(Minghui.org) Many miraculous things have happened to me since I began practicing Falun Dafa. A recent miracle was that my decades-long hunchback straightened up.

I’ve had a hunchback since childhood. It wasn’t so obvious before my 30s. After 30, my upper body leaned forward. It became increasingly obvious, whether I was standing, sitting, or walking, and it got especially worse these last two years. Acquaintances would caution me, saying, “Straighten your back!” I tried, but I would revert to my old stance a few minutes later, hunching over with my head down. One person would remind me today, and another tomorrow, to straighten my back, but I just couldn’t.

If I straighten my back, I am over 5 feet, 6 inches tall. As my hunchback got worse, almost everyone I knew commented on it. I became resentful hearing these comments, thinking: “I was born this way. Who wouldn’t want a straight back?”

At first, I didn’t look inward and examine it based on the Fa. I consoled myself, thinking, “It’s hereditary.” My father, brothers, and sisters are all hunchbacked. Then I thought: “Anyway, it doesn’t hurt or itch. I can eat and drink, and it doesn’t affect my work.”

I was memorizing the Fa one day, when I came to:

“Some people also know that it is not good, but they just cannot quit. In fact, let me tell you that they do not have correct thoughts to guide themselves, and it will not be easy for them to quit that way. As a cultivator, why don’t you take it as an attachment to be abandoned, and see if you can quit?” (Lecture Seven, Zhuan Falun)

The paragraph struck me. Am I such a person? I was full of attachments after cultivating for so long. I blamed it on such factors as “heredity,” or that “I was born this way.” Nothing I did aligned with the Fa. Isn’t this a problem of not believing in Master and Dafa?

I had asked Master to help me straighten my back. But that was based on selfish reasons. I just wanted to look good. The basis was wrong. It was an attachment and pursuit. With my back hunched over, it affected my validating the Fa and spoiled the image of Dafa practitioners.

I became serious about rooting out my attachments after I started memorizing the Fa. As I started to memorize more, I found many attachments and human notions. I was attached to resentment, seeking things, laziness, lust, and being afraid of criticism. So I increased the frequency of sending forth righteous thoughts. I prayed to Master for help. A thought arose from the bottom of my heart, “Master, a disciple like me is damaging the image of a Dafa disciple. I must stand up straight and be a dignified and upright Dafa practitioner in order to better clarify the truth, validate the Fa, and fulfill my mission.

About a half month ago, my back suddenly made a few cracking sounds. I straightened my back right away, and I did not feel any pain. I knew it was Master who helped me, and saw that I had corrected my thinking and wanted to get rid of the attachments.

I’ve paid particular attention to my image since then. I tried to straighten my back as much as I could. Now I am like a normal person, with my head up and back straight. No one is telling me that I am getting shorter. When I tell people about Falun Dafa it is obviously more effective now. The changes in meditation and sending forth righteous thoughts are even better. I keep my body straight longer in meditation, and I can send forth righteous thoughts for half an hour after the sitting meditation. With my back straightened, I no longer doze off.

Master and Dafa are almighty. A life with Dafa and Master is the most fortunate. I cannot express my gratitude to Master in words. All I can do is to cultivate better and do the three things well.