No Fear
Every day I awake, I bless myself, I bless my master
I train and I love it
I love myself
I love feeling energy, feeling it flow through me
I feel the trees, the wind, the sun’s rays charge me like a battery
I feel the birds
I am like water, I am nature
I am the light and the dark
I am energy
No fear!
This is why I love Master Yang and his teachings.
The Gift
I broke my neck 20+ years ago. I suffered so much. I was training by myself in the dark preparing for a fight when my foot got caught in the top chain of a heavy punching bag. Hanging upside for a second seemed to last for a lot longer. My life flashed before my eyes. My foot released as quick as it had been caught up and I crashed with a skin crawling crunch, Crown Chakra first with my body weight compacting every joint in my body. I laid still for several minutes in complete fear that if I tried to move, I might not be able to. I slowly wiggled a finger, a toe. I was happy I wasn’t paralysed.
I spent the next several months trying to use my understanding of the human body, my Buddhist teachings, my kung fu, tai chi and qigong to heal myself. I had scans and physio. I was in so much pain. I had treatments from chiropractors, that didn’t help. I remember meeting with 3 surgeons. They wanted to take part of my pelvis to rebuild my neck. Now this was a real low point! Having studied human biology at university, I understood exactly what they were saying and where that would lead me. I told them where to go and hobbled out.
I knew there was another way, I just didn’t quite know what it was yet.
The Healing
Long story short, I travelled from Perth to Sydney to train with Master Zhen Hua Yang. I bowed and asked him to help me fix myself and to help me let go of my ego. He laughed. “We fix this one,” he said. “You not get rid of ego, this part of you.” This was the start of my journey.
I devoted myself to Master Yang’s teachings. I fixed my broken neck. A spinal injury that had caused me so much pain, had become a gift.
The Family
It was around this time that I met Jaime. We instantly connected. She had been training karate and had dabbled in other martial art systems, but like myself, had come to a point where her health was suffering and she needed help. Jaime suffered back pain, inflammatory issues, fatigue and migraines. She was getting sick often and longed for good health. I convinced her to come to Sydney with me and train with Master Yang. She loved it and felt instant changes. Not only could she continue with her martial arts training, but she had opened up to a whole new world of healing and spiritual practice – A level she didn’t even know existed. She had never trained so hard and felt so good.
A lot has happened since then. 20 years. Including the birth of our beautiful son, Levi Zhen Trott, named after Master Yang. The thing that is the same is how much my wife and I love our training. How much we both appreciate the teachings of Master Zhen Hua Yang.
Written by Michael Trott, Dragon Link
