“WALKING” is a common recommendation by any health care professional as one of the best exercise that can help us to maintain good physical and mental health. But in our busy daily schedules, Many of us have an excuse to skip this walking. However, we try to compensate by doing a heavy walking or other exercise during weekend!..It may be a justification from our point of view, but the body still needs a daily exercise routine to maintain a proper health.

So what's the alternate? Good news is, there is an alternate solution available from our ancient practice called “8 WALKING” invented by Tamil Siddars (Yogis). Western world call it as “Infinity Walking”.

There is lot of benefits in walking 8 pattern. An infinity walk may appear to be the easiest thing to do.

Infinity walks were developed in the 1980s by clinical Psychologist Deborah Sunbeck , and involves walking in the figure eight (8) pattern. It has several benefits too. Here are some of them…

Headache, Digestive problems, Thyroid, Obesity,  and  Knee pains , Rheumatoid Arthritis and constipation in reversed. I reduces the sugar level in the blood and reverses your diabetes and its complication within a year of regular 8 pattern walkings, twice daily for half an hour.

 (i) Walking in the eight pattern helps you improve Eye-hand coordination.

(ii) Its helps develop your body's awareness levels and also helps improve concentration.

(iii)You can learn more about balance and rhythm through this walk.

(iv) The walk has the ability to help one build new skills.

(v) It also helps gain confidence, and helps you be better coordinated.

(vi) Its helps a person in developing multisensory intergration, especially in those with learning disabilities.

             Overall, it helps improve the brain function.

METHOD OF WALKING  IN 8 PATTERN:

Due to 8 shaped walking, Style, all your body parts like legs, ankles, knees, abdomen, hip, hand , shoulders, neck, head etc.

Moves in a twist and turn pattern. So it gives a very good physical movement to all parts of the body when compared to regular walking.

BENEFITS OF WALKING IN THE SHAPE OF 8

When you practice walking along the south to north direction, your body tends to walk against the magnetics field of earth. This energizes the body and will stimulate the chakras along with each and every body organ.

Further, as you keep walking without any footwear like shoes or slippers, several points on the foot get activated because ground, thus stimulating your internal organs.  In a few weeks, you experience.  This is because there are several reflex acupressure points found in the foot.  These are directly linked with the internal organs of your body.