[:en]Healing reactions (also known as “detox reactions”, “flare reactions”, or “healing crises”) are the most unique and natural reactions of self-healing with PaidaLajin. And they inevitably occur during the process of self-healing. This is most difficult for modern people to comprehend. To put it simply, through healing reactions, pains and diseases are surfaced and healed, rather than being suppressed and covered up. It is a dialogue of body, mind and soul, not a life-or-death war.

PaidaLajin does one thing: it activates the “anti-virus software (self-healing power)” in us. Once activated, it starts to scan the entire body and dredge wherever it is blocked. Various reactions occur during this process, for instance, hot, cold, sore, numb, itchy, painful, or swelling sensations, rashes, sweating, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, dry mouth, stomach bloating, stomach ache, dizziness, drowsiness, etc. Black or purple Sha, red swellings and greenish bruises (different forms of Sha) may appear at the slapped areas.

These are healing reactions, or healing crises intertwined with danger and opportunity. They are basically the same as “healing crises” of medication, acupressure, acupuncture, moxibustion, skin-scraping, cupping therapy, Qi Gong, meditation and other natural therapies. These are great signs of healing—they are normal physiological reactions when the boosted Yang energy is fighting with Yin energy which lurks in the body in various forms, blocking meridians and inducing illnesses. The blockages are “problem areas”. When the boosted Yang energy tries to go through the blockages, there is greater pressure at these areas. The body then manifests various “discomforting” symptoms similar to those when one is sick. Healing reactions can end on the same day of their emergence; they may also last for days or even weeks, depending on each individual’s physique and health condition. Many people are unaware that healing reactions are great signs of recovery. They can be scared by the sudden reward and stop PaidaLajin practice.

When healing reactions occur, various excretions may be expelled from the body, e.g. sweat, tears, rashes, vomit, burps, wind, urine, stool, nasal discharge, and so on. These are all good signs of detoxification in process. When Wang Fengyi (1864-1937, a revered Chinese healer who cured patients for free by telling them the root causes of their diseases, and guiding them to repent of and correct their wrong thoughts and behaviors) told patients the real causes of their illnesses, the gravely ill ones often reacted with crying and vomiting. There were various vomits and some vomited much and for a long time, even for days on end. It might sound scary, but the result of vomiting was gradual recovery.

Healing reactions may appear unpleasant, they are actually signs of improvement. They are gifts from nature, just like darkness before dawn and pain before labor.

(1) Healing reactions function as an accurate self-diagnosis.

The philosophy of self-healing with PaidaLajin is contrary to that of mainstream medicine: Healing reactions enable the body’s own energy to reveal and heal health problems; medication and surgery tend to cover up and suppress them.

Various “discomforting” symptoms show us which parts of the body are sick. They include agonies we are suffering from, illnesses and injuries from the past, and also lurking ones that are yet to break out. Paida used to be called “Diao Shang (revealing diseases and injuries)”. The first step of self-healing is to dig up and manifest known and unknown illnesses, particularly hidden symptoms, and allow them to go away or change their nature.

Self-healing with PaidaLajin puts into practice the philosophy of “action through inaction” advocated in Chinese ancient classic Tao Te Ching. It follows the natural law, i.e. the Tao, the Way of how the universe, nature and things work. Various health problems will surface, through which the real causes are detected. Normally, these causes, i.e. factors contributing to illnesses, or the environment that they develop, are manifested as meridian blockages. PaidaLajin works to unblock the blocked meridians, remove the causes, and thoroughly cure diseases.

Mainstream medicine, by contrast, works to cover up and suppress symptoms: Using antibiotics to kill bacteria, painkillers to “kill” the pain, sleeping pills for insomnia, antihypertensive drugs to lower blood pressure, hypoglycemic drugs to control blood sugar, chemotherapy to kill cancer cells, or surgery to remove tumors, etc. In short, the attention is focused on diseases and symptoms (the result), and not on their causes.

“Action through inaction” is not to do nothing, but to follow the Tao and only do the simple, necessary things. It is enough to activate the self-healing power using the simplest methods, and then allow it to prevent, diagnose and cure diseases naturally, without our intervention. We may not realize it, but some diseases believed to be thoroughly cured are actually not, they are lying deep inside the body. Paida reveals and heals past injuries and diseases. Some people call Paida “Da Gui (beating the demons)”, i.e., it drives evil energy and diseases out of the body. In cases where diseases go undetected or are wrongly diagnosed, PaidaLajin can immediately complete diagnosis. Yang energy activated through the practice collides with Yin energy (hidden diseases), resulting in various “discomforting” symptoms, i.e. healing reactions. We can thus accurately diagnose known and unknown diseases.

(2) Healing reactions occur when the body’s self-healing power is doing its duty of self-protection and self-healing.

During PaidaLajin, some people may directly improve their health condition. But it is more likely that a person needs to go through some healing reactions before improvement is gained, i.e. the symptoms will surface, and sometimes even worsen, before they get fixed. It is like playing a cat-and-mouse game. In addition to sore, numb, itchy, painful, and swelling sensations, there may also be tears, rashes, red spots, dizziness, headaches, insomnia, coughing, belching, nausea, vomiting, thick phlegm, runny nose, watery or bloody blisters, farting, smelly urine and stool, etc. All these are signs of the body expelling toxic waste. These toxins come from years of accumulated negative feelings, air, food and water pollution, cigarettes, medication, injections, etc. During PaidaLajin, the smell of drugs and cigarettes can come out through skin pores and other orifices in the body, even decades after their intake. If a person’s Kidney and Urinary Bladder Meridians are blocked, after Paida, the urine will turn red, brown, or black. This is a sign that Paida is taking effect.

More severe healing reactions include cramps all over the body or even fainting, similar to possible fainting during acupuncture treatment. Past illnesses may surface and worsen during PaidaLajin, for instance, cardiovascular patients may feel more discomfort in the heart; hypertensive patients may have higher blood pressure; diabetics may have higher blood glucose levels; patients with gastric problems may experience more stomach discomforts; patients with various pains may feel greater pain. These healing crises are in effect rare blessings, which indicate that the self-healing power is regulating the body and detoxifying, and that the positive and negative energies are engaged in a fight.

According to Chinese medicine, when a person experiences healing reactions, Yang energy is rising, and Yin energy is falling. When Yin and Yang energies are balanced, pains and diseases are self-healed. According to Western medicine, during this process, the body is producing useful hormones and stem cells, and discharging harmful hormones, and malfunctioning and death cells.

Do not assume such good reactions to be bad; and do not take these rewards for punishments. The best thing to do at this point is to continue PaidaLajin.

(3) Illnesses and healing reactions are good warnings to us.

Diseases and healing reactions are natural, good warnings, telling us that the agonies are caused by improper thoughts and behaviors. These need to be changed, otherwise the condition will worsen. Both diseases and healing reactions are instinctive reactions of the body’s self-healing power to maintain our well-being. The only difference is: Diseases are manifestations of hidden health problems through the natural functioning of the self-healing power; healing reactions occur when a person enhances the self-healing power to enable it to uncover and resolve health problems.

Illnesses and healing reactions are manifested as various “discomforts”, and those who are unaware of their nature may be afraid of, worried about, even hate or curse them. In fact, whatever is manifested in us is good, including diseases. For instance, pain is a warning to us. Wherever there is pain, there is a health problem. Taking painkillers to “kill” the pain only covers up the problem, it does not root out the real causes, and can lead to endless problems; fever is the body’s instinctive reaction to expel the cold. Forcing down a fever by taking medicine may temporarily suppress the symptoms, but seeds of future diseases are planted; high blood pressure indicates meridian blockages and high blood viscosity that hinder Qi and blood circulation, in response to which the heart instinctively increases the pressure to enable the blood to go through the blockages. If the root causes of diseases are not pinpointed for targeted treatment, and drugs are blindly taken instead to suppress symptoms, not only will the diseases not be cured, more problems will arise later on. People under prolonged medication are aware of this from their own experience.

The nature of healing reactions needs to be understood in order for the nature of diseases to be understood. Now that we know diseases and healing reactions are signs of our self-healing instinct to love, protect, and heal the body, we should be grateful for them, and not disregard or misinterpret the messages. By experiencing healing reactions, we have the opportunity to discover the root causes of our diseases (meridian blockages and further, deeper problems with the “Heart”, i.e. negative thoughts and behaviors) and have them corrected.

(4) Healing reactions are tests of a person’s mindset.

Both diseases and healing reactions are, in their very nature, recovery responses. Whether they are regarded as something good or bad, depends on a person’s mindset. If you are negative, worried, fearful and prone to complaining, diseases will be perceived as deadly risks; if you are positive, reflective, grateful and willing to change yourself, then diseases will be perceived as great warnings that open the door to longevity. Diseases and healing reactions are tests of our body and even more so, of our mindset. They can be turning points in a person’s life.

By understanding diseases and healing reactions, we can further grasp the significance of the self-healing power. Diseases originate in the Heart, and are cured through heartfelt changes. When discomforts in the body are viewed with negativity and fear, they are perceived as diseases; when viewed with positivity and gratitude, the same “discomforts” are referred to as healing reactions. Clinical results continually prove that the more severe the healing reactions are, the better the self-healing effects will be.

If a patient has very weak Qi and blood flow, and the healing reactions are overly severe, take some rest, drink ginger and jujube tea, and reduce the intensity of PaidaLajin, but the duration may be extended as suited. When Qi and blood are replenished, continue PaidaLajin. People with weak Qi and blood, the seriously ill, the elderly and frail need more PaidaLajin. Slap gently, but do not avoid PaidaLajin. This is because when the meridians are blocked, it is hard for the body to absorb nutrition. That is why “smooth flowing meridians are the best nourishment.”

PaidaLajin should be continued even after diseases are cured. These exercises could be adopted as life-long habits, because, in our daily life, we may still have thoughts and behaviors that do harm to our health. Practicing PaidaLajin daily is just like having regular meals. It enables the body to produce in vivo the best organic nutrition and medicine. If, no matter how intense PaidaLajin is practiced, no sore, numb, painful, or swelling sensation is felt, and no other healing reactions occur, this indicates that the bones are in place and tendons are flexible, thus PaidaLajin need not be continued. However, even in yoga teachers with very flexible tendons, signs of detoxification reactions like numbness start to appear when a Lajin session is extended beyond 30 minutes.[:zh]

Healing reactions (also known as “detox reactions”, “flare reactions”, or “healing crises”) are the most unique and natural reactions of self-healing with PaidaLajin. And they inevitably occur during the process of self-healing. This is most difficult for modern people to comprehend. To put it simply, through healing reactions, pains and diseases are surfaced and healed, rather than being suppressed and covered up. It is a dialogue of body, mind and soul, not a life-or-death war.

 

PaidaLajin does one thing: it activates the “anti-virus software (self-healing power)” in us. Once activated, it starts to scan the entire body and dredge wherever it is blocked. Various reactions occur during this process, for instance, hot, cold, sore, numb, itchy, painful, or swelling sensations, rashes, sweating, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, dry mouth, stomach bloating, stomach ache, dizziness, drowsiness, etc. Black or purple Sha, red swellings and greenish bruises (different forms of Sha) may appear at the slapped areas.

 

These are healing reactions, or healing crises intertwined with danger and opportunity. They are basically the same as “healing crises” of medication, acupressure, acupuncture, moxibustion, skin-scraping, cupping therapy, Qi Gong, meditation and other natural therapies. These are great signs of healing—they are normal physiological reactions when the boosted Yang energy is fighting with Yin energy which lurks in the body in various forms, blocking meridians and inducing illnesses. The blockages are “problem areas”. When the boosted Yang energy tries to go through the blockages, there is greater pressure at these areas. The body then manifests various “discomforting” symptoms similar to those when one is sick. Healing reactions can end on the same day of their emergence; they may also last for days or even weeks, depending on each individual’s physique and health condition. Many people are unaware that healing reactions are great signs of recovery. They can be scared by the sudden reward and stop PaidaLajin practice.

 

When healing reactions occur, various excretions may be expelled from the body, e.g. sweat, tears, rashes, vomit, burps, wind, urine, stool, nasal discharge, and so on. These are all good signs of detoxification in process. When Wang Fengyi (1864-1937, a revered Chinese healer who cured patients for free by telling them the root causes of their diseases, and guiding them to repent of and correct their wrong thoughts and behaviors) told patients the real causes of their illnesses, the gravely ill ones often reacted with crying and vomiting. There were various vomits and some vomited much and for a long time, even for days on end. It might sound scary, but the result of vomiting was gradual recovery.

 

Healing reactions may appear unpleasant, they are actually signs of improvement. They are gifts from nature, just like darkness before dawn and pain before labor.

 

(1) Healing reactions function as an accurate self-diagnosis.

 

The philosophy of self-healing with PaidaLajin is contrary to that of mainstream medicine: Healing reactions enable the body’s own energy to reveal and heal health problems; medication and surgery tend to cover up and suppress them.

 

Various “discomforting” symptoms show us which parts of the body are sick. They include agonies we are suffering from, illnesses and injuries from the past, and also lurking ones that are yet to break out. Paida used to be called “Diao Shang (revealing diseases and injuries)”. The first step of self-healing is to dig up and manifest known and unknown illnesses, particularly hidden symptoms, and allow them to go away or change their nature.

 

Self-healing with PaidaLajin puts into practice the philosophy of “action through inaction” advocated in Chinese ancient classic Tao Te Ching. It follows the natural law, i.e. the Tao, the Way of how the universe, nature and things work. Various health problems will surface, through which the real causes are detected. Normally, these causes, i.e. factors contributing to illnesses, or the environment that they develop, are manifested as meridian blockages. PaidaLajin works to unblock the blocked meridians, remove the causes, and thoroughly cure diseases.

 

Mainstream medicine, by contrast, works to cover up and suppress symptoms: Using antibiotics to kill bacteria, painkillers to “kill” the pain, sleeping pills for insomnia, antihypertensive drugs to lower blood pressure, hypoglycemic drugs to control blood sugar, chemotherapy to kill cancer cells, or surgery to remove tumors, etc. In short, the attention is focused on diseases and symptoms (the result), and not on their causes.

 

“Action through inaction” is not to do nothing, but to follow the Tao and only do the simple, necessary things. It is enough to activate the self-healing power using the simplest methods, and then allow it to prevent, diagnose and cure diseases naturally, without our intervention. We may not realize it, but some diseases believed to be thoroughly cured are actually not, they are lying deep inside the body. Paida reveals and heals past injuries and diseases. Some people call Paida “Da Gui (beating the demons)”, i.e., it drives evil energy and diseases out of the body. In cases where diseases go undetected or are wrongly diagnosed, PaidaLajin can immediately complete diagnosis. Yang energy activated through the practice collides with Yin energy (hidden diseases), resulting in various “discomforting” symptoms, i.e. healing reactions. We can thus accurately diagnose known and unknown diseases.

 

(2) Healing reactions occur when the body’s self-healing power is doing its duty of self-protection and self-healing.

 

During PaidaLajin, some people may directly improve their health condition. But it is more likely that a person needs to go through some healing reactions before improvement is gained, i.e. the symptoms will surface, and sometimes even worsen, before they get fixed. It is like playing a cat-and-mouse game. In addition to sore, numb, itchy, painful, and swelling sensations, there may also be tears, rashes, red spots, dizziness, headaches, insomnia, coughing, belching, nausea, vomiting, thick phlegm, runny nose, watery or bloody blisters, farting, smelly urine and stool, etc. All these are signs of the body expelling toxic waste. These toxins come from years of accumulated negative feelings, air, food and water pollution, cigarettes, medication, injections, etc. During PaidaLajin, the smell of drugs and cigarettes can come out through skin pores and other orifices in the body, even decades after their intake. If a person’s Kidney and Urinary Bladder Meridians are blocked, after Paida, the urine will turn red, brown, or black. This is a sign that Paida is taking effect.

 

More severe healing reactions include cramps all over the body or even fainting, similar to possible fainting during acupuncture treatment. Past illnesses may surface and worsen during PaidaLajin, for instance, cardiovascular patients may feel more discomfort in the heart; hypertensive patients may have higher blood pressure; diabetics may have higher blood glucose levels; patients with gastric problems may experience more stomach discomforts; patients with various pains may feel greater pain. These healing crises are in effect rare blessings, which indicate that the self-healing power is regulating the body and detoxifying, and that the positive and negative energies are engaged in a fight.

 

According to Chinese medicine, when a person experiences healing reactions, Yang energy is rising, and Yin energy is falling. When Yin and Yang energies are balanced, pains and diseases are self-healed. According to Western medicine, during this process, the body is producing useful hormones and stem cells, and discharging harmful hormones, and malfunctioning and death cells.

 

Do not assume such good reactions to be bad; and do not take these rewards for punishments. The best thing to do at this point is to continue PaidaLajin.

 

(3) Illnesses and healing reactions are good warnings to us.

 

Diseases and healing reactions are natural, good warnings, telling us that the agonies are caused by improper thoughts and behaviors. These need to be changed, otherwise the condition will worsen. Both diseases and healing reactions are instinctive reactions of the body’s self-healing power to maintain our well-being. The only difference is: Diseases are manifestations of hidden health problems through the natural functioning of the self-healing power; healing reactions occur when a person enhances the self-healing power to enable it to uncover and resolve health problems.

 

Illnesses and healing reactions are manifested as various “discomforts”, and those who are unaware of their nature may be afraid of, worried about, even hate or curse them. In fact, whatever is manifested in us is good, including diseases. For instance, pain is a warning to us. Wherever there is pain, there is a health problem. Taking painkillers to “kill” the pain only covers up the problem, it does not root out the real causes, and can lead to endless problems; fever is the body’s instinctive reaction to expel the cold. Forcing down a fever by taking medicine may temporarily suppress the symptoms, but seeds of future diseases are planted; high blood pressure indicates meridian blockages and high blood viscosity that hinder Qi and blood circulation, in response to which the heart instinctively increases the pressure to enable the blood to go through the blockages. If the root causes of diseases are not pinpointed for targeted treatment, and drugs are blindly taken instead to suppress symptoms, not only will the diseases not be cured, more problems will arise later on. People under prolonged medication are aware of this from their own experience.

 

The nature of healing reactions needs to be understood in order for the nature of diseases to be understood. Now that we know diseases and healing reactions are signs of our self-healing instinct to love, protect, and heal the body, we should be grateful for them, and not disregard or misinterpret the messages. By experiencing healing reactions, we have the opportunity to discover the root causes of our diseases (meridian blockages and further, deeper problems with the “Heart”, i.e. negative thoughts and behaviors) and have them corrected.

 

(4) Healing reactions are tests of a person’s mindset.

 

Both diseases and healing reactions are, in their very nature, recovery responses. Whether they are regarded as something good or bad, depends on a person’s mindset. If you are negative, worried, fearful and prone to complaining, diseases will be perceived as deadly risks; if you are positive, reflective, grateful and willing to change yourself, then diseases will be perceived as great warnings that open the door to longevity. Diseases and healing reactions are tests of our body and even more so, of our mindset. They can be turning points in a person’s life.

 

By understanding diseases and healing reactions, we can further grasp the significance of the self-healing power. Diseases originate in the Heart, and are cured through heartfelt changes. When discomforts in the body are viewed with negativity and fear, they are perceived as diseases; when viewed with positivity and gratitude, the same “discomforts” are referred to as healing reactions. Clinical results continually prove that the more severe the healing reactions are, the better the self-healing effects will be.

 

If a patient has very weak Qi and blood flow, and the healing reactions are overly severe, take some rest, drink ginger and jujube tea, and reduce the intensity of PaidaLajin, but the duration may be extended as suited. When Qi and blood are replenished, continue PaidaLajin. People with weak Qi and blood, the seriously ill, the elderly and frail need more PaidaLajin. Slap gently, but do not avoid PaidaLajin. This is because when the meridians are blocked, it is hard for the body to absorb nutrition. That is why “smooth flowing meridians are the best nourishment.”

 

PaidaLajin should be continued even after diseases are cured. These exercises could be adopted as life-long habits, because, in our daily life, we may still have thoughts and behaviors that do harm to our health. Practicing PaidaLajin daily is just like having regular meals. It enables the body to produce in vivo the best organic nutrition and medicine. If, no matter how intense PaidaLajin is practiced, no sore, numb, painful, or swelling sensation is felt, and no other healing reactions occur, this indicates that the bones are in place and tendons are flexible, thus PaidaLajin need not be continued. However, even in yoga teachers with very flexible tendons, signs of detoxification reactions like numbness start to appear when a Lajin session is extended beyond 30 minutes.

 

 

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