![]() ![]() But these books also show how we merge with the paths we choose. It is no surprise, then, that so many of the books in this list talk about change, whether that’s processing major life events, coming to terms with trauma and crisis, or accepting new states of being. That is what walking does: it opens the channels between mind and body. I needed the physical exhaustion to crack me open, make me ready to let in new understanding and ways of seeing. I’m not sure it could have come to me through any other route. As I document in The Electricity of Every Living Thing, walking England’s South West Coast Path made space for me to unravel decades of tangled experience and to realize, finally, that I’m autistic. Walking can lead to great personal revelations, too. It’s not that my brain becomes more active instead, it quietens, and I begin to uncover insightful thoughts beneath the busy, mundane chatter that usually fills my head. It seems to me that the two are inextricably linked: the pounding of feet on solid ground coaxes reluctant words out of me. When I need to write, I always walk first. ![]()
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