On the 37th anniversary of my handicap, December 30, 2015 I received as a present a Mangar Elk Lifting Cushion. The fear that I would fall and would not be able to stand up from the floor vanished with this new everyday tool. The ELK is commonly used in a range of settings, such as…
One morning before Christmas I drove through our neighbourhood when a long queue caught my attention. “What a rigmarole!” I was astonished. I knew there is a place in the shopping center, where poor people can get foodstuff and I had often sawn people line up there, but those lines I saw before were nothing…
I enjoy very much when I can immerse myself into my thoughts and feel connected to the consciousness of the Universe. Two weeks ago I had spent four days and nights this way as I wrote one text. When it was time to do something else, I couldn’t get rid of my thoughts. Some time…
Cross trainer (cross-country skiing simulation) Eight years ago in a rehab centre I got to know cross trainer, which became my oldest fitness equipment. Gym instructors didn’t even recommend it to me, because they saw me in a wheelchair that doesn’t make really motoric impression. But when I saw the equipment in function I thought…
My second important body renewing and cleansing detox-program is physiotherapy. The most important detox program is naturally mental and spiritual growth. In 35 years I have gone a long way also in regard to physiotherapy, although I have considered the spiritual aspect as more important. The starting point was miserable as doctors and therapists said…
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience.We are spiritual beings having a human experience.Pierre Teilhard de Chardin I have followed a school medicine physiotherapy program over 30 years, in which we have trained my body and focused on body control: on the activation and strengthening of muscles and muscle groups. Physiotherapy has been…
Five years after I became handicapped I noticed that the past years had taught me more about life than 19 years before I became disabled.No-one had prepared me for my new challenges. I had to count on my own resources. This resource is the good old common sense. Emotional Intelligence is basically common sense, in…
I have been wondering why are waterbeds marketed basically for wealthy people as an ego flattering place to sleep in. According to adverts waterbeds are good for two things and the other is sleeping. I bought my first waterbed in the beginning of the 1980s, as they came to Finland. The reason was very simple:…
As I became physically disabled over 30 years ago I was very aware of my reduced mobility, but mentally I was the same person as I was before. I saw my illness as most people do: negative.But I didn’t feel that I would be imperfect or IN-valid somehow. For the first time in my life…
In the past months I have wondered what kind of a magic lies behind the fact that physical exercise is so pleasant with my physiotherapist: At best it is not exhausting and everything is happening by itself. But when I want to exercise with my assistant it is ordeal to the soul. I could do…
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