Has anyone tried a Chi Machine? I am going to a retreat next week where they have one and wondered if it might do me good.
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Suppose it might be a pleasant way to relax - but I wouldn't spend the money without having tried it and found it helped me. I'm not going to diss oriental medicine but I'm rather sceptical!
SusiTe do let us know how you get on. A retreat sounds marvellous. I think the very fact of trying various things helps us psychologically with this tedious limiting disease, it can feel quite claustrophobic.
The best pain killer and mood enhancer I have come across is 2 years old and called Theo. I don't know how he does it but from the moment he arrives until the moment he leaves I am utterly well. I wish I could bottle what he brings. Something physiological must happen, love induced endomorphines flooding the system? ( is that even a word?)
Not everyone has a grandson but doing what makes you happy really does help. I've started drawing again because of him too. Something I did every day as a child and haven't done for 40 years.
Sorry to ramble, good luck with your Chi machine. 😊
Thanks, Jane - I will definitely let you know when I get back - will most likely not be online while I am there. I am hoping it will do me good - particularly psychologically as I have been feeling very low and demoralised by this illness. If nothing else it will give me a break from work.
Theo therapy sound wonderful, bless him! And how super that you have started drawing again after so long.
We don't have children or grandchildren - but if I ever manage to give up work we might get a cat and/or dog - I know it's not the same but it's the closest we will get.
Singing and dancing is what makes me happy - the former I can still do with my local Rock Choir but the Zumba I love so much has had to go out of the window, which is a blow. I have booked a beginners' yoga workshop for when I get back from the retreat - and advised the teacher that I have PMR. She says she will give me some gentle poses to do if some of them are too hard/intense, so I am hoping it will become a substitute for dance.
Thank you for the encouraging words.
Warm wishes,
Susy