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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.

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.

The Law of Energy: the More It is Shared the Greater It Grows

By Ryan on Oct. 9, 2008.

An Ilchi Lee Message for the Soul “A Flower Blossom in the Morning”     The Law of Energy: the More It’s Shared the Greater It Grows   Energy is created when we give it away. And energy exists to be used. The fundamental character of creative energy is such that “we know we have energy only when we have given it away.” Escaping from the attitude of weakness that says, “I have no energy to give,” Choose first to give, without any conditions. Then you will be able to see how much energy, unused until now, exists within you.Giving first, giving without reserve, This is the principle for producing creative energy.

Creating new Pathways to Health

By Phil on Sep. 19, 2008.

Brain Sensitizing consists of three key practices.

The first involves stretching exercises of the kind often found in yoga, pilates, tai chi, or material arts.

As each muscle of your body is activated in deep stretching poses, corresponding areas of your brain awaken, improving coordination and balance,

The second practice involves breathing methods combined with dynamic body positioning, again ofter part of meditative practices and Yoga.

Finally, there is basic energy meditation.

This practice encourages you to view Ki energy as the link between body and mind, expanding your awareness and increasing brain clarity.

Many practitioners find they are able to begin changing negative habits using this technique.

from the book Brain wave Vibration by ilchi lee

Brain mastery

By Phil on Sep. 17, 2008.

The phrase brain mastery probably makes you think of something slightly different than what I mean by the term.

Brain mastery does not mean being smart or being able to perform mental tricks.

Rather, brain mastery is the ability to maintain a proper relationship between your brain and the outside world.

If you are a brain master, you have an almost uncanny ability to stay in the moment and to not be swept away by thoughts and emotions.

You can control your attitude and keep a positive mind-set, regardless of the situation.

And most importantly, a master of the brain never loses hope, no matter how dark the situation gets.

from the “Brain wave Vibration” by ilchi lee

Body and Brain Relaxation

By Phil on Sep. 15, 2008.

Lie down on the floor, arms to the side and legs on the ground. Position your legs shoulder width and bring your arms forty-five degrees from the body, palms facing the ceiling. If this is not possible,

Relax each part of the body as you call out its name. Begin with the face, feeling the forehead, eyes, jaw, and mouth releasing tension.

Continue breathing as you imagine oxygen traveling farther up the spinal column with each breath. Imagine each part of the brain lighting up like a light bulb as oxygen reaches it. Call out each part of the brain as it begins to glow.

from Power brain for Kids by ilchi lee

Ilchi Lee : There is Always a New You

By Ryan on Jul. 29, 2008.

An Ilchi Message for the Soul “A Flower Blossom in the Morning”

Role of brain stem

By Phil on Jul. 29, 2008.

Ilchi Lee says, the role of the brain stem is essentially to maintain your state of equilibrium. The body is designed to maintain a consistent state of health. You could say that any prolonged disease represents lack of equilibrium in the body.

So then why do things sometimes break down? Occasionally it is because of invaders, like viruses and bacteria, that the body is just not equipped to face. But, as you know, this is not the scenario that most people in modern society face. Humanity has learned a lot about controlling these invaders.

The great majority of the diseases of modern society, as you probably already know, are the result of lifestyle rather than some outside influence. In a way, through the choices we habitually make, Ilchi Lee says, we get in the way of our brain stem, and it never really has the chance to do its job.

A long time ago, Hippocrates said, “Everyone has a doctor within him or her; we just have to help it with its work.” Brain Wave Vibration is one way to get out of the way so that a deeper level of healing can begin.

Secret of the Brain Stem

By Phil on Jul. 26, 2008.

When you return to this basic rhythm of life, you return to what Ilchi Lee calls Yull-yo, the never-ending rhythm that pervades all of life and the entire universe. Eventually, as you progress in your practice of Brain Wave Vibration, you should not be reliant on the music playing in the CD player, the music outside yourself. That music is really just a reminder. Rather, you should go deep into the beautiful harmony that is part of who you are, a place one and the same as the entire universe.

Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.

Even as a small child, you witnessed the healing power of your brain stem at work. If you scraped your knees, Ilchi lee says, you could watch day-by-day as your body repaired itself, eventually becoming a brand new patch of skin. This kind of phenomenon, although commonplace, is really quite miraculous.

But what does the brain stem have to do with all this? Your brain stem is like a hidden conductor of the great symphony that makes up the intricate systems of your body. Without any conscious direction from you, it sends out messages to the body, telling your heart how fast to beat, commanding your white blood cells to spring into action, directing your digestive system to go to work, and coordinating a myriad of other bodily functions that continuously support your health and well-being.

From Brain Wave Vibration by Ilchi Lee

Ilchi Lee on For real brain mastery

By Phil on Jul. 24, 2008.

From Ilchi Lee’s new book: Brain Wave Vibration

Ilchi Lee says he remembers one time when he was a young man there was 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, Lee decided he would do something about the problem. He began to clear the garbage away, one piece at a time. When all the trash had been hauled away, he buried it in a hole that he had dug in the mountains. He 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 Ilchi Lee. It came at a moment when he felt truly hopeless about his life. In his early twenties, he had failed the college entrance exams three times. He realized that all he really needed was the opportunity to do something positive for people, 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, ug

Ilchi Lee: is this information truthful?

By Phil on Jul. 23, 2008.

Ilchi Lee who recently wrote Brain Wave Vibration asks this question to you.

Question 3: Is this information truthful?

The most important point is to assess the truth or falsehood of the information you receive. As you advance in your ability to tap into the vibrations of the universe, you will also gain natural ability to discern right from wrong and truth from falsehood. You will learn to trust your intuitive feelings in this regard. When something feels right, you will know it is right. When it is in accord with your true self, you will recognize it as truth; when it is not, you will also recognize that. David R. Hawkins has shown in his studies that truth and falsehood can be perceived intuitively by the body. If in doubt, just ask your brain–not the thinking brain but the intuitive brain. It always knows and is ready to share its wisdom.

I believe that there is a link between disease and the health of our brain waves, and the health of our brain waves is determined by the quality of information we possess. It is possible that specific diseases, like cancer, high blood pressure, and diabetes, all relate to particular brain wave patterns. If you can change the brain waves that are producing the disease, then perhaps you can heal the disease as well.

One student of mine was a reporter, and he was constantly bombarded with negative information because he was in charge of reporting all sorts of negative news — accidents, crime, and the like. He was soon plagued with health problems, including deep fatigue and unnatural hair loss. On top of that, he smoked and drank too much to relieve the stress. Now his health has improved because he uses Brain Wave Vibration to clear away the negative information from his mind.

Rhythm of Life

By Phil on Jul. 22, 2008.

Medical science has confirmed that infants begin to responding to sounds around them long before they are born. Ilchi Lee suggests you to think about this. When you were developing in your mother’s womb, your ears were practically the only sensory organs taking in information. Your skin could sense the warmth of your mother’s body, but it was a consistent, unvarying temperature, and you were suspended in the amniotic fluid, an environment with very little variety of texture. Your eyes were closed to the dark interior of your mother’s body and your mouth had no food to taste.

You lived alone in a dark world where the unceasing rhythm of your mother’s heartbeat was your constant companion. This and the sounds of your parent’s voices were the first stimuli to create connections in your brain and the first to begin giving definition to your being. When you hear the sound of rhythmic drumming now, or when you follow the rhythmical movements of Brain Wave Vibration, Ilchi Lee says, you are transported back to a place of newness and simplicity.

Music is such a consistent part of the experience of life that you could say that rhythm is essential to life. Medieval scholars of Europe hypothesized that a great harmonic system, called “the music of the spheres,” kept the planets in their proper orbit and rotation. Likewise, they believed that an internal harmony existed within the human body. This may seem naive to the modern scientific mind, but on an intuitive level, there is great truth in that concept. Just stop and quiet yourself for a moment, and you will feel it. Ilchi Lee believes music really is a universal experience and the universal language.

Ilchi Lee on Brain Education Method

By Phil on Jul. 20, 2008.

From Brain Wave Vibration by Ilchi Lee

In his book This is Your Brain on Music, neuroscientist and musician Daniel J. Levitin discusses the effect music has on the human brain. He notes that music is unique in its ability to stimulate all areas of the brain at once. He says, “Musical activity involves nearly every region of the brain that we know about, and nearly every neural subsystem.”

In Ilchi Lee’s five-step Brain Education method, the goal of the fourth step, Brain Integrating, is to unify the three layers of the brain — the primitive brain stem, the emotional limbic system, and the rational neocortex. Very often one part of the brain undermines another, as when rational thinking is overcome by emotion. The goal of Brain Integrating is to get the various parts of the brain working together harmoniously, rather than competing with each other. Since it activates diverse parts of the brain, music seems to be a good step in that direction, which may also explain the cognitive advantage that children who study music seem to have over their nonmusical peers.

When Ilchi Lee trains people in the Brain Wave Vibration method, he usually use samunori, the traditional drumming art of his native Korea. It has its roots in very ancient aspects of Korean culture, originating in the rituals of farmers who wished to ensure the success of their crops.

Ilchi Lee believes that this music, like a lot of other traditional musical forms, possesses a remarkable ability to affect the brain positively. It may be that rhythmic music has a great psychological effect because the first experiences we perceive with our brains are rhythmical.

Ilchi Lee sees the brain as similar, in some ways, to a computer. Granted the brain is far more complex and can be modified through self-directed intention, which is certainly not the case with computers. However, he says he think it isa useful analogy to think in terms of the brain possessing an operating system.

Every brain, like every computer, has an operating system through which it processes the programs it receives. If you have not been able to create your life as you really want, then perhaps you simply can’t run that program on your current brain operating system. To do so would be like trying to run a current computer program on a version of Windows from the 1980s.

Your operating system is the system of beliefs and preconceptions through which you interact with the world. Sometimes these beliefs are very helpful to us if they help us understand the world by helping us process the data that we constantly receive through our senses.

But sometimes our brain operating system is programmed in a way that does not suit our intentions for our life. For example, let’s say you really would love to learn how to draw, but you have a belief about yourself that says, “I am not talented. Anything I try to draw is embarrassing.” You can see how your intention, which is like a program you would like to run, is incompatible with your underlying belief about yourself, which is like your operating system.

The same is true for anything else that you with to manifest in your life. If you want more money, upgrade your underlying beliefs about money. If you want better relationships, reevaluate how your brain processes relationships. This is true for anything you can dream of having or achieving.

Rhythmic movement of Brain Wave Vibration

By Phil on Jul. 17, 2008.

Even as adults, Ilchi Lee says, we tend to bounce our knees and drum our fingers when stressed or nervous. Also, when we feel disappointment or disgust, we shake our head side to side. This movement is done around the world, which Darwin noticed long ago through his observations of emotional expression. Ilchi Lee says he believes these motions are instinctive to people because they help calm the brain waves in a very natural way. Through the rhythmic movements of Brain Wave Vibration, Ilchi Lee hope you will begin to apply these methods to yourself in a more conscious, deliberate manner.

The healing power of rhythm is becoming very clear. Recently, drumming has become an increasingly popular form of therapy. It seems to Ilchi Lee, creator of BEST (Brain Education System Training) to offer troubled individuals a chance to release stored emotions and to gain a feeling of personal power. One study found that workers who got together to participate in group drumming gained a much more positive outlook about their work and developed a sense of community with their coworkers. Researchers concluded that drumming circles provided a great release for the workers’ stress and that the practice could reduce worker burnout significantly, leading to a reduction in employee turnover.

When people go out to a night club or blast the latest pop tunes from their car stereos, they are, in a sense, “self-medicating” their own brain waves. Typically, Ilchi Lee says, these songs have very heavy beats, which allow the brain to settle down to a more primitive, prerational state of being, in much the same way that tribal drumming helps produce subconscious, trancelike states in primitive healing practices. Of course, the effects are not quite so dramatic, but the constant, heavy beat does provide the brain a chance to “simmer down,” escaping from the constant left-brain, prefrontal cortex activity that modern life demands. So the next time you see the guy in the car next to you bobbing his head up and down to the rhythm of the latest top-ten hit, you can think to yourself, “Oh! He knows Brain Wave Vibration, too!”

You can practice Brain Wave Vibration, created by Ilchi Lee, at a local Dahn Yoga center around your office or home.

Ilchi Lee on Power Brain Kids: Introduction 5

By Phil on Jul. 13, 2008.

From Power Brain Kids by Ilchi Lee

Brain Education is currently thriving in hundreds of schools in Korea, and it has recently been successfully introduced in several K-8 schools in the United States. BE curriculum has been successful in teaching the English language to korean shcoolchildren in after-school programs, allowing kids to quickly and easily absorb a language very different from their own. Also the Korean Institute of Brain Science has hosted two International Brain HSP Olympiads, in which BE-trained children and adults have demonstrated a wide range of advanced mental skills, including information processing, memory, and even extrasensory ability.

Brain Education is especially appropriate for today’s children because it offers tools to cope with issues that are unique to the young generation. Children today are sometimes referred to as “Generation M” because media dominate their lives in so many ways. Media technology, such as cable television and the Internet, provides a constant and unlimited flow of information. Youngers must choose which ideas to accept and which to reject. Their choices in this regard will affect their patterns of thinking about themselves and the world around them. The job of the educator and the parent is to help guide children in making these important decisions, which is a difficult task in a media culture more interested in selling jeans and cola than in creating well-rounded, confident individuals. Brain Education, in its essence, offers simple tools that provide children with the power to choose and use information more effectively.