Ilchi Lee, founder of Dahn Yoga

The Steps of Brain Education by Ilchi Lee

By Phil on Jun. 25, 2009.

Posted by: Ilchi Lee

The process of Brain Education Ilchi Lee published in book is divided into some simple steps. As you progress through the twelve lessons, you and your child will move naturally through these five steps. However, perfecting any one of the steps is a lifelong journey, and the skills gained in earlier steps will continue to be utilized in later steps. You will notice that most of the lessons in this book focus on the first and second steps, which are most appropriate for children and beginning practitioners.

1. Brain Sensitizing: Participants become more aware of the brain and its functions. This step may include some basic understanding of brain structure, but more importantly, it creates awareness of the brain as the organ of all perception, especially sensory perception. Furthermore, practitioners can reawaken sensory perception that may have become dulled through habit or environmental over stimulation. The sensitizing process begins with relaxation of body and mind through stretching and breathing exercises.

2. Brain Versatility: During this step, children gair increased flexibility of the brain. Participants learn to shift point of view quickly and to facilitate communication between left and right hemispheres of the brain. This step may include physical exercises that develop coordination, mental exercises that require quick thinking and prolonged concentration, and other activities that develop creativity and imagination.

Best Approach to the Children

By Phil on Jun. 21, 2009.

Edited and published Ilchi Lee in his book.

Mr Ilchi Lee writes that In fact, taking the mind-set of a child is the best approach when working with children using this program. BE instructors are encouraged to “act like seven-year-olds” during their training because that is the best way to ensure an imaginative and accepting mind. So, as you work with your power brain kids, remember to become a kid right along with them. Practice the exercises as they do, making the lessons a fun part of your everyday routine.

Before beginning any Brain Education activities, be sure to do some stretching exercises, like those presented in the Brain-Body Activation section. When you are lacking time, you may be tempted to skip that, but please don’t! These exercises are very crit cal for circulating oxygenated blood to the brain and for “waking up” the circuitry of the brain. Also, new connections are created in the brain anytime you use the muscles in new ways. So, try to do at least fifteen minutes before beginning any BE activities.

“Dhan-mu” The Energy Dance

By Phil on Jun. 17, 2009.

This exercise suggested by Ilchi Lee, also known as Dahn-mu, will increase your en­ergy awareness while also releasing your natural inner grace and expressiveness. It is also very healing, as your body will take postures that will help realign the body and improve circula­tion. You should develop some ability in the previous exercise, the Energy Meditation, before attempting this. In the third step of Brain Wave Vibration, you may find that your body naturally moves into this Energy Dance. Begin by follow the directions for the Energy Meditation on page 150.

Focusing on the palms, allow your hands to follow the flow of energy freely. Allow your body to be enveloped bv the energy and move accordingly, free from inhibition and restriction.

Excercise of Energy Meditation by Ilchi Lee

By Phil on Jun. 12, 2009.

This exercise published and recommended by Ilchi Lee in his book.

1. Sit comfortably on the floor or on a chair, and straighten your back.

2. Place your hands on your knees with your palms facing up and close your eyes. Relax your body, especially your neck and shoulders. Inhale deeply: let go of any remaining tension while exhaling, i Soft meditative music in the background may be helpful.)

3. Raise your hands slowly to chest level, with your palms facing each other but not touching. First concentrate on any sensation you mav feel between your palms.

4. Now allow about 2—4 inches of space between your hands and concentrate fully on the space. Imagine that your shoulders, arms, wrists, and hands are floating in a vacuum, weightless.

5. Pull your hands apart and push them closer together again as you maintain your concentration. You may feel a tingling sensation or a magnetic attraction pulling your hands toward each other or pushing them apart.

6. When the sensation becomes more real, pull your hands farther apart or push them closer together. The sensation will expand and become stronger.

7. Breathe in and out, slowly and deeply, 3 times. Rub your hands together briskly until they are warm, then gently sweep your palms over your face, neck, and chest.

Ji gam The Energy Meditation

By Phil on Jun. 7, 2009.

This exercise is written and published by Ilchi Lee in his book Healing Society.

This exercise will help you learn to sense the presence of energy. Its traditional name, Ji-gam, means “stop thinking,” and this is essentially the goal to stop thinking. It requires deep, relaxed concentration, the perfect remedy for stressed-out brains. You should be as relaxed as possible before attempting this exercise, so stretch vour body or use other forms of Brain Wave Vibration before vou begin. At first, the feeling might be subtle. Do your best to clear your mind and focus on that sensation. If you find it difficult to feel the sensation, try clapping your hands sever­al times before increasing sensitivity. Keep practicing this, and soon vou will find that the sensation grows stronger.

Dahn Jon points

By Phil on Jun. 2, 2009.

My death coming, I gave up every attachment I had and trusted God to do with me as He saw fit. I gave myself up completely and trusted with absolute trust. “Please take me, for I trust you to do the best for me.”

It was at this moment that my Dahn Jon point in my lower belly started coming alive and spewing out furious heat, melting all the snow around me. I felt a powerful stream of Ki energy course through my body and give it life again, forming a capsule of energy barrier that protected me. This wasn’t something that I could have done. Ilchi Lee suggests this was my innermost life energy coming alive in the moment of utmost urgency and complete trust.

I learned a profound lesson through this episode: that you need divine help, there is a divine connection to assist you in this journey. And how do you access this power? Complete belief and trust. Give yourself up completely to the trust of the beneficence of the divine.

Ultimate answers

By Phil on May. 27, 2009.

So, through Ki training, I was able to see spirits, diagnose people without touching, sheath myself in a protective capsule of energy, manifest incredible physical strengths, and do other “miraculous” things. But I still couldn’t answer the simple question: Why was I born? Without the answer to this question, I would remain someone who could play around with energy, a mere technician. Nothing more. And what good is that? What good is knowing how to uproot trees without knowing what to use this power for? I was reminded of a story I had heard about Lao Tzu, the founder of Taoism. He had a bright student who trained for ten years in order to be able to control the flow of Ki energy to such an extent that he could form an energy bridge over a nearby river. One day, he showed Lao Tzu what he could do and walked across the river on the invisible energy bridge, back and forth. Expecting high praise, the student was flabbergasted when Lao Tzu turned purple with anger and shouted at him at the top of his voice, “You stupid idiot. You spent ten years to do a stupid trick when, all this time, there was a cheap ferry to get you across the river at any time you wished!”

That’s exactly how I felt. Like the student, I was nothing more than a show pony.

I wanted the ultimate answers and not cheap thrills. Content has copied from Healing Society by Ilchi Lee.

Spiritual Utopia

By Phil on May. 22, 2009.

These lines written Ilchi Lee in the book Healing society. She somehow got me out of the hole and took me to nearby Hospital. The doctor there worked all night to save me. The first thing that I did upon becoming conscious again was to curse at the doctor for saving me. I told him that I wanted to die and why did he interfere? He slapped me across the face. He yelled at me to go ahead and die and he wouldn’t save me this time. Afterwards, I felt sorry and relieved at the same time. It was then I realized that death is not something you can wish or not wish upon yourself. But I still hadn’t realized what life was all about. I was only in my early twenties when I came across something that allowed me to feel the Ki again. And through Ki, my True Self.

When you imagine and preach a spiritual Utopia, you run into a wall of opposition that consists of cynics and skeptics who say that such a thing has never been done before and will never be achieved. When I hear such doubts, I don’t have to fight an abstract with an abstract. I just point to history and let them judge for themselves, for there was a world once in which enlightened beings lived in utter harmony and peace. Let me briefly touch upon that story.

The Death of a Friend

By Phil on May. 17, 2009.

But by then I was already beyond caring. I was only thinking about death. So this is how people die. So this is what death feels like. I became obsessed with death. For the next six months, I was an emotional mess of guilt, fear, and morbid curiosity. I became a sort of an anarchistic, cynical atheist. All the teachers in my school and my parents were up in arms about me because after I talked to any classmate, he would become just like me—depressed, angry, and lost, not a bit interested in school work. Ilchi Lee writes I would ask them, “Why do you study?” and grill them until they admitted that they knew nothing about what life was. “You could die the next day. What possible good could studying do you?”

It got to the point that I thought about death all the time. I carried around some sleeping pills with me because I wanted to feel some power or control over my own death. I didn’t want death to sneak up on me. So, I decided to die. I went to a remote place where I could watch the stars, and dug up a deep hole in which I could lie down. Then I gulped down some liquor along with the sleeping pills and waited for death to take me as I watched the twinkling stars. Then this person came to rescue me. This mother of a local postman. She said later that somebody came to her in a dream telling her to save this person who is trying to commit suicide in an abandoned lot.

Eventually jump

By Phil on May. 12, 2009.

Extract from Healing Society a book of Prof Ilchi Lee

We are tooled into thinking that this bunch of information is actually us. Take a flea and put it into a bottle with a glass top. After a few times of jumping up and bumping into the glass top, the flea will eventually jump only so high that it doesn’t hit the top anymore, even if you take the top off later. We human beings don’t have this glass top. The only limitation we have is the false information that we hold on to as if it were the truth. We imagine this glass top to be real for ourselves. We don’t recognize that we have the choice to make it disappear and to free ourselves. It’s a choice.

The choice to be free can only be actualized though a purposeful decision to break out of the stifling grasp of false information and to courageously stay the course. And your brain will give you the power to do this.

Everyone has a brain, but only a few know how to use their brains well. The brain is the father of all computers. From the brain came the computer, language, religion, culture, history, laws, and everything that makes up the Age of Materialism in which we live today. The history of mankind developed through our brains. Everything that surrounds us today is a by-product of how we have used our brains. When you know human brains, you know human beings.

Judge the value of a person

By Phil on May. 6, 2009.

It is time we examine whether the standard by which we judge the value of a person’s information is itself correct. So far we have decided on the value of a person through his or her education level, occupation, family background, wealth, and other external factors instead of asking about the person’s value system or life philosophy. However, the true value of a person depends on the positive contribution that he or she makes to society. A person who may be talented and smart but is harmful to the general well being of the society is a valueless person.

Prof lee said people in the highest positions of power, such as the President, Speaker of the House, or CEO of the largest corporation in the world, are valueless if they don’t contribute positively to society. They actually have a heavier obligation to make a positive change, for they are in positions to do so. Only if they do will they be living up to their true worth. A person who has a lot ot positive information inside to contribute to society can be said to have a higher spiritual awareness. However, we don’t usually think that we have the right or the ability to change the set of information we have gathered that makes up who we are as human beings. We have unconsciously absorbed the pieces of information that have flowed into us and passively incorporated them into who we are without question or complaint.

Everything goes in cycles

By Phil on May. 1, 2009.

Written by Prof Ilchi Lee founder of Dahn Yoga

Human souls who have completed their journeys will also rest. Everything goes in cycles, without end. After a period of rest, we will start back up again with our collective journey. This is not a prophecy, but common sense. This is not something to fear.

But we should not lie idle and wait. We are here on Earth for a purpose, to recover our sense of True Love. If we do, we will no longer be fearful. Of Final Judgment or anything else. Let’s not procrastinate, but get on with our main job.

Strived for True Love

By Phil on Apr. 26, 2009.

by Prof Ilchi Lee

Close your eyes and look deep inside yourself. Ask yourself if you really strive for True Love. Do you know the meaning of True Love? What are the things that are blocking your True Love from surfacing? Could it be that they are doubt, egotism, and lack of respect?

To erect a society based on the standards of True Love. This is “E-wha Saegae—Everything-Harmonious World.” This is what we have to wish and strive for with all our hearts. This is why I am calling for a Spiritual-Cultural Movement that will sweep the world and act as a seed out of which mass enlightenment can germinate. Ilchi Lee writes this is why we need an Enlightenment Revolution.

Why did science and technology advance so quickly in the last century? Because we have become even more anxious and nervous than ever. Competition derives its power from the anxiety of Man. You compete because you are fearful. Through competition, you seek to guarantee your future security. Through competition, everything has become quicker. Everything is aging faster: humans, Heaven, Earth, nature. Even nature needs to take a rest. That means that Earth needs to take a rest soon.

Seek enlightenment

By Phil on Apr. 21, 2009.

Love based on nationality is not love. Love based on color is not True Love. True Love is spiritual love. It is love expressed toward all existence and given form through reality.

Why do we have to seek enlightenment? To recover the True Love in our hearts. By losing the memory of True Love in our hearts, we have fallen from being gods to being animals. Now we need to rejoin the ranks of the divine.

More said Prof Ilchi that it’s time for us, all of humanity, to set a standard for True Love. That True Love is love that loves not only Heaven, Earth, and human, but all of existence. This should be the standard against which all others are measured.

Drudgery of life

By Phil on Apr. 16, 2009.

Author Prof Ilchi Lee

Can you just imagine the drudgery of life to a being who knows that everything around him is an illusion’ But why do you think he came back? for power? For respect’ For everlasting fame!” What good are these when you know that they are only illusions? Would you be tempted to eat a piece of cake when you knew it was just a clumsy hologram”‘ When you knew that the real thing was just around the corner’ Then why did he come back.’ Simple. True Love for all mankind. He wrenched himselt away from his higher existence and came back down among the grime and the filth to get his own hands dirty in order to bring the rest ot us up with him. Or at least tell us how. This is the sacrifice he made. This is the True Love he showed. And this is the same love that Jesus showed when he, too, came back down among the masses to show us the way. Jesus’ supreme sacrifice didn’t lie with the crucifixion. It lay with the fact that he chose to come back and share his enlightenment with the masses, knowing that he would be killed. He came to teach us True Love.

Ilchi Lee says without knowing our True Selves, we cannot know True Love. So far, we have known only selfish love, egotistical love, controlling love, and domineering love. We have sought to use love as a tool to conquer and win. Even a porcupine loves its young. Even a lowly rodent knows to die for its offspring. Love based on blood is not True Love.