Creative Walking
Here is an original approach, combining Conscious Walking with the development of Creative Thinking :
The way a human being is walking is the primary physical characteristic that distinguishes him in the animal realm. Standing on both lower limbs makes all the difference, thus allowing the brain to grow and thoughts to develop. That's why Pierre Gassend, or Gassendi, a great scholar of the 17th century, also native from our mountains, remarked that it would be better to say "I walk, therefore I am" (Ambulo, ergo sum) rather than "I think, therefore I am" (Cogito, ergo sum), a famous quote from his contemporary René Descartes. The implications of this "I am" are immense, one of which may be "I create". My proposal can be translated as "I walk, therefore I create"; its practice goes straight to the point, "feet on the ground and head in the stars":
Conscious Walking, mainly coming from Zen Buddhism, is idyllic to intensely live your own feelings in the present moment, through sustained attention paid to your breath, your body, your environment and ignoring everything that is not here and now. One step at a time, this yoga of walking involves us into a meditation in motion that liberates us from our worries and opens us to our true nature.
Thinking is the human activity par excellence, Creative Thinking is its outcome. We practice it in every moment, more or less (un)consciously, and too often in inverse proportion to what we want. The reality we experience is interpreted and shaped by our brain, which accordingly emits thoughts and generates feelings. But we can control our thoughts and emotions while developing our creativity and blossoming out to our full potential.
Creative Walking is a journey toward our own self, in touch with nature and the other. Walking is the basis whilst Creative Thinking is the goal. If this is personal development, it does not mean that it is self centered. When we understand that we are all connected to the Collective Unconscious, it follows that the more people there are who think, believe, feel, live the same values, the more these are reinforced and become common realities. Then, free spirits with awaken senses can certainly contribute to the positive evolution of this consciousness, for the benefit of all. Plus, practicing with a group increases the effects.
It is in fact the learning or the development of a lifestyle, a real art of living. One of the most sublime art forms that exist, which refers to the realization of our true nature by manifesting, by carving a creative consciousness. Here, the tools are the walking body, the elevation of the mind, the commitment into the present moment, the meeting with our self and sharing with others, which reveal our deep identity, freeing from their gangue the purest gems of our being.
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In the program for this activity, besides Conscious Walking briefly described above, various techniques of concentration, relaxation, strengthening and awakening of body and mind may be practiced. Little by little, step by step, our imagination leads us always higher in spirit, still deeper inside ourselves, to a world where everything is ideas in motion and energy in formation, that we can guide and shape.
An artistic work of collective creation, based on the inspiration of the place and of the moment, is also considered. A unique present of freedom, from perception to intuition, from intuition to creation...
Let us not forget that if thinking is peculiar to human beings, laughter is just as much. It is not recommended to take oneself too seriously. Here, our first goal is simply to be filled with joy and well being.
You can come to meet me or else I can come to meet you, because the walk, adapted to the group level, may take place in our mountains but also in your area, on a beach, in a forest or in the countryside, wherever it is a peaceful place in nature, with the possibility of going inside a building depending on the weather. Usually the whole session happens over a period of two days.
I have been able to get together the concept of Creative Walking thanks to my professional activities, as a Mountain Leader and as a Sculptor. The common thread is my passion for nature, earth sciences, astronomy, quantum physics, spirituality and artistic creation.
Let's share together an experience that opens new horizons, where each one helps the other when moving forward!
Eric Vissouze de Haven. La Dryade. 04140. Auzet. France.
tel. 33 (0) 492 363 401
mobile: 33(0) 660 381 377
If you keep thinking what you are thinking, you'll keep doing what you are doing and you'll keep getting what you are getting.
What are you thinking?
