THE UNCONSCIOUS AND THE CONSCIOUS IN THE APPLICATION OF THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM

Let us first of all get to know how both mental functions, the consciousness and the unconscious, are constituted (Nature and Composition) and then try to understand how they function.

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Both faculties have been named differently in the field of the science of psychology, implying a difference in their qualities and category: mental or psychic entities; psychic or spiritual functions; mental, psychic or psychic currents. All of them are valid in our exposition.

Of course, the concept of Consciousness to which we will mention does not refer to the different meanings such as social consciousness, emotional consciousness or empathy, group consciousness, ecological or environmental consciousness, moral or ethical consciousness, and a dozen more categories, which try to reinforce socially and academically that the human being must realize certain normative precepts for the adequate achievement of the conjugated discipline.

WHAT IS THE CONFORMATION OF THE CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE UNCONSCIOUS?

First of all, we must say that the human psyche comprises the totality of psychic phenomena of both the consciousness and the unconscious (C.G. Jung). And furthermore, according to Jung himself: “The human personality comprises 2 things: first, the consciousness and all that it encompasses, and second, the vast and indeterminately large background that constitutes the unconscious psyche”.

In order to make an incursion into the conformation of the mental functions, we will resort to a classification that Paul Diel makes in his book Psychoanalysis of the Divinity (F.C.E., Mexico, 1974). Diel clearly points out the psychic functions of the conscious, unconscious and superconscious as the natural and healthy states of the psyche that every human being has; making a differentiation of the subconscious as the damaged function of the mind, freeing the unconscious from that attribution that is regularly made to it.

In his essay Diel shows the unconscious as the vital and vigorous function of the psyche where all the desires, appetites and instincts rejected or repressed by the consciousness accumulate; and he defines the subconscious as the pathological and unhealthy state of the human psyche (Jung calls it psychological shadow), which has desires that are irreconcilable with reality, that which our consciousness assures -most of the time- is true and certain (authentic, truthful). We can say that the psychological or subconscious shadow is the result generated by that which society conditions or forces the human being to hide from consciousness.

Some experts in this field call the unconscious the subconscious; however, I prefer this configuration of Diel, adding that to call it subconscious is to place this healthy function below the consciousness. As a mental entity, the unconscious has three attributes that make it up: it is a receptacle, a storehouse and a processor of those things that the consciousness does not wish to perceive, or is not aware of, because they are lacerating or insignificant for it. Regarding this disqualification, Carl G. Jung (Paracelsica, Kairos, Barcelona, 1989, p. 110), tells us: “…since psychological research has understood that the unconscious is not a mere ‘subconscious’ appendix or a mere well of the consciousness, but rather a largely autonomous psychic system, which on the one hand compensates for the errors and unilateralities of the consciousness, and on the other, in some cases, violently corrects them. The consciousness can err, as is known, both in the natural and in the spiritual, and this is a logical consequence of its relative freedom. The unconscious is not limited to instinctive and reflex processes of the subcortical zone, but goes beyond the consciousness and anticipates in its system future conscious processes. That is why it is also a supraconscious”; and the same author expresses: It is inadequate to designate the unconscious as ‘subconscious’. Not only is it not ‘below the consciousness’, but also above it, and far above it” (Simbología del espíritu, F.C.E., México, 1984, p. 42). And so as not to leave any doubt in this respect, he asserts: “Consciousness can only pretend to occupy an intermediate situation, and has to tolerate finding itself surpassed and surrounded, in a certain way, on all sides, by the unconscious psyche. By virtue of the unconscious contents, it is bound backwards with physiological conditions on the one hand and with archetypal premises on the other. But it is also projected forward by intuitions, which, in turn, are conditioned partly by archetypes, partly by subliminal perceptions, which are in connection with the spatio-temporal relativity of the unconscious” (Jung, Carl G., Psicología y alquimia, Grupo Editorial Tomo, México, 2007, p. 165).

The unconscious is the psychic bag where both internal impulses and external stimuli rejected by the consciousness are received (receptacle and store) and analyzed (processor), causing an inhibition to the being.

Let us underline that there are several non-conscious elements that are intrinsic to the unconscious entity: the instincts, the archetypes, desires or impulses repressed by the consciousness, the habits, both positive and negative, the primitive or archaic impulses.

To carry out its functions, the unconscious uses various symbolic languages (dreams, plastic creation, the literary, Synchronicity, etc.) and to make itself present it resorts in an essential way – although it is not the only form – to what has been called the Numinous. The numinous is that “magic” that every human being has and disposes to create in an original way and independently of his will, that is to say, with autonomy of consciousness. It is a “magical flow” that arises from the unconscious and that revolutionizes and modifies the consciousness of the subject.

Now let us move on to describe briefly how Consciousness and Unconscious function.

HOW DOES THE CONSCIOUSNESS WORK?

The “I” is the center of the consciousness. It is in the consciousness that the reasoning of facts and their rational analysis and interpretation takes place. Consciousness is the entity of the mind that embraces rational knowledge in all its forms. Becoming conscious of an object implies its knowledge through the senses, both external and internal, and/or through the intellect or intelligence.

There are several mental faculties that constitute consciousness: will, reasoning, imagination, speculation, fantasy, meditation, thought, reflection, will, judgment, inventiveness, comprehension, perception, attention, memory, abstraction, cavil, etc. All of them function to achieve a great performance of the human mind, according to its tasks, and the balanced functional achievement of the physical body.

We could say that cognition includes most of these mental faculties, in addition to creativity or creative thinking (Post THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM ENCOURAGES CREATIVE THINKING. PART I). Cognition, for its analysis, we could divide it into several types: mental, sensory, abstractive, comprehensive, intuitive, quiditative.

The function of consciousness develops within the human brain by receiving data and external stimuli through the senses. The consciousness continues analyzing and interacting with all the information that the being receives both from the external environment and from within, using the mental faculties that constitute it. In concrete terms, consciousness allows us to become aware of what is happening within us and in the social and natural environment external to the individual being. However, it is said that this awareness is only apparent.

Taking into consideration Kantian ideas, we can comment that the human being cannot realize reality, but only what is apparent, and in this sense, real objects cannot be cognizable by the senses nor by consciousness, we cannot have knowledge of “noumena”, only of phenomena, these being mere appearances of real things, an appearance of reality. So much for the Kantian.

The consciousness that we are trying to understand here and to know how it works is the one that allows us the knowledge of ourselves and of what is external to ourselves.

HOW DOES THE UNCONSCIOUS WORK?

We said that the individual unconscious has 3 functions that constitute it: reception, storage and processing. Let us describe its predominant function, which is to channel the things that the consciousness does not perceive, does not understand or does not recognize, and therefore rejects or represses, in order to free it from the unbalancing (disturbing, alienating, unsettling, upsetting) weight of negative emotions.

The individual unconscious is a determined and effective corrector of the conscience.

It is in the referred psychic bag of the unconscious where those rejected and repressed impulses and stimuli are isolated, disintegrated, decomposed, observed, compared and deeply examined; it is a workshop specialized in all these actions of knowledge and analysis, and without it, the consciousness would be acting rudderless and making more mistakes than it does.

In addition, it serves as a cathartic mechanism, as a conductive means to make those rejected stimuli and impulses flow to the consciousness, serving so that the consciousness itself can assimilate them in a suitable (appropriate, adequate, convenient, correct, suitable) or less lacerating way for it.

The unconscious functioning as a mechanism of catharsis, allows the human mind, the reasoning, to assimilate and also to confront and transform the circumstances and events external to the being, into personal events within its interiority, both conscious and superconscious. The unconscious plays such an important role in these aspects that the mind uses it to shape and integrate the individual personality of the being. The constitution and integration of the personality begins with the identification of the being with his own feelings and emotions, with his own self, that is, when the person “perceives and lives” those feelings within his consciousness, achieving experiences that are apprehended by the interiority of the individual being. The unconscious seeks, through this transmission of information to the consciousness, to make the latter “perceive” the events (faults, errors, faults, omissions and sins committed) that have burdened the individual, with the purpose of freeing it – the consciousness – from negative emotions.

The unconscious, manifesting itself by means of any of the symbolic languages it uses (dreams, painting, literary, Synchronicity, etc.), pretending to translate its images into real events or facts, only tries to express and communicate those images that it perceives and perceives in the consciousness, with the ultimate and precise purpose of compensating and correcting the errors committed by the consciousness itself.

A punctual and clear manifestation of its functioning is what has been called the subliminal condition. All subliminal forms are unconscious states, stimuli and impulses that are perceived by the senses without any awareness on the part of the individual who experiences them sensorially. In general, it is expressed that the consciousness does not perceive, rejects or avoids certain stimuli from the exterior and the unconscious receives and stores them in order to observe and analyze them, in order to correct the morbid states of the consciousness, by means of its different symbolic languages, and fundamentally by means of its cathartic function that allows it to make those stimuli and impulses flow towards the consciousness from the exterior and also from the interiority of the being, seeking the identification of the self with its own feelings and emotions, which is nothing more than the integration and strengthening of the personality of the individual himself.

There are other conditions of functioning of the unconscious, but which are associated with the consciousness, which are explained below.

CONDITIONS (COMMUNICATIVE AND TYPICAL) OF THE FUNCTIONING OF THE UNCONSCIOUS AND THE CONSCIOUSNESS.

The most relevant are:

[With CAPITAL letters the function that participates with greater intensity is defined, and with lower case letters the one that participates with less emphasis. This weighting is made according to their participation in quality and influence, and essence of the effect, not in quantity or time].

a) Repression or inhibition: is the repulsion of impulses, stimuli or desires by the consciousness that it considers intolerable (CONSCIOUSNESS, unconscious);

b) Libido: it is the underlying sexual impulse that the repression or inhibition of this is the fundamental cause of psychic disorders (consciousness, UNCONSCIOUS);

c) Sublimation: is the unconscious defense mechanism by which an impulse or instinct is converted into a higher or superior intellectual, artistic or moral activity. Also: it is the transference of a repressed (or inhibited) desire (or impulse) to a new object (consciousness, UNCONSCIOUS);

d) Complex: it is the emotional mechanism causing the patient’s mental disorders (CONSCIOUSNESS, unconscious).

e) Projection: It is the defense mechanism used by the consciousness to identify in another individual the feelings, desires and impulses that it discovers in its inner self and that it considers unbearable or painful and therefore rejects them (CONSCIOUSNESS, unconscious).

f) Compensation: It is the arrangement that the unconscious makes on the consciousness, regarding the imbalances that this suffers when rejecting stimuli from the exterior and its own impulses and desires generated in the interiority of the self (consciousness, UNCONSCIOUS).

g) Introspection: It is the analysis or internal observation that one makes of oneself or of one’s acts. The reflective apprehension by the mind of its own processes. Observation of the self and its mental states and operations. Synonym reflection, internal sense. There are 2 types of introspection: 1) Direct examination of the states and processes of the consciousness at the moment of their production (generation); 2) Reliving the states and processes by means of a retrospective act (CONSCIOUSNESS, unconscious).

As a conclusion I should mention that the Reality in which we are subsumed, is a parallel world that reason has not allowed itself to know, because part of the reality that we observe and perceive, is the result of our mental projections which are unconscious contents that make the world we live in, that macrocosm, a replica of our unconscious inner world (microcosm) and that is unknown to our consciousness.

Now let us see how these 2 mental functions intervene in the application and practice of the WALK-RWD System.

PARTICIPATION OF THE CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE UNCONSCIOUS IN THE APPLICATION OF THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM

It is indispensable to take into account the will in this aspect, a crucial faculty that shows the intervention of the consciousness (reasoning) and the unconscious, a contest that in some cases manifests itself as collaboration and in others as a dispute.

The intervention of the consciousness in the functional process of the WALK-RWD System is sometimes complicated to orientate, and essentially in that disposition to start walking it is very difficult to convince it so that our will takes positive action to achieve it, by its own effort -of the will. There are many negative spheres in our sensations, attitudes and ways of being that make it impossible for us to take the first steps on any path, which we have pointed out in previous Posts.

In this Post we will not analyze them, as we have already done so in several Posts published previously. What we will do is to try to understand how the consciousness works, that function that governs us most of our waking hours, and how the will performs, that volitional function that we require to perform in most of the activities we perform and in the actions that take course for their achievement.

We must keep in mind that symbolically walking means to move forward and that is what we are transmitting to our inner self when we do this practice, the one that needs to become aware of reality, both external and our inner reality.

Let us see how we can make our consciousness act voluntarily in the WALK-RWD system.

Participation of the consciousness.

Reading, writing or drawing while we walk, generates a considerable number of physical and mental benefits, which in turn – by physiological processes of the body itself – provoke in our consciousness stimuli of the emotional, spiritual and psychological type that impel us to carry out diverse activities with encouragement, among them walking. Likewise, if we take into consideration the 5 cognitive functions for its effective evaluation (reasoning, memory, attention, speaking and behavior), we will see that walking has direct effects in those 5 functions of cognition; this is how the WALK-RWD System in its multiple practice, with the 3 structured activities of reading, writing and drawing, is able to potentiate those 5 compound cognitive functions, as well as its cognitive performance (Post THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM AND COGNITIVE PERFORMANCE). The latter is the result obtained when we perform walks conjugated with any of the 3 activities structured within the System, since it generates greater capacities of understanding, comprehension, development, lucidity, discernment, reasoning, sharpness, penetration, harmony, ingenuity, in the conjugation of each and every one of these 3 activities.

As we pointed out in Post THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM AND COGNITIVE PERFORMANCE, any mental function that we wish to promote, in a conscious way, will be interrelated with the rest of the others; that is to say, effects of different degrees are provoked in each and every one of the mental faculties (capacities and functions), and specifically in the cognitive ones, when we perform the WALK-RWD system in an integral way, walking, reading, writing and drawing.

In an interrelated way, the human brain carries out the 5 cognitive functions that we have pointed out in that same Post: reasoning (thinking, reflecting, meditating); memorizing (learning, repeating, remembering, forgetting); attention (curiosity, observation, analysis, interest, distraction); speaking (talking, dialoguing, expressing, communicating, explaining, articulating, listening, responding, keeping quiet); and behavior (regulation and control of behavior, attitudes), in such an effective way that allows the being to react as well as possible to stimuli and external agents, and in the case of the application of the WALK-RWD System, it promotes the activities of reading, writing and drawing, while walking. For its potentiation of the cognitive function we can resort to the procedure indicated in the same Post THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM AND COGNITIVE PERFORMANCE.

In a precise way we can say that the consciousness participates together with the will and manifest intention, in the practice of the WALK-RWD system, when we perceive, think, understand, judge, desire, reason, choose, reject all kinds of stimuli and agents to communicate with the external environment that surrounds us and with our own physical body.

Participation of the unconscious.

As I expressed, the individual unconscious makes itself present through its symbolic languages and next I will describe outstanding aspects in the language of dreams.

Some specialists comment that during the dream (sleep) at night, the mind (the unconscious) cleans, in some way, of those things that worry and bother us.

I mentioned in Post AUTOLIBERATION OF NEGATIVE EMOTIONS THROUGH SELF-SUGGESTIBILITY: “There is no doubt that through dreams the unconscious transmits knowledge of ourselves, and surely a part of that communication works as an effective catharsis. However, for both benefits, additional work is required to really obtain an effective result.” Furthermore, we must ask ourselves: how effective is the unconscious, through dreams, in its cathartic function?

We must be clear that the participation of the conscious also takes place during sleep, to a different degree, so we could divide dreams into 1) those that are a major communication of the unconscious, and 2) those where it is not so much, that is, where dreams are a prolongation of the communication of the conscious as it is effected during wakefulness.

We regularly hear dreamers say that they dreamt of the same thing they were doing or thinking during the day, either as a repetition or as a continuation of the waking state. This type of dreams are perfectly understandable because they are made with the participation of the consciousness, and very little participation of the unconscious. Could it be that the more indescribable dreams are – an encrypted language – the more the unconscious participates? A question that I would hardly dare to answer, affirmatively or negatively.

Specifically we can say that the unconscious does not participate through conscious will, however, in some of its forms of communication that it manages to develop to make itself heard, we can induce it, in the practice of the WALK-RWD system, in an intentional way.

I have experienced, and it is irrefutable, that reading, writing or drawing while we walk, we notice and feel a considerable number of physical, emotional, mental, psychological, and spiritual benefits, concretely we decant and purge the unconscious, we perform a catharsis, in that brief period of experience when we walk and perform any of the other 3 structured activities (reading, writing or drawing). And the thesis is that we will no longer dream so much because the unconscious will no longer have to communicate anything -or very little- because it already did catharsis during the walks and the other 3 structured activities. We will feel so good with the WALK-RWD System that during the nights we will no longer dream.

Let us now analyze the phenomenon of Synchronicity as one more of its symbolic languages, as an illustrative and demonstrative example of the participation of the unconscious.

Specifically, I have developed some mechanisms to achieve that the unconscious acts in a voluntary manner in terms of its manifestations within the phenomenon of Synchronicity. In my book “Synchronicity, Predictable Phenomenon” (*), I expressed:

“Likewise, in various parts of the work, we analyze the various forms through which the human being manifests itself outwardly and that in a conscious or unconscious way, represent a message that we must imagine and interpret. Through exploration, we intend to discover in each of these manifestations of the personality and the spirit, the great diversity that the human being has to channel his own creative energy.

Many times, with a silent procedure, we bring to our conscience messages of emotions, feelings or physical movements of our body, which we must analyze with a little more detail, since by this means we will be able to balance and reconcile our inner nature, with our behavior in society; thus we will be able to know what our unconscious thinks and feels about ourselves.

It is therefore through this essay that we try to guide the reader in a field little studied at present as is the Synchronicity, transmit our experiences in this regard, but above all to show that this phenomenon is marking a milestone in the history of each of us and that we must attend to it as if it were our own conscience. In fact, I personally believe that its manifestations are our navigation chart that shows us the way to the future. Not understanding it and not paying attention to it is to renounce in advance to our human essence; we are sure that it is a new attitude to face our inner self. Every human being has this function that allows him to communicate to his unconscious in different ways and that in most cases we assign to it situations of coincidences, and even miracles, what to say about diseases and our immune system.

The transmission of information from the unconscious through the synchronistic function allows us to explain countless phenomena that we have always catalogued as coincidences and that here we will discover that they are actions of the unconscious. In this way we can move forward to obtain a better knowledge of ourselves and to know a tool to transform, in a creative way, the personal conditions of behavior and attitudes towards the environment that surrounds us.

The main part of our thesis that we try to demonstrate in the present essay is that the synchronistic phenomenon can be predictable, that is to say, we can have valuable information that this manifestation of the unconscious is about to occur in our person, and also, as a complementary part to the thesis is that this phenomenon can be provoked voluntarily by stimulating certain elements that participate in it.”

In order to know and understand the predictability of the phenomenon and the different ways by which the unconscious is induced to manifest through the phenomenon of Synchronicity, I expressed in Post READING AND SYNCHRONICITY-PART I, the following:

I have not the slightest doubt, that reading is a means that allows us to get in touch with synchronicities, and these lead us to find answers, which our unconscious -surely- is certainly tired of trying to communicate to our consciousness in various other ways, and this one has not been aware of them -of the answers- for a long time, either because it is unable to listen to it, or, it refuses to do so.

We must let ourselves be carried away by what our interiority advises us and not by reasoning. If you ‘decide’ to read a book, perhaps your unconscious is inviting you to do so. And if you decide’ to re-read another book you have already read, you will surely find new answers; these could be more important than those ideas you found in the previous reading.

We must consider the following aspects when we have decided to attend to the messages of our unconscious, either by the phenomenon of Synchronicity or other symbolic languages:

1. We have to introject in ourselves that truly these types of actions come from and are generated by our unconscious. We will not be able to listen to it if we do not believe in its existence.

2º. Synchronicity is a predictable phenomenon and it can also be induced, so we can provoke its generation and its incidence in external manifestations.

3º. Each synchronistic manifestation of the unconscious we must identify it, unveil it and rationalize it.

4º. To understand these messages from the unconscious, each manifestation of Synchronicity, we must analyze and interpret it.

What is most important and authentic of our inner being we can know and understand through the different symbolic languages used by the individual (and collective) unconscious and Synchronicity is one of them”.

The WALK-RWD system leads us to an integration of walking with the other 3 fundamental activities of reading, writing and drawing with which we voluntarily induce our unconscious to participate in order to communicate with ourselves and to have a better knowledge of our interiority, besides other valuable information of the external reality (Book Dintornism. A plastic-philosophical theory of reality **). In addition, we can resort to some of the Posts where we present the procedures -through the application of the WALK-RWD system-, to involve the individual unconscious:

DIALOGUE WITH OURSELVES AS WE READ AND WALK

WRITING TO ACCEPT BETTER TO OURSELVES, WHILE WALKING

DRAWING, TO KNOW BETTER OURSELVES

WHY AND WHAT TO DRAW FOR? THE GREAT BENEFITS WHILE WALK

DRAWING AND THRESHOLDISM, TO KNOW OUR INNER SELF

DRAWING AS A SYMBOLIC LANGUAGE

WALK AND READ IN LOUD VOICE

HABITUAL PURPOSES AND MOTIVES FOR WRITING

LISTENING TO OUR BODY WHILE WALKING

ADDITIONAL BENEFITS IN THE CONDITIONING OF THE BODY AND THE MIND

VITAL VESSELS AND WRITING

READING AND SYNCHRONICITY-PART I

We can also remember what I expressed in Post THE CONCEPT OF EXPERIENCE AND WALKING, that we must be very aware of:

“Each individual is the creator of his own experiences, and the process of biunivocity that develops between the conscious and the unconscious, during the whole life, is the one that places the being in the path of all of them.

Therefore, all our experiences arise from the conjunction of these 2 functions, so they are all part of our personal and individual essence.

From now on we must take more seriously each of our experiences, no matter how simple we consider them, because they are dialogues between the conscious and the unconscious, which enrich us by knowing -or we try to know- what they communicate between them.

Many times it is not understandable (we do not understand) why certain things happen to us; however, every experience, good or bad, is a product of those dialogues that develop in our deep interiority, between the conscious and the unconscious. (Book “Evanescent Stories”(***) I present dialogues between the consciousness and the unconscious of a writer). And I could assure that they are more easily understood during our walks than if we make an effort sitting on a divan or on a bed. There are several posts where I refer to this type of benefits that the WALK-RWD system has to know our interiority.

The character most interested in walking is our unconscious, which is the one that is most favored. Let us not have the slightest doubt.”

We can only be in harmony with ourselves when our sensations (senses) and feelings express and respond adequately to the messages of our unconscious, and the more punctual we perform this work, the healthy correspondence between our actions (attitudes) and the senses (the 5 external and the spiritual), the better we will feel about ourselves.

The unconscious also has another function (collateral effect derived), besides those of communication to tell us how we are and what we should do, as well as to achieve the functioning of parts of our body -without our will participating- such as blood circulation, heartbeat, breathing, digestion, elimination of substances that must be eliminated, glandular secretions; in short: apart from putting our body into operation and repairing it, telling us what we should do, what and how we feel, it is an infallible engine to achieve what we should achieve in our lives. This other function is that of “positive realization“. We said in Post AUTOLIBERATION OF NEGATIVE EMOTIONS THROUGH SELF-SUGGESTIONABILITY:

“Every positive thought that the unconscious makes it its own, is an inescapable and unpostponable sentence, which becomes a real fact in the future.

The desire to improve in future scenarios – near or far – embraces innumerable aspects of the existence of the human being (health, work, happiness, family, and a very long etcetera) and all of them can always be transformed into real facts, into positive achievements: Only two activities are required: walking and repeating out loud a phrase [a positive thought]. The time devoted to these two is variable, but in my experience, only ½ hour a day is required, for a peremptory period of days. […] Finally, and again, I would caution that we should avoid negative thoughts, because the unconscious can make them its own and turn them into reality. I am a staunch believer in the strength and power of both the individual and the collective unconscious, so I recommend that we should be very careful with self-critical, malignant and destructive ideas. The individual unconscious is the genie of Aladdin’s lamp.

In other words: Let us ask the genie of our lamp, our unconscious, in a positive and trustworthy way, what we want to achieve, and it will grant it to us.

We must look for that authenticity with ourselves, with our way of feeling, and we will achieve it by listening and understanding our unconscious, listening to it and obeying what it tells us, in such a way that we allow all our feelings (inner reality) to come to the surface in exactly the way we observe that we want them to manifest”.

The human being has re-created himself, through two types of activities: those that require conscious will and those that do not demand a thought to perform them or that do not need the will.

Walking is an activity that we have developed since always; someone could say: since the moment the human being stood on his two lower limbs, but in both cases it has been done for millions of years, which makes it a pristine and natural activity in its practice.

When our consciousness forces our body to develop activities that are not primal, then it generates a negative imbalance in our nervous system, and in turn this generates other negative imbalances in the various organ systems of our body.

When we perform any of our capacities within these two mental fields, we do not necessarily have to be positive to external stimuli; we must react precisely according to our own sensations in order to act in an authentic way, to carry out those “non-voluntary” actions in a healthy way and not “disrupted” (altered, disturbed, perturbed) by the conscious part of our brain. In short: let us not be negative towards anyone, towards anything, but least of all against ourselves. The repression of our feelings -in all cases- generates a morbid state in the consciousness and transforms us into negative individuals.

Let us keep in mind that we have a healthy unconscious and walking is one of the actions that we must carry out to re-discover that it does exist; to continue walking daily, and in an integral way, is to be able to re-evaluate our own unconscious, and to walk permanently is to allow us to identify ourselves with it.

The only thing we know that is real is what we feel in our interiority, defined by our “unconscious thoughts” (inner reality), and we can make it conscious by doing our integral walks, combining them with reading, writing and drawing.

In this way we can reach a functional harmony between these two mental faculties, the unconscious and the consciousness.

(*) Loya Lopategui, Carlos, Sincronicidad. Fenómeno predecible, EMULISA, México, 2007.. Dispoinible en Amazon, Edición Kindle: https://www.amazon.es/dp/B0CXZDPSSY

(**) Loya Lopategui, Carlos, Dintornismo. Una teoría plástico-filosófica de la realidad, EMULISA, México, 2012. Disponible en Amazon, Edición Kindle: https://www.amazon.es/dp/B0D6C18SS9

(***)Loya Lopategui, Carlos & Edel C. Pinera, Evanescent Stories, EMULISA, México, 20016. Distributed by Amazon, available in Kindle Edition: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B86GMS8W.

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THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM AND PEOPLE WITH REDUCED PHYSICAL MOBILITY.

This post has a double purpose. One, to support this important sector of society that in some way has suffered some mishap, and therefore, people who are unable to walk or perform this practice with difficulty. Two, to present indispensable elements so that in the near future it will be easier for them to perform this natural exercise, either by the use of electronic and mechanical devices that can be used or by new regulatory and legal provisions -to be designed and issued- to regulate urban, architectural, engineering and other disciplines projects -to be incorporated- to define a New Paradigm in the future regarding this fundamental activity of the human being.

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It is very considerable this social sector that is somehow unable to walk in a regular way; it has been mentioned -at present- that about 1/5 of the people suffer from some kind of disability that prevents them from walking; that is to say, 2 out of 10 people do not do this practice due to restrictions in their physical mobility.

In general, we could refer to this social sector as the group of people who have limited mobility (reduced or restricted) for the practice of walking.

In order to smooth these 2 purposes I have defined two series of posts that I will be presenting in the future.

The first scenario will be addressed with the technical and regulatory mechanisms that we have at the present time. I will comment on all of them to the best of my ability. The legal dispositions vary from one country to another, from one city to another, from one town to another; so each person should investigate this information in their place of residence (technical and legal), as well as the services, support and assistance that can be obtained for this social sector, in order to better carry out this fundamental practice. It will depend on each person according to their physical-social position and where they are located.

In the second scenario, we will achieve it (in a plural way) through an invitation that I have already made through several posts that belong to a series of them that will lead us to define a NEW PARADIGM IN THE WALK (Posts THE 9TH GENERATION OF MODERN AGE CREATIVITY AND WALKING. PART I of IX; THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM AND THE INTERDISCIPLINARY FLOW OF IDEAS. PART II of IX; WALKING: A NECESSARY DISCIPLINARY HYBRIDIZATION.PART III of IX; HOMO SOCIABILIS OR SOCIALIS? HUMAN AGGRESSION WALKING IN CROWDED PLACES. PART IV of IX). The incorporation of this social sector in the integration of this New Paradigm has a relevance of the first order, and for that reason, its great problem must be incorporated in the legal dispositions, as well as in the urban and architectural engineering projects, forever and continuously.

With respect to the efforts that have been made, I have been able to detect very significant results, both in propositional documents and in practical programs, which I will present throughout the development of these 2 series of Posts, according to the relevant importance they have in each one of them.

The post PEOPLE WITH RESTRICTED MOBILITY IN THE NEW WALKING PARADIGM. PART V of IX, to be presented in the month of June 2023, belongs to the second scenario.

This part 1, which we develop below, belongs to the first scenario, and the number of posts that will make up the series will be defined as we carry out our research to obtain the largest amount of information to support this social sector, according to the present availability, both technical (physical, mechanical and electronic devices), legal and public and private assistance.

Let us keep in mind that the WALK-RWD System is not only oriented to people who can walk without any problem, but also to those who have suffered an accident and cannot walk for a certain period of time or permanently. That is to say, it has also been designed for those individuals who cannot walk because both lower limbs are in bad condition, as well as for that group of people who can walk but one of their lower limbs does not work properly and needs a crutch or cane for support (diseases such as poliomyelitis). It has also been designed for those who have their 2 lower limbs in good condition, who of course can use their 2 legs properly but have some mobility restriction that prevents them from walking regularly, such as loss of sight in one or both eyes, problems in the hips, spine, etc.

Although it is true that the WALK-RWD system works considering walking as the fundamental activity, it is also true that the other 3 activities – reading, writing and drawing – are an essential part within its functional structure; in addition to others that are incorporated for its full development, such as meditation, contemplation, abstraction, motivation, passion, relaxation, concentration, playing, free time, leisure, solitude, emotional relief, etc., which are concomitant effects of those or can be incorporated to complement and enhance them.

I have been able to design some exercises that although they do not completely substitute the practice of walking, do lead us to exercise a high percentage of the impressions and beneficial impacts on our whole body, on the organs, systems, and glands. The future Post EXERCISES THAT ARE PARTLY A SUBSTITUTE OF THE PRACTICE OF WALKING -could this be post # 2 of the 1st scenario- is the series of exercises that can support these people who can not fully exercise the practice of walking. There are several diseases that can subtract a full walking, however, yes it can be done although less complete way, and failing that, we can use the exercises that are exposed in the previous post mentioned.

On the fundamental activity, I would like to emphasize that even for those people who are physically unable to walk perfectly, they can rely on various mechanical devices, depending on their discomfort, difficulty or impossibility, including by means of artificial limbs or parts, including robotic equipment that are already on the market, and if you can not get them in some stores, they are already working in some research centers; which would allow them, by means of one or the other, to perform all functions similar to as if they were doing it by themselves. The important thing for human beings is to walk, even if it is limited or partially, aided by electronic or robotic devices or instruments.

Now, considering a person who is unable to walk, he/she will be able to move in a wheelchair or in any other means that allows him/her to develop the other 3 activities, because let’s remember that these are fundamental for the WALK-RWD System; that is, to think that by putting this system into practice we could become a “dynamic reader”, an “authentic writer” or an “expressive drawer”. As we said in a previous post (OTHER DEVICES FOR READING AND WRITING, WHILE WE WALK): “To claim more of this would be an exaggeration on our part. Dynamism in the reader means being frequent, enduring, enthusiastic, practical, but not intense; the authentic in the writer represents a confident, positive, serious, certain, practical and firm individual; the expressive in the draftsman comprises both of the above. Drawing involves the 2 activities of reading and writing, in a graphic way; that is, being a “dynamic reader” leads to being an “authentic writer”, but being an “expressive drawer” involves the two previous personalities, in a graphic way”. Specifically, by developing these 3 activities, very important achievements can be reached in the personal development of each individual.

Walking is so important for the effects it has on the whole human body, on all its systems and organs, that we must make the best effort to carry it out and we should not think of diminishing this activity and much less leave it forgotten: We must reinforce our attitudes of philanthropic (humanitarian) help and look towards these social sectors to perform, with any of these mechanical, orthopedic and robotic devices of support, the activity of walking (Future Post MODEL SIMULATOR OF THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM), and of course, performing the exercises that I expose in the indicated Post EXERCISES THAT ARE PARTLY A SUBSTITUTE OF THE PRACTICE OF WALKING, together with the 3 structured activities of reading, writing and drawing.

I must comment that the types of problems that each future walker has must be clearly defined, because there is a great variety of those difficulties that do not restrict, limit or completely prevent them from walking, and for those who definitely cannot do it, there are some real and effective possibilities to support them to use this WALK-RWD System, such as the exercises contained in the aforementioned Post.
Finally, it is advisable to review the legal provisions that exist in the region or locality where we live, regarding the activity of walking for people with limitations or restrictions in their mobility; and likewise, about those services, support, and assistance that can be obtained for this social sector. In the same way, we should study this social aspect better, in order to advance towards the near future in the incorporation of all these experiences in the New Paradigm of Walking.

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THE SENSE OF SIGHT AND THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM

As we have already mentioned in several of the Posts published to date, the exercise of walking puts into action all our senses, both external (Taste, Smell, Sight, Hearing, and Touch) and internal (Orientation, Spatial, Common Sense, Intuition, Memory, Perception, Cognitive, Imagination, Fantasy, Muscular, Movement, Temporal, Proportions, Aesthetic). For this, it is not necessary that we do it with some style or special forms, but simply, with walking in a natural way.

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In the Future Post THE WALKING AND CARDINAL POINTS I’ll explain how both categories of the senses work to guide us; all of them act and deploy their functions with different degrees of participation, according to the different solicitations and inclinations that our organism develops when we are walking.

In relation to the sense of sight, the examples we can use are endless. In the Post WALKING WITH COLORS. PART I, we expressed: “When our eyes observe the colors, there is a transmission of impressions to the brain, which in turn retransmits them to the external and internal senses, transforming them into knowledge, understanding, feelings, sensations and emotions”. We could affirm that most of these perceptions are not conscious, and in the same way, what we capture with the sense of sight, working permanently, we do not rationalize it in its greater time of operation, nor do we become aware of its functions at all times. Each person receives in a different way and intensity these impressions that we send to the brain, through the senses, and specifically through sight. “Each color represents for our physical-mental perception a different vibration for our senses, both external and internal. Although there is a biunivocal relationship between colors and feelings (emotions, perceptions and impressions of the soul type), the effects they generate – as already mentioned – may vary from one person to another.”

Surely the external sense that works the most, while we walk, is the sense of sight, and on a second level is the sense of hearing. We can affirm that it is through both perceptive faculties that the most important information is transmitted to the brain when we are walking. The brain is in charge of transmitting the sensations and stimuli from the outside to the rest of the systems, organs and glands of the body, and also to the rest of the senses, including the internal ones, and perhaps the most stimulated are the sense of balance and the sense of orientation, while we are walking.

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Now, the sense of sight is biunivocally related to the WALK-RWD System, due to the fact that it is based on the second principle of the WALK-RWD system:

2nd Fundamental Principle or Principle of Dynamic Balance:

“Keeping the body in physical movement through walking, generates by itself a vibration of the brain, which causes it to enter into an imbalance and normal functions are carried out and effects are generated, of the dynamic type, on the different systems, organs and glands of the body”.

Let’s perform some exercises in order to demonstrate this.

During the pre-heating exercises or some others that we develop inside a room, we can always turn on a lamp to observe directly its incandescent light, which we usually reject because it irritates our eyes. A shock effect should be created by opening and closing the eyes, and observing the luminosity of the lamp, while we perform the pre-warming exercises.

Also, while we walk outdoors we can see indirectly the sunlight (Caution: Never observe the sunlight directly) by opening and closing our eyes, permanently and spaced, during some lapses that prolong the walk, in order to create a state of shock on the eyes, with the effects of the luminosity of the sun’s rays, taking care not to hurt the eyes.

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In both cases, by stimulating the sense of sight we will provoke in the brain a considerable increase (enlargement) in its functions.

Let us develop this process in the same way but without walking, standing in a static state. Let’s do the same, but sitting down.

We will observe that the type of information that is generated towards the brain and towards other parts of our body are different in the 3 options mentioned.

We have explained that the coordinated movement that is generated in walking causes the brain to produce several substances (Post THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM AND THE SELF-PRODUCTION OF ORGANIC SUBSTANCES), same that stimulate in turn, the development and full functioning of neurons, increasing considerably the number of connections between them and the functional areas of the brain itself (Future Post THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM AND THE NEURONAL SELF-GENERATION OF THE BRAIN). We also said that the same walking in a coordinated way generates that the brain seeks to “COMPENSATE” the physical imbalance or state of alertness, which in turn causes an “unleveling” in its chemical elements and neurotransmitters (Future Post BE MOVING TO MOVE THE NEURONS).

By adding one more source of imbalance and alertness to the brain, such as indirect and unexpected light in the eyes (different luminosity), during all this period of exercise, the brain will seek to “stabilize” itself, giving instructions to its own organic unit (brain convolutions and neurotransmitters), as well as to other systems, glands and organs, to reestablish “its balance” again. Some vicarious parts of the brain will try to make up for the insufficiency of some others that are affected by the loss of that “balanced and harmonious state” generated by the activities developed, such as reading or writing or drawing while walking and that has been marginally increased by that different and strange luminosity (light) in our eyes.

Let’s walk with our eyes open and with our eyes closed (Future Post WALKING WITH EYES CLOSED) and in this way we will have to put to work all our senses, both external and internal.

I must point out as a preview to what I will analyze in future posts (Posts THE INTERNAL SENSES AND THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM, and WALKING AND THE EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL SENSES) another of the benefits of the WALK-RWD System. Some illnesses such as neurosis generate in the brain a great sensitivity in the senses; that is said and it is true as far as the repulsion that is generated in the five external senses, that surely also in some of the internal ones, perhaps in all of them. The neurosis declared in an individual leads him not to support strong degrees of the stimuli that make his senses vibrate; that is to say, for example, his ears do not support a light degree of noise, or the worst, there comes a moment that they do not support to hear the music of any type as the classic one, the one produced to relax, and less the thunderous one. They cannot stand the smell of food, whatever it may be. And so on, it happens with sight; any luminosity out of the ordinary, hurts their eyes and they do not support it, that is why in the mornings we do not want to get up, among other discomforts and sufferings. The WALK-RWD System put into practice daily, in a structured way, manages to disappear these unbearable situations regarding the external senses not supporting stimuli of any degree; WALK-RWD System transforms the unacceptability of the senses towards normal and abnormal external stimuli.

Let us not only put to work and exercise (exert) the eyes, but the rest of the external senses and also the internal senses (spiritual and intellectual) such as Fantasy, Imagination, Common sense, Memory, Intuition, and Perception.

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PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM.

This post arises in part from Post THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM ENCOURAGES CREATIVE THINKING. PART I, when I express: “The therapy of psychoanalysis, described in a simplistic way, is to try to become aware of the repressed desires (repressed impulses, which are repressed by the consciousness and are not conscious), through communication to the therapist, lying (accommodated) the patient on a couch, relaxed and in a state of immobility, to come to understand by recognizing them -those repressed contents- as the fundamental cause of the psychological illness he suffers from; after having extroverted those repressed impulses, he feels comforted, and to a certain degree, by using this therapy, the patient is cured. The catharsis can be improved by applying the WALK-RWD system by provoking that when walking and performing the other structured activities, the brain constantly seeks to preserve and restore the equilibrium -during the period of the walk- to rebalance itself mechanically, psychically and neurologically with the usual propagation of nervous-neuronal impulses towards its other functional areas (dormant or asleep) of the brain itself (stunned cerebral convolutions and neuro-mechanisms) and other organs, systems and glands of the whole organism. A therapy similar to the one expressed, but walking, always walking – is what gives the greatest effectiveness to the treatment of emotions”.

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In my novel, GOD GOES TO PSYCHIATRIST (*), published in 2016 (2009 Spanish version), I already expressed something about this subject of performing catharsis while walking; in one of the scenes it is exposed: Ernesto used to walk long distances -when he was a child- with his little dog Troter, and somehow he realized that this improved him in many of his psychic functions. As an adult, when he was already a psychiatrist, he would give his patients his consultation by walking them through some of the parks near his office. He knew that sitting them on a couch was not very cathartic.

On the other hand, the meaning of Lacerate or Perforated or Swollen Feet that the Greek appellation of OEDIPUS has in Greek must at some point have meant to Dr. Freud a coherence with walking. However, in none of Freud’s writings is there any reference to this natural practice of the human being. Already in Post OEDIPUS, THE ONE WITH SWOLLEN AND LACERATED FEET I have explained that this is what his adoptive father named him when he was given to him, since he was found hanging from a tree where the baby had been abandoned and that he had completely swollen feet, which presented sores and lacerations. The myth describes that Oedipus, after having removed his eyes -himself- for having had sexual relations with his mother and having killed his father, started walking on eternal paths that would keep him walking during the last stage of his life. This mythical information did not provoke in Freud any idea or relationship that could have indicated to him that he should have considered walking within his theory; that is, to make his patients walk, while they performed their catharsis.

In future Post BRAIN GYMNASTICS BUT WALKING, I mention the following: “However, we should also mention that to perform these exercises of Brain Gymnastics without walking, is like going to the psychiatrist and doing the catharsis sitting or lying down”.

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The WALK-RWD System works as a psychoanalytic catharsis when we propose it and we resort to it, to eliminate some of the negative emotions that make us sick. With the passage of time I have been recommending this WALK-RWD System and presenting -in various Posts- its concrete application in specific emotional and psychological cases, namely:

Published Posts:

EMOTIONS AND THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM

THE POWER OF EMOTIONS

AUTOLIBERATION OF NEGATIVE EMOTIONS THROUGH SELF-SUGGESTIBILITY

WALKING AND READING ALOUD

COMBATING NEGATIVE EMOTIONS WITH THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM, SOLUTION TO PROCRASTINATION.

In the future I will expose other cases of importance, in which the WALK-RWD system is applied:

Future Posts:

METHOD OF RELEASED EMOTIONS.

PARADOXICAL EMOTIONAL PROGRAMMING

WALKING READING POETRY OUT LOUD

I have to emphasize again, that its application -in all cases- is directly effective through the 3 activities structured within the System itself, reading, writing and drawing. Practice and results that are obtained effectively and whose procedure I expose in each of the posts I have published (Post UPDATED DYNAMIC INDEX OF POSTS 1-120, where you can observe and choose their titles and also link directly to each of the selected ones).

This part of the System is the most comprehensive and effective because walking rests on the conjunction of these 3 activities that make it universal and generates outstanding impacts in all spheres of human activity, as well as tangible and immediate benefits throughout the body, both physical, mental and spiritual.

Returning to our central theme of showing the WALK-RWD system in an analogical way to Psychoanalysis, but walking, I will allow myself to point out below a slight procedure for its cathartic practice, without any concrete expression of any psychological or emotional ailment, but simply, its regular application, for any case.

STEP 1.

Decide to practice the WALK-RWD System.

STEP 2.

Choose one of the 3 structured activities: reading, writing or drawing. One or several.

STEP 3.

Accompany us with the necessary implements to carry out the selected structured activity: pencil, recorder, notebook, sheets, notepad, etc.

STEP 4.

Start walking.

STEP 5.

Whichever of the 3 activities we have selected, we will have to say out loud what we are doing: reading, writing or drawing. This part together with the walking, always walking, provokes that the unconscious presses the consciousness to bring up the stimuli and unwanted impulses that our consciousness repressed (Future Post THE UNCONSCIOUS AND THE CONSCIOUS IN THE APPLICATION OF THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM).

STEP 6.

Continue like this for 15 minutes. Rest for 10 minutes, dedicating yourself to meditation and contemplation.

STEP 7.

Restart the application of the System, with the same structured activity or with some other, for 15 minutes. It is recommended to perform this dynamic for 4 periods of 25 minutes, equivalent to 100 minutes.

END of the procedure.

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The System works. All we have to do is decide to walk and follow these 7 steps. It is only 100 minutes that we need to take away from our commitments and our “lack of time”. Our unconscious will start working immediately when we start walking, supporting us in the other 3 activities, and talking out loud. Let it act and we will be able to observe its effective results in our emotions.

(*) Loya Lopategui, Carlos, God Goes to Psychiatrist, EMULISA, Mexico, 2021, Distributed by Amazon, available in Kindle Edition: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09HVCWDNT.

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OEDIPUS, THE ONE WITH SWOLLEN AND LACERATED FEET.

In this Post I seek to emphasize the care we should take with our feet. For this, I will use the Greek myth of Oedipus that we have very present because Sigmund Freud used it to support an integral part of his psychoanalytic theory. Of course, there is no direct relationship between the care we should take with our feet and this myth, but I do intend to keep in mind that the feet -like any other part of the body- should be cared for with care and attention.

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There are several versions of the Oedipus myth. I will describe some of them, extracting the most relevant of each story, which will lead us to the objective of this Post, the care of our feet.

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Laius upon learning the oracle that his son would kill him and marry his own mother, let his wife Yocasta know that they would have no children, but Yocasta managed to beget one and so the baby was born, which Laius immediately ordered to be taken away. However, Yocasta’s plea made Laius allow one of his employees to take him away and hang him by his feet, so that he would not have to be killed, in one of the trees on the slopes of Mount Cytheron, until he died. Another version tells that Laius asked one of his henchmen to take him to Mount Cytheron and to lacerate the soles of the baby’s feet so that the bleeding would attract the beasts and devour him, so that he would not be killed by the envoy.

In all the versions of the myth, the baby was abandoned on Mount Cytheron. In one of them -as I already mentioned- it is narrated that by orders of his father Laius, the soles of his two feet are pierced as a sign that he should not walk and therefore should die devoured by the animals; in another version, the baby was hung by his two lower limbs, to die dehydrated. However, in all of them the baby did not lose his life because he was rescued and was able to survive to fulfill the oracle.

Mount Cytheron was crisscrossed by hundreds of paths that generally formed an immense labyrinth. It was said that whoever entered any of the paths that led to its slopes and entered it, would never be able to get out. Daedalus was inspired by this inextricable mountain to design the Labyrinth that King Minos asked him to build on the island of Crete.

Two days after the baby had been abandoned on the slopes of that mountain, a shepherd who was taking his sheep to graze nearby noticed something hanging from a tree in the distance and was able to unmoor and unhook the baby, who was quite dehydrated and with swollen feet. This man knew that King Polybius could not beget children and took him to his royal palace, which adopted him as a son. He named him Oedipus, which means the one with swollen feet.

It is well known the following part of the story that continued to fulfill the oracle.

Oedipus, as an adult, receives the oracle at Delphi, which specifies that he would kill his father and have sexual relations with his mother. This prophecy alters him emotionally and he flees from his adoptive father and mother to avoid realizing these horrendous premonitions. From these omens he wanders and walks for a long time and due to certain circumstances, Oedipus meets Laius, his biological father, and because of a quarrel he kills him. He continues walking for some time, and following his destiny, Oedipus discovers the enigma of the Sphinx and is rewarded for it by marrying Yocasta, which was the prize offered in Thebes for such a discovery, also naming him King of Thebes. With Yocasta, his mother, he had 2 daughters and a son. Thus, Oedipus fulfills the oracle also in that part.

Some time later, Oedipus discovers that he killed his father and that Yocasta was his mother. As self-punishment he cuts out his eyes, becoming totally blind, and takes to walking in this part of his life, returning to Mount Cytheron, which he enters, losing himself in its labyrinthine paths. After this foray of Oedipus into Mount Cytheroon, he is never heard from again.

An outstanding aspect regarding the subject at hand, is that when Oedipus receives the oracle at Delphi, that he would kill his father and have sexual relations with his mother, he flees from his adoptive father and mother to avoid realizing those horrendous premonitions, wandering and walking for many months, that his feet became swollen and lacerated.

After realizing that his oracle had been fulfilled, Oedipus punished himself by gouging out his eyes, resigned his office as King of Thebes and retired forever, setting out to walk on infinite paths, thus fulfilling what WILHELM STEKEL calls the compulsion of the name, and which may well have been some other oracle, which would keep him walking during the last stage of his life.

Oedipus’ life is tragic enough. No doubt about it. A punishment from the gods?

The myth places Oedipus blind and walking at the end of his days. It would seem that the myth communicates to us that walking was part of his deliverance; but why does he remove himself, his eyes?

Would walking in the dark have any meaning, would wandering without seeing and without meaning be the answer to it?

Cytheron was the Mount consecrated to Dionysus. The Greek god Dionysus represented pleasure, optimism and the joy of living; he endowed humans with strength and happiness.

Most probably Oedipus decided to walk for the rest of his life through the infinite paths of Mount Cytheron, to seek during those walks the strength and joy he had lost, trying to find the comfort and shelter of Dionysus, and get away from sadness and unhappiness.

If with this post I manage to attract a minimum of attention to the care of our feet, I will have achieved my goal: Oedipus, Dionysus, feet, walking?

Let us keep in mind the image of Dionysus. Let us walk every day looking for him, and once we have located him, let us not let go of his hand.

Let us walk taking care of our feet.

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