LBDaoist

Hello LB:

Please note that under "Taoist Lounge" we have a Healing Circle for people like yourself that have had an injury, etc. Perhaps you could get some more help or advice there, but it sounds like you're already doing a lot anyway and have a relatively good attitude about your injury.

Are you a professional snowboarder and is that why you're concerned about your slow healing or are you just an avid fan and tired of being injured?

You might also consider finding a physical therapist or massage therapist that is talented in craniosacral techniques to help you move along, as they help a lot with getting those releases to normalize movement, range of motion, etc.

Mike,

It was actually my very first (and likely, last) time snowboarding. My girlfriend loves to snowboard so I went up with her. It was my fault. I just fell wrong. I misjudged how soft the snow was going to be and did not break my fall.

Thanks for the suggestion about the Healing Circle. I will hop over there and check it out. As I have been going through this healing process, I have had to reheal a lot of old injuries. At a few times, my imagination got the worst of me and I thought that things were worse than they were... or perhaps more permanent than they have turned out to be.

I am definitely working with a massage therapist who incorporates cranialsacral techniques. The guy is a super star. He has been doing it for close to twenty years. The regular massages have played a very important role in the healing process. I almost want to say that they have played the most important role, but that takes the credit away from everything else. I'm reminded of a saying, "It takes one person to injure another, it takes a community to heal them." For me one of the biggest obsticles I had to overcome was asking for help, and realize that my own practices were not enough to rehabilitate myself.

I stumbled across this place while Googling "taoist immortal wudang doorman". As the six degrees of separation would have it, a person I know is acquianted with another individual who by all accounts has advanced very far along the path. He mentioned to her that when the time comes, he could become a "doorman" (that was her translation) at Wudang. Hence the Google search...

It seems that a forum exists for nearly everything on the internet. I am not quite sure what to make of this recent situation / awareness of immortals and their presence here on earth. I have been recovering from a fall I took while snowboarding, and it has been a long painful process. I have been a bit bummed, quite bummed actually, and even scared at times about whether or not I will be able to fully heal. The qigong helps, but for a while I was in so much pain and my mobility so compromised that even qigong was difficult. It took a lot of massage, and accunpuncture, dietary changes, stretching and chiropractic to get the healing process progressing.

The odd thing is, I had been kind of bummed about my practice. Yet as the I-Ching often counsels, change is ever present and the deepest lows often directly preceed new heights. A part of me acknowledges that this awareness, this indirect association with a true healer, exists as some sort of universal acknowledgement that my own journey along the path continues. So that's how I got here. I am looking forward to taking some time to browse the forums and absorb the knowledge that has been shared.

I have a blog that I have occasionally posted some thoughts on.

http://lbdaoist.blogspot.com/