One very simple exercise, walking,
comes close to being ideal
-Deepak Chopra, MD
Walking is your physical body's meditation. According to Dr. Deepak Chopra, walking half an hour a day improves not only the quality of life, but may add years to your life as well. As you step into a walking rhythm, with your naturally alternating arm and leg movements, energy and information weave gracefully back and forth across the midline of body and brain, and unity of feeling and function become possible, if you will allow….
Can you permit yourself to walk just for walking's sake, not just to get there? Can you make your walk a time-out from current concerns? Can you be present in each moment with each breath, each step, and then
become aware of the life around you, the wonders that Nature creates in spite of our attempts to tame her?
If you can, even for a while, then the left brain may surrender its cognitive dominance of day to day life. It may even allow your creative right brain opportunity for its natural modes of expression - inspiration and intuition. And you may find along your way, a quiet
peace that passes understanding.
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Re. walking adding years to your life... I just read an article by Dean Ornish, M.D. for Newsweek that states:
"A study published last year by researchers at the University of Illinois reported that just walking for three hours per week for only three months caused so many new neurons to grow that it actually increased the size of people’s brains. Best of all, the region of the brain that grew the most was the hippocampus, the part most involved with memory and cognition. After only three months, those who exercised had brain volumes typical of people who were three years younger!"
If we're not careful, we might be back in our 20s soon!
Let's walk!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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