Nobody likes pain, but it is a superb medicine. Like illness, it is a gift to us. The “pain” here does not refer to the kind of pain caused in fights or accidents, but the hurting sensation you feel when you voluntarily practice PaidaLajin. Of the various healing reactions (see the article Healing reactions), pain is the most commonly experienced. Some people may avoid PaidaLajin because of the pain. Well, it is precisely the reason that they should practice it. The logic of self-healing with PaidaLajin goes like this: The more pain you feel during PaidaLajin, the more necessary it is for you to practice it, for the pain is both diagnosis and treatment; when you feel no pain at all during PaidaLajin, it indicates that you have no health problem, hence there is no need to practice it.
The reasons are as follows:
(1) Pain is a health alarm and precise diagnosis.
Pain is a very accurate diagnostic method. According to Chinese medicine, “No blockage, no pain.” Where there is pain, there is a health problem. The more pain is felt during PaidaLajin, the more severe the problem is. Where there is pain along a meridian, it indicates problems with the corresponding organ. For instance, when you have a heart disease and problems with the intangible “Heart” (anxiety, depression, etc.), the Heart and Pericardium Meridians must be blocked. Slapping along these meridians, for instance, on the inner elbows, will give you pain, and there will be Sha.
Pain is not induced by PaidaLajin, rather, it is already lurking in the body in the form of diseases and meridian blockages. Imagine that pain is a hidden bomb, it is already there and could explode at any moment. To avoid the explosion, we practice PaidaLajin to bring the hidden bombs (pains and diseases) to the surface and gradually clear them away. People with smooth flowing meridians do not face the threat of such hidden bombs. When they practice PaidaLajin, they feel little or no pain.
In other words, it is absurd to assume that you have no pain or can avoid pain by not practicing PaidaLajin. As long as you have a health problem, the pain of it continues to exist just like a time bomb and will most likely worsen, exploding when you least expect it. For instance, a sudden heart attack, a stroke and cancers are eventual outbreaks of developing pains and diseases.
The sooner you practice PaidaLajin, the earlier you sound the health alarm, diagnose and self-heal pains and diseases. If you avoid PaidaLajin or even cover up pain with anesthetics, it is even more dangerous, for you have removed the health alarm. If pain is meaningless, why is there pain at all? Very ill patients are more afraid of pain than the average person. This is because they have more severe meridian blockages. Hence, the intensity of pain reflects the severity of a disease.
(2) During PaidaLajin, the process of experiencing pain is the process of self-healing.
According to Chinese medicine, during PaidaLajin, the process of experiencing pain is the process of the Yang energy rising, i.e. the process of boosting the self-healing power and producing “medicine” in vivo. Persistent pain indicates continuous production of the “medicine”.
Pain directly stimulates and opens up the heart, triggers willpower, and mobilizes Yang energy. The Heart, “King” of internal organs, governs the spirit. Although pain can be felt all over the body, it is the Heart that “feels the pain” first. It then mobilizes all the body’s might to deal with the “crisis”. Qi and blood will flow most rapidly to the problem areas and help heal the diseases.
According to Western medicine, pain stimulates the endocrine system to secrete bio-chemical substances that the body needs, i.e. “endogenous medicine”. These include but are not limited to various hormones and stem cells. Without pain, our self-healing power will not be activated, and the “endogenous medicine” will not be produced.
Pain activates the self-healing power, and is a catalyst that boosts it. It is also the process of producing “endogenous medicine”. It may even be an integral part of the “medicine” itself, i.e. “pain medicine”.
Modern people are educated to regard pain as something negative and even evil, and they try their best to avoid pain. Seen from another perspective, “pain” and “illness” are good—they are warnings to us, and point to the direction and methods of healing.
“痛 (pain)” and “快 (joy)” are a pair and interchangeable. Without pain, the self-healing power will not be activated, and no joy of healing can be experienced. No pains, no gains, isn’t it?
(3) “Pain medicine” can accurately pinpoint the location of diseases and help heal them.
Pain reveals the targets very clearly, i.e. at the areas where pain is felt. “Pain medicine” is an accurate medicine. Persistent pain means continuous treatment with “pain medicine”.
As “pain medicine” is an “endogenous medicine” manifested as self-healing power, compared with medication, it is more accurate, symptomatic and eco-friendly. People feel pain in different parts of the body, and the intensity of pain differs, thus the target and dosage of the “endogenous medicine” differ accordingly.
In Chinese medicine, self-healing power is referred to as Yang energy; in Western medicine, it is referred to as insulin, endorphin, adrenaline, enkephalin, stem cells, immunity, self-repair ability, etc. With the advancement of medical science, new terms will be continually added to the list.
(4) The intensity of “pain” is proportionate to the efficacy of this “medicine”, i.e. the more hurting it is, the better the self-healing efficacy will be.
During PaidaLajin, when more pain is felt, Yang energy rises faster, and there will be faster hormonal changes, i.e. the “endogenous medicine” is produced faster. When a person feels pain, the entire body instantly warms up and even starts to sweat. When the most pain is felt, Yang energy is boosted the fastest, hence the best efficacy is gained.
The pain of PaidaLajin is bearable, and it can be self-regulated according to the person’s health condition and tolerance. In case the pain becomes almost unbearable, the intensity of PaidaLajin can be reduced and there will be less pain.
It is impossible to compare the pain of PaidaLajin felt by different people, for each person’s health condition and severity of meridian blockages are different, thus the intensity of pain felt is different. For instance, when slapping the same part of body on different people, the more ill patients tend to feel greater pain.
According to Western medicine, detoxification and healing happen when the self-healing mechanism decomposes and excretes unwanted bio-chemical substances, and produces what the body needs.
According to Chinese medicine, the Qi of diseases is Yin energy; when it accumulates, more diseases will break out and life is shortened; by contrast, when Yang energy is abundant, fewer diseases will strike and life is prolonged.
(5) “Pain” is also a method of meditation and enhancing attention.
During meditation, you may find it hard to concentrate—your Heart is not at peace and your mind is filled with many thoughts. When you feel pain during PaidaLajin, your mind is more focused than ever; it is impossible at that moment to think about things that normally occupy your mind. Your attention will be focused on the parts that hurt most. The ability to endure pain fluctuates with changing states of mind, and it will be enhanced through continued PaidaLajin. Thus the pain becomes a bridge linking body, mind and soul, which are continually interacting when you are feeling pain, and are gradually becoming one. “Pain” makes you focused, and enables you to experience the state of the body, mind and soul becoming one, and of both giving and receiving.
(6) “Pain medicine” is essentially “a medicine for the Heart”; it is the result of interaction between the body and mind.
“Pain” is a very strong stimulus for the “Heart”, forcing it to adapt or change. While pain is felt during PaidaLajin, diseases are revealed as visible Sha and swelling; past memories and negative feelings are also surfaced and released. As a result, PaidaLajin is great for healing depression and other psychological disorders.
Once you change your mindset and start to view the pain of PaidaLajin as a positive experience, you can instantly endure greater pain. Then, the “pain” will no longer be an enemy or a devil, but rather a friend and a teacher. However, if you are have negative feelings about the “pain”, such as fear, rejection, complaint, etc., your tolerance of pain will be weakened, and the efficacy of “pain medicine” will be discounted.
(7) Your tolerance of pain will be enhanced as you practice PaidaLajin longer and with greater intensity, i.e. your resistance to “pain medicine” will be greater.
The two kinds of “drug resistance” have opposite effects on a person: When you have better resistance to the “pain medicine” of PaidaLajin, it indicates that your diseases are relieved and eventually cured; when a patient’s resistance to externally produced medicine gets stronger, it implies that the medicine has become ineffective, or has even caused side effects.
“Pain” is internal and intangible, as such, “pain medicine” is safer and more organic than medication. When it exceeds your endurance, you will instinctively stop taking the “pain medicine”, i.e. reduce the intensity and shorten the duration of PaidaLajin. So, you see, the pain of PaidaLajin can be managed.
Beginners, the elderly and the seriously ill need not start PaidaLajin with high intensity. They also should not anxiously try to gain significant efficacy at one go, but should instead take it one step at a time.
(8) “Pain medicine” is also good nourishment.
“Smooth flowing meridians are the best nourishment.” The process of feeling the pain of PaidaLajin is the process of unblocking meridian blockages. Thus, “pain medicine” is good nourishment to our health.
(9) The pain of PaidaLajin will be less when the body is warmed up.
The body’s Qi and blood will flow faster after bathing in a hot spring, a foot bath, a warm-water shower, a sauna, etc. Practice PaidaLajin then, the pain will be less, and Sha will appear and disappear faster.[:zh]
Joy without pain is not true happiness. In Chinese, the characters “痛 (pain)” and “快 (joy)” are put together to form a phrase “痛快 (pain and joy)”. Indeed, pain and joy are two sides of the same coin. There is some pain during PaidaLajin. And the pain can be managed. If you are afraid of pain, the solution is simple: Just reduce the intensity of PaidaLajin.
Nobody likes pain, but it is a superb medicine. Like illness, it is a gift to us. The “pain” here does not refer to the kind of pain caused in fights or accidents, but the hurting sensation you feel when you voluntarily practice PaidaLajin. Of the various healing reactions (see the article Healing reactions), pain is the most commonly experienced. Some people may avoid PaidaLajin because of the pain. Well, it is precisely the reason that they should practice it. The logic of self-healing with PaidaLajin goes like this: The more pain you feel during PaidaLajin, the more necessary it is for you to practice it, for the pain is both diagnosis and treatment; when you feel no pain at all during PaidaLajin, it indicates that you have no health problem, hence there is no need to practice it.
The reasons are as follows:
(1) Pain is a health alarm and precise diagnosis.
Pain is a very accurate diagnostic method. According to Chinese medicine, “No blockage, no pain.” Where there is pain, there is a health problem. The more pain is felt during PaidaLajin, the more severe the problem is. Where there is pain along a meridian, it indicates problems with the corresponding organ. For instance, when you have a heart disease and problems with the intangible “Heart” (anxiety, depression, etc.), the Heart and Pericardium Meridians must be blocked. Slapping along these meridians, for instance, on the inner elbows, will give you pain, and there will be Sha.
Pain is not induced by PaidaLajin, rather, it is already lurking in the body in the form of diseases and meridian blockages. Imagine that pain is a hidden bomb, it is already there and could explode at any moment. To avoid the explosion, we practice PaidaLajin to bring the hidden bombs (pains and diseases) to the surface and gradually clear them away. People with smooth flowing meridians do not face the threat of such hidden bombs. When they practice PaidaLajin, they feel little or no pain.
In other words, it is absurd to assume that you have no pain or can avoid pain by not practicing PaidaLajin. As long as you have a health problem, the pain of it continues to exist just like a time bomb and will most likely worsen, exploding when you least expect it. For instance, a sudden heart attack, a stroke and cancers are eventual outbreaks of developing pains and diseases.
The sooner you practice PaidaLajin, the earlier you sound the health alarm, diagnose and self-heal pains and diseases. If you avoid PaidaLajin or even cover up pain with anesthetics, it is even more dangerous, for you have removed the health alarm. If pain is meaningless, why is there pain at all? Very ill patients are more afraid of pain than the average person. This is because they have more severe meridian blockages. Hence, the intensity of pain reflects the severity of a disease.
(2) During PaidaLajin, the process of experiencing pain is the process of self-healing.
According to Chinese medicine, during PaidaLajin, the process of experiencing pain is the process of the Yang energy rising, i.e. the process of boosting the self-healing power and producing “medicine” in vivo. Persistent pain indicates continuous production of the “medicine”.
Pain directly stimulates and opens up the heart, triggers willpower, and mobilizes Yang energy. The Heart, “King” of internal organs, governs the spirit. Although pain can be felt all over the body, it is the Heart that “feels the pain” first. It then mobilizes all the body’s might to deal with the “crisis”. Qi and blood will flow most rapidly to the problem areas and help heal the diseases.
According to Western medicine, pain stimulates the endocrine system to secrete bio-chemical substances that the body needs, i.e. “endogenous medicine”. These include but are not limited to various hormones and stem cells. Without pain, our self-healing power will not be activated, and the “endogenous medicine” will not be produced.
Pain activates the self-healing power, and is a catalyst that boosts it. It is also the process of producing “endogenous medicine”. It may even be an integral part of the “medicine” itself, i.e. “pain medicine”.
Modern people are educated to regard pain as something negative and even evil, and they try their best to avoid pain. Seen from another perspective, “pain” and “illness” are good—they are warnings to us, and point to the direction and methods of healing.
“痛 (pain)” and “快 (joy)” are a pair and interchangeable. Without pain, the self-healing power will not be activated, and no joy of healing can be experienced. No pains, no gains, isn’t it?
(3) “Pain medicine” can accurately pinpoint the location of diseases and help heal them.
Pain reveals the targets very clearly, i.e. at the areas where pain is felt. “Pain medicine” is an accurate medicine. Persistent pain means continuous treatment with “pain medicine”.
As “pain medicine” is an “endogenous medicine” manifested as self-healing power, compared with medication, it is more accurate, symptomatic and eco-friendly. People feel pain in different parts of the body, and the intensity of pain differs, thus the target and dosage of the “endogenous medicine” differ accordingly.
In Chinese medicine, self-healing power is referred to as Yang energy; in Western medicine, it is referred to as insulin, endorphin, adrenaline, enkephalin, stem cells, immunity, self-repair ability, etc. With the advancement of medical science, new terms will be continually added to the list.
(4) The intensity of “pain” is proportionate to the efficacy of this “medicine”, i.e. the more hurting it is, the better the self-healing efficacy will be.
During PaidaLajin, when more pain is felt, Yang energy rises faster, and there will be faster hormonal changes, i.e. the “endogenous medicine” is produced faster. When a person feels pain, the entire body instantly warms up and even starts to sweat. When the most pain is felt, Yang energy is boosted the fastest, hence the best efficacy is gained.
The pain of PaidaLajin is bearable, and it can be self-regulated according to the person’s health condition and tolerance. In case the pain becomes almost unbearable, the intensity of PaidaLajin can be reduced and there will be less pain.
It is impossible to compare the pain of PaidaLajin felt by different people, for each person’s health condition and severity of meridian blockages are different, thus the intensity of pain felt is different. For instance, when slapping the same part of body on different people, the more ill patients tend to feel greater pain.
According to Western medicine, detoxification and healing happen when the self-healing mechanism decomposes and excretes unwanted bio-chemical substances, and produces what the body needs.
According to Chinese medicine, the Qi of diseases is Yin energy; when it accumulates, more diseases will break out and life is shortened; by contrast, when Yang energy is abundant, fewer diseases will strike and life is prolonged.
(5) “Pain” is also a method of meditation and enhancing attention.
During meditation, you may find it hard to concentrate—your Heart is not at peace and your mind is filled with many thoughts. When you feel pain during PaidaLajin, your mind is more focused than ever; it is impossible at that moment to think about things that normally occupy your mind. Your attention will be focused on the parts that hurt most. The ability to endure pain fluctuates with changing states of mind, and it will be enhanced through continued PaidaLajin. Thus the pain becomes a bridge linking body, mind and soul, which are continually interacting when you are feeling pain, and are gradually becoming one. “Pain” makes you focused, and enables you to experience the state of the body, mind and soul becoming one, and of both giving and receiving.
(6) “Pain medicine” is essentially “a medicine for the Heart”; it is the result of interaction between the body and mind.
“Pain” is a very strong stimulus for the “Heart”, forcing it to adapt or change. While pain is felt during PaidaLajin, diseases are revealed as visible Sha and swelling; past memories and negative feelings are also surfaced and released. As a result, PaidaLajin is great for healing depression and other psychological disorders.
Once you change your mindset and start to view the pain of PaidaLajin as a positive experience, you can instantly endure greater pain. Then, the “pain” will no longer be an enemy or a devil, but rather a friend and a teacher. However, if you are have negative feelings about the “pain”, such as fear, rejection, complaint, etc., your tolerance of pain will be weakened, and the efficacy of “pain medicine” will be discounted.
(7) Your tolerance of pain will be enhanced as you practice PaidaLajin longer and with greater intensity, i.e. your resistance to “pain medicine” will be greater.
The two kinds of “drug resistance” have opposite effects on a person: When you have better resistance to the “pain medicine” of PaidaLajin, it indicates that your diseases are relieved and eventually cured; when a patient’s resistance to externally produced medicine gets stronger, it implies that the medicine has become ineffective, or has even caused side effects.
“Pain” is internal and intangible, as such, “pain medicine” is safer and more organic than medication. When it exceeds your endurance, you will instinctively stop taking the “pain medicine”, i.e. reduce the intensity and shorten the duration of PaidaLajin. So, you see, the pain of PaidaLajin can be managed.
Beginners, the elderly and the seriously ill need not start PaidaLajin with high intensity. They also should not anxiously try to gain significant efficacy at one go, but should instead take it one step at a time.
(8) “Pain medicine” is also good nourishment.
“Smooth flowing meridians are the best nourishment.” The process of feeling the pain of PaidaLajin is the process of unblocking meridian blockages. Thus, “pain medicine” is good nourishment to our health.
(9) The pain of PaidaLajin will be less when the body is warmed up.