You might find it weird to see that I have named this first chapter “The End.” I often told my clients in my courses that if you want a new life, you should first say goodbye to your old life. For health, it’s the same. If you truly want to have optimal health, you have to first say goodbye to your old habit that was causing your health issues. This is more important than any of the treatment.
It’s not difficult to understand if you think about it. Let’s say you easily have loose stools or diarrhea. I used moxibustion to quickly improve that—normally with 1–2 treatments. But if you don’t change your eating habits, your problem might come back in 2–3 weeks. You might think the treatment doesn’t last long, but the reality is, it is because of your daily habit. The speed of damaging your body is faster than the speed of healing it.
For people with diarrhea, it means too much dampness or too cold in the lower part of the body. It’s like cooking. There must be fire to heat the water to steam, or qi, so that it can go up to the top of your body to be utilized by your organ systems. If you continue to drink cold water and eat too much cold stuff, including excessive fruit, it will continuously cause the coldness, loose stools, or diarrhea.
In my online courses, I often tell my clients some important habit changes and emotional management at the beginning.
Another example:
Clinically, I can see that so many women have breast issues—either breast pain, nodules or breast cancer. I told them if they want to solve the problem from the root, they need to learn to stay calm and not be angry. Ninety percent of such breast issues are due to qi stagnation, which is related to emotion. So, treatment for the existing problem is one thing. Most importantly, you must think positively and learn to tolerate and forgive.
Nowadays, there are so many people talking about mental health. We have special concerns for the young people. In my class, I normally tell parents not to take their kids to psychologists or mental doctors. The reason is simply that it is not a mental issue. It is a physical, habit or education issue. The biggest challenge is that the young people sleep too late. It’s very common for the young generation, even the adults, to now go to sleep after 12 a.m. Some go to bed even later. And they often argue that they wake up late, so in total, they sleep more than eight or even 10 hours. I told them that the 8-hour sleep during the daytime is different from the 8-hour sleep at night. It’s not how long you sleep; it’s what time you sleep that matters more. To put it in a simpler way, you are going against nature.
God created the world and gave you the sun and moon to guide you when to sleep and when to wake up. What we are doing is against nature’s law. And we have a Chinese saying: that you must be sound asleep by 11:00 p.m. local time. There is a big theory behind it, but I won’t be focusing on this long discussion here. If you want to know about the holistic health theory, you can click to subscribe and follow my YouTube channel, “Holistic Queen,” or frequently check some blogs I posted both in Chinese and in English under website, www.showtcm.com,
So, to gain ultimate wellness, you have to end your old habits.