Walking for the Mind and Spirit
Walking benefits your brain power, improves your mood and help ward off depression, and allows you to connect more deeply with your spiritual side and with your loved ones.
Musings While Walking a Labyrinth
Walking a labyrinth is a spiritual exercise to quiet, center, and allow contemplation and prayer. I took a walk through a labyrinth and share my experience and thoughts.
Walking a labyrinth is a spiritual exercise to quiet, center, and allow contemplation and prayer. I took a walk through a labyrinth and share my experience and thoughts.
Walking for the Mind and Spirit
Walking benefits your brain power, improves your mood and help ward off depression, and allows you to connect more deeply with your spiritual side and with your loved ones. From your About.com Guide.
Walking benefits your brain power, improves your mood and help ward off depression, and allows you to connect more deeply with your spiritual side and with your loved ones. From your About.com Guide.
Exercise May Help Memory Problems
A study found better memory scores and lower clinical dementia scores in older adults in a 24-week physical exercise program.
A study found better memory scores and lower clinical dementia scores in older adults in a 24-week physical exercise program.
A 30-Minute Walk Boosts Your Mood
Researchers found that a 30 minute walk on a treadmill boosted the mood and well-being of subjects with major depressive disorders.
Researchers found that a 30 minute walk on a treadmill boosted the mood and well-being of subjects with major depressive disorders.
Ways to Motivate Yourself to Walk
You want to walk, but how do you get yourself out the door or onto the treadmill? That's the toughest challenge most of us face. I am a natural couch potato, so I face it every day. Here is how this couch potato has turned herself into a marathon walker.
You want to walk, but how do you get yourself out the door or onto the treadmill? That's the toughest challenge most of us face. I am a natural couch potato, so I face it every day. Here is how this couch potato has turned herself into a marathon walker.
The Spirited Walker
Find out about using fitness walking as a spiritual journey in this interview with author Carolyn Scott Kortge, author of The Spirited Walker: Fitness Walking for Clarity, Balance and Spiritual Connection.
Find out about using fitness walking as a spiritual journey in this interview with author Carolyn Scott Kortge, author of The Spirited Walker: Fitness Walking for Clarity, Balance and Spiritual Connection.
Walking the Labyrinth
Walking a labyrinth is a spiritual exercise to quiet, center, and allow contemplation and prayer. Find out more about walking the labyrinth and labyrinth walking.
Walking a labyrinth is a spiritual exercise to quiet, center, and allow contemplation and prayer. Find out more about walking the labyrinth and labyrinth walking.
How Do You Use Walking to Connect to Your Spiritual Side
How do you use walking to connect to your spiritual side? Do you pray or meditate while walking? Sing spiritual songs or chant? Walk a labyrinth?
How do you use walking to connect to your spiritual side? Do you pray or meditate while walking? Sing spiritual songs or chant? Walk a labyrinth?
Exercise Keeps the Brain Young
Exercise keeps the brain young and may reduce risk of dementia
Exercise keeps the brain young and may reduce risk of dementia
Exercise Helps Severe Depression: Are the Studies Conclusive?
Exercise seems to help those with severe depression, but the Harvard Mental Health Letter also notes biases that may have affected the studies.
Exercise seems to help those with severe depression, but the Harvard Mental Health Letter also notes biases that may have affected the studies.
Walking Wards Off Dementia
Studies of men and women show that regular walking was related to lower risks of dementia and better thinking abilities as they age.
Studies of men and women show that regular walking was related to lower risks of dementia and better thinking abilities as they age.
Middle Age Fitness Fights Dementia
A study looked at adults who had engaged in leisure time activity at least twice weekly and found had 50% lower odds of dementia compared to the adults who did not engage in physical activity during their middle years.
A study looked at adults who had engaged in leisure time activity at least twice weekly and found had 50% lower odds of dementia compared to the adults who did not engage in physical activity during their middle years.
Take a MindWalk
Mindwalks: 100 Easy Ways to Relieve Stress, Stay Motivated and Nourish Your Soul is the solution to a problem you might not have known you had: how to add interest to your daily walk. MindWalks can do that.
Mindwalks: 100 Easy Ways to Relieve Stress, Stay Motivated and Nourish Your Soul is the solution to a problem you might not have known you had: how to add interest to your daily walk. MindWalks can do that.
Breathwalk - Breathing and Walking
Breathwalk is the science of combining specific patterns of breathing synchronized with your walking steps and enhanced with the art of directed, meditative attention. Specific Breathwalk exercises produce specific effects to revitalize body, mind and spirit.
Breathwalk is the science of combining specific patterns of breathing synchronized with your walking steps and enhanced with the art of directed, meditative attention. Specific Breathwalk exercises produce specific effects to revitalize body, mind and spirit.
Music While Walking - Go Further and Be Smarter
Listening to music while walking and exercising has some surprising effects.
Listening to music while walking and exercising has some surprising effects.
Exercise is an Effective Antidepressant
James A. Blumenthal, Ph.D. and his colleagues surprised many people in 1999 when they demonstrated that regular exercise is as effective as antidepressant medications for patients with major depression. Their 2000 study shows it also keeps depression from recurring.
James A. Blumenthal, Ph.D. and his colleagues surprised many people in 1999 when they demonstrated that regular exercise is as effective as antidepressant medications for patients with major depression. Their 2000 study shows it also keeps depression from recurring.
Avoid Negative Thinking; Choose to be Positive
Negative self-talk is a destructive habit and part of an essential defense mechanism that we often develop to protect ourselves. "I can't do this" is really just a way of saying "I don't want to deal with the experience of doing this." understand that you can make the choice not to repeat old patterns of eating, non-exercise, and negative thinking.
Negative self-talk is a destructive habit and part of an essential defense mechanism that we often develop to protect ourselves. "I can't do this" is really just a way of saying "I don't want to deal with the experience of doing this." understand that you can make the choice not to repeat old patterns of eating, non-exercise, and negative thinking.
Walking is Cheap Mental Therapy and Family Counseling
Walking is cheap mental and emotional therapy. Studies continue to show time and again that regular exercise can relieve stress and depression.
Walking is cheap mental and emotional therapy. Studies continue to show time and again that regular exercise can relieve stress and depression.
Book: The Spirited Walker
Carolyn Scott Kortge on how to reconnect body, mind, and spirit through fitness walking. From your About.com Guide.
Carolyn Scott Kortge on how to reconnect body, mind, and spirit through fitness walking. From your About.com Guide.
Exercise and Depression
Depression is one of the most common problems people experience today, but it's also very treatable with medication, therapy and other self-help options. But, have you ever considered exercise as part of your treatment? Study after study has shown that exercise is a helpful way to treat depression.
Depression is one of the most common problems people experience today, but it's also very treatable with medication, therapy and other self-help options. But, have you ever considered exercise as part of your treatment? Study after study has shown that exercise is a helpful way to treat depression.
Covert Bailey: Exercise Helps Beat Depression
Fit or Fat expert Covert Bailey explains how exercise can help life-change mood disorders and clinical depression.
Fit or Fat expert Covert Bailey explains how exercise can help life-change mood disorders and clinical depression.
TherapyWalk
Mindful walking by psychotherapist Sara Denning, audio tapes available.
Mindful walking by psychotherapist Sara Denning, audio tapes available.
Walk Away from Stress
Walking Works site on the benefits of walking to combat stress.
Walking Works site on the benefits of walking to combat stress.