A student interviewed Claire about ZY Qigong…Claire gave most of her answers while in the meditative state. Here is an excerpt on the Qigong healer’s view of pain:
“…the foundation of Chinese medicine had two sentences…Tong Ze Bu Tong. Tong Ze Bu Tong. It translates literally as “when open there is no pain. When there is pain, it is not open.” So pain is that simple. If we can allow the energy to take it’s natural course of healing, then it pushes against the blockages or stagnation until there’s enough energy pushing on it that it clears it out. Then there is no more pain. And we can also use pain as our guardrail for our awareness to come into the body and combine with the energy flow and gradually tap into the finer energetic state. Pain is just a signal from the body telling us it needs help. But often when we take that pain into our mind and start to run the mind in circles, it magnifies the pain into suffering. There is an old saying, “pain is inevitable, suffering is optional,” because when we drop our awareness from our mind into the body, there is no more suffering but solution. “
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