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BELIEVE THAT YOU CAN
Let’s begin to undo the
effects our disorder has had on our bodies, both the physical
effects and the emotional effects. This will be a process
which will take a great deal of time and effort on your part; and
you are going to need some help. What I will share with you on
this website is valuable basic information which will prove very
beneficial for all of you. All of this information pertains to
the simple techniques and methods we once knew and took for granted.
You won’t find anything here that isn’t common sense and common
knowledge. This information is used by the youngest walking
child to the oldest adult every day of their lives. Further,
it really doesn’t matter much what your SCA number is, and it
doesn’t matter that you may have some other kind of problem, it is
all the same when it comes to the basics we all must use and apply.
The only difference is our starting point and the peculiar problems
each of us must work with.
Before your problem began
you used this basic information quite successfully without realizing
what you were actually doing. You just did it, walked, ran and
danced, but almost never thought about how you made it all happen.
One foot went in front of the other without any effort or thought
process. Things were easy back then. However, now your
playing field has changed and it is those simple little things which
you find so challenging – you forgot them. So back we go once
again. I’m going to ask you to re-learn and start over again
with the basics, but this time you are also going to learn why you
are doing it.
What I will share with you
on this website will provide you with hope and a positive change to
your life’s situation – if you chose to learn and apply what I am
offering. I can give you this unconditional promise because it
is what saved me. These are the simple things I also had to
re-learn and re-apply. It has taken 3 ½ years to get me to
where I have the ability to dance today, and I have to keep working
to maintain it; just like all of you will also have to do.
While I can’t guarantee how much of your normal each of you will get
back, I can tell say that each of you shall benefit from your
labors. Please trust yourself, fight through the frustrations
and set backs, and don’t give up. You have so much to gain.
For those of you now using a
cane, imagine yourself not needing it anymore. Imagine pushing
your envelope and learning to dance – yes – I said dance.
Imagine not having to look down at the ground when you walk.
Imagine not having to think about how you are going to shuffle
through the crowded store or restaurant. Imagine not being
ashamed to get up from the table in that restaurant and walk to the
bathroom without feeling embarrassed. Imagine it and visualize
it for it is possible. I know. It happened to me.
It can also happen for you. How bad do you want it is the key
ingredient to getting started.
Earlier I said that you will
need some help to reach your goal. I was fortunate to have
found a wonderful support system and a fun outlet to accomplish my
dramatic change. I had to think outside of my box and trust
what these people were telling me. When I started I was
basically just like you. I could easily see all the things I
could no longer do and dwelled too much on what I could never think
of doing again. I too was a victim of the medical professions
dogma. Heck, I used to believe and preach it myself because I
didn’t know any better. For example, at least yearly I visit
with my neurologist and know the routine by memory. At the end
of the exam I was also told that things were pretty much the same as
last time with some mild to moderate degenerative changes
in…yep…just like you. Then there was the customary…no therapy,
no cure, “you’ll just have to find a way to cope with it the best
that you can.” The depressing truth is always painful even
though we already know it.
While the depressing truth
is bitter, it doesn’t all have to be that way, and that is the
essence of what I have found for myself and now will share with you.
There is hope for us. And there is some therapy which will
help us and it is so “simple”. Again I tell you, everything I
will offer to you I have had to do for myself, and it was painfully
frustrating much of the time. And honestly, without the close
family of very supportive friends pushing me with encouragement when
I thought I had reached my limit, I don’t think I would have kept up
with it. It took their tough love so many times to pull me out
of my own muck. It took their stamina, which mirrored mine, to
help push me through some of the psychological part of our disorder.
And that is the exact type of help each of you will also require to
make this a reality for yourself.
The first step I will ask
you to take is within your mind because it all starts up there.
You will find that your mind will be your biggest enemy, as well as
your biggest asset. Your mind is where you must start the
process in your efforts to use what I am about to share with you.
You have to want to get better and want to do the required work.
And you will have to believe there is hope. You will also have
to believe that you can make a difference for yourself. That
means you will have to change your perspective of yourself.
This part is just as difficult as the physical problems we deal with
and sometimes more so. I pray that each of you will find the
outlet of support you will need to help you apply this material and
help pull you through those doubting and frustrating times which you
will encounter. Please begin with the belief that this
information and these techniques will help you move and walk better.
Your only requirement is to learn and apply them to yourself.
Please understand that you are capable of doing more than you think
you can at this point. You just don’t know how to get there
yet.
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