(Clearwisdom.net) Ten members of my family practice Falun Gong. They are all mentally and physically healthy. I would like to share my family's experiences of having the great joy, fortune, and blessing to practice Falun Gong together.

I. My Illnesses were cured in one week

One day in September 1997, my wife returned home from work with three books: Zhuan Falun, Zhuan Falun Volume II, and Explaining the Content of Falun Dafa. I like to read, so I accepted the books with curiosity. I found the pocket edition containing the three books quite exquisite with its sky-blue-colored sleeve. I hurriedly washed my hands and began reading. I had never seen a book like this before! I had a warm and inexplicable feeling of delight when I saw the picture of the author. I read all three books three times in one week. From the depths of my heart, I knew I wanted to practice cultivation.

During the days that I read the books, I had seven or eight bowel movements each day. Because I was eager to continue reading, however, I did not pay any attention. Afterward, my wife said to me, "How did you become so skinny in just a few days? But you look full of vigor and your edema has vanished."

The following Monday, my colleagues at work also noticed how energetic I was and that my complexion had improved.

I found it quite miraculous that just by reading Zhuan Falun a few times all my illnesses disappeared. I wondered, what kind of a book is this? How could it be so powerful? In 1987, when I was only 32 years old, I developed serious coronary heart disease. For 10 years prior to practicing Falun Gong, I frequently needed to take heart pills to save my life. My whole body would collapse and break out in a sweat. I also had a fatty liver and colitis. However, after practicing Falun Gong for a week, I became healthy and no longer had any illnesses.

My third eye opened during the first time I did the fifth exercise, "Strengthening Divine Powers." In different time-spaces, I saw countless numbers of my body, and dazzling rays of gold, silver, and purple light. Immediately afterward, a Falun began to rotate in my lower abdomen. Also many Falun began to revolve in the places where I originally had illnesses, thereby adjusting my body. Both of my arms felt very comfortable, the bones in one seemed to ooze a coolness, while the other felt like it was being washed with warm water. Master has spoken of the balance of yin and yang. Twice after being adjusted, my whole body felt warm like the sun shining on me in springtime, yet cool like drinking a cold drink on a very hot day. It was both very comfortable and very mysterious.

II. Family members also begin practicing Falun Gong

After seeing the changes in me, my wife and 15-year-old daughter began practicing Falun Gong two months later. My wife had numbness in half of her body due to a job-related injury and very severe inexplicable headaches. Because her bodily temperature was out of the norm, she was unable to sweat even during the hottest days. When she began practicing, the numbness and headaches disappeared, and her body temperature returned to normal so that she was able to perspire.

My daughter became more sensible and smart after practicing Falun Gong. Her grades at school improved, and her class rank rose from being at the bottom of the class to being in the middle. She also became an outstanding student in liberal arts, and she has since become an excellent teacher.

In the beginning of 1998, I sent my father-in-law a copy of Zhuan Falun. One of my wife's sisters had serious tuberculosis. The hospital had given up treating her, and her condition continued to deteriorate. When she saw Zhuan Falun at her parents' home, she immediately decided to take it home and read it. The next day she went to a practice site to learn the exercises. When the assistant taught her the exercises, she could feel the Falun rotating in her lower abdomen. She no longer had any illnesses and was in good health when she returned to her parents' home 20 days later.

My mother-in-law then asked her how her illnesses were cured, and she replied that Falun Gong cured them. My mother-in-law then also wanted to practice Falun Gong. My mother-in-law had nine different diseases that the hospital was unable to cure. Particularly notable was the tumor she had developed in the brain stem at the age of 64 that was inoperable. The doctor said she had less than a year to live.

Her daughter taught her one of the five exercises each week for five weeks. Her mind became clear and her thinking nimble. After practicing Falun Gong for five weeks, all of her illnesses disappeared. When I met my mother-in-law at her home 20 years ago, she was already suffering from episodes of confusion. Now at the age of 77, she is in good health and her responses are quick.

Seeing the changes in his wife and his daughter, my father-in-law began practicing that year. He had serious varicose veins. The blood vessels on his legs looked like earth worms sticking out. The doctor said that if they continued to develop, they would have to amputate his legs. These varicose veins miraculously disappeared after he started to practice Falun Gong.

My wife's three other sisters also started practicing Falun Gong, and her youngest sister-in-law also began practicing after seeing the wondrous changes in everyone else. Master has saved these members of my family.

III. Cultivating kindness and becoming a good person

Master purified our bodies at the initial stage, so that we no longer have any illnesses and our bodies are healthy. Through studying Zhuan Falun, behaving according to the principles of Truth, Compassion, and Forbearance, and aiming to be good people, the realm of our thinking has elevated. When the work unit was allotting apartments, I did not struggle to obtain benefits and let others have them. I proactively took on some of my boss' burdens and took on the most difficult work. I did not accept invitations for dinner in exchange for favors or accept bribes and treated people with sincerity. I was strict with myself and had harmonious relationships with my fellow workers, friends, relatives, and neighbors.

The practitioners around me were also strict with themselves in acting according to the Falun Gong principles of Truth-Compassion-Forbearance, and the public widely held a favorable opinion of Falun Gong. The number of practitioners quickly increased at that time. By the end of 1998, over 10 percent of the people in my city were practicing Falun Gong. At that time I slept only four hours a day, yet I felt very energetic and my complexion was very healthy. I was 44 years old but I did not have any wrinkles around my eyes. I was cheerful all day long and felt incomparably fortunate and blessed.

My father-in-law was able to help his son buy housing due to the money saved from not having medical expenses. He could not have imagined being able to set aside funds before practicing Falun Gong due to the cost of treating illnesses and taking medicine.