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It is important to have knowledge of the purposes and motives of why a person writes, both in his own and intimate manner and by traditional commercial and lucrative forms, since the practitioner of this WALK-RWD system could reorient his intentions and aspirations. I have already commented on the writing WHY AND WHAT TO WRITE FOR? that in the first instance, writing allows us to express ourselves and that would be a sufficient purpose, since it leads us to express our feelings and thoughts more sincerely, without any other objective.

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For this reason, and although it is not the intention of this blog to channel efforts through commercial and lucrative scenarios, I allow myself, in a brief way, to describe these different purposes and motives, for those who wish to venture along those paths of the writing. Before that, I would like to define the words “purpose” and “motive”, because between them there is a thin line that separates them into their meanings. Purpose, according to dictionaries, is “Intention to do something, purpose or objective that is intended to be achieved”; while motive, is “cause or reason that determines the realization of a thing”.

Thus, the traditional “purposes” of why to write are, succinctly, the following:

1. Explain and describe. The meaning, value or symbolism of anything, how it works or develops in space and time, why it happens. Why something fails.

2. Persuade. To do anything, to be created in some situation, opinion or idea, or action, to do something. To convince others about personal ideas about something or some situation or ideology, to convince about certain personal judgments about a book, food, images, impressions, affections, etc. To persuade them to enroll in a course, vote for someone for an administrative or political position, or buy a product or service that is being advertised.

3. Inform. About the content of something. On a subject, fact, data, sensations, emotions, pains, feelings, people, events and news of general interest.

4. Investigate. About some ideas, opinions, questions; to examine how much your ideas and those of other individuals have changed about a particular issue; to ask questions that do not have simple answers; and thus share your thoughts, criteria and results, by reflecting on your writings and findings, with other people.

5. Share. Communicate your ideas, thoughts, reflections, judgments, reasoning, advice, warnings, concerns, meditations, speculations, about the important issues and topics that you have been working on and that become clearer in our minds as you write them.

6. Entertain and have fun. These activities of entertaining teaching and fun communicating can be developed as a primary and unique purpose; however, they can also be carried out in a shared way, that is, combined with the other 5 previous purposes, in addition to being used to induce readers on any topic considered important, doing so with humor, joviality and an agile and creative language.

7. Know ourselves better. By writing we let our unconscious out and that way we are more sincere in what we feel and in what we think.

Perhaps an activity that we could point out as a common denominator in the previous 7 purposes, is to teach, with its synonyms and derivations: educate, guide, document and instruct.

Now, on the “motives” of why it is written, we could well resort to what some writers have expressed, such as George Orwell, at the time mentioned that, leaving aside the need to make a living, “I think that there are 4 great motives to write, at least to write prose. They exist in varying degrees in each writer, and specifically in each of them the proportions vary from time to time, depending on the environment in which you live. These are the motives:

1. Acute selfishness. Desire to appear clever, to talk about one, to be remembered after death, to recover from the elders who despised one in childhood, etc., etc. It is a falsehood to pretend that this is not a very important motive. Writers share this characteristic with scientists, artists, politicians, lawyers, military, highly successful businessmen, that is, with the top layer of humanity. The great mass of human beings is not intensely selfish. After thirty years of age, they abandon individual ambition -many almost even lose the impression of being individuals and live primarily for others, or simply drown them in work. But, there is also the minority of the well-endowed, the volunteers determined to live their own lives until the end, and the writers belong to this class. Serious writers, who tend to be more vain and selfish than journalists, should be said, although less interested in money.

2. Aesthetic enthusiasm. Perception of beauty in the external world or, on the other hand, in words and their right combination. Pleasure in the impact of one sound on another, in the firmness of good prose or the rhythm of a good story. Desire to share an experience that one believes valuable and should not be missed. The aesthetic motive is very weak in many writers, but even a pamphleteer or the author of textbooks will have pampered words and phrases that will appeal to him for non-utilitarian motives; or it can give special importance to typography, width of margins, etc. No book that is above the level of a railroad guide will be completely free of aesthetic considerations.

3. Historical momentum. Desire to see things as they are to find the true facts and store them for posterity.

4. Political purpose, and I use the word ‘political’ in the broadest possible sense. Desire to push the world in a certain direction, to alter the idea that others have about the kind of society they should strive to achieve. I insist that no book is free of political nuance. The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is already a political attitude in itself. -And he ends by saying: I write because there is a lie that I want to expose… I see that I have made it appear that my motives in writing have been inspired only by the public spirit. I don’t want to let that impression be the last. All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives there is a mystery. Writing a book is a horrible and exhausting struggle, like a long and painful disease”. So far Orwell’s words about why I write?

It remains in us, to validate each of all the purposes and motives that have been mentioned, in this and in other posts. The important thing is that we want to walk simultaneously with the activities of reading, writing and drawing, when we feel the urge to do so.

Sooner or later we will realize what our purposes and motives for writing, were as we walked.

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It is you who is deciding to do the walk because you like it and know that it will help you in various ways and senses.

The reason for this, the fundamental thing is that it is undeniable that for the mind to flow better the body must be in good condition, and what better than walking enough. The body is the support of the mind: Mens sana in corpore sano.

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This phrase has been used since ancient times until today, representing the indissoluble health binomial between body and mind.

And there is no doubt that walking is one of the means to comply with this maxim. Walking is healthy.

Let us then comment on how we can be a good walker.

As we have already mentioned in writing ALTERNATE VARIETIES IN THE TYPES OF WALK, there are several ways to practice walking, and all of them can be applied within the WALK-RWD system, with the fulfillment of certain characteristics that obey the type, the place, the equipment, and other elements for its practice and development. But regardless of that, the results are almost identical.

The qualifier “good walker” we use it in two scenarios. One of them, just as important as the other, is that it serves us as an effective and safe exercise, giving adequate results to improve our health, both preventively and correctively.

The other scenario is to make us like or passionate about walking.

As I said, both have the same hierarchy in importance and, if one of them fails the other could not be achieved. They are co-responsible and corresponding.

My personal experience about feeling the pleasure of going for a walk I mentioned in several previous posts, and fundamentally supported by the 3 structured activities within the WALK-RWD system, however, a subtle organization is also required to go for a walk and the condition physical and mental disposition to develop the variety of walking that we like to do.

The numerous benefits that we have mentioned, generated by walking, are enough to be a good walker.

However, these scenarios of health achievement, or that of the combination with reading, writing and drawing, are sometimes not enough to be passionate and motivate us to walk.

We know that walking is good for our physical and mental state; it prevents diseases, corrects them, and we can also improve our behavior and attitude towards society and within our work.

Anyway, my experience tells me that with all that knowledge we have about the activity of walking, which drives us to do so, it would be enough to transform us into an excellent walker. However, a high percentage of people do not feel like doing any type of walk. Let’s transform into a good walker. But how?

I will not repeat what I mentioned in the previous posts, about how to motivate ourselves to walk.

I will mention on this occasion 5 conditions by which some people are unable or unwilling to go for a walk:

1. That you have suffered an accident that prevents you from walking

2. That he is bedridden by a surgical intervention.

3. Suffering from angina pectoris, arterial hypertension or coronary stenosis

4. Arrhythmias with great difficulty breathing

5. High fever.

If you are not in any of these circumstances, then: What do you expect to do your walk?

Let’s not expect a medical prescription that prevents us from walking or being in a situation like the previous 5, to tell us how would I like to go for a walk! I would love to go for a walk!

Let’s get moving, because the good walker is achieved by walking.

Enjoy and have fun walking to be a good walker.

The daily adventure can be achieved by good walkers, who are those who walk every day.

The good walker is achieved through the awareness that he is not immersed in the 5 negative circumstances we have just listed, and that he can enjoy an outdoor walk, hic et nunc. (See writing THE “HERE AND NOW” WITH THE SYSTEM).

If this awareness manages to repeat it daily, for a whole month, it will have managed to be a good walker.

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In a previous writing I commented on the concept of symbolism (WALKING AND ITS SYMBOLISM), and also on a suitable model – a bit difficult – to know and familiar with the images that are generated in the unconscious, itself that I have titled thresholdism (DRAWING AND THRESHOLDISM, TO KNOW OUR INNER SELF) and finally I have expressed why we should devote some of our time to drawing (WHY AND WHAT TO DRAW FOR?). Now, I would like to suggest some ways and actions so that a person can GENERATE AND EXTRACT, in the best way, the images that he contains in his mind and can draw them. I could not call them techniques, because they are only oral, mental and physical mechanisms. Namely:

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1. Repeat a word -or phrase- as for example “draw”, as many times as necessary, until we can block the words, reach the mental limit where nothing verbal is contained. This is nothing more than using the known “AUM” technique, repeating this sound so many times until verbal thoughts are completely eliminated.

2. We well know that striving to attract something to our mind, it rejects or hides it. If the previous form (paragraph 1) does not work properly for us, then we can use what Viktor Frankl called “paradoxical intention”. For example, to repeat ourselves: “I don’t want to draw” and we probably will succeed, that is, we can attract graphic images, dissociated from the verbal.

After a few minutes (15-30 or less), the resulting symbolic visual ideas can be expressed a) orally, b) through drawings or c) in written form. All of them should be drawn according to what has been visualized: Project on a paper the symbols that have appeared in your mind.

Very early on, when the human being began to speak, to emit his first words, he only had in his mind symbolic images; therefore, perhaps drawing was our first structured artistic language, a kind of symbolic language.

One way to draw while walking is, using the right lobe of the brain because it is the creative one, transcribing the images caused by walking reading and/or writing to a drawing block -Sketch pad- Any image that comes to mind, however simple, ridiculous or grotesque it may seem, we must draw it on paper.

The symbols that each person uses to represent their ideas or any thought, is unrepeatable; it is different in each individual, although they may contain similar features in their symbolic graphic manifestations.

In general, these images are far from the aesthetic and in the beginning are unintelligible, however, they always contain encrypted information that makes it easier, many times, to better understand what the human being encloses and represses in his interiority.

These symbolic ideas that are generated in our unconscious and that emerge to our consciousness, as images, apparently incomprehensible, difficult to express orally, complex to explain, allows us to obtain different descriptions: representations of our way of feeling , regarding ourselves and the outside environment.

In the case of our comprehensive walking system, each walk can be started with an objective in mind, from which we want to obtain some related images; and, if we also have a book or document that talks about that topic from which we wish to obtain some images, let’s take it with us. The actions we can perform are:

1. First of all, use some element to encourage the creation of images, for example, reading an attractive book (essay, poetry, novel, etc.), which is related to the subject from which we want to extract images from our unconscious.

2. Keep in mind the theme or issue to be represented by graphic, visual, non-oral images. We can always facilitate the process by dividing into subtopics, both in written and graphic images.

3. Define some topics or words that are related to the fundamental theme.

4. Try to rationally define, at the beginning of the walk, some visual-graphic symbol of the schematic abstract type, trying not to use any words.

5. Allow the mind to generate those images for each of the topics or the fundamental theme, as the walk is made, either reading and/or writing.

6. The images created in the mind, whether voluntarily or not, are pristine representations of each individual, which are created according to their essence and form (psychological structure).

7. Respect the essence of what the symbolism drawn from the mind represents, since it is primary and fundamental information of the interiority of each being.

8. The images that are thus transcribed to the paper must maintain their simplicity or complexity, as well as their colors.

9. It is also recommended that the images be transcribed to the paper at the precise moment they are generated in the mind, during the walks either reading, writing and drawing.

We must keep in mind that these images can be forged during reading or writing. I believe that the most effective, immediate, comfortable and economical way to feed the imagination is by reading and writing. As I recommend in reading and writing, through an analogy (Manual for walking reading, writing and drawing, pp. 45-54), I advise In the case of drawing. What type of reading is acceptable for this? You yourself will discover and know what type of reading that encourages your drawing creation, following the recommendations and indications above.

A good warm-up practice to directly invite our unconscious to generate images so that we can release the hand better by drawing, is to make quick sketches of what we observe, while walking; with a frequency of 3 or 4 of them in a span of 10-20 minutes.

This process is reversible, back and forth. In my experience it has happened to me that writing feeds my paintings and at the same time, after months or years, that painting inspires me a poem or some story; in fact, some of my sketches that I have developed during my walks I have used in some novels, specifically, there are several that I am using at this time in the realization of my novel Dialogues in a place of La Mancha.

Despite this, the important thing is to point out the force that exists in the reading that drives the unconscious to recover part of what has repressed the conscience and that it exposes as graphic images.

Finally, let’s remember and keep in mind that this process is an engine to revive sensitive images (which are introjected through the senses) produced by previous perceptions, by reproductive imagination and inspiration, and that within us (unrepeatable and personal) they generate combinations of all these images captured to give rise to new image units, and which are extracted outwards by our creative force. It is therefore also important to use the system Dintornism (*) for the interpretation of symbols in plastic creation (to understand and interpret the images that are generated in the unconscious), as well as referring to the thresholding (See writings: DRAWING, TO KNOW BETTER OURSELVES and DRAWING AND THRESHOLDISM, TO KNOW OUR INNER SELF) to know our inner self, it is a heterodox way of knowing our particular fantasy and our ability to build graphic images (also mental) based on real and imaginary impulses.

Let’s walk and draw while we walk.

(*) LoyaLopátegui, Carlos, Dintornism. A plastic-philosophical theory of reality, Emulisa, Mexico, 2012. Available on Amazon, Kindle Edition: https://www.amazon.es/dp/B0D6C18SS9

(*)LoyaLopátegui, Carlos, The Dintornism in the Plastic of the Ancient Mayas. Emulisa, Mexico, 2015.

LoyaLopategui, Carlos, Dialogues in a place of La Mancha, EMULISA, México, 2019: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CJ3BW1T1.

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