(Minghui.org) When I was born, the midwife told my mother that I would not survive. I am 82 now and my life is great. I want to celebrate the 24th World Falun Dafa Day by sharing my story of how Falun Dafa has saved me.
Nearly Died at Birth
Ever since I was a small child my mother told me, “You were very sick when you were born.” I was afraid to eat, and never had much appetite. I always felt dizzy, and had a hard time sitting, standing, or getting up. My stomach often hurt, so I would just lay in bed.
I did not attend elementary school until I was nine, and the sick days I took added up to more than six months each year.
As I grew up, the dizziness lessened, but I suffered from severe stomach pain, nervous exhaustion, insomnia, frozen shoulder, nasal allergy, inflamed reproductive organs, urinary tract infection, and constipation. I was 1.69 meters (5 ft 7 in) tall and weighed less than 50 kg (110 lbs). My coworkers called me “the stalk.”
When I retired at 56 years old and finally had time to see doctors, I could not make a trip to the hospital without help.
More Energetic than Ever
A month after I retired, I went to a street fair in front of my apartment in November 1997. A woman who sold cosmetics looked at me and said, “You look ill. Why don’t you practice a qigong that can help you?” When I asked what qigong was, she told me “Falun Dafa.” I asked her for a copy of the teachings, and she took me to a practitioner’s home to borrow two books, Zhuan Falun and The Great Way of Spiritual Perfection.
After I read Zhuan Falun, I decided to practice and follow the principles taught in the books. Master’s words were rooted in my mind, especially “good or bad comes from a person’s initial thought” (Lecture Four, Zhuan Falun), and “True cultivators have no illnesses” (“Explaining the Fa for Falun Dafa Assistants in Changchun” in Further Discussions on Falun Dafa).
After I learned the exercise movements from The Great Way of Spiritual Perfection, I joined the other practitioners at the exercise site. It was amazing! When I did the exercises following Master’s instructions, I heard a breeze, and energy surged from within my body. My hands that were always cold became warm.
All of my illnesses disappeared after I read the teachings and did the exercises every day. Within a month, I knew that the best thing I’d ever done in my life was practicing Falun Dafa.
More than 20 years have passed and with Master’s protection and my firm belief in the teachings, I never needed any medical attention. I’ve been healthy and, being in my 80s, feel more energetic than when I was young.
My Family Benefits from My Practice
My family members also benefited from Falun Dafa, as I saw amazing things happen to them over the years. I’ll give a few examples here.
Insomnia ran in my family, and one of my younger sisters had it the worst. It started when she was in middle school, and she basically lost the ability to sleep. After she got married, her husband massaged her every day, hoping that she could get two hours of sleep. After her son grew up, she opened a salon to make more money in order to send him to a school abroad. She was so weak that she had to work sitting down, including reading and signing papers. If she got too tired, she’d go to a hospital to get a shot to boost her energy. I suggested she practice Falun Dafa and she said, “I know that Falun Dafa is good, but I can’t practice it. It is impossible to run a business and not lie.”
The energy shots from the hospital stopped working in 2004, and my sister told her husband to take her to my place. She couldn’t wait for me to come to her and teach her the exercises. At the time she did not even have the strength to stand up, so I taught her the movements sitting down. After she learned the exercises, I gave her a tape with the exercise music.
The next day she called me and said that she did a little bit of the exercises with the music tape just to see if her movements matched the music. When she went to bed, she fell asleep as soon as she lay down. The next morning she woke up feeling very comfortable—something she never experienced before. Her husband was speechless and amazed that she did not need a massage to fall asleep. He used to have to take her everywhere she needed to go. That day she told him, “You go on with what you need to do, I’ll go to the labor bureau myself.”
In the evening she called me and told me how she went to the labor bureau by bus and did not feel tired at all. She called our youngest sister and they went shopping together. She had not been able to shop for her own clothes for years.
She became a steadfast practitioner. After the persecution started, she made and distributed Falun Dafa literature, and called people to tell them about the brutal persecution. She had many acquaintances and she’d tell whoever she came across, “My illnesses went away without me taking a pill.” Her husband, though not a practitioner, helped her make and distribute literature and hang up banners.
The Warts on My Daughter-in-Law’s Face Disappear
My son called me from abroad in 2004, telling me that his wife would bring their child and come to stay with me during the New Year. He asked me to cook barley for her to help reduce the flat warts that covered her face. She couldn’t take medicine because she was breastfeeding the baby.
We picked her up from the airport and drove home. I took off my coat and wore only a thin shirt, while everyone else still wore their warm clothes. My daughter-in-law asked if I was cold, and I told her no because I practice Falun Dafa. Without hesitation she asked me if she could read Zhuan Falun.
The next morning she nearly finished the book and told me, “Mom, this book is great, not like what the CCP said in its propaganda.” Later she told me that the baby’s oral thrush disappeared after she breastfed her. She used to have to put medicine in the baby’s mouth after feeding, and that day she could not see any thrush. She knew that it was because she read the book. “Mom, please teach me how to do the exercises,” she said.
Two days later her face turned red and itched. I told her to leave it alone, “It’s a good thing,” I said. A week passed and her warts disappeared. Her complexion was smooth. “My skin hasn’t looked this smooth for years,” she said and called her family and friends to tell them what happened.
For my safety during the persecution, my son bought a house in another district for me and other practitioners to study the teachings together. Over the years all of the practitioners remained safe.
Missing Granddaughter Is Right Behind Me
My granddaughter was 11 months old when my son left her with me, as both he and his wife worked overseas. I had to bring her with me when I went to the malls to tell people about the persecution of Falun Dafa during the day.
When she was three, I took her to the mall to shop for her clothes. I left her in a toy shop to play with the owner’s child. Later the owner could not find her. Many shop owners and their employees helped me look for her. I wasn’t nervous at first, but after we searched everywhere, I panicked. I looked around and murmured, “Master, where is the child?” I turned around and saw my granddaughter standing quietly behind me. I picked her up with joy and surprise, knowing that Master had kept her safe!
The next day my son told me on the phone, “Last night I dreamed that the child went missing. I was covered in sweat when I woke up.” I knew that Master took care of my granddaughter.
Son Recovers from Illness Symptoms
When the pandemic hit in 2020, many businesses were forced to shut down, and my son’s restaurant was closed. In June I phoned him. My daughter-in-law told me that he was ill and his throat hurt. I said that he’d be fine if he sincerely recited “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance is good.” He said, “I don’t believe in any of this, how could I recite it sincerely?”
The next morning my daughter-in-law called and told me that after we finished talking yesterday, my son’s symptoms worsened. He couldn’t catch his breath no matter what he did, and could not fall asleep. She was terrified that he might stop breathing. I told her to make a statement on the Minghui website and apologize to Master. She discussed it with him and he agreed. They recalled things he said or did in the past that were disrespectful to Master and Falun Dafa, wrote them down in a solemn statement, and submitted it on Minghui. As soon as they did, he was able to breathe, and no longer felt sick. They were exhilarated, knowing that Master had saved his life.
From then on, my son and his wife and daughter have read and recited Zhuan Falun and done the exercises every day.
My daughter-in-law became very ill in 2022. She was so ill that she could not read Zhuan Falun. My son read the book to her every day and took care of her daily needs. In two weeks she recovered.
With all the miracles that happened to me, my family, and practitioners around the world, I believe that divine beings exist and they help those who follow the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance.
(Selected Submission Celebrating the 24th World Falun Dafa Day on the Minghui Website)
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