Does Walking Help Us Escape Our Problems?

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Fleeing is often associated with a manifestation of weakness, cowardice, or a failure to take responsibility for one's own life. There are those who run from obligations and commitments, from their own sense of inadequacy, or perhaps out of shame, to take shortcuts and hide away. In common perception, those who flee seek to avoid a situation that frightens them or before which they feel inadequate, and for this reason, they are ridiculed or poorly regarded.

Fleeing, however, does not simply mean disappearing into nothing or evading a problem. In reality, it is also a survival mechanism that activates when we face a possible danger or harm to ourselves, whether physical or emotional: an animal instinct, a healthy one, that, together with its opposite (fighting), allows us to safeguard our lives.

Consequently, when we cannot face a situation head-on and fight, but instead find ourselves blocked and paralyzed, caught in internal conflicts, endless questioning, and a heightened state of stress, the only true alternative for our wellbeing is to walk away.

Sometimes, even when we can no longer bear the tension, we get lost in endless spirals of thought, dragging ourselves through frustration and sadness, or conversely, through overly high pace and agitation. We convince ourselves that it is right to resist and persist, even at the expense of our health. Despite exhaustion and lack of energy, immobility and uncertainty about the future, we remain prey to anxiety and excessive worry, without understanding how to escape it.

If we feel we've "hit rock bottom", that we've spent and given everything yet nothing has changed, if we continue to repeat the same patterns, risking falling back into old mistakes, it is time to set out on a journey!

Walking helps us escape from our problems and distance ourselves for a while from everything. It can truly be the best decision to make to dedicate some time to ourselves and rediscover that sense of inner freedom that feels so sacrificed. It can become an opportunity to disconnect, to turn our attention away from what disturbs us, to stay away from those around us, to live in a different space and time, to restore balance.

By walking, step by step, we can begin to breathe naturally again, without strain, see the world with fresh eyes, change perspective, and reclaim the trust and strength necessary to face our situation differently.

"In times like these, escape is the only means to stay alive and continue to dream"
Henri Laborit

Fleeing, therefore, does not necessarily mean running away (from ourselves, from something or someone) or denying that we have a difficulty, but rather can be a way to refocus our priorities, to clarify what truly matters to us, to give new meaning to our existence in a personal way, especially when external pressures are what take our breath away.

Walking, far from the context in which we are immersed, allows us to create that healthy distance from reality which helps us see with more conscious awareness the web of social conventions and prejudices we are trapped within, and to take their measure. It can thus be a means to seek out, discover, or create a new way of living, more in tune with our own values and desires.

The slow movement of walking travel contributes even more to slow down the whirlwind of thoughts and conflicting emotions, bringing them into harmony and allowing our deeper, most authentic self to emerge—the part that always knows which path to take.

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