SEED QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION: How do you relate to the notion of treating thoughts as a landscape that has been there all along? What is the connection between walking and thinking for you? Can you share a personal experience that brings out the connection between walking and thinking?
Walking is my best meditation. I have to walk most of the day, when I walk outside and share nature, i always am able to place my life back in perspective. I walk every day, I also have always had to have a ob that allow me to walk around, I work 12 hour shifts in an Emergency room and spend the majority of the time on my feet not purposeful walking but many steps in a day, the movement allows my mind to focus and be more effective. I frequently suggest to people who show up with panic attacks/anxiety to take up walking when their minds start to show signs of anxiety.
In Indian concept of Charveti means go on walking. The person who runs his destiny also run. Walking is related to thinking. Go on peaceful walking new thoughts will emerge in your mind.
If walking and the mind resonate depth of thinking then its subjective in that the person is awakened by thaught depending on the nature of their surroundings. For me any natural space immediately feeds my soul which then talks to me internally.
I come from a family of "walkers". Growing up with an abundance of energy (people) living in a small space (our home), I learned early, walking allowed me the space and peace necessary for quality "think time".
Like energy begets energy, the rhythm of walking stimulates thought. In walking, I can rhythmically pray, dance, study, recite, dream, create, soak, plan, embrace, love, celebrate, thank . . .
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