{"id":22108,"date":"2004-07-21T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-21T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zhinengqigong.eu\/?p=22108"},"modified":"2020-12-25T16:44:55","modified_gmt":"2020-12-25T15:44:55","slug":"karolas-shoulders-and-back-got-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zhinengqigong.eu\/en\/karolas-shoulders-and-back-got-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Karola’s shoulders and back got better"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had been working in the service area, in pupil feeding in different schools, for about 15 years before I was put on the sick list. During the last years my stubbornness was my only motivation, because by then a much too big and heavy working burden had already put their traces in form of worn out shoulders and back. When I was put on the sick list two years ago my body was crooked and stiff from the waist and upwards, turning the body was not to be considered and I could not raise my arms above the waist.<\/p>\n

I needed help with most of the daily tasks: Getting dressed,taking a shower or bath, washing my hair, cleaning the rooms etc. and everything I undertook became projects that requested a lot of time and effort. I had to be inventive to manage my daily life, e.g. use a flower stick with a sponge in one end enabled me to handle the shower\/bath by myself. I got help by a chamber-made to put things strait. I could wake up in the middle of the night by my own scream \u2013 I had turned around in my sleep and cried out in pain. An ordinary sneezing was a catastrophe, it felt like the whole chest was torn apart.<\/p>\n

Mentally I was not only in the bottom, my feet was down through the bottom.<\/p>\n

During the past years I had tried many alternative methods, but not found anything that could give me any help. When I through a cousin heard about Qigong I was particularly sceptical, but I decided to give it a chance. I heard that you had to stand silently with your eyes closed when you practised Zhineng Qigong and I thought a lot of how to manage that. But that became my smallest problem.<\/p>\n

I participated in my first course in the autumn of 2002. Tears came into my eyes and I was sweating. My body was filled with pain. I took every chance to sit down. I was dejected when I came and even more when I left. But evidently something drew me because after the course I participated in our group-trainings. I felt like a cat among ermines but I experienced a positive harmony within the group and I felt like I was welcome. All this made me a little happier when I walked home compared to when I came to the training.<\/p>\n

It was not until my third weekend course in autumn 2003 that I reached a turning point. It gave me maximum of everything. I experienced a feeling of happiness and got bigger motivation for training. The course was the start of a better life in more harmony. My body has successively become more flexible and my standing posture more straight. And, I can raise my hands almost all the way up above my head. If I practise I can manage my pain. Gone are the grimaces that earlier showed up in my face when I started to practise, instead of the gentle smile. I can tidy up my rooms and manage my personal hygiene without any means. And above all, I imagine that practising has become a need. I miss an important piece in my daily life if I skip the training. I don’t get angry due to small things, I think more before I open my mouth and I don’t have to engage in everything that happens around me, just in the things that matters to me.<\/p>\n

Karola Karlsson<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"Karola'sKarola got problems with her shoulders and back after working 15 years in pupil feeding. Even small things like managing her personal hygiene was difficult. The weekend course was the start of a more harmonious life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-story","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonny Eliasson","author_link":"https:\/\/zhinengqigong.eu\/en\/author\/jonny\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zhinengqigong.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zhinengqigong.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zhinengqigong.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zhinengqigong.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zhinengqigong.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22108"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/zhinengqigong.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23090,"href":"https:\/\/zhinengqigong.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22108\/revisions\/23090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zhinengqigong.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zhinengqigong.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zhinengqigong.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}