(Minghui.org) I cannot help feeling delighted and blessed looking back at the past 20 years in which I have practiced Falun Dafa.

I found the purpose of my life when I learned Dafa. I adopted a positive outlook on life, even under the most evil environment after the persecution started.

As I cultivated, I never stopped being optimistic. I told everyone around me how Falun Dafa changed me and how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)'s persecution was very wrong.

I have no doubt that everyone in my life has benefited from my practice of Falun Dafa.

Dafa Changed Me

I started practicing Falun Dafa in 1996 after I watched its lecture videos at the suggestion of my husband. The first time I joined an exercise group in a park, I felt an electric sensation in my arms. My entire body felt light as I walked home after the exercise.

I joined the Fa study group. I could gradually sit longer with both legs crossed in sitting meditation, from five minutes to an hour.

I realized that the purpose of my life was to return to my true home. I searched within in conflicts with family, friends, coworkers, and others in my life.

I taught kindergarten, and parents of my students liked my wholehearted devotion. The principal would reassign the children with bad-tempered and difficult parents to my class.

Through my hard work and effort, I was recognized as a model teacher three years in a row and won second place as the most accomplished employee in my kindergarten's company.

I used to be an introvert. After the start of my practice, I became outgoing, cheerful, and upbeat. I have not spent a penny on medical problems.

All of these positive changes in my life were the direct result of practicing Falun Dafa.

Friends and Family Benefit

The day I watched the first lecture video, I told my mother-in-law about it. She lived with us and joined me the next day. She had symptoms of diarrhea and fever after the first video.

She made an effort to finish watching all the videos, and soon her whole body felt light. She took the book Zhuan Falun and visited my aunts, who soon started practicing Dafa as well.

She told her friends in the neighborhood about Dafa, and they joined her, too. We started a weekly study group at our home. In addition, practitioners did the exercises in a group in a nearby park every Saturday.

Our numbers grew quickly, and we established more study groups and exercise sites. My husband and I also started to organize volunteers to spread Dafa to surrounding villages and rural areas.

As more of my family started to practice Falun Dafa, they learned to look inward for their shortcomings. Harmony and happiness soon dissolved grudges and conflicts in my family.

My parents and siblings did not practice. I asked them to remember “Falun Dafa is good.” They followed my advice and believed in the power of Dafa.

My father, in his 70s, once walked by a building as a roll of heavy linoleum accidentally fell from the fourth floor and hit him in the head. He was not injured at all.

My mother was wheelchair-bound due to cerebral thrombosis. She recited “Falun Dafa is good” and “Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good” and soon could stand up on her own.

My brother was hit by a car and thrown several feet, yet he survived without a scratch. My sister was mauled by a fierce dog. The doctor told her she needed a skin graft. She kept reciting “Falun Dafa is good,” and her skin healed without surgery.

Many of my friends and their families also recited these words and enjoyed healthier, happier lives. Most of them have quit the Chinese Communist Party and its associated organizations.

After years of interruption due to the brutal persecution, our study group at my home has resumed. We share our experiences and discuss ways to bring Falun Dafa to more people more efficiently, such as through mass mailings and at family gatherings.

A friend, who had quit the Party with my help some time ago, recently visited me. She brought fruits and moon cakes to show her respect to Master. She told me that she had noticed the way that other practitioners and I conducted ourselves according to Dafa principles, and she decided to practice, too. She took a copy of Zhuan Falun home.

My Workplace Improves

I introduced Falun Dafa to many coworkers. They saw the positive change in me and my family. They soon opened up to me and told me about upsetting things at work or in life. I would help them based on Dafa's principles and teachings. Some learned Dafa themselves.

My workplace environment improved greatly as a result. The administration did not have to push people to work hard, because everyone was already doing so willingly. The leadership also offered space and equipment at work free of charge so that employees could watch Dafa lecture videos.

After the persecution started in 1999, my husband and I went to Beijing to speak out for Dafa and were arrested many times. My husband was given a year of forced labor and sentenced to four years in prison.

When my husband was in a labor camp in 2000, my kindergarten principal, under orders from her superiors, told me that I had to make a choice between practicing Dafa and keeping my job.

I did not want to cause any trouble for her, so I quit my job. The next day, some parents posted an open letter on the public board commending me and a coworker. The parents also went to the principal and asked for my reinstatement.

At their request, I was allowed to stay and continue to work at my kindergarten as a contractor, rather than an official employee. I continued to do my best at work.

Conditions Are Improving

I am so happy to see that Dafa practitioners have not been beaten down by the brutal persecution. To the contrary, more and more people have started to practice Falun Dafa.

Although the Communist Party still exists, people no longer believe in it, and more people have awakened to the evil nature of the persecution.