Getting To Know Color Walk, Street Trends Combined With Mindfulness

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JAKARTA - Color walk is a walking method that has recently become increasingly popular on social media. This method combines leisurely walking with mindfulness exercises.

Quoted from Real Simple, on Thursday, September 25, 2025, color walk is a walking activity by choosing colors before leaving the house. Then, you can focus on finding objects with these colors along the way.

For example, you choose red, then you will look for objects of the same color. Starting from red flowers, roofs of houses with red colors, or even traffic signs.

The method is carried out with the aim of calming down as well as exercising. Take Root Therapy's family and founder, Saba Harouni Lurie, said that color walk is a grounding technique that can encourage mindfulness.

"Color walks encourages full awareness and can serve as a grounding technique, which is to help a person stay calm when he is feeling anxious or overwhelmed," Lurie said.

In general, walking provides many benefits for the health of the body. Starting from improving breathing, healthy the heart, to improving sleep quality.

However, if combined with a visual focus in color walks, then the benefits are more pronounced in mental health. The method helps the brain to pause from complicated thoughts, such as work, household problems, or social conditions.

By training focus on color walks, you can activate the parasimpatis nerve, so that the body enters rest mode and recovery.

"Security while walking makes us more connected to the surrounding environment. This can reduce stress hormones such as cortisol, as well as improve mood," added mental health counselor Grace Lautman.

Grace Lautman suggested that color walk be used as a routine, for example after work or on weekends. This activity not only nourishes the body, but also provides time for the mind to rest well.

Color walk can be an alternative mindfulness for those who are difficult to sit still while meditation. By moving, the body remains active, while the mind is invited to focus on the positive things around, concluded Grace Lautman.