Ilchi Lee Educating Brain, Dahn Yoga

You can communicate with any organ of your body. Ki energy is omnipresent, not only within our bodies, but throughout the universe. Ki goes where our mind directs it. If we consciously think about our heart and brain, Ki will flow there. Dahn-mu is a way of expressing currents of energy with your move­ments. The moment you immerse yourself in the currents of energy, beyond the barriers of self-consciousness and thought, you begin to converse with your soul. This is the moment when the divinity with­in awakens.

“My body is not my all.” “My emotions are not my all.” “My thoughts are not my all.” these said by Ilchi Lee.

“Then, what or who am I?” “Who is the real me?” Only through Ki energy can you meet with your True Self. Dahn-mu is a signal that you are ready to meet the Creator Within. To feel the flow of Ki energy, and to use it to awaken the deepest potential within, is truly a blessing and will bring about transformation of your life.

Before beginning Healing Chakra Training, it is important to relax your body and mind. Unless you are sensitive to Ki energy, you cannot activate your body’s Chakra system. Ki energy is felt when body and mind are in a relaxed state. Relaxation is prerequisite to all forms of meditation and healing. When we are tense, our minds and bodies tend to contract, thus prohibiting the free flow of energy.

Ki energy acts as a bridge connecting body and soul. The soul delivers its messages to the body through Ki energy. You must relax in order to meet with your soul. Ji-gam (energy sensitivity training) and Dahn-mu (energy dance) are the most effective methods to induce relaxation. Ji-gam training assists in stopping the flow of thoughts and emotions, making it possible to concentrate exclu­sively on the body. With this heightened sensitivity, it is possible to expand the feeling of the subtle currents of energy. As your state of Ji-gam becomes deeper, your body will move with the flow of ener­gy in an unconscious, spontaneous expression of the energy flow. This is Dahn-mu. Through Dahn-mu, you will meet with your true master, your soul. Thus, Dahn-mu is the language of the soul.

Here are some words about subject by Ilchi Lee. He says awakening the brain is a matter of expanding consciousness. The seven Chakras of the body are directly related to different areas of the brain. By analogy: if Ki energy is equivalent to electrici­ty, and the Chakras are the switches, then each area of the brain is a light. Just as you turn a light on by activating a switch, you can awaken the parts of the brain by activating the Chakras. If only one Chakra is turned on, then only the part of the brain corresponding to that Chakra will awaken. And in order for a human being to become one with the divine spirituality within, the whole brain must be awakened.
Chakras also have a direct symbiotic relationship with the auto-nomic nervous system.

This is the system that controls the most basic life functions of respiration, circulation, and digestion. The Chakras also have an intimate relationship with the endocrine sys­tem. Blockages or imbalances in the energy of the Chakras are reflected in the types and levels of hormones released by the endocrine system.

The kind of balancing exercises included in this chapter work not only to balance the body physically but also to balance the mind. As your child learns these postures, new brain connections will naturally be made. Also, improved concentration will come as a natural outgrowth of these exercises.

Try these exercises to help children develop better balance and focus. Before beginning, have children tap their fingertips gently on their lower abdomen, just below the belly button, to find their center of gravity. Ilchi Lee also suggests remind them to focus on that point as they attempt to balance.

01. Stand with your feet together and your palms in the “prayer position.”

02. Slowly bring one foot up, placing the bottom of the foot as high as you can on the inner thigh. Push your knee out to the side. (If this is difficult at first, place the foot lower on the leg.)

03. Slowly extend your arms up and out to the side, creating a V shape with your arms.

In respect of subject Mr Ilchi Lee founder of Dahn Yoga says children are in a constant state of flux. Their bodies are always changing, and their minds must struggle to keep up. It is easy for children to feel out of control and uncomfortable in their own skin. As adults, we usually just chalk this up to the “awkward phase” and wait for them to outgrow it.

More physical exercise of all types will help your child gain a sense of centeredness, but strength in the lower body is most important for creating physical stability. Also, moving the arms and legs in opposition across the mid-line of the body helps to establish coordination between the left and right sides of the brain.

Many of the sports and games that children play, such as skateboarding and hopscotch, emphasize balance in movement, and often children become quite proficient at this sort of balancing and coordination. Static balance, the kind of balance needed when you stand still on one foot, requires much more concentrated effort to achieve. Developing this skill calls on the ability to focus deeply while gaining genuine awareness of the entire body as a single entity.

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Our brain emits four basic types of waves: beta, alpha, theta, and delta. When we are experiencing anger or hate, the frequency of our brain waves increases. Beta wave occurs during a state of emotional turmoil or excitement, leading to quick fatigue and listlessness. In a meditative state, the brain wave reaches the alpha stage, resembling sleep. Ilchi Lee suggests however, just because you sit cross-legged and close your eye doesn’t mean that you are meditating. In fact, you might be bombarded with useless thoughts. The reason that it is very difficult for your awareness to sink lower into the inner layers of your brain is that the route is not open. There are guards at the gates leading into each inner layer of the brain.

You need a secret password to enter. If there weren’t any password, then everyone would have freely made the trip and be enlightened, holding conversations with the Creator Within at any time. Unfortunately, that is not so. Luckily, however, through Brain Respiration you can silence your neocortex, satisfy your cerebral limbic system, and steal into the brain stem to step into the place that goes beyond space and time into Creation itself. You will meet your Creator Within. You will meet Yuln’yo.

Let us take a trip together.

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.

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.