Coping with Disability
Coping with one's disability is not easy; neither is it so difficult.
There are just a few steps to follow so you'll be able to go on and live normally.
HELP yourself; follow a certain order of discipline and you'll be able to "conquer" that "monster" in you, tame it like a disciplined pet or transform it into a "blessing" to help and guide you through life.
Recently, I received an email (YOU'VE BEEN BLESSED) which told of a short tale of someone who kept on running and evading from his shadow and footprints.
The more he ran to escape from his shadow and footprints, the more they follow him.
If he had kept still, or rested under a tree, there would have been no shadow and footprints.
I think that short piece can tell us a lesson.
We, the disabled - and I'm referring to those who are still new or starting to experience disability after an accident or sickness - must know how to stand still or just "rest under a tree" and learn to contemplate and have self-discipline.
I said this because when I was still "new" to this "state in life" I couldn't keep still.
I was sitting in my wheelchair but my spirit was restless.
Maybe because I didn't know how to cope yet with my disability, or I wasn'trehabilitated yet.
And this rehabilitation, I have come to know, is the "sitting still" from the shadows and footprints.
I was restless, literally.
My mind was always floating, imagining, daydreaming, avoiding the reality that I was already disabled.
I was in the denial stage and I couldn't think positively, plan my future, or regain self-confidence.
Going back to my first paragraph, you have to help yourself.
But this doesn't mean you only have to rely on yourself.
God has endowed us with some power to help ourselves, but this power also allows us to "call" Him.
Our "inner power" with God's power combined becomes a strong force to counter the evil forces and the negative feelings we have attained out of the negative experiences that we have encountered.
I would like to simplify my thesis here.
Rehabilitating ourselves is helping ourselves.
Learn to be spiritual.
Counter the negative forces inside by looking, feeling, acting, working POSITIVELY.
There's nothing better than that.
Being a disabled is not the end of the world.
It's just the beginning of a different and challenging world.
It's just like playing chess with some dumb player, and you're the master that you have to disable one of your pieces, a queen maybe, so that the game will be even.
Play handicap.
That's the key.
And life will be even more lovely and worth living.
There are just a few steps to follow so you'll be able to go on and live normally.
HELP yourself; follow a certain order of discipline and you'll be able to "conquer" that "monster" in you, tame it like a disciplined pet or transform it into a "blessing" to help and guide you through life.
Recently, I received an email (YOU'VE BEEN BLESSED) which told of a short tale of someone who kept on running and evading from his shadow and footprints.
The more he ran to escape from his shadow and footprints, the more they follow him.
If he had kept still, or rested under a tree, there would have been no shadow and footprints.
I think that short piece can tell us a lesson.
We, the disabled - and I'm referring to those who are still new or starting to experience disability after an accident or sickness - must know how to stand still or just "rest under a tree" and learn to contemplate and have self-discipline.
I said this because when I was still "new" to this "state in life" I couldn't keep still.
I was sitting in my wheelchair but my spirit was restless.
Maybe because I didn't know how to cope yet with my disability, or I wasn'trehabilitated yet.
And this rehabilitation, I have come to know, is the "sitting still" from the shadows and footprints.
I was restless, literally.
My mind was always floating, imagining, daydreaming, avoiding the reality that I was already disabled.
I was in the denial stage and I couldn't think positively, plan my future, or regain self-confidence.
Going back to my first paragraph, you have to help yourself.
But this doesn't mean you only have to rely on yourself.
God has endowed us with some power to help ourselves, but this power also allows us to "call" Him.
Our "inner power" with God's power combined becomes a strong force to counter the evil forces and the negative feelings we have attained out of the negative experiences that we have encountered.
I would like to simplify my thesis here.
Rehabilitating ourselves is helping ourselves.
Learn to be spiritual.
Counter the negative forces inside by looking, feeling, acting, working POSITIVELY.
There's nothing better than that.
Being a disabled is not the end of the world.
It's just the beginning of a different and challenging world.
It's just like playing chess with some dumb player, and you're the master that you have to disable one of your pieces, a queen maybe, so that the game will be even.
Play handicap.
That's the key.
And life will be even more lovely and worth living.
