Inexpensive, healthy, ecological, no matters where you are, you can practice the simple and natural art of walking.
You can walk alone looking for silence and solitude or with friends for companionship.
Now, with the quarantine, I really miss it.
Last time, I went alone… stepping ahead beyond my day-to-day activities and duties. I crossed, along the whole day, some of Mexico City endearing 'colonias', of course, avoiding large and noisy avenues and going through streets and squares with pleasant, relaxed, and refreshing atmospheres.
Certainly, walking alone is an endless inner journey, a sign of freedom, an amazing sensory experience, and a source of inspiration. It is a 360° wide outdoors venture, although as Soren Kierkegaard wrote, “to venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one's self.... and to venture in the highest is precisely to be conscious of one's self.”
A big effort, indeed, a sacrifice. However, there are several benefits of walking, all included in the ‘3+1 perspectives’ of our lives:
1. Physical perspective: healthy benefits for entire body health as improving cardiac risk factors such as cholesterol, blood pressure, diabetes, obesity… 2. Mental perspective: surprising benefits as purging old prejudices, reducing mental stress and refilling the mind by conscience, looking for integrity and peace. 3. Emotional perspective: healing benefits as controlling inward feelings and external attitudes which generate selfishly ambitious illnesses, as obsession, jealousy, and depression. (+1). Spiritual perspective: exciting and inspiring benefits, extremely helpful when inward perspectives 2 and 3 are in war or not well balanced, is the right track to become part of your future within your insights.
So, after the coronavirus lockdown, prepare your walking shoes (just an easy and comfort ones) and discover it for yourself!