Can anything make you dilate or efface?

I'm not asking about inducing labor. Just asking if there is something to help you dilate or efface. I've heard walking and squats help when you have allready started dilating. Is that true? Did walking help any of you? I went from .5cm to 1cm to 1.5cm in 3 weeks and I am 60 % effaced.I really don't want to go past my due date. I have horrible back pain and a bruised rib and other reasons why I wouldn't mind having the baby a week or 2 earlier. I am almost 37 weeks. The doctor told me that it's safe for me to have the baby any time now. And she recommended walking. I know some people will say that the baby will come when it's ready and everything, but I just wanna know what peope have done from experience and if anything helped. Any benefits from doing certain things in the last weeks?