(Clearwisdom.net) I am a practitioner from Hubei province. I started practicing Dafa after New Year's Day of 1997. Before practicing Dafa, I was suffering from a myriad of diseases. My body felt like it weighed more than a thousand pounds, and I was unable to walk unaided. I took medicine every day, but my health never improved. I could not do any housework, and every day was full of agony. I could not think of anything other than my health problems.

January 16, 1997 is a date that I will never forget. I met a fellow-townswoman and upon seeing me, she was really surprised and said, "Where on earth did you get such a diseased body?" Hearing this, I instantly burst out crying. She invited me to try practicing Falun Gong and gave me a copy of the book China Falun Gong. I was glad to read it immediately and I bought a copy of Zhuan Falun later. The more I read the books, the more I wanted to read. While I was reading, I was constantly struck with the thought that I had a predestined connection with Falun Gong.

I practiced the exercises and read the Fa every day together with my fellow townswoman. Within one month after starting practice, my body felt very good and light, as if it could fly with the wind. Very soon all of my diseases disappeared, without any need for medicine, and I was able to do housework again. The delight in my heart was incredible. Then I told everyone I met that Falun Gong is miraculous and helped me get rid of my decades of diseases just by practicing it in such an easy way. All of my diseases were gone. They just disappeared! Within two years I was full of energy. Every day I got up very early and went to the plaza to practice. When it was snowing, I didn't feel cold even sitting on the snow, and I didn't feel hot sitting on the ground in the hottest summer. I was never tired, and I felt an immense joy living every day. That must have come from Teacher's divine power.

In 1999, the persecution started. Due to my big attachment of fear, I dared not continue my practice even though I clearly knew that Dafa was good. After July 1999, I quit practicing the exercises for more than five years, and my health condition had returned to the state before I started practice. I even developed new ailments, including hypertension, esophagitis, gastritis, enteritis, which lined up one after another. I had no sooner left the hospital from having an operation to remove stones in my body, that I was asked to enter the hospital again for another treatment. I told my family members that I no longer wanted to stay in the hospital. Then my daughter started buying many kinds of popular and expensive medicines for me (a pill for hypertension costs seven yuan and you had to take one pill per day).

After getting out of hospital, I met a former fellow practitioner, who asked me if I was still practicing. I told her that I moved to the countryside and no one there was practicing, so I had quit practicing. She said that they had been persisting in practicing. Upon hearing this, I felt regretful and thought I should not have moved to the countryside. She said, "Don't worry about that now, as you had already gone on a roundabout course. You'd better start practicing again."

Upon coming home, I took out my Dafa books and started reading. While reading Zhuan Falun, I saw that Teacher said that practitioners do not have diseases. I instantly threw away all the medicine. My husband was filled with rage, saying, "It was such expensive medicine, and you just threw it away?" He got mad at me and didn't talk to me for several days. I said to him, "What is the need for you to be angry? You really don't know the reason behind it. I had previously stayed in hospital and bought medicine to treat my diseases just because I didn't practice Falun Gong, and hence I was not a practitioner. I have now decided to follow my Teacher, so I am a practitioner again. Teacher said that practitioners have no disease. Then why should I take medicine? As you also know, I have taken medicine for several months, but where is the improvement? Yet so much money had been wasted." He thought it over for a while and said, "That is true."

From that time on, I read Dafa books and did the exercises every day. Not long after that, my health condition had improved to a disease-free state. During my stays in the hospital, the doctors had told me not to eat so many things. Now that I am practicing Falun Gong, I am no longer restricted. My husband is now convinced. He said, "This book of yours is really miraculous. You don't take medicine or injections and you have no diseases. Amazingly, you haven't even caught a cold the entire year!"

Teacher gave me so much, and my gratitude to him is impossible to express in words. In the future, I will study the Fa well and diligently make good progress in doing the three things, accomplishing the goal of firmly practicing Dafa and closely following Teacher.

I am not very well educated. If anything in my writing is improper, I ask fellow practitioners to point it out.