Qigong Saved My Life

In the Summer of 2007 my boyfriend took me on vacation to Hawaii. We had a great time but I seemed to be extremely fatigued during most of that trip. It was a tiredness I never quite experienced before. On the 6th day of my Hawaii vacation I started to feel a dull pain in my pelvic area.

I was not especially concerned and thought that possibly I had a slight infection since I was swimming so much and maybe spent too much time in a wet bathing suit. As I write this now I have to take a deep breath before continuing. Though this happened to me more than a decade ago, recalling this time in my life evokes all the feelings of despair and hopelessness that became my constant companions for so long.

What I did next is what most people would call crazy. I simply ignored this dull pain that never went away since I first felt it on that Hawaiian vacation. The situation escalated when I began to have abnormal bleeding between my menstrual cycles and this obviously frightened my into seeing a doctor.

After a pelvic exam my doctor informed me that I had a very large mass that could be seen upon physical examination. Now I was beyond frightened! If this was a tumor that was large enough to be seen by way of a visual exam I was very concerned. Naturally, the word "malignancy" swam through my mind.

My doctor seemed extremely agitated and her exact words to me were. "I could try to excise it here as an outpatient procedure but you might just hemorrhage all over the place!" Yes, this so called doctor continued on what seemed to be a tirade of horrific scenarios that hardly seemed either professional or helpful. I refused further testing or care.

Being someone who was always interested in alternative healing methods, I decided to go that route instead of traditional medicine. I would love to tell you that one worked for me right off the bat but that would be completely false. Over the next months I experimented with oxygen therapy, UV blood cleansing and many more methods including water fasting.

The biggest challenge was what at first started out as spotting progressed to hemorrhaging at times. I learned to control this excessive bleeding by firmly massaging my abdominal and pelvic area however, this did not stop it completely and as time went by I became increasingly weak as the anemia caused by long term blood loss worsened.

The physical beauty I once possessed vanished and to be perfectly blunt I did not recognize myself in the mirror. My eyes were sunken, my skin tone a grayish pale and my once glossy hair had become brittle. The worse part was that when I looked into my own eyes in the mirror they were dead with no expression as though I was already well on my way to leaving this world.

I developed a small lump on my right breast and following that another lump in my right underarm. I knew at this point I was in deep trouble. During the duration of this entire ordeal I was terrified that I would die. In fact, my fear of death was so strong that I could not even cry as this would mean release and emotionally I was far too wound up to be able to experience any kind of catharsis.

In the winter of 2009 and when the bleeding recurred after a brief period of cessation, I did something that changed the path of the illness and also my life forever. I went into my home office and typed two words into the google search bar on my computer ."Shrink Tumor" Yes, I was that desperate. One of the things that came up was something I had never heard of before. "Qigong". I watched a few videos of Qigong masters and then came across one of a man named Chunyi Lin.

The very second I saw his face and heard his voice I began to cry. I knew on a deeply intuitive level that I had found my answer. Remember, I had never been able to cry before and now my inner voice whispered to me "It's over. You're safe now." My tears flowed easily as I let go of all that pent up despair.

I took a flight to Minnesota where Master Lin was located and looking back I have no idea of how I was able to make that trip. From a physical standpoint I was so weak that it was difficult for me to even lift my suitcase onto the overhead baggage compartment of the airplane. Apparently there is much truth to the saying "Where there is a will, there is a way."

That is when doubt began to surface in my mind. I was so sure at first this was the right thing to do! Suddenly, I questioned my choice. Was I actually flying to another state with the hope that this so called Qigong was going to cure me of something that nothing else could? What I didn't know then was that the course of that flight from Ohio to Minnesota was the same course that would change my life forever.

End Of Part I

Part II Will Be Posted 11/20/2021