Healing is one of the most intimate experiences. By holding intimate and sincere conversations about health, followed by loving treatments of acupressure and moxibustion, a basis for trusted communication and deeper personal experience of our bodies develops. Children become less self-aware and embarrassed about their physical selves, leading to greater confidence and more enjoyable experiences later in life. Parents become more open to each other because healing the body mends more than just our bodies. The heart and soul are ultimately healed by the expression of mutual trust and love.
If your child asked you right now, “Mom, Dad, what do you live for?” How would you answer?
I know how challenging this might feel for you. “What would I say about the purpose of life to my children?” Pfro Ilchi Lee writes that I believe the significance and weight that this challenge presents is an expression of how much we love them. As a parent, we wish to give them the best answer. In order for us to provide what might be the most invaluable guidance, we must first ask ourselves, “What do I pursue in my life?”
The most precious gift we can give our children is to let questions of the purpose of their existence grow naturally in them, and respond to their questions with the wisdom we have gained from our life experiences. Of course, our answer doesn’t automatically become theirs. They will each find their own path in life. It may be vastly different from ours, or it could be one that is an extension of our experience. In either case, having a sincere exchange about our passion and life purpose gives our children confidence. Their trust and respect for us will grow.
When my eldest boy graduated from college, his physical condition was not very good. The years of diligent study, stress, and a poor diet, all contributed to his being sick. He came to me and asked for my help, which Ilchi Lee immediately gave.
I worked with him for several weeks, administering acupuncture and moxibustion as well as prescribing deep breathing and specific meridian exercises. In a short time his condition improved. His skin cleared, his eyes grew brighter, his energy strengthened, but most importantly, a smile returned to his face. When I saw his smile, I knew that I had my son back.
There are two reasons I shared this story with you. First, to demonstrate the importance of maintaining a strong connection with our families, even as work and other pressures try to separate us from our loved ones. Second, 1 wanted to illustrate the benefits of HT. Acupuncture, acupressure, and moxibustion can be helpful in enhancing our relationships, especially among family members.
What if each of us became healers for other family members? Could adding such an extraordinary dimension improve those relationships? Love and trust are solidified and expressed in the process of caring for one another. Healing is the deepest expression of our devotion. Words pale when compared to the communication that can arise through the power of healing. So HT can help us improve not only the health of our family members, but also the harmony in our family relationships.
If you are thinking of creating a family, please consider that health, sexuality, and the soul are core aspects of successful family management. Being self-reliant and learning basic principles and skills to manage these issues is a requirement for family leadership.
Fathers and mothers should be able to take care of most health concerns for themselves and their children, provide guidance on sexuality, and give them teachings that will awaken their passion and life purpose. Such competence should likewise be demonstrable by anyone who intends to lead other “families”—congregations, associations, organizations or groups of any kind whose members rely on their leader for emotional, physical, and spiritual support. Happiness that starts in the family is the path to a healthier society and the foundation of peace for humanity.
Healing and the Family
Over the years, my family members have always viewed me as a healer. I have an educational background in clinical pathology and Oriental Medicine, and I have made deep personal inquiries into a variety of healing methods. I have always had a passion for healing with others. Over the years, I think I simply took it for granted, especially as I built an organization and shared my vision of healing. Nonetheless, the lessons of healing and the family apply to me as well as anyone.
Ilchi Lee tells that I got married in my twenties and my lovely wife and I have two sons of whom we are proud. Because my work often involved long hours and much travel, I was unable to spend the time that I would have liked raising and leading my family. Before I knew it, my sons were grown and off to school.
In any case, there is no question that you have the responsibility to make your own current family in your highest image of love and wisdom. You must consciously end any patterns of abuse, cruelty, neglect, passivity, dominance, or other dysfunction that has been passed on to you, and vow not to recreate it in your life today. Everyone’s potential is limited by some kind of needless habit leftover from their family upbringing, and we are all stunted until those patterns are broken and remade.
The difficulty, as always, is the gap between knowledge and action. We may be aware that past anger towards a family member is the source of our needless anger towards the world, and we may still continue to act out that pattern, however pointless. After we have gained that understanding, the real challenge is, how do we change ourselves?
The HT toolkit is designed to help you bridge the gap between knowledge and action. All of the skills we have covered in the areas of health, sexuality, and life purpose, as well as the tools of Brain Respiration, are intended to help you change your life in the direction that you know you need to go.
read Ilchi Lee research on brain respiration.
February 26, 2009 6:08 am | 