Ilchi Lee Educating Brain, Dahn Yoga

The second insight that you need to experience is that your body is yours, but not you. My body is mine, but it is not me. When you feel yourself slighted and angry, when you feel your life is a sad joke, take a moment and ask who is this “me” who was slighted. You will realize that this “me” is a product, much like an appliance, packaged with various features such as age, job, religion, and hobbies. The “me” who was slighted is just a collection of information that you have gathered along the way. All the happiness, sadness, anger, and joy are generated by the mistaken assumption that your physical form is you. You are not unhappy. A phenomenon called the body and the layers of information that clothe it feel happy, sad, angry, or joyful. However, your body is never you, though it is yours.

What does this mean? If my body is not me but it is mine, who is the “me” that calls this body its own? If the entity that experiences my everyday life is just a phenomenon of a physical manifestation sheathed by layers of information, what is the real “me”?

To know that “my body is mine, not me” signifies that you know who the true master of your life is. The “me” that you have known throughout your life is just a collection of information that you started accumulating just after you were born. Your religious faith and your God are just a part of the information shell that you have constructed around yourself. Information did not cause your existence. Information started to form a shell around you after you were born, and this shell will disappear just before your body dies. It is akin to the programs inside a computer: all programs are closed before the computer turns itself off, read more article by Ilchi Lee.

Beginning Posture is for initiating circulation of internal Ki in our bodies. Through this movement, we create respiration and energy conditions appropriate for doing Dahn-gong. The Beginning Posture movement promotes the flow of energy along the body’s vertical meridians.

The breathing method in Dahn-gong, except for the Beginning and final Breathing postures, involves exhaling with 30 percent of the breath left in the lungs. In the Beginning Posture, however, breathing is controlled so that 80 percent of the last breath is exhaled, with 20 percent retained by the lower abdomen.

Stepping in the Dahn-gong Basic Form generally employs movements trained in the ll-si and ll-bon postures.

Exhale as you lower your arms. Beginners may straighten and bend their knees as they raise and lower their arms to match their breathing. Once they develop strength in their legs, however, they should practice this in a horse stance, without moving the lower body.

Where should we begin and with what? If we were to try to change the entire infrastructure at once, stress alone would probably destroy civilization. How can we turn the bus around without an abrupt stop that would throw everything inside the bus into chaos? What has to happen to create a fundamental change?

The Ilchi Lee’s philosophy on Earth must become one of “HonglklnGan and EWhaSaeGue”. In Korean, it means “Universal benefit to all humanity, rightful harmony throughout the world.” It refers to the desire benefit the world, not as a demand, but a choice. The Earth-Human concept is relevant to the paradigm shift that our world requires today. In historical context, it is rediscovery of what it means to be human. It could even be the first recognition ever, of what it means to be human, for no civilization that we know of, has achieved such a momentous shift. It indicates our willingness to accept absolute responsibility for our choices regarding our future. Knowing that the future of the Earth depends us, we have chosen to accept the challenge.

By identifying ourselves as Earth-Humans, a series of changes in our way of life will have to follow. We will need to shift from a non-sustainable to sustainable civilization, from a civilization that worships the material, to a civilization that uses material wisely. From a civilization defined by winning and losing to a civilization desiring completion of the souls of her people.

To determine consciousness levels, Hawkins uses a process called kinesiology, which shows the connection between the body, the brain, and its various states of consciousness. He determines the level of a person or object by testing its effect on human musculature. a lower consciousness level will cause muscle to go weak, while a higher consciousness level will strengthen the muscle. Even when the subject is not aware of the object used in the test, consciouness levels calculate consistently.

 I would contend that this method of evaluation works because the subconscious brain possesses abilities to evaluate the relative vibrations of consciousness far more accurately than even than the most well-developed thinking mind. The rational mind can make evaluations with some level of accuracy, if given proper information about an object. But the intuitive mind can sense the relative truthfulness of these things immediately. this ability is evidence of amazing internal wisdom, which the thinking brain can never hope to attain, even after years of experience and study.

  The question then is how to return to this place of oneness. I believe that it is through quieting the mind and the experience of energy that we can return.

  Brain Wave Vibration can open the door to this possibility because it offers a way to stop the thinking mind, even if only for a few minutes. When you practice well, you will fell a disintegration of the surface of your body. Of course, it is not a literal disintergration - your skin and the rest of your body will remain intact. What you will realize, howerer, is that you do not end there, that your being goes far beyond the confines of your body. You will experience that directly, not just as an intellectual concept.

The great news is that you have infinite power to change and refine your brain. A few decades back, scientists
thought that people could have very little influence over their brains. It was assumed that by the time people reached adulthood their brain connections were permanently and indelibly in place.

 In childhood, one might be able to exert some influence over the development of the brain, but for the most part these things were genetically determined. It was thought that the old adage “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks” was literally true.
More recently, scientists have discovered that the opposite is true. There is a quality to the brain called neuroplasticity that allows you, right up to the end of your life, to restructure and adapt your brain according to your needs. You
can learn new things and adapt to new environments, even in extreme old age

from’ Brain management’ by ilchi lee

Live in the moment

- We all rush around at such great speed that we are always looking ahead. What’s next? What’s on my list? At least once each day, stop and be in the moment, using all your senses: sight, hearing, taste, smell, touch. It might be in the produce section at the grocery store-it doesn’t matter. Stop and just be. Appreciate being where you are, doing what you are doing. Ask yourself what is memorable about this moment.

As you get older, it is as important that you have a dream for your life as it was when you were young. You may have a better chance of achieving it, now that the basics needs of life – financial security, starting a career, raising a family, etc. – are no longer of primary importance to you. Make a plan for who you want to be one, five, or ten years from now. This does not have to mean starting a new career or taking on some huge project. More importantly it means becoming the kind of person you really want to be in terms of character and your interaction with world round you. If you have ever thought to yourself, “I want to leave the world a better place than I found,” now is the time to act on that desire. To find your vision, find what really fills you with a sense of joy and contentment. For most, this will probably involve contributing something of value to your community or the world. Don’t be afraid to set your goal high and to dream big.

I remember one time when I was a young man there was a bridge under which people threw a lot of garbage. The garbage just piled up week after week. People complained about the garbage, but no one ever did anything to change the situation.

 So one day, I decided I would do something about the problem. I began to clear the garbage away, one piece at a time. When all the trash had been hauled away, I buried it in a hole that I had dug in the mountains. I then planted pumpkin seeds in the ground covering the trash. Soon, big, beautiful pumpkins were growing there.

 This was a huge moment of discovery for me. It came at a moment when I felt truly hopeless about my life. In my early twenties, I had failed the college entrance exams three times. I realized that all I really needed was the opportunity to do something positive for peopel, and that something positive could even come from a pile of trash.

 True brain mastery is the ability to see possibility, even where others see only trash. Those pumpkins grew so well precisely because the garbage had been there before; the trash added nutrients to the soil.

 For real brain mastery, you must learn to see your life in the same way, realizing that all the difficult, ugly parts of life can become the compost from which grows your own fulfillment. The trick is to keep a positive mind so that all the beautiful possibilities of life can be seen.

If you want to be happy, stop waiting for others to make you happy.

Just decide to be happy. If your life seems too dreary, smile anyway.

This may seem like Pollyanna, pie-in-the-sky nonsense at first, but it is very much rooted in the physiological reality of your brain.

Also, smiling is contagious.  Very few people can resist urge to smile back when you smile at them.

As wonderful as a smile is, laughter is even better.

The old saying “Laughter is the best medicine” is literally true.

Laughter boosts the immune system and reduces the stress response, and thus is excellent for brain health.

Furthermore, good attitude and lots of positive social interaction seem to reduce the risk of dementia and other aging-related brain disorder.

A happy brain, it seems, is a healthy brain.