Walking is helpful for your mental health
Walking is movement at the pace of thinking, so when you walk you allow yourself to work through issues. It’s slow enough to calm you down but active enough to keep you engaged. walking-can-be-meditation if you strip out all distractions.
In Keep-Going, Austin-Kleon says “Demons hate fresh air” Therfore, go-outside and walk. It is a way of keeping yourself mentally well and paying attention to your wellbeing.
Above all, do not lose your desire to walk: every day I walk myself into a state of well being and walk away from every illness; I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it… but by sitting still, and the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill… Thus if one just keeps on walking, everything will be alright
- Søren Kierkegaard
Walking in and of itself is a way to cultivate precisely all the qualities of person-hood that seem missing from much public discourse — attention, focus, kindness, patience, persistence, tenacity, mental and physical health.