One should walk a lot, communicating with God in the surroundings of living nature. So, I will say a few words about clothing. The first important rule for those, who walk the spiritual Path is to try not to wear clothing made of synthetic fabric, especially that, which has immediate contact with one’s skin. Synthetic fabric accumulates static electricity, which adversely affects energetic systems of a human organism, as well as prevents proper energy exchange between an organism and the environment.
Synthetic clothing is particularly inappropriate for psychoenergetic work — both indoors and outdoors.
This is not to say that one should not wear polyethylene raincoats when it’s raining or rubber boots during a wet weather. But this footwear should have an insole made of felt or wool wadding pasted on a solid base or other materials.
During the winter the rubber boots should be 2-3 size points bigger than one’s regular size, so that one could put 2 insoles inside it and put on 2 or 3 wool socks on one’s feet and a regular socks over them so that the former do not get worn out too quick. One should be put wool socks on bare foot since wet wool fabric does not make the body cold.
The same situation is with outerwear: if you happen to get drenched just wring your clothing and put a wool sweater on first and all other things over it.
Another thing that we need to make sure is that the upper surface of the sole of our footwear is smooth. If there are any prominences under the heel then long walks will cause heel bones periostitis. Or in some kinds of footwear the sole gets warped in the toe area: this happens because the card layer that was inserted in the sole for some reason gets pursed. As a result toe joints may not function properly, which sometimes leads to their severe inflammation accompanied by edema of the entire foot. In order to bring that footwear back to the appropriate condition one needs to detach the sole, tear the card layer out and then glue the sole back on.
I will allso say a few words about backpacks. The most convenient backpacks are those that have a waist strap. But we need to make sure that the strap is attached to the lowest back part of the backpack, since only in this case it will serve its purpose of shifting the load from the shoulders to the pelvis bones in full.
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