SOOTHE your MIND
WE’VE established how good walking is for toning muscles and boosting your heart rate, but there’s also something intangible that a good yomp in the countryside does for your mood. As you’ll know if you’ve ever headed outside with a niggling question in your mind, there’s nothing that eases a frazzled brain like putting one foot in front of the other.
‘Our bodies are designed to move, and when we don’t do that, pent up energy gets stuck inside and creates more stress,’ says Jonathan Hoban, pioneer of walking therapy and author of Walk With Your Wolf: Unlock your Intuition,.
