📖 INTRODUCTION
Many people spend years pursuing success, achievement, and recognition, only to discover that something still feels missing inside.
Even those who appear to have achieved their dreams may quietly struggle with uncertainty, stress, anxiety, and questions about the true meaning of life.
This meditation testimonial shares the story of Dr. Kyung-ah K., a Family Medicine Specialist, who dedicated her life to caring for others while searching for deeper answers about life, illness, and happiness.
During medical school, she began questioning whether the path she was following was truly her own or simply the result of social expectations and external pressure.
Through the meditation method taught by Master Woo Myung, she discovered a new perspective on life, the mind, and human suffering.
As she learned to let go of the mental world she had created within herself, her confusion disappeared, her purpose became clear, and she found herself living the life she had always wanted.
This meditation testimonial beautifully illustrates how inner clarity can transform not only one’s personal life, but also the way we care for and serve others.
💬 MEDITATION TESTIMONIAL: “ENDING MY WANDERING AND LIVING THE LIFE I TRULY WANTED”
By Kyung-ah K. | Family Medicine Specialist
I have always wanted to help people.
As a physician, the moments that make me happiest are when patients begin recovering and regain hope.
Yet despite pursuing medicine, there was a period in my life when I felt deeply lost.
While attending medical school, I encountered this meditation.
Looking back now, it became the turning point that helped me find certainty about the life I truly wanted to live.
🏥 IN THE HOSPITAL, ALL FOUR STAGES OF LIFE EXIST
Birth.
Aging.
Illness.
Death.
In many ways, hospitals are a condensed version of life itself.
During my residency years, especially while working overnight emergency shifts, I witnessed countless deaths.
I still remember declaring time of death after exhausting every possible emergency treatment.
After nights spent desperately trying to save someone, losing a patient often left me feeling the fragility and emptiness of life itself.
Those experiences led me to ask:
“As long as life exists, how can I become someone who truly helps the world?”
That question stayed with me for many years.
❤️ THE WAY THE MIND FUNCTIONS CHANGES ILLNESS TOO
As a family medicine specialist, I care for patients with many different conditions:
• Diabetes
• High blood pressure
• Heart disease
• Thyroid disorders
• Common illnesses
But before focusing only on prescriptions and treatment plans, I first try to listen carefully and comfort the patient emotionally.
Many patients carry tremendous fear:
“What if I never recover?”
“How will I continue my normal life?”
When those fears are eased, their expressions often brighten immediately.
Interestingly, treatment itself often becomes smoother as well.
After beginning meditation, my understanding of the relationship between the mind and illness deepened significantly.
Through meditation, I personally witnessed many people experiencing remarkable improvements after letting go of heavy mental burdens.
This included emotional conditions such as:
• Anxiety
• Depression
• Insomnia
• Panic Disorder
And even people facing serious physical illnesses.
At first, I was shocked.
“How could this even happen?”
🌿 THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE MIND AND DISEASE
Over time, I began realizing something undeniable.
Stress, fear, anger, anxiety, and emotional suffering clearly influence hormones, blood pressure, and many biological systems within the body.
When those mental burdens accumulate, the body suffers.
When they are released, the body often responds positively as well.
Today, together with other physicians and doctoral researchers who practice this meditation, I continue studying the relationship between the mind and disease more scientifically.
As a doctor, I feel deeply grateful that meditation helped me see patients more holistically—not simply as symptoms, but as human beings whose minds and bodies are deeply connected.
🤔 “DO I REALLY NEED TO BECOME A DOCTOR TO BE HAPPY?”
Ironically, I began meditation while still in medical school.
Although many people would consider medical students successful, I struggled intensely at the time.
The hierarchy.
The overwhelming workload.
The pressure.
The competition.
The constant pursuit of prestige and status.
All of it left me wondering:
“Is this really the life I want?”
“Do I truly need to become a doctor to be happy?”
“Am I only here because of other people’s expectations?”
Amid that confusion, I encountered this meditation.
For some reason, I felt it might contain answers about life itself.
✨ ESCAPING THE WORLD INSIDE MY OWN MIND
During meditation, I experienced a realization that shocked me deeply.
I had not actually been living in the real world.
Instead, I had created an entire private world inside my own mind and trapped myself within it.
Once I saw that clearly, I wanted to escape from that mental world as quickly as possible.
So I sincerely began letting go of the mind, layer by layer.
Then one day, I suddenly realized:
“I’ve finally escaped the world inside my own mind.”
“The world was originally one all along.”
“This is the real world.”
And with that realization, my wandering finally ended.
🌸 I REALIZED I WAS ALREADY WALKING MY TRUE PATH
When I looked back, I remembered a dream I had carried since middle school.
I simply wanted to help people.
That desire was what originally led me to medicine.
And then I realized:
I had already been walking that path all along.
When I helped patients.
When I comforted families.
When I used my medical knowledge to save lives.
I already felt genuine happiness.
The suffering I experienced had largely come from the mental world I had created for myself.
Now, I simply want to live the life I truly desire, fully grounded in the present.
🤝 DISCOVERING THE JOY OF LIVING FOR OTHERS
These days, I feel grateful every morning as I walk into the hospital.
The doctor I always wanted to become was not simply someone who treats symptoms.
I wanted to become someone patients could trust with their fears, worries, illnesses, and hopes.
At times, that dream felt unrealistic.
But through meditation, I gained confidence that such a life was possible.
I also participate regularly in medical volunteer activities.
In the past, I believed people needed great wealth or ability before they could truly give to others.
Now I know that is not true.
“If you simply have the heart to share, even small things can be shared.”
Today, I simply want to continue walking the path of a true physician—with a heart free from attachment, burden, and possession.
And in doing so, continue helping others as much as I can.
