Wednesday, May 8, 2019

Just Walk It Off

We have all heard that cliche, and most of us have given  that advice. Advice that we would rather give than get. The universal cure for what ails you. Did you know the worlds greatest philosophers, thinkers and writers have been walking it off for centuries. Using walking as a cure, a tonic for both mind and body.

"I have two doctors, my left leg and my right."
G.M. Trevelyan - English Historian

I won't go into the science, but for centuries people have known the health benefits of walking. As I wrote about in my article (How I lost 10lbs. fast).  People have been fasting for hundreds of years, because they knew the benefits.

Now we have the science to prove what they already knew. It is the same with walking. They say all the best things in life are free. Which is true of both fasting and walking.

" No wealth can buy the requisite leisure, freedom, and independence which are the capital in this profession. It comes only by the grace of  God.
It requires a direct dispensation from Heaven to become a walker you must be born into the..."
     Henry David Thoreau - American author, poet, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, inventor, historian, and philosopher.

Charles Dickens was a walker. It is said that he wrote one of his most stories, A Christmas Carol after a walk around London.

" If  I could not walk far and fast I think I should 
just explode and perish."
Charles Dickens - English Author

It doesn't seem to matter short walks, long walks, walks to familiar places, walks to the great unknown, in the city or in the country. Just be mindful of what your doing.

"We should go forth on the shortest walk, perchance. In the
spirit of undying adventure, never to return - prepared
to send back our embalmed hearts only as a relic to our
desolate kingdoms."
Henry David Thoreau

Now that a pretty serious walk, maybe that's why men like him are not so common anymore. 
Yet he gets more serious.

" If you are ready to leave father and mother, and brother 
and sister and wife and child and friends,and never see them again;
if  you have paid your debts, and made your will, and settled 
your affairs, and are a free man; then you are ready for a walk."
Henry David Thoreau

If you think you don't have time for a walk Edward Abbey has this to say.

" Walking takes longer... than any other known form
of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and
prolongs life. Life is already to short to waste on speed."
Edward Abbey - American author of environmental issues

Henry David Thoreau though it so beneficial he wrote an" Essay on Walking."

" Think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits, unless
I spend four hours a day at least, and it is commonly more than that
- sauntering through the woods and over hills and fields,
absolutely free from all worldly engagements."
Henry David Thoreau

My favorite walk is along the Lower Mountain Fork River in Beavers Bend State Park Hochatown Oklahoma. Begin at the new bridge and head upstream. If you need flatter ground go to the old park dam and walk down stream, it is a very easy walk.(See my article Oklahoma's best hiking; camping; fishing.)

" In short all good things are wild and free."
Henry David Thoreau

I read this the other day" When in doubt, trust in long - existing cliche's, because they exist for a reason." Stephen Harding

One more reason to just walk it off.

This is Papa Randy and I'am
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