 Hello and Nihao. Welcome to Understanding China, brought to you live from the ThinkTech studios in downtown Honolulu by Asia Pacific Group, an investment firm in Beijing. And I'm Michael North. Our producer in China is Xiaofeng Zhou North. Through this series, we are meeting with key leaders in China, government, business, academia, education, the arts, about China today, its future, its hopes, its dreams, its plans in the world, and above all, its great and amazing people. We want to help our international audience to see China through Chinese eyes by talking direct to the people who are leading the largest nation and one of the most important nations in the world today. So we've spent the first three episodes of Understanding China looking at the one-belt, one-road economic development policy. It's a social and a cultural and a technological movement that has China investing in many nations all across the world. It's China reaching out to the world. Now, for this program, we're going to completely change our emphasis, rather than China moving out across the world. This is China looking in upon itself and especially to young people and to China's values, to China's idea of who it is, who the people are, what is important to the people of China from the inside out. So we're with Yu Sumei, who is with the Attitudinal Healing Committee in Beijing. And Sumei, welcome to Think Tech. Very good to see you. We would like to hear from you your interpretation of what is Attitudinal Healing. Just imagine we know nothing about the subject and we are just little babies learning. And we want to hear from you, from China, what is the importance, what is the essence of Attitudinal Healing? Hello, Mark. It's like this. In 2013, we had a chance to contact Jerry and Dan, who were the founders of New York University, and then we got to China. When we got to China, we first met in Beijing and Shanghai and had a three-day workshop every three days and six days. At that time, there were 300 participants. After taking part in the workshop, we found that this kind of concept was particularly great. And I think that China actually needs us a lot. So in 2014, 2015, 2016, we continued to be supported by New York University for several times. Including the first year, six times. In this process, I found that the amazing thing about New York University is that through the mutual support of ordinary people, it allows us to gain this kind of power and change our life quality. It really allows us to create our world with our own thoughts. If we can pay attention to our own thoughts, we can really get the inner peace. This is actually a core to our current national concept. So I think it's particularly important to let us open a new door so that we can see the difference. Let us understand that we can choose ourselves and take responsibility for ourselves. Let's live our own lives. Very good. Nicholas, can you help us with the translation? Of course. Hello, Mark. So here's the general situation. In 2013, we met the parent Jerry and his wife, and we connected. We decided to introduce this organization to China, after which we organized some workshops in Beijing and Shanghai. Each workshop lasted three days in both cities, for a total of six days. There were about 300 people who participated in those workshops. These initial workshops made us realize that this organization has an ideal concept that is very good and is completely new for China. It's something that is very... starting to be sucked after in China. So these workshops obviously continued in 2014, 2015, including this year. In the process, we realized that it is a process and an idea and a concept that allows normal people to support one another in the changing of their lives and help them realize that their ideas, the concepts, and the way that they think about themselves, it can change that. They can also change their world in a certain inner peace. It's a very new thing in China, and it opens new doors for Chinese people, and it's very interesting, very important to be done here. Well, you know, the method is new, but the key idea, the philosophy behind it, is as old as China itself. It goes back to Lao Tzu and before. It goes to the very root of Taoism, and what we're looking at is fundamental ideas that are coming back to China from around the world, but expressed in new ways. Would you agree, Sumé, that this is both very modern and very ancient? Yes, I agree with that. But in terms of our current age, I think because of the current lifestyle, the pressure, including the whole social environment, it's all a very fast rhythm. When it's fast rhythm, it's hard to calm down. When it's hard to calm down, it's hard to connect with yourself. So it's very easy for us to focus on the outside world, and not on the inside world. So, although, as I mentioned earlier, Lao Tzu in the past, his views, maybe in China, in the past, there were some. But to really let this method fall, I think, it's from, it's from, when I met Jerry Fushu, he wasn't a kid. Of course, through the internet, I've seen that there are many in the TV series, there will be this kind of group of supporters. But in China, this kind of form is really very complicated. Like you said, it seems to be a very ancient method, and the statistics are very modern. Yes, yes, yes. I agree with this point. Yes, Mark, I absolutely agree with what you're saying. There's something that we need to understand here, and it is that for young people in China, life can be, young people in China have a lot of pressure and a bit of life that they have to go through is also very quick, very fast-paced. That means that people here in China cannot really relax or don't really have the time to just stop and consider their inner selves, consider their inner lives, their psychological and philosophical and spiritual types. And even though all these ideas, as you've mentioned, might have existed in China in ancient times, I think that their real implementation in China has started with Jerry and his organization and his small workshops, these things that I've been doing. This is something that is completely new in China. Okay, so you mentioned Jerry. We mean Dr. Gerald Jampolsky and his associate and longtime love of his life, Dr. Diane Cirincione. They are leaders of the human potential movement in America and actually have been active throughout the world. Throughout the world for decades. To many countries across the world. And they only recently, in the last few years, started working in China and so reached out to Sume. We have a short video that comes from the organization that they have built. It's called Attitudinal Healing. So Attitudinal Healing International made this short video and it'll explain to our listeners the basic concept behind this Attitudinal Healing movement. Attitudinal Healing is a powerful yet simple method that guides people of all ages and circumstances to experience lasting love and inner peace. It helps heal the judgments, blame, shame, and self-condemnation that keeps us from real happiness. Attitudinal Healing is based on the belief that it's not people or experiences from the past or even in the future that cause us to be upset. Rather, it's our thoughts, attitudes, and our judgments about them that cause us the distress. Healing results when we concentrate on changing our own attitudes rather than trying to change others. Guiding principles help us learn to look at pain from the past and fear of the future so we can choose to experience inner peace in the present. People from many cultures, faiths, and denominations, as well as those who follow no faith participate in Attitudinal Healing. It doesn't tell you what to believe. Rather, it teaches you how to listen to your own inner wisdom and to make decisions based on love rather than fear. Attitudinal Healing pioneered the peer support group model and training which is now used in dozens of countries on six continents in numerous innovative ways which include relationships and education, community programs, business, hospitals, health and wellness, racial healing, and prisons. As we change our minds, we change our lives. As we heal ourselves, the world heals with us. So, Yutsume, you have a very important professional position and you're responsible to great many people and they're looking to you for leadership. I'm interested in hearing a little bit about Yutsume, why are you doing this? Who are you, what brings you to this life and why are you engaged in this work? Actually, I really feel the same way as Yutsume. Or, I've received more from what I've said and I feel like love is the flow of nature. When I'm doing this, I feel like I'm in a relationship with someone I know. I didn't say how to do it. The purpose of this work is to support Yutsume in the process of having a meeting with her last year. To support Yutsume and her children. I feel like the process of making love is more developed and the energy is more developed. So, at the end of the day, we've created the future of our project. In the next three years, we're going to create a 600-year relationship. Because we've realized that the current situation in China is quite serious. Because China now has about 50 to 60 million children. I think in the future, their development in China is quite big. So, we hope that we can support other things other than material. The current state of mind and mental health are not very good. So, I think it's a very good opportunity to talk to yourself. You can help others and support others. This may be the reason I've been passionate about this work. In this process, the energy is brought out by nature. So, I've seen a lot of people. Nicholas, help us. Yes, actually at the beginning, Mrs. Lio said that she thought that she was doing this maybe to help others. Show her care, show her love and something back to the society. And over, she realized that giving and receiving was actually a very similar thing. She now feels that out of these projects she's been doing, she has received more than she has been giving. When she does this, when she engages in that organization, she feels everything is very organically realized. She doesn't need to think too much about it but she just starts falling down in the right place. In a project like that for what she has called in Chinese lost children, children without families, children that have been abandoned, etc. She feels that it's a project where people can put a lot of energy in the future. They are going to train with that organization. 600 additional children. Because in China right now, the problem of the lost children problem is a very important one. There is an estimated 50 to 60,000 such children that are in need of education. So this is a very great opportunity for this organization to do something and help these people. And while they are helping and supporting this youth, this Chinese youth to learn more about themselves and understand themselves and well, grow with the children basically. Very good. We're going to take a brief break and we'll be right back. Thank you. Hi, I'm Cheryl Crozier Garcia, the host of Working Together on Think Tech Hawaii. 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Is there anything else in Beijing that you'd like to add to the project? I don't think so. I don't think so. I don't think so. Are you sure? I'd like to add to the project. Alright, let's just talk about the project. 因为我觉得我们这个夏明川服务的这个人群呢,是这些相冲教师,在我们希望通过他们影响的,是他们所交通的一群人。 因为从我自身的经历,因为我的母亲就曾经是一名乡军教师,所以中国他的经历我们感受到, 每一个乡军教师实际上都在影响了,至少一个十年后的学生,孩子, 所以我们发现在中国的一些偏远地区。 这些乡军教师,他们即便有盖庄热情,还再保满大爱,但也经不住时间的消磨。 所以我们把这个项目迎接来的,是希望通过这个项目能够帮助这些教师。 他们从事自己当初的梦想,也能够把自己的爱再充实回来, 他从事通过他们,才能够帮助这些孩子。 我觉得可能从北京做一个手动来着,可能跟这些人在地底上离得太远。 但是如果从一个有责任性的公民的角度来着,我觉得很有难度的读问, 我们的连接都是一样。 所以这个也是非常多的一个说法。 Nicholas, can you translate so far? We want to hear Nicholas. What does Xun Gui is saying? Help us. Yes, so this project, as Mr. Don says, is a project that is actually meant to service teachers and countryside, countryside teacher. And through influencing these countryside teachers, we want to influence the children, the students that are in our way places in China that are hard of access. Actually, Mr. Zhang's mother used to be a countryside teacher, and through her experience as a countryside teacher, he also has learned that countryside teachers such as her mother can influence students like this for a period of about 10 years. So this is a very long influence that these people have. In China though, it's a little bit difficult because these places are far away. So even if these countryside teachers have a full of love, full of energy, the fact that these places are so far away, and sometimes technologically very much less advanced, makes it a lot harder for them to actually persist in their work. So this project is meant to help them realize the dream and help them through past the test of time, and through doing this obviously affect these children, help these children. Mr. Zhang feels that Beijing as a capital is important, but it is definitely far from the places that are actually concerned in the project. Nevertheless, he feels that as a responsible citizen of China, as any responsible citizen of China would feel, it's a very important project. So people, no matter where they are in Beijing, in these places, they have been working very hard to contribute to the project. And Mr. Zhang wanted to say finally that this connection that relies on us is something actually that he has learned from his reading of Harry Potter. This transmission of love and how we are all connected in this way is something that was inspired to him by Ms. Ridley. So Xiong Yuwei, very interesting. When you start to work with young children in China today, what is their most important need that they're asking, that you can fulfill? What is in their heart that you need to address very first? No matter where they are, no matter where they are in this world, they all need parents. I think this is the most fundamental thing that they need to do. They need parents to accompany them, they need parents to welcome them, they need parents to be with them. But in today's society, this is the case. Family members can't be with them. Maybe when they're younger, they've already separated with their parents. So I think our ability is very important, we can't do anything. I can't put them and their parents together. We can't do this either. But we hope that they can spread a little bit, spread a method, spread a knowledge. Then we can make people have the opportunity to spend a little bit more time with their children. But when they can't do that, we hope that those who accompany their village teachers, because the village teachers are actually from teachers' roles, they are actually the second generation of children. So we hope that they can find the strength to do this. So in other words, we hope that the children will be able to make up for the mistakes they've made. Okay, Mr. John said that actually he believes that all kids in the world, all children in the world, no matter in China, in rich or poor, no matter what status all of them need love from their parents, they need love. He feels that this is something that is most basic and also most real in terms of the need of their children. Now, they need to be with them, to accompany them, to help them through their lives. But unfortunately, to speak of this organization, this project in Chinese society today, it's not always possible for parents to accompany these children through their growth. Sometimes from a very early age, they need to separate from their own child. So again, such a reality, what this organization can do sometimes feels very little. Obviously, they cannot always reunite parents and children. This can be a very difficult task. But what they can do is transmit an idea of belief for these parents to try and spend a little bit more time with these children, spend as much time as they can with their children to answer the needs. And when this is still impossible, another thing that this can do is try to make the countryside teachers that are working with this organization realize that when they go in these places, they have actually a second role, which is a temporary parent for these children to accompany these children through their growth while their parents are not in a position to do so. And, well, this love that the children might obtain in this project is the most basic and most real need that our organization is trying to address now. That's very interesting that this is becoming so important and so widespread. And it's expanding rapidly throughout China to both urban and rural settings, this kind of deep care for the inner child. And I think it's typical of how many ideas that begin in the West and go to China, they get changed by China. They get reinterpreted, they get reshaped, they get expanded. They have a different psychological and cultural base. Their essence remains the same, but they come out very different. And it's fascinating for us to see in America how those ideas of psychology and arts and culture and economics and technology, we see it in all these different fields. So I want to thank Liu Sumei and Zhang Junwei for being here. I want to thank Lin Fanlin for his continuing support through Beijing Emozi and his media company. And thank Zhou Xiaofeng and David Castellano for making it all happen at the other end. So until the next time, aloha and zaijian, xie xie to our friends in Beijing.