Yesterday\u2019s blog spoke of a heavy heart as the \u201cheaviest thing in the world.\u201d Today, I want to address that. What can walking do for the weights we carry on the inside\u2014things like loneliness, fear, loss or rejection?<\/p>\n
Robert Moor comments on the struggle in his 2016 book, On Trails<\/em>. He\u2019s writing about his fellow travelers on the Appalachian Trail. \u201cEach of us knew how to walk for weeks through hail and snow and rain,\u201d he said. But the greatest struggle was the inner one (i.e. Burroughs\u2019 \u201cheavy heart\u201d).<\/p>\n How did these long distance hikers deal with that? In Moor\u2019s words, \u201cwe learned that the only solution was to out-walk it.\u201d<\/p>\n I don\u2019t think he meant that if you walk far enough on any given day, you can leave your grief behind. What he\u2019s saying is that if emotional pain overwhelms you, for heaven\u2019s sake, don\u2019t stop walking. Keep up the daily journeys. Keep looking for the \u201chighways of the gods.\u201d<\/p>\n I\u2019ll leave it to the therapist or pastor to tell you what to do with your mind. But I can say with some certainty that whether you pray or meditate or work your way through Kubler-Ross\u2019s five stages of grief, walking is conducive to each.<\/p>\n And then one day\u2014one day you just might discover you have out-walked your troubles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yesterday\u2019s blog spoke of a heavy heart as the \u201cheaviest thing in the world.\u201d Today, I want to address that. What can walking do for the weights we carry on the inside\u2014things like loneliness, fear, loss or rejection? Robert Moor comments on the struggle in his 2016 book, On Trails. He\u2019s writing about his fellow […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3406"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3412,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3406\/revisions\/3412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}