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Depression & Anxiety | Last Active: Mar 6, 2023 | Replies (200)
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Replies to "@mbabkk Hello Michael: I just love the phrase you used, "Wow Walks"! Exercise does help to..."
Good luck to everybody who tries this kind of walk
I understand what you are saying and it helps a lot IF I can get myself into it.
Let me try to give my definition of a WOW WALK BASED on my university of berkeley
Course I attended. I use a personal experience just for the sake of simplicity.
A wow walk could and should maybe be walking on a secluded beach in Hawaii or along the glaciers of Alaska - yes but I live in a province outside Bangkok so Hawaii
Is a bit far for a morning walk.
Well I do walk every morning from my house to the fresh market about 2 kilometers. I go to buy fresh eggs vegetables etc and it is a nice simple habit. I go with a goal in mind eg fresh farm eggs for my breakfast and I don’t really see the market because I know it so well and I know where my eggs are. Well I still do that but when anxiety hits me as it often does - I take the same walk with a lower speed and no real target and just breath in the sights and action of a beautiful simple street market - smile at the vendors who may shout eggs? Fish for your cat ? Rosella for for your tea ? And I look at the walk in a completely different way / I interact not just execute transactions - it is a huge difference - same walk but a different purpose and mindset - hohohoho sometimes I end up
Going home without my eggs but maybe with fresh bell peppers that were not on my mind - hence my encounter with maybe 50 or more people change from transaction to wow and I may sit down at a small simple stall selling coffee and local Chinese “
butterfly breads “ and just Breath - same market different speed - different mindset / different result - then i go back for my eggs later - I hope you will try.
University of Berkeley has an open and free course “ the science of happiness “ and that’s where I learned that the same walk could’ve done in very very different ways.
It does not work for my Neighbour because she is so process oriented she cannnot see the point - but some days we go together and she sees a different walk.
Hope it makes sense