You Would Never Know that I Used to be Disabled due to Illness

It doesn't seem that long ago when I was disabled, suffering from many different diseases, including epilepsy, mental illness, sleep walking, and being dull-witted. I also suffered from a slipped disc, bone spurs, hyperlipidemia, an arm injury, and shoulder inflammation. It wasn't cured after treatment in Shanxi Province's major hospitals. Yet, less than two years after I learned Falun Dafa, all these diseases were cured.

On a day in July of 1999, I was very sick and remained unconscious; foam came out from my mouth, which later turned into spitting blood. My sister arrived to take care of me. She is a Falun Dafa practitioner and read Zhuan Falun to me.

That night I awoke. Usually, when I was sick like this, I would be dazed for two to three days and could not recognise anyone. But that day as I awoke, I wasn't dazed at all.

My sister asked me to start practising Falun Gong. That night I started to read Zhuan Falun. I was 50 years old, but I had only an elementary education and, because of epilepsy, I had forgotten a lot of words. As I read Zhuan Falun, I could not recognise many words. However with my patience and a miraculous boost to my ability to learn I was gradually able to learn the different characters and the more I read the more I wanted to read.

Before this, I couldn't read any books; I couldn't even watch TV. Whenever I watched TV, I got a headache. However, when I hold Zhuan Falun, the pages are light green. My eyes feel comfortable, my head feels fine, and my body and mind all feel very comfortable. Just like this, without eating or sleeping, I read straight through the second day. I remember that after I read through Zhuan Falun once, the principle Master taught regarding "Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance" really touched my heart, convincing me to be dedicated in my cultivation.

At that time the Chinese Communist Party had started to persecute Falun Dafa, so I stayed home, studied on my own, and practised on my own. At the beginning it was very difficult to practice the exercises. Because of a previous injury to my arm, I couldn't lift my hand. Lumbago prevented me from sitting steadily. While sitting in meditation in single lotus position, I would fall over. My husband helped me sit up many times. Half a year later, I could do the single lotus position. A year later, all my sicknesses were now healed except for the epilepsy, which occurred much less frequently than before.

In 2006, police from the 'Gestapo' like 610 Office heard that I practised the exercises at home. They illegally arrested me, sent me to a brainwashing class, forced me to curse the founder of Falun Gong and to write a "transformation statement." I told them how I benefited from learning Falun Dafa, and the changes in my body.

The police saw that I refused to "transform" so they tortured me, which caused some of my previous illnesses to resurface. But when I was sick I still called for Master. This angered the police and they detained me in a detention centre for more than a month. Later they extorted 1,000 yuan from me and released me. I was later placed in a brainwashing class, but they were afraid that I might have an attack of epilepsy, so they forced my work place and relatives to send someone over to take care of me.

On April 7th, 2001, a group of 610 police officers came to ransack my house, steal the new lectures, and force me into a police car to be taken to the public security bureau. The police tried to forced me to say where I got the lectures. I refused to tell and that night police locked me up in a detention centre.

In the detention centre, I sent forth righteous thoughts nonstop, did the exercises, and recited the new lecture. The police put handcuffs and a foot shackle on me. For more than twenty days they did not give me anything to eat at lunch. I was only given a half bowl of soup. I persisted in studying Falun Gong teachings and doing the exercises, even whilst I was handcuffed and shackled. I continued to do the meditation, and never missed sending any righteous thought at the appropriate time. From April 7th, 2001 to March 3rd, 2002, I was illegally imprisoned in the detention centre--almost a year. Police extorted 1,500 yuan from my family and then released me.

Whoever knows me realises that I was a person who could not take care myself. But because I practised Falun Gong, I was full of energy; the epilepsy I suffered from for so many years was significantly reduced, and my body was a lot stronger and healthier. In the city where I live, all the authorities, including the 610 Office and detention centre, know about me. They saw with their own eyes that I was detained repeatably and they investigated my physical condition before I practised Falun Dafa. Deep down they know that Falun Dafa is magical.