Walking
Walking
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Walking Walking is a panacea, a remedy for almost all your woes!? Walking is like a universal panacea. It has so many health benefits, physical, mental and spiritual. It supports sexual health, including being a great remedy for erectile dysfunction. It helps de-escalate anger and agitated emotions. It connects us to Nature, soothing our soul.  Exercise needed? Walking is a very low-cost and simple way to get your daily exercise. “Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.” (Thomas Jefferson) “What’s great about walking is that it does not require special equipment or training, and you can do it almost anywhere.” (Prof James Leiper, associate medical director at the British Heart Foundation, quoted in The Guardian, posted and accessed 9 August 2023) Weight issues? A 30 minute walk prevents weight gain in sedentary people. Walk more than 30 minutes and you are losing fat and weight (Duke University). Tone your butt? Yes please? Read how at wikiHow by walking... Sexual issues? Regular exercise enhances sexual health. A brisk daily walk suffices! Erectile dysfunction? In one study, 67% of men raised their game by walking (they no longer needed Viagra). Relationship issues? Go for a long walk together and let the stream of consciousness flow. This can really help, says Nathan Seaward (21m30s). For Glen Irvin Flores, a recovering alcoholic, and his wife, daily walks made it easier for both to open up about tough issues, so much so that they no longer felt the need for marriage counselling. Health issues? Walking has so many physical health benefits (e.g. see here, here). Perhaps combine walking and nature. Practise forest bathing/shinrin-yoku. A 90 minute hike through woodland twice a week boosts your immunity by 46% (Nippon Medical School cited in Men’s Health, August 2009, p.26). “Walking is man’s best medicine.” (Hippocrates)  In a bad mood/need happiness? A 10 minute walk has been shown to boost brain chemistry, to create happiness. “Lovely days don't come to you, you should walk to them.” (Rumi) Feeling overwhelmed? "Take a walk and clear the busy mind." (Trish Blackery) Touch deprived? Daily power walking stimulates pressure points. It’s what Tiffany Field, founder of the Touch Research Institute, does. See here. Going through hell? Keep walking! "If you are going through hell... keep on going." (Sir Winston Churchill) Seeking a long life? “The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure.” (Tibetan proverb) Searching for answers to problems? “In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.” (John Muir) "Solvitur ambulando." (Latin phrase) = "It is solved by walking." Fancy a laugh? Try out 'The Ministry of Silly Walks': Challenge/Adventure/Serendipity needed? If it is safe, go out for a walk - but have no planned route, no time limit. See where you are led by yourself. Experiment with goallessness, intuition. What surprises and delights await? Acquire Authenticity or Activism? Cut out the blah, blah, blah. Walk Your Talk! Develop Heart? “When your legs are tired, walk with your heart.” (Paulo Coelho) Creativity dried up? “All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.” (Friedrich Nietzsche) “Walking opens up the free flow of ideas, and it is a simple and robust solution to the goals of increasing creativity and increasing physical activity.” (Marily Oppezzo & Daniel L. Schwartz, Stanford University, 'Give Your Ideas Some Legs: The Positive Effect of Walking on Creative Thinking', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2014, Vol. 40, No. 4, 1142–1152; also see here, which says walking 'raised subjects’ creative output by 60% on average, compared with sitting still, regardless of location') Artistic understanding lacking? "Try to walk as much as you can, and keep your love for nature, for that is the true way to learn to understand art more and more. Painters understand nature and love her and teach us to see her. If one really loves nature, one can find beauty everywhere." (Vincent van Gogh)  Blessing sought? “An early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.” (Henry David Thoreau) There is a Navajo prayer and chant 'Walking in Beauty', which is about being in harmony and connected to everything around you, in a heightened state of consciousness now and into old age - watch here, here, here. Then, like Rumi, we might say "Every step I take is a blessing." Meditation called for? "I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out until sundown, for going out, l found, was really going in." (John Muir) Lost in life? If, like Dante (Inferno, Canto I), midway through life, you awake to find yourself within a dark forest, and the straightforward path has been lost, here are some suggestions:-
 Need a miracle? “To walk into nature is to witness a thousand miracles.” (Mary Davis) Require angelic inspiration? “If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking. Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk.” (Raymond Inmon) Want to totally transform your life? Go on a Pilgrimage! There are many pilgrimage sites, but perhaps the best known modern walking pilgrimage is El Camino de Santiago, from your home (or other European starting point) to Santiago de Compostela in NW Spain.
 Grow your innate goodness? “One of our old, old holy men said, ‘Every step you take upon the earth should be a prayer. The power of a pure and good soul is planted as a seed in every person’s heart, and will grow as you walk in a sacred manner.’” (Charmaine White Face of Sioux nation, cited in Native American Wisdom by Alan Jacobs, p.159) Help your parents? Depression is one of the most common mental health disorders in older people. It often goes undiagnosed. Research shows that a daily walk of 20 minutes (five days a week) can cut the risk by 43%. More than 20 minutes further reduces the risk. Concerned for Mother Earth? Walking more (i.e. using fossil fuel transport less) will reduce air pollution, reverse manmade climate change and save the environment. “Walk as if you are kissing the earth with your feet.” (Thich Nhat Hanh) Dog difficulties? Keep your dog happy with a walk. It is the foundation of dog training. Ensure dog is calm. Then lead calmly and assertively (i.e. not with tech or other distraction, and not with the dog leading you!). Read more here, here.
 Yes, walking is a Panacea!!
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"Beauty is in me/you/us, when
I walk
Beauty is in front of me/you/us, when I walk Beauty is behind me/you/us, when I walk Beauty is below me/you/us, when I walk Beauty is above me/you/us, when I walk Beauty is around me/you/us, when I walk And everything is beautiful again" |
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