Lee Shuping | Singapore
While her peers were enjoying their youth, Lee Shuping was being tormented by health problems. At the age of 16, she was suffering from idiopathic intracranial hypertension, which caused intense headaches that no medication could relieve. She also experienced temporary blindness two to three times per week, and she feared that she would lose her vision permanently.
Thanks to Bodhi Meditation, Lee Shuping began a healthy new life free of pain. What kind of meditation practices did she do? Find out from her story.
I am Lee Shuping from Singapore. I am 24 years old this year. In 2014, I was diagnosed with idiopathic intracranial hypertension. It happens when high pressure develops around the brain. One of the symptoms caused by this is severe headaches. On a scale of 1-10, the pain of my headaches was 10.
The doctors suggested conservative treatment as I was very young. I took 6 pills daily. The pills didn’t help much. I still got headaches even while taking the pills. The pressure around my brain affected my optic nerves, so I also experienced temporary blindness. This could happen 2-3 times a week. When it occurred, I became blind for about 2-3 minutes. I was only 16 at that time; so, when it first happened, I was really scared. I worried that I would become blind for the rest of my life.
(Discovering Bodhi Meditation)
In 2017, a Bodhi Meditation practitioner recommended the 8.5-day Health and Happiness meditation retreat to me. Like I said, on a scale of 1-10, my pain was 10. Thanks to the retreat, it was reduced to 2-3 out of 10.
After the 8.5-day meditation retreat, I practiced prostrations on my own every day for 2 months. 2 months later, when I went for my lumbar puncture test, and the doctor told me that the pressure around my brain had reduced to a normal level. My headaches were gone. My temporary blindness was gone too.
I have been practicing prostrations since 2017 until today [2022]. Thanks to this, my brain pressure has remained normal, and I no longer need to visit doctors.
I think I am lucky for being able to come to Bodhi Meditation and learn meditation practices taught by Grandmaster JinBodhi. In 2 months, my problems were healed after they’d troubled me for 3 years.