2. How to shake off doubts and “doctor’s spell”
By E-Dao coach He Fei (Germany) .
My mom has been doing Lajin and Paida for nearly two years. Now, she is 88, and is quite healthy. Even when she occasionally feels uncomfortable due to slight hypertension, gastric acid or occasional constipation, she could have the symptoms alleviated through earnest practice of Lajin and Paida. During the past two years, she has had, by turns, doubts about and then confidence in Lajin and Paida through continued practice. As she is an “intellectual”, naturally, she quite often demands “scientific explanations”. And if she is not satisfied with the answer, she will regard it as unscientific, and will harbor doubts about it.
The height of “war” with Mom came after she had been practicing Lajin and Paida for nearly a year. At the time, her health was dramatically improved. After stopping all medication, her heart condition and blood pressure remained stable, years of dull pain in her stomach disappeared, the pain in her joints was relieved, constipation and insomnia were greatly alleviated, and cervical spondylosis was cured. All these incredible improvements were made without medication. But then, Mom decided to do a thorough medical checkup, and the reason she gave was this,“I need scientific proof saying that I am indeed healthy.” I was in Germany, and could do nothing but respect her choice.
Previously, whenever Mom went to hospital, she had to take a taxi, for her heart could not stand the discomfort of public transport, and she could not walk that far; but surprisingly, when she went for the checkup, she took a bus there along with her elderly caregiver (We call her Antie in China). When having her blood pressure measured, she thought she must have high readings after such a torturing bus ride. But to her surprise, the readings were 120/80! It wasn’t that good even when she had been taking anti-hypertensive drugs. Mom was quite pleased.
Two days later, the blood test results came out. All the indicators were normal, except for slightly high blood fat. When the doctor asked her what medicine she was taking to control the level, Mom replied, “I’m taking nothing.” Then, the doctor overwhelmed her with criticism and “what is scientific”. As Mom had been placed two coronary stents, the doctor warned that without lipid-lowering drugs, there would be life-threatening danger!!! But what the doctor chose to ignore or was simply not interested in was the fact that she had normal blood pressure and all other indicators were good without medication for more than a year. In the end, my mother took home a heap of “life-saving drugs”.
I would call home every day. Knowing that she was having doubts again, I tried to explain that the goal of Lajin and Paida was to remedy all disharmonies in her body, including high cholesterol. Anyway, slightly high level in a single indicator didn’t mean much. But Mom was determined to “work along both lines”, for the doctor had warned that her life would be in danger if she didn’t take the drugs. She asked, “Why are you so against medication? Why can’t I enjoy the benefits of Chinese and western medicine, take the drugs and do Lajin and Paida at the same time?”
In fact, I had explained these to her time and again. And her own experience showed that over the past decades, the piles of costly drugs had not cured her of anything, instead, she had caught new diseases due to the side effects of medication, and she had got weaker and weaker as a result of higher dosage and intake of more varieties. Lajin and Paida activate one’s self-healing power, while medication tends to suppress and damage it. Hence, the so-called "work along both lines" approach is useless for health improvement. However, having been brainwashed by the doctor, Mom hastened to the dead end, without turning back! And her voice went higher and higher when arguing with me. Being in Germany, I had to let it go even when tormented by scorching anxiety, for fear that her blood pressure would go up if she got too excited. I had to respect her choice, and leave it to fate.
I was sleepless that night, a rare thing for me. I deeply felt that it may be easy for children to have filial affection, but how hard it is to effectively perform their filial duties. The next day, with a very disturbed heart, I phoned Mom as usual. I was ready to let go of my insistence, for after all, the self-healing techniques only cure diseases, and are not responsible for life and death. I thought I had to leave it to God. To my surprise, Mom didn’t have the same high-pitched voice she had the day before, and strangely spoke in a low and gentle tone. Just as I was wondering why, I heard her say, “I’m stretching now.” I asked her jokingly, just like when I was a mischievous child, “Why are you still stretching? Don’t the drugs solve it all?”
Then I heard Antie’s loud laughter…And Mom had to confess: After my last call, she dared not take all the drugs prescribed, so she swallowed only one hypolipidemic pill. Then she had a severe headache, and later stomach cramps. She was much tormented by the pain and had it relieved by patting. So she told me, “Now I finally realized what you meant when you said ‘working along both lines’ wouldn’t work.” Facts speak louder than words. From that day on, Mom has shaken off the “doctor’s spell”. She’s gained a new understanding and deeper awareness of the self-healing techniques, and has firmer confidence in them.
One year has passed, and Mom has given up medication altogether for up to two years. She only uses Lajin and Paida self-healing techniques, and her condition is very stable. During the two years, she’s not even had one bad cold, which shows her own immunity has remarkably improved. And this is the stable and fundamental source of her health.
For more than two years, I have been practicing Lajin and Paida myself and have shared it with over 100 people. I have genuinely felt the power of one’s mind and heart in treatment of diseases. One’s thoughts inevitably affect the results. The best efficacy of Lajin and Paida can be achieved only with harmony and oneness of the body and mind. “Oneness” refers not only to harmony of the body and mind when one is practicing the self-healing techniques himself, but also to the giver’s and receiver’s state of mind when patting each other.
Recently, I’ve been receiving calls and emails from daughters who anxiously asked for my advice for the sake of their sick parents (Oddly enough, all inquiries are from daughters!). All of them are confronted with the same dilemma: Their parents tried Lajin and
Paida in order not to disappoint them, but deep down, they did not really believe in it. The result was, when they encountered
Qì Chōng Bìng Zào, or when they didn’t see significant improvement right away, they would have doubts and give up, or choose to go to hospital. The daughters were reluctant to give it up, but were at same time afraid that things might go wrong, hence got caught in the dilemma.
Here is my advice: The first key word is introspection. Ask yourself this question honestly, “How much confidence do I have on Lajin and Paida?” If you have full confidence in them, I believe you will find your own ways to influence and lead your loved ones to continue and gradually build their confidence through practice. It is only a matter of time and patience. If your family cannot accept them, then let it go, because if the giver and receiver are not of the same mind, it won’t yield good results. If you yourself lack confidence, then I suggest you practice what you advocate in the first place.
Our thoughts play a decisive role in our lives and in our health. And they can change, as long as we keep shaking off our doubts and disbelief, we will continue to improve our physical and mental wellbeing.
E-Dao has been undergoing challenges and tests of doubt and criticism, and the road ahead will not always be smooth. Facts will naturally come out crystal clear without clarification or justification. As long as one is honorable and absolutely mindful, and follows the Dao, he/she will be indestructible whatever happens.
"Righteousness keeps off the evil."
"Mindfulness keeps off evil thoughts."
⇧ A close-up of my mom. Mom on the Lajin bench⇑
April 15, 2012.
By E-Dao coach He Fei (Germany) .
My mom has been doing Lajin and Paida for nearly two years. Now, she is 88, and is quite healthy. Even when she occasionally feels uncomfortable due to slight hypertension, gastric acid or occasional constipation, she could have the symptoms alleviated through earnest practice of Lajin and Paida. During the past two years, she has had, by turns, doubts about and then confidence in Lajin and Paida through continued practice. As she is an “intellectual”, naturally, she quite often demands “scientific explanations”. And if she is not satisfied with the answer, she will regard it as unscientific, and will harbor doubts about it.
The height of “war” with Mom came after she had been practicing Lajin and Paida for nearly a year. At the time, her health was dramatically improved. After stopping all medication, her heart condition and blood pressure remained stable, years of dull pain in her stomach disappeared, the pain in her joints was relieved, constipation and insomnia were greatly alleviated, and cervical spondylosis was cured. All these incredible improvements were made without medication. But then, Mom decided to do a thorough medical checkup, and the reason she gave was this,“I need scientific proof saying that I am indeed healthy.” I was in Germany, and could do nothing but respect her choice.
Previously, whenever Mom went to hospital, she had to take a taxi, for her heart could not stand the discomfort of public transport, and she could not walk that far; but surprisingly, when she went for the checkup, she took a bus there along with her elderly caregiver (We call her Antie in China). When having her blood pressure measured, she thought she must have high readings after such a torturing bus ride. But to her surprise, the readings were 120/80! It wasn’t that good even when she had been taking anti-hypertensive drugs. Mom was quite pleased.
Two days later, the blood test results came out. All the indicators were normal, except for slightly high blood fat. When the doctor asked her what medicine she was taking to control the level, Mom replied, “I’m taking nothing.” Then, the doctor overwhelmed her with criticism and “what is scientific”. As Mom had been placed two coronary stents, the doctor warned that without lipid-lowering drugs, there would be life-threatening danger!!! But what the doctor chose to ignore or was simply not interested in was the fact that she had normal blood pressure and all other indicators were good without medication for more than a year. In the end, my mother took home a heap of “life-saving drugs”.
I would call home every day. Knowing that she was having doubts again, I tried to explain that the goal of Lajin and Paida was to remedy all disharmonies in her body, including high cholesterol. Anyway, slightly high level in a single indicator didn’t mean much. But Mom was determined to “work along both lines”, for the doctor had warned that her life would be in danger if she didn’t take the drugs. She asked, “Why are you so against medication? Why can’t I enjoy the benefits of Chinese and western medicine, take the drugs and do Lajin and Paida at the same time?”
In fact, I had explained these to her time and again. And her own experience showed that over the past decades, the piles of costly drugs had not cured her of anything, instead, she had caught new diseases due to the side effects of medication, and she had got weaker and weaker as a result of higher dosage and intake of more varieties. Lajin and Paida activate one’s self-healing power, while medication tends to suppress and damage it. Hence, the so-called "work along both lines" approach is useless for health improvement. However, having been brainwashed by the doctor, Mom hastened to the dead end, without turning back! And her voice went higher and higher when arguing with me. Being in Germany, I had to let it go even when tormented by scorching anxiety, for fear that her blood pressure would go up if she got too excited. I had to respect her choice, and leave it to fate.
I was sleepless that night, a rare thing for me. I deeply felt that it may be easy for children to have filial affection, but how hard it is to effectively perform their filial duties. The next day, with a very disturbed heart, I phoned Mom as usual. I was ready to let go of my insistence, for after all, the self-healing techniques only cure diseases, and are not responsible for life and death. I thought I had to leave it to God. To my surprise, Mom didn’t have the same high-pitched voice she had the day before, and strangely spoke in a low and gentle tone. Just as I was wondering why, I heard her say, “I’m stretching now.” I asked her jokingly, just like when I was a mischievous child, “Why are you still stretching? Don’t the drugs solve it all?”
Then I heard Antie’s loud laughter…And Mom had to confess: After my last call, she dared not take all the drugs prescribed, so she swallowed only one hypolipidemic pill. Then she had a severe headache, and later stomach cramps. She was much tormented by the pain and had it relieved by patting. So she told me, “Now I finally realized what you meant when you said ‘working along both lines’ wouldn’t work.” Facts speak louder than words. From that day on, Mom has shaken off the “doctor’s spell”. She’s gained a new understanding and deeper awareness of the self-healing techniques, and has firmer confidence in them.
One year has passed, and Mom has given up medication altogether for up to two years. She only uses Lajin and Paida self-healing techniques, and her condition is very stable. During the two years, she’s not even had one bad cold, which shows her own immunity has remarkably improved. And this is the stable and fundamental source of her health.
For more than two years, I have been practicing Lajin and Paida myself and have shared it with over 100 people. I have genuinely felt the power of one’s mind and heart in treatment of diseases. One’s thoughts inevitably affect the results. The best efficacy of Lajin and Paida can be achieved only with harmony and oneness of the body and mind. “Oneness” refers not only to harmony of the body and mind when one is practicing the self-healing techniques himself, but also to the giver’s and receiver’s state of mind when patting each other.
Recently, I’ve been receiving calls and emails from daughters who anxiously asked for my advice for the sake of their sick parents (Oddly enough, all inquiries are from daughters!). All of them are confronted with the same dilemma: Their parents tried Lajin and
Paida in order not to disappoint them, but deep down, they did not really believe in it. The result was, when they encountered
Qì Chōng Bìng Zào, or when they didn’t see significant improvement right away, they would have doubts and give up, or choose to go to hospital. The daughters were reluctant to give it up, but were at same time afraid that things might go wrong, hence got caught in the dilemma.
Here is my advice: The first key word is introspection. Ask yourself this question honestly, “How much confidence do I have on Lajin and Paida?” If you have full confidence in them, I believe you will find your own ways to influence and lead your loved ones to continue and gradually build their confidence through practice. It is only a matter of time and patience. If your family cannot accept them, then let it go, because if the giver and receiver are not of the same mind, it won’t yield good results. If you yourself lack confidence, then I suggest you practice what you advocate in the first place.
Our thoughts play a decisive role in our lives and in our health. And they can change, as long as we keep shaking off our doubts and disbelief, we will continue to improve our physical and mental wellbeing.
E-Dao has been undergoing challenges and tests of doubt and criticism, and the road ahead will not always be smooth. Facts will naturally come out crystal clear without clarification or justification. As long as one is honorable and absolutely mindful, and follows the Dao, he/she will be indestructible whatever happens.
"Righteousness keeps off the evil."
"Mindfulness keeps off evil thoughts."
⇧ A close-up of my mom. Mom on the Lajin bench⇑
April 15, 2012.
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