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Walking contains all of the necessary qualities that you need to lose weight and become healthier. It exercises the major muscles and gets your heart rate up, which can, in turn, boost your metabolism and help you lose weight.

Starting a walking program is easy, no matter what your age or current level of fitness. Some consider walking to be the perfect exercise because it is low impact and you can increase your level of exercise as your strength grows. All you need to get started is a good pair of walking shoes and some determination.

If you haven’t exercised in a while, it’s best to start slow. Most people find that a 15-minute brisk walk is enough to get their heart rate up and their muscles moving. Even though you’ll want to walk for longer periods of time in the future, this can be enough to get you started with a walking plan.

Once you’ve done 15 minutes per day for a week to ten days, you can start increasing your distance and your time. Stretch yourself further each day until you’ve built up to 30 minutes of walking time. After the first five minutes of walking, your body moves out of the warm-up phase, and then you can move into calorie burning territory. When you walk for 30 minutes, you’ll have plenty of calorie-burning time in your workout to make it worthwhile.

While you are walking for weight loss, it’s important that you keep up the proper intensity level. One good rule of thumb: you should be exercising at an intensity that allows you to carry on a conversation, but if you are able to speak comfortably for long periods of time without taking a break or if you are able to comfortably sing a song, ramp up your intensity a bit. You should break a sweat during your 30-minute walk and you should keep the same pace until you do a 5 minute slow down at the end of the walking.

Once you’ve started your walking program it’s important that you keep going. After the first week, you’re bound to see a remarkable difference in your energy level, which will help you to keep going.

To stay motivated, mark a date on your calendar three weeks from when you begin and make a deal with yourself. If you keep walking each day until that date, reward yourself with something special. To stick to your weight loss goals, make sure to reward yourself with a non-food item, such as a shopping trip or some new music to work out to.

Walking can be an effective way to lose weight and to improve your health at the same time. Because it’s accessible to everyone and easy to do, it’s the perfect way to start exercising. With persistence and determination, you can make walking a part of your life.

You might ask, “what on earth is mental dynamics?” If you accept that every one of us has a limitless, inherent power, you will also accept that that mighty power will never be exploited or used unless you make it work for you. It is that immeasurable spirit of making it work that we term as mental dynamics.

Each of us is born with an individuality, a uniqueness, a bent, a talent. Each one of us uses that talent in the course of a lifetime. Each one of us attains fulfillment through that talent. And each one of us sees in that fulfillment our individual growth. That is our mission.

That growth is an like an ever-expanding mural on which we sweepingly paint all the spoils collected during our mission. We learn to conserve, to tone down. It is when we put all these experiences into our mental dynamo that it whirls into a ball of concentrated energy and pours out in a gush to suffuse and enhance our lives.

It is a never-ending process. It touches every aspect of our life. And it makes anything we do work for us. That is the power of mental dynamics.

From indifference-to fascination

Initially, you may be indifferent to exercising if not thrown off by it. But the first lesson for tuning into mental dynamics is to keep your eyes and mind open, See what it has done for others and let that knowledge drip into you drop by drop until it forms a pool of understanding.

Look with open eyes at the cardiac patient next door. After his long period of confinement, you will see him back on his feet. Every morning he rises with the sun to get ready for his daily walk. By the time you are sleepily picking your milk bottle from your doorstep he is already back from his walk, face flushed with ruddy health, opening his door. He is clad immaculately in white shorts, T-shirt, socks and walking shoes. Dimly you realise that he takes deep pride in his new activity. His son or daughter may tell you how he never misses a day whatever the weather and gripes when they advise him not to exert himself because he has a cold.

If you allow yourself to think about it, you will realise how his fitness has changed the tone and tempo of this once-cardiac patient. If you dwell on that thought you will be irresistibly drawn towards it. And as you become more familiar with the subject, its charm will – slowly steal over you until you are completely captivated. Now, you won’t see an old man defeated by his heart disease. But a man rejuvenated, buoyantly marching to the fitness tune, defying the march of time, blowing the bugle of health. You are seeing him with new eyes and an awakened mind.

If you talk to him, the odds are ten to one that he would be extremely articulate about his wise, good doctor who advised him to walk. And what walking has done for him. How it has given him a new lease on life. Listen to this man who is so much wiser after his frightening encounter with illness. In his words you will find the vital, lifesaving principles underlying fitness. And you will be totally fascinated.