Article on Healing by Sarah's Sensei

How to cure illnesses essentially
By Akihiko Wakabayashi

I would like to share how to cure illnesses essentially for people who have diseases and want to be cured, or simply for those who are trying to take health precautions. This is based both on the wisdom that has been accumulated since ancient times and the latest theory and research.


Ancient people found the law of nature

In ancient China, people thought about the four seasons, such as why summer comes after spring or why it is hot in the summer and cold in the winter. They considered that it depended upon, or was due to the work of "KI" (in Chinese "Qi", or energy). So they named it "the Law of Nature" and systematized it.
All creatures and matter, not only human beings, but also animals, plants, minerals and microbes, are created by the invisible energy called "KI". They grow, mature, age, and go back to the unformed energy. And again, they are re-created. This cycle is repeated.

According to Traditional Chinese Medicine, "In nature, we have the four seasons and the five energy transformations, namely, wood, fire, earth, metal, and water. These changes and transformations produce cold, summer heat, dampness, dryness, and wind. The weather, in turn, affects every living creature in the natural world and forms the foundation for birth, growth, maturation, and death under ‘the Law of Nature.’ In the human body there are the five organs, namely, the liver, heart, spleen, lung, and kidneys. The qi (prounounced "Chee") of the five organs forms the five spirits and gives rise to the five different emotions - happiness, anger, sadness, worry or fear, and fright."(The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Medicine)

The Ancient Chinese scientists and philosophers exacted their science through careful observation of the world; both the nuances of the natural world outside, and deep observation of humans’ and their internal world. They saw many patterns emerge from their observation. “The I is ‘a reflection of the universe in miniature.’ There are three meanings to the word "I": ease and simplicity, change and transformation, and invariability. But ‘I ‘primarily means change, used interchangeably with the word Tao since Tao is life, spontaneity, evolution, or in one word, change itself." (Ch’u Chai and Winberg Chai, "Introduction" to I Ching, trans. by James Legge).
This Oriental "Law of Nature" was applied to the I Ching (The Book of Changes), feng shui (geomancy), traditional medicine and many other things.. Even now, we (especially in Japan) apply this law in many ways in our daily life, for example, it is used in the selection of Chinese characters for one's name. And when we build our houses, they are designed to face south, to take in the energy of the sunshine (Yang I from the I Ching). The “I” or transformation of energy is reflected in the change of seasons, and so many of our customs reflect this changing energy. When it is Midsummer on the Day of the Ox, in dog days, we eat eels. Also, we have a custom of celebrating certain birthdays. For children we celebrate turning three, five and seven years of age, and the celebration of one's sixtieth, seventieth, and eighty-eighth birthday’s is also based on the Oriental "Law of Nature."

These are all applications of "the Law of Nature", to better use the energy of "I" in our daily life, and they remind us of the flow of "KI". For example, we should take it easy generally and take better care of ourselves after our sixtieth birthday. This awareness of the law of nature will assist us to live healthily and happily.

"KI" generates all matter. Therefore, "KI" is the essential source of every form matter. By understanding the law of the flow of "KI", that is, "the Law of Nature", we can live with a healthy and happy body and mind. Ancient Chinese philosophers thought this to be true.


Applications for the Medical Field

Oriental Medicine focuses on the flow of qi within the body and mind, and in the relationship of this inner qi to the flow of qi within nature, or external qi.

For example, all of these elements are compared from external seasons and weather, to the physical body and finally to our internal emotions and even soul; all of these elements are considered to belong to the element of wood; Spring, East, Wind, Wood, Sourness, Liver, Eyes, Nails, Tendons, Blood in the organs, Blue, Anger, Stress, Soul.

"With the arrival of spring, the flow of qi comes from the east. The sun rises in the east and brings about the wind. The wind flourishingly produces qi of wood, which produces sour taste, and the sour taste strengthens the liver, and qi of the liver nourishes the sinews (muscles, tendons, joints). ‘I’ of the liver appears in the eyes and nails; it nourishes qi of blood; its’ color is blue; it produces angry emotions. The liver is the place where the soul is."(The yellow Emperor's Classic of Medicine)

So let us see how to apply this wisdom to patients.
For example, in the case of a patient who has a bad liver, we try not only to cure the bad liver, but we investigate the source of the disease and why the patient came to have this liver trouble in the first place. When we are angry or feel stress, the flow of qi in the liver is weakened, and the proper functioning of the liver is deteriorated. Many other factors, such as changing our natural surroundings, environmental contamination, poor dietary habits and life-style, fluctuating emotions, and our way of thinking also affect the liver. If they impose a burden on our mind and body, then they tend to adversely affect our livers.

For example, the reason for a bad liver will essentially continue to exist unless one changes one's habit of heavy drinking. Then why does a person who knows this fact drink so much?

As an example, a man may drink to release himself of stress from his job, as his boss is a stern man and always scolds him. His stress will last forever unless he changes his way of thinking or his attitude when he gets scolded. Even if his liver may be cured by some treatment, his drinking habit to release his stress will only worsen his liver again. The fundamental solution to the problem is to change this mans’ way of thinking about things.

Human beings think in their brain, and then take action. Our "consciousness", or awareness of any given moment, characterizes various events in our lives, and is always at work. And yet, Western medicine has disregarded an acknowledgement of the "consciousness" when trying to cure diseases. The Western medical approach does not look at our mind and body as an integrated whole, as in Eastern Medicine.
"The law of Nature" in Oriental Medicine says that "Consciousness" is the essence of "I" which creates everything.


Human beings have evolved by applying "the Law of Nature"

As mentioned above, human beings understood "The Law of Nature" even in ancient times, and have since used it to cure disease, improve their quality of life, and to improve the healthy functioning of their societies.
During the last few hundred, it has been popular to try to understand "the Law of nature" through natural sciences. Sir Isaac Newton, who discovered the Law of Gravity, Albert Einstein, who deduced the Principle of Relativity, and Leonardo da Vinci among many others who discovered many laws of nature, and therefore contributed to human progress.
Those who found these laws of nature seemed to have first intuitively felt the existence of such laws. Their intuition apparently exceeded reasoning. For example, it is well known that Sir Isaac Newton discovered the Law of Gravity by intuition, when he saw an apple falling while he stood idling under an apple tree.
In the same way as these early experiences, new trials to understand "The Law of Nature" using our intuition seem to have started in mid-1980s.


The Latest " Law of Nature"

The latest study of "the Law of Nature" is being daily promoted at IFUE (The Institute of Form-Undulatory Energy, with Ikuro Adachi as its’ Director). As our present society understands "the Law of Nature" and applies any new ideas and through modern-day natural sciences, therefore the IFUE collects and studies their intuitive information about the Law of Nature as scientifically as possible. Through application of such information, many clinical cases are reported, in which people with difficult diseases were cured.
Now, I would like to unfold my thoughts in light of The Law of Undulation, by Ikuro Adachi and published by the PHP Institute, which has sold 150 thousand copies so far. [Parentheses indicate quotations from the book.]

[The essence of all matter is the atomic nucleus, inside of which lie neutron, proton, and electron. Then the fact that neutron is "Consciousness" and proton is "Volition" means that absolutely everything is made up of "Consciousness and Volition." This is also true of the air that we cannot even see. Basically any space where there is air is filled with "Consciousness" and "Volition."]

All matter on earth is composed of atoms and atoms are composed of neutrons and protons. If the neutron is "Consciousness" itself, and the proton is "Volition" or will, it can then be said that our "thoughts and mind" directly influence each and every matter in the universe. So, if we happen to have an inharmonious "Consciousness", it will affect the matter that surrounds it. On the contrary, when we have a harmonious "Consciousness", it will harmonize with the surrounding matter. So what is an inharmonious consciousness?


Inharmonious "Consciousness"

[When there is an expansion of the consciousness whose only desire is to keep the body safe, which wants to maintain greater safety only for its own body, its family, its company, its country, its tribe, or "only humans," that consciousness is inharmonious according to "The Law of Nature." Energy is something that flows across everything to harmonize all beings equally and without exception. Consciousness that gives priority to "only humans" is very inharmonious according to the Law of Nature. As long as we act with such consciousness, we always transmit inharmonious wave energy (inharmonious Qi).]

We tend to use CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons) just for convenience even though they can destroy the ozone-layer. As a result, a powerful ultra-violet ray is poured on the earth causing many people to suffer from skin cancer. Excessive consumption of petroleum has caused global warming and a country in the south Pacific even sank into the sea. The fundamental cause of these situations is our me-centered "Consciousness" that "everything is acceptable if it is beneficial for humans", that fails to take into account the effect that this approach has on our communities, our health and our world. Human beings have developed various things and promoted civilization based on this "Consciousness". And this has brought about many problems.



The Essence of Disease

[When a human being has a consciousness that only seeks to satisfy its own desires, its constituent neutrons and protons reach a distorted state and lose their normal forms. So a distorted human consciousness produces germs.]

An eastern wise man described this in another way.
"Man is composed of bones, flesh, blood and skin. But these alone would not have given him life. He has a soul, a spirit, which makes him capable of life as a man.
If so, when you fall ill, can you dispose of it simply as a disease in the body?
Until now, these diseases have been considered in most cases to be caused by physical disorders alone and medical treatment has been applied. But there is an ultimate cause deeper than just bacteria. It is that there is something wrong with the mind, something unnatural and distorted. The distortion of the mind, then, which causes a bodily disease, does not really originate in a man's family frictions and business depression, but rather corresponds exactly with such life environment of his. So the fact is that a disease in the body is a danger signal in which are revealed the dark shadows (unnaturalness) of his life (family or business relation, etc.). The way it is given illustrates admirably the unnatural distortions of his mind."(Toshio Maruyama)


Germs are created in each of our consciousness

[Not only that, on Earth, we misunderstand and say that the germs cause diseases. We think germs are "bad." We have the "consciousness" to "fight" and "kill," and hate the germs that we ourselves produce. Basically, the "Consciousness" to "fight" or "kill" itself does not follow the law of nature.
However, as we continue to compete and take from one another, in the end the conscious mind hates the germs that it has produced with its own disharmonized consciousness. The germs that we hate are those that we have produced ourselves; in essence, the germs themselves are not evil, yet we try to kill them by means of disinfections.]

It seems that our "disharmonized conscious mind" and "greed" produce germs and cause diseases. No matter how we cure "diseases" and "disinfect germs", we will not be able to eradicate diseases, unless we change our "disharmonized conscious mind" which produces diseases and germs. After killing germs because "germs are bad," more powerful germs come up and a hospitalized person may die because of an in-hospital infection. Such situations seem to be related to the way of human thinking.
It may be possible that we produce new germs and diseases because we doctors cure diseases everyday, believing that our treatment is right.


Disease is a message

[As regards this, the state changes drastically when a person's "conscious mind" undergoes a consciousness shift in a harmonized direction and the frequency (working of Qi) increases more and more when they take in harmonious action. As the neutrons, protons and electrons head in a normal direction, disease disappears.
Those who have diseases, those who have cancer or AIDS, please do not have the "consciousness" to hate, fight or kill them, but instead understand the law of nature and that AIDS, for instance, is something that your "conscious mind" has produced and that the virus is sending you a message right now. And if you have "consciousness" that says, "Thank you for the message," your "conscious mind" will surely undergo a consciousness shift to a harmonious direction. This is the quickest way to cure disease.
That is why having the "Consciousness" to be healthy and live long is personal greed and is not a fundamental solution to disease. To put it simply, the result of harmony is health and long life.]

Disease is a message to let one realize one's distorted way of living or thinking.
If we have gratitude for this message and change our way of living and thinking, the disease will be cured. Therefore it is very important that we should not pursue curing "diseases", but to divert our "consciousness," which creates diseases, in a harmonious direction. It is important that we do not give gratitude in order to "cure our disease quickly", because this focus on “curing our disease” does not allow us to really have genuine feelings of gratitude to the message that the disease is gifting us with. We need to be very careful not to let a situation of false gratitude to develop.


Curing diseases by exploring the essence

[The reason why we have come not to "have gratitude for the message of a disease" and cure disease quickly, is that we are not exploring the "essence." For doctors, exploring "essence" to cure diseases will mean they should find out what a human is.
If doctors really seriously deal with the study of "what is a human," then they should view things in essence not from what is disease, but "what is a sick person." The necessary approach is not to cure "disease" but to consider what to do in order for the sick person to return to the original "human" state. But unfortunately, today's doctors treat disease by considering the question, "what is disease?" That is why although cancer may be cured, the person may lose some human aspects. Take anti-cancer drugs, for example. Anti-cancer drugs that distort and destroy even normal cells are meant only for curing cancer. When one looks at disease without looking at the "human" who is the sick person, such things can happen. If the question of what is a human were dealt with straightforwardly, today's medicine would definitely change.



It is important for doctors to explore the essence of a disease and realize, "what a human is." When doctors pursue the essence of curing diseases, they should view things essentially not from the standpoint of "what is a disease?" but from the viewpoint of, "What is a sick person?" And doctors should not be expected to cure "disease" but to support sick people in their effort to regain their true essence as human beings. I think these are the attitudes that will be sought after in the medicine of the future.


A child's disease is a message to the family

[The fastest way for the disease to be cured is for the child's mother, father, or brothers and sisters to each think seriously why the child got sick and (1) what meaning is being presented in the state of the disease, (2) why this sick brother or sister exists, and (3) what I can learn from the sick child. There are definitely many things to learn from this. If one learns and becomes aware of even one or two of these things, certainly one can become grateful to that sick child. That means one has to "be thankful for the message".
Then, the messages sent through diseases become unnecessary. What that means is that as a phenomenon, the disease begins to be cured. That is the point. Once one becomes aware of the above points and becomes grateful saying, "Thank you for the message," the disease is really cured. This is certain and the result is definite.
For example, the parents of a child afflicted with an incurable disease say that they have discovered things that they had not been aware of in the daily life of the sick child, and that they have learned much from that. They are grateful to the child from the bottom of their hearts, and the child has already started to recover. Every time they discover such things, they recover.]

In most cases, parents wish to cure the disease quickly when their child becomes sick, because they pity their poor child. But changing their minds and realizing that the child's disease is a message for them and being truly grateful for this message seems to be the essential solution. Actually, I hear more and more parents report that their children's diseases were cured in this way.


For future medicine

So essentially our sickness or illness arrives to inform us that our "Consciousness" and way of living or thinking is not in harmony. Some aspect of disharmony in our conscious thought had caused a dis-ease, or lack of ease in our bodies to give us a message. So then we have the opportunity to learn from the message of the disease, adjust our life-style and thinking in a more positive direction, and as a result the disease is cured thoroughly. That is how to essentially cure disease.
To cure diseases thoroughly, the patients should not depend on their doctors to cure them but try to know the essential reason for their disharmony or disease. Then, they should "change their way of living and thinking", and continue to make daily efforts for this purpose. It seems very important that doctors support their patients not by "curing the disease," but by "assisting the patients to change their ways of living and thinking" and by "providing them with harmonious energy."
It is important that the above concept should be seen as something natural and that more and more doctors should put this principle into practice. The final goal for doctors will be "to create a society where no one becomes sick."
"The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Medicine," which was written three thousands years ago, describes the following;
A low level of doctor can't cure diseases.
A general (middle level) of doctor can cure diseases properly.
An excellent (high level) of doctor can cure "un-diseases."

"Curing un-diseases" means that a truly excellent doctor can prevent diseases before people get sick. After all, this type of doctor will contribute to create the society in which people will not get sick.

For the future, it should be indispensable that the doctor is, not only a technical expert, but also is continuously studying the essences of disease in order to cure it by asking, "what is the human being who is suffering from disease?" and, "what is life itself?" And above all it should be seen as the essential key for curing diseases, that the person suffering from the disease asks them self, if there is disharmonious way of thinking or living" and "what can be learned from disease". Then they should apply themselves in serious efforts to try to live more harmoniously.

I would like to share these concepts with as many people as possible, as a "medical model for the future" to create new medical care.

KI Health Centre
Preventive Medicine Institute
Akihiko Wakabayashi
Doctor of TCM

Wakabayashi Haimu-2F
Taito 2-26-8 Taito-ku
Tokyo, Japan 110-0016