TCC Brings Healing Where Needed

T’ai Chi Chih accompanied my days, while on an extended Retreat, beginning my sabbatical. In the wonderland of Nerinx, Kentucky, I delighted in the small lakes, woodlands, wide rolling fields, and those strange knobs, peculiar to this area, which poked up their heads to view the terrain. Nature’s little people – the squirrels, colorful singing birds, night owls, the deer, all joyfully praised God, in their freedom. Then ten days before my time was to end, I fell backwards from the ladder in my cabin, which led to the second floor bedroom.

This unfortunate fall of six steps, left me with a compressed fracture of the 4th thoracic vertebrae, and my right side very sore. From the two week hospital stay in Bardstown Kentucky, I flew back to Tarrytown, New York, in a cross-bar brace. The right arm, shoulder, ribs, hip, all tell me I am alive, albeit in need of T.L.C. God has blessed me, I could be immobile for life.

I do have therapeutic exercises, yet the most effective daily discipline has been our “joyous movements.” The slow, rhythmic, circular motion of T’ai Chi Chih, bringing the energy to where healing is needed, and gently exercising those bruised ribs and sore muscles, has been more beneficial than I can say. Gratitude fills my heart.