Retired U.S. Navy Captain Gary Lynn shares his experience practicing #falundafa #falungong #meditation #health #spirituality

Can you tell us a little bit about your life and practicing Falun Dafa? I found a lot of benefits both emotionally, psychologically, and physically from practicing Falun Dafa. Well, I was born in 1943, so I'm 82 years old now. I served in the U.S. Navy for 20, almost 28 years, and then have served in different non-profits since then, and then finally retired on June 30th this year. But I started, actually, my wife started practicing Falun Dafa around 2020, just about prior to COVID becoming a pandemic, and I started practicing with her, just to be with her, and as I got into it and started reading Falun Dafa, then I became more and more intrigued by what it offered, and now I consider myself to be a Falun Dafa practitioner. Changes that I saw that came about as a result of my practice in Falun Dafa was improvement in my attitude, an improvement in my tolerance of different issues that could generally in the past have given me cause to be upset or get angry about something, especially within my personal relationships with people within the family. I had a tendency, and it was basically a reversion back to what I had seen modeled by my father, and I had always vowed I wouldn't be like that, but it turned out that I was pretty much following the same pattern, and I struggled with it most of my adult life, and when practicing Falun Dafa, I found that it shifted my whole attitude on things regarding things that normally would have upset me, and it was really coming to the realization that most of my attachments, if not all of them, really evolved out of self-interest or being self-centered, things that offended me or I thought were against my own self-interest, and once I was able to recognize that, it's been a process of learning how to let go of those attachments and not view things from that same perspective. It's looking beyond myself and looking at the greater picture of how we all are connected in the universal community that we're all part of, a common element, and the principles of Falun Dafa, which is truthfulness, compassion, and forbearance, have really enabled me to focus on what are really the important things in life. The cumulative effect of that is to embed that whole philosophy, that whole way of looking at things, into how I behave, how I think, how I talk, and so it has really made, I think, a significant positive impact on my life.