Want to see a particular change: Intend it

I observed that Atulya prefers to be carried than walking on his own. I know that it is good for him to walk. His ability to walk and balance himself and he being sure footed, will grow only by he walking more and more on his own.
But every time ( it actually happens only few times) out there and he raises his arms and tells you that you should carry him.
What to do? If you deny, it doesn't work.
The point is children learn anything very quickly .So it doesn't take long for them to realise this that you are carrying him more often in the initial phase and it is far more quicker and easier way of commuting and learning in terms of providing variety to them happens anyway.So they adopt.
But being quick lerners they can also shift from their previous learning to a new learning and a new experience followed by new experiment and new inputs to the senses.
So you start by intention: My child is a steay walker. He loves to walk and explore. He is strong and healthy. He likes to be self reliant.He uses up hiss energy untill he dropps...............

Then........
You prepare your child. Express your intention that you want him to walk. He needs to understand the benifits of it. (why you want him to walk) and that is how most of the other people do. That is the way to commute for all of us.
Then you convey it to him that he is a great walker. Put it in positive and present tense. Say he is strong and healthy.
May be you will need to repeat this on couple of more occasions.
Finally when you want to put it to practice and this is most vital you see to it that he enjoys this time of walks the most. It should be his cherished experience that he would want to repeat. He will go at his pace, in his direction, doing what he may like on the way .He will pick up what he may wish, will babble what he may want and will linger on as much time as he wants on a particular spot. he will observe and watch people, their faces and what they are carrying, wearing, selling, their expressions. You can not hurriedly wanting him to finish his walking "EXERCISE".
His exercise by the by will happen.
He will grow physically superb by the by.
And he would have walked far beyond what you could have ever expected.
He would have learnt about ample of things.
Your mission is accomplished effortlessly and intelligently.