are gifts of our own being, body and mind.

If we examine what we have described in writings “HARMONY OF THE BODY WITH THE MIND” and “WALKING, MEDITATION AND CEREBRAL WAVES“, about the harmony in the physical, mental and mechanical functions, it will illustrate us about all this; and even more, if we review what we have presented in writings “OBJECTIVES OF THE SYSTEM” and “INCREASE OF MENTAL CAPABILITIES“, about the generation (procreation, incubation) of ideas and creativity that are forged (produced) by applying this WALK-RWD system, we will realize all those intellectual and creative functions that are favored by walking. The question would be; could it be that we can also induce, through this conditioning, to provoke, even without walking, an artistic imagination, inspiration and creation?

Let’s prove that we can achieve it.

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GENERAL CASES

As I mentioned in “THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM AND THE HABITS“, the habits contain a rather complex structural conformation, constituted by a chain of connections of elements: activities, gestures, judgments, attitudes, sensations, responses, behaviors, actions, ideas, desires, movements, carelessness, postures, intentions, rejections, procedures, tasks, acts, apathy, gestures, discouragement, opinions, speculations, functions, expressions, reflections, etc., which we have schematically represented in a simple manner in the following way and all of them we have designated them with the vector An, being “n” the number of elements that participate in its conformation, and Ai are each one of the different elements that participate in the manifestation of the habit.

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As you can imagine, the Ai elements that participate in its conformation vary from one habit to another, as well as the “n” value of the number of them.

In a similar way, the system of “walking, reading, writing and drawing” can help to correct other discomforts, not only of the physical environment, but also in the mental and cultural sphere, fundamentally we have made direct experimentation in emotions.

Many benefits can be obtained using minimum times and at no cost. It seems that the will and discipline that the individual requires to carry out this type of practice are very difficult to have; not everyone has that capacity and it is surely more difficult than we can imagine, dedicating an hour a day to our health.

We all know the endless circle -infinity- of 1) Depression, anxiety (D), 2) Need for food (A), and 3) Weight gain (G); it is a chain of three links “D-A-G” that always leads to fatness and this, to a greater depression; however, we can modify it if we introduce in it the link of “walking, reading, writing and drawing”.

This is a typical case of the Vicious Circle in eating habits, in general.

The Vicious Circles are broken by an external stimulus, creating a new action or activity within the usual chain of events of the analyzed habit. In this manner we can remove, in a healthy way, the person out of that Vicious Circle of habit.

However, we can also solve the problem of negative emotions, which we have described in “EMOTIONS AND THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM“, which we can reduce through the WALK-RWD system.

Be the chain “D-A-G” of Depression-Food-Weight gain, which we can all understand:

CHAIN or VICIOUS CIRCLE “D-A-G”

However, any problem generated by bad habits can be represented by this Vicious Circle of 3 links, which is represented by the Depression as: worry, discomfort, depression, sadness, illness, despair, etc. with the letter P; the need for food such as: insecurity, scarcity, deprivation, anxiety, dependence, etc., with the letter I, and 3) weight gain as: neurosis, emotional imbalance, greater anxiety, hesitation in decision making, irresponsibility, doubt of itself, etc., with the letter N; it is an endless psycho-dependent sequel that always leads to a worsening of the original condition.

GENERIC CHAIN or GENERIC VICIOUS CIRCLE “P-I-N”

Let’s return to our scheme of the vector An, with its “n” elements or activities that make it up, and each of the nodes Ai participate in the manifestation of the habit.

As we said, these actions that make up the habit, vary from one habit to another, as well as the value “n” of the number of them.

 

However, in order to break the habit we must replace one or several nodes, as necessary, with the inclusion of the WALK-RWD system, with the aim of modifying the chain of actions of the habit, and forming a new one.

Each of the activities developed within the sequel should be specifically analyzed, in order to determine at which point we must insert the WALK-RWD system to destroy and eradicate the “psycho-dependent” circle.

Without a doubt, any circle of mental dependency of “n” links theoretically has a point where we can include the integral system between the two nodes or in only one of them, and be able to modify the sequence pattern and of course, eliminating – as a consequence of the corrective process- to one or more of the nodes of the original chain, obtaining a new sequence and creating in this way a new and positive circuit of activities.

Supposedly, we have determined, through relationship analysis, that the integral system should be included between those two activities.

 

The time it will take us to carry out the “interruption” and modification of the “psycho-dependent” circle will depend on each particular case. In general, certain symptoms of improvement may begin to manifest themselves after a few weeks of having put into practice the insertion of the system, depending on the combat habit.

Needless to say, the analysis of each case and its evaluation will depend on the location of the point where we will have to influence the “switch” to obtain the most immediate and positive results. With the security that if it is not the appropriate point, it will not cause any additional problem in the behavior of the person who is carrying it out and we will be able to remodel it more conveniently, looking for another node for the application of the WALK-RWD system.

Finally we will have to overcome the habit, leaving the Vicious Circle broken and dejected.

Let’s select some of our bad habits and put the reading, writing and drawing system to the test, while we walk, and observe that it does not fail.

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Emotions are reactions of the body, physical and mental, to stimuli coming from the external environment that disturb their balance, being able to be pleasant or unpleasant. Without exception, when they manifest, they affect all parts of the being, to a greater or lesser extent; but something very significant (important) of them is that they can become the cause of various diseases.

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Emotions are generated by a flow of force of the nervous type, outside the normal. The soul’s stability of being is exceeded by that overflowed flow.

Both the physical and mental parts of the organism are disturbed (altered) and he begins to try to restore his lost nervous balance. So far, the aforementioned applies to emotions in general, to those of any kind; but, as we said before, emotions can be pleasant, with the qualification of positive, and unpleasant or negative.

In general terms, pleasant or positive emotions are: love, joy, happiness, euphoria, ecstasy, optimism, hope, joy, exaltation, satisfaction, enthusiasm, etc. and some of them can be activated through the activities carried out with the WALK-RWD system (See Post READING-WRITING-DRAWING: VIRTUOUS CIRCLE) and contact with nature, when there is the possibility of going for a walk to the countryside or to similar places. On the other hand, unpleasant or negative emotions (VICIOUS CIRCLE) are: sadness, boredom, pessimism, nostalgia, jealousy, hatred, anger, fear, terror, guilt, boredom, disappointment, despair, disappointment, despair, melancholy grief, grief, depression, discouragement, discouragement, apathy, longing, loneliness, annoyance, disgust, anger, tedium, irritation, disgust, aversion, disgust, disgust, disinterest, indifference, indolence, abhorrence, harassment, anger, anger, anger , impatience, exasperation, indignation, discomfort, offense, displeasure, frustration, anguish, etc. Not all people agree with these two classifications, however, they are all real manifestations of the human being, without being forced to be included in categories.

I must be very emphatic in the following: The practice of walking and the WALK-RWD system allows us to recover the feeling of certain pleasant emotions that for various reasons we have stopped feeling; that is, we will rediscover some of them as if it were the first time. Keep this in mind, because it is an incontrovertible truth.

Now, when can emotions generate diseases? Or also: How can we avoid the diseases generated by uncontrolled emotions?

The good functioning of the brain allows a better control and regulation of emotions, provides a better obstruction to bad, disturbing and destructive.

An individual who maintains a healthy sympathetic system, which is the core of the neurovegetative, will have fewer emotions that will disturb him; In the same way, you will be able to deal more effectively with negative emotions (VICIOUS CIRCLE), since you will be able to regulate them better and keep them under control, and therefore you will be able to avoid diseases, because your controlled emotions will no longer be able to generate them.

In other words, people who do not have a healthy sympathetic system or a healthy brain, fatigued by stress, increases their predisposition to suffer strong emotions of anger, frustration, jealousy, hatred, or any other disturbing, for a slight irritation or because of a slight stimulus of external discomfort.

I would like to comment on stress, to continue explaining about the maintenance of a healthy state.

Stress is a response of the organism to an emotional situation; but not any emotional response can cause stress. It is a mechanism of defense of the body (physical-mental) to an external stimulus, which impels the body to generate hormones that in turn causes a variety of symptoms, depending on the level of stress, such as moodiness, anxiety, depressions, irritability, impulsive reactions, discouragement, fatigue, impotence, fainting, weakness, poor concentration, self-criticism, loss of memory and forgetfulness, increased consumption of coffee, tobacco and alcohol, digestive problems, decreased or increased appetite, discouragement, sweaty or cold hands, dizziness, nausea, sadness, discomfort in various parts of the body, especially in the back and neck, insomnia, headaches, pessimism, fatigue, etc. Each one of these symptoms is the type of psychic, nervous-physiognomic and cognitive interpretation of our organism (physical and mental) to the stimuli of the natural and social environment that affect our emotional balance.

We know that a healthy state of the brain, freed from exhaustion, allows, even in very unpleasant situations of emotional imbalance, that the person can recover quickly, because he can self-control better and restore his balance immediately. Your nervous system will work better, giving you total control over your disturbing emotions.

Now, keep in mind that the human body works as a functional unit. All the harmful effects of negative emotions are generated within a functional imbalance of the brain, and its greater or lesser degree of manifestation is directly related to disability or brain fatigue.

Brain weakness or fatigue may be generated by the same brain failure (tiredness) or by a physiological problem (VICIOUS CIRCLE) .

For any of these two causes, the affected sympathetic system can not respond adequately and optimally, through its natural generation of discharges, to defend against destructive emotions and it is very difficult to regulate them to reach emotional balance again.

Many of the physiological problems that we suffer and that we have mentioned in previous posts, related to the fundamental systems, such as the digestive, cardiovascular or circulatory, the respiratory, the osseous (the bone system) and neuro-vegetative, can be prevented and corrected with the walk and the execution of the WALK-RWD system; in the same way, the functions and tasks of the neuro-cerebral system are kept healthy, as we have already mentioned, the WALK-RWD increases the blood supply and the oxygenation of the brain, which causes a better work and healthier functioning, freeing it from fatigue and weakening, giving it strength to face (generation of discharges) better destructive emotions.

We said that both the physical and the mental part of the human body, work in a unitary way, that is, that both parties have a biunivocal relationship, so that the strengthening -as well as its deterioration- is transmitted from one to the other and vice versa.

Walking in particular and the WALK-RWD system in general, increases our state of physical and mental health, and also prevents us against numerous diseases and ailments (VIRTUOUS CIRCLE, See Post: READING-WRITING-DRAWING: VIRTUOUS CIRCLE) .

The implementation of the WALK-RWD system allows the organs to be strengthened and helps them to defend themselves, and in the same way it happens with the brain.

Each system and physical organ of the body is strengthened and become more resistant, and its optimal operations generate, in turn, positive effects on other organs, including the brain, which makes them more resistant to diseases and can combat them with greater efficiency. Also the immune system of each person who practices the walk will be favored, because it increases the generation of substances that favor this defense system, improving its capacity of reaction and tending to protect us towards certain infections and make us immune to some diseases.

This unitary functional relationship between the physical and the mental, besides strengthening biunivocally, brings with it a mechanism of emotional psychological effect, which combines several emotions: first, love, joy and happiness; and secondly, enthusiasm , hope and satisfaction, which in most cases will reach euphoria. This last level is recognized because of the awareness that starts from the second emotional level towards the first, it reaches the direct (expressive) transmission released to the individual unconscious as a lively and imperturbable expressive desire or impulse, that in a certain way has been kept hampered and inactive, and from all this emanates its importance and its level of effectiveness in our mental and physical health, because it is directed exclusively towards ourselves. Awareness is achieved as we move through the emotions evidenced by their positive effects on the state of mind when we execute the WALK-RWD system and that we walk through that mood-emotional state directly towards the individual unconscious. The challenge is to achieve that feeling, that “help”, that love and care for ourselves, but if we succeed, we can face any disturbing emotion.

Let’s get ready to walk, attract the pleasant emotions and end the negative ones.

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