What is a “self-healing” method?
The inherent ability in the human body as well as in plants and animals to repair and heal itself is the self-healing power. Any method that mobilizes this power is a self-healing method.
The immune and self-reparatory functions are part of our self-healing power. It enables the body to produce in vivo [1] various biochemical substances according to the person’s specific needs, thus self-healing diseases. [1ㅡ happening or existing inside a living body ] These biochemical substances can be referred to as “endogenous medicine” or “organic medicine” without any side effects.
Hippocrates, Father of Western medicine, repeatedly stressed that the body contains within itself the power to re-balance and heal itself. The duty of a doctor is to try as much as possible to mobilize this power, and not to take its place. This is an ancient interpretation of self-healing.
Seven criteria of self-healing
Various self-healing methods have been practiced throughout human history. Yoga, T’ai Chi, meditation, and modern sports are regular self-healing methods.
The self-healing methods we promote follow the teachings in Huang Di Nei Jing (simplified Chinese: 黄帝内经; traditional Chinese: 黃帝內經; pinyin: huáng dì nèi jīng), also known as The Yellow Emperor’s Canon of Internal Medicine. It is an ancient Chinese medical text that has been treated as the fundamental doctrinal source for Chinese medicine for more than two
millennia. Huang Di Nei Jing advocates “nursing the Heart as the top priority, followed by external treatment and dietary therapies, and using medication as the last resort.” We believe that by following these principles, everyone is able to self-heal. Note that “heart” refers to the physical organ, whereas “Heart” refers to the intangible system in a human that feels.
Then comes the question of how to nurse the Heart. A healing method that is too complex, has a limited application scope and obvious side effects, or does not have the desired efficacy will not be widely received among the public.
Over the years, my search for traditional healing methods has taken me on many journeys. Through learning and repeated practice, not only have I found some simple and effective methods, I have also summed up seven criteria that determine whether a healing method will be readily embraced by and benefit the vast majority of people.
DIY (Do It Yourself): It should be a self-help exercise accessible to all for enhancing overall health and curing diseases. This is epoch-making, because medical services and most natural therapies rely on the work of health and medical professionals.
Effective: Its effectiveness should be beyond doubt superior than that of mainstream medical practices.
Simple: It should be simple enough to be mastered by most people in just one to a few minutes.
Safe: It should have no side effects.
Universally applicable: It should be effective in
self-healing most physical and mental disorders
as categorized in modern medicine, including
common illnesses, acute, chronic, critical, and
rare diseases.
Low-cost or free: It should be available to all despite income limitations, thus saving huge medical expenses for individuals, families, organizations, and nations.
Organic: It should not rely on any additional
medicine or medical appliances.
At first glance, it can seem an impossible task to find a healing method that fulfils all these criteria. Fortunately, not only have we found such methods, we have been teaching them across the world. They are non-medical methods selected from countless natural therapies—Paida and Lajin (slapping and stretching exercises, hereinafter
referred to as PaidaLajin when mentioned
together). They are not my inventions, but are folk secret therapies practiced in China for millennia. Their theories originated from ancient Chinese classics Huang Di Nei Jing and Tao Te Ching. In fact, different variations of slapping and stretching exercises can be found throughout the ages and around the world. You’ve clapped your hands and stretched your limbs, haven’t you?
Promoting secret therapies has historically been challenging, even more so when healing practices are legally defined and restricted. Fortunately, the Internet gives thousands of people access to these therapies. Anyone can now practice and test the effect of PaidaLajin.
What is PaidaLajin?
Paida means to use hands and/or tools to repeatedly slap parts of the entire body at a tolerable intensity in order to enable the smooth energy flow in meridians (energy channels in the
body that are connected to their respective
organs). You can do it on your own, with, or for
others.
Paida is also a natural diagnostic method. In ancient times, it was called Diao Shang (revealing old injuries) because slapping revealed and healed injuries and diseases in the body. When there is no health problem, nothing will be revealed.
Lajin means to stretch the limbs and joints of the body with very simple methods, to make the bones in place and tendons flexible, and to enable smooth energy flow in meridians. The most effective and most often used method is Lajin in a reclining posture, i.e., stretching on a specially made Lajin bench with one leg raised (see Chapter III, Section 3 Seven Common Lajin Postures and Their Effects).
Paida and Lajin are much simpler than the popular yoga and T’ai Chi. Practicing PaidaLajin boosts Qi (vital life energy) and blood flow, and enhances the self-healing power. With better Qi and blood flow, we may feel “discomforts” at the blockages
(toxins and wastes that induce diseases and
various symptoms) in the meridians, including pain, soreness, numbness, and swelling sensation. Diseases are self-healed during the process of overcoming such “discomforts.” Diagnostic, treatment, disease prevention, and anti-aging
effects are achieved—blockages in the meridians
are unblocked, the flow of Qi and blood is
boosted, immunity is enhanced, diseases are
self-healed, and life expectancy is increased.
Paida and Lajin are not medical treatments as defined in modern medicine; they are health maintenance and self-healing methods that can be practiced by everyone.
PaidaLajin does not threaten to replace mainstream medicine or other natural therapies. It can, however, complement other therapies.
PaidaLajin’s efficacy in healing pains, diabetes,
hypertension, heart disease, and Parkinson’s
disease are backed by the results of exams conducted by medical institutions in accordance with medical standards. The efficacies of PaidaLajin in healing other diseases are based on testimonials from thousands and millions of people who practice it. Medical institutions can also verify these.
The advantages of PaidaLajin are that everyone
can practice it, it is efficacious, and it can be
readily shared with others. Ironically, Paida
Lajin’s amazing healing effects can also be a
drawback. It can seem too good to be true. We
are used to the complexity of things, and so the
results of the simplest PaidaLajin contradict
mainstream education. Self-healing with Paida
Lajin involves a change of mind and way of life,
which is a great challenge for most people.
All those who support self-healing with PaidaLajin have one thing in common: They came to their conclusions after personal practice. The efficacies and cost-effectiveness of patients healing diseases on their own or for each other can be far better than those of medical professionals.
The truest way is the simplest. Anyone can easily
access it. Practice PaidaLajin yourself, and you
will know it.
Main concepts of self-healing with PaidaLajin
Ignore the disease name
This is the primary concept we use to interpret PaidaLajin, and it is also one of the secrets to the success of self-healing we advocate. A person with an understanding of this concept will not bluntly ask questions like “Where should I slap to heal ××× disease?” Instead, they will do PaidaLajin systematically, and not just focus on slapping a certain part of the body or healing a particular disease.
Regardless of what disease a person has, ignoring its name is the first step. A disease name is just the tip of an iceberg; there are likely other, more severe underlying diseases that doctors and patients themselves are unaware of. Disease names are only labels affixed in modern medicine using existing measures based on known pathological indicators and statistics, yet these labels do not necessarily identify the actual diseases. A set of symptoms, or a disease with a particular name, may have different contributing causes. Dispensing prescriptions based solely on a
disease name with no regard to its causes may
worsen the condition.
Disease names can be very misleading. Here, I will use two very common ones—diabetes and hypertension—to exemplify my point.
Diabetes is misleading due to the focus on blood glucose levels. Your doctor tells you that you are diabetic and should take hypoglycemic drugs, and if your blood sugar is not under control, it can easily lead to heart problems, or even glaucoma (an eye disease) in severe cases. This is the kind of knowledge currently taught in medical schools.
However, it has turned the causality upside down.
By practicing PaidaLajin, we have learned that in all diabetics, Sha (a colorful toxic waste that comes out during Paida, see also CHAPTER III, Section II Sha and Self-healing) will appear when the inner elbows are slapped (the Heart and Pericardium meridians run along the inner elbows). This signals that a person already has heart problems they are unaware of. When these people practice Lajin in a reclining posture, they will feel pain at the root of the thighs and the back of the knees, which indicates that the Liver, Spleen, Kidney, and Urinary Bladder meridians are all blocked, i.e., the corresponding organs all have problems. Problems with these organs are the real causes of diabetes.
Further investigation reveals that all diabetics suffer from emotional disorders to varying degrees, such as tension, anxiety, and depression. Such emotional turmoil leads to endocrine disorders. Most teenage students are stressed out before sitting for a major exam, thus suffering from endocrine disorders and exhibiting abnormal blood glucose levels.
In short, diabetes is caused by endocrine disorders, which are related to the Heart, i.e., a condition due to emotional problems. When obsessed about money, power, social status, or children, people become tense and anxious, which can lead some people to eat and drink too much. This can cause the endocrine system to malfunction.
If hypoglycemic drugs are taken without taking into account these causes, further damage to the functions of the heart, liver, kidneys, spleen, and pancreas can occur.
According to Chinese medicine, the Liver meridian opens into the eyes. As long as the liver is functioning normally, the eyes will be healthy as well. Taking drugs or injecting insulin will damage the liver and lead to eye problems such as glaucoma and retinal detachment. Many diabetics take medicine as prescribed and end up with eye and internal organ problems. When the condition worsens, their feet will ulcerate and they can end up being amputated.
To cure diabetes, we must not be misled by its name, but should instead identify the real causes. Diabetics should first be happy and self-assured, and learn to let go; and practice PaidaLajin to unblock the Heart, Liver, Spleen, Kidney and Urinary Bladder meridians. When the internal organs are functioning well, the blood glucose level will return to normal.
Another example is hypertension. To doctors and patients of hypertension, it is natural that anti-hypertensive drugs be taken to control blood pressure. The relationship between blood pressure and the heart, liver, spleen, kidney and other organs are simply ignored. As a result, the drugs taken often damage the body’s internal organs.
Almost all anti-hypertensive drugs are diuretics
that can weaken the functions of the kidneys.
This will lead to lower libido, a decline of sexual
function, prostate disorders, and such urinary disorders as frequent and involuntary urination, etc. Secondly, weakened kidney function can lead to insomnia, tinnitus, hearing loss, hair loss, bone loss, Alzheimer’s disease, and a shortened lifespan. In addition, Western medicine is acidic, and the acidity can destroy the tissues of blood vessel walls, causing blood vessel ruptures that could lead to stroke and heart disease.
The cause and effects mentioned above are hard to grasp with only a knowledge of Western medicine; however, it is clearly stated in Chinese medical classic Huang Di Nei Jing that “the Kidney governs the bones; its health is shown in the hair; it opens into the ears; and it controls memory, the urinary and excretory functions, and governs natural lifespan.” Blood pressure will return to normal as long as the Heart, Liver, Spleen and Kidney meridians are cleared of blockages.
In effect, there is no definitive standard for “normal” blood pressure; it relates to a person’s age, physique, and many other factors. It changes from day to day, and fluctuates with the person’s mood and activities. Taking anti-hypertensive drugs inevitably induces more disorders, such as eye, liver, kidney, and stomach problems, and even more drugs will be needed to treat these new diseases. Many hypertensive patients die after years of medication, yet it is found that their deaths are not caused by high blood pressure. In this sense, the name “hypertension” is quite misleading.
We advocate “ignoring the disease name” in order to remind oneself that there are many root causes behind one particularly labeled disease. The names “diabetes” and “hypertension” imply that there is an underlying group of other diseases, and this phenomenon is referred to as “Complex Diseases.” All diseases are complex diseases, i.e., a complex of many diseases.
A disease indicates the blockage of many meridians, and its causes are also varied. We should be cautious not to leave out any blocked meridian, or be misled by a particular indicator or disease name; instead, we should strive for holistic health enhancement. We should try to unblock all blocked meridians and not just one of them.In fact, the only real healing is holistic healing; targeting a particular disease or a part of the body and ignoring the whole always invites endless trouble. PaidaLajin should be practiced on all parts of the body in a “carpet bombing” manner so as to activate our internal “anti-virus mechanism,” i.e., the self-healing power, to clear away all diseases in the body.
Complex diseases
People seldom have only one illness; there are always a greater number of health risks and unknown diseases behind known ones. Moreover, these diseases are interrelated, and the symptoms are causes and effects of each other. All known and unknown diseases and symptoms put together are called “complex diseases.”
In effect, all diseases are complex. Even such common ailments as cold, fever, and coughing are complex diseases. They relate to the immune system, which is in turn related to the heart, lungs, liver, spleen, and kidneys. Chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, liver and kidney disorders, cancer, etc., are without doubt complex diseases, i.e., they are manifestations of the malfunctioning of all internal organs.
Since diseases are invariably complex, we should not focus merely on treating known diseases and symptoms, but should turn our attention to the underlying causes. This explains why we keep reminding people to “ignore the disease name.” We should holistically empower our self-healing mechanism to do its job, because it is the self-healing power, not anything else, that heals all known and unknown diseases. The effect of holistic healing goes beyond that of compartmentalized treatments. All cells, organs, and systems in our body form an integral whole, and they thrive or wither together.
No therapy or drug in the world is a panacea for all known and unknown diseases. There are many natural, holistic therapies out there. And we have specially chosen Paida and Lajin to promote worldwide. It is not only because they are simple to practice and produce quick, amazing effects, but also because they do not target a specific disease or symptom, but activate our innate self-healing power, which diagnoses and treats all diseases in the body. That is to say, from diagnosis to treatment, Paida and Lajin function
holistically. This explains why Paida and Lajin are so effective in healing complex, chronic diseases.
Complex diseases may appear complicated, but the fundamental cause is meridian blockage. Unblocking the blockages heals. And the beauty of Paida and Lajin is that they can rapidly and effectively unblock the blockages in the meridian system (a network of energy channels).
People may find it hard to accurately locate meridians and acupoints (also called “acupuncture points,” i.e., important points along meridians stimulated for disease prevention, diagnosis, and treatment), much more so if they need to utilize complicated knowledge, drugs, equipment, and procedures—that is why many tend to give up on self-healing. For ordinary people without specialized training in medicine, PaidaLajin is the best basic healing practice, and it can be an advanced therapy that they can dig deeper into and discover its full potential.
Efficacy is what really matters. Paida and Lajin may appear simple, yet they can be more effective in healing complex diseases than mainstream medical practices. Many diseases that doctors cannot cure are self-healed by ordinary people using these two unbelievably simple methods. Treating complex diseases with simple methods is as people always put it, “The truest way is the simplest.” This is indeed an accurate and concrete interpretation of the “Way (Tao).”
And, by self-healing complex diseases, people will gain fresh insights into life and its health. Their
quality of life will be enhanced thanks to their
improved health condition. And they will move
from physical healing to spiritual healing, and
from health management to life management.
“Carpet bombing” and the “anti-virus mechanism”
Originally a military term, “carpet bombing”
refers to the thorough bombing of each and every
inch of a target. Practicing PaidaLajin in a “carpet bombing” manner—slapping the entire body from head to toe, and doing Lajin in a reclining posture, gradually stretching each leg up to 30 minutes—clears the body’s 14 main meridians from all directions. This eliminates all known and unknown diseases holistically, instead of treating each of them according to divisions of medicine.
PaidaLajin helps to both diagnose and heal
diseases. In Paida, Sha, swelling, and pain are
positive reactions, indicating that meridians
running along the slapped areas are blocked, and
that detoxification is in process. Those afraid of
the Sha, swelling, and pain of Paida mistake the
reward for punishment; in Lajin, the pain felt
during stretching indicates contraction of tendons
and ligaments, and blockages in meridians.
Continued stretching will restore the flexibility
of tendons and ligaments, unblock the blocked
meridians, and heal diseases.
Our body has an innate, invisible anti-virus
mechanism, akin to a computer’s anti-virus software. The meridian system in Chinese medicine, and the various systems in Western medicine, such as the immune, nervous, respiratory, and circulatory systems, are all parts of the body’s anti-virus mechanism.
The invisible can be more crucial than the visible. For instance, the sun and the moon are visible, but the orbits they travel and the forces that drive them are invisible. Chinese medicine believes that Qi propels blood flow. Blood is visible, whereas Qi, the driving force behind blood flow, is invisible to the naked eye. Now, modern scientific devices have detected the “invisible” Qi and meridians in the human body.
The wisdom, sensitivity, and sophistication of man’s self-healing power go beyond our knowledge and imagination. Even the best life scientists and medical professionals are still just scratching the surface of this power. It runs in the body’s meridians in the form of invisible Qi. Once this anti-virus mechanism is activated through PaidaLajin, it will start to scan the entire body.
When Qi finds a blockage or a problem area, it
will lock-in the target and remedy it. Pains and
diseases are thus relieved and self-healed. This
process is as if launching missiles in “precision
bombing,” or Precise Point Positioning using
GPS.
The number of meridians cleared through “carpet bombing” PaidaLajin is not one but many; the effect is not only localized but in all known and unknown systems of the body. The activated Qi and blood flow will act as the anti-virus software. Not only does it detect the “viruses,” it stimulates the body to produce antibodies against them. Practicing PaidaLajin is like an all-round mobilization of software and hardware systems in the body. This is why it is described as “carpet bombing” and “complete virus removal.”
PaidaLajin dredges meridians. Once blockages are removed, Qi and blood will flow normally. Moreover, by practicing PaidaLajin, Yang energy rises and Yin energy falls. Here, Yang (simplified Chinese: 阳; traditional Chinese: 陽; pinyin: yáng) is the same as the character in the Chinese words for the sun—Tai Yang (simplified Chinese: 太阳; traditional Chinese: 太陽; pinyin: tài yang). It is the original energy in the universe; it is the Zheng-Qi described in Huang Di Nei Jing; and it is the
first breath of air that was blown into man
according to Genesis 2:7, the Old Testament of
the Bible, " Then the LORD God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.". It plays a vital role in a person’s health. According to Huang Di Nei Jing, the way to maintain good health is to “keep Zheng-Qi (Yang energy, positive energy) inside, and evils shall not enter.” It sums up the true essence of healing in Chinese medicine.
From the perspective of Western medicine, the self-inflicted, minimal “damage” produced by PaidaLajin stimulates the body’s immune system to secrete stem cells, insulin, enkephalin, adrenaline, and other hormones needed to fight different diseases.
The Urinary Bladder meridian normally hurts the most when stretching on a Lajin bench. An important acupoint is located behind each knee. It gets blocked quite easily and it hurts a lot when stimulated. The Urinary Bladder meridian runs from head to toe, and is the largest detoxification channel in our body. Dredging this meridian cures numerous diseases, such as lower back and leg pains, diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, liver problems, kidney disorders, prostate disorders, gynecological disorders, cancer, and so on. This is because the Urinary Bladder meridian links the head, neck, back, waist, and legs. It is connected to all internal organs hanging inside the torso along the spine, and forms a web of meridians along with the Spleen, Liver and Kidney meridians and other main meridians.
When stretching on a Lajin bench, some people can neither straighten the raised leg, nor can they make the lowered leg touch the ground. They feel excruciating pain while stretching. This indicates problems with the Urinary Bladder, Liver, Spleen, and Kidney meridians, and with all internal organs. There are three Yin meridians (Liver, Spleen, and Kidney meridians) along the inner side of each leg. Once these three meridians are cleared of blockages, diabetes, hypertension, prostate, and gynecological disorders will all be cured.
Some people like to slap along the Gall Bladder meridian on the outer side of each leg. It is equally important to slap the inner side. Slapping the inner side of the legs and doing Lajin in a reclining posture delivers the most visible benefits for elderly men who suffer from prostate disorders, whose main symptoms are urgent, frequent, and incomplete urination. Over 90% of elderly men have prostate problems. For a woman, slapping the inner side of the legs
and doing Lajin in a reclining posture helps relieve almost all gynecological disorders.
A “carpet bombing” approach to Paida will result
in a more thorough detoxification. For instance,
slapping all around the limbs (focusing on one
region until Sha appears, and continuing Paida until Sha disappears) will be even better. Slapping thoroughly from head to toe, including the head, neck, face, eyes, ears, nose, mouth, breasts, armpits, belly, groin areas, buttocks, the back, and the entire spine brings about remarkable healing effects.
Because the power of self-healing works like anti-
virus software, it can detect, diagnose, and heal
diseases. Why is this “software” so powerful?
Because it is not man-made—it is designed and
embedded in us by the universe.
Pain and “pain medicine”
Joy without pain is not true happiness. In Chinese, the characters “痛 (pain)” and “快 (joy)” are put
together to form a phrase “痛快 (pain and joy).”
Indeed, pain and joy are two sides of the same
coin. There is some pain during PaidaLajin. And
the pain can be managed. If you are afraid of
pain, the solution is simple: just reduce the
intensity of PaidaLajin.
Nobody likes pain, but it is a superb medicine. Like illness, it is a gift to us. The “pain” here does not refer to the kind of pain caused in fights or accidents, but the hurting sensation you feel when you voluntarily practice PaidaLajin. Of the various healing reactions (see the section Healing reactions), pain is the most commonly experienced. Some people may avoid PaidaLajin because of the pain. Well, it is precisely the reason why they should practice it. The logic of self-healing with PaidaLajin goes like this: the more pain you feel during PaidaLajin, the more necessary it is for you to practice it, for the pain is both diagnosis and treatment; when you feel no pain at all during PaidaLajin, it indicates that you have no health problem, hence there is no need to practice it.
The reasons are as follows:
(1) Pain is a health alarm and precise diagnosis.
Pain is a very accurate diagnostic method. According to Chinese medicine, “No blockage, no pain.” Where there is pain, there is a health problem. The more pain is felt during PaidaLajin, the more severe the problem is. Where there is pain along a meridian, it indicates problems with
the corresponding organ. For instance, when you
have a heart disease and problems with the
intangible “Heart” (anxiety, depression, etc.),
the Heart and Pericardium meridians must be
blocked. Slapping along these meridians, for
instance, on the inner elbows, will give you pain,
and there will be Sha.
PaidaLajin does not induce pain; rather, it is already lurking in the body in the form of diseases and meridian blockages. Imagine that pain is a hidden bomb—it is already there and could explode at any moment. To avoid the explosion, we practice PaidaLajin to bring the hidden bombs (pains and diseases) to the surface and gradually clear them away. People with smooth flowing meridians do not face the threat of such hidden bombs. When they practice PaidaLajin, they feel little or no pain.
In other words, it is absurd to assume that you have no pain or can avoid pain by not practicing PaidaLajin. As long as you have a health problem, the pain of it continues to exist just like a time bomb and will most likely worsen, exploding when you least expect it. For instance, a sudden heart attack, a stroke, and cancers are eventual outbreaks of developing pains and diseases.
The sooner you practice PaidaLajin, the earlier
you sound the health alarm, diagnose, and self-
heal pains and diseases. If you avoid PaidaLajin
or even cover up pain with anaesthetics, the
situation becomes more dangerous because you
have removed the health alarm. Very ill patients
are more afraid of pain than the well person. This
is because they have more severe meridian
blockages. Hence, the intensity of pain reflects
the severity of a disease.
(2) During PaidaLajin, the process of experiencing pain is the process of self-healing.
According to Chinese medicine, during PaidaLajin
the process of experiencing pain is the process of
the Yang energy rising, i.e., the process of
boosting self-healing power and producing
“medicine” in vivo. Persistent pain indicates
continuous production of the “medicine.”
Pain directly stimulates and opens up the Heart, triggers willpower, and mobilizes Yang energy. The Heart, “King” of internal organs, governs the spirit. Although pain can be felt all over the body, it is the Heart that “feels the pain” first. It then mobilizes the body’s resources to deal with the “crisis.” Qi and blood will flow most rapidly to the problem areas and help heal the diseases.
According to Western medicine, pain stimulates the endocrine system to secrete bio-chemical substances that the body needs, i.e., “endogenous medicine.” These include but are not limited to various hormones and stem cells. Without pain, our self-healing power will not be activated, and the “endogenous medicine” will not be produced. (Please refer to Chapter II,
Theories of Self-Healing with PaidaLajin.)
Pain activates self-healing power, and is a catalyst that boosts it. It is also the process of producing “endogenous medicine.” It may even be an integral part of the “medicine” itself, i.e., “pain medicine.”
We are often are educated to regard pain as something negative and even evil, and will try our best to avoid pain. Seen from another perspective, “pain” and “illness” are good—they are warnings to us, and point to the direction and methods of healing.
“痛 (pain)” and “快 (joy)” are a pair and interchangeable. Without pain, the self-healing power will not be activated, and the joy of healing will not be experienced.
(3) “Pain medicine” can accurately pinpoint the location of diseases and help heal them.
Pain reveals the targets very clearly, i.e., at the areas where pain is felt. “Pain medicine” is an accurate medicine. Persistent pain means continuous treatment with “pain medicine.”
Considering that “pain medicine” is an
“endogenous medicine” manifested as self-
healing power, when compared with medication
it is more accurate, symptomatic and eco-
friendly. People feel pain in different parts of the
body, and the intensity of pain differs, thus the
target and dosage of the “endogenous medicine”
differ accordingly.
In Chinese medicine, self-healing power is referred to as Yang energy; in Western medicine, it is referred to as insulin, endorphin, adrenaline, enkephalin, stem cells, immunity, and self-repair ability, among other terms. With the advancement of medical science, new terms will be continually added to the list.
(4) The intensity of “pain” is proportionate to the efficacy of this “medicine,” i.e., the more it hurts, the better the self-healing efficacy will be.
During PaidaLajin, when more pain is felt, Yang energy rises faster, and there will be faster hormonal changes, i.e., the “endogenous medicine” is produced faster. When a person feels pain, the entire body instantly warms up and starts to sweat. When the most pain is felt, Yang energy is boosted more quickly than by other methods, hence the best efficacy is gained.
The pain of PaidaLajin is bearable, and it can be self-regulated according to the person’s health condition and tolerance. In case the pain becomes almost unbearable, the intensity of PaidaLajin can be reduced and there will be less pain.
It is impossible to compare the pain of PaidaLajin felt by different people, for each person’s health condition and severity of meridian blockages are different, thus the intensity of pain felt is different. For instance, when slapping the same part of body on different people, patients who are more ill will tend to feel greater pain.
According to Western medicine, detoxification
and healing happen when the self-healing
mechanism decomposes and excretes unwanted
bio-chemical substances, and produces what the
body needs.
According to Chinese medicine, the Qi of diseases
is Yin energy; when it accumulates, more diseases
will break out and life is shortened; by contrast,
when Yang energy is abundant, fewer diseases
will strike and life is prolonged.
(5) “Pain” is also a method of meditation and enhancing attention.
During meditation, you may find it hard to concentrate—your Heart is not at peace and your mind is filled with many thoughts. When you feel pain during PaidaLajin, your mind is more focused than ever; it is impossible at that moment to think about things that normally occupy your mind. Your attention will be focused on the parts that hurt most. The ability to endure pain fluctuates with changing states of mind, and it will be enhanced through continued PaidaLajin. Thus the pain
becomes a bridge linking body, mind, and soul,
which are continually interacting when you are feeling pain, and are gradually becoming one. “Pain” makes you focused, and enables you to experience the state of the body, mind, and soul becoming one, and of both giving and receiving.
(6) “Pain medicine” is essentially “a medicine for the Heart”; it is the result of interaction between the body and mind.
Pain is a very strong stimulus for the Heart, forcing it to adapt or change. While pain is felt during PaidaLajin, diseases are revealed as visible Sha and swelling; past memories and negative feelings surface and are released. As a result, PaidaLajin is great for healing depression and other psychological disorders.
Once you change your mindset and start to view the pain of PaidaLajin as a positive experience, you can instantly endure greater pain. Then, the “pain” will no longer be an enemy, but rather a friend and a teacher. However, if you are having negative feelings about the “pain,” your pain tolerance will be weakened, and the efficacy of “pain medicine” will be discounted.
(7) Your pain tolerance will be enhanced as you practice PaidaLajin longer and with greater intensity, i.e., your resistance to “pain medicine” will be greater. When you have better resistance to the “pain medicine” of PaidaLajin, it indicates that your diseases are relieved and eventually cured; when a patient’s resistance to externally produced medicine gets stronger, it implies that the medicine has become ineffective, or has even caused side effects.
“Pain” is internal and intangible; as such, “pain medicine” is safer and more organic than medication. When it exceeds your endurance, you will instinctively stop taking the “pain medicine,” i.e., reduce the intensity and shorten the duration of PaidaLajin. The pain of PaidaLajin can be managed.
Beginners, the elderly, and the seriously ill need not start PaidaLajin with high intensity. They should begin slowly, and not become anxious to gain a rapid turnaround in their health in one huge effort.
(8) “Pain medicine” is also good nourishment.
“Smooth flowing meridians are the best nourishment.” The process of feeling the pain of PaidaLajin is the process of unblocking meridian blockages. Thus, “pain medicine” is good nourishment.
(9) The pain of PaidaLajin will be less when the body is warmed up. The body’s Qi and blood will
flow faster after bathing in a hot spring, a foot-
bath, a warm-water shower, or a sauna. If you
practice PaidaLajin then, the pain will be less,
and Sha will appear and disappear faster.
Healing reactions
Healing reactions (also known as “detox reactions,” “flare reactions,” or “healing crises”) are the most unique and natural reactions of self-healing with PaidaLajin. And they inevitably occur during the process of self-healing. Through healing reactions, pains and diseases surface and are healed, rather than suppressed and covered up. It is a dialogue of body, mind, and soul, not a life-or-death war.
Once PaidaLajin activates the self-healing power within us, this power will start to scan the entire body and dredge wherever it is blocked. Various reactions occur during this process: for instance, hot, cold, sore, numb, itchy, painful, or swelling sensations, rashes, sweating, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, dry mouth, stomach bloating, stomach ache, dizziness, and drowsiness. Black or purple Sha, red swellings, and greenish bruises (different forms of Sha) may appear at the slapped areas.
These are healing reactions, or healing crises intertwined with danger and opportunity. They are basically the same as the “healing crises” of medication, acupressure, acupuncture, moxibustion, skin-scraping, cupping therapy, Qi Gong, meditation, and other natural therapies. These are great signs of healing—they are normal physiological reactions when the boosted Yang energy is fighting with Yin energy that lurks in the body in various forms, blocking meridians and inducing illnesses. The blockages are “problem areas.” When the boosted Yang energy tries to go through the blockages, there is greater pressure at these areas. The body then manifests various “discomforting” symptoms similar to those you feel when sick. Healing reactions can end on the same day of their emergence; they may also last for days or even weeks, depending on each individual’s physique and health condition. Many people are unaware that healing reactions are great signs of recovery and can become frightened by the sudden reward. Unfortunately, they may stop PaidaLajin practice entirely.
When healing reactions occur, various excretions may be expelled from the body, e.g., sweat, tears, rashes, vomit, burps, wind, urine, stool, nasal discharge, and so on. These are all good signs of detoxification in process. When Wang Fengyi (1864–1937, a revered Chinese healer who cured patients for free) told patients that the root causes of their diseases were created by wrong thoughts and behaviors, the gravely ill ones often reacted with crying and vomiting. Some people vomited much and for a long time, even for days on end. It sounds frightening, but the result of vomiting was gradual recovery.
In short, healing reactions may appear unpleasant, but they are actually signs of improvement. They are gifts from nature, just like darkness before dawn and pain before birthing labor.
(1) Healing reactions function as an accurate self-diagnosis.
The philosophy of self-healing with PaidaLajin is contrary to that of mainstream medicine: Healing reactions enable the body’s own energy to reveal and heal health problems; medication and surgery tend to cover up and suppress them.
Various “discomforting” symptoms show us which parts of the body are sick. They include agonies we are suffering from, illnesses and injuries from the past, and also lurking ones that are yet to break out. Paida was once called Diao Shang (revealing diseases and injuries). The first step of self-healing is to dig up and manifest known and unknown illnesses, particularly hidden symptoms, and allow them to go away or change their nature.
Self-healing with PaidaLajin puts into practice the philosophy of “action through inaction” advocated in the Chinese ancient classic Tao Te Ching. It follows the natural law, i.e., the Tao, the Way of how the universe, nature, and matter work. Various health problems will surface, through which the real causes are detected. Normally, these causes, i.e., factors contributing to illnesses, or the environment that they develop, are manifested as meridian blockages. PaidaLajin works to unblock the blocked meridians, remove the causes, and thoroughly cure diseases.
Mainstream medicine, by contrast, works to cover
up and suppress symptoms using antibiotics to kill bacteria, painkillers to “kill” the pain, sleeping pills for insomnia, anti-hypertensive drugs to lower blood pressure, hypoglycemic drugs to control blood sugar, chemotherapy to kill cancer cells, or surgery to remove tumors. In short, the attention is focused on diseases and symptoms (the result), and not on their causes.
“Action through inaction” is not to do nothing, but to follow the Tao and only do the simple, necessary things. It is enough to activate the self-healing power using the simplest methods, and then allow it to prevent, diagnose, and cure diseases naturally, without our intervention. We may not realize it, but some diseases believed to be thoroughly cured are actually not—they are lying deep inside the body. Paida reveals and heals past injuries and diseases. Some people call it Da Gui (beating the demons), because it drives evil energy and diseases out of the body. In cases where diseases go undetected or are wrongly diagnosed, PaidaLajin can immediately complete diagnosis. Yang energy activated through the practice collides with Yin energy (hidden diseases), resulting in various “discomforting” symptoms, such as healing reactions. We can thus accurately diagnose known and unknown diseases.
(2) Healing reactions occur when the body’s self-healing power is doing its duty of self-protection and self-healing.
During PaidaLajin, some people may directly
improve their health condition. But it is more likely that a person needs to go through some healing reactions before improvement is gained; in other words, the symptoms will surface, and sometimes even worsen, before they are fixed. It is like playing a cat-and-mouse game. In addition
to sore, numb, itchy, painful, and swelling
sensations, there may also be tears, rashes, red spots, dizziness, headaches, insomnia, coughing, belching, nausea, vomiting, thick phlegm, runny nose, watery or bloody blisters, flatulence, or smelly urine and stool. All these are signs of the body expelling toxic waste. These toxins come from years of accumulated negative feelings, air, food and water pollution, cigarettes, medication, injections, and more. During PaidaLajin, the smell of drugs and cigarettes can come out through skin pores and other bodily orifices, even decades after their intake. If a person’s Kidney and Urinary Bladder meridians are blocked, after Paida the urine will turn red, brown, or black. This is a sign that Paida is taking effect.
More severe healing reactions include cramps all over the body or even fainting, similar to fainting during acupuncture treatment. Past illnesses may surface and worsen during PaidaLajin, for instance, cardiovascular patients may feel more discomfort in the heart; hypertensive patients may have higher blood pressure; diabetics may have higher blood glucose levels; patients with gastric problems may experience more stomach discomforts; patients with various pains may feel greater pain. These healing crises are in effect rare blessings, which indicate that the self-healing power is regulating the body and detoxifying, and that the positive and negative energies are engaged in a fight.
According to Chinese medicine, when a person
experiences healing reactions, Yang energy is
rising, and Yin energy is falling. When Yin and
Yang energies are balanced, pains and diseases
are self-healed. According to Western medicine,
during this process, the body is producing useful
hormones and stem cells, and discharging
harmful hormones, and malfunctioning and dead
cells.
Do not assume that these intense reactions are bad; and do not consider these rewards as punishments. The best thing to do at this point is to continue PaidaLajin.
(3) Illnesses and healing reactions are good warnings to us.
Diseases and healing reactions are natural and positive warnings, telling us that our agonies are caused by improper thoughts and behaviors. These need to be changed, otherwise the condition will worsen. Both diseases and healing reactions are instinctive reactions of the body’s self-healing power to maintain our well-being. The only difference is that diseases are manifestations of hidden health problems through the natural
functioning of self-healing power; healing
reactions occur when a person enhances self-
healing power to enable it to uncover and resolve
health problems.
Illnesses and healing reactions are manifested as
various “discomforts,” and those who are
unaware of their nature may be afraid of, worried
about, or even hate or curse them. In fact,
whatever is manifested in us is good, including
diseases. For instance, pain is a warning to us.
Wherever there is pain, there is a health problem.
Taking painkillers to “kill” the pain only covers
up the problem, it does not root out the real
causes, and can lead to endless problems; fever is the body’s
instinctive reaction to expel the cold. Forcing down a fever by taking medicine may temporarily suppress the symptoms, but seeds of future diseases are planted; high blood pressure indicates meridian blockages and high blood viscosity that hinder Qi and blood circulation, in response to which the heart instinctively increases the pressure to enable the blood to go through the blockages. If the root causes of diseases are not pinpointed for targeted treatment, and drugs are blindly taken instead to suppress symptoms, not only will the diseases not be cured, more problems will arise later on. People under prolonged medication are aware of this from their own experience.
The nature of healing reactions needs to be understood in order for the nature of diseases to be understood. Now that we know diseases and healing reactions are signs of our self-healing instinct to love, protect, and heal the body, we should be grateful for them, and not disregard or misinterpret the messages. By experiencing healing reactions, we have the opportunity to discover the root causes of our diseases (meridian blockages and further, deeper problems with the “Heart,” (negative thoughts and behaviors) and correct them.
(4) Healing reactions are tests of a person’s mindset.
Both diseases and healing reactions are recovery responses. Whether they are regarded as something good or bad depends on a person’s mindset. If you are negative, worried, fearful, and prone to complaining, diseases will be perceived as deadly risks; if you are positive, reflective, grateful, and willing to change yourself, then diseases will be perceived as great warnings that open the door to healing. Diseases and healing reactions are tests of our body and even more so, of our mindset. They can be turning points in a person’s life.
By understanding diseases and healing reactions, we can further grasp the significance of the self-healing power. Diseases originate in the Heart, and are cured through heartfelt changes. When discomforts in the body are viewed with negativity and fear, they are perceived as diseases; when viewed with positivity and gratitude, the same “discomforts” are referred to as healing reactions. Clinical results continually prove that the more severe the healing reactions are, the better the self-healing effects will be.
If a patient has very weak Qi and blood flow, and the healing reactions are overly severe, take some rest, drink ginger and jujube tea, and reduce the intensity of PaidaLajin, but the duration may be extended as suited. When Qi and blood are replenished, continue PaidaLajin. People with weak Qi and blood, the seriously ill, the elderly and frail need more PaidaLajin. Slap gently, but do not avoid PaidaLajin. This is because when the meridians are blocked, it is hard for the body to absorb nutrition. That is why “smooth flowing meridians are the best nourishment.”
PaidaLajin should be continued even after diseases are cured. These exercises could be adopted as life-long habits, because in our daily life, we may still have thoughts and behaviors that do harm to our health. Practicing PaidaLajin daily is just like having regular meals. It enables the body to produce in vivo the best organic nutrition and medicine. If, no matter how intense PaidaLajin is practiced, no sore, numb, painful, or swelling sensation is felt, and no other healing reactions occur, this indicates that the bones are in place and tendons are flexible, thus PaidaLajin need not be continued. However, even in yoga teachers with very flexible tendons, signs of
detoxification reactions start to appear when a Lajin session is extended beyond 30 minutes.
Healing reactions according to Traditional Chinese Medicine
(TCM)
Healing crisis: A sign of recovery from a major illness
This is an excerpt from an article by Mr. Liu
Xiyan, a researcher of Traditional Chinese
Medicine (TCM). While curing a grave, chronic
illness, a patient can often experience worse symptoms and discomforts after taking Chinese medicine; in other words, he or she will experience healing crises before full recovery.
If you are very sick or have been sick for long, and have not experienced a healing crisis after taking
much Chinese medicine, then most likely your
illness will not be cured, for you were not treated
by a genuine TCM doctor; if you are a TCM doctor and have given countless prescriptions to your patients, but none of them have felt any healing reactions, then you will most likely think that Chinese medicine indeed works slowly, for you are not a genuine TCM doctor.
The concept of healing crisis first appeared in the
ancient Chinese classic Shangshu over two
millennia ago. In the section On Life, it says,
“A grave, chronic illness will not be cured if no healing crisis is felt after medication.” Later Chinese texts explained that healing crises refer to discomforts felt during treatment.
In his book Shang Han Lun (also known as Discussion of Cold-Induced Disorders), Zhang Zhongjing, revered as Sage of Chinese Medicine, included several entries on healing crises.
For instance:
“After medication, the symptoms will be slightly
relieved, and the patient will feel dizzy and restless.
In severe cases, the nose will bleed. After nose-
bleeding, the illness will be cured.”
“After taking three prescriptions of Chinese medicine, the patient will feel dizzy and listless. Do not panic. White atractylodes rhizome and monkshood [Chinese medicinal herbs] are taking effect beneath the skin and haven’t fully driven out dampness.”
“After taking Chai Hu Tang [a Chinese medicinal soup with Radix Bupleuri as the main ingredient], the patient will tremble and then have warm sweats. After that comes recovery.”
Dr. Hu Xishu (1898–1984, a renowned TCM doctor in contemporary China) repeatedly stressed that a patient could easily experience healing crises after taking Chai Hu Tang. Specifically, the patient could shiver with chills and then sweat a lot.
Dr. Hu said, “If a patient is not weak, there won’t be healing reactions. And after these reactions, the disease will soon be cured.”
Dr. Hu cautioned doctors and patients to be aware of this healing cycle. He himself had been woken
up at midnight because of a patient’s healing
crisis. The diarrhea patient was a child, and after
drinking Dr. Hu’s prescribed medicine, the diarrhea became even worse. His family members knocked on Dr. Hu’s door at midnight, insisting that he should go and see the child. When Dr. Hu arrived there, the child’s condition was already much improved.
Then Dr. Hu said, “Give the child the medicinal soup again.”
Initially, the child’s mother was afraid to do so. But after drinking the soup, the child fully recovered the next day.
In cases of healing crises, the doctor needs to stand firm and should not acquiesce and change the prescription. Additionally, the doctor needs to explain clearly to the patient what is happening. All healing efforts will be wasted if the patient becomes frightened and goes for emergency treatment.
Healing crises are detox reactions or recovery responses during disease treatment. When the medicine is fighting off a disease, positive and negative energies in the body are engaged in the fight. Various discomforts can appear. When the positive energy is winning the battle, the negative energy will gradually recede. For patients with a grave, chronic illness, it is very likely for them to experience healing crises, which are signs of improvement leading to recovery.
Healing crises can last for several days. Some healing reactions are mild, and some are very severe. The forms and severity of healing crises vary from person to person. The sicker and weaker a patient is, and the longer the disease has been present, the more likely the patient is to experience strong healing reactions after taking the correct medicine.
In my clinical practice, I have encountered such healing crises as rashes, sweating, dizziness, drowsiness, diarrhea, dry mouth, stomach ache, stomach bloating, etc. Sometimes, soon after a patient with stomachaches takes Da Chai Hu Tang or Danggui Shaoyao San (whose main ingredients are Angelica sinensis and Chinese herbaceous peony), the stomach can hurt more. Other
patients will cough harder after taking medicine, but will feel better afterward.
Antibiotics are mostly cold in nature, according to TCM. When they enter a patient’s body along with much fluid (water also is cold in nature), it can make the patient colder. People who have had infusions know this from their personal experience. If you have fever, coughing, or inflammation of the tonsils, you will feel much better after an infusion. But after a few days’ treatment, your body can become weak and
cold. Genuine TCM doctors treat such diseases by
resuming the Yang energy in the patient’s body.
This is the only way to change the nature of the
cold-induced diseases.
I believe that the real hope for Chinese medicine does not depend on more and more drugs or prescriptions. These have never been lacking in the history of Chinese medicine. Nor does it rely on more TCM doctors and clinics. In a sense, the real sign of hope for Chinese medicine is that greater numbers of patients are experiencing healing crises after taking Chinese medicine; and more TCM doctors have patients who feel healing reactions.
My Comment:
You see, this article helps to explain why PaidaLajin is so effective. If you practice PaidaLajin diligently, you are bound to experience healing crises, i.e., intense healing reactions. Why did the late TCM master Li Ke support the promotion of PaidaLajin? Mostly because of the healing crises and self-healing effects. When Dr. Li Ke himself used medicine to treat patients, they would soon experience healing crises.
During one of my seminars in Switzerland, I met with a number of Swiss TCM doctors who used medicinal herbs to boost Yang energy in patients. They loved PaidaLajin. And I told them, “Both Paida and Lajin help boost Yang energy. The only difference is we are not using ginger, cassia twig, or monkshood (medicinal herbs hot in nature), but the ‘medicine’ produced in the
human body.”
What is the core function of PaidaLajin? To boost Yang energy.
Chapter II , Theories of Self-Healing with PaidaLajin (Click Here)
The inherent ability in the human body as well as in plants and animals to repair and heal itself is the self-healing power. Any method that mobilizes this power is a self-healing method.
The immune and self-reparatory functions are part of our self-healing power. It enables the body to produce in vivo [1] various biochemical substances according to the person’s specific needs, thus self-healing diseases. [1ㅡ happening or existing inside a living body ] These biochemical substances can be referred to as “endogenous medicine” or “organic medicine” without any side effects.
Hippocrates, Father of Western medicine, repeatedly stressed that the body contains within itself the power to re-balance and heal itself. The duty of a doctor is to try as much as possible to mobilize this power, and not to take its place. This is an ancient interpretation of self-healing.
Seven criteria of self-healing
Various self-healing methods have been practiced throughout human history. Yoga, T’ai Chi, meditation, and modern sports are regular self-healing methods.
The self-healing methods we promote follow the teachings in Huang Di Nei Jing (simplified Chinese: 黄帝内经; traditional Chinese: 黃帝內經; pinyin: huáng dì nèi jīng), also known as The Yellow Emperor’s Canon of Internal Medicine. It is an ancient Chinese medical text that has been treated as the fundamental doctrinal source for Chinese medicine for more than two
millennia. Huang Di Nei Jing advocates “nursing the Heart as the top priority, followed by external treatment and dietary therapies, and using medication as the last resort.” We believe that by following these principles, everyone is able to self-heal. Note that “heart” refers to the physical organ, whereas “Heart” refers to the intangible system in a human that feels.
Then comes the question of how to nurse the Heart. A healing method that is too complex, has a limited application scope and obvious side effects, or does not have the desired efficacy will not be widely received among the public.
Over the years, my search for traditional healing methods has taken me on many journeys. Through learning and repeated practice, not only have I found some simple and effective methods, I have also summed up seven criteria that determine whether a healing method will be readily embraced by and benefit the vast majority of people.
DIY (Do It Yourself): It should be a self-help exercise accessible to all for enhancing overall health and curing diseases. This is epoch-making, because medical services and most natural therapies rely on the work of health and medical professionals.
Effective: Its effectiveness should be beyond doubt superior than that of mainstream medical practices.
Simple: It should be simple enough to be mastered by most people in just one to a few minutes.
Safe: It should have no side effects.
Universally applicable: It should be effective in
self-healing most physical and mental disorders
as categorized in modern medicine, including
common illnesses, acute, chronic, critical, and
rare diseases.
Low-cost or free: It should be available to all despite income limitations, thus saving huge medical expenses for individuals, families, organizations, and nations.
Organic: It should not rely on any additional
medicine or medical appliances.
At first glance, it can seem an impossible task to find a healing method that fulfils all these criteria. Fortunately, not only have we found such methods, we have been teaching them across the world. They are non-medical methods selected from countless natural therapies—Paida and Lajin (slapping and stretching exercises, hereinafter
referred to as PaidaLajin when mentioned
together). They are not my inventions, but are folk secret therapies practiced in China for millennia. Their theories originated from ancient Chinese classics Huang Di Nei Jing and Tao Te Ching. In fact, different variations of slapping and stretching exercises can be found throughout the ages and around the world. You’ve clapped your hands and stretched your limbs, haven’t you?
Promoting secret therapies has historically been challenging, even more so when healing practices are legally defined and restricted. Fortunately, the Internet gives thousands of people access to these therapies. Anyone can now practice and test the effect of PaidaLajin.
What is PaidaLajin?
Paida means to use hands and/or tools to repeatedly slap parts of the entire body at a tolerable intensity in order to enable the smooth energy flow in meridians (energy channels in the
body that are connected to their respective
organs). You can do it on your own, with, or for
others.
Paida is also a natural diagnostic method. In ancient times, it was called Diao Shang (revealing old injuries) because slapping revealed and healed injuries and diseases in the body. When there is no health problem, nothing will be revealed.
Lajin means to stretch the limbs and joints of the body with very simple methods, to make the bones in place and tendons flexible, and to enable smooth energy flow in meridians. The most effective and most often used method is Lajin in a reclining posture, i.e., stretching on a specially made Lajin bench with one leg raised (see Chapter III, Section 3 Seven Common Lajin Postures and Their Effects).
Paida and Lajin are much simpler than the popular yoga and T’ai Chi. Practicing PaidaLajin boosts Qi (vital life energy) and blood flow, and enhances the self-healing power. With better Qi and blood flow, we may feel “discomforts” at the blockages
(toxins and wastes that induce diseases and
various symptoms) in the meridians, including pain, soreness, numbness, and swelling sensation. Diseases are self-healed during the process of overcoming such “discomforts.” Diagnostic, treatment, disease prevention, and anti-aging
effects are achieved—blockages in the meridians
are unblocked, the flow of Qi and blood is
boosted, immunity is enhanced, diseases are
self-healed, and life expectancy is increased.
Paida and Lajin are not medical treatments as defined in modern medicine; they are health maintenance and self-healing methods that can be practiced by everyone.
PaidaLajin does not threaten to replace mainstream medicine or other natural therapies. It can, however, complement other therapies.
PaidaLajin’s efficacy in healing pains, diabetes,
hypertension, heart disease, and Parkinson’s
disease are backed by the results of exams conducted by medical institutions in accordance with medical standards. The efficacies of PaidaLajin in healing other diseases are based on testimonials from thousands and millions of people who practice it. Medical institutions can also verify these.
The advantages of PaidaLajin are that everyone
can practice it, it is efficacious, and it can be
readily shared with others. Ironically, Paida
Lajin’s amazing healing effects can also be a
drawback. It can seem too good to be true. We
are used to the complexity of things, and so the
results of the simplest PaidaLajin contradict
mainstream education. Self-healing with Paida
Lajin involves a change of mind and way of life,
which is a great challenge for most people.
All those who support self-healing with PaidaLajin have one thing in common: They came to their conclusions after personal practice. The efficacies and cost-effectiveness of patients healing diseases on their own or for each other can be far better than those of medical professionals.
The truest way is the simplest. Anyone can easily
access it. Practice PaidaLajin yourself, and you
will know it.
Main concepts of self-healing with PaidaLajin
Ignore the disease name
This is the primary concept we use to interpret PaidaLajin, and it is also one of the secrets to the success of self-healing we advocate. A person with an understanding of this concept will not bluntly ask questions like “Where should I slap to heal ××× disease?” Instead, they will do PaidaLajin systematically, and not just focus on slapping a certain part of the body or healing a particular disease.
Regardless of what disease a person has, ignoring its name is the first step. A disease name is just the tip of an iceberg; there are likely other, more severe underlying diseases that doctors and patients themselves are unaware of. Disease names are only labels affixed in modern medicine using existing measures based on known pathological indicators and statistics, yet these labels do not necessarily identify the actual diseases. A set of symptoms, or a disease with a particular name, may have different contributing causes. Dispensing prescriptions based solely on a
disease name with no regard to its causes may
worsen the condition.
Disease names can be very misleading. Here, I will use two very common ones—diabetes and hypertension—to exemplify my point.
Diabetes is misleading due to the focus on blood glucose levels. Your doctor tells you that you are diabetic and should take hypoglycemic drugs, and if your blood sugar is not under control, it can easily lead to heart problems, or even glaucoma (an eye disease) in severe cases. This is the kind of knowledge currently taught in medical schools.
However, it has turned the causality upside down.
By practicing PaidaLajin, we have learned that in all diabetics, Sha (a colorful toxic waste that comes out during Paida, see also CHAPTER III, Section II Sha and Self-healing) will appear when the inner elbows are slapped (the Heart and Pericardium meridians run along the inner elbows). This signals that a person already has heart problems they are unaware of. When these people practice Lajin in a reclining posture, they will feel pain at the root of the thighs and the back of the knees, which indicates that the Liver, Spleen, Kidney, and Urinary Bladder meridians are all blocked, i.e., the corresponding organs all have problems. Problems with these organs are the real causes of diabetes.
Further investigation reveals that all diabetics suffer from emotional disorders to varying degrees, such as tension, anxiety, and depression. Such emotional turmoil leads to endocrine disorders. Most teenage students are stressed out before sitting for a major exam, thus suffering from endocrine disorders and exhibiting abnormal blood glucose levels.
In short, diabetes is caused by endocrine disorders, which are related to the Heart, i.e., a condition due to emotional problems. When obsessed about money, power, social status, or children, people become tense and anxious, which can lead some people to eat and drink too much. This can cause the endocrine system to malfunction.
If hypoglycemic drugs are taken without taking into account these causes, further damage to the functions of the heart, liver, kidneys, spleen, and pancreas can occur.
According to Chinese medicine, the Liver meridian opens into the eyes. As long as the liver is functioning normally, the eyes will be healthy as well. Taking drugs or injecting insulin will damage the liver and lead to eye problems such as glaucoma and retinal detachment. Many diabetics take medicine as prescribed and end up with eye and internal organ problems. When the condition worsens, their feet will ulcerate and they can end up being amputated.
To cure diabetes, we must not be misled by its name, but should instead identify the real causes. Diabetics should first be happy and self-assured, and learn to let go; and practice PaidaLajin to unblock the Heart, Liver, Spleen, Kidney and Urinary Bladder meridians. When the internal organs are functioning well, the blood glucose level will return to normal.
Another example is hypertension. To doctors and patients of hypertension, it is natural that anti-hypertensive drugs be taken to control blood pressure. The relationship between blood pressure and the heart, liver, spleen, kidney and other organs are simply ignored. As a result, the drugs taken often damage the body’s internal organs.
Almost all anti-hypertensive drugs are diuretics
that can weaken the functions of the kidneys.
This will lead to lower libido, a decline of sexual
function, prostate disorders, and such urinary disorders as frequent and involuntary urination, etc. Secondly, weakened kidney function can lead to insomnia, tinnitus, hearing loss, hair loss, bone loss, Alzheimer’s disease, and a shortened lifespan. In addition, Western medicine is acidic, and the acidity can destroy the tissues of blood vessel walls, causing blood vessel ruptures that could lead to stroke and heart disease.
The cause and effects mentioned above are hard to grasp with only a knowledge of Western medicine; however, it is clearly stated in Chinese medical classic Huang Di Nei Jing that “the Kidney governs the bones; its health is shown in the hair; it opens into the ears; and it controls memory, the urinary and excretory functions, and governs natural lifespan.” Blood pressure will return to normal as long as the Heart, Liver, Spleen and Kidney meridians are cleared of blockages.
In effect, there is no definitive standard for “normal” blood pressure; it relates to a person’s age, physique, and many other factors. It changes from day to day, and fluctuates with the person’s mood and activities. Taking anti-hypertensive drugs inevitably induces more disorders, such as eye, liver, kidney, and stomach problems, and even more drugs will be needed to treat these new diseases. Many hypertensive patients die after years of medication, yet it is found that their deaths are not caused by high blood pressure. In this sense, the name “hypertension” is quite misleading.
We advocate “ignoring the disease name” in order to remind oneself that there are many root causes behind one particularly labeled disease. The names “diabetes” and “hypertension” imply that there is an underlying group of other diseases, and this phenomenon is referred to as “Complex Diseases.” All diseases are complex diseases, i.e., a complex of many diseases.
A disease indicates the blockage of many meridians, and its causes are also varied. We should be cautious not to leave out any blocked meridian, or be misled by a particular indicator or disease name; instead, we should strive for holistic health enhancement. We should try to unblock all blocked meridians and not just one of them.In fact, the only real healing is holistic healing; targeting a particular disease or a part of the body and ignoring the whole always invites endless trouble. PaidaLajin should be practiced on all parts of the body in a “carpet bombing” manner so as to activate our internal “anti-virus mechanism,” i.e., the self-healing power, to clear away all diseases in the body.
Complex diseases
People seldom have only one illness; there are always a greater number of health risks and unknown diseases behind known ones. Moreover, these diseases are interrelated, and the symptoms are causes and effects of each other. All known and unknown diseases and symptoms put together are called “complex diseases.”
In effect, all diseases are complex. Even such common ailments as cold, fever, and coughing are complex diseases. They relate to the immune system, which is in turn related to the heart, lungs, liver, spleen, and kidneys. Chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, liver and kidney disorders, cancer, etc., are without doubt complex diseases, i.e., they are manifestations of the malfunctioning of all internal organs.
Since diseases are invariably complex, we should not focus merely on treating known diseases and symptoms, but should turn our attention to the underlying causes. This explains why we keep reminding people to “ignore the disease name.” We should holistically empower our self-healing mechanism to do its job, because it is the self-healing power, not anything else, that heals all known and unknown diseases. The effect of holistic healing goes beyond that of compartmentalized treatments. All cells, organs, and systems in our body form an integral whole, and they thrive or wither together.
No therapy or drug in the world is a panacea for all known and unknown diseases. There are many natural, holistic therapies out there. And we have specially chosen Paida and Lajin to promote worldwide. It is not only because they are simple to practice and produce quick, amazing effects, but also because they do not target a specific disease or symptom, but activate our innate self-healing power, which diagnoses and treats all diseases in the body. That is to say, from diagnosis to treatment, Paida and Lajin function
holistically. This explains why Paida and Lajin are so effective in healing complex, chronic diseases.
Complex diseases may appear complicated, but the fundamental cause is meridian blockage. Unblocking the blockages heals. And the beauty of Paida and Lajin is that they can rapidly and effectively unblock the blockages in the meridian system (a network of energy channels).
People may find it hard to accurately locate meridians and acupoints (also called “acupuncture points,” i.e., important points along meridians stimulated for disease prevention, diagnosis, and treatment), much more so if they need to utilize complicated knowledge, drugs, equipment, and procedures—that is why many tend to give up on self-healing. For ordinary people without specialized training in medicine, PaidaLajin is the best basic healing practice, and it can be an advanced therapy that they can dig deeper into and discover its full potential.
Efficacy is what really matters. Paida and Lajin may appear simple, yet they can be more effective in healing complex diseases than mainstream medical practices. Many diseases that doctors cannot cure are self-healed by ordinary people using these two unbelievably simple methods. Treating complex diseases with simple methods is as people always put it, “The truest way is the simplest.” This is indeed an accurate and concrete interpretation of the “Way (Tao).”
And, by self-healing complex diseases, people will gain fresh insights into life and its health. Their
quality of life will be enhanced thanks to their
improved health condition. And they will move
from physical healing to spiritual healing, and
from health management to life management.
“Carpet bombing” and the “anti-virus mechanism”
Originally a military term, “carpet bombing”
refers to the thorough bombing of each and every
inch of a target. Practicing PaidaLajin in a “carpet bombing” manner—slapping the entire body from head to toe, and doing Lajin in a reclining posture, gradually stretching each leg up to 30 minutes—clears the body’s 14 main meridians from all directions. This eliminates all known and unknown diseases holistically, instead of treating each of them according to divisions of medicine.
PaidaLajin helps to both diagnose and heal
diseases. In Paida, Sha, swelling, and pain are
positive reactions, indicating that meridians
running along the slapped areas are blocked, and
that detoxification is in process. Those afraid of
the Sha, swelling, and pain of Paida mistake the
reward for punishment; in Lajin, the pain felt
during stretching indicates contraction of tendons
and ligaments, and blockages in meridians.
Continued stretching will restore the flexibility
of tendons and ligaments, unblock the blocked
meridians, and heal diseases.
Our body has an innate, invisible anti-virus
mechanism, akin to a computer’s anti-virus software. The meridian system in Chinese medicine, and the various systems in Western medicine, such as the immune, nervous, respiratory, and circulatory systems, are all parts of the body’s anti-virus mechanism.
The invisible can be more crucial than the visible. For instance, the sun and the moon are visible, but the orbits they travel and the forces that drive them are invisible. Chinese medicine believes that Qi propels blood flow. Blood is visible, whereas Qi, the driving force behind blood flow, is invisible to the naked eye. Now, modern scientific devices have detected the “invisible” Qi and meridians in the human body.
The wisdom, sensitivity, and sophistication of man’s self-healing power go beyond our knowledge and imagination. Even the best life scientists and medical professionals are still just scratching the surface of this power. It runs in the body’s meridians in the form of invisible Qi. Once this anti-virus mechanism is activated through PaidaLajin, it will start to scan the entire body.
When Qi finds a blockage or a problem area, it
will lock-in the target and remedy it. Pains and
diseases are thus relieved and self-healed. This
process is as if launching missiles in “precision
bombing,” or Precise Point Positioning using
GPS.
The number of meridians cleared through “carpet bombing” PaidaLajin is not one but many; the effect is not only localized but in all known and unknown systems of the body. The activated Qi and blood flow will act as the anti-virus software. Not only does it detect the “viruses,” it stimulates the body to produce antibodies against them. Practicing PaidaLajin is like an all-round mobilization of software and hardware systems in the body. This is why it is described as “carpet bombing” and “complete virus removal.”
PaidaLajin dredges meridians. Once blockages are removed, Qi and blood will flow normally. Moreover, by practicing PaidaLajin, Yang energy rises and Yin energy falls. Here, Yang (simplified Chinese: 阳; traditional Chinese: 陽; pinyin: yáng) is the same as the character in the Chinese words for the sun—Tai Yang (simplified Chinese: 太阳; traditional Chinese: 太陽; pinyin: tài yang). It is the original energy in the universe; it is the Zheng-Qi described in Huang Di Nei Jing; and it is the
first breath of air that was blown into man
according to Genesis 2:7, the Old Testament of
the Bible, " Then the LORD God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.". It plays a vital role in a person’s health. According to Huang Di Nei Jing, the way to maintain good health is to “keep Zheng-Qi (Yang energy, positive energy) inside, and evils shall not enter.” It sums up the true essence of healing in Chinese medicine.
From the perspective of Western medicine, the self-inflicted, minimal “damage” produced by PaidaLajin stimulates the body’s immune system to secrete stem cells, insulin, enkephalin, adrenaline, and other hormones needed to fight different diseases.
The Urinary Bladder meridian normally hurts the most when stretching on a Lajin bench. An important acupoint is located behind each knee. It gets blocked quite easily and it hurts a lot when stimulated. The Urinary Bladder meridian runs from head to toe, and is the largest detoxification channel in our body. Dredging this meridian cures numerous diseases, such as lower back and leg pains, diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, liver problems, kidney disorders, prostate disorders, gynecological disorders, cancer, and so on. This is because the Urinary Bladder meridian links the head, neck, back, waist, and legs. It is connected to all internal organs hanging inside the torso along the spine, and forms a web of meridians along with the Spleen, Liver and Kidney meridians and other main meridians.
When stretching on a Lajin bench, some people can neither straighten the raised leg, nor can they make the lowered leg touch the ground. They feel excruciating pain while stretching. This indicates problems with the Urinary Bladder, Liver, Spleen, and Kidney meridians, and with all internal organs. There are three Yin meridians (Liver, Spleen, and Kidney meridians) along the inner side of each leg. Once these three meridians are cleared of blockages, diabetes, hypertension, prostate, and gynecological disorders will all be cured.
Some people like to slap along the Gall Bladder meridian on the outer side of each leg. It is equally important to slap the inner side. Slapping the inner side of the legs and doing Lajin in a reclining posture delivers the most visible benefits for elderly men who suffer from prostate disorders, whose main symptoms are urgent, frequent, and incomplete urination. Over 90% of elderly men have prostate problems. For a woman, slapping the inner side of the legs
and doing Lajin in a reclining posture helps relieve almost all gynecological disorders.
A “carpet bombing” approach to Paida will result
in a more thorough detoxification. For instance,
slapping all around the limbs (focusing on one
region until Sha appears, and continuing Paida until Sha disappears) will be even better. Slapping thoroughly from head to toe, including the head, neck, face, eyes, ears, nose, mouth, breasts, armpits, belly, groin areas, buttocks, the back, and the entire spine brings about remarkable healing effects.
Because the power of self-healing works like anti-
virus software, it can detect, diagnose, and heal
diseases. Why is this “software” so powerful?
Because it is not man-made—it is designed and
embedded in us by the universe.
Pain and “pain medicine”
Joy without pain is not true happiness. In Chinese, the characters “痛 (pain)” and “快 (joy)” are put
together to form a phrase “痛快 (pain and joy).”
Indeed, pain and joy are two sides of the same
coin. There is some pain during PaidaLajin. And
the pain can be managed. If you are afraid of
pain, the solution is simple: just reduce the
intensity of PaidaLajin.
Nobody likes pain, but it is a superb medicine. Like illness, it is a gift to us. The “pain” here does not refer to the kind of pain caused in fights or accidents, but the hurting sensation you feel when you voluntarily practice PaidaLajin. Of the various healing reactions (see the section Healing reactions), pain is the most commonly experienced. Some people may avoid PaidaLajin because of the pain. Well, it is precisely the reason why they should practice it. The logic of self-healing with PaidaLajin goes like this: the more pain you feel during PaidaLajin, the more necessary it is for you to practice it, for the pain is both diagnosis and treatment; when you feel no pain at all during PaidaLajin, it indicates that you have no health problem, hence there is no need to practice it.
The reasons are as follows:
(1) Pain is a health alarm and precise diagnosis.
Pain is a very accurate diagnostic method. According to Chinese medicine, “No blockage, no pain.” Where there is pain, there is a health problem. The more pain is felt during PaidaLajin, the more severe the problem is. Where there is pain along a meridian, it indicates problems with
the corresponding organ. For instance, when you
have a heart disease and problems with the
intangible “Heart” (anxiety, depression, etc.),
the Heart and Pericardium meridians must be
blocked. Slapping along these meridians, for
instance, on the inner elbows, will give you pain,
and there will be Sha.
PaidaLajin does not induce pain; rather, it is already lurking in the body in the form of diseases and meridian blockages. Imagine that pain is a hidden bomb—it is already there and could explode at any moment. To avoid the explosion, we practice PaidaLajin to bring the hidden bombs (pains and diseases) to the surface and gradually clear them away. People with smooth flowing meridians do not face the threat of such hidden bombs. When they practice PaidaLajin, they feel little or no pain.
In other words, it is absurd to assume that you have no pain or can avoid pain by not practicing PaidaLajin. As long as you have a health problem, the pain of it continues to exist just like a time bomb and will most likely worsen, exploding when you least expect it. For instance, a sudden heart attack, a stroke, and cancers are eventual outbreaks of developing pains and diseases.
The sooner you practice PaidaLajin, the earlier
you sound the health alarm, diagnose, and self-
heal pains and diseases. If you avoid PaidaLajin
or even cover up pain with anaesthetics, the
situation becomes more dangerous because you
have removed the health alarm. Very ill patients
are more afraid of pain than the well person. This
is because they have more severe meridian
blockages. Hence, the intensity of pain reflects
the severity of a disease.
(2) During PaidaLajin, the process of experiencing pain is the process of self-healing.
According to Chinese medicine, during PaidaLajin
the process of experiencing pain is the process of
the Yang energy rising, i.e., the process of
boosting self-healing power and producing
“medicine” in vivo. Persistent pain indicates
continuous production of the “medicine.”
Pain directly stimulates and opens up the Heart, triggers willpower, and mobilizes Yang energy. The Heart, “King” of internal organs, governs the spirit. Although pain can be felt all over the body, it is the Heart that “feels the pain” first. It then mobilizes the body’s resources to deal with the “crisis.” Qi and blood will flow most rapidly to the problem areas and help heal the diseases.
According to Western medicine, pain stimulates the endocrine system to secrete bio-chemical substances that the body needs, i.e., “endogenous medicine.” These include but are not limited to various hormones and stem cells. Without pain, our self-healing power will not be activated, and the “endogenous medicine” will not be produced. (Please refer to Chapter II,
Theories of Self-Healing with PaidaLajin.)
Pain activates self-healing power, and is a catalyst that boosts it. It is also the process of producing “endogenous medicine.” It may even be an integral part of the “medicine” itself, i.e., “pain medicine.”
We are often are educated to regard pain as something negative and even evil, and will try our best to avoid pain. Seen from another perspective, “pain” and “illness” are good—they are warnings to us, and point to the direction and methods of healing.
“痛 (pain)” and “快 (joy)” are a pair and interchangeable. Without pain, the self-healing power will not be activated, and the joy of healing will not be experienced.
(3) “Pain medicine” can accurately pinpoint the location of diseases and help heal them.
Pain reveals the targets very clearly, i.e., at the areas where pain is felt. “Pain medicine” is an accurate medicine. Persistent pain means continuous treatment with “pain medicine.”
Considering that “pain medicine” is an
“endogenous medicine” manifested as self-
healing power, when compared with medication
it is more accurate, symptomatic and eco-
friendly. People feel pain in different parts of the
body, and the intensity of pain differs, thus the
target and dosage of the “endogenous medicine”
differ accordingly.
In Chinese medicine, self-healing power is referred to as Yang energy; in Western medicine, it is referred to as insulin, endorphin, adrenaline, enkephalin, stem cells, immunity, and self-repair ability, among other terms. With the advancement of medical science, new terms will be continually added to the list.
(4) The intensity of “pain” is proportionate to the efficacy of this “medicine,” i.e., the more it hurts, the better the self-healing efficacy will be.
During PaidaLajin, when more pain is felt, Yang energy rises faster, and there will be faster hormonal changes, i.e., the “endogenous medicine” is produced faster. When a person feels pain, the entire body instantly warms up and starts to sweat. When the most pain is felt, Yang energy is boosted more quickly than by other methods, hence the best efficacy is gained.
The pain of PaidaLajin is bearable, and it can be self-regulated according to the person’s health condition and tolerance. In case the pain becomes almost unbearable, the intensity of PaidaLajin can be reduced and there will be less pain.
It is impossible to compare the pain of PaidaLajin felt by different people, for each person’s health condition and severity of meridian blockages are different, thus the intensity of pain felt is different. For instance, when slapping the same part of body on different people, patients who are more ill will tend to feel greater pain.
According to Western medicine, detoxification
and healing happen when the self-healing
mechanism decomposes and excretes unwanted
bio-chemical substances, and produces what the
body needs.
According to Chinese medicine, the Qi of diseases
is Yin energy; when it accumulates, more diseases
will break out and life is shortened; by contrast,
when Yang energy is abundant, fewer diseases
will strike and life is prolonged.
(5) “Pain” is also a method of meditation and enhancing attention.
During meditation, you may find it hard to concentrate—your Heart is not at peace and your mind is filled with many thoughts. When you feel pain during PaidaLajin, your mind is more focused than ever; it is impossible at that moment to think about things that normally occupy your mind. Your attention will be focused on the parts that hurt most. The ability to endure pain fluctuates with changing states of mind, and it will be enhanced through continued PaidaLajin. Thus the pain
becomes a bridge linking body, mind, and soul,
which are continually interacting when you are feeling pain, and are gradually becoming one. “Pain” makes you focused, and enables you to experience the state of the body, mind, and soul becoming one, and of both giving and receiving.
(6) “Pain medicine” is essentially “a medicine for the Heart”; it is the result of interaction between the body and mind.
Pain is a very strong stimulus for the Heart, forcing it to adapt or change. While pain is felt during PaidaLajin, diseases are revealed as visible Sha and swelling; past memories and negative feelings surface and are released. As a result, PaidaLajin is great for healing depression and other psychological disorders.
Once you change your mindset and start to view the pain of PaidaLajin as a positive experience, you can instantly endure greater pain. Then, the “pain” will no longer be an enemy, but rather a friend and a teacher. However, if you are having negative feelings about the “pain,” your pain tolerance will be weakened, and the efficacy of “pain medicine” will be discounted.
(7) Your pain tolerance will be enhanced as you practice PaidaLajin longer and with greater intensity, i.e., your resistance to “pain medicine” will be greater. When you have better resistance to the “pain medicine” of PaidaLajin, it indicates that your diseases are relieved and eventually cured; when a patient’s resistance to externally produced medicine gets stronger, it implies that the medicine has become ineffective, or has even caused side effects.
“Pain” is internal and intangible; as such, “pain medicine” is safer and more organic than medication. When it exceeds your endurance, you will instinctively stop taking the “pain medicine,” i.e., reduce the intensity and shorten the duration of PaidaLajin. The pain of PaidaLajin can be managed.
Beginners, the elderly, and the seriously ill need not start PaidaLajin with high intensity. They should begin slowly, and not become anxious to gain a rapid turnaround in their health in one huge effort.
(8) “Pain medicine” is also good nourishment.
“Smooth flowing meridians are the best nourishment.” The process of feeling the pain of PaidaLajin is the process of unblocking meridian blockages. Thus, “pain medicine” is good nourishment.
(9) The pain of PaidaLajin will be less when the body is warmed up. The body’s Qi and blood will
flow faster after bathing in a hot spring, a foot-
bath, a warm-water shower, or a sauna. If you
practice PaidaLajin then, the pain will be less,
and Sha will appear and disappear faster.
Healing reactions
Healing reactions (also known as “detox reactions,” “flare reactions,” or “healing crises”) are the most unique and natural reactions of self-healing with PaidaLajin. And they inevitably occur during the process of self-healing. Through healing reactions, pains and diseases surface and are healed, rather than suppressed and covered up. It is a dialogue of body, mind, and soul, not a life-or-death war.
Once PaidaLajin activates the self-healing power within us, this power will start to scan the entire body and dredge wherever it is blocked. Various reactions occur during this process: for instance, hot, cold, sore, numb, itchy, painful, or swelling sensations, rashes, sweating, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, dry mouth, stomach bloating, stomach ache, dizziness, and drowsiness. Black or purple Sha, red swellings, and greenish bruises (different forms of Sha) may appear at the slapped areas.
These are healing reactions, or healing crises intertwined with danger and opportunity. They are basically the same as the “healing crises” of medication, acupressure, acupuncture, moxibustion, skin-scraping, cupping therapy, Qi Gong, meditation, and other natural therapies. These are great signs of healing—they are normal physiological reactions when the boosted Yang energy is fighting with Yin energy that lurks in the body in various forms, blocking meridians and inducing illnesses. The blockages are “problem areas.” When the boosted Yang energy tries to go through the blockages, there is greater pressure at these areas. The body then manifests various “discomforting” symptoms similar to those you feel when sick. Healing reactions can end on the same day of their emergence; they may also last for days or even weeks, depending on each individual’s physique and health condition. Many people are unaware that healing reactions are great signs of recovery and can become frightened by the sudden reward. Unfortunately, they may stop PaidaLajin practice entirely.
When healing reactions occur, various excretions may be expelled from the body, e.g., sweat, tears, rashes, vomit, burps, wind, urine, stool, nasal discharge, and so on. These are all good signs of detoxification in process. When Wang Fengyi (1864–1937, a revered Chinese healer who cured patients for free) told patients that the root causes of their diseases were created by wrong thoughts and behaviors, the gravely ill ones often reacted with crying and vomiting. Some people vomited much and for a long time, even for days on end. It sounds frightening, but the result of vomiting was gradual recovery.
In short, healing reactions may appear unpleasant, but they are actually signs of improvement. They are gifts from nature, just like darkness before dawn and pain before birthing labor.
(1) Healing reactions function as an accurate self-diagnosis.
The philosophy of self-healing with PaidaLajin is contrary to that of mainstream medicine: Healing reactions enable the body’s own energy to reveal and heal health problems; medication and surgery tend to cover up and suppress them.
Various “discomforting” symptoms show us which parts of the body are sick. They include agonies we are suffering from, illnesses and injuries from the past, and also lurking ones that are yet to break out. Paida was once called Diao Shang (revealing diseases and injuries). The first step of self-healing is to dig up and manifest known and unknown illnesses, particularly hidden symptoms, and allow them to go away or change their nature.
Self-healing with PaidaLajin puts into practice the philosophy of “action through inaction” advocated in the Chinese ancient classic Tao Te Ching. It follows the natural law, i.e., the Tao, the Way of how the universe, nature, and matter work. Various health problems will surface, through which the real causes are detected. Normally, these causes, i.e., factors contributing to illnesses, or the environment that they develop, are manifested as meridian blockages. PaidaLajin works to unblock the blocked meridians, remove the causes, and thoroughly cure diseases.
Mainstream medicine, by contrast, works to cover
up and suppress symptoms using antibiotics to kill bacteria, painkillers to “kill” the pain, sleeping pills for insomnia, anti-hypertensive drugs to lower blood pressure, hypoglycemic drugs to control blood sugar, chemotherapy to kill cancer cells, or surgery to remove tumors. In short, the attention is focused on diseases and symptoms (the result), and not on their causes.
“Action through inaction” is not to do nothing, but to follow the Tao and only do the simple, necessary things. It is enough to activate the self-healing power using the simplest methods, and then allow it to prevent, diagnose, and cure diseases naturally, without our intervention. We may not realize it, but some diseases believed to be thoroughly cured are actually not—they are lying deep inside the body. Paida reveals and heals past injuries and diseases. Some people call it Da Gui (beating the demons), because it drives evil energy and diseases out of the body. In cases where diseases go undetected or are wrongly diagnosed, PaidaLajin can immediately complete diagnosis. Yang energy activated through the practice collides with Yin energy (hidden diseases), resulting in various “discomforting” symptoms, such as healing reactions. We can thus accurately diagnose known and unknown diseases.
(2) Healing reactions occur when the body’s self-healing power is doing its duty of self-protection and self-healing.
During PaidaLajin, some people may directly
improve their health condition. But it is more likely that a person needs to go through some healing reactions before improvement is gained; in other words, the symptoms will surface, and sometimes even worsen, before they are fixed. It is like playing a cat-and-mouse game. In addition
to sore, numb, itchy, painful, and swelling
sensations, there may also be tears, rashes, red spots, dizziness, headaches, insomnia, coughing, belching, nausea, vomiting, thick phlegm, runny nose, watery or bloody blisters, flatulence, or smelly urine and stool. All these are signs of the body expelling toxic waste. These toxins come from years of accumulated negative feelings, air, food and water pollution, cigarettes, medication, injections, and more. During PaidaLajin, the smell of drugs and cigarettes can come out through skin pores and other bodily orifices, even decades after their intake. If a person’s Kidney and Urinary Bladder meridians are blocked, after Paida the urine will turn red, brown, or black. This is a sign that Paida is taking effect.
More severe healing reactions include cramps all over the body or even fainting, similar to fainting during acupuncture treatment. Past illnesses may surface and worsen during PaidaLajin, for instance, cardiovascular patients may feel more discomfort in the heart; hypertensive patients may have higher blood pressure; diabetics may have higher blood glucose levels; patients with gastric problems may experience more stomach discomforts; patients with various pains may feel greater pain. These healing crises are in effect rare blessings, which indicate that the self-healing power is regulating the body and detoxifying, and that the positive and negative energies are engaged in a fight.
According to Chinese medicine, when a person
experiences healing reactions, Yang energy is
rising, and Yin energy is falling. When Yin and
Yang energies are balanced, pains and diseases
are self-healed. According to Western medicine,
during this process, the body is producing useful
hormones and stem cells, and discharging
harmful hormones, and malfunctioning and dead
cells.
Do not assume that these intense reactions are bad; and do not consider these rewards as punishments. The best thing to do at this point is to continue PaidaLajin.
(3) Illnesses and healing reactions are good warnings to us.
Diseases and healing reactions are natural and positive warnings, telling us that our agonies are caused by improper thoughts and behaviors. These need to be changed, otherwise the condition will worsen. Both diseases and healing reactions are instinctive reactions of the body’s self-healing power to maintain our well-being. The only difference is that diseases are manifestations of hidden health problems through the natural
functioning of self-healing power; healing
reactions occur when a person enhances self-
healing power to enable it to uncover and resolve
health problems.
Illnesses and healing reactions are manifested as
various “discomforts,” and those who are
unaware of their nature may be afraid of, worried
about, or even hate or curse them. In fact,
whatever is manifested in us is good, including
diseases. For instance, pain is a warning to us.
Wherever there is pain, there is a health problem.
Taking painkillers to “kill” the pain only covers
up the problem, it does not root out the real
causes, and can lead to endless problems; fever is the body’s
instinctive reaction to expel the cold. Forcing down a fever by taking medicine may temporarily suppress the symptoms, but seeds of future diseases are planted; high blood pressure indicates meridian blockages and high blood viscosity that hinder Qi and blood circulation, in response to which the heart instinctively increases the pressure to enable the blood to go through the blockages. If the root causes of diseases are not pinpointed for targeted treatment, and drugs are blindly taken instead to suppress symptoms, not only will the diseases not be cured, more problems will arise later on. People under prolonged medication are aware of this from their own experience.
The nature of healing reactions needs to be understood in order for the nature of diseases to be understood. Now that we know diseases and healing reactions are signs of our self-healing instinct to love, protect, and heal the body, we should be grateful for them, and not disregard or misinterpret the messages. By experiencing healing reactions, we have the opportunity to discover the root causes of our diseases (meridian blockages and further, deeper problems with the “Heart,” (negative thoughts and behaviors) and correct them.
(4) Healing reactions are tests of a person’s mindset.
Both diseases and healing reactions are recovery responses. Whether they are regarded as something good or bad depends on a person’s mindset. If you are negative, worried, fearful, and prone to complaining, diseases will be perceived as deadly risks; if you are positive, reflective, grateful, and willing to change yourself, then diseases will be perceived as great warnings that open the door to healing. Diseases and healing reactions are tests of our body and even more so, of our mindset. They can be turning points in a person’s life.
By understanding diseases and healing reactions, we can further grasp the significance of the self-healing power. Diseases originate in the Heart, and are cured through heartfelt changes. When discomforts in the body are viewed with negativity and fear, they are perceived as diseases; when viewed with positivity and gratitude, the same “discomforts” are referred to as healing reactions. Clinical results continually prove that the more severe the healing reactions are, the better the self-healing effects will be.
If a patient has very weak Qi and blood flow, and the healing reactions are overly severe, take some rest, drink ginger and jujube tea, and reduce the intensity of PaidaLajin, but the duration may be extended as suited. When Qi and blood are replenished, continue PaidaLajin. People with weak Qi and blood, the seriously ill, the elderly and frail need more PaidaLajin. Slap gently, but do not avoid PaidaLajin. This is because when the meridians are blocked, it is hard for the body to absorb nutrition. That is why “smooth flowing meridians are the best nourishment.”
PaidaLajin should be continued even after diseases are cured. These exercises could be adopted as life-long habits, because in our daily life, we may still have thoughts and behaviors that do harm to our health. Practicing PaidaLajin daily is just like having regular meals. It enables the body to produce in vivo the best organic nutrition and medicine. If, no matter how intense PaidaLajin is practiced, no sore, numb, painful, or swelling sensation is felt, and no other healing reactions occur, this indicates that the bones are in place and tendons are flexible, thus PaidaLajin need not be continued. However, even in yoga teachers with very flexible tendons, signs of
detoxification reactions start to appear when a Lajin session is extended beyond 30 minutes.
Healing reactions according to Traditional Chinese Medicine
(TCM)
Healing crisis: A sign of recovery from a major illness
This is an excerpt from an article by Mr. Liu
Xiyan, a researcher of Traditional Chinese
Medicine (TCM). While curing a grave, chronic
illness, a patient can often experience worse symptoms and discomforts after taking Chinese medicine; in other words, he or she will experience healing crises before full recovery.
If you are very sick or have been sick for long, and have not experienced a healing crisis after taking
much Chinese medicine, then most likely your
illness will not be cured, for you were not treated
by a genuine TCM doctor; if you are a TCM doctor and have given countless prescriptions to your patients, but none of them have felt any healing reactions, then you will most likely think that Chinese medicine indeed works slowly, for you are not a genuine TCM doctor.
The concept of healing crisis first appeared in the
ancient Chinese classic Shangshu over two
millennia ago. In the section On Life, it says,
“A grave, chronic illness will not be cured if no healing crisis is felt after medication.” Later Chinese texts explained that healing crises refer to discomforts felt during treatment.
In his book Shang Han Lun (also known as Discussion of Cold-Induced Disorders), Zhang Zhongjing, revered as Sage of Chinese Medicine, included several entries on healing crises.
For instance:
“After medication, the symptoms will be slightly
relieved, and the patient will feel dizzy and restless.
In severe cases, the nose will bleed. After nose-
bleeding, the illness will be cured.”
“After taking three prescriptions of Chinese medicine, the patient will feel dizzy and listless. Do not panic. White atractylodes rhizome and monkshood [Chinese medicinal herbs] are taking effect beneath the skin and haven’t fully driven out dampness.”
“After taking Chai Hu Tang [a Chinese medicinal soup with Radix Bupleuri as the main ingredient], the patient will tremble and then have warm sweats. After that comes recovery.”
Dr. Hu Xishu (1898–1984, a renowned TCM doctor in contemporary China) repeatedly stressed that a patient could easily experience healing crises after taking Chai Hu Tang. Specifically, the patient could shiver with chills and then sweat a lot.
Dr. Hu said, “If a patient is not weak, there won’t be healing reactions. And after these reactions, the disease will soon be cured.”
Dr. Hu cautioned doctors and patients to be aware of this healing cycle. He himself had been woken
up at midnight because of a patient’s healing
crisis. The diarrhea patient was a child, and after
drinking Dr. Hu’s prescribed medicine, the diarrhea became even worse. His family members knocked on Dr. Hu’s door at midnight, insisting that he should go and see the child. When Dr. Hu arrived there, the child’s condition was already much improved.
Then Dr. Hu said, “Give the child the medicinal soup again.”
Initially, the child’s mother was afraid to do so. But after drinking the soup, the child fully recovered the next day.
In cases of healing crises, the doctor needs to stand firm and should not acquiesce and change the prescription. Additionally, the doctor needs to explain clearly to the patient what is happening. All healing efforts will be wasted if the patient becomes frightened and goes for emergency treatment.
Healing crises are detox reactions or recovery responses during disease treatment. When the medicine is fighting off a disease, positive and negative energies in the body are engaged in the fight. Various discomforts can appear. When the positive energy is winning the battle, the negative energy will gradually recede. For patients with a grave, chronic illness, it is very likely for them to experience healing crises, which are signs of improvement leading to recovery.
Healing crises can last for several days. Some healing reactions are mild, and some are very severe. The forms and severity of healing crises vary from person to person. The sicker and weaker a patient is, and the longer the disease has been present, the more likely the patient is to experience strong healing reactions after taking the correct medicine.
In my clinical practice, I have encountered such healing crises as rashes, sweating, dizziness, drowsiness, diarrhea, dry mouth, stomach ache, stomach bloating, etc. Sometimes, soon after a patient with stomachaches takes Da Chai Hu Tang or Danggui Shaoyao San (whose main ingredients are Angelica sinensis and Chinese herbaceous peony), the stomach can hurt more. Other
patients will cough harder after taking medicine, but will feel better afterward.
Antibiotics are mostly cold in nature, according to TCM. When they enter a patient’s body along with much fluid (water also is cold in nature), it can make the patient colder. People who have had infusions know this from their personal experience. If you have fever, coughing, or inflammation of the tonsils, you will feel much better after an infusion. But after a few days’ treatment, your body can become weak and
cold. Genuine TCM doctors treat such diseases by
resuming the Yang energy in the patient’s body.
This is the only way to change the nature of the
cold-induced diseases.
I believe that the real hope for Chinese medicine does not depend on more and more drugs or prescriptions. These have never been lacking in the history of Chinese medicine. Nor does it rely on more TCM doctors and clinics. In a sense, the real sign of hope for Chinese medicine is that greater numbers of patients are experiencing healing crises after taking Chinese medicine; and more TCM doctors have patients who feel healing reactions.
My Comment:
You see, this article helps to explain why PaidaLajin is so effective. If you practice PaidaLajin diligently, you are bound to experience healing crises, i.e., intense healing reactions. Why did the late TCM master Li Ke support the promotion of PaidaLajin? Mostly because of the healing crises and self-healing effects. When Dr. Li Ke himself used medicine to treat patients, they would soon experience healing crises.
During one of my seminars in Switzerland, I met with a number of Swiss TCM doctors who used medicinal herbs to boost Yang energy in patients. They loved PaidaLajin. And I told them, “Both Paida and Lajin help boost Yang energy. The only difference is we are not using ginger, cassia twig, or monkshood (medicinal herbs hot in nature), but the ‘medicine’ produced in the
human body.”
What is the core function of PaidaLajin? To boost Yang energy.
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