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Walking is an ancient physical practice with profound benefits for our overall health. Let’s see how walking can act as both a preventive and corrective measure.

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Below are the physical, mental, emotional, spiritual and emotional aspects that occur when considering walking as a Preventive and Corrective means.

1. As a Preventive Means

• Physical Health:

-Cardiovascular strengthening: Reduces the risk of heart disease, hypertension and stroke.

-Weight control: Helps burn calories and maintain a healthy weight, preventing obesity and associated diseases.

-Muscle and bone strengthening: Tones the muscles of the legs and core, improving posture and preventing injuries.

-Joint health: Improves joint flexibility and lubrication, reducing the risk of arthritis.

-Strengthening the immune system: Increases circulation and the production of white blood cells, improving the body’s defenses.

• Mental Health:

-Stress reduction: Releases endorphins, neurotransmitters that act as natural pain relievers and improve mood.

-Improved concentration: Increases blood flow to the brain, promoting mental clarity and the ability to concentrate.

-Prevention of depression: Regular physical activity is an effective complementary treatment for depression.

• Emotional Health:

-Increased self-esteem: Achieving goals related to walking can improve self-confidence.

-Improved sleep: Regular physical activity contributes to deeper, more restful sleep.

• Spiritual and Mental Health:

-Connection with nature: Walking in natural environments can promote a feeling of peace and well-being.

-Meditation in movement: Walking can become a meditative practice, encouraging introspection and connection with oneself.

2. As a Corrective Means

• Physical Health:

-Injury recovery: Gradual walking can help you regain mobility and strength after an injury.

-Chronic pain management: It can relieve pain associated with conditions such as fibromyalgia or arthritis.

-Improved circulation: Helps reduce swelling and the feeling of heaviness in the legs.

• Mental Health:

-Anxiety treatment: Regular physical exercise can reduce anxiety symptoms.

-Combat boredom and monotony: Walking can help overcome low moods and find new perspectives.

• Emotional Health:

-Overcoming depression: Walking is an effective tool to combat the symptoms of depression.

-Anger management: Physical activity can help channel negative energy and reduce impulsivity.

Finally, I present below certain specific recommendations so that our walks result in effective benefits:

Recommendations for Walking with Benefits

• Regularity: Walk at least 30 minutes every day of the week.

• Intensity: Adapt the intensity of the walk to your physical condition.

• Variety: Alternate between brisk walking and walking uphill to work different muscle groups.

• Posture: Keep your back straight, shoulders relaxed and look forward.

• Warm up and cool down: Spend a few minutes at the beginning and end of each walk to stretch your muscles.

In summary, walking is an accessible and beneficial physical activity for all ages and physical conditions. By incorporating walking into your daily routine, you will be investing in your physical, mental and emotional health.

Remember that walking is a natural practice for humans and the most important thing is to find a walking pace that is comfortable and pleasant for you, and enjoy it to the fullest.

Let’s make some reflections and explanations about these two concepts.

Assimilating and apprehending the word “corrective” is easy; but “preventive” is not.

When we walk we can lose weight, that is a corrective effect, that is, it is curative; However, when we say that we can improve our cardiovascular system (heart, veins and arteries), we do not say that by walking we can correct and heal it, but we mean that it is preventive to prevent it from deteriorating or continuing. deteriorating.

Let’s detail the above.

For example, prevention is equated to reducing the risk of several diseases, including those related to heart disease and stroke. Our WALK-RWD System is preventive because it avoids the danger of certain diseases not occurring. The preventive nature of the system is also because it prevents any disease from spreading or developing further.

From personal experiences, the corrective result achieved by walking, in terms of body weight, is the following: Depending on the type of diet (a personal diet [1]), the amount of food we eat at each meal (again a diet) and each person’s metabolism, we lose from 1 milligram (0.00003527 ounces) to 3½ milligrams (0.000123 ounces) for each step we take walking.

Health parameters vary (because they are a variable) for each person, at the stage of their life and for the day on which any laboratory study is performed, but once the data is obtained, it is considered a constant, in which the doctor bases his analysis and makes the evaluation and his prescription to relieve the patient. For another time or date, that same parameter will be different, that is, it varies from one time to another. The same thing happens for other people, the parameters are indices that vary but become constant quantities when obtaining the medical laboratory results.

Now, one of the parameters -among others- that are measured in laboratory studies to determine the health status of an individual, with respect to their cardiovascular system, is triglycerides, which is measured in “mg/dL” ( “mmol/L”), in milligrams of cholesterol per deciliter of blood. The limits of this parameter are:

                               Normal: less than 150 mg/dL (less to 8.3 mmol/L)

                               High limit value: 150 – 199 mg/dL (8.3 – 11.0 mmol/L)

                               High: 200 – 499 mg/dL (11.1 – 27.7 mmol/L)

Very high: equal to or greater than 500 mg/dL (equal or bigger to 27.8 mmol/L)

If a person results – through a medical laboratory study – with a level of 214 mg/dL (11.9 mmol/L), it means that they are at the “High Limit Value” level.

Walking does not correct by reducing this abnormal level, but it is preventive, in the sense that if we walk daily, for example 2-3 miles/day (3-5 kilometers/day), so that these will not continue to deteriorate. levels, taking into account the medical evaluation, prescription and diet (scrupulous and precise) that that particular person must follow.

In other words, in this case of triglycerides – as in others – we cannot say that with walking certain units of the parameter measured in “mg/dL” (“mmol/L”) of triglycerides will be lost for each step taken. It is not corrective, however, we can say that walking IS preventive because it prevents this health parameter from continuing to increase.

Another health parameter in which walking is corrective is the heartbeat frequency (heartbeat frequency or also called pulse), which is immersed in the cardiovascular system, as it regulates lowering that frequency to normal levels. Sedentary people can have levels of 70 or 80 beats/minute, while athletes have it at 60 beats/min and below this level. A person in their 70s or 80s may decide to walk 2-3 miles/day (3-5 kilometers) and lower that level at some points immediately after finishing walking.

Another case is that of cholesterol, where we can appreciate the preventive aspect of the system. Cholesterol in the blood is one of the most important parameters and the danger of its deterioration can be avoided by walking, however, when this element integrated into the blood cannot be reduced sufficiently by this means of walking (and the corresponding diet), the person can and should go to their doctor to prescribe an appropriate medication to correct their blood cholesterol level.

Finally, I would like to mention that walking is also recommended for people who have suffered a heart attack. Always under medical supervision. Walking after this type of event improves both the physical and psychological aspects of the person, as they recover their emotional state of disability, apart from what we already mentioned from the physical point of view, regarding the frequency of the heartbeat for their respective pumping of blood throughout the body. Notwithstanding the above, excessive walking can cause arrhythmias in people predisposed to it, especially when they suffer from heart failure.

Let’s take daily walks, of at least 30 minutes, and this will help us in the two specified ways, they will act by themselves as Preventive and Corrective means, which will generate profound benefits for our overall health.

[1] Loya Lopategui, Carlos, Flavors Diet. The Art of Savoring Food, EMULISA, Mexico, 2024. Version available on Amazon, Kindle Edition: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D42N64W7

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In my research on thinkers, writers, and artists who have, in some way, written about walking, I came across Juan Huarte de San Juan, a 16th-century Spanish physician and philosopher. In 1575, he published his book, Examen de Ingenios para las Sciencias (The Examination of Men’s Wits for the Sciences), where faith shows the difference in abilities that men have, and the kind of letters that correspond to each one in particular.

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It’s been said that his work was a precursor to three sciences: Psychology, Eugenics, and Vocational-Educational Guidance. Huarte also made important contributions to Pathology, Sociology, Neurology, and Anthropology. His investigation sought to improve society itself by selecting the appropriate professional education for each individual, based on their unique physical and intellectual aptitudes, which he believed were derived from their particular physical, emotional and neurological constitution. These aptitudes, Huarte explains, clearly indicate what individuals need to be “…men of great prudence and knowledge, who in their tender age would discover each person’s genius, making them study by force the science that was right for them and not leaving it to their choice, from which would result in your states and dominions having the greatest artisans in the world, simply by joining art with nature”.

In chapter V [VIII in the 1594 edition], he comments: “Inventive geniuses are called ‘capricious’ in the Tuscan language, because of the resemblance they have to the goat in its walking and grazing. The goat never rests on flat ground; it always loves to walk alone among the rocks and heights, and to peer into great depths; it therefore does not follow any path or wish to walk with company. Such a property as this is found in the rational soul when it has a well-organized and temperate brain: it never rests in any contemplation; it is always restless, seeking new things to know and understand. Of this kind of soul, that saying of Hippocrates is true: animae deambulatio, cogitatio hominibus(*). For there are other men who never leave one contemplation or think there is anything more in the world to discover. These have the property of the sheep, which never leaves the footsteps of the bellwether, nor dares to walk in deserted places without a track, but rather on very trodden paths and with someone going ahead”.

In these expressions, Huarte clearly uses the walking of the goat as an analogy for the human being and their diverse physical and mental capacities.

(*)animae deambulatio, cogitatio hominibus: A WALK (WANDERING) PROVOKES MEDITATION AND THOUGHT IN HUMAN BEINGS. IT ENCOURAGES PEOPLE TO THINK THROUGH WALKING.

Huarte citing Hippocrates. In another section, he notes: “Both differences of genius are very common among men of letters. There are some who are far-reaching and outside common opinion; they judge and treat things in a different way; they are free in giving their opinion; and they follow no one. There are others who are reserved, humble and very placid, distrustful of themselves and surrendering to the opinion of a grave author whom they follow, whose sayings and sentences they hold as science and demonstration, and what differs from this they judge as vanity and falsehood. These two differences of genius, when combined, are of great benefit. For, just as shepherds usually add a dozen goats to a large flock of sheep to raise them and lead them with a quickened pace to enjoy new pastures that are not trodden, in the same way it is fitting that there should be in human letters some capricious geniuses who discover to the ‘ovine’ understandings new secrets of nature and give them contemplations, never before heard, in which to exercise themselves. For in this way the arts grow, and men know more each day”.

This is a text with a clear analogy of walking in human beings, who may or may not be immersed in certain environmental characteristics, combined with the innate, congenital, or acquired traits of the individual in question.

Finally, I would like to quote this doctor on what he wrote about meditation and contemplation: “To the last doubt, the answer is that when a man sets himself to contemplate some truth he wants to know and then does not grasp it, it is because the brain lacks the proper temperament for it; but after a while in contemplation, natural heat (which are the vital spirits and arterial blood) then goes to the head and the brain’s temperament rises until it reaches the point that is needed. It is true that much speculation is harmful to some and beneficial to others; because if the brain lacks little to reach the point of convenient heat, it is necessary to contemplate little; and if it goes beyond that, the understanding is then disordered with the great presence of the vital spirits, and thus does not hit upon the truth. Which is why we see many men who speak very well on the spur of the moment, and with thought are worth nothing. Others have such a low understanding (either from much coldness or dryness) that it is necessary for the heat to be in the head for a long time to raise the temperament to the degrees it lacks; and, thus, with thought they speak better than on the spur of the moment”.

In summary, we can say that Dr. Huarte affirmed that walking, beyond being a simple physical displacement, is also an expression of human ingenuity. According to him, wandering stimulates reflection, awakens the mind, and activates our deepest capacities, bringing forth both creative and contemplative thought. Just as there are souls that dare to explore new paths—like the goat that challenges the heights—there are also those who prefer to follow paths already marked. Both temperaments are necessary for the advancement of knowledge and humanity.

To walk with genius, then, is to accept that our footsteps can lead us not only to physical places but to new ideas, unexpected truths, and revealing meditations. I invite you, the reader, to walk more—but not just in any way: walk with attention, with curiosity, with the inner impulse of one who seeks to understand the world and themselves. As Hippocrates said and Huarte repeated: “Animae deambulatio, cogitatio hominibus“—the soul that wanders, thinks. May your steps today take you farther than you imagine.

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A Moving Manifesto for the New Walkers of the 31st Century

“Memory is not housed in walls, but in the skin that has brushed against them a thousand times when passing by.” Fragment rescued from the walls of the Unfading House (1), year 3098.

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I. WALKING AS AN ARCHITECTURAL ACT

Walking is, in itself, a form of architecture. But not the kind built with concrete or algorithms; rather, it’s a dermal architecture: an architecture that is built and eroded on the skin. Every step is a contact with the ground, with the wind, with the textures of the world, with what once was.

We don’t need more roofs; we need journeys. We live in an era—that of Toxic Realism—where structures no longer protect us; they sicken us, isolate us, watch us, deceive us with promises of security while stripping us of our souls. In this domestic dystopia, walking becomes a form of dissent, a living design, unstable but genuinely human.

II. WALKING ON RUINS

The Unfading House, whose history extends to the year 3100, has not physically collapsed… but it has emotionally. Its fallen walls still stand in some parts, but they are symbolic ruins, fragments of a civilization that forgot itself.

Walking on these ruins—not just on stones but on eroded experiences—transforms into a way of reading the past with our feet, as if each step were a syllable of a secret language that only the body can interpret. Walking is, then, a bodily reading of memory, of past emotions (2).

These ruins are not just the ruins of a house, but of a model of life, of a way of thinking, of an emotion, of a false idea of progress.

III. THE SKIN AS A MAP

Our feet, our soles, our legs… have been forgotten in the equation of modern existence. We have been immobilized by screens, by sedentary jobs, by the false promise of digital hyperconnectivity. But what is disconnected is not the WiFi: it is the body from the world, it is the body from its own silenced emotions.

Walking reactivates the skin as a map. We don’t need compasses if we recover the dermal sense of space. When we walk, we don’t seek a destination: we seek to remember what we were to feel past emotions, reconstruct what we are, reimagine what we could be.

IV. TO REMEMBER IS TO WALK

The act of walking not only stimulates the body: it stimulates emotional, tactile, unconscious memory. Each journey activates dormant memories, forgotten thoughts, sensations that were encapsulated by the toxic architecture of confinement.

Walk in solitude or in company. Walk aimlessly. Walk on cities that no longer exist. Walk as a method of healing. Walk as a way to see each other again, and to see ourselves again within ourselves.

V. WALKING AS INSURRECTION IN ARCHETH

In the ARCHETH: Architectural Echo-Transfer Hub program (3), walking is not a recreational activity. It is an essential axis for reconfiguring time, identity, and knowledge. Walking is an ancient technology. In a hyperdigital world, walking is not primitive; it is revolutionary.

ARCHETH also functions as a platform for receiving Architectural Echos and for transmitting all kinds of emotional memories, both positive and negative.

ARCHETH proposes a mutant, organic urbanism, where routes are more important than buildings. Walkable cities are not a luxury: they are a spiritual urgency. In ARCHETH, each walk generates an “emotional cartographic modification (correction)” that is recorded not in satellites, but in the fabrics of collective consciousness.

VI. REASONS TO WALK: A CALL TO HUMANITY

Walk to breathe with your whole body. 🦶 Walk to exit the algorithm. 🦶 Walk to touch the world with your skin. 🦶 Walk to remember without the need for screens. 🦶 Walk so you don’t become a ruin. 🦶 Walk to emotionally assimilate Toxic Realism. 🦶 Walk because the future is built step by step. 🦶 Walk because there is no house anymore, but there is a path.

VII. CONCLUSION: THE FIRST STEP

The Unfading House still inhabits our minds. Its corridors are within us. But it’s no longer enough to inhabit it. We must leave it behind. We must walk on its ruins to understand its message and free ourselves.

Because in the 31st century, and just like now, there is only one way to save the human soul: to walk again.

#ToxicRealism #ArchitectureOfMemory #WalkingIsRevolution #TheUnfadingHouse #ARCHETH #WalkThinkFeel #WalkingOnRuins #DermalArchitecture

(1) Loya Lopategui, Carlos, The Unfading House, EMULISA, Mexico, 2025. Available on Amazon, Kindle Edition: https://www.amazon.es/dp/B0FJ6HZKC1

(2) Loya Lopategui, Carlos, Anapopatehia: Reliving the Emotions of the Past, EMULISA, Mexico, 2024. Available on Amazon, Kindle Edition: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DPJL579C

(3) Loya Lopategui, Carlos, ARCHETH: Architecture of Memory and Forgetting, EMULISA, Mexico, 2025. Available on Amazon, Kindle Edition: https://www.amazon.es/dp/B0FL1H1DBT

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Walking towards Complete Health: The Rhythm of Numbers

Walking is an activity as simple as it is powerful. It connects us with our body, frees us from stress and invites us to observe the world around us. But have you ever thought about how mathematics accompanies every step you take?

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From the golden ratio reflected in the length of our strides to the rhythms of our breathing synchronized with our heartbeat, walking is a mathematical act in motion. And nature, in all its greatness, is governed by numerical patterns that, without realizing it, we follow every day.

The Art of Walking with Mathematical Rhythm

1. Steps as numerical sequences

Think of walking as an infinite progression of numbers. Each step we take can be represented as a cumulative sum: one step + another step = progress. Isn’t this similar to a mathematical series? On each walk, we build a unique path that combines symmetry and movement.

2. The golden ratio in our body

Our body follows fascinating mathematical patterns. From the length of our limbs to the proportion between our torso and our legs, the golden ratio (1.618) is present in each of us. Even when we walk, this natural balance propels us forward with efficiency and grace.

3. Rhythm and time: the compass of movement

Walking is not only physical; it also has a temporal component. Each step has a unique rhythm, which can be measured in steps per minute or beats per second. It’s as if our walking is an internal metronome, a constant reminder that time and movement are deeply intertwined.

4.- Accompanying our body with steps of the Fibonacci sequence

The Fibonacci sequence (0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21…) is a perfect example of how small beginnings can lead to big progress. Just as each number in the sequence is the sum of the previous two, each step we take is a sum towards better health. Walking daily reflects that cumulative growth: one step leads to another, and together you build a path to well-being.

Mathematics and Walking: A Relationship for Life

In addition to the physical benefits of walking, integrating math into our daily walks can be an eye-opening experience. For example, counting your steps, measuring distances, or even observing patterns in your environment (such as lined trees or curves in a trail) can make a walk richer and more meaningful.

Mathematics does not have to be abstract or distant. By walking, you can discover that they are present in every corner of the world. And if you ever doubt the power of numbers, remember that they are the basis of life itself: from the cycles of the moon to the geometry of a flower.

The Connection with the Essay “The Infinite Mischief of Infinity”.

If you have been fascinated by this connection between walking and mathematics, we invite you to explore more in the book “The Infinite Mischief of Infinity” where numbers and mathematical equations come to life in humorous stories full of humorous situations, creativity and revelations that perhaps never before you have heard. Numbers, like vivid characters, reflect philosophically to convey to us that they are our faithful companions and friends for life. It is a novel that opens the way for us to rediscover a world that we generally keep away from us but that with its antics show us that they are essential for our survival, since we can live with them.

If you want to get more involved in these numerical stories, we invite you to read the complete novel on Amazon, Kindle Edition: https://www.amazon.es/dp/B0DT7TDM9N.

The Animated Short Film “The Judgment of Infinity: Chaos or Beauty?”.

In addition, very soon you will be able to enjoy the Animated Short Film: “The Judgment of Infinity: Chaos or Beauty?”, which promises to take you to a world full of mathematical imagination. Don’t miss it and stay tuned for its premiere. This short film, which is inspired by the ideas of the essay, is a creative project that combines a captivating narrative and endearing characters to convey that numbers are our friends and that we should not have any aversion towards them or any of the mathematical symbols or equations. Keep an eye on this space, where we will share a link to the short film soon.

Walk Every Day: Your Formula for a Complete Life

Start your day with a walk. Listen to your steps, feel the rhythm of your breathing and see the world with new eyes. Each step is an equation that adds well-being to your life.

Remember: walking not only strengthens your body, but also your mind and spirit. And by incorporating mathematics into this daily activity, you can discover the infinite beauty that surrounds us. Walk and connect with the universe, one step at a time!

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Is Procrastination a Blockage of Thanatos? The Erotanathic Reprogramming System and the Power of Conscious Movement

1.-Walking: A Catalyst, Not an End in Itself

In this post, we’re not just promoting walking as an isolated physical activity, nor are we telling you to stop procrastinating your exercise sessions. This isn’t about overcoming resistance to walking for its own sake.

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What we propose is something much deeper: incorporating walking as a symbolic and practical tool within our Erotanathic Reprogramming System (ETRS). Its purpose is to interrupt the thanatic reactive patterns that lead you to postpone decisions, tasks or projects of great importance in your life.

Walking, in this context, isn’t an escape. It’s a way to reactivate Eros, the instinct for life, movement, creativity, and connection with what is waiting to be born within you. By using the body in motion, we break the spell of mental immobility that procrastination weaves around you.

The brief, conscious, and ritualized walk proposed by ETRS activates a powerful symbolic system, interrupts repetitive psychological games, and prepares the emotional ground for you to move forward with your daily tasks. Walking is just the first step; the true act of creation happens afterward, when you return with a new impulse to do what you had postponed.

2.-Procrastination: When Thanatos Takes Control

Procrastinating is rarely a conscious decision. Often, it’s not a lack of organization, responsibility, or discipline. It is, in its essence, a form of vital blockage, where Thanatos, the archaic instinct that tends toward immobility, denial, and freezing, subtly takes control. This instinct manifests as tiredness, apathy, indifference, or even a sudden perfectionism that justifies inaction.

Thanatos takes over your will through self-sabotaging thoughts: “better later,” “I’m not ready yet,” “it’s not worth it,” “better rest,” “I’ll do it right later.” And meanwhile, Eros, the impulse for life, creation, and expansion, remains on pause. The genuine desire to advance, transform, and complete slowly fades… almost imperceptibly.

3.-Eros, Thanatos, and the Nervous System: Walking as a Biological Modulator

Behind the deep symbolism of walking, there is a powerful physiological logic. The human body regulates its emotional, instinctive, and survival responses through the autonomic nervous system, which is divided into two complementary branches:

• The sympathetic system: Responsible for activating, mobilizing, and responding to challenges. It speeds up the heart, dilates pupils, and increases attention. Symbolically, we can associate it with Eros in its vital impulse and its capacity to push towards life, movement, and action.
• The parasympathetic system: Reduces bodily activity, lowers heart rate, relaxes muscles, and inhibits environmental responses. It is the system of protective immobility and can be seen as the physiological correlate of Thanatos when it becomes dominant and paralyzing.

When procrastination becomes chronic, our parasympathetic system can be overactivated, pushing us to avoid, to freeze, and not to act. Our body enters a state of “protective stillness” that perpetuates emotional immobility.

It is at this point that conscious walking becomes a symbolic and physiological strategy for disruption. By moving the body, we move the nervous system. The rhythmic and ritualized walk, as proposed by ETRS, generates a progressive stimulation of the sympathetic system, gently awakening vital energy, focus, and the desire to act. Walking is a micro-action that restores balance.

4.-Applying ETRS to Deactivate Procrastination

The Erotanathic Reprogramming System (ETRS) proposes the development of the following four phases, based on the book Sistema de Reprogramación Erotanática (1):

Phase 1: Symbolic Diagnosis

What myth is governing your inertia? What impulse dominates your silence or paralysis?

Instruction: Write a phrase you repeat to yourself every time you decide to postpone.

• Examples:
  • “I’m not inspired yet.”
  • “I still have time, no rush.”
  • “If I do it quickly, it won’t turn out well.”

Mythical Association: Identify the myth that reflects your attitude:

• Sisyphus, condemned to repeat efforts?
• Penelope, endlessly postponing the end while weaving excuses?
• Narcissus, contemplating desire without acting?

Symbolic Activation: Respond to that myth with a simple, vital, direct phrase from Eros.

• “Do it. It doesn’t have to be perfect.”
• “Start without knowing how it ends.”
• “One step is a victory against paralysis.”
• “I walk towards what I fear.”

Phase 2: Decoding the Psychological Game

What “game” are you playing with yourself? Whom do you blame, or what are you escaping from?

Introspective Exercise: Choose your game:

• The paralyzed perfectionist.
• The martyr who postpones to help others.
• The eternal planner.

Write it on a piece of paper. Then, perform a small symbolic act: tear it up or burn it in a safe space.

Breaking the Game Through Walking: Go for a 10-minute walk with a single thought: “I am leaving the game.” Don’t bring your phone or music. Listen to your steps. Feel your breath. This is your first concrete act of rupture.

Phase 3: Deactivating the Reactive Pattern

Breaking the thanatic chain that sustains procrastination.

Brief Erotanathic Walk: Before starting a task you’ve been postponing, walk for 10 minutes. While walking, repeat phrases internally such as:

• “One step = one advance.”
• “My body moves = my will awakens.”
• “I am movement.”
• “My body moves = my will awakens.”
• “I walk towards what I fear.”

Upon Returning: Don’t try to finish the entire task. Just take the first minimum step.

• Example: open the document, write the title, set a date. Starting is not the same as finishing. But starting interrupts the dominance of Thanatos.

Phase 4: Monitoring and Adjustment

Sustaining progress without falling back into inertia.

Post-Walk Mini-Ritual: After each activation walk, write 3 words that describe how you feel. Keep them in a notebook, like a logbook of active Eros.

3-Day Challenge: For 3 consecutive days, before facing a task you usually postpone, do your 10-minute Erotanathic walk. That’s all. Don’t judge the results. By the third day, the chain begins to break.

5.-What Walking Symbolizes

Procrastination isn’t overcome by forced willpower. It’s overcome by symbolic movement, by Eros activated through the body. Walking is, at times, the simplest and quietest way to start.

Walking is the external gesture of an internal decision:

• You don’t wait for motivation; you provoke it.
• You don’t negotiate with Thanatos; you interrupt it.
• The body’s movement activates Eros, and that small physical act can be the threshold to escape mental immobility.
• Don’t walk to escape. Walk to return.

6.-Epilogue: Walking as the Reactivation of Eros and Dissolution of Thanatos

Walking doesn’t just put the body in motion; it organizes the mind, loosens emotional knots, clears ideas, and restores the soul’s lost rhythm. Every simple step is a profound affirmation:

• I am alive.
• I am here.
• I can keep going.

Walking deactivates the fog of thanatic stagnation, destroying procrastination. It dissolves heaviness. It reverses mental rigidity. And in its place, an unexpected feeling emerges: inner lightness. Breathing changes. Vision clears. Willpower reappears.

Walking doesn’t solve problems, but it restores the center from which they can be faced. Because Eros awakens when the body is activated with meaning. And Thanatos, silently, loses ground when there is a simple, sustained, and symbolically directed physical act.

Conscious walking is not an escape. It’s a way to return to yourself. It’s a silent declaration that you want to continue participating in your own life. Walking is the gateway to the self-generation of well-being. It’s where the journey back to who you are, to what you can be, begins. It’s the oldest—and most human—gesture of saying yes to life and to Eros, and no to procrastination.

(1) Loya Lopategui, Carlos, Sistema de Reprogramación Erotanática, EMULISA, México, 2025. Available on Amazon, Kindle Edition: https://www.amazon.es/dp/B0FJJRL2GX.

Could it be that the Sympathetic System moves Eros and the Parasympathetic moves Thanatos; or vice versa? Walking, regardless of the true causality, efficiently deactivates Procrastination.

Let’s go for those few minutes of walking every day and chase away that character of denial.

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