The Art of Walking - a Note from the author

Lets make an assumption that karma exists....

I went on a walk once - an actual physical one-foot-in-front-of-the-other walk which created heavy, involved, and negative karma. I was subsequently given the chance to relive that walk and redress the karma, so I took the chance.

I relived the walk over and over again, and I was able to find forgiveness. I could have focused on a number of emotions - injustice, anger, hate, retribution, revenge, all words which come to mind to express my feelings at the beginning of the exercise to relive my old experience. I was eager to recapture enough evidence from the walk to expose the injustices and exact some revenge, but in the many times of reliving that walk, as I made a deeper and deeper connection, I could mainly see misunderstandings, societal conditionings, and peer pressure. I became sad: Sad for myself, and sad for all the other souls who were tied into that experience. From this sadness at our collective imprisonment I found forgiveness.

This was my Groundhog Day, and this is where I understood the power of walking and the importance of sitting. This was the birth of a book I wrote about this subject, a collection of similar exercises to make sense of various situations in my life and people I have met. 

Every experience, every 'walk', can be reviewed. Every memory we have, every person we have met, can be understood through the context of texture, colour, hardness, softness, light or dark, durability or the lack of it, exhaustion or exhilaration from the connection.

The book is for sale in my shop. It is simply written, a slim paperback, dip in and dip out collection of memories and reflections.

May all your walks be rich in their teaching. I passionately wish you clarity, synchronicity, joy and love.