Tai Ji Men Qigong Academy

Living in peace with myself

My job requires me to read and audit a lot of document. More than a decade, my eyes were often very tired. Recently after completed a heavy work with lots of reading on figures and numbers, I saw black shadows in my eyes all of the sudden. These black shadows floated in my eyes and blurred things in front, reading documents became very difficult and hard for me. It also distracted my concentration at work and affected my mood. An ophthalmologist diagnosed my eyes and told me that this was natural aging and could not be cured, and it was at its best, if it did not get worse. At that moment, I was shocked. I had never considered myself getting aged in any aspect! Since then, the shadow in my eyes went hand in hand with me, and had greatly influenced my mood from time to time.

Fortunately, I had the chance to join Tai Ji Men to practice qigong more than a decade ago. I can not only maintain good health, but also have many fellow brothers and sisters in Tai Ji Men who encouraged and care about each other. One night, I talked about my eye problem. A sister told me in a relaxed tone, our Shifu has guided us that: "live in peace with it". The next day at work, the shadows in my eyes were still there. As my mood was getting bad, the words from the sister: "live in peace with it" suddenly appeared in my mind. I thought illness and death is natural, aging is also inevitable, and what will come always comes. If I am influenced by this eye problem of mine and keep myself in a bad mood, my entire nerve and emotion will be too tense to be happy. In such way, it could have negative impacts on other parts of my body. So I immediately told myself: "Live in peace with myself ." At that moment, I calmed down and my nerves soothed. Suddenly I felt physically and mentally relaxed and happy. Negative emotion no longer existed.

Similarly, I also excise "live in peace with myself" in my work. Due to the global economic downturn, all workers’ body and mind are also enveloped in the atmosphere of economic unrest. The relationship between colleagues seems quite tense. Little smiles are seen in the office. Whenever my mood is influenced by this atmosphere and I feel unhappy, I tell myself to "live in peace with myself." Through the change of my thinking, my tense body and mind can be relaxed and my mood can also become relaxed. The kongfu of "heart" is so profound. I realized keeping a happy and natural mind is so important, when the mind changes, the body and mind naturally become smoothed. I want to thank my Shifu for his many years of teaching and the caring and sharing from my fellow brothers and sisters. Henceforth, "live in peace with myself" will always be the words in my mind to make my life easy, relaxed, and carefree.