Healing

GiCheon healing (Ki energy healing or self-cure or self-treatment) is not based on the technique. This is the fundamental rule of nature according to GiCheon: every ailment results from bad habits and innate tendencies.

No one can completely eradicate these qualities: they may recede temporarily, but will recur. Ultimately, one will be able to attain healing ability by sincerely exercising his or her inner-self, realizing and embodying the virtues of GiCheon, and performing them in daily life.

When Grand master Sang Won Lee started to do GiCheon healing to his patients, he used his own inner power only. But a few years later, he saw the same patients visited him again with the same diseases he once healed earlier. By this, he realized that people wouldn't be able to be free from their ailments unless they eradicate their bad habits or innate tendencies by themselves, That's why he converted his healing mechanism to heal his patients/students and started to teach them GiCheon basic postures for their own self-awareness as well as self-healing,

In nature, all living creatures are basically self-dependent, maintaining their lives with their own strength and abilities. When they don't have enough of those, they perish. However, humans have become more dependent on the resources outside themselves, thus having been weakened more and suffered from so called 21st century diseases.

In the twenty-first century, life is different thanks to the four public health innovations of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and so disease is different too. But our twenty-first-century illnesses are not simply another layer of ill-health, hidden beneath infectious disease, but an alternative set of conditions, created by the way we live now. We have established four things. First, our twenty-first-century illnesses often arise in the gut, and are associated with the immune system. Second, they strike young, often in children, teenagers and young adults, and many affect more women than men. Third, these illnesses occur in the Western world, but are now on the rise in developing countries as they modernise. Fourth, the rise began in the West in the 1940s, and developing countries followed suit later - Alanna Collen "10% Human: How Your Body's Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness." Harper (May 5, 2015).

GiCheon SangMuWon aims to allow practitioners/patients to heal themselves through their own awareness, inner strength and energy achieved by training GiCheon basic postures.

Faith

Although people practice the same GiCheon postures in the same classes for the same amount of time, their outcome is different with benefits. We may reason it to be physical or physiological or psychological or mental or spiritual or all or something else. But above all, practitioners' mindset is chosen to be the first. Practitioners' mindset can function as a golden key to the different types of gates closed for the mentioned reasons earlier. However, not all practitioners can have a mindset of a golden key without faith.

Faith is the most important for curing disease. Paracelsus said that faith would cure all disease. Few persons, however, possess a sufficient degree of faith - Manly P. Hall., "The Secret Teachings of All Ages: An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical", Forgotten Books (4 Feb, 2008).

Practitioners need self-awareness to find faith within themselves to heal themselves or others.

Self-Healing

For self-healing, most of patients should train WonBahnJang, DahnBaeGong and NaeGa ShinJang as essentials and DaeDoh for most occasions. For some extra occasions, they would need to do one or a few of the other basic postures which are BeomDoh, SoDoh, GeumGye and HeoGong.

When training alone without instructors, the most important point to keep in mind is to stay relaxed and calm which most of beginners can easily lose due to their inner hardship by GiCheon YeokGeun.

How Self-Healing works with GiCheon training

Here are principles how self-healing works out with GiCheon training. Without the mentioned principles coming up in reality, self-healing wouldn't work out much.

Principles of YeokGeun

Principle of Hardship; Life & Death

 (Self-Transformation = Self-Sacrifice = Symbolism of Reincarnation)

In the greatest cycle of change, all beings come from nothingness and return to it. Being is just a matter of being transient in different scales of time and space. In the same time and space, however, being also follows a smaller scale of cycle of change.

Practitioners' inner hardship brought by GiCheon YeokGeun is really challenging with commitment. But this is one of great gates between life and death. Standing at the gate for life, one must choose death - a death like hardship - in order to get healed or transformed to be newly born, one has no choice but to abandon his/her past with bad habits and innate tendencies (physiological, psychological, emotional, mental, spiritual, etc). Without death chosen, there can't be self-transformation or reincarnation.

By dong self-sacrifice (challenging more inner hardship), one will achieve transformation by him/herself and be reincarnated.

Principle of Fire (heat), Water (sweat) & Wind (air/circulation); SuSeung HwaGang

Energy flow becomes stagnant by many reasons (physiological, philosophical, emotional, psychological, spiritual, etc) and it disconnects us from being like nature. So it's important to restore it through static training and abdominal breath.

In nature, after sunny days, it usually rains and that's how living creatures can exist on earth. This natural phenomenon also can happen to us in the same way through GiCheon static training.

By holding still one or some of 6 basic postures for minutes, almost all of people will feel "heat (Fire)" - however, some people or patients may feel "Cold" even in mid summer. When continuing holding the postures still longer, then people usually start to "sweat (Water)".

Here how one sweats tells very important information about its healthy conditions, for instance,

How much cold energy/toxin against health one has
How well one has its energy flow in the body
How much open or blocked channels one has
And so on

Practitioners should try to sweat well enough as the 1st step for self healing. And the more cold one feels in the body, the longer one should focus on doing static training until one doesn't feel cold any more.

Principle of Beating on the muscles, TahTong

A GiCheon teacher will beat or tap students on the back, arms, legs and even lower belly with a set of thin bamboo sticks, or for more power, one large bamboo rod, wooden stick, wooden sword, and even iron stick. It means that when a strike of the weapon,for example, a stick or wooden sword can be less outstandingly damaged to an experienced practitioner.

Purposes & Benefits of Beating

To unblock energy channels as well as acupuncture points
To better flow energy in the body
To develop muscles for more strength and internal power
To open a lower abdomen and strengthen it
To strengthen internal power
To develop reflexes & skills for attack & defense in martial art
To eradicate on'es Karma and purify itself
To clear emotional, psychological and spiritual blockage in one's mind and or spirit

To the uninitiated, it sounds masochistic, so it's extremely important that the pain of beating should be mild or bearable or even enjoyable enough for beginners at the beginning. The stimulation on the skin and muscles breaks through the blocked energy channels, causing a tingling sensation throughout the body. And in areas where there is a pre-existing injury, beating creates a greater feeling of strength and stability -- less hardship, in effect, than before the treatment. It’s importantly used for self healing or healing others.

This is also one of the few instances in which the GiCheon master comes into physical contact with trainees during practice and it's believed that the master passes on some portion of his power, some of his energy, to his students through beating/tapping.

GiCheon beating had been performed to only a selected student when GiCheon passed down in the mountains because of its enormous outcome.

In order to be able to do beating to the others, one should learn it by experience first and get ready with below mindset:

A compassion, helping the others obtain above benefits by it
A willingness to share one's energy with the others unconditionally.

Healing Others

Prior to healing others;
Safety matters

When healing patients, a therapist must consider whether he/she has sufficient inner power to protect himself/herself from unintended bad energy or toxin incoming from the patients. Any type of healing activities (body psychotherapy, physiotherapy, manual therapy, massage, reiki, acupuncture, etc) may induce a therapist to lose or exhaust his/her own vital energy, resulting more fatigue or ill conditioned or even sick with no reason.

GiCheon static training will help a therapist not only get recovered from a therapy but also become less affected or unaffected from patents' bad energy.

GiCheon healing techniques

There are manual techniques in GiCheon to unblock channels, help circulate energy flow and transfer one's energy to others. However, without acquiring sufficient inner power through GiCheon static training, these techniques will become nothing but a manual therapy or massage.

Above all, for GiCheon healing, one should acquire in depth experiences how to elevate patients' will of strength against any obstacle - even at death's door -, to encourage them for hardship training with self motivation and most importantly, to allow them to find faith within themselves that they can be cured by their own efforts through GiCheon training.