A young Hong Kong student’s life falls apart after taking drug-laced food - but finds renewed health after finding Falun Dafa

Charlotte’s Spiritual Journey and Finding Falun Gong

From a young age, Charlotte, a student from Hong Kong studying teaching in Sydney, lacked self-confidence and would sleep most days to escape the world.

At the time, she was living with her father and brother but worried a lot about her mother, who was living apart from them overseas. Her boyfriend would try to boost her confidence by complimenting her but to no avail. He suggested Charlotte see a mental health professional, but being stubborn, she flatly refused.

Charlotte, a Hong Kong student living in Sydney

Eating Drug-Laced Food

One evening, unable to sleep and on the verge of breaking up with her boyfriend, Charlotte was invited to a party by some friends. She happily accepted and went along, thinking a change of scene might help to settle her troubled mind. 

At the party, her friend handed her a box of freshly baked cookies that, unbeknownst to her, contained marijuana. The cookies made her sick, dizzy, and thirsty. They also caused her to have difficulty breathing. 

Because she was on a student visa, she was afraid of getting in trouble with the law, and so, initially, didn’t go to a doctor. She also didn’t want to cause any problems for the friend who’d given her the cookie, so she told the people around her that she was suffering from food poisoning.

Seriously Ill & Depressed

At first, she felt better after drinking a lot of water. However, a series of traumatic health problems soon followed.

Dizziness, nausea, a blocked nose, gastritis and uncontrollable hiccups made it difficult for her to breathe when she lay down, and she frequently needed to sit up in bed all night. 

The problems persisted, and she took herself to the hospital Emergency Room on six separate occasions. On the advice of a doctor, she visited a specialist, but even the specialist couldn’t identify the source of her symptoms. Eventually, in desperation, she went to see various Chinese medicine physicians, who concluded that she suffered from severe low blood sugar, low Qi-blood circulation, and depression. 

During this period, she reconciled with her boyfriend, who soon became her nearly full-time carer. Only he knew how serious her health problems were. 

Her constantly blocked nose never let up, making breathing difficult, and the hiccups never ceased. Even taking a shower was hard for her. Soon she’d spent more than $8,000 on medical consultations and treatments. 

She was unable to function and, sadly, had to quit her studies. 

Apart from her boyfriend, nobody believed she was sick not even her family. Frustratingly, her parents and her brother attributed her illness to basic gastritis with occasional nausea. 

Within a few months, Charlotte's body weight began dropping rapidly, and she fell into a deep depression. She lashed out at the friends who gave her marijuana and demanded repayments for her medical expenses - she even threatened to sue them.

As a result, their friendship broke down and she became even more socially isolated. 

"Falun Dafa is Good, Truth, Compassion, Forbearance is Good"

At this point, it was clear to Charlotte that modern medicine couldn’t help, and Chinese medicine also didn’t work. Charlotte spent more money and time online, seeking advice on social media.

One day she received a response from a Falun Gong practitioner, who responded to Charlotte's request for help, saying, "You must have faith, miracles do exist in this world."  As a child, Charlotte was educated in a Christian school. Although she herself was not a believer, she had respect for religion and traditional beliefs. So, when she heard the word "miracle" she asked for more information.

The Falun Gong practitioner advised her, "Recite these nine words: Falun Dafa Hao. Zhen, Shan, Ren Hao.” In Chinese this means, “Falun Dafa [Falun Gong] is Good. Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance is Good.”

Charlotte knew very little about Falun Gong, but she’d heard a lot of negative comments about it from her parents as a child. She recalled seeing groups of Falun Gong practitioners practicing meditation on streets and in parks, both in Hong Kong and Sydney. Due to the influence of her parents, she’d been avoiding getting too close and finding out what Falun Gong actually was. 

Now, she was in a lot of pain and had little support: She decided that night to believe miracles can exist and recited the words the Falun Gong practitioner had suggested.

And she did it from her heart.

A Miracle happens after finding Falun Dafa

The next morning, Charlotte woke up feeling much better… and her blocked nose was gone!

In her excitement, she cried out, "Miracles do happen!”

Wasting no time, Charlotte got onto the Falun Gong website and spent the next nine days watching Master Li Hongzhi’s nine recorded lectures. Later, she also read through the main text, "Zhuan Falun.”   

After a little while, Charlotte started to feel sick again, feeling unwell and short of breath. Charlotte sought the advice of the same Falun Gong practitioner online. This time, he read out an extract from Zhuan Falun and let her listen. He then asked her to read the passage together with him. Charlotte had a feeling of comfort and of a good feeling flowing into her, getting stronger and stronger as they read. 

Soon she again recovered from her illness and was able to take care of herself and return to normal life; spending time with friends and studying. 

Reconciliation with her family members

That was how Charlotte started learning Falun Gong.

After returning to normal life, Charlotte encountered resistance from her family, who strongly objected to her practicing Falun Gong, due to having heard false reports from Chinese Community Party (CCP) run media in Hong Kong. However, as time went by, her family also noticed a positive change in Charlotte and changed their minds.

One day, Charlotte found an entry in her boyfriend's diary, written when he was a child in mainland China. It recounted the fabricated lies of the Chinese Communist Party about Falun Gong.

She cried when she read it.

Charlotte confronted her boyfriend. She told him, “When I was sick, you helped take care of me. I was so weak, so helpless, even my parents didn’t understand. You were the only one who knew my traumatic condition. After taking up the Falun Dafa practice, I recovered so well.”

She asked her boyfriend to apologize and to retract all the bad things he’d written about Falun Gong.

He admitted that Charlotte had not only recovered from her sickness but had also changed dramatically from an unreasonable person to a gentle and kind person. Looking up at the sky, her boyfriend said, “Master Li, [referring to the founder of Falun Gong] please forgive me.” He then tore up those diary pages.

Now, every time Charlotte comes across any discomfort in her body, her boyfriend encourages her to practice the exercises, which makes her feel much better.

She asked her boyfriend, “What should I say when I meet your mother back in mainland China?”

He responded, “Don’t worry, I will explain. Falun Gong is a good thing.”

Since beginning her Falun Gong cultivation and gaining a deeper understanding of its principles, she’s also forgiven her friends. If they hadn’t given her the marijuana, she wouldn’t have gotten sick, and wouldn’t have come across Falun Gong!

Now she lives life with a calm disposition. Her attitude now is to let nature take its course. 

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