A Morning Walk to Reduce Anxiety

The second thing I do after I wake up is to get into forward ambulation, which is just nerd

speak for taking a walk. Now, I have a dog, and as many of you

know, he's a bulldog and he doesn't really like to walk, especially not in

the morning, but for humans and for animals, there's a phenomenon whereby when we

generate our own forward motion, forward ambulation, visual images pass by us on our eyes,

so-called optic flow. And for those of you that are low vision or no vision,

the same phenomenon occurs in the auditory system. Sounds pass by us in so-called auditory

flow. Getting into a mode of forward ambulation, and especially experiencing visual flow has