(Clearwisdom.net) Psychologists from Bulgaria, Serbia, Macedonia and Turkey gathered in the city of Blagoevgrad to attend the "Create Your Universe" Project. Bulgarian Falun Dafa practitioners were invited to share the benefits they obtained from practicing Falun Gong.

Project participants are studying the Falun Gong exercises

On October 2, 2008 Bulgarian Falun Dafa practitioners introduced Falun Gong to the group. After a short demonstration of the first video lecture by Master Li Hongzhi, the founder of the practice, a lively discussion was held as a result of the psychologists' desire to know about the practitioners' personal experiences regarding mental and physical health benefits. They were interested in how practitioners found out about Falun Dafa and why they started practicing, as well as why exactly this practice is persecuted in China. A Macedonian participant shared that she had read about Falun Gong, but in her country there aren't any practitioners yet.

Practitioner interviewed by a reporter

Earlier, the practitioners held an information display in the center of Blagoevgrad, in front of the main building of American University in Bulgaria, and also at Southwestern University. They distributed informational leaflets to the locals and exposed the persecution of Falun Gong in China by the Chinese Communist Party.