Education that focuses on stimulating the discovery of information from within is an empowering form of education. I really believe that ethic, social behaviours, environmental behaviours, creativity, and healing, just to name a few, have to be discovered and felt from within to have a long term impact. When learning happens in this way, more than offering new data to memorize, the inner experience empowers and triggers the curiosity and creativity of the individual that promotes an interest for self-discovery and fuels eventual precious contributions for the future of our world.

This is the premise that led me to want to teach the children how to tap to their healing power. The last 23 years I have been involved in clinical Chinese medicine and Medical Qi Gong practices. Through these disciplines I have experienced the source of healing, and I know that this skill is inherent in our human nature. Over time I’ve understood that healing is actually a universal mechanism present everywhere and in everything. Everyone can do it. Maybe it is not everyone’s path to be a full time professional healer but in situations of self-healing, or helping a loved one, a pet, or a plant, the healing energy, which has its source in Love is accessible to everyone. And about this I plead that one must hear and learn that at a young age. This way distortion or misinformation coming from the medical and pharmaceutical mystification could be neutralized.  

A bit over two years ago, for a couple of month I was teaching at Pelangi School in Ubud anatomy and qi gong. During these classes I was showing the kids what was under their skin and also teaching them how to feel their internal organs through simple qi gong methods. To go one step further I asked them to try to feel their class mates internal organs, also through basic hands imposition. The students were participating with great interest since the experience was totally sensorial. All of them had feedbacks to offer, very personal since everyone had their own visceral experience. During this same period, their dear teacher, Dawn was diagnosed with cancer. I asked her if she would accept to receive healing sessions by her students. All of them were between 7 and 11 years old. I told her that the experience could be very empowering for the kids and convinced her that the healing energy that children could transmit was real, pure, and very powerful… and that this could surely help her condition. She loved the idea and agreed.

Due to the emergency of the situation I offered just a few hours of training. Basically I taught them the basics, which was tuning to a positive happy energy (love), to direct it with their hands and a clear intention on their teacher, and to be disciplined enough to hold the quiet for at least 15 minutes. The first experience already was revealing plenty to make everyone enthusiastic, including the children, the teacher, and the parents who started to slowly come either to observe the healing circle that their children were leading or to participate themselves. The power of the energy was making the receiver’s body, move, tremble andeven triggered emotional releases. All kinds of phenomena that normally occurs in a professional healing session were also occurring in the kids session. We could keep this happening only for about 4 weeks and then it was the long school break and also Dawn had to leave to the USA to receive medical cares.

Recently we did the same again at Pelangi with the authorization of Naomi (teacher) and Becki (principal) in order to prepare the kids to participate to a fund raising event for their school. Again we noticed the value of these experiences for the kids. It is empowering and it cultivates positives reactions when they are facing the need for healing around them.
This age (between 7 and 11) is a great moment to imprint this power in the kids mind. I would love in the future to have more opportunities to tell the kids about their potential and to create situations so they can experience with their inherent skills so this early impression remains in their consciousness throughout their whole life.

Daniel Li Ox, Qi Gong Master
daniel@wanderingdao.com
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