Shari B. Kaplan, LCSWIntegrative Mental Health

The Power of Walking and Speaking Your Thoughts

3 Jul 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief instructional segment, Shari B. Kaplan, LCSW, advises listeners to walk alone while speaking their thoughts aloud. She explains that hearing one's own voice activates the brain's frontal lobe—the hub of decision‑making—allowing the walker to articulate what they wish to release and consciously reframe it into new beliefs, behaviors, and thoughts. The physical act of walking adds cognitive flexibility, and the body follows the mental shift, creating an integrated mind‑body process for personal change.

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If you're by yourself and you go for a walk, talk out loud. And why do you want to talk out loud? Because the frontal lobe of your brain will hear you. And when your frontal lobe hears you, that's where all the decision-making process happens. As you're moving, you'll get that same cognitive flexibility and you'll be hearing yourself say what it is you're trying to release and how you want to reframe that into what you want to be believing, behaving, and thinking differently. And your body will go along for the ride.