Chapter 12: Cultivation Can Treat Illness
The root cause of most illnesses in the human body stems from individual habits.
Mental habits and lifestyle habits.
I don’t know if you’ve heard of people who, after being diagnosed with a terminal illness, begin to see through the mortal world and embark on cultivation.
After they start cultivating, their illnesses slowly recover or stop spreading, thus extending their lifespan.
The fundamental reason for this is changing one’s cognition and life patterns.
Using my own experience, I’ll give an example.
In December 2019, due to an accident, three ligaments in my right leg were torn, a meniscus was shattered and removed, and a steel plate and screws were permanently inserted into my bone.
In my hometown, this would be considered the most severe surgery in history.
Since the local doctors did not have extensive surgical experience, my family arranged for the director of a provincial orthopedic hospital to be my primary physician.
After the surgery, I asked myself if I could fully recover and be as active as before.
However, to my surprise, after hearing the expert’s answer, I was devastated, as if struck by lightning.
The process went like this:
“Doctor, can I still exercise in the future?”
“Exercise? What kind of exercise?”
“Like running, things like that.”
“Certainly not! Yours is very severe, you won’t be able to do those things, but normal walking is definitely possible.”
“What? I can only walk normally?”
“Yes, how severe do you think it is? Originally, I thought you only tore two ligaments, which would have been better. You tore three. We initially thought about taking ligaments from your injured leg, but there weren’t enough, so we took them from your good leg. Do you see how serious it is?
Also, you had a meniscus shattered and removed. Didn’t I explain it to you? That meniscus is like a shock absorber in a car. Without it, you definitely won’t be like you were before.”
“Damn it, then I’m crippled, aren’t I? What’s the difference between that and being disabled?”
“There’s no difference, you are disabled. And at best, your leg will only recover to a ninety-degree bend. It will be difficult to go further. However, walking won’t be affected. You just won’t be able to go upstairs to higher floors, or climb mountains, and you can’t do overly strenuous jobs.”
After hearing this, my heart shattered. I was done for. If I could only walk in the future, what would be the point of living?
Throughout the entire recovery period, I was very depressed, and I even had thoughts of ending my life.
I felt like my life had lost all meaning from that point on, because I used to be very confident and had strong physical fitness, able to do dozens of squats while carrying someone on my back.
I felt like the sky had fallen, that I wouldn’t be able to do anything in the future. I was completely useless.
Until one day, suddenly, a surge of determination washed over me, and that spirit of refusing to give up resurfaced.
Everyone dies eventually; I will leave eventually. What’s the difference if I leave sooner or later?
Then why shouldn’t I leave later? What if I could recover? What if I got better?
Besides, does his saying I can’t get better mean I really can’t? I don’t believe it. I think I can get better, and recover very, very well.
I won’t say I can fully recover to be the same as before, but it definitely won’t be far off, because I’m not ordinary. If ordinary people can’t recover, it doesn’t mean I can’t.
I can definitely get better. I’m so awesome, I’ve been awesome since I was little. What can’t I do?
Yes! I can definitely do it. Besides, I still have decades of life ahead of me. If I don’t try, how will I know I can’t?
Since I’ll die eventually anyway, I’ll just wait. Even if I recover before I die, I’ll still be awesome.
Moreover, I feel it won’t take me that long, maybe three years at most. I’ll definitely recover well, be able to run and jump. I can definitely do it.
With this thought, I began to deliberately train myself. Due to being lazy, I didn’t like getting up to practice, as my leg had become immobile. Getting up to exercise was very awkward, so I tied an eight-pound sandbag to my leg, even while sleeping, to build leg strength.
During the day, I would rest my injured leg on my good leg and sway it, using the weight of the sandbag to press down on my leg.
My idea was simple: as long as it could help my leg regain its bend and strength. I didn’t take it off at night because I thought I would instinctively turn over in my sleep, and carrying the eight-pound sandbag would also provide training without me knowing.
Two months after the injury, I could already walk, although if you looked closely, you could still clearly see my gait was not fluid.
At this point, I contacted some friends who were playing around with short videos and traveling to film skits.
I used the excuse of going out with them to travel around with them, with the purpose of training myself to walk more.
Or, if you asked me to just wander around at home by myself, I really wouldn’t want to and would be too lazy. But when I went out with a group of people, I wouldn’t refuse.
Three months later, just by walking, you couldn’t tell from my appearance that I had suffered such a severe injury.
At that time, I enjoyed drinking alcohol. Actually, I’ve always enjoyed drinking; we’ll talk about this reason later.
Sometimes, after drinking, I would deliberately use the reduced pain perception to practice squatting. I would even intentionally shift my weight to my injured leg when using the toilet. In the beginning, it was quite arduous, not because of pain, but because of discomfort. But I treated it as playing, not training.
By persevering like this for a long time, after three years, my leg had largely recovered, and I could run and jump. However, I still consciously paid attention to it.
The bend in my leg was still about two centimeters away from being exactly the same as before.
I truly achieved such an incredible level that if I didn’t mention my past severe injury, no one would be able to tell.
Of course, the purpose of sharing these things is not just to brag, but also to explain the fundamental reason why people can reverse desperate situations.
To achieve this, you must first change your cognition, that is, your thoughts. If I had listened to the experts and those around me at that time, would I have become what they described?
It is precisely because I was unwilling to believe and truly didn’t believe, but only believed in myself, believed I could, that I was awesome, that I would definitely succeed.
That is why I was able to truly achieve a miracle.
This is how the mind works: after changing your cognition, you practice, and move towards the direction of what you envision in your heart to verify it.
Why is it said that cultivation can treat illness?
It is precisely because I modified my mental actions that I was able to climb out of the abyss from a desperate situation. This strength can be called the power of cultivation.
Modify thoughts and actions, lifestyle habits and actions.
