LIVIN G & LE ARNING INSIGHT
WALKING CONNECTS YOU TO THE EARTH
Besides the clear health benefits in circulation, breathing, dopamine release to lighten your mood and gentle low impact exercise, walking provides time to think, to meditate and to step out of the rapid pace of modern life, out of the box of windscreen, TV screen, computer screen and handheld screen.
When walking becomes a way of life the benefits amplify. Moving at an ultimately ‘human’ pace results in a witnessing of the world in magnificent detail, meeting people along the way, noticing beauty.
When I began to go ‘walkingourworld’ it was for Balance, Peace and Freedom – big concepts to provide a simple solution for a world gone mad.
BALANCE with the environment by minimising the use of vehicles and stepping more gently; PEACE with each other by putting myself into the hands and hearts of people right where they live; FREEDOM to move from place to place, cross borders, see the sights that others miss in their rush to get somewhere.
The surprising thing is that more than 9,000 kilometres of walking has delivered me personal balance as my two legs work in balanced unity; peace as my world has slowed to a pace where stress has ceased to exist; freedom by living an extraordinary life, free of the possessions and responsibilities that once tied me to a security that I have learned is an illusion.
excess at night, I discovered that two strong painkillers in the morning would take away the pain and get me through the day. Numb, but functional and bulletproof. I could take away a person’s livelihood and sack them with impunity. Reach targets. Maximise profit. Push as hard as me – numb, focused, soulless – or move aside and I’ll get someone else to do it.
SOMETHING HAD TO GIVE It was me. My second-last corporate media position ended when, above work commitments, I favoured meeting up with the parents of my best school friend, who had died tragically in a car accident when he and I were both 16. I hadn’t seen them for 17 years and they were coming through the city I was in for just a day and a night and wanted to catch up and share some time and dinner. The owner of the corporation I was working for contacted me after I had happily agreed to meet with them and, in the ensuing conversation, told me to cancel because he wanted to meet with me at the same time. I said no. I knew what I was doing. He sacked me. I stepped down a notch or two and
took a lesser job in a bigger corporation. I worked there for three years. The money was pretty good. I started at 8am each weekday in a daily ‘sales maximisation’ meeting (after having driven an hour in peak-hour traffic) and finished about 7pm. Most of my waking hours were dedicated to making enough money to live a life, pay rent, entertain myself with ‘stuff’ on the weekends.
15-day Spiritual Healing Pilgrimage to John of God in Abadiania, Brazil
Then, one day, in one of those meetings, my ‘superior’ made a statement that woke me up. He said that each and every one of us in that meeting was mediocre because, if we weren’t, we’d be somewhere else doing something important and powerful. I sacked myself.
IT’S BEEN QUITE A JOURNEY SINCE THEN I’ve worked through the hard yards of establishing and operating a small ‘conscious’ business, negotiating and experiencing a failed marriage, driving junk cars, wearing op-shop clothes, dating and loving women with big hearts, connecting with friends who don’t care what my bank account looks like. I surf more. I dance much more. I laugh a lot more. I drink a lot less. I don’t use painkillers at all. I can genuinely report being ‘in the
flow of life’. I recently heard a speaker
addressing festival participants; “You were gifted this life. Everything was gifted to you. Then someone stole it from you and began to sell it back to you. And you bought it and you keep on buying it. Wake up people.” It reminded me. Whether I force, manipulate, yearn and push or rest in perfect natural great peace, life keeps coming at me. For at least the last four years, since I left everything behind, sold almost all my possessions, walked away from what many people saw as a really good life experience living in comfort near Byron Bay – and began to walk from place to place, slowing down to be at peace with
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