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Originally Posted by Rudhran
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Postings No.2 & 3 are food for thought.
I would like to share my lovely walking experience in our area.
Here, there are several groups who seems to have cultivated the habit of going for walking every day morning and evening. It is not known whether it is voluntary, or on Doctors advice, or parents/friends insistence, etc
The walking track is nothing but a temple tank. There is a well laid out track and well maintained by the members themselves who use these track regularly. Members of the group will be allotted 100 mtrs (This is optional) each and it is his responsibility to keep it clean in the morning, besides going for walking. The track will be found dried leaves spread all over and there are lot of cleaning materials kept aside for one to use.
It is a gated garden with a huge pond and there is no access to outsiders, animals, beggars, vendors, etc
A calm place to go for a brisk walk in the morning and one can find members of all ages do go for a walk. Some hearing music with ear-phone, some shouting over mobile with someone else noisily, few murmuring slokas, all types
And there are few with noisy arguments and chit chat over current affairs, mostly politics.
There are few who do ground exercises and calisthenics, jogging, etc
It is interesting to watch couples at times having arguments and resolving issues. Young ones playing merrily unminding what is going on around.
The uniqueness of this place is, it is surrounded by medicinal trees, plants, shrubs all around. During early morning, the just blossomed flowers generate a lovely fragrance all around which one has to experience.
Added advantage is, it is adjacent to a Shiva temple where there will be Sound Amplifier chanting Rudram and Chamukam, Shiva Shruthi, etc
There is a Shiridi Baba murthy inside, as such, few remove their foot wear/shoes while walking.
It is a blessing indeed to have such an area around and make best use of it to keep fit.
I would like to share my lovely walking experience in our area.
Here, there are several groups who seems to have cultivated the habit of going for walking every day morning and evening. It is not known whether it is voluntary, or on Doctors advice, or parents/friends insistence, etc
The walking track is nothing but a temple tank. There is a well laid out track and well maintained by the members themselves who use these track regularly. Members of the group will be allotted 100 mtrs (This is optional) each and it is his responsibility to keep it clean in the morning, besides going for walking. The track will be found dried leaves spread all over and there are lot of cleaning materials kept aside for one to use.
It is a gated garden with a huge pond and there is no access to outsiders, animals, beggars, vendors, etc
A calm place to go for a brisk walk in the morning and one can find members of all ages do go for a walk. Some hearing music with ear-phone, some shouting over mobile with someone else noisily, few murmuring slokas, all types
And there are few with noisy arguments and chit chat over current affairs, mostly politics.
There are few who do ground exercises and calisthenics, jogging, etc
It is interesting to watch couples at times having arguments and resolving issues. Young ones playing merrily unminding what is going on around.
The uniqueness of this place is, it is surrounded by medicinal trees, plants, shrubs all around. During early morning, the just blossomed flowers generate a lovely fragrance all around which one has to experience.
Added advantage is, it is adjacent to a Shiva temple where there will be Sound Amplifier chanting Rudram and Chamukam, Shiva Shruthi, etc
There is a Shiridi Baba murthy inside, as such, few remove their foot wear/shoes while walking.
It is a blessing indeed to have such an area around and make best use of it to keep fit.
Reminds me of people walking at the Nageshwara Rao park in the morning next to Kapaleeshwarar temple.
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On a different note, the new Fitbit fad (wearable watches that measure physical activity) has a good effect in the population that has taken it seriously.
The guidelines for good health is to at least take 10000 steps a day which includes all the walking in the house etc. The watch measures all such activities and some models measure pulse rate, quality of sleep etc
The step recommendations amounts to about 4 to 5 miles a day.
Some movements burn more energy and some less but a relatively active life style is not difficult to achieve. The guidelines also suggest about 250 steps every hour so that one is not sitting at one place for too long.
Walking in a park can itself be a meditation experience. In fact, there is a formal way of meditating while walking (with eyes wide open of course). The technique involves reciting a mantra or verse repeatedly (without moving the lips) synchronized with steps taken. The other part is to look at any object along the way (e.g., tree, leaves etc) but not think about them meaning not let the mind take over the visual perception. That is achieved by consciously shifting the gaze from one object to another.
The first time I learnt this in a proper setting of a week long meditation workshop I was surprised how many things I observed along the way. Most often we become slave to our uncontrollable thought patterns preventing us from seeing what is happening around us or what exists in our way.