I used to have a monthly massage service from my massage master from
May 2002. When my master had to shift his clinic, the massage
service then stopped in August 2007. The five-year-long monthly
massage had then stopped.
The massage service at those years was not as bad as our government taken in so many foreign "talents".
I learned full body massage from my
master Sebastian Liew and Traditional Chinese Medicine course in Acupoints
from master Jiang Yi Dun. During those days, we took the code of conduct
seriously.
When master Liew shifted his clinic to another location and I had to stop my monthly massage appointment, he did not recommend any other massage master to me. Although we had a number of good massage masters then, but my master knew that I would not let other people to massage me. When my master knew that he was the first person who did full body massage for me, he was glad and said that it was his privilege. In fact, I attended his three days' vegetarian camp and observed him well. I went to his clinic for a head and shoulder massage after the camp. Then I had the confidence for him to do the full body massage for me. When I was at the Thai Good News Centre, I used to tell my Thai students that our body was the temple of God. So whenever they asked me whether they could smoke, I would tell them that there was not written in the Bible that "You shall not smoke". But as we knew that our body was the temple of God, why we still want to make it dirty. When carrying on the full body massage, we need to have a peaceful and pure mind. Prior to the massage, we place our hands on the back of the receiver and gradually follow his breathing. At the end of the massage, we gradually withdraw ourselves. I believed that only the person who is positive and with good moral quality shall do full body massage for me. Therefore I will not anyhow go for a full body massage. During those years I did head and shoulder massage for the elderly at day care centres, I ever infected twice with skin disease. When I carried out my voluntary service at the hospital, the staff suggested that I used the disposable groves.
Once a grandma requested me to take off the groves,
I told her that I needed to put on.
She said, "Without the groves, you have the energy (氣功)
to help me."
After that experience, I strong believed that I should not anyhow let anybody massage me. Especially those I did not know well. That was my prohibition, very serious prohibition. |
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