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At the beginning of this 2nd year of the Blog, I would like to refer again, as I have done throughout the first year, in several posts, to the great direct benefits obtained through this WALK-RWD Integral System, and to establish that in this next period, we must be much stricter in our commitments to the practice of this system, in order to enjoy their ample rewards.

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It is time to return to comment on the benefits obtained in health with the application of this WALK-RWD system.

Throughout this second year, I will expose several challenges that over time, will allow us to evaluate the progress in each one of us according to our own behavior profiles. Each challenge will allow, on the one hand, to observe if we are willing to commit ourselves to improve health (prevention, cure and improvement); and on the other, obtain quantifiable elements to know the progress in recovery, strengthening and physical improvement, in the increase of knowledge, in feeling better with ourselves, in the creation of ideas, and in the other areas that the system it provides to develop better.

There are many benefits that are obtained when walking, especially those that favor the best performance in all the systems and organs of our body.

HOW TO IMPROVE OUR DIGESTION? Regarding the digestive system, we believe it is appropriate to recommend walking after each meal, unlike the vast majority of other exercises, as it helps us with excellent digestion and assimilation of food.

IS CHOLESTEROL HIGH? DO YOU SUFFER FROM PAIN OR TIREDNESS IN THE LEGS? DOES THE ANKLES BREAK? In diseases or conditions of cardiovascular or circulatory type, the program also works in a preventive and corrective manner. Any individual -man or woman- who has had the discipline to walk a couple of miles a day for a long period of time, will be able to observe -except in exceptional cases- that his cholesterol measurements are low.

We can also ensure that those who have it high, can reduce it considerably with this system and of course helping with a good diet.

Individuals who walk under specific programs have been able to demonstrate that their respective cardiovascular systems are functioning better than those who are sedentary. Generally, they do not suffer from leg pains, nor do they feel tired.

DO YOU FEEL THAT YOU ARE MISSING AIR WHEN YOU RAISE A FEW STEPS? The respiratory system, together with the cardiovascular system, is responsible for taking oxygen from the air and transporting it to all parts of the human body.

Walking is one of the functions of our most ordinary and natural organism, and we have always done it; being the normal and usual way we have to transport us from one place to another and it is in this way that our organism performs better the function of breathing.

The more we walk the better we will keep the lungs active and the feet will be the pistons that pump (push) the blood against gravity.

A large percentage of the population that we see exercising, in covered places, but above all in the open air, is for the purpose of improving the function of the respiratory system, either because they feel some specific discomfort or because they know by clinical tests that their ailment is abnormal and try to improve.

DO YOU HAVE SOME PAIN IN JOINTS OR KNEES? DO YOU HAVE OSTEOPOROSIS? All types of exercise produce a benefit to the human organism, which is reflected in the strengthening of different systems, including bone.

The human body processes hundreds of products daily and produces several dozens of substances; it is a factory and among those that generate is the bone mass, that is, it strengthens and develops the bones.

The direct way to produce bone mass is through movement; that is, walking is an exercise that favors practically the entire bony system. The walk generates undoubted benefits throughout the bony system, but mainly in the lower extremities (toes, feet, ankles, legs, knees, thighs, hips and coccyx), in the spine and back, also has similar effects in the upper extremities (hands, arms, elbows, shoulders).

DO YOU FEEL WITH PROBLEMS IN YOUR CONDUCT? DO YOU FEEL WRATH, APATHY OR SIMPLY DO NOT WANT TO SEE NOBODY OR DO ANYTHING? DO YOU HAVE PROBLEMS IN YOUR METABOLISM? It is very likely that you have some hormonal irregularity. The endocrine system is a set of glands that produce several substances called hormones that are released into the bloodstream and regulate various functions of the body; hormones are chemical substances that when released into the blood help control the functions of various organs of the body and regulate the behavior of the human being. The most important glands are the thyroid, pituitary and adrenal glands.

Exercise and specifically walking can help improve your endocrine system, which acts as a complete frame of hormonal communications that stimulates the proper development of body tissues, as well as the function of other organs and systems of the body, which also have secondary endocrine functions.

SUFFER FROM INSOMNIA, STRESS OR ANXIETY? SUFFER OF DIZZINESS, NAUSEA? DO NOT DIGEST CORRECTLY? It probably has an imbalance in the neurovegetative system. This system is composed of the sympathetic and the parasympathetic, in addition to the enteric nervous system. The main function of the first is to prepare for the realization of any activity, it places us in an open alert, diminishing the interest in everything else that does not serve us for that moment of action. It gives us strength, speed and tenacity.

The main function of the parasympathetic is to prepare ourselves to achieve relaxation, rest and attenuation, in the expectation of a recharge of energy. It is a state of equanimity, tranquility and weight to rebalance.

The enteric nervous system is what controls gastrointestinal functioning.

A state of harmony, balance and normality is achieved when the sympathetic and the parasympathetic are regulated among themselves.

Everything we feel in our body is determined by the influence of both systems, the Sympathetic and Parasympathetic. The emotions, the feelings, the tastes, the joys, the sorrows, the indifferences, the insensibilities, all this is determined by this pair of systems.

We have experienced convincingly that these two systems can be regulated and balanced by the WALK-RWD system. It seems that the human being on the fly activates the 2 simultaneously, making them work by sending signals to other organs, glands and systems of the organism in such a way that it prepares them all by putting them on alert (Sympathetic) and preparing them for a state of relaxation (Parasympathetic) where all of them flow, according to their functions and production of substances, to reach a creative and harmonious state; eliminating those imbalances of the emotional type and of nervous restlessness; directing the general organic process towards the preservation and storage of energy, both physical and mental.

During the application of the WALK-RWD system, reading, writing or drawing, while walking, allows these neurovegetative systems to be in balance and regulated, and therefore, the alterations that we are suffering in some of the organs are corrected and unpleasant emotions return to their normal acceptable state.

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With this writing number 52 a year is fulfilled trying to convey how important it has been for me to perform these activities of reading, writing and drawing, while we walk. It has been truly amazing what I kept discovering about this practice, as I published my experiences, throughout this first year.

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I felt the need to underline the importance of this system that encompasses health, knowledge, creativity and many other improvements that its practice brings in parallel, and I looked for a word or concept that conveyed that importance but at the same time also communicated that It should be considered as something that can help us to improve the perspective of humanity as a whole that looks towards the future and should be accompanied by an encouraging and effective mechanism that, even with the normal problems and setbacks, would stimulate us to continue feeling and thinking optimistically There were several: paradigm, culture, counterculture, canon, formula, and 2 or 3 more. Some of them that would tell us how to continue our existence and have certainty that if we carry it out, we practice it recurrently, reaching our own future would be less cumbersome, less annoying and less harmful, lighter, more attractive and more pleasant . Each of these words communicate to us (transmit) a part of the benefits and the spirit that generates us the system that I have practiced during 3 decades in a systematic and integral way.

It would be repetitive to point out again what I have written in 51 writings, one every week of this last year. The healing power of walking is extraordinary. Not only does it cure us of some of the sufferings that make us suffer in everyday life, but the greatest thing, in addition, is that it is preventive, prevents many of the recurrent diseases from attacking us.

I am convinced that some of our anxieties and worries, including some physical ailments and disorders, would be solved just by walking, and it would be better to combine it with reading, writing and drawing.

In its labor impact I have also indicated that it has an extraordinary potential, no longer said in the creative field, of drawing, painting, literary, etc.

With accuracy I feel and think that the past and present of our civilization was based on walking, and the future must continue to be built on this organic-functional pillar.

We have already commented that the human body produces some substances when it walks; certain organs and glands of the body begin to work sending signals to generate those substances that are hardly produced in an immobile (sedentary) state. We also know that cerebral waves of different types are generated in each walk, among them alpha and theta (See post WALKING, MEDITATION AND CEREBRAL WAVES), and as we have already mentioned, alpha waves are associated with relaxation and other states more of attenuation of consciousness, while theta are those that are generated in our brain when we are able to place ourselves in a deep calm and the consciousness of time and space are lost, they are the waves that are established and implanted in the mind when we make contact with our unconscious, but we continue with a diminished, evident conscience.

I would like to differentiate the effects of walking by commenting that a part of our organism is stimulated, when we read, write and/or draw while we walk; this, allows us to abstract ourselves because a part of our attention is relaxed and our physical and mental actions are not governed by the conscience-rationalist function, in such a way that it puts us in a hypnagogic state, which does not allow us to realize the elapsed time, Sometimes we do not realize we are reading or writing, and when we “wake up” from that state, we realize that we have walked several miles and read some pages of a certain book; clearly this is generated by walking associated with reading, or writing, or drawing, producing alpha waves but especially theta. However, also this system, on the other hand, causes in our organism a process of production of substances that allows us to improve our functioning in all orders

Likewise, we know that the brain is oxygenated (this is how it is qualified) when we perform exercises, it is true, but certain types of substances that fully favor the functioning of some of the physical-organic systems of the body, as well as fundamental parts of the brain, which have remained asleep, favoring and stimulating their functions (physiological-mental).

How much has been lost with the use of animals, as a means of transport and cargo, as well as the use of carts pulled by animals, and with personal automobiles, which have prevented humans from walking, as they did in times past. If we quantify these two periods, we will see that the latter, where man has decreased his activity of walking, is very small compared to the first.

Several studies show that humans have traveled alone on their 2 feet since 2-3 million years ago, until an era where they began to use various means of loading and transport that represent only 10,000 years; graphically we can represent these 2 periods with a pencil, in which the second period would be the tip of it:

According to our thesis, the human being, when becoming sedentary, has fortunately only lost at least some important components in his physiological constitution, in addition to not being able to counteract some affections for the same, both physical and mental; that will surely be better understood in the future.

There were wise people like the Maya (Post THE ANCIENT MAYAS AND THEIR WHITE ROADS. PART I; Future Post THE ANCIENT MAYAS AND THEIR WHITE ROADS. PART II) who did not use the strength of any animal for personal transport or cargo, direct or pulling wagons, for the same reason that they did not use the wheel either in the construction of transport vehicles. Experts have mentioned: “It is inexplicable that the Mayan people have not been able to create the wheel” as a fundamental piece in the construction of vehicles for transport. I am certain that the inhabitants of this cultured town, who knew and used the zero much earlier than the peoples who came from the conquerors of the Old Continent, knew that they had to walk to move themselves without using the different animal means or the vehicles supported on wheels, because they had full knowledge of what it meant to do so, for their physical health and mental fullness.

The peoples who have walked the most have surely strengthened their physical and mental systems, better, favoring mental functions and have also been able to better counteract some ailments and sufferings than those people who have been more sedentary.

Walking will become the main activity to keep us healthy, physically and mentally.

Let’s recover the lost time, let’s go for a walk and take a book and a notebook.

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Some opening words about the concept of symbolism.

We understand the concept of symbolism as a system of symbols (figures, images, forms) by means of which physical, mental and spiritual sensations, beliefs, convictions, ideas, concepts are manifested or revealed -in which the unconscious and consciousness participate directly- and that are manifested through written, oral, corporal languages, etc.

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Every symbol is cataloged as a subjective compendium of forms and images, conscious and unconscious, whose interpretation can hardly be scientifically proven.

Without pretending to be exhaustive or categorical, we can point out a tentative classification of the types of symbolism that have stood out in human manifestations, within the field of the physical-corporal (soma), psychological (soul) and the mystical (spiritual):

• Symbolism in the arts

• Symbology in psychology

• Fantastic symbolism

• Linguistic symbolism

• Body symbolism

• Spiritual symbolism

• Symbolism of oral myth

• Mythological symbolism

Some of them are essentially interrelated.

The human being uses to communicate with the rest of the world symbolic forms, such as the body (body language), art, language (oral and written), myth, religion, and others, in such a way that the Universal symbolic system is composed of that total range of languages used by the human being. Ernst Cassirer tells us that each of them contains its own set of symbols, and to a greater or lesser extent, participates with a characteristic symbolic part.

Each language contains its own allegorical structure and therefore its own cryptography and symbology, written and/or spoken and/or bodily systems that use enigmatic (secret) “keys” or combined forms that their understanding embodies a hermeticism. All the impressions that the human being receives from the outside configures and transforms them into the type of languages, which, voluntarily or not, consciously or unconsciously, he uses to comprehend, apprehend and process them in his inner personal source, and once translated, he communicates them towards his external circumstance.

On the other hand, the human being uses an internal symbology to communicate with himself, between his unconscious and his conscious.

The individual unconscious tries to communicate unfailingly and permanently with consciousness by means of symbols that it has structured.

We must bear in mind that the enormous force of consciousness hinders the fluidity of the symbols emanating from the unconscious, as well as, by its very structure and essence, it avoids or evades its understanding. This is where we must emphasize that the task of translating the language of the unconscious is difficult for the generality of human beings.

However, the tacit translation can be achieved by transcribing that symbology that the unconscious uses, instructing itself for it.

Now, every time we are ready to walk, unconsciously (subliminally) we are indicating that we are going to move forward.

It is generally acceptable that symbolism, that mechanism of symbolic structuring, be oriented in time and space, to construct signs, which represent different categories and concepts. All the images meant are exclusive of the individual and collective unconscious, that is, of the subliminal chamber where they originate and are processed.

The symbols that are generated in the collective unconscious are representations that allow the connection between the unconscious and consciousness. We can hardly rationally and voluntarily achieve this connection by designing new signs, although its use for long periods could make it possible, making them inherent in the collective unconscious; so, it is not an impossible activity.

The symbolism of bodily psychic activity is universal, although each individual psyche manages the symbols in a particular way, assigning different contents and scope, depending on the circumstances that each individual had to live and the context in which they manifest.

Now, walking can be considered as containing two forms of symbolism by which the human being communicates. The part of physically moving from one place to another, represents a symbolism that involves the metamorphosis of being to move bodily from one circumstance to another, as if it were transforming, by moving on its own feet, from a physical-sensitive stage to another, with different sensitivities and corporal manifestations.

The other symbolic form is the language of one’s own body. Being in motion allows you, through your body language, to communicate what our physical being (corporal catharsis or mechanistic method) aims to achieve through this movement of walking; on the one hand, to help the mental part to free it from its emotional state, by sending messages to all parts of the body and functional organs, to improve the mood and health; and on the other, by means of this mechanical practice (behavior) that allows the physical catharsis of the subjection and immobility, which chains it, suffocates and makes it impossible to unravel its needs for exercises. Walking is the symbolic mechanism that has the meaning of reshaping and integrating the character and personality of the individual.  (Future Post LISTENING TO OUR BODY WHILE WALKING-BODY LANGUAGE).

An analogue extrapolation of this is traveling, which is nothing other than the search for a renewing experience, the beginning of a change that seeks to reach somewhere; initiator of a metamorphosis for transcendence. Thus, walking, as an analogy of traveling, symbolically means the intrinsic need to be free, seeking an initiating experience, of change. It is a symbol of transcendence. Try to break with the social status that surrounds you: friends, colleagues, family, work, studies, etc. The case of Paracelso who traveled 13 years is an example. The trip is the symbolic representation of a search to face new experiences and discoveries, liberation, renunciation, atonement. It is generated by a natural state of discontent with oneself and with the environment that surrounds us. Search for a change, exploration of knowledge of the nature of life and death, to know what to do with one’s existence. Depending on the individual, it can be a trip around the world, leave your town, change your home, or just take walks aimlessly. All this, to transcend internally towards a new way of living. (Future Posts DROMOMANIA and THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM AND THE TRAVEL MANIA).

Walking as a representation of colors will be analyzed later in Future Post WALKING WITH THE COLORS, where we relate the symbolism of colors to walking.

In short, the symbolism of walking is the abstraction of external conditioning, is to let the thoughts flow to the inner self, is to find itself.

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CIRCADIAN RHYTHMS. The human being consists of “biological clocks” that regulate the functions of the organism in an optimal way. This optimization is done 24 hours a day, without these “watches” resting at all. Each “biological clock” of our being, sends a “cronos signal” (signal of time) that arrives at all the organs and systems, and to all the cells of the body. That is to say, they carry out a perfect synchronization of all the organs and their respective functions, during every 24 hours; at the end of that period, they reinitiate their synchronous functional operation again, using the 5 external senses, and managing to optimize the functioning of the organism (physical and mental), and that of the operation of all the organs and biological systems of the being.

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The positive changes, both organic (the functional, in the production of glandular substances, etc.), mental (ideas, images, thoughts, etc.) and emotional, that we experience while walking, respond to circadian rhythms defined throughout the 24 hours of a full day, according to the schedule in which the walk is made. These circadian rhythms facilitate and regulate the performance of biological activities at a precise and specific time during the day and night.

It should be noted that in this daily and incessant operation, the intensity of the participation of each of the 5 external senses, varies according to the “biological clock” that is operating during the day and night periods, and the activities performed by the individual.

As it is to be supposed, the walks do not have the same effect on our organism, if we carry them out during the day or at night, in the morning (early morning), at noon or in the afternoon.

Walking to the sides (right or left) or doing it backwards, would not be correlated biologically with the circadian rhythm that we execute when we walk normally forward, because we have always done it that way. Circadian rhythms are probably a reptilian part of the human brain.

Without exaggerating this, I could say that just as it is common sense to consider that it is not the same to start walking daily at 20 years of age than at 60, so we can also say that there is a difference in doing so at different times of the day, and it is defined by the circadian rhythms, which are our endogenous biological clocks.

Personally, in this present time, I put into practice the WALK-RWD system, three times a day, in the morning (8-9 am), at noon (1-2 pm) and in the afternoon (5:30-6:30 pm). However, each person, depending on their time availability, should select their program, and experience the daily periods of walking (1, 2, 3, etc.), observing how they feel better and which one gives the best results, in the intelligence, that the effects on circadian rhythms are different when we read, write or draw while we walk.

Let’s match our biological clocks with our daily walk.

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PART I

Loneliness can be analyzed from 2 different scenarios, one pleasant and the other unpleasant.

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The pleasant or positive stage we can distinguish in our behavior seeking simply to develop certain activities in solitude, unrelated to any person, and in extreme cases outside the urban-city contact, which could refer to being alone in a remote place (with partial isolation), in the middle of nature. In this stage, the human being tries to use his free time to rest from social contact, social conditioning, social ties, and tries to take refuge many times in leisure, with no commitment, with anyone and sometimes, or with him same.

In this stage, we can enjoy solitude in several ways, in dialogue with oneself or else, simply in the absence of dialogue, without any thought, where our mind is inactive. Hardly the lazy human mind. There are occasions that one does not tolerate talking to anyone, nor to oneself, in which we are not able to address a single word, we do not want to talk to each other, and therefore we do not want to listen to each other. When we are in this circle of not wanting to say or wanting to listen, the walk in solitude, without people next to it, without books, without blocks of notes or drawing, is truly significant, revealing and decisive. Thus loneliness could become 1) Enjoy leisure, 2) Enjoy free time, doing something or doing nothing, 3) Simply waste time. But all these possibilities without company, in the dominant solitude.

The second stage of loneliness, I would like to raise it from the point of view of freedom, and not as a state of psychological disturbance or disorder, even if it contains it. It is a state where the human being feels physically and mentally immersed in an absorbing, overwhelming environment, which does not let him breathe, and of course, the person feels loneliness, makes her feel bad when having social contact, and this propels her to get away from people. It is a state of mind that forces him to stay away from everything and everyone. Many times the withdrawal takes him to an antisocial position, which takes him away from society and in some cases he encounters misanthropy.

I have used a dozen authors who have written works that explain precisely this binomial of “freedom-solitude”, with the aim of clarifying what is happening to the human being in modern times.

Besides the indeterminism, in the conception of J. P. Sartre, he thinks that the man, in the exercise of his freedom, drowns in a SOLITUDE and this allows him to rest in a total nihilism.

For existentialism, freedom implies nihilism, anguish, emptiness and a SOLITUDE of being, which defines and confirms a face contrary to the positive. The negative categorization corresponds to the “free-existence” of the human being.

For Dostoyevsky, freedom -as well as for existentialists- is being itself, within a void -nothing- uncertain, within an undefined and absolute contingency LONELINESS.

It is in the big cities, says Georg Simmel, where it is found that the freedom of prejudice enjoyed by the urbanite becomes a refuge in SOLITUDE and freedom is no longer linked to the vital feeling of happiness, as a synonym of well-being. That is, not always the greatest freedom will guarantee a higher level or degree of well-being, as LONELINESS awaits.

Erich Fromm comments that the enormous amount of factors -both internal and external to the individual- leads us to imagine that they potentiate and enrich the scenario in which freedom participates in the generation of various categories of crisis, observing that all of them have been mechanisms political, social and psychological that the human being has used to evade his own being of responsibility in freedom, what has prostrated him as an adaptable being, lacking in meaning and importance, accommodated in an existential solitude and isolation. Fromm tries to find the meaning of freedom for the modern being. Implicitly, throughout his psychological and sociological research, he asks himself and seeks the answer to: when and why was the search for the freedom of the human being abandoned? A search that is circumscribed, in part, to the fact that the being in SOLITUDE can not bear it and tries to escape from the responsibility that represents that freedom and that individuality reached. And although it does not conclude with a definitive proposition -as the author himself comments- we can envision it as a proposal, because it implicitly implies that we should look for another form of freedom that allows him -to be human- again not to be alone, with new relationships leading him to be together with their peers, with interdependent and psychologically sound relationships in a new reality; This new reality is characterized by a less oppressive social and productive system that guides it to develop in an integral way, accepting the consequences of its decisions and actions for having ceased to fear -and to have rejected- the consequences of the use of that freedom.

Zygmunt Bauman expresses that all kinds of freedom have both their costs and benefits. The desire for freedom of each individual being is a function of the social oppression it receives. The social relationship forces the individual, limiting their behavior and producing a loss of freedom, for which seeks privacy with the inherent costs of it, such as the loss in the sharing of desires and objectives, fears, security, protection, tastes, happiness, and others. The fear and rejection of oppression is balanced by the fear of SOLITUDE -isolation- that results from the achievement of obtaining privacy.

A permanent balance is achieved between the desire for freedom, for being in solitude, and the desire for social relationships; the degree of achievement of one, is balanced in a balanced way with the result or degree reached by the other, which could be understood as greater isolation -or loneliness- greater freedom, and vice versa. The degrees of one and the other change in different societies, as well as in different periods.

Krishnamurti recommends, repeatedly, that the individual must take an attitude -for himself- decidedly responsible, in order to free himself from the external constraints, themes that are innumerable and among which stand out: the absorbing and oppressive society, the ignorance of oneself same, beliefs, fear, desires, isolation and loneliness, thought and knowledge, self-deception, self-centeredness, power, patriotism and nationalism, competition and suffering, war, boredom and interest, hatred, criticism and self-criticism, religions and belief in God, memory, sexuality, lying, death; but above all, look for inner strength to free yourself from your conscious self, an entity that is conditioned from the first day of birth. That inner power refers to the understanding of “myself”.

Benjamin Gibbs gives special emphasis to the ideas of J.S. Mill, which encompasses the “romantic liberalism” that “is the doctrine that the restrictions and repressions imposed by society prevent the individual to develop and exercise their dispositions and skills innate professes that man has been solitary and independent by nature, only that he has been handcuffed and enslaved through the ruse of laws, customs and economic systems “His opinions are focused on the study he did in the essay of this author” On liberty “, written in 1859. The analysis of Mill’s thought leads him to examine other concepts related to freedom, as well as necessity and responsibility, such as SOLITUDE, tolerance, utility, autonomy and therefore heteronomy, moral skepticism, Comteano positivism, ethical values, etc.

Paul Eluard in one of his verses of his poem “Freedom”, addressing freedom, expresses:

• In the absence without desire
• in nude LONELINESS
• on the stairs of death
• I write your name.

Llano Cifuentes, with respect to freedom and individuality, affirms that life as well as massifying man also frustrates him by the profound SOLITUDE that characterizes him within the mass. Michel Foucault expresses us: Penitentiary architecture is developed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, throughout Europe, as part of the state system to punish, and with the firm purpose of manifesting the strength of the sovereign. There were three forms of detention: the prison, as a simple confinement; la gêne, restricting food and light, and increasing the LONELINESS index; and the dungeon, where these measures increased extraordinarily. The author describes the functional system and the basic principles of several of the prisons that were built in Europe, models such as the one of Rasphuis and the Spinhuis of Amsterdam, the correctional one of Ghent and the one of Philadelphia. It exposes the different principles that founded these prison institutions: compulsory work, the duration of sentences, idleness as a fundamental cause of crime, etc., which aroused a concern to promote a certain pedagogy of work in prison systems. In any of the models, it was -with certain variants- to correct and modify the form of behavior they had, a correction that always involved producing subject subjects “reconstitute the legal subject of the social pact, or form a subject of obedience …”

Anthony de Mello proposes us to put aside fears and fantasies in order to live the reality that is presented to us and to be able to develop ourselves integrally as free and complete people. De Mello agrees with the opinion of other psychologists and sociologists that man is afraid of freedom, as well as of LONELINESS and happiness, and prefers to become a slave of ideologies and mental schemes rather than take the “risk of flying” “On their own, that is, with personal ideas and without ties. And even points out: “we bind ourselves voluntarily, filling us with heavy chains and then we complain about not being free […] We have become accustomed to the prison of the old and we prefer to sleep so as not to discover the freedom that is the new. […] Who has to free you if you are not aware of your chains? “

De Mello believes that being awake is the requirement to be able to achieve freedom, but also to be able to exercise it and transmit it, asserting that the only experience that is truly worthwhile in life is to achieve awakening. Likewise, it identifies, congruent with Buddhist ideas, that the source of suffering is in the desires, which within the Eastern tradition are called attachments. That is, sterile desires that end up obfuscating the conscience and producing obsessions that lead to nothing positive, but to keep us asleep. By definition, when an unimportant desire becomes compulsive and all forces are directed to achieve it, because it is believed that doing it will achieve happiness, it is in reality an attachment, which is not wanted or can not be done to the side , because it is believed that without it you will never be able to conquer happiness. But, as the author reminds us, that happiness is a function of inner freedom (in SOLITUDE and society) and truth, in reality, living with those attachments, leads us to suffering, because “insecure people do not want Real happiness, because he fears the risk of freedom and, therefore, prefers the drug of desires “, which keeps them asleep.

Carlos Loya in his poem Liberéstula, in one of his strophe, addressing Freedom, expresses:

• Defeated by time
• emancipated by the same pain
• accompanied by the shaft,
• you are the objectified expression
• with narrowed eyes
• -looking without seeing-
• &
• Nymph in elevation
• you are the Greek ode
• the smiling proclamation
• you inebriate in SOLITUDE;
• the architrave gives you continuity
• epistyl of sustenance that extracts
• those versifications of the sunset,
• even with your diluted silhouette
• there is no confusion in you.

We will continue in a few days with Part II, as we walk firmly grasping the solitude of the hand, to feel another perspective of the world and of life.

Post PART II. WALKING AND THE ELECTION OF LONELINESS.

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