This man, a Hungarian psychologist, studied and wrote many books about FLOW and how we can achieve it, but what does it mean and how do we find it during our walks?
It all begins with the first step
It may feel like a challenge, because we could be wondering where we are going, how we are going to get there, where we’ll stop, what the terrain will be like. We may feel an anticipation of the experience we are about to take part in. Excitement, anxiety, stress and unconscious worry may all be on the menu, before that first step and for many reasons.
We, as humans sometimes respond to our biological wiring and mental habits of predicted defeat or concern and all of the above feelings and thoughts are valid.
However! we can, with a practice, tap into functional optimal ways to deal with challenges in order to thrive in what we do. We do, despite our daily lives, have the power to react differently to situations and find the joy in the journey, as opposed to just getting something done.
In alignment with a positive mindset, we can empower ourselves to be in a place, where we are totally focused on our walk, without distraction or focus on time, losing ourselves in our breath, our pace, our conversation and our surroundings.
We are allowing the walk to flow through us, rather than making it happen.
Before we know it, we are gliding, enjoying and moving in ‘flow motion’ and then, with our renewed skill of letting go, we can carry this through to other areas of our lives.
Walk and talk therapy in nature, allows for self-discovery and the stepping out of your regular, perhaps not so supportive patterns of thinking, to see what you and nature can achieve.
