Walking a gentle source of energy

   Walking is an essential exercise for developing the mobility of the body and the harmony  of its functions. It is a wonderful single source of renewable, gentle energy. The repeated, regular contact with the ground recharges your nervous batteries.

  

   The best times to walk are at sunrise and sunset, since the earth’s electromagnetic energy is greater at these times than at any other time of the day.

   If you have the opportunity to walk barefoot (in grass wet with dew or on a sandy beach, for example) this is ideal since you will rapidly build up a store of energy, which passes though the soles of you feet and circulates throughout you body.

   Walk in a natural environment as often as you can: in the countryside, forest, along a river bank, in a park, a garden, etc.

  

   Fifteen to twenty minutes’ walk a day is in itself an excellent way of keeping fit!

  

   Walk smoothly and evenly without anything in you hands so that your arms can move freely.

  

   To improve your mobility and suppleness, walk using the “toe-heel” method, placing your toes on the ground first, then your foot, then your heel. To learn how to do it, practice walking backwards until you feel comfortable with the movement.

   The method avoids subjecting the spine and intestines to sudden shocks. It also stimulates the energy of the toes (where the reflex points of the head and the sense organs are located).

   The spine will automatically find its correct position while you are walking if you practise carrying a – real or imaginary – object on your head.

   To release the tensions that interfere with your breathing, you can practice breathing out against resistance : breathe out through almost closed lips as if you were breathing through a thin tube, completely emptying your lungs. 

  

   You can also regulate your exhalations to the rhythm of familiar tunes or emit a sound that you allow to reverberate in your mouth, nose and throat (the vibrations of the sound will stimulate the sensitive areas of the palate and nasal fossae which will in turn stimulate all the parts of the body via reflex channels).

   Then let the air enter your lungs of its own accord, feeling your stomach expand first. In this exercise exhalation is active and inhalation passive.

   These exhalations against resistance increase the supply of oxygen to the brain (your memory and concentration improve) and stimulate the blood circulation throughout the body.

  

   Yawning, sighing, growling, grunting, humming, singing, shouting, laughing and crying are also invaluable ways (used spontaneously by small children) of releasing your breath and expressing your emotions (all emotional tension automatically affects the breathing by blocking it in an inspiratory position).