Walking: Great way to Increase Physical and Mental Health

What kind of walking is beneficial?

While walking on foot, the body should be straight and the clothes should be less. While moving both hands and taking deep breaths through the nose, one should travel. Pranayama is also beneficial by taking deep breaths.

Along with physical, it is also beneficial in mental health. This helps in reducing the mental disorders like lust, anger, jealousy etc. Concentration develops.

Walking on green grass covered with dew drops is more beneficial. It is especially beneficial for the eyes. One can walk on wet grass during rainy days.

In general, walk at a moderate pace according to your physical capacity. It comes in Sushruta Samhita (Physical Place: 24.80): यत्तु चङ्क्रमणं नातिदेहपीडाकरं भवेत् । तदायुर्बलमेधाग्निप्रदमिन्द्रियबोधनम् ॥

‘A journey which does not cause much pain to the body, bestows age, strength and intelligence, increases the digestive fire and awakens the power of the senses.’

Walking is beneficial in many diseases

Walking is a panacea for nervous debility, mental illness, insomnia, nightfall, cold, cough, headache, constipation, thinness and weakness.

Explaining the benefits of morning walk in these diseases, Dr. Cornelia E. Phillips, D.O. Says: “I am saying this from my experience of 30 years, during which I have brought complete recovery to many hopeless, desperate and helpless patients suffering from these diseases. This natural method of regaining lost health is so effective that whatever is said about it will not be an exaggeration.

Walking reduces obesity, improves appetite, it works as an excellent medicine for chronic constipation and indigestion. It controls sex drive in youth.

Results of modern research

Modern research has found that

Walking reduces arthritis pain. Walking 5-6 miles (8-10 km) every week can also prevent rheumatic diseases.

As walking increases. Along the way, the risk of developing coronary heart diseases (blockage in the blood vessels for most people traveling at the speed of the heart) decreases. Walking should be promoted as an ideal exercise for the prevention of coronary heart diseases in the general public.

Walking increases a person’s creativity by an average of 60 percent.

Travel reduces the risk of hypertension and type-2 diabetes.

Note:-

If there is no grass, do not travel barefoot. Walking barefoot is disease causing, eye light and age killer. Walk to a pollution free place. If this facility is not possible, then you can plant Tulsi, Mogra, Rose etc. in pots on the roof of your house and walk around them in the morning and evening.

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