Walking is a perfect exercise for BEST practitioners because it promotes bodily awareness and it offers endless opportunities to combine the complex motion of walking with use of the senses.
For the sake of the brain, Ilchi Lee encourage you to keep your walks varied and to try to engage the senses fully as you walk. The most obvious way to do this is to vary your routes and to find unique places to walk. But more importantly, you should challenge your mind to discover new sights, sounds, and smells every time you walk, even if you are walking in a familiar place. It is easy for our brains to get in the rut of always noticing and thinking about the same things as we walk. So make a concerted effort to notice things you never noticed before and to engage your senses in new ways.
Among the various operations that go on in the body, breathing is the one that affects the brain the most. It’s because the brain must have oxygen in order to work. The brain takes up only two percent of the entire body; however it uses the most energy among the other parts ot the body since it governs all human living activities, such as breathing, the heartbeat, exercising, and thoughts.
The brain consumes fifteen percent of the blood that pumps out of the heart, and even when it is resting without am activity, it consumes about twenty-five percent of the oxygen that comes in through breathing. Therefore in order to supply plenty of oxygen to the brain, one’s blood circulation should be smooth. If the blood is not supplied to the brain for just fifteen seconds, the person will become unconscious, and in four minutes, the brain cells will be damaged to the point that they cannot be revived.
