Brain Cleansing Exercise seeks to purify the negative and self-limiting memories of the past by using imagination and energy. The power to imagine is the most creative and the highest level function of our brain. Imagination, in itself, is a wonderful brain exercise program. In order to maximize the benefits ot Brain Respiration, it is important to maximize your imaginative abilities to draw the transformation process of the brain. Prof. Ilchi Lee instructs that you also need to believe that a combination of imagination and energy- will truly bring about certain changes in the brain. Change comes from the belief that change is possible.

As you undergo Brain Cleansing Exercise for Yoga Practice, you will recall many past memories, some of them painful and raw; this is a natural phenomenon of the ‘cleansing’ process of Brain Respiration. Do not seek to force the memories to disappear, watch them roll in front of you, as if you are watching a movie, and they will soon lose their power to negatively affect or limit you. Only when you put some distance between you and your memories that have been limiting you. will you be truly free from the invisible emotional prison that often acts as our internal glass ceiling.

Posted: October 2nd, 2008 under Dahn Yoga, Ilchi Lee.
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According to Doctor Ilchi Lee book there are three large system networks in our bodies. We all know about the circulatory system and the nervous system. Blood and oxygen flow through the circulatory system. The nervous system carries information via chemical signals. If we were to compare the circulatory system to plumbing, then the nervous system would be a telephone network.

However, connecting two pipes together does not mean that water will flow through them. In order for the water to flow, you need power to drive the water in a certain direction. Likewise, just because two telephones are connected does not mean that they can communicate. In DahnHak you also need an electrical supply to power the lines and equipment. Then, what is the power that drives us… our blood, and the signals of our nervous system? It is Ki energy.

The meridian system is the name given to the system of pathways along which Ki energy travels throughout our body. This is the third network system in our body. However, meridians are not closed and specifically defined pathways as are the circulatory and nervous systems. Meridians consist of pathways along which energy flows in highest density. Energy does not travel through a fixed, predetermined highway system, but forms a network of roads by the act of passing.

Posted: September 30th, 2008 under Dahn Yoga, Ilchi Lee.
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The most effective way to generate joy in the view of Ilchi Lee is by smiling and playing. This is simple perhaps, but profoundly true. It’s the reason why smiling and playing is a significant part of training in Brain Respiration. Joy generated by smiling and playing will melt the fear in our hearts or, more precisely, our limber system, and will allow us to activate its potential. Only when we overcome doubt and tear with bright intelligence and powerful joy will we access and utilize the full potential of our brain in DahnYoga.

The neo-cortex gives us the ability for introspection and creativity. Together with energy and information these give us power of life and death over all life on Earth, including our own. Now we are ready to use this power to look deep within ourselves… deeper than ever before… to meet with the source of life. The moment of meeting the life source within is the moment of our enlightenment. And through the power of collective enlightenment we will create the harmony and wisdom to establish a civilization based on harmonious order.

Posted: September 29th, 2008 under Dahn Yoga, Ilchi Lee.
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Ilchi Lee Articles About Yoga Exercises.

The way to overcome doubt is not by blind belief, but through a knowing or awareness, the true source of intelligence. When you “know” something for sure, then doubt automatically disappears. The human transition, from an age of belief to an age of knowledge, was heralded by unforgettable words uttered by a famous scientist about six hundred years ago: “But the Earth still rotates around the sun.” Doubt has always been necessary for protection from danger we could not sense or see. However, as we develop the ability to perceive whatever danger lurks, we no longer need this protective mechanism. When we have outgrown the need for doubt, we will finally be able to think as we wish and will no longer be led by uncontrolled thinking.

Pro. Ilchi Lee writes in his book that fear has an even greater presence in our lives. Emotions in the limbic system can be classified into two basic categories… fear and love. Based on these two simple emotions, an action of advancement or retreat, acceptance or refusal, is determined. The energy of love is expressed in human desire to socialize and become a part of a community. The energy of fear is characterized by desire to avoid pain or, failing that, to fight. How can we possibly overcome such deeply rooted instinct?

When we become angry, fear takes one step back. When we feel courage, fear takes two steps back. However, it is always on call to rush back to our side in times of need. When we feel joy, we feel fear melt away. Fear and the associated negative emotions that it gives rise to all melt away in the presence of genuine joy. When we can utilize the power of joy to overcome fear, we can then fully use the capabilities of our limbic system. We will no longer be led by our emotions. We will instead lead them.

Posted: September 27th, 2008 under Dahn Yoga, Ilchi Lee.
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Dr. Ilchi Lee presents an example for examine the brain, it a suggestion is made during a state of deep hypnosis that a scalding hot coin has been placed on your hand, a blister will appear on the spot where the coin is placed, even if the coin is not actually hot. This is possible because, in hypnosis, the function of doubt in the neo-cortex is temporarily suspended. Therefore, the message goes straight to the brain stem, causing it to signal the body part to activate the self-defending mechanism for a burn. The body then gathers water to cool the heat and to mobilize immune cells to fight against a possible invasion of harmful germs.

Here is a true story, reported in Korean newspapers in the mid-Seventies. A mother whose little child had somehow slipped into a tiger’s cage bent the metal bars of the cage apart with bare hands and rescued the child. Afterwards, she couldn’t even move the bars a millimeter, despite using all her strength. How did this happen? Where did such strength come from? It came from the power of her brain stem, activated when information that her child was in mortal danger was registered with purity and urgency without being filtered through the neo-cortex. This is the same type of extraordinary power we read about in the Bible when a cripple is suddenly able to walk or an incurably ill child wakes up smiling at a word from Jesus. The absolute belief in Jesus’ divinity and healing power, registered directly by the brain stem, brings about a miracle. This is actually the exertion of the potential power of our brain.

Dahn Hak basics by Ilchi Lee

Posted: September 26th, 2008 under Dahn Yoga, Ilchi Lee.
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About powers of the brain stem Ilchi Lee explains that let us examine the brain stem. Although little is actually known about the brain stem, now and then we glimpse its inexplicable powers. The work that the brain stem does cannot be controlled or even sensed by the neo-cortex. All the essential functions of the body are controlled by the brain stem. If we had to consciously sense and control every little thing that the brain stem does, we wouldn’t be able to do anything else for fear of killing ourselves by neglect or by mistake. We can be thankful for the benevolence that separated the brain stem and the neo-cortex. Imagine what would happen if our basic life functions were affected by the type of information that came into our head! A harsh word from our boss and we would have trouble breathing. One kiss from a lover might overload our hearts. Any passing thought of suicide would stop our breathing. Thank God we have the cerebral linibic system to act as a barrier between the neo-cortex and the brain stem. We don’t have to think about staying alive. We just do.

However, there are cases in which the information in the neo-cortex has an immediate and dramatic effect on the function of the brain stem. When the neo-cortex determines without an iota of doubt that a piece of information is true, then it has an effect on the brain stem. However, the neo-cortex must believe one hundred percent in the truth of the information. Normally, when information conies in, the neo-cortex critically and skeptically examines it. However, something that is believed absolutely is delivered directly to the brain stem. The incredible power of absolute belief is that it can actually affect the most basic functions of life itself.

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Posted: September 24th, 2008 under Dahn Yoga, Ilchi Lee.
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Past and current brain research has tended to concentrate on anatomical and physiological aspects of the brain. Medical science has advanced enough so that we can, in real time, examine and chart the chemical and physical changes that the brain undergoes when exposed to different stimuli. However, although the brain is the site of various biological functions including hormonal production, neural activity, and blood flow it is also the seat of consciousness where contemplation, analysis, deduction, and creativity are somehow manifested. Consciousness defines the essence of what it means to be a human being, yet explaining consciousness has been one of the most challenging goals of all scientific study of the brain. As an experiential study of the human brain, Brain Respiration also purports to provide a complete understanding of consciousness.

According to Ilchi Lee views all of our emotions, thoughts, and actions are the result of brain activity. Personality, habits, and characteristics that define “me” are expressions of the information stored in the brain. To understand the brain is to understand the human, and to explain the brain is to explain the human.

Anatomical research has long been the objective of traditional science, while the study of human consciousness has traditionally been the domain of religion and psychology. In order to form a complete and comprehensive picture of a human being, we must now bring the two aspects of brain exploration together. To understand human beings, we must understand the human brain. Our collective future depends on our ability to understand ourselves by understanding our brain. How can we utilize our brains to optimize health and happiness, to raise the collective human consciousness, and to lead more peaceful and creative lives? These important questions await our research efforts.

Ilchi Lee articles about effective movements of Dahn Hak

Posted: September 23rd, 2008 under Dahn Yoga, Ilchi Lee.
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Brain Respiration stimulates the brain by utilizing our physical, energy, and information (spiritual) bodies. Previously, we examined these three bodies in relation to breathing. Now let us examine them as a means of exercising our brain.

Exercising the brain on a physical level means awakening the body’s senses. Dr. Ilchi Lee tells that we normally think we taste with our tongue, feel with our fingers, and see with our eyes. However, in reality our eyes, nose, ears, skin, and tongue merely gather sensory information. We are able to see, smell, hear. feel, and taste because of our brain’s ability to register and interpret sensory information. Therefore, when you see, feel, taste, or hear something that YOU haven’t experienced before, you are awakening a previously dormant part of your brain with a fresh sensory stimulant. Introducing your body to different exercises and movements also stimulates your brain in new ways.

Most of us have a set pattern of movements and exercises in Dahn Yoga.

Even those of us who work out on a regular basis follow a prescribed pattern of movement, unaware that we are doing so. This limited movement stimulates a correspondingly small fraction of the brain. When stretching parts of the body that we haven’t stretched before, or exercising in ways that are new to us, we are stimulating, exercising, and activating different parts of the brain. Exercising the brain on an energetic level means concentrating the flow of energy to the brain. When you begin to awaken your senses one by one, you will become sensitized to an underlying sensation that permeates all of your other senses. You will feel the flow of life energy that surrounds us. This conscious sensation of energy provides us with another channel to directly stimulate the brain.

Although the brain consists of billions of nerve cells that control every other part of our body, it has no ability to move itself. The brain itself has no muscles. In other words, there is no way to physically move or exercise the brain directly. However, we can stimulate and exercise the brain by using the flow of Ki energy with our newly discovered sensitivity to its emanation. Just as we can exercise the muscles in our arms and legs, we can exercise our brain by directing the flow of energy.

Exercising the brain on an informational (spiritual) level means supplying the brain with good, positive information. What is good information? Good information is creative, peaceful, and productive. Of all the information that we feed on every day, the most important type of information has to do with our identity. Who am I? What is my life’s purpose? Information that relates to these two questions is important because it determines the course of our lives and provides us with the basic motivation for all of our actions. Therefore, when good information about our identity is provided, our brain can fulfill its potential for infinite cre-ativitv.

Posted: September 22nd, 2008 under Dahn Yoga, Ilchi Lee.
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The third condition is your ability to transfer or communicate information to others. There are countless ways to communicate information, from snail mail to email to cellular phones. However, it still remains to be seen whether we have become better communicators as a result, since the key to communication is not in the tools but in the belief and confidence of the person doing the communicating. It is easy to test whether you have good communications skills or not. When you are asked to sing in public, can you sing without hesitation, with confidence and fullness? Can you dance in public without embarrassment? These are all related to your ability to express yourself. If we are not good communicators, the reason lies in our brain. All the “negative” experiences, education, and teachings we have accumulated during our lives have become codified as information in our brain, telling us that we cannot do certain things. These pieces of information lead us into passivity and psychological complexes. We have to overcome these barriers to make ourselves into good communicators. The first thing I did after realizing my own enlightenment was to wake up earlier than usual and go to a local park, in order to communicate the information that had come to me through my enlightenment to others who needed that information. I began by teaching specific exercises to a person half-paralyzed from a stroke, in order to improve his condition. One person became two, then three, and so on… resulting in today’s worldwide movement.

It is time for us to free our brain. If we can use the full potential of the brain that the Creator has so graciously gifted us with, this world will truly be heaven on earth. Doctor Ilchi Lee tells that our brain has such potential. We are currently facing various problems, difficulties, and conflicts in the world because we are not using our brain well. We are not using our brain well because we are letting “negative” information control our brain. This is the fundamental cause for suffering in the world today. Therefore, these times are demanding that we come up with a scientific and modern system of “treeing” the brain and “seeding” the brain with the philosophy and tools necessary to fully explore its potential. Brain Respiration is an answer to such a demand.

Dahn Hak guidelines by Ilchi Lee

Posted: September 21st, 2008 under Dahn Yoga, Ilchi Lee.
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Benefits: Stretches the side of the body while increasing circulation to the liver, stomach, and other internal organs.
1. Place your left hand on your waist. Inhale as you reach the right hand over the ear toward the left side. Hold for 3 counts. Exhale and slowly return.
2. Repeat 3 times on each side of the body.

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Posted: September 19th, 2008 under Brain Education, Dahn Yoga, Ilchi Lee.
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