The best road to good health is to stay healthy. But if you get sick, then the traditional paradigm in both Western medicine and Classical Chinese Medicine (CCM), also called Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), is to go see a doctor and have the doctor prescribe some medicine for you (and in the case of Western medicine, may have some surgery done on you). So the traditional paradigm for treating illnesses requires intervention by someone else, usually a trained medical practitioner. Wouldn’t it be nice if there is something you can do yourself to cure your illnesses? Is this only a fantasy or wishful thinking? Perhaps not. In the last decade-plus, Hongchi Xiao, a man with an extremely interesting background, has met and learned from tens of legendary medical masters and doctors all over China and other parts of the world, including many recluses but with rare expertise in the healing arts. He learned not only CCM, acupuncture, and acupressure, but he also learned and mastered a set of auto-therapies (exercises), Lajin and Paida self-healing therapies (拉筋拍打自愈法). Laijin in Chinese means to stretch your tendons and ligaments. Paida in Chinese means to pat and slap your body parts.
He has helped to revive and popularized these ancient self-healing therapies. Since 2010, he has organized more than 100 successful workshops in many places in China, as well as in Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Germany, Switzerland, and the U.S. Thousands of people have attended and greatly benefited from these workshops. Furthermore, these exercises not only can cure diseases, they can also detect diseases including those that have not clearly manifested themselves. Therefore, the same set of exercises can be used to detect and get rid of diseases, i.e., they can keep you in good health, and also cure your illnesses. This article provides an introduction to these exercises.
What Can Be Done So Japan Will Acknowledge History?
More than 67 years have elapsed since the end of World War II (WWII). Yet the Japanese government still has not acknowledged or apologized for the massive, inhumane atrocities that the Japanese Imperial Army inflicted all over Asia during WWII. Soon there won’t be any more living sex slave (euphemistically called Comfort Woman by the Japanese government). Soon there won’t be any more living Nanking Massacre survivor. Soon there won’t be any more survivor of Japanese’ germ warfare attacks. Soon there won’t be any more survivor of the Bataan Death March. Soon there won’t be any more survivor of the prisoner of war (POW) slave laborers, and soon there won’t be any more living former Japanese soldier who participated in these atrocities.
Yes, that time will come soon, very soon. The Japanese government may think that by that time no one will remember about these atrocities. However, she will be completely wrong, because there are just too many reliable records of what happened during WWII in Asia, including diaries and other written records by victims, eyewitnesses, as well as Japanese soldiers, photos and movies, real-time reports by media personnel and diplomats, official government and military reports and records of the Japanese military, and oral and video interviews of victims and former Japanese soldiers.
The Japanese government still adopts the attitude that most of these atrocities did not occur, and claims that they were greatly exaggerated or invented by the victims. For example, just last month Toru Hashimoto, the mayor of Osaka and the co-leader of the Japan Restoration Party, said that “the comfort women system was necessary.” Shinzo Abe, Japan’s current prime minister and her prime minister during 2006-2007 has repeatedly said that “there was no coercion of women into sexual slavery during WWII, and there is no testimony from anyone in Japan.” He also recently said that Japan’s wartime actions should not be called “aggression.” Takashi Kawamura, mayor of Nagoya, said in 2012 that “there was no Nanking Massacre, only the results of conventional acts of combat.” Several government bodies, including the U.S., Canada, Netherlands, and the European Union, already passed resolutions in 2007 condemning the Japanese government for their position on comfort women [1]. Apparently words alone are not sufficient, and more serious actions are needed by the world community so that Japan will acknowledge its history.
This article identifies several actions that citizens of the world can take to exert pressure on the Japanese government so that it becomes obvious to them that it is also to their best interest if they recognize history. We emphasize that any single action is unlikely to be sufficient, but the set of actions as a whole may reach a critical threshold to result in positive results.
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