拍打拉筋的作用是帮助我们打通经络，但是自愈的路上有一类反应——气冲病灶，会让许多人感觉害怕，甚至停止拍打拉筋。于是老天爷又给我们送来了另一类反应——减肥、增高、美容等等副作用，而且瘦、减、增的部位实在恰到好处，名副其实地成为女人们拍打拉筋的药引子。何乐而不为呢？女人高兴了，孩子也会高兴，男人就更高兴了，和谐社会啊！
我经历了一个奇妙的拍打拉筋副作用，希望可以跟大家分享...
我从2013年1月份开始拍打拉筋，八个月以后，我减了8公斤的赘肉，腰瘦了5公分 (2英寸)，屁股小了11.5公分（4.5英寸）, 每条大腿小了7.5公分（3英寸），以及长高了1.5公分(（0.6英寸）从157公分到158.5公分！）用 “副作用”来形容这不可思议的状况是再贴切不过了，因为我从来没有想到拍打拉筋真的能够减肥增高！
我今年40岁，从小就长有一个大屁股。小时候跳芭蕾舞，因为有一个大大的屁股 (舅父舅母说如果我跳天鹅湖，必定会是一只‘肥天鹅'!)所以得了一个‘肥天鹅' 的小名。长大以后，这大屁股给了我不少穿衣的烦恼。连衣裙是没我的份了，不是上身太大就是下身太小。找合适的上班服也很困难，幸好后来很多商店也将西装外套跟裤子/裙子分开来卖，让我可以小号外套，大号裤子/裙子搭配着穿。
我曾经试过很多的方法想减去我下身的赘肉，可惜都没效果。试过节食，但每次我节食后，瘦的都是上身，下身呢还是一样的胖。等到食量恢复正常，体重回来以后，下身会比没节食之前还胖，变得上下身的分差越来越大，弄得我不敢再节食减肥。还有，我也试过去健身房，还请了私人健身教练，度身订造了一套专门减臀的减肥计划。三个月不停地隔天一次去健身房。结果呢，这个豪华臀还是丝毫不动，而我却因为举大腿负重机器时发错了力弄伤腰！后来我想，还是算了吧，反正全世界拥有标准梨子身型的女人又不止我一个，老公又没有因为我的大屁股而少爱了我，结果我就接受了我是天生如此的了。
所以在六月份时，即使我的裤子开始觉得松了，体重轻了6公斤，我也没上心，觉得可能是因为我身体太差所以瘦了吧。从来没敢想到我的屁股真的小了，也没想到跟拍打拉筋会有关系。因为我从一月到六月虽然有拍打拉筋，但不是很到位。拉筋大概是每个星期在墙角边拉3次，每次每条腿15分钟左右。拍打呢就不定了，想到了有时间了才做，而且是一出了点点的红痧就以为够了，马上停止拍打。
我是直到参加了六月份的深圳拍打拉筋体验营之后，才认真每天拍打拉筋。每天在拉筋凳每条腿两个沙袋，慢慢拉到30分钟，拍打则大概每天3到5个小时。从六月底到八月中的时候我的裤子继续松下去，后来裤子松到根本不能穿，那时候我才意识到拍打拉筋可能真的跟我瘦了有关吧。才有信心拿皮尺度量一下屁股，看看是不是真的瘦了。量了后发现我的屁股是真的小了，而且是小了4.5英寸! 我也不太敢相信，马上外出找了个衣服店找条裤子试试看，才发现我的屁股已经小了两号，能穿得上小号裤子了！
回想起来，其实我也感觉得到我屁股在排毒的。只不过我一直以为我的梨子身形是‘天生的’，不敢相信而已。有无数的晚上（尤其是在我认真的拍打拉筋以后），当我仰卧睡的时候，很多时候都能感觉到我的经络像河流一样流动，在冲破堵塞的点。尤其是我的膀胱经，从下背到屁股到后大腿就像激流一样的冲，弄到我痛痛痒痒的，经常睡得不好。我觉得身体的自愈能力真的很奇妙。直到现在，我也常常能感觉得到我的经络在流动，能感觉得到哪里在堵塞。而当我感觉到哪里堵塞就往哪里拍打的时候，每次都会很快打出黑青的痧来。就像我的身体想跟我沟通一样。奇妙的身体，奇妙的拍打拉筋。
差点忘了说，我发现自己长高了。在九月中，我去看我爸妈的时候发现他们矮了。怎么半年不见他们就矮了，筋缩得那么厉害呀？后来我想不会是我长高了吧？就度量一下，发现我真的长高了1.5公分！不可思议的副作用呀！
我很感恩有机会遇到拍打拉筋，希望每一个有缘看到这文章的人都坚持拍打拉筋，继续这奇妙的自愈法旅程。
恩
香港．2013年重阳
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I have experienced some amazing 'side effects' of paidalajin which I want to share with all of you out there...
I started paidalajin in January this year, and after 8 months of paidalajin, I have shed 8 kg, lost 5 cm (2 inches) on my waist, 11.5 cm (4.5 inches) on my butt, 7.5 cm (3 inches) on each of my thigh, and grown 1.5 cm (0.6 inches) from 157 cm to 158.5 cm! Using 'side effect' to describe this unbelievable phenomenon is perfect, as I had never expected paidalajin would help me lose weight and grow taller!
I am 40 years old, and for as long as I remember, I have always had a big butt, and thus had a nick name 'Chubby Swan' (as I took ballet lessons when I was little, so uncles and aunties made fun of me saying that I would be like a chubby swan if I were to dance the Swan Lake). After grown up, I have always had trouble finding the right dress to wear as dresses were either too large at the top or too small at the bottom. And lucky for me for work clothes as they started selling suits with jackets and pants separately because I always needed a small size top and large size bottom.
I had tried many different ways in trying to change this too. I tried going on diet, but I didn't dare do that anymore as whenever I lost weight, I always got skinnier on my top, but not a centimeter on my bottom. But when I started eating normal and bounced back to my normal weight, the weight gain was always on my butt, making the size difference between my top and bottom even larger than before I went on diet. I had of course tried going to the gym too, and even hired a personal trainer for 3 months to tailor made a 'bottom-sliming programme' for me to go workout every other day, but nothing changed except that I had strained my back using the leg press machine. So I thought, so be it, I am not the only woman in this world to have borne a pear-shaped body anyway, it's ok, my husband loves me all the same. I just accepted that this is the way I am born with.
So even when my pants started to feel loose and I lost 6 kg in June, I hadn't thought much about it, and thought maybe my health had just deteriorated so much to a point that I lost a lot of weight. I never put the linkages between paidalajin and weight loss together because even though I had been doing paidalajin for 6 months, I wasn't doing it diligently. I only did lajin about three times a week for about 15 minutes per leg putting chairs against the wall, and only did paida spontaneously and stopped when I saw the first signs of red sha. It wasn't until after I went to the June 7-day workshop in Shenzhen then I started to seriously doing paidalajin. Since late June, I gradually increased my lajin time on the lajin bench with two sandbags to 30 minutes, and paida 3 to 5 hours almost everyday. From late June to mid-August, my pants continued to feel loose, until eventually I couldn't wear my old pants anymore. Until then I started to realise that maybe paidalajin really had something to do with my weight loss, and I had the gut to measure my butt to see if it had really gotten smaller. And it did, it got smaller by 4.5 inches! It was so unbelievable that I had to go out to find a store right away to try on some pants to be sure of this. I discovered my butt became two sizes smaller, and could now fit itself into small size pants!
Thinking back, there were times I could actually feel how my body was shedding the waste on my butt. It was just that I had always thought my pear-shaped body was born with that I didn't believe this was actually happening. For many nights (especially since I started doing paidalajin diligently) when I lie on my back to sleep, I could feel my meridians, especially my Pang Guang Jing, flowing like rivers, racing through some painful and itchy spots on my lower back to my butt down to the back of my legs like rapids. For some of these nights, the flow was so strong that I even had trouble sleeping. It really is amazing how I could feel my body repairing itself, and even for now, I could always feel how my body is trying to communicate with me. There are always some spots hurting or itching on my body, 'calling' me to paida, and when I do respond and paida these hurting or itching spots, always some black or green sha would appear. Amazing body, amazing paidalajin.
Almost forgot to mention, in mid-September, when I went visiting my parents, I noticed they seemed shorter than I remember. But it was just half a year I hadn't seen them, could their tendons really have degenerated that much? Then I thought could it be me that had grown taller? So I measured my height and discovered that I had grown taller by 1.5 cm! Unbelieveable side effects!
I am grateful to have come across paidalajin, and I hope all of you reading this will continue this amazing and powerful self healing journey.
En
Hong Kong. October 13, 2013
