Healing

You Were Born a Healer!
by Chunyi Lin

Many years ago a student came up to me at a class and said,
“Chunyi, you were born a healer.”
I smiled and replied,
“Yes, I was born a healer. And you were born a healer, too.”
You were born a healer. Each and every one of us was born with the ability to help ourselves and others to heal; physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. You just need to be made aware of that beautiful fact and learn how to put your healing abilities to use.
Many people find this hard to believe but I know it to be true. I know it from the experiences of my own life and from the wonderful transformations I see in so many thousands of my students everyday.
If you find this hard to believe, just keep reading and by the end of this article I promise you will learn a simple technique for utilizing your healing gift. It is the first technique I teach to all my Spring Forest Qigong students. You can learn it very quickly and put it to use right away to help yourself, and even more importantly, to help others to heal.
Editors note: Chunyi Lin is a certified international Qigong Master with a master’s degree in holistic healing. He is the founder of Spring Forest Qigong, and coauthor of the #1 Amazon.com bestseller, Born A Healer. Master Lin is also a member of the Transformational Leadership Council founded by Jack Canfield. His vision is “a healer in every family and a world without pain.” In the end of this article you can find the exclusive gift from Master Chunyi to FinerMinds Readers: “Open Your Heart - Change Your World” Meditation Audio.
First, some background information might be helpful and a few tips on how to unlock and enhance your healing energy.
Qigong
What I want to teach you is based on a Chinese concept called Qigong that dates back many millennia. Put simply Qigong is practice for helping you get the most out of life, to be the best you can be, physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually.
Qigong works by helping you enhance and balance your energy and keep it flowing smoothly. The basic principle of Qigong is that everything in the universe is energy, literally everything. Every cell in your body is a form of energy, even your thoughts.
Chinese scholars studying the workings of the universe came to this understanding more than four thousand years ago. In the western world, Albert Einstein came to the same conclusion early in the 20th century.
When your energy is in balance and flowing smoothly that’s when you are the happiest, healthiest and most productive you can be. What some people call “peak performance.”
When your energy becomes blocked and doesn’t flow smoothly, that’s when problems happen. The bigger or greater the number of energy blockages, the more serious the problem.
While energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can be transformed. Qigong works by helping you transform the energy in your body to remove blockages and return to energy balance.
This is the same principle as acupuncture. But, acupuncture requires a skilled professional applying needles to specific energy points to remove the blockage. Through the practice of Qigong you can remove the blockage on your own.
For thousands of years the practice of Qigong was a closely guarded secret.Even today, traditional Qigong techniques can be very difficult to learn and require years of rigid, disciplined practice to develop proficiency while the most powerful healing principles are reserved for a chosen few.
Spring Forest Qigong
In my years of training to become a Qigong Master, I spent days and weeks and even months at a time alone in a cave in deep meditation. Throughout these meditations a message kept coming back to me, “Qigong is simple. Qigong is for everyone.”
I came to realize that at its essence Qigong is very simple and simple is actually better. I created Spring Forest Qigong to make the true healing power of Qigong available to everyone. Spring Forest Qigong techniques are designed to be simple enough for anyone to learn and practice while actually enhancing the benefits.
Here are a few simple tips to help you get started balancing and enhancing your energy flow right now.
Energy Breathing
Breathing is fundamental to life but the way most people breathe is actually unhealthy. Most people breathe too fast, twelve to twenty breaths per minute. Breathing this way utilizes less than half of your lung capacity and actually adds to stress and tension. Who needs more stress and tension?
Breathing slowly, gently and deeply allows your lungs to expand fully and dramatically increases your uptake of oxygen. Oxygen, after all, is the body’s primary fuel. The more fuel we have, the better we function. The more effectively we breathe, the more effectively we live.
Breathing effectively is fundamental to Spring Forest Qigong. What I want to share with you here is a simple yet powerfully effective method for enhancing the benefits of breathing. I call it “Energy Breathing.” Energy breathing is an easy way to enhance your mind-body-spirit connection. That is the key.
Your mind and body are not separate things. Your mind affects every part of your physical body, just as your physical body affects your mind. If your body is tense, if your breathing is shallow or rapid, your mind cannot be focused and calm.
If your mind is focused on all the stress in your life, your body will be stressed, also. You need to have your mind and body working in concert to get the most out of life. This is especially true of your breathing.
Your spirit is your connection with the infinite. In energy breathing you connect your mind and body with the limitless power of the universe. You are mind, body, and spirit. It only makes sense to make the best use of all three aspects of you.
How you do energy breathing is very simple.
Energy Breathing Step-by-Step:
• Sit or lie down in a comfortable position.
• Put a smile on your face (this helps relax your mind and body).
• Place the tip of your tongue gently against the roof of your mouth (this connects the two main energy channels in your body).
• Breathe through your nose in slow, gentle, deep breaths.
• As you breathe in, gently pull your lower stomach in a little.
• As you breathe out, let your stomach out.
Yin and Yang: The upper part of the body belongs to yang energy; the lower part of the body belongs to yin energy. Breathing in is a part of yin energy; breathing out is yang. One of the reasons we get sick is that yin and yang energies are not communicating well. By pulling your lower stomach in as you inhale and letting it out as you exhale, you are enhancing the communication of the yin and yang energies.
Harnessing the Power of the Mind
What you’ve just read is the body part of energy breathing. Now we connect it with the mind and spirit by utilizing simple visualization and mental focus. Say in your mind the “password”:
I am in the universe. The universe is in my body. The universe and I are one.
If you choose to use a different password, that is fine. The words are not as important as their meaning—you are not alone, you are connected with the infinite.
As you breathe in,
• Imagine you are using your entire body to breathe
• See and feel the air, the limitless energy of the universe, flowing into your body through every part of your body.
As you breathe out,
• Visualize any tiredness or stress, pain or sickness, any doubt or worries changing into smoke
• Visualize it shooting out of your body to the ends of the universe.
As you continue breathing in this way, feel your mind and body becoming completely relaxed. Know that every cell in your body is being restored to its perfect, balanced state, revitalized and rejuvenated.
To end your energy breathing session,
• Take one final, slow, gentle, deep breath
• Slowly open your eyes
• Rub your hands together, palm to palm
• Gently massage your face . . .
• Running your fingertips gently up each side of the bridge of your nose to your forehead, then out and down to your chin in a circular motion
• Repeat this motion several times.
That’s all there is to it. Energy Breathing is just that simple.
The key is to allow yourself to relax and enjoy the experience. Do not concern yourself with whether you are “getting it right.” There is no right. There is only good, better, and best. The more you practice energy breathing, the better off you will be, and the more you will empower yourself to be your best.
Breathing is what you must do to stay alive. Breathing effectively, even just fifteen minutes a day, can empower you to truly live.
Sword Fingers
Now, as promised, a simple technique you can start using immediately to help yourself and, even more importantly, to help others to heal.
As I mentioned previously, in Qigong teaching any pain or sickness is caused by an energy blockage or blockages. You will need more advanced Spring Forest Qigong training to learn how to detect energy blockages so to begin with you will focus on the problem area.
For example, if a friend has an injury, simply ask your friend where the pain is. Perhaps it is a sore shoulder. (The technique is the same if you are working on yourself.) This is what you do.
Sword Fingers Steps
• Put your index finger and middle finger together on one hand and point them straight forward as if they were a ray gun. I call this your Sword Fingers.
• Point your Sword Fingers at your friend’s sore shoulder from about six inches to a foot or so away. The distance doesn’t matter just don’t touch the shoulder.
• Now, visualize light, beautiful, healing light or energy, is shooting out of the end of your fingers into your friend’s sore shoulder. (Again, you can also just say it in your mind and know it’s happening.)
• Next, move your Sword Fingers up and down in a chopping motion visualizing the healing light is breaking up the energy blockage in the shoulder. Keep doing this for thirty seconds to a minute.
• Now, you stop the Sword Fingers and open your hand and spread your fingers. Visualize the healing light is flowing from the tips of your fingers and thumb into the area where you’ve just broken up the energy blockage.
• Use your “energy fingers” to take hold of the remaining energy blockage, pull it out and throw it away. Again, do this from six to twelve inches away and don’t touch the shoulder. (An important point here is that there is no good energy or bad energy just too much energy in this case and you are helping to bring energy balance.)
• Continue pulling out the blockage and throwing it away for a minute or two. As you start pulling the blockage out it may feel heavy or sticky like pulling taffy. Some people notice this immediately for others it takes more time.
• Whether you feel the energy or not just know in your mind that it’s happening. When the energy feels lighter or after no more than two minutes stop pulling out the blockage and move to the final step in Sword Fingers.
• Now, visualize beautiful, healing light and energy is flowing from the palm of your hand into the area where you removed the blockage. You might want to use a light pumping motion.
• Continue sending this healing energy into the area for thirty seconds to a minute. This movement helps get the energy flowing through the area again and bring it back into balance.
• As you are sending the energy from your palm, say in your mind, “Your pain is gone. You are completely healed.” “Your blockage is gone. Completely healed.” No need to say it aloud. Just say it in your mind and know it’s happening.
• Finally, give your friend a smile and say to your friend, “Feel better, now.” Don’t ask if the pain is still there. That will focus their mind back on the pain. Give them a positive message.
If you are skeptical, that’s fine. But, give it a try. Many skeptical people are amazed the very first time they use Sword Fingers.
If you believe it works, it works. If you don’t believe it works, it still works though it might take a little longer. Try it a few times and see what happens. Just open your mind to the limitless possibilities of the universe and allow your natural healing ability to flow.
I know you can do it. I know it because I know you were born a healer.