Archive for the ‘Walking Benefits’Category

Walking: Can you visualize the street you live in?

Sure, the question might be a little odd. But, try to picture your nearby surroundings. I periodically fail to picture specific details of houses, objects, stores or public places in my home suburb. Sometimes I discover a detail or even stand in front of a house and ask myself whether these objects had been there before or not. Of course they were, so I started to concentrate on single details. As a result I discovered a world full of micro environments and finally could browse my suburb with my eyes closed. Here are 5 topics to explore in detail while walking to the office, supermarket, a friend’s place or any other place. Tip: It will be a more intensive experience when focusing on a single topic. Read the rest of this entry →

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09 2009

Benefits of Walking: The variety of walking perspectives

Let’s walk! More and more people rediscover the advantages of walking. But, walking is far more than just a natural and physical activity to get from one place to another. Walking can be a starting point – primarily a virtual one – to interlink different parts of our everyday life.

It is good to see many people already walk to work leaving their cars in the parking slots. Sounds like an easy task for those living in populous inner-city suburbs; however, wide spread urban areas usually don’t offer this opportunity. Luckily, that doesn’t matter. Read the rest of this entry →

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09 2009