Walking Slowly - An Unexpectedly Powerful Experience

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I've played competitive and recreational sports my whole life. I've always kind of walked fast. A little while back I had a serious knee injury. I had ruptured my ACL while skiing. Torqued myself real hard and felt an explosion in my knee. Anyways, that past injury isn't the focal point of my sharing here. The focus here is Walking. Specifically, Walking Slowly. This has changed my life. Let me explain:

In walking slowly, I am able to really feel all the little movements in my body with much greater awareness. I am able to play with the pressure I put into my movements with much more detailed focus. Moving in this way, I've developed a much deeper connection within my body. It sounds silly saying that...but, the deep realization is: "I've been walking my whole life and i was kind of numb within the whole process." Most recently I've really been tuning in to the movement of my hips and how my thighs, quads and glutes work up into my obliques...and within this how the hips naturally swing/sway side to side while one leg goes in front of the other so much so...walking a straight line.

What's interesting about the hips...is that when i first started playing around with giving more attention to walking and my physical movements...i was getting really sore in the hips...like my hips were really tight all the time and i was just becoming aware of this fact through walking. Since then, i've been playing with the way i move my hips...and I've unlocked a whole new depth of experience within my body movement. It's as if the way I've walked the majority of my life has been suppressed to a certain extent. I say "as if"...because I am kind of in disbelief that I am deriving so much enjoyment from walking...that I am learning so much about myself movement within and as my physical body. The thoughts come to mind, "this sounds ridiculous...we learn to walk when we are little". It's a crazy reflection, because as I've gone deeper into my walking...I realized I was carrying around baggage in my walk to a certain extent...like I was always in a way in a sort of 'rush' where I was in a way 'on the run' and in a 'hurry'...which has brought me to the realization that I've existed and lived in a sort of fear in some ways or another...maybe not 'fear' per say...but like the energy of mind as a sort of drain on the body's best ability to live and exist without restraint. This has been interesting reflections and realizations, because it showcases to me how much in my mind I have existed throughout my life...in my mind in a way where my mind was sort of dominant over my body.

Mind over Body, makes no sense when our physical body is a huge part of our being here. so to be numb in body and strong in mind is a bit off balance. And guess what, that's what I've been discovering within my walking movements, that I've basically learned to bumble along my whole life and just kind of play it off..or better yet...fool myself into thinking I am better than I am. It's interesting because it's like I just learned how to stumble along at an early age and I've just kind of been stumbling along in and as my body awareness movements.

In playing around with moving real slowly in walking it's been a real treat. It's been a high quality workout too. I would never have thought this. By going real slow in movements you can really engage and hold positions longer that one would normally kind of skip through...maybe even neglecting certain steps in the movement. Initially I had some resistance to "commitment" in walking slowly and actually getting into it and playing around...a point in mind would come up..like 'hurry up'...'lets go'...which is interesting in and of itself because my body loves moving slowly directed through breath. There's been some initial resistance from my mind. I've been "Slow Walking" a real process of balancing my body and mind relationship with my Being at the Center here. It's been an interesting process.

Play around with walking slowly. Its a lot of fun. It's become part of my daily living. Everyday I feel stronger and better for it. Note: "Start Slow!".

Walk Slow

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oh wow...not the name specifically....but i have been playing around with my running and it does look very similar to this...and it stemmed from playing with the walking.

I'm not nearly as experienced with my running as i would like to be...though i did have the experience recently that based on my structured form in movement...running and breathing together as one......and being into with the movements of the motion, I realized my physical endurance is far superior to what i previously "thought" and "believed" it to be. As i was trotting along ...running...I felt like a horse...well i thought wow, this is what a horse must feel like in galloping.

Thanks @dan2all You've given me much to further investigate, play around with, and write about it!

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