Every year, the floor was getting a little further away. That is to say, it became harder to go from sitting on the floor to standing again, so I’d avoid getting on the floor unless the cat belly was particularly enticing.
I decided a few months ago to dig my medtitation cushion out of storage, and convert a small patio side table to a floor-desk for my tablet/keyboard, where I do the bulk of my internet time wasting.
Just this morning, I realized that I’m popping up and down with a lot more ease than when I started, so the floor is now officially at a distance it was at maybe 15 years ago.
Edit: This edit might break the rules, but this is the first post I’ve ever made that included the image of the post in the post.
I have a condition in my hand and feet that cost me my toes and regularly prevent me from using my hands. Because my balance is compromised, I now sit down in the shower stall (it makes cleaning the shower stall after showering a lot easier too, incidentally - hint hint). But that also means when my hands are bad, I can’t use them to sit down on the floor or get back up.
I developed this technique to sit down and back up without hands: to sit down, I thrust my arms forward and sort of start crossing my legs and bending my knees at the same time, ending up sitting cross-legged in one smooth motion.
To get back up, again I thrust my arms forward, put my right foot under my butt, use my left leg to ram my right foot backward under my butt as far as it’ll go, then start getting up on my right leg alone for a few inches until I can shove my left foot there also and rise up on my knees alone, with my arms forward to keep my balance.
If you have good knees, it’s a good technique.
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I’m still working on my sit-down technique. I’ve actually got two cushions currently, and sometimes I miss and end up rolling onto the floor, but I’ve seen people do it how you do and I hope to get there some day.
I’ll experiment with not using my hands to stand up, too.
I finally got the cross-legged sit down! The trick for me is to keep on my toes on one foot.
Nice! Well, that’s one technique I won’t use, as I don’t have any toes 🙂
Yes, you did mention that, but I meant more the traditional balls-of-the-feet that get’s called “on toes”; I’m not a ballerina.
By the by, my grandmother mother wore high heels so consistently that when she answered the door without them on, she walked on her toes (balls of her feet) like a velociraptor.