Falun Dafa's Exercises Are the Way to Genuine Health

(Minghui.org) I am a young Dafa practitioner, and I would like to share something that happened to me today. It was quite startling.

A year ago, I fell in love with running and fitness. I spent one to two hours doing it every day, and I later intensified my exercises even more. I ran about ten kilometers each day and did some heavy anaerobic exercises in the gym until I was exhausted. I did so until today when, after a heavy exercise session, I felt dizzy, and nauseous, and had a strong feeling of needing to vomit.

I felt very bad and wanted to be home. I slowly walked out of the gym, having to support myself with my hands on the wall. When I pulled out the key to start my motorcycle, the uncomfortable symptoms arose again. I had to kneel down on the ground. After a while, I tried to stand up to ride home; however, the feeling got stronger, and I thought something might be wrong.

In my mind, I began shouting for Master, begging Him to save me. I kept reciting formulas to negate the old forces' arrangements, and on the way home, I felt I was dying. When I accelerated my speed, my vision began to blur, and I gradually saw less and less. When I arrived at my community gate, I could see nothing.

I leaned on the motorcycle for about a minute until I could see things clearly. I pulled out my cell phone to call my mother. Once I was connected, I only said a few words: “Mom, I'm going to die. I am at the community gate now. Please come to get me!” I got off the motorcycle and sat on the ground. After I got inside, my face was pale, and my lips were purple.

Loopholes

I have been practicing Falun Dafa since I was young. During the years, I experienced a lot of things, good and bad, but I never experienced such a serious circumstance. It seemed the old forces were really stalking me and taking advantage of my loopholes. My mother has advised me several times not to go to the gym for exercises. Yet I could not stop doing fitness exercises in the gym or eliminate it from my daily life until today.

As my cultivation environment eased and improved, I increasingly slacked off on my responsibilities as a practitioner. My original cultivation state as a Fa-rectification period Dafa practitioner was totally gone. Even when studying Master’s teachings, most of time I stopped halfway through, or sometimes I did not study at all. When I practiced Dafa's exercises, I would spend only half-an-hour, and sometimes I did not do them at all.

However, I fell in love with fitness and became a regular client in the gym. I increasingly became an ordinary person, and what I saw, heard, and thought of, were the things ordinary people do. I treated myself as an ordinary person. At the worst time, I even developed such a dangerous thought as, "I can't make it."

During that time, I was not serious about practicing Dafa, but instead serious about practicing fitness. I thought of my body as a human body and always thought about how to exercise my body to gain a good physique. Fitness slowly became one of my great dedications, and I continuously strengthened that attachment—that is, until today when it threatened my life.

Still, Master saved me and gave me a second chance to practice. I am renewed.

I write this article to remind myself: I am a Dafa practitioner, and I have my mission of duty for Falun Dafa. I cannot envy ordinary people or lose my purpose. I would also like to remind fellow practitioners: Please do not persist in a goal of fitness. If you do, it will become a handle for the old forces to pull you down.

In fact, the exercises of Falun Dafa are the absolute means for genuine health.