Walking Long Distance

[Dragallur]

Hi,
I wanted to share with you this quite interesting insight. 

About two weeks back I walked this really long distance, at least for me. It was 65.5 kilometers with the change of elevation of 2700 meters. It was quite hardcore trip but I noticed some small insights about myself and I kind of ordered everything in my head at that time. The problem was that there were also other people around so I did not have so much time alone.

Yesterday I walked again, this time about 65.1 kilometers with just 400 meters of ups. I did walking meditation for about 70 minutes for the first time, quite without any instructions since I forgot to study it but it was quite cool. Such a walk really clears your head from everything there is around. I greatly recommend something like this for anyone who has too much things in her/his head or wants to make some big decision.

What is your experience with such a long trip?

Dragallur

[JKG]

Recently I was hiking over the Alps with a group of 15 people. The days weren't such as long as your trips, but still something like 15-20km with 1000-2000 meters of ups and downs.

I really enjoyed it. I didn't talk a lot to the other members of the group. I rather was thinking about my future and life purpose and the monkey mind did a lot too. Sometimes I listened to the conversations of the other people which were a little bit interesting. From those I know now that I never want to have a normal job.

I was amazed about what my body could do. Those walks were much more than I do normally. And at the end of the days I still had a lot of power. That was one little insight about my body. I also got some insights about my life purpose. My subconscious mind came up with quite a few ideas.

As soon as we came from the beautiful mountains and nature back into civilization I always hated it. I wanted to go back into nature. This showed my how much I love it to be in nature and using my body a lot.

[Dragallur]

4 hours ago, quantum said:

Recently I was hiking over the Alps with a group of 15 people. The days weren't such as long as your trips, but still something like 15-20km with 1000-2000 meters of ups and downs.

I really enjoyed it. I didn't talk a lot to the other members of the group. I rather was thinking about my future and life purpose and the monkey mind did a lot too. Sometimes I listened to the conversations of the other people which were a little bit interesting. From those I know now that I never want to have a normal job.

I was amazed about what my body could do. Those walks were much more than I do normally. And at the end of the days I still had a lot of power. That was one little insight about my body. I also got some insights about my life purpose. My subconscious mind came up with quite a few ideas.

As soon as we came from the beautiful mountains and nature back into civilization I always hated it. I wanted to go back into nature. This showed my how much I love it to be in nature and using my body a lot.

Great! This is exactly the thing I was talking about!
It actually very interesting with the distance. Before the first 65 I walked roughly 30 many years back and I was not playing much sport, just cycling from time to time. Now that I know that it is such a great experience I definitely want to continue with more walking and maybe running.

[Soulbass]

Here in France we have Sylvain Tesson, a writer/walker. He talked once about the spiritual growth while walking (and said that it doesn't occure while travelling by bike^^).

[Dragallur]

2 hours ago, Soulbass said:

(and said that it doesn't occure while travelling by bike^^).

Hmm.. maybe you have too much stuff around to watch. Still nice sport.

[ProblemSolving]

I remember a few experiences that I had. Really great. Especially when I walk around places I've never been before. I forget all my problems that I used to have and just confront myself with this journey. It is one of the things that I enjoy the most in life. Still want to visit many places on earth. But actually it doesn't matter. I could just go out and head in a certain direction for a few hours. And I am happy.