(Minghui.org) The Florida Falun Dafa Experience Sharing Conference was held at the Wyndham Garden in Orlando on July 19, 2025.

Practitioners from throughout Florida attended the conference. Seventeen Western and Chinese practitioners shared their cultivation experiences, in hopes that their sharing would encourage everyone to cultivate diligently, form a whole body and walk well on the cultivation path of assisting Master to rectify the Fa.

Practitioners talked about their cultivation experiences.

Having a Mindset of a Practitioner and Clarifying the Truth

Annie is a camera operator for NTD TV during the Shen Yun performances when the show comes to Florida. She initially didn’t know much about filming videos. As a practitioner, she was willing to take on this project and worked hard to improve her skills. After she successfully did the first interview, she helped practitioners in other states conduct interviews during Shen Yun performances. She experienced challenges, such as broken equipment and technical issues, but overcame each of them. She realized that it was essential to maintain a practitioner's mentality during the process, and the wisdom bestowed by Falun Dafa eventually helped her overcome the difficulties and enabled her to pass the tests.

She also helped a few Chinese people learn the truth and withdraw from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its affiliated organizations. By helping others selflessly and treating them with sincerity and consideration, she was able to let them know the truth. She said that cultivating herself well is the prerequisite to saving more sentient beings.

Maria said she started practicing Falun Dafa in 2000 to improve her health. By studying the Fa and reading practitioners’ sharing articles on the Minghui website, she gradually understood what it meant to truly and solidly cultivate.

She’s practiced Falun Dafa for over 20 years and all her illnesses are gone. However, she came across a lot of hardships in her daily life. She lost her job. A family member became seriously ill, and there were many family conflicts. But she overcame all the issues by persistently studying the Fa and practicing the exercises. Her tribulations reinforced her belief in Falun Dafa. She has clarified the truth about the persecution to people in parks and at beaches, and she's demonstrated the Falun Dafa exercises in nursing homes to let more people know how wonderful Falun Dafa is.

Practicing Falun Dafa, Mind and Body Lifted

Before Marina and her husband started practicing Falun Dafa in 2012, she suffered from headaches and back pain for years. She felt hopeless and desperate. She begged God for guidance. Several days later her husband found the Falun Dafa website, and they began to learn the exercises. Their health improved a lot. They inspired several relatives to practice Falun Dafa as well.

They study the Fa and practice the exercises every day. They cultivate themselves and have become kinder. They regained their health and realized the meaning of life and their mission in this world.

Fan is a young practitioner from Orlando. She realized the importance of looking inward by studying and memorizing the Fa. She described her positive changes after she began memorizing the Fa. Through memorization, she understood the Fa principles more and her xinxing improved. She lives her life according to Falun Dafa’s principles.

When she saw her family members’ behavior, she realized that she acted the same way. She rectified herself and improved herself. When she did well, she noticed her family members also changed.

One example was that she changed her daily schedule to accommodate her father’s time to do the exercises. Because of her consideration for her father, she was able to make a breakthrough when she meditated. She can now meditate for a longer time. She personally experienced the true meaning of “Cultivation depends on one’s own efforts, while the transformation of gong is done by one’s master.” (Lecture One, Zhuan Falun)

Experiencing Dafa’s Compassion and Wisdom by Looking Within

Gina is a psychiatrist and started practicing Falun Dafa in 2002. Although Gina had practiced Falun Dafa for many years and was involved in truth-clarifying projects and media work, she just cultivated superficially and didn’t really look inward to find out where she didn’t do well. When she had conflicts with her family members, she always looked outward and blamed others. In 2021, she experienced a series of hardships such as her taxes being audited, economic loss, a family member passing away, and conflicts in the media project. She realized she was attached to fame, personal interest, comfort and herself for a long time.

These hardships made her realize that she had these problems because she did not truly cultivate herself. Only by looking within could she solve her problems. As she studied the Fa more and improved her xinxing, she realized that the conflicts and hardships were opportunities for her to improve and were tests she must face. The only way to break through the hardships was to look within, let go of attachments and adhere to the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance.

Young practitioner Kayla from Miami talked about her xinxing challenges in the past year. Facing the malicious media attacks and conflicts within projects, she felt psychological pressure and her cultivation took a down turn.

Due to the conflicts within the projects, she became so angry that she was unable to sleep at night. She didn’t want to study the Fa and do the exercises. She nearly lost her belief in Dafa. She was in despair. Her husband shared with her from the Fa's perspective. She made a trip that she felt Master arranged for her. She became clear-minded and realized that she actually didn’t lose her confidence in Falun Dafa, but rather she was very disappointed with some practitioners and one project, and felt she had lost her way.

Thanks to Master’s strengthening and practitioners’ help, she resumed studying the Fa, came out of the darkness, and regained her righteous thoughts. She’s energetic and joyful again. She realized that she was attached to everyday people’s reasoning, which was a reflection of her competitiveness. The real improvement is to let go of herself during conflicts and look within. Only then can she experience Dafa’s compassion and wisdom.

Master Looks After My Children

Cathy has a son and a daughter who grew up in Dafa and are practitioners. They experienced miracles. Her son was diagnosed with a speech disorder and developmental delay when he was young. The doctor suggested that he attend a special school. She let her son listen to Master’s lectures and attend experience sharing conferences with her. He recovered from his condition and his academic skills improved remarkably. He became one of the top students in his class. His teachers were amazed by Falun Dafa’s power.

Her children entered Fei Tian Academy when they grew up. They became more disciplined, kinder and more responsible. Their dreams of becoming artists came true. They walk steadily on their cultivation paths. She realized that practitioners shouldn’t interfere with other people’s cultivation paths. Only by believing in Master and the Fa and letting go of oneself, can we walk our cultivation paths well.