My Qigong Journey
Health, wealth, and happiness are everybody’s dreams, particularly for staying young and living a long life. People all over the world have developed various practices and beliefs, such as aerobic exercise, yoga, and qigong, to stay healthy. India is well known for its Yoga, and in China, Qigong is well known. When we take a closer look at these systems, we observe similarities in each and every one of them, i.e., energy, known as Prana in India and Qi in China.
Qigong is a form of exercise originating in China; it has gained popularity in the West, especially Medical Qigong, in recent years. Qigong exercises are intended to help enhance and move energy (Qi) throughout the body in specified ways. The practice of Qigong is a system of exercises and meditation that includes postures, special movements, breathing techniques, specific forms of meditation, visualisation, healing sounds and self-massage.
I was very keen on Chinese martial arts when I was young. I remember cycling one hour from my house for practice, then another hour home, three times a week. Later, I was told that to be good at the art, practising internal strength and Qigong is essential. However, in the 60’s it was difficult to find masters who taught these arts. I resorted to enrolling in a correspondence Qigong course with a master in Taiwan. After a year, I gave up because, unlike today’s email, Skype, and teleconferencing, communication by regular mail was simply not an effective way to learn the art. I decided to switch my martial arts training from external, hard styles to internal, gentle styles like Taiji Quan and Bagua Quan.
I was very fortunate to train under Grand Master Wee in 1982. Even though the training at that time was quite martial arts-oriented, I was able to experience the healing power. My sinus problem from childhood mysteriously disappeared after about three months of 5-day weekly training. My other colleagues, whom I introduced to the training, also had their gastric problems, backaches, and other issues resolved after a few months of training.
1992 was another milestone for me, an elderly Qigong Grand Master in Beijing who healed my friend’s throat cancer in 2 days, kindly agreed to teach me Medical Qigong under the condition that his identity remain anonymous. To respect his wish, I will only refer to him as Grand Master Chen. Even though Grand Master Chen kept telling me that I had enough Qi to treat others, I was sceptical of my own ability. I was an IT (Information Technology) professional at the time, without fully understanding how the treatment works. I didn’t want to treat others for fear of failing and being a laughingstock.
Three years have passed, and I have yet to apply my skills to any ‘patient’. On one occasion, my associate from Australia and I were invited by a world-leading IT company to give a seminar in Bangkok. My Aussie associate was overexcited by the spicy Thai cuisine, which gave him an upset stomach that he suffered all night. The next morning, on seeing his paper-white face, I knew something was wrong with him. To avoid having to take over his session, a flash of an idea came to me, and I made an offer to ‘treat’ him. To both our surprise, he recovered and was back to his normal, energetic self within minutes. This experience marked the start of my journey in using Medical Qigong to help others.
In the year 2000, after witnessing the amazing healing power of medical qigong in helping friends and patients suffering from various ailments, I decided to relinquish my business interests in IT and F&B to promote the ancient gift of medical qigong to mankind. I also embark on research into the scientific and medical reasons for how the ancient Art of healing works, so that I am equipped to communicate and share the Art with medically inclined audiences.
I started as a professional medical qigong healer and teacher in Malaysia. The journey is full of ups and downs, excitement and disappointment, happiness and sadness. Eventually, my overseas students invited me to teach abroad, and I travelled to countries such as Singapore, Thailand, Japan, Germany, Portugal, Spain, Australia, Indonesia, India and Russia. The students come from a range of fifty nationalities, from housewives to medical doctors. After completing the training and being certified, some base in hospitals and wellness centres providing medical qigong healing services. Collectively, we have helped more than 100,000 patients. The amazing results and the happiness on the patients’ faces motivate me to continue my mission for as long as I am physically able.
