Walking could be
said to be the only way to carry it on foot. However, there are modalities in
walking through some characteristics that have been added, so that their
designations are several; those characteristics are due to the form, the place,
the team, and other additions in their development. Thus, at present, walking
is publicly practiced in several ways, such as those mentioned below, but not
all of them can be developed within the WALK-RWD system.
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We said that not
all of these varieties of walking can be developed with the integral system of
reading, writing and drawing. The reasons are obvious, some need to rely on
equipment that prevents doing so, others the physical environment where it is practiced
also makes it difficult, however, it is convenient to know all these varieties
so that at a given moment they can be done independently, which will allow the
individual continue with the exercise (practice) of walking and can return to
the activities inherent to it, reading, writing and drawing, to fully develop
the system.
On the contrary,
some forms and types that are mentioned in the following list, are inherent in
the system of walking: reading, writing and drawing; in fact, we have already
indicated, commented and described in previous posts; and we have repeated them
within this list to have a complete indication, concrete case is Indoor
Walking. Finally, I would like to point out that for some individuals, certain
variants of the walk that are indicated, could be used to read or write or draw,
but this only corresponds to each person to find out with personal practice.
Body Walking
Climb Walking
Dance Walking
Hiking
Hill Walking
Indoor Walking
Jogging
Mountaineering
Nordic Walking
Olympic March
Pace Walking
Power Walking
Roaming
Sprint Walking
Strolling
Trekking
Walking on Water
Walk-Talk
Wandern
Weight Walking
Long Distance Walking
Treadmill Walking
Maybe there are doubts in some of them, for that reason I briefly define them:
HIKING: Hiking, walking to programmed places. STROLLING: Wandering around. JOGGING: Walking and Trotting. HILL WALKING: Walk up and down light slopes. WANDERN: Hiking on foot, to learn the history and culture of the places you visit. TREKKING: Hiking, long walks. SPRINT WALKING: Walk exchanging long steps and short steps, and with speed changes. OLYMPIC MARCH: Walk without your feet ever losing contact with the floor. PACE WALKING: Walk slowly doing exercises with other limbs and body parts. ROAMING: To wander, without fixed course, average distances. POWER WALKING: Walk at higher speeds. CLIMB WALKING: walking climbing. DANCE WALKING: walk doing some dance steps. NORDIC WALKING: walk outdoors with equipment. BODY WALKING: Walking observing body messages. WALKING ON WATER: Walk inside low water braces. WALK-TALK: Walk talking. WEIGHT WALKING: Walking to lose weight. INDOOR WALKING: Walk inside enclosed spaces, such as houses, shopping centers, shopping malls, etc.
All of them allow us to develop a favorable exercise for our health, of the aerobic type. That is to say, when performing and applying aerobic dynamism we generate the oxygenation of the whole body, including the brain, we improve blood circulation and collateral circulation, as well as the function of memory and decisively benefiting cardiac activity. The important thing is to walk, always walk, and perform some of the activities inherent to the WALK-RWD system, be it reading, writing or drawing.
I think that talking about the concept of freedom is very complex. I once said: Freedom: Existential longing, mental mirage or metaphysical reality? However, here I do not intend to define what it consists of, I only try to make it feel in some of its most elementary forms, by just walking.
Freedom gains strength in terms of its absence; the more we feel that we do not have it, the more we long for it.
Walking makes us feel and live sensorially that full strength of our interiority, regardless of what are the types of our emotional chains. It allows us to get away from that massive fervor of purchases, that envelope of mass advertising, because they constantly tell us that freedom is “a plus” that is obtained by acquiring things. When we walk along a path in the countryside, we say: We breathe pure air; and that is nothing more than a metaphor of feeling free, free of the things that imprison us, our commitments, obligations, physical things; we feel tied to all of this.
Just to get a little closer to its definition, we can mention a classification of this concept in 2 aspects, which are not the only ones: psychological, spiritual, mental and metaphysical freedom; and external freedom: physical, civil, political, economic, with all its rights, of worship, association, expression and others.
Now, the system of reading, writing and drawing, while we walk, is a possibility that we have at hand to get away from those chains a little. Those 3 fundamental activities that make up the system are linked to freedom, while we walk, it is a way of feeling free from our bonds.
In my book Evanescent stories (*) I present a dialogue between the conscience and the unconscious entitled “THE TREE OF EXISTENCE; AND FREEDOM?”. (All the stories consist of that dialogue between these two mental entities), which describes the struggle we engage with ourselves for not understanding what happens to us and for not being able to feel free. I quote textually:
“Freedom is random space where none of the mental functions find accommodation. Disharmonies that must turn back, seeking the intuition of that reasoned instant that imprisoned generates our own reaction to exist.
Paradoxical is blaming each other. Healing is the very longing for freedom, that self-presence in the balance of the source of feeling and reason, of suffocation and subjection; with the sole purpose of knowing and feeling that we are alone; condemned to hide in the memory of our own being, consuming that strangulation of deep loneliness, product of despair, of being authentically us, and only us. That is not being. The vital horizon is observed when freedom is oneself. And what comes next? My unconscious conditions are confused. The nothing. Absolutely nothing. Only hell. Blood flows at 103 degrees when freedom is taken away. Let’s not resist all movement is creator of itself; even if we are in those limits, we should not aspire to recreate only if the other dies”.
So far that section of the dialogue between those two entities seeking harmony. The title of this series of dialogues between the conscience and the unconscious summarizes our perennial struggle to be free: FREEDOM 103 (The result was the book: Freedom 103 **). When our being is cut off in its possibilities of acting freely or is observed blocked, in that point of intransigence and despair, our blood begins to overheat and comes to a boil if we can not emancipate ourselves from our chains, whatever they may be, personal or external.
356 “Lady Liberty”
The walk is not the total solution to eliminate those chains, but it does help us to mitigate those emotional ailments. Let’s do it by choosing a place outside of urban areas and accompanying ourselves with a book and a notebook. Let’s read that book that transmits liberation and we rescue that suffering part of our being. Let’s observe the open space and vent our hardships by writing them so that they also fly with freedom outside of our being.
Grant us the permission to walk and make it a privilege that has no economic cost. Let’s perform these activities as a fundamental act of freedom.
The painting “Lady Liberty” is inspired by the poem “Liberéstula”, which I present below.
Poem “Liberéstula”
They broke the silence
lined up as they were
seemed to nestle
the semblance of a walk.
&
Defeated by time
emancipated by pain itself
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
epistile of sustenance that draws
those versifications of the sunset,
even with your diluted silhouette
there is no confusion in you.
&
The spirit of the plinth
where you rest in an irony
occupying the backwater
you unsettle the pedestal,
and the effort transmitted
with similar somber anguish
looking ever skyward.
&
Stulos,
of inert stone
with archetypal mask
you ignite all my words
that do not reach you
&
Movement in the static
refulgence you express in your crown
the living torrent of your command
the contact
reinforced
you are chained
the Roman enlarges your landscape
the tonal
your stylized silhouette
you carry with you the whole work
you are the praise of the heights.
&
Substantial of the figurative
in the modification you are anchored
you survive in death
and faint in experience
ex – expertise centered on the ledge
the environment suffocates you,
you still want to grow
and you resurge in the future work.
&
Upright
there, on the base,
thrown in the path of incomprehension
always illuminated
are you definitive?
transcendence in your being
you make an appointment with the empyrean.
&
In darkness you shine
you initiate in the ortho of life
you are the refulgent expression
and you nestle
in revived history
everything is afterlife
you always reach the divine
and only you
because your opposite, the rest, is slavery.
&
You probe the floor with pleasure
are your footprints
there the boarding
serious character
that flashes your silhouette
penumbras there is not in you
transient exaltation
always overcoming your own height.
&
The shadows lengthen
you spread
the impartial frieze
transmission of your emptiness
always hoisting your lineage
in the veins transmitting your efforts
wandering through the desert anguish
your reign is an example
the mystery of impartiality.
&
You exacerbate the cravings of hell
series that ignites and raises the spire
you are spirit in search
unloaded and sad
as a delicate figure
surrendered in obeisance
before the infinity
&
Eternal truth is simplicity?
will not change your temperament
tormented fruit in chained death
you are the envy of others;
the kingdom is yours, but not the peace
life-long of the cares
the environment now caresses you,
you move without walking.
&
Complexity of the ardent look
chimera of intellectuality
you dream to see yourself exalted
you emerge permanent in the deforming altar
you are mutism sunk in your elevation
and you smile together with firmness
enveloping the glances
deeply
without existing in a single face
inaccessible to visual withdrawal
you conform fatally and inexorably
without undermining your essentiality.
&
Decadence tries not to flatter
the precedence that dwelt
you are the edification of the symbol
you are the faithful deviation the ideal unreality.
(*) Loya Lopategui, Carlos & Pinera, Edel C. , Evanescent Stories, EMULISA, Mexico, 2021. Distributed by Amazon, available in Kindle Edition: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B86GMS8W.
The motivation
that is achieved with this system is so great that it has prompted me to share
it so that it is examined and verified carefully.
I will try to
answer some of the questions they ask me about what are the mechanisms we must
use to achieve that spark of having the desire to take the first step all those
days that we can take a walk.
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Perhaps
everything is reduced to generating that desire to take that initial step,
since after the system itself will encourage one to continue with the process.
Of course, the
motivation is not a simple action of our spirit, but is related to a number of
other physical, intellectual and mental states of our being, such as:
resolution, decision, impetus, confidence, enthusiasm, euphoria, optimism ,
pessimism, physical energy, mental energy, will, positive thoughts, negative
thoughts, intention, discouragement, tranquility, indifference, anguish,
sadness, joy, depression, animosity. It seems incredible, but yes, all this
participates, to a lesser or greater degree, in our motivation. Therefore, sometimes
it is not easy to take the first step every time we decide to go for a walk to
read or write. But once we do it, we will continue to be enthusiastic about the
process. A very important element to have the spirit is to know that the system
immediately generates us that state of confidence that after initiation we
manage to keep walking, with pleasure of reading or writing; but for this we
must discover for ourselves the degree of effectiveness of the method.
We must keep in
mind that to perform a certain activity in a specific place and time, the
motivation, in each one of us, is different. It could indicate different levels
of enthusiasm, because the motivation varies in ourselves from one moment to
another and according to the activity performed.
There are
several elements that we must put into practice to achieve daily motivation and
break that physical apathy and mental laziness. The most relevant are:
a) the patience
we must have with ourselves and empathy with others;
b) the love we
feel for our body and our mind, that is, to love ourselves;
c) the time we
have;
d) the
attraction we feel for the activities we are obliged to develop;
e) the
inclination we have towards walking, reading, writing and drawing;
f) improving
emotionally;
g) the degree of
enjoyment towards our daily activities;
The WALK-RWD
system provides us with a state of meditation that projects us towards two of its
main fields that make it up: relaxation and concentration.
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By applying it we can achieve that the brain waves reach very adequate levels so that the mind is placed in a position of relaxation and relaxation, freed of worries and emotional tensions (Post WALKING, MEDITATION AND CEREBRAL WAVES). Relaxation is a fundamental part of meditation; a state where the mind relaxes and its functions go down from the level of operation, remaining in a semiconscious state, and where the consciousness and the unconscious continue to take care of capturing the external stimuli. As we know, consciousness and the unconscious are not antagonistic, but interdependent functions.
In this state,
some of the functions go down in level such as will, conceptual thinking,
reasoning, logic; but others increase in their degree of operation such as
creativity, imagination, intuition, inspiration, fantasy, all of them
consciously but not necessarily voluntarily. Relaxation is the carelessness of
the greatest number of events and situations, leaving the unconscious to seek
its harmony with the conscience.
Invariably, we
can observe, at 4-5 minutes after starting a walk, that the thoughts of worry,
affliction and anguish that were absorbing us, begin to fade and we are
generally not aware of the moment when they disappear from our mind. We enter,
automatically -without noticing how it is generated- in a process of mental
relaxation, of calm and puts us in a state free of tensions and disturbing
obsessions.
In the same
sense, the concentration is achieved in such a way that each walk is a
“golden vein” for the results obtained in terms of health, knowledge,
creativity and fundamentally feeling good about oneself.
Concentration is
the ideal state to be absorbed in the questions that our mental as well as
spiritual interiority is immersed in order to address and resolve in some way.
Yoga is
representative, in part, of the concentrative application, while Buddhism is
more identified with the type of introspection, although none of these 2
systems, in their characterizations, are absolute of these categories.
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It seems that introspection, the examination towards our interiority, is a psychic function that is achieved when we reach an important degree in mental and spiritual relaxation and concentration. In this prosecution, the binomial relaxation-concentration, is when we can get the answers about ourselves. Thus, meditation may tend towards an abstraction of reasoning and thinking, but it is also a concentric attention to an object or subject. Therefore, the WALK-RWD system allows us to direct ourselves towards both stages of meditation, according to our needs, when we read, write or draw, while we walk. Of course, what we intend with the system is not to reach those degrees of abstraction and loss of the senses, but an intermediate level that leads to creation in any of its forms, related to writing and drawing.
If by being too distracted, worried or scattered, you can not concentrate on reading or writing, we can try, at the beginning of the walk, to focus on a specific aspect or object. Of these there is a great variety of situations and forms that can allow us to begin to eliminate those emotions and concerns that distract our attention. Depending on the place we have chosen to carry out our activities, such as a path, a park or a garden, we can accompany our steps with the beating of our heart, in such a way to achieve a synchrony between step and beat, which will cause us a nice abstraction and it will take us away from our worries and afflictions. The same result would throw us counting the number of tiles we are traveling during our walk. With a little imagination -that the walk will generate it by itself- we can select a practice that allows us to abstract and eliminate what prevents us from concentrating on reading or writing. Once we have reached a certain tranquility and relaxation we can again try to open the book or write some lines. Let us put this system into practice and observe how it operates on the paths of relaxation and concentration.
I invite you to read these other writings on the subject:
There are numerous books that inform and instruct us about human habit, a practice that is defined as a repetitive conduct, conscious or unconscious, within the behavior of an individual.
Habits are classified into two great universes, good and bad habits, and within these two universes we find diverse classes that differentiate them from each other: physical, mental, affective, emotional, social, ethical or moral, dogmatic, academic or intellectual, etc., and all of them may belong to two or more categories.
Despite this differentiation between habits, we can point out that all have the same structure in their routine and proceed: they are constituted by a chain of attitudes and needs of the physical, spiritual and mental type, which can be represented in a graphic manner as a conformation of nodes and links.
Each node and link in the chain works in combination with the rest of them. The following graphic is a schematic representation of that dynamic and vigorous structure.
The nodes Ai represent the different attitudes, behaviors and needs that in each performance of a habit, participate for its exercise and release.
What we are particularly interested in dealing with within these 2 universes and in the wide range of the world of habits, is the sector of those in which the human being seeks an evasion of their commitments, obligations and responsibilities, even without existing no authority that imposes them, just by feeling responsible for taking an attitude or performing any action. That is, those where the human being consciously or unconsciously refuses to play certain roles, and does not know, does not understand and does not want to do so, either for the achievement of a satisfaction or rejection of negative behavior. We must also note that within these 2 universes and their types, we find in the behavior of each individual and according to their emotional and mental inclinations, the dominant habit type, which reaches a certain level of oppression and emotional-mental power, which gets become a very dangerous and harmful mania.
Now, with respect to the acquisition of a new habit, the repetition of an action is usually recommended, a certain number of times, and under certain identical conditions, until it becomes inherent to the self. Let’s go to its definition: Habit is the conduct acquired by the frequent repetition of an act or action. It simply suggests what is in its essence of conformation. It is correct, however, in addition to the concrete action must be considered the entire chain of links that lead to its performance and acquisition, becoming aware of the attitudes and activities that are exercised in a controlled environment, and behavioral conduct of the person who I’m putting it into practice.
On the other hand, to eliminate harmful habits, it is recommended to replace the unwanted action with a new one, as well as change the environment where the individual can no longer carry out the habit. Also here we can say that these suggestions are acceptable.
When talking about drugs it is also recommended that the person should not have access to the stimulant, and in extreme cases the punishment is suggested, a situation that is not advisable.
On the acquisition of new good habits, I would like to mention some factors that, through the System of walking, reading, writing and drawing (WALK-RWD System), are articulated.
One of the concrete products obtained through the application of this system is the achievement of the habit of walking. The certainty and infallibility of it, as we have explained in several previous writings (OBJECTIVES OF THE SYSTEM; HARMONY OF THE BODY WITH THE MIND;THE SYSTEM IS MOTIVATIONAL BY ITSELF), is that the activities of reading, writing and drawing, serve, each of them, as triggers of the rest. I have mentioned it many times: reading is the activity that motivates me most personally and this drives me to walk, a little or a lot; this practice has never failed me, because reading is invariably the driving force for me of the other 3 activities. As these 4 activities co-operate with each other, the habit of carrying them out in pairs and sometimes in triads is created, which at the end of everything -after a few weeks or months- we can see that this habit has been incorporated in a way inherent to our being. What is a habit, after all? It is an implanted need repeated -and linked- that our being has to put it into practice, at certain times and under certain circumstances for the achievement of any objective and our being identifies with it in some way, for better or for worse, from that we feel that guide to realize it, likewise during its development and even after having consummated it. This need, thus created, is presented periodically, recurrently and usually under a certain emotional, physical and spiritual state, and under circumstantial conditions, which lead the individual mentally to make it concrete.
All the benefits that are obtained directly in our body, either preventively or corrective, are increased with the advances that are obtained, day by day, in the fields of reading and writing. After a few weeks, you will feel better, both physically and culturally because of the new documents read and the literary creation you have made.
The only thing that you have to decide is to start this method and be tenacious at the beginning, because with the same achievements that you will start to obtain from the initiation, you will have your own motivation to continue for the rest of your life.
There are studies where it is mentioned that during the adolescent years it is when the bad habits are generated in which the human being -man and woman- project him towards his adult age, with a high percentage, to suffer any of the heart diseases, gastric , pulmonary, etc., and that can be avoided, changing those habits, by incorporating this type of disciplines that guide us towards a healthier physical, cultural and mental development.
For people of early age (14 to 18 years old) it is highly recommended because it is when you start to acquire habits that transform us into sedentary beings; we prefer the car instead of walking. In this period is when we must strengthen the heart, circulation and lungs, and what better than by a habit of walking daily and also reading and even initiating us in a creative writing.
I could almost assure that a young person who works with this system, at 14-15 years old, will reach adulthood being an excellent reader with good discipline in all the activities he develops and also with a taste for writing, which will facilitate his development as a professional, and could become, as an adult, a good writer.
The system counteracts sedentary habits, helps in the elimination of excess calories generated by too much food, mitigates psychological problems, but usually can not help anything in the hereditary genes. The hereditary issue can be explained by the process that some people remove fat more slowly than average, so it could be corrected by a reduction in the amount of food in the three meals a day, or by eliminating a meal, for example, dinner. It could also be corrected, increasing the miles of walk.
In a future post (COMBATING SOME ENEMIES WITH THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM: OBESITY) I will make the exhibition of how to lose weight using this System of walking, reading, writing and drawing (WALK-RWD System), procedure that is explained in the corresponding manual of my authorship; however, the pattern of habit formation, which I have previously exposed, as a chain of attitudes and needs of the physical, spiritual and mental, graphic types of events and links, allows us to eliminate any type of harmful habit. To eliminate a habit you have to break with the respective chain in any of its activities; for which it is necessary to look for the weakest and most accessible points in order to break the chain of activities, behaviors and needs.
Loya Lopategui, Carlos, Manual for Walking, Reading, Writing and Drawing, EMULISA, Mexico, 2016. Distributed by Amazon, available in Kindle Edition: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09K6N5FTL
