Projo Fitness Blog

"Of all exercises, walking is the best," said Thomas Jefferson.

But there's more to it.

"Three miles an hour restores our humanity to us," say Aaron Sussman and Ruth Goode in their 1967 book, The Magic of Walking. (I found a copy in a used bookstore, but there are some available at Amazon.com.)

Walking, they wrote, "gives us back our identity, our awareness of ourselves as individual human beings instead of bodies on a vehicle being carried from here to there with the greatest possible efficiency, like so many crates of vegetables."

"All walking is discovery," wrote naturalist and journalist Hal Borland. "On foot we take the time to see things whole."

Zen master and Buddhist monk Thich Nat Hahn often speaks and writes about the practice of walking meditation and the mindfulness that it brings.

Walking can help heal a heart.

In many ways.

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