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Walking For Your Life

by H.R. Waymen

Here are the basic movement patterns for walking, for walking like your life depended on it. You can laugh, thinking doesn't everybody know how to walk. Actually nothing could be further from the truth. Walking with respect to what's known as "Tapping the Zero Point Energy" are cutting edge awareness techniques that transcend the human being from all its known limitations. Like gravity for example, or your ego. Does that get your attention?

I could talk at length about Prigonine's Irreversible Equilibrium, Boehm's Implicate Order, Sheldrake's Morphogenetic Fields, Pribram's Holographic Theory, Einstein's Quantum Mechanics and a plethora of other scientists that have contributed to the understandings presented here, but that means relatively nothing to a person who just wants to understand about basic elocution, or walking movement. But that's the background behind this article.

Here's the challenge;

Here's the challenge, walk like your life depends on it because it does. How you walk into a room is telegraphed to everyone there faster than the speed of light. Who you are and how you are within yourself is communicated much more quickly than you'd be comfortable knowing. So how you want to be in life is dependent on how consistently you are aware of how you move in your body, it's that simple. The sky's the limit, and here are the basics.

The first order of business is what's known as the sky hook. Many may already be familiar with this basic movement idea. Imagine you have a string pulling your head up from an imaginary string that is located where the spine reaches up into the skull where your cowlick is, a little at the back of the center of the head.

This may cause your chin to tuck in a little also. Notice that when your chin tucks in your chest immediately just stuck out like you had some pride in there, because that is where its kept, in the area surrounding your heart. Keep that pride up, its good therapy.

Next, imagine a string pulling your chest straight forward and up just a little. Allow your self to fall a little into the walk by trusting the string to pull you forward some. Trust me, your body will not let you fall on your nose. Six degrees forward is ample for this movement to occur in. The same six degrees as the tilt of the world's axis by the way.

Another string is now imagined coming from your middle thighs, pulling the hip and thigh forward, allowing for the foreleg to swing effortlessly forward under the knee, and then landing softly on your heel slightly forward of the body, but not by much. We are not looking for the military march. That kind of movement hinders, not helps.

The final part of this movement is to roll off the ball of the toe and give a little push from the toes to complete the movement. Sandals and thongs are not good shoe wear for applying this technique. Let's also not forget that the arms have to swing freely from the sides of the body, equal to the gait of the legs.

Allow for the hips to rotate or move back and forth a little. This should occur automatically. Holding in the pelvis is a learned thing. Like not wanting people to think you're gay or some other effeminate thought construct like that. I'm asking for a little movement in the pelvis forward and back, not a girly sashe from side to side.

When the angle of the left pelvis and leg is forward on the left, the angle of the shoulder girdle and right arm should be forward on the right. This is important for causing all the spine muscles to be released in the process of walking. No part of the body was ever meant to be held in stasis or still, it was all meant to move all at the same time.

Release Breath;

This next movement can be done while walking, sitting or standing or any time you like or feel a need to take a "release breath". Take in a deep breath as you are walking along. At the top of the release of the breath allow your shoulders to relax. Actually let the shoulders drop a little. In the middle of the release of your breath allow the stomach muscles to relax. At the bottom of the release of the breath allow your buttock muscles to relax, and then allow that relaxation feeling to continue to go down through your thighs and forelegs and ankles and then ground your body on the earth.

This should bring the body to a complete state of relaxation. While always maintaining the sky hook. You have probably forgotten about the sky hook by now but that’s the work of it. Getting all these movements to happen in an orderly, consistent and relaxed fashion is what this discipline is all about. It is a discipline, the discipline of using the body as a vehicle to be here now.

What else are you doing as you walk down the street? Thinking thoughts about where you've been or where you're going? Try just being here now. You might as well be having an orgasmic experience while walking instead. No one else notices anything different going on anyway, so go for it. All it takes is practice practice practice. Enjoy the journey!

If you want to make the journey go more quickly, because studying these movements immediately tells you that you are not as good at it as you might like to be. Walking that is. Then please consider doing a ten session series of Hellerwork, Rolfing of Structural Integration sessions to open your body to adopting these movements more effortlessly. You'll be glad that you did.

The whole reason I get so excited about this is that when I get it right and everything is moving as it should be, I will suddenly feel a weightlessness and experience being completely unbounded by the earth. I feel a bigness that I have never experienced before. I'm huge. I am the earth! I become a oneness with the whole and the whole becomes a oneness in me, like nobody's business. That, is tapping the zero point energy. But hey, who needed a lesson in walking in the first place.