This is continued from the previous article, Part 1 by Dr Lai Chiu Nan.

Energy leak

“Qi gong raises the energy level. This is why the person changes from a diseased state to a healthy state.

“The same with yoga. When you are tensed, you dissipate a lot of energy. Yoga helps you to relax and raises your energy level.”

Meditation, too, raises the energy level by keeping the mind still.

“Our thoughts are very, very busy,” Chiu-Nan points out. “If you try to focus on the breath, just for one minute, you will know what I mean. Let’s try to do that…

“Focus on the breath: In…Out…In…Out…Are you able? Or were you thinking of something else?

“Our mind is always busy, thinking of the past or the future. If you train the mind to just focus on the present moment, you will have more energy. You will need less sleep.

“The mind is one of the major leaks of energy. Are we are not even talking about emotional upset.

“If you are upset and you cry, for example, you feel very exhausted. Or if you suffer from a major loss, after that you feel very weak.

“On the emotional level, if there is an emotional trauma or conflict, that causes a lot of loss of energy. The people that we can’t forgive, every time we think of them, we lose energy.”

German researcher R.G Hamer, has, since 1979, collected data of over 10,000 cancer patients. He found that cancer is usually triggered by a conflict or shock, combined with the inability to speak about it, or the fact that no one would listen.

“His discovery came from his own tragedy,” Chiu-Nan relates. “In 1979, his son was killed in Italy, I think by the Mafia. Both he and his wife came down with cancer after a very short period.

“He happened to be a cancer doctor. He changed his viewpoint about the development of cancer because he saw that it could develop much quicker than generally thought, and that it can be triggered by emotional factors.

“He tried to heal his own feelings and his own mind. In that process, his cancer was reversed.  He did it entirely through working with his psychology, his emotions.

“Then he started to question his patients and asked them whether, three or six months before the disease, there was some event that caused shock or conflict, and if it was something that they didn’t or couldn’t talk about, or that no one would listen.

“And he found that it was true in every case.”

Hamer’s work, unfortunately has not been translated into English. So as far as the English-speaking world is concerned, there is “no evidence”.

“By no means the mind is the only thing, “ Chiu-Nan points out.

“But if the onset or trigger is emotional or psychological, then if you can help the person resolve the shock or conflict, of course you can speed up the recovery.

“For example, we had a person come to my course who had cancer of the liver. I asked the people to recall something traumatic.

“I asked them to paint it. And I noticed that her drawing had a big black circle with red lines.

“She said, “This black circle represents my former boss. She’s a terrible person. She ill-treated every one. And the red lines show my anger towards her.”

Unconditional love

“So I asked her to recall that experience and, at the same time, breathe in blue light. Bright blue- the colour of unconditional love.

“This time, the red lines became blue. She said, ‘Now, when I think about it, the person isn’t 100 percent bad. And I realize that for me to heal,  I have to forgive.’

“A few weeks later, she returned for another course. And she was looking quite different. Quite radiant.”

“Expression always dissipates anger, “ Chiu-Nan adds.

“So I always recommend that you find a good friend. If you don’t have a good friend, find a big tree. Or look into the mirror. And speak.

“Writing about it is another way. Spend 20 minutes each day writing about something traumatic or hurtful.

Don’t worry about your grammar. Just write as fast as you can.

“Do it for four days. Usually, by the fourth day, your start to look at the situation differently. You might have a new insight into the problem.

To discover if you have resolved your emotional upsets, try this:

“Conjure up the memory,” Chiu-Nan suggests, “of the most traumatic, most upsetting experience.

“And watch your breath. If your breath starts to get faster, if your heart starts to tighten up, it shows that you have not yet resolves that memory. It’s holding your energy down.

“If it is a deep scar, one has to work at it for weeks. Learn to let go.”

“On the spiritual level,” Chiu-Nan continues, “the more compassionate one is, the more one can love, the higher one’s energy.

A good heart

“Spirituality is the ability to love and to care. Regardless of what spiritual tradition one comes from, the essential part of all spiritual practices is to develop a good heart.

“Land of Medicine Buddha has a very funny name: Centre for Healing and Developing a Good Heart.

“Because healing and a good heart really go hand-in-hand.

“So in one’s spiritual development, the most essential part is to open one’s heart, to love beyond one’s inner circle of family and friends.

“When we are faced with those we love, we are happy.

“If we can increase the circle of those we love, naturally we are more happy more often. If everyone we meet is dear to us and we care for them, it doesn’t matter where we go, or where we are. We are happy.

“When we are having a conversation with a good friend we feel very energetic. But when we’re with someone we dislike, the longer we talk, the more tired we are.

“Happiness raises energy.”

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While clearing my book cabinet recently, I chance upon advice given by Dr Lai Chiu-Nan, published by Lapis Lazuli Light probably from  a course that she had conducted way back in 14 to 17 October 1995.  When my mom was diagnosed with tonsil cancer years back, a neighbor passed this book to us to read.  During the time of diagnosis, there was a lot of fear and confusion… as well as information overload from books, well meaning friends and relatives.

There are some things mentioned that I may not completely agree, in which I would give my comments at the end of the article. Nevertheless years ago, some of her advice were taken to heart as they make sense. As I’ve not been able to find the transcript of the book in the web to link back to, I’ve typed out the entire transcript of about 6 pages in which published  in a few posts due to its length.

Part 1 of the book:

An energy theory of health and disease

Diet, relaxation, meditation, yoga, emotional support, spiritual practice and other natural approaches to health all have one thing in common: They all help to raise the energy level of the person.

Quantum theory is a subject which not many people understand.

Physicists and chemists- like Dr Lai Chun-Nan- study it. But not doctors. So they ignore or reject it.

“There is a tendency to reject what we don’t understand,” Chui-Nan notes. “This is human nature.”

Chui-Nan feels, however, that an appreciation of quantum theory is essential for the prevention and treatment of serious illness like cancer. It helps to explain a lot of phenomena that cannot be explained by existing medical theories.

Quantum theory can be complex. But one does not have to be an Albert Einstein to understand its two basic premises:

  1. All matter is energy;
  2. All things are interconnected

The concept of energy can be applied to understanding health and disease, as Chiu-Nan explains:

“Health is a higher state of energy, disease is a lower state, and death is the lowest state.”

The idea that all things are inter-connected further suggests that we should adopt a holistic view.

We cannot understand disease by studying individual parts of the body. We must try to understand the whole person, not just the disease.

“With the holistic view,” she adds, “energetically we cannot separate the mind from the body.”

“If we look at energy, we can appreciate the natural approaches to health. The dietary approach, relaxation meditation, yoga, emotional support or spiritual practice- they all have one thing in common: they help raise the energy of the person.

“Take, for example, diet…there are several diet programmes used against cancer. Some emphasise raw vegetables and fruits, others  used cooked vegetables and fruits.

No meat

“But they all use plant products. I’ve never come across any anti-cancer diet involving red meat, chicken or fish.

“Vegetables are relatively easy to digest. They don’t require that much energy. High protein diets require a lot more energy to digest.

“These is a popular weight loss program that encourages eating a lot of lean meat. From the energy viewpoint, this makes sense because the digestion of meat takes up a lot of energy. So you lose weight.

“We are not talking about calories,” Chiu-Nan clarifies, “but on the impact of the overall energy level.”

The energy viewpoint does not contradict what scientists currently know.

Medical authorities recommend that we eat diets high in whole grains, vegetables and fruits, decrease the intake of fat, avoid salty, cured foods and avoid smoking, alcohol and processed food.

Also, plants have been found to contain protective factors like vitamins A, C and E and selenium. Fibre also protects against cancer.

More scientific basis comes from examining the sodium-potassium balance, Chiu-Nan adds modern diets tend to be very high in sodium, with sodium & potassium ratio of about 2:1. However, the body needs a lot more potassium, with a ratio of about 1:7.

“Vegetables are very high in potassium, “Chiu-Nan points out.

“In my research, I have shown that if cancer cells are grown in a high-potassium medium, they revert to normal cells. Cancer is reversible.”

“Cancer is reversible. If it is not reversible, then we have to cut it out destroy it with radiation or chemotherapy. But I have proven it is a reversible process.”

The benefits of qi gong can also be explained in terms of energy.

In Beijing, Chiu-Nan saw that cancer patients who did qi gong did not lose their hair or their appetite when they underwent chemotherapy.

“I’ve also talked to doctors and nurses. They told me that those who sneaked out in the morning to do qi gong felt better.

“From the existing medical model, this doesn’t make sense, “Chiu-Nan notes. Why should special breathing exercises shrink a tumour?

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