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Meditation is necessary in your life and you need calm and sufficient time for it, without other urgent things to do. For this reason, also a good and long walk can be important not only for all the benefits this can give your health, but to meditate on yourself, on the world around you and on yourself in this world, no matter how long is your walk. It's also an occasion to make a summary of your life and your choices, past and future. To meditate and think, you can't walk fast, thinking only to walk; instead, you need to look around you, observing the landscape, people passing along the street and the environment.Nothing better than a walk in the mountain, across the woods, looking at the mountains around you that make you feel so little and fragile.

Not only the mountain can help you to meditate, but whatever natural environment around you can make you feel how beautiful is life around you and think about the best way to enjoy it. Your steps are slow, but your eyes are the fastest to walk or run around; you should be always alone in such walks because meditation is a personal experience in which you walk inside yourself and try to find answers.

The natural environment in which you walk helps you because, if you really feel it, it takes off of you all your masks and uniforms, obliging you to rely on your forces, although you are surely not making a memorable trekking performance but only a simple walk. You should find much time and quietness to think and examine thoroughly your problems, a whole day, if you want, just what you can't find during your everyday life, in the cement anthill where you have to live, in most of cases.

During your week in town, there are many people around you, but you feel alone within their indifference, a little number among many little numbers. Instead, walking alone in the nature, you are not really alone because just nature keeps you company, like an old wise mother (and nature is really our Great Mother!) and talks to you, with its particular language, made of great visions but also of little particulars. So, meditation during your walk in a park, for example, can be an occasion to observe and trying to understand the messages that nature sends to you.

For example, when you see rubbish and wastes along a river or aside a road, you can feel disappointment and rage against whom has dirtied like that the place you are observing but also trying to assess what role and contribution you could have given to the huge of wastes under your eyes. Was there something you could make to produce less waste, or to recycle it? How many paper or plastic pieces do you use to throw away along the street, without pay attention to it?

if you walk across a little village in Europe, for example, and you see a couple of white storks in their big nest on the roof of a house, you could meditate on your family or on your relations with your partner, if really the things between you both goes as well as between those two storks, helping one another....

The arguments for meditation are many while you're walking and you needn't to have a meditation program or a precise path to follow, but only to hear the voice of your instinct and what you feel in that precise moment. The freedom of your thoughts is the only that nothing and nobody can limit or deny and it's never lost time as somebody who doesn't understand you tries to make you believe.

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