Our daily activities, whether at work or at home, including recreation and vacations, inevitably fall into the process of planning (programming), execution and achievement of goals.
The 3 phases are acts of personal fulfillment, but each individual enjoys them in different ways, and therefore they engage in them with different intensity. It’s the same as what happens with the activities of walking, reading, writing and drawing.
We must be aware that those 3 phases must be fulfilled in that order to achieve any goal, be that of walking exclusively or combined with reading, writing or drawing. Any of these creative activities, which integrate the method, can be developed in combination with the walk. It often happens to us that the planning of any of these activities is more important and interesting than its execution or the achievement of the goal, and this motivates us to devote more attention and time to the plan and to the programming. For other people the execution is more attractive than the planning of the actions, and of course there will be others that what only satisfies them and motivates them is to reach the goals. In us is to execute the 3 phases consciously and enjoy them according to our benefit and preference.
By implementing this system, at any time of the day, creates a passion for these activities -reading, writing or drawing- while walking, so that time passes without realizing it. As if Mrs. Passion and Mr. Time walk together and go hand in hand. Although it seems that any activity we can perform with the simple will to do it, this method creates by itself a process of harmonization that ensures its realization with enthusiasm and with a high motivation, abstracted from the circumstances that haunt us and they surround us, while passion and time walk with us.
For a large percentage of the population that has shown interest in any of these activities, reading, writing or drawing while walking, or two or more at a time, has represented a difficult situation due to lack of time, reluctance, interruptions diverse, that prevent him from putting them into practice.
The preference for some of them and the decision to carry it out with some enthusiasm can be the engine that encourages him to do the others. You will only have to take the first step in the walk to promote the start and development of any of the other activities of reading, writing or drawing.
Every human being can put into practice this integrated system, since most of us can walk, walking on foot any distance; and a good percentage we can read and have a book in our hands, or at least we can borrow it. On writing, we must clarify that we are not implying that we should be excellent in it, or famous writers to try, although we can achieve it with this system and with a bit of perseverance and enthusiasm. We must be clear in our minds that we do not seek to break any record of walking, write a “best seller” or be an expert on any specific topic; what we do know and are convinced by our own experience is that these activities can be carried out simultaneously, without detriment to any of them. This is the great and effective of this system, in addition to the multiple beneficial effects it has on the physiological but above all psychological functioning of the human being in general.
With our system, we do not intend to indicate better ways to walk, it must be done in the same way as we are used to, as we have always done; we will not say how to improve reading, or what kind of books should be read or studied; nor will we mention any technique to enrich the literary creation. On these three activities, which throughout the book we have repeated that we should try to do together, there are dozens of manuals that can be consulted to progress and improve its realization.
For the first walk, reading and / or writing, you only need to select a place, dress, shoes, a book, some blank pages and a pencil, and you will be ready to start it. To carry out these activities that integrate the system, jointly, it does not matter how old you are.
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Any area can be used as long as it meets the appropriate technical characteristics. It is convenient to look for a place that is flat. If it has some elevations it will not be a reason to discard it, as long as they are not very pronounced, that is, the slope is not greater than six percent (going up or down by six meters for every 100 that is walked). It is very important to comply with this in order to feel comfortable doing what we do, and feel safe so that our mind can be free from any insecurity and concentrate completely on reading and writing, with the certainty that nothing and nobody will bother us or it will distract. It is essential that the areas where you walk are free of all kinds of obstacles and the surface does not present any risk of tripping or falling.
We just have to dress comfortably and select a book that we want to read and a few blank pages and a pen or pencil, for what we want to write or draw. We do not need special clothes to make our walks; It should only be the one of your choice and according to the weather, because there is no restriction in this regard. However, I recommend some flexible and comfortable shoes, those that are used for the gym.
The most sensitive parts of the body to this type of walking exercise are the feet; for that reason it is necessary to protect them well with good shoes and suitable socks.
Natural or artificial light should also be considered to organize walks; if they are too early in the morning, there may not be good lighting for reading or writing; and if it is in the afternoon, it should be taken into account that the light will diminish, so it should also be considered the place where we usually walk; if it has artificial light suitable for our purposes.
It is recommended that you take the walk along the circuit several times before you start reading, in order to practice only walking. Once set and with confidence, open your book and enjoy reading.
During each walk let the time flow because now is your ally and you will see how after 10-15 minutes, after having started, your body and your mind will be doing intimately coordinated activities, with a total abstraction of time.
