Gen Z Is Embracing Silent Walking

The newest trend that Gen Zers are taking part in? Silent walking! This is when you go for a walk but leave your phone at home. That’s right – you’re not on a call, you’re not listening to music or a podcast, you’re not using your phone for anything. It’s just you, your thoughts, and nature.

Podcast Mady Maio has taken credit for “Silent Walking” and says that it will “change your life.” She explained via a TikTok vid that she “unintentionally” started this “movement” when her BF challenged her to go on a walk with no distractions. “[A]t first I was like f**k no, my anxiety could never – which is probably what you’re thinking – but something within me was like let me just try it,” she admits, adding that the first two minutes of her walk were “mayhem.” But then she hit “a flow state” where “suddenly you can… hear yourself.” Mady says that going for the silent walk gave her “clarity” as “the brain fog lifted.”

Mady may take credit for “Silent Walking,” but the phrase was also used before that by influencer Arielle Lorre. “I feel like when I walk in silence, my senses are on high alert. I smell everything, I hear everything, I am seeing everything, and it’s so grounding for me,” she on her podcast. “I know the hot girl walk had its moment. I’m trying to make the silent walk girl, or guy, or whatever, a thing.” Regardless of who actually started the movement, now thousands of Gen Zers are leaving their tech at home and going on a “silent walk.”

Source: NY Post

Photo: Getty Images


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