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Lying face down on the massage chair, I felt fear as I waited for the decapitation to begin.
The person who gave me the ‘knife’, or knife massage, was Elsa, smiling and holding two large knives, like a butcher knife.
Why not be afraid to give, because generally people use the edge of the hand to mince the client’s back in many types of massages, but on the ‘knife’, instead of the hand, the masseuse uses the blade real to ‘bite you’.
Elsa began by massaging me with her hands, helping to loosen the tension that was making me completely rigid.
After that, the cold steel blades began to slightly sting my back, arms, and head.
You wouldn’t know they used knives as massage tools if they hadn’t heard the occasional rattling sound like when a knife touches a plate.
After Elsa reminded me for the third time to relax, I ignored him, entrusted everything, and closed my eyes so that the knives let the air in my body circulate.
When he finished cutting, I was able to fall asleep. Surprisingly, many fall asleep while being massaged for 70 minutes with these knives, even if they are dull.
It may sound dangerous, but “knife” or “knife therapy” is believed to have the ability to heal physically and mentally, and is a form of traditional Chinese medicine. It has existed for more than 2000 years.
These practitioners say that the first knife massage method was performed by monks in ancient China.
Over 1000 years ago, during the Tang dynasty, the ‘ax’ spread to Japan, then Taiwan after the Chinese Civil War in the 1940s.
Although it is difficult to find a place to cool off with a knife today in China and Japan, this treatment has been revived in Taiwan in recent years, when people turned to the ‘knife’. as a way of coping with the stress of modern life.
The I-Jing Ancient Dao Arts Vocational Training Center in Taipei has been training in knife massage skills for nearly four decades.
The Center has 36 branches in Taiwan, 15 of which have just opened in the last five years.
They also train people from all over the world, from Japan to Hong Kong, from France to Canada.
Today, people turn to the swords of therapists to help alleviate physical pain, improve sleep quality, and overcome the pain of neglect.
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‘Knife’ has been revived in Taiwan in recent years and is seen as a way to deal with life’s stresses.
The blades are aimed at acupuncture points, similar to other traditional Chinese medicines such as acupuncture. But practitioners also believe that steel blades carry an invisible force.
Before entering the world of knife massage 15 years ago, the center’s director, Hsiao Mei-fang, collected and taught stunning massage and beauty therapies, another type of traditional Chinese medicine. Quoc, which focuses on blood circulation in the body.
But she says that she gets tired every night due to the “bad energy” (bad energy) that the client goes through through her massage movements.
“I make more money, but I lose sleep,” he said.
One day, a practitioner told him about “knives,” in which steel knives are the ones that absorb the “negative karma” transmitted by clients.
Now, Hsiao says she sees herself as a “goblin” (demon hunter), who watches over the past lives and actions of her clients.
“To me, it really seems clear to me that a knife massage can be like catching a ghost, cutting through the client’s past, their past lives,” he said.
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Before massaging, the client performs movements with short sticks, known as “conical universes,” to create a balance of natural gas in the body.
Therapists must adhere to immutable rules.
For example, if they are in a bad mood they don’t do a knife massage because after all holding a couple of knives in your hand when in a bad mood is not a good thing.
To keep their own vigor pure, all practitioners of ‘sword practice’ follow a vegetarian diet.
Hsiao and his team of massage therapists wake up at 5 a.m. every day, do 100 squats and bananas, then cut the pillows with knives for 30 minutes for blood circulation.
The masseuses have a lot to do, as do the clients.
Before massaging myself, Elsa asked me to do 10-minute squats and stretches with her, each of us holding a couple of wooden “sharp universes” to help balance vitality.
Hsiao said mothers and fathers took their children to practice and learn about the original spirit in hopes of helping them reduce the stress of their studies, while business owners consulted her on hiring. Come on.
“The conical universe helps you balance vitality, remove evil aura or bad energy, and a knife massage is to remove your karma,” Hsiao said.
“In our culture, we believe that pure spirit is everything. When your energy is balanced, you will understand everything.”
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Steel knives are used to absorb ‘negative karma’ from your body
Perhaps this physical impact was part of the reason I fell asleep in a massage chair.
In fact, the entire knife massage experience was more than I expected.
When making an appointment, they asked me to send a recent photo of myself so that they could find a suitable therapist based on the energy emitted by the photo. (Thanks to modern technology, using digital photos is fine.)
As soon as I got there, Elsa showed me the five meteors in the room; Massage practitioners believe that meteorites have the ability to heal the body, mind, and spirit, and they place knives next to meteorites to recharge them.
Of course, there were cold, rectangular metal knives that looked like they had just been held by a chef’s hand or in a crime episode.
Hsiao said that masseurs must diligently cultivate and obey his teachings, otherwise stabbing can be dangerous for guests.
Yet in the center’s 40-year history, no customer has been injured by knives, he said.
“At first I was scared when I saw the knives, I thought it was dangerous,” guest Chiu Mei-lan, 73, previously told me.
“I was quite scared, I told the masseuse: ‘Don’t drown, do it carefully.’ Then I started to feel quite comfortable, so I told him, ‘Get stronger, this is too light.’
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The massage is performed with two blunt steel knives, quickly chopped all over the client’s body.
Chiu tried massage for the first time because she was having trouble falling asleep. “After getting a knife massage, I slept very well,” he said.
Elsa covered my clothes with a towel all over and covered my head. The knives started working on all 10 acupuncture points on me.
For 70 minutes, the two blades took turns, slicing quickly, gently all over my body, moving from the top of my head to the soles of my feet, making me feel like I was tightly tied.
Some clients come to Hsiao for advice and then use a small circular whiteboard with a compass in the middle to help them determine their direction or purpose in life.
This is an astrological divination, called astrology, it was created based on the I Ching of China.
“As if I put your information into my Google system,” he told me. “If I enter your information in the table, I will know your present, past and future forecast, so I can give you advice quite easily.”
After hitting the board with her cane and reflecting for a few minutes, she said she was very concerned about “justice, like media queen Oprah Winfrey.”
He also gave me some general health warnings, such as whether I should eat more calcium-rich foods and less ice cream.
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Hsiao Mei-fang uses “stereoscopic” to help her clients find directions in life
Michael Stanley-Baker, a historian of Chinese medicine and religion at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, said the knife massage looked as spectacular as “monks lying on a bed of nails and Taoist disciples climb the ladder of the knife “, with” a technique that can be mastered to the point of mastering it, it is not extraordinary, but it seems absolutely impressive. “
“In fact, knife massage has a distant connection to traditional Chinese medicine,” he said, “making it really part of ‘folk medicine’, with the combination of theory and acupuncture points and aphorisms drawn from popular experience, but not based on deep medical experience as is often found in Chinese medical teachers. “
Hsiao said that he doesn’t need to convince anyone about the sword’s effectiveness, because people will trust it if he heals them.
“If there is a disease, tetraplegics, they will go everywhere, they will try all the treatments … and after trying they will find the best method,” he said.
For me, ‘make’ a special experience, not just a simple massage.
I left with the meteor images still on my mind and wondered how much ice cream I actually ate.
But there is no denying that I was very relieved. I went to bed early, slept briefly until the next morning after the alarm went off, and immediately went back to sound sleep for a few more hours.
