From “Fearing” to “Looking Forward to” Practicing the Exercises

(Minghui.org) I have been practicing Falun Dafa for more than 20 years, but I had never been willing to face practicing the exercises. It seemed to have become my burden. I treated practicing the exercises as a task to be completed every day. I looked inward and thought it was laziness, a desire for comfort, and my karma that was making me struggle with it.

Not long ago, my aunt came to my home. She is a devout Christian and is very interested in cultivation. I invited her to study the Fa and practice the exercises with me every day, and she readily agreed. She has a great predestined relationship with Dafa. She could do the hour-long version of the second exercise, and she sat in meditation for two hours. She had four dreams in a row of Master enlightening her!

In order to help my aunt do the exercises accurately, I carefully watched the exercise instruction video several times. I was shocked to realize that many of my exercise movements were not accurate. For example: When I was doing the movement “Tathagata Pouring Energy into the Top of the Head” in the first exercise, my palms were facing down. At the end of the first exercise, when moving the hands from Heshi to Overlapping the Hands in Front of the Lower Abdomen, I was drawing a semicircle with both hands instead of just moving the hands directly down. When practicing the third exercise and the arms are moved up and down in opposite directions, the hand that moves down should be in front of the leg, but I kept it on the side of my leg. My aunt said to me: “You must practice the exercises accurately; otherwise it is equivalent to practicing in vain, and the body cannot be transformed.” I felt ashamed when I heard that! Wasn’t Master using her to tell me this?

We practiced the exercises together for more than a month. By then, my exercise movements had basically reached the standard. Now, my experience of doing the exercises is very different from before: the energy field is very strong, my whole body is warm, and I can feel my hands following along with the energy mechanisms Master installed. In general, I feel very relaxed, comfortable, and at ease. This is a state I didn’t have before. I experience it with a mixture of sadness and joy. Finally, I am no longer afraid of practicing the exercises, and I look forward to practicing the exercises. In the past, I hoped to finish practicing the exercises quickly, but now I hope to do the exercises for longer. I have a feeling of being assimilated into the Fa.

Master said: “Gong is the Law, and the Law is gong, for mind itself is matter.” (“Teachings at the Conference in Houston”) I realized that when one’s exercise movements are accurate (in accordance with the characteristic of the universe), one will achieve assimilation with the characteristic of the universe, one will dissolve into the Fa, and one will feel relaxed, comfortable, and at ease!