On the Way of St. James, we say "Ultreïa" always higher, further!

Many specialists agree that travel has therapeutic benefits, especially for the mind. They allow you to escape the hassle of everyday life, to take a break in your life and to recharge your batteries. These getaways allow us to feel very much alive in the present moment, here and now.

Long-distance itinerant hiking also seems to fill the different levels of the pyramid of basic human needs, described in the 1940s by the American psychologist Abraham Maslow.

In his theory on motivation, he distinguishes 5 main types of needs to be satisfied :

- a need for personal fulfillment,

- of self-esteem and of others,

- belonging to a group and seeking the approval of the other,

- to be safe in a stable environment without experiencing stress,

- or even a physiological need (to eat, drink, sleep ...).

Most of the people who embark on the Saint-James way should, I think, all be able to meet these 5 basic needs.

Santiago-Therapy, also called Camino-Therapy, has many benefits for physical and moral health.

Thanks to long walks, the individual can relax both physically and mentally and thus free themselves from the worries of everyday life, the moment of a week, a month or two for the lucky ones. It is true, the Saint-James way has a liberating character.

The notion of freedom is also to be linked to a quest for identity, because accessing a certain freedom means first of all learning to know yourself, as the Greek philosopher Socrates said so well.

Sometimes without realizing it, we are like imprisoned in our habits or rather our "habitus" to use a well-known notion of the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu.

We are all more or less conditioned by our education or our social representations. We automatically do "as we were told to do", without realizing it, we reproduce what our neighbor is doing and finally, we are no longer really free of our own thoughts, to do what we want in relation to to who we really are, in the depths of our being.

The Saint-James way by pushing back the limits of what is possible every day, allows us to reveal in the face of the physical challenge what we are really capable of, to see how far we can go alone in front of ourselves and thus to discover what our limits are. mental.

Ultreïa !!!

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