At the beginning it is highly recommended to choose those books that we are passionate about since they will be an attraction and a motivating mechanism to walk and to develop the other activities.
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For reading it is advisable to select the books that have an interest for us, because if we make an effort, we may not reach the necessary interest and see it as an obligation, as when we feel we have to comply with an unavoidable study program.
We must be aware that when we are willing to walk with a broad interest in it, we can select some type of reading that is not so attractive, however, we should be very careful if we choose a book that provokes rejection.
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The system itself, makes reading and writing more enjoyable, absorbing, pleasent and satisfactory, and therefore , less difficult to carry out those two activities. Performing them, while walking, transforms them -reading and writing- into part of ourselves.
For the first walks, we can recommend simple books, such as:
• Books of apothegms, poetry, famous phrases, or something similar
• Those books that we have always wanted to read
• Books that are not complex or difficult
• Books not large, light, few pages. Not like the ones seen in the attached work No. 125 “Infinitos” (watercolor, 43 x 27 in.). This work was inspired by a poem entitled: “A book in time”.
It is the art of being oneself through reading, writing and drawing, while walking.
Against some opinions that are raised on how to achieve meditation, this integral system of walking does not necessarily require those conditions and requirements.
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Those recommend being in a comfortable and resting position; in a pleasant place, preferably in an isolated room, to make it quiet and peaceful; and put the mind “empty.”
With the system of reading, writing or drawing while walking, we can reach those same levels of abstraction, concentration and relaxation, that is, a full meditation, but it still goes beyond. We do not necessarily have to resort to closed rooms, but quite the opposite; neither must they be done the walks in a quiet and peaceful environment, although not having this last can be a source of distraction; and the position is not precisely resting, but standing and walking, always walking.
Meditation -and likewise its main components- is not a state where we have to put the mind “empty”, but we put it to work concentrated, on very specific topics, which for the meditator are so exciting -or can reach to be it- that they abstract them from everything and feel that they float in “no space” and in “no time”; in other words, we subtract from the surrounding environment, as our mind and our 5 physical and spiritual senses are abstracted (from the immediate reality), and focus, reflecting and feeling, respectively, on that topic, subject or activity simultaneous to walking, which we are passionate about.
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Let’s keep in mind that meditation is not just about achieving relaxation. Walking associated with reading, or writing or drawing, allows us to produce alpha waves but also theta. The alpha waves are associated with relaxation and other states more attenuation of consciousness (less rationalism), while theta are those that are generated in our brain when we are placed in a deep calm and consciousness of time and space are lost, they are the waves that are established and implanted -with organization- in the mind when we make contact with our unconscious, but we continue with an apparent consciousness, that is, our attention is relaxed and our physical and mental executions are not governed by rational actions, in such a way that we put ourselves in a hypnagogic state: we walk and we do not perceive it, we read and we do not realize it, and when we wake up from that state, we become aware that we have walked 5-6 miles and read 10-15 pages of a book.
For this state that is achieved by walking in an integral way, is that I have recommended in previous posts that you must be very careful to perform this type of active meditation in environments where they may have contact with cars, bicycles, and other types of vehicles, it must be done in safe, familiar and well-known places.
Contemplation is an activity that we can practice when we feel the desire to do it, their imperative need to carry it out or when the other activities have satisfied us. If reading and writing, on any day we have decided to walk, are not very attractive, we think we can make this walk with the sole purpose of contemplating nature, in any of the following options:
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Panoramic scenarios
Wild animals
Wild flowers and plants
Colors of nature
Geological aspects
The sky and the clouds
And dozens of other things more
This activity of contemplation works with our privacy, because it allows us to fully dialogue with ourselves, with our inner being, being accompanied only by nature, in a state of intimacy and recollection, as if we were isolated to accompany us only by the lady nature.
For this type of walks we recommend you take a camera with you, to make some shots that you want.
Let us try to let conscience, reason, reasoning, reflection, and all other functions that are entirely developed by the brain rest. Let us do our part to the unconscious; he never rests, he is always active, he never tires. Let’s be contemplative only.
This publication is about the number of pages we can read from a book while walking .
I have already pointed out the distances we can walk while we read or write, in the Post THE RECOMMENDED DISTANCES; now I will allow myself to specify the parameters that I think could be reached on the reading itself while walking, that is, the number of pages that we can read from a book simultaneously while walking.
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Below are 3 tables showing the distances that can be performed reading, per session of 30, 45 and 60 minutes, and all of them per day, per week and per month; indicating the maximum, minimum and normal distances.
With regard to reading, also in the same span of a week, we will achieve a minimum, depending on the type of literary genre, 63 pages, i.e. 3 pages per walk 1.6 miles (2.6 kilometers). We can also reach levels of 105 pages a week, in sessions of 60 minutes.
In relation to the number of pages that can be read while walking, will depend on the type of reading and the ability to have it every person; i.e. it is not the same, accompanied by a novel, a poem or an essay, or more difficult, technical books as biology, economics or physics. Also depend on the same activity that we have to develop if it is to entertain, to study or to teach, even if we have to memorize, interpret, understand or take notes of some parts of the document.
An acceptable average, however, is 5 pages per hour of walking, equivalent to 15 pages each day. Either way, there will be times when one page is read per mile. The final benefit is: the mile walked and read the page.
In the table below we can see the minimum and maximum read, we would get per session of 60 minutes, per day (3 sessions), per week and per month.
Outside of these real data obtained with the practice of this system, no more efforts to persuade him, dear reader, for the sole purpose of initiating this fantastic adventure full of unerring and obvious results are needed.
All people are different, men and women, both physical and mental, so it can not be a uniform program that demonstrates all exercise. Everyone must design it according to the time available, convenient hours and of course, appropriate and adequate books and literary genres.
I must comment that this exercise system is not only designed for people of adulthood, but also for young people and the elderly, both men and women. To meet the minimum or maximum parameters we have indicated, according to the experience, take into account the age of the person who is actually using the system. It is almost certain that a young person (20 years), you can walk more and better than other elderly (80 years).Each individual must evaluate itself to develop the method according to their own abilities and tastes.
With the system you can feel better physically and psychologically throughout their lives, extending the number of years of life, along with better quality, healthier and comfortable, and with greater pleasure, as improvements are achieved at all levels: in the physical, the mental, cultural, artistic, health and psychologically. And each of them is a source to be motivated to continue experiencing their answers.
Much has been written about various techniques that help us feed the brain, and they all work; however, I believe that one of the most effective and that contains more attributes and excellence, is reading. The surprising thing, and that I have experienced personally, is that those documents that I considered that they would not give me anything – a manifest prejudice – also had important information for what I had been doing at that moment; as if something or someone was directing me towards that document – or text – that I had prejudicedly considered “had” nothing important and interesting to me.
This observation of re-considering readings, by labeling them as “not acceptable” refers Carl Gustav Jung in his studies on the phenomenon of synchronicity, of which I have been a staunch studier. My conscience and my reasoning constantly tell me that I should not waste my time reading that book “anyone”, but from my own experience I know that my unconscious has placed me in that position of “yes read” and I always pay attention to it, and I invariably find one or several answers to what I am looking for, to the themes and topics that I am investigating and analyzing. Such is my belief that I have about the existence of that phenomenon of Jungian Synchronicity that motivated me, years ago, to write a couple of books on that theme: “Synchronicity. A predictable phenomenon”, 2007 (*); and “The synchronicity in the Ancient Maya”, 2009 (**). So, I have no doubt, that reading is a means that allows us to get in touch with synchronicities, and these leads us to find answers, that our unconscious-surely- he is certainly tired of trying to communicate our consciousness in other ways, and he has not noticed them -of the answers- for a long time, either because he is unable to hear it, or he refuses to do so.
We must let ourselves be led by what our interiority advises us and not reasoning. If you “decide” to read a book it is perhaps that your unconscious is inviting you to do so. And if you “decide” to read another one that you have already read, you will surely find new answers; these could be more important than those ideas you found in your previous reading.
We must consider the following aspects when we have decided to correspond and attend to the messages of the unconscious, either by the phenomenon of synchronicity or other symbolic languages:
1º. We have to introject into ourselves that truly that kind of actions come from and are generated by our unconscious. We will not be able to hear it if we do not believe in its existence.
2º. Synchronicity is a predictable phenomenon and can also be induced, so that we can cause its generation and its incidence in external manifestations.
3º. Each synchronistic manifestation of the unconscious must identify it, unveil it and rationalize it.
4° To understand these messages of the unconscious, each manifestation of synchronicity, we must analyze and interpret it.
The most important and true –authentic- of our inner being we can know and understand through the different symbolic languages that the individual (and collective) unconscious uses and Synchronicity is one of them. To know its predictability and the different ways in which the unconscious is induced to manifest through the phenomenon of synchronicity, we can resort to my book Synchronicity, predictable phenomenon, or, I will gladly respond directly and personally to those people who request it.
In the immediate future, I will make a synopsis that allows us to act in this regard and I will present it to you in one of the following posts.
