A Kidney Stone in My Urine
Luo Gang (Shenzhen, China)
June 02, 2011
On 26 May 2011, I completed a 5-Element Water balance in the Meridian Balances workshop of the Foundations of Life Skills workshop series as designed by Conrad Ho my teacher. It was the last balance in the 5-Element annual energy cycle. Soon afterwards, I felt soreness in the upper part of my waist. The sensation was not shallow from under the skin, but deep from a kidney. I reckoned that I had done nothing special these days, so it had to be some adjustment from the 5-Element Water balance. I decided to just experience it, not to worry about it.
The kidney soreness went on for a day and then subsided, but not gone totally. Instead, it went down towards my lower abdomen, until it finally got to the bladder. From then on, I had to go to the bathroom very often and the urge to urinate was strangely intense. For 3 days, this sensation escalated continuously. During peak levels, I could only let out several drops of urine each time, and had to go in again the moment I left the bathroom. It also extended into the night, during which I had to urinate many times. “Ha! I have become old!” Behind my mocking myself, I was guessing that something was passed on from the kidney.
The moment of truth came on 31 May 2011. A kidney stone like the size of a small piece of soybean was out along with my urine. What a sense of relief and release! A feeling of softness flowed smoothly throughout my body like a little stream and eventually poured deep into my heart, slowly seeping into every corner of my body. Conrad once told me that the way I was living my life was very stiff. The direction of balancing myself was best to be softness and flexibility. I have been doing just that for more than a year up to date, and there have been many changes from my inside as well as outside. The changes were felt to be getting nearer and nearer to my core, and my feeling of joy was getting clearer and clearer. I do not know how long this process will take, but I have decided to enjoy it, patiently waiting for each new piece of information and development to unreel itself.
