The History
Chok Hiew, a Canadian psychologist, met Master Yap, the person who would finally give him the tools he needed to help the children he had been working with in war torn countries. Dr. Hiew was part of an international team of mental health professionals focused on a humanitarian mission to Kosovo to work with local doctors and teachers, helping children suffering from stress and post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of atrocities committed against them and their families. He travels frequently to do mass trauma training (from natural disasters, armed conflict, refugees and international terrorism) and humanitrian work on victims.
Master Yap had always been interested in the Martial Arts. When he discovered that he could heal by transmitting energy, he left accountancy and became an extraordinary healer. He manifested electrical phenomena-sparks flying off him, appliances turning off - but he soon lost his health. He was close to dying when he went back to meditation and had the experience of connecting with the light within and all the information about Cosmic Freedom Qigong (CFQ) poured out of him in one night. Since then he has healed himself and many others. Master Yap was helping children with Downs Syndrome (in 3 sessions!) when Dr. Hiew invited him to Canada in 1994.
Dr. Hiew had also been working with the street children of SE Asia - many rescued from the sex trade, severely traumatized and infected with HIV. Initially he used conventional therapies, and it was not until he connected with CFQ that he found a technique that could really help.
CFQ integrates psychology and science, mind and body. The conventional biomedical model of healing is inadequate, looking as it does at the disparate parts. It was only in 1991 that the relationship between emotions on physical effects was finally accepted as a key contributor of illness. “Life is so simple! We don’t have to improve on natural processes,” Dr Hiew declares. “Healing in order to be effective must be simple.” The essence of CFQ is a complete letting go process that eliminates the fundamental cause of illness--stuck, negative energy--and enables us to use the pure universal energy we are born with to heal ourselves.
CFQ is a different way of conceptualizing health. The usual way of healing is to add things. You assume that something is missing so you supply, drugs, supplements or herbs. CFQ says we are born with basic health, and it is because of the wear and tear of living that everything is clogged up. To revive the machine, you just need to get rid of the “sludge.” If we can simply let go, release the tension, our natural resilience will take over.
Vipassana Meditation
If you let go a little, you will have a little peace; if you let go a lot you have a lot of peace; if you let go completely, you will have complete peace. -- Acharn Chah