Tai Ji Men Qigong Academy

I don't want to be the person of the three

Recently, I heard a sharing from a fellow brother who is a Chinese medical doctor: "Do not be a person of the three ’waitings’ -- waiting to eat, waitign to sleep, and waiting to die." Think over it, wasn’t it the person I used to be?

I was in my forties then and my health condition was not very well. If I went picking up my second grade daughter at noon, I usually felt headache around two o’clock in the afternoon. I knew I’ve got sunstroke. And I used to massage my forehead to nose until my skin turn red. Then I could feel better. If it did not work, I would take an anodyne.

This sunstroke-like situation happened from once a week to twice a week. Even worse was my dosage of the anodyne increased from one pill to two pills. I never forget one day I tried not to take the anodyne, I lay down on the sofa the whole afternoon. At dinner, I was very hungry but had a poor appetite. I could not even move my body to buy breads in the neighberhood for my children. It made me ponder. I was only forty years old. If I took anodyne all the time, I certainly became very weak soon. What if one day all I could do was lying down on the bed? This is no different than waiting to die.

Thanks god I had a chance to walk into Tai Ji Men. The warm smiles and sharing of the brothers and sisters made me feel like joining a big family. It happened that one sister had experienced the same problem I had. She shared how she got improved by practicing Tai Ji Men qigong. Then I knew at once I came to the right place.

Consistently practicing Tai Ji Men qigong every day and night, I feel energetic and don’t need to use anodyne anymore. I can ride motocycle to super market and prepare meal for my family to enjoy every day. More than ten years of practicing qigong, I not only get healthier, but also learn to cultivate my temper. At the same time, I found people get ill because they cumulate too much negative feeling. People consider me sweet and good temper, but actually I held my temper and did not know how to let go. I tried to hold all my unhappiness, my anger, and my sorrow to myself, and the negative feelings turned out damaging my health.

In Tai Ji Men, Shifu told me to change the way I think: "Always think about the bright side and live every day happily, so we can keep away from illness." Shifu also said: "Spread out our kindness to influence people around us. Only feeling good about ourselves is not real ’good’. Feeling good while everybody else also feels good is real ’good’." I kept it in mind and practiced in real life. I join public welfare activities. I live a meaningful life. My life is no longer just waiting to eat and waiting to sleep.

One day my husband complained: "My life is so bad! I cleaned air conditioner in the morning and now I am cleaning the room." Hearing my husband saying so, I recalled the sharing from the brother. So I told my husband nicely: "Congratuations, you are still strong enough to do all these things. As human beings, we should not become the ’three-waiting’ people." If the situation had happened before I joined Tai Ji Men, I would argue with him furiously and get into a big fight.

But this time, my voice was full of kindness and sincerity. My husband did not get angry; instead he looked at me with surprise and he gave me the eye of "How come you have such wisdom?" It made me realize that I have not just gotten healthy but also have I learned wisdom of life in Tai Ji Men. From now on, my life is no more waiting to eat, waiting to sleep, and waiting to die.