The healing area treats healing totally differently than
we do in western medicine. Internal Gung-fu tends not
to treat the immediate disease or the immediately
affected organ or part, it tends to treat the whole body in
a holistic sense. It treats the cause of the disease rather
than the effect. And there are two ways in which we use
internal Gung-fu to heal. The first way is the ?€˜hands on?€™
approach, we use the healing powers that we gain from
performing internal Gung-fu; a build up of Qi or
internal energy. And we are then able to place our hands
upon our patients and in exactly the same way that we
transfer Qi or energy in the fighting arts, we can also
transfer ?€˜good Qi?€™ into an affected area or into a sick
person in order to help their own healing mechanism to
heal themselves. This is why it is very important for
healers to have studied some form of internal Gung-fu.
It causes their healing ability to become far greater than
it would have been had they not trained.
The second area of healing is to be able to heal oneself
through practicing internal Gung-fu. It is a science in
itself. Basically, every move we make in internal
Gung-fu, no matter what style, was invented by people
of genius. Every move helps to heal certain organs or
disease states. Every tiny move that we are taught in our
forms sends life-giving Qi through different meridians in
the body thus bathing the different internal organs in
life-giving Qi. It unblocks blocked areas so that a more
normal flow of Qi or energy is able to flow through these
meridians or channels, thus healing ourselves. So we are not
only able to heal ourselves, we are also able to heal others
using a hands on approach.
The last area of this book, ?€˜The esoteric of internal Gung-fu?€™
will teach you how to gain ?€˜the power?€™. Another name for
this chapter could be ?€˜You have the power, use it?€™. It gives
you practical things to do to enable your body and mind to
subconsciously make use of the great powers that we have
all around us, rather than blocking those powers off by being
logical human beings. We are in fact able to make use of the
great powers of the Universe in order to not only heal
ourselves, but also to cause things to happen in our
circumstances perhaps or in our daily life. These powers can
never be used to hurt others such as in so-called black magic
etc.
Many people think that there is a difference between the
self-defense area, healing and the esoteric area. But it is the
learning of the ?€˜martial art?€™ that gives us all five areas.
Simply learning internal Gung-fu gives us all of the above
areas. Sadly though many martial artists only ever deal with
the so-called fighting aspects. When internal Gung-fu was
invented, it was meant as a holistic life-style rather than just
a way of self-defense. It is we in the west who have taken
arts such as Gung-fu and karate for instance and only learnt
the fighting or the technique part of the whole martial art.
When internal Gung-fu was invented it was invented to give
people a life-style, a healthier life-style. When the masters
of old invented the forms and all of the beginning ways of
internal Gung-fu ,they had in mind, not just self-defense, but
also the gaining of a healthy mind, body and spirit. So we
could then assist others to get well in mind, body and spirit.
The whole of internal Gung-fu is geared towards a holistic
approach rather than just fighting. But as China?€™s history is
steeped in feudalism, fighting was an easy method to use to
teach the people about healing and ?€˜spirit?€™. People
understood the martial arts with just about everyone in
China having something to do with the fighting arts. So it
was a relatively easy task to take the martial arts (Wushu, or
war arts), when the old masters were inventing them and
have built into the martial arts, other aspects that they
wished the people to learn. So built into every move we
make in internal Gung-fu is not only a self-defense
application, but also a self-healing application, a medical
application and a self-awareness application. And an
application that brings us a little closer to the spirit, or as
we in the west put it, to God. In fact, much of what we
learn in internal Gung-fu teaches us more about God
and about the teachings of Jesus Christ. Although
nowadays, people who belong to so-called religious
sects try to say that internal Gung-fu in particular is evil
and has nothing to do with God or Jesus. Or rather I
should say that internal Gung-fu should teach us about
what all of the great spiritual leaders have taught, but
sadly many do not, taking only the fighting aspects as
being representative of the whole of the martial arts. But
if we look at the teachings of for instance, Jesus Christ
or Buddha or Mohamed, or Krishna, you?€™ll find that
everything these great spiritual leaders taught is there in
internal Gung-fu. So in a way, internal Gung-fu is really
quite religious or rather, spiritual and teaches us in
many ways much more about life and about helping
others than what we would ever learn going to a church
every day where often we find much hypocrisy.
Internal Gung-fu is pure in its teaching and in its
training, it is raw and affects pure things like the body
and mind in a positive way. It never affects the human
mind, body or spirit in a negative manner. Internal
Gung-fu is a primeval force that can be taken and taught
to others to give them a better way of living. It can take
someone who has perhaps strayed off the ?€˜path?€™ and put
them back onto the ?€˜path?€™, whatever that path may be
for that individual and any given time.It could very well
be a path to enlightenment, or it could simply mean
towards a personal goal in life. Whatever your ?€˜way?€™,
internal Gung-fu will certainly help you get there.
