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Dance
with me!
1.
Name: Yeom Sangmyeong
Nickname:
Wailing Free Man
Age:
45
Figure:
179cm, 60kg
Profession:
Minister /Author
/Publisher
Physical
Features: Seriously-ill
Diabetic Patient
with Insulin Shot
for 28 Years 16
of <I'd Still
Like To Live>
by Yeom Sangmyeong
2.
After looking at
the writings and
dance motions on
my homepage,
I
wish you could have
second thoughts
about--say, 'superstition
and prejudice'--fixed
ideas which one
has believed as
common sense in
diabetes/geriatric
disease/handicapped
person/education/diet/dance/religion/theology/sermon/...
3.
There are countless
'diabetes struggles'
suffering in not
only in Korea but
also all over the
world.
Although
there are a lesser
symptom and trivial
complications in
its first stage
of diabetes, it
is yet a frightful
disease that grows
into horrid complications
in the passing of
10 years, 20 years,
30 years.
4.
The biggest characteristic
of diabetes is its
progressive form(~ing).
The
body with insulin
shot for 10 years
is one, and the
body with insulin
shot for 15 years
is another, and
the body with insulin
shot for 20 years
is still another.
Over the 20th year,
the body feels different
each and every year.
(In my case,) I
am surviving in
the feeling that
my body has changed
even in only a few
months.
5.
As long as one has
been ill with diabetes,
his/her joints and
muscles goes worse.
With
only walking, one
cannot have all
his/her body's joints
relieved. Not only
walking but also
most exercises has
their limitations
in relieving the
joints, muscles,
blood vessels and
nerves all over
the body. (So are
other 'progressive
chronic diseases'
called 'adult disease.')
6.
Symptoms of patients
suffering from diabetes
are different from
person to person.
The
patient, who has
difficulty even
in walking, has
to regulate time
even in his/her
walking. If the
patient is the same
as normal equal-age
persons in all his/her
physical function
(due to new-developed
diabetes), this
patient is allowed
to do exercise in
the similar intensity
to the normal persons.
7.
I would like to
suggest dancing--impromptu
dance--to early-stage
patients who fails
to fulfill enough
exercise quantity
of the body with
only walking.
In
my experience, almost
nothing is more
helpful in joints,
muscles, blood vessels
and nerves, than
taking a bath in
hot water and dancing
an impromptu dance.
8.
In the interest
of remaining lives
and health regardless
of social common
sense, fixed ideas
and secular thoughts,
I would like to
recommend impromptu
dance to the patients
of diabetes/arthritis/rheumatism,
to the patients
who have retrogressively-eroded
bodies due to 'progressive
chronic diseases'
as time goes by--especially
who have beginning-stage
stiffness in their
joints and muscles,
and to the physically
handicapped persons
who have to live
with serious handicappedness.
9.
My favorite dances
that I am fond of
are mostly the line
of soul(R&B).
Even
though there is
much influence of
soul in my entire
dance motions, I
don't exclusively
stick to soul. In
my dancing, I just
make out my own
dance motions by
interpreting and
simulating the characteristics
of various dances
in my own way.
One
characteristic of
soul(R&B) line
dance motions is,
they prefer connective
motions through
soft and daring
body expression
rather than folding
every joint of the
body. Because of
this characteristic
of soul dancing,
one can have his
body shape slim
and his joints flexible
if he/she keeps
on dancing soul
for a long period.
Speaking
one more word about
dance motions, my
thinking is 'Dance
doesn't unconditionally
make the body shape
slim and slender'
Remember you will
see there are exceptionally
many soul dance
motions, if you
watch fancy-body
black women dancers
dancing in their
'music videos.'
9.
"You can expand
your wings of life
as much as you could,"
according to your
interpretation of
diabetes no matter
how seriously ill
diabetic patient
you are. This hope
is what I would
like to show through
my whole body as
a diabetic patient
and as a minister
in a church myself.
10.
The above has been
a special lecture
about dancing by
the minister Yeom
Sangmyeong, who
is a wailing free
man and 'best dancer.'
Dance
with me!
****Even
though I too have
greeting tomorrow
itself approaching
to me as dream and
hope--the tomorrow
could more likely
mean no hopeful
tomorrow--I am not
even prepared enough
to greet the hope.
What
is important to
me now is that "I
am living"
with this body in
my conditions of
life, confronting
the world with the
whole body, wailing,
rolling, and even
kicking and struggling
in my adjusting
the lights of the
world with these
eyes of mine.
Furthermore,
there is still this
assignment for me,
that no matter how
wicked and whimsical
the present life
is, "Life should
go on into the future"
****
Lord,
come by my Life
!!!
your
us
P.216
of <I'd Still
Like To Live>
by Yeom Sangmyeong
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