Nature guarantees you genuine quality. Enjoying nature is for me the real joy in life. And it is life itself that often puts you through difficult trials that leave their mark. That is why today I know one thing for certain: nothing happens for no reason, everything has a meaning. My serious skiing accident led to me to my true calling - including a happy end.
As a practised skier I did not think for a minute that this one run down snowy slopes would forever change my life in such a dramatic way - but that is how it happened. In a matter of seconds I found myself lying down four metres below. As it later turned out, I had fractured two vertebrae. I was very lucky that I was not immediately paralysed from the waist down. There appeared no alternative to a highly risky operation which in all likelihood would leave me robbed of my freedom of movement - unthinkable for me, of course, as an enthusiastic sportsman and lover of nature. This would mean at the same time losing all joy in life. I looked for another alternative, which I found with the help of a friends, a doctor for alternative medicine, and deep warmth treatment with infrared radiation. I immediately built a wooden structure with enough space for several infrared heaters. Every day I lay down underneath and achieved what had seemed impossible: after three weeks I was walking again. What had happened? With intensive, deep soothing warmth I had activated unimagined powers of self-healing. My pains and hemorrhages as well as the stubborn tension were soon a thing of the past. A discovery that was virtually a ‘matter of survival’ for me. I wished to pass on this experience to others so that everyone could make use of it. Later, in 1995, I designed the first infrared cabin for commercial use, together with an infrared scientist.
What followed, was and is an exceptional success story, made in Tyrol. And today as then the same applies: build your own strength!
- Luis Schwarzenberger - Grossglockner mountain in October 2008
