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Good detective stories

Ilchi lee writer of books like Healing Society and Brain education, he writes that the same goes for your mind. Even those of us who are aware that our bodies are not truly us, often mistakenly believe that our minds are what we truly are. Wrong! You’re personality, your knowledge, your wisdom, your emotional makeup, your thoughts, your method of deduction and induction, all these are not who you truly are. You are not a quick-tempered Latino male with a penchant for computer programming who enjoys football games on weekends and good detective stories.

You are not a patient, virtuous woman who has good judgment and shrewd mind when it comes to “too good to be true” offers. These characteristics are not you. You are not here on this Earth in human form to be some kind of a cosmic newspaper personal ad. Do not reduce yourself to what your body and mind consist of. You are far greater than that. You are eternal. You are infinite. Your True Self is the cosmos itself. Don’t ever fall into the trap of thinking that you are your physical and mental self.

Heart care while sleeping

This is really what you needed an informative article by Ilchi Lee. In which position do you sleep?

If you sleep on your stomach or on your left side, you are putting pressure on your heart with the additional body weight, while the heart has to continue pumping blood as usual.

This extra burden wears the heart out more quickly. Think about it – you spend more than one third of your life sleeping! To reduce the strain on your heart, sleep on your right side, or on your back. This simple method will add years to your life.

INTESTINAL EXERCISES

Ilchi Lee suggest Intestinal Exercise refers to the rhythmic pulling in and pushing out of the abdominal wall, which stimulates the intestines. This exercise will increase the flexibility of the intestines and facilitate efficient circulation of both energy and blood. If you also tighten your rectal muscles during this exercise, you will be able to gather energy and feel warmth much more quickly. However, you should not overdo this exercise in the beginning, as it may result in some discomfort.

1.    This exercise can be performed standing up or lying down. When standing up, assume the same position as the abdominal clapping position (knees slightly bent, toes turned slightly inward). When lying down, lie on your back with your legs shoulder-width apart. Form a triangle by touching your thumbs and forefingers together, and place them lightly on the lower abdomen.
2.    When pulling in, pull as if the front wall of your abdomen is trying to touch your back. Tighten your rectal muscles at the same time.
3.    Then, as if sucking air out of a balloon, push your lower abdomen out slightly, until you feel outward pressure in your lower abdomen.
4.    Start with one set of fifty and work your way up to a set of three hundred as you advance.

Ilchi Lee’s words about Peace

“It is now time to acknowledge the ultimate and core value that is capable of encompassing and superceding the partial and prejudicial orientation of the current value systems of the world. It is the one that can become a fulcrum point that will allow balance, harmony, and peaceful coexistence of all people. This is the Earth. The Earth cannot be claimed by any one group or organization regardless of its size or power. If humanity can be said to share one collective vision, it would be peace on Earth. This collective vision may also be our hope for survival in the very near future. To realize that we are all Earth-Humans…this is the key.”

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Chwi ryong Sam sik Seize the Dragon

“Chwi-ryong Sam-sik” refers to a stance for seizing the dragon. Here, “dragon” symbolizes the Ki writhing in our bodies. Once Ki is accumulated in the Dahn-jon through training, energy moves within us like a writhing dragon. As you perform these movements, think about pressing this Ki into the Dahn-jon.

Hold your palms together in front of your chest, standing with your legs as you would in the Il-si Posture. Put your feet together so there is no space between your knees and ensure that your buttocks does not protrude backwards to much. Stand with your upper body relaxed and erect, without leaning forward or backward. Continue to inhale as you raise your hands above your head, gathering energy. Hold your breath when your palms touch above your head. Look at your hands at this time.

Still holding your breath, lower your arms and start moving your hands apart — wrists first, fingertips last — beginning in front of your chest. Spread your palms and press downward, as if pushing energy into the Dahn-jon. Keeping your knees together, bend your legs as you press downward with your hands. Repeat this process three times.

Turn your hands inward, bending them back at the wrist slightly, as you press them down in front of your Dahn-jon by Ilchi Lee, so that the outer edges of your wrists press outward. Also lift the ends of your little fingers, turning them inward slightly. Feel the energy generated in your hands. The elbows should be bent to about 45 degrees. Turn your wrists inward as far as they will go. Hold your upper body erect, being careful not to lean backward. Keep your shoulders relaxed and tense only your fingers.

Training Principles of Ilchi Ki-gong

Unlike ordinary Ki-gong or martial arts techniques, the lines of movement of Ilchi Ki-gong are harmonious, smooth, and very soft. Ki-gong for self defense or fighting involves many blocking and striking types of movements. Employing aggressive movements and energies without a proper philosophy is likely to lead the temperament of the practitioner in that direction as well. With Ilchi Ki-gong, if we train each movement intent on the spirit contained within it, harmonious, peaceful energies are produced, and in no time at all, our bodies and minds are suffused by the principle of harmony.

Ilchi Ki-gong is the essence of Dahnhak Ki-gong, designed so that modern people can learn it readily and yet obtain the greatest exercise benefit possible. The eight sets of Ilchi Ki-gong have a high level of perfection in terms of kinetics. Made up of movements that involve turning, pushing, pulling, raising, and lowering each part of the body, they produce a well-balanced physique.

Major movements comprise rotational motions and simple actions that involve angling the joints and squeezing out energy. Slowly performing simple movements as we gather and release Ki through respiration causes the entire body to be flushed with heat, sweat, and circulating energy.

The following table shows the relationship between body control (kinetic aspects >, breath control, and mind control achieved by practicing the eight sets of Ilchi Ki-gong.

FOR THE LUNGS AND LARGE INTESTINE

1.    Stand with your feet shoulder-width apart and lock your fingers behind you.
2.    While exhaling, bend your upper trunk forward with your face toward your knees. Stretch both arms backwards and up.
3.    Inhale calmly when your body has stretched to its limit, and keep this position for a while. You may feel some tension in the lower legs, stomach, back, shoulders, or arms.Exhale calmly so that you can release any tension, similar to relaxing your attention. Repeat step 3 and step 4 several times

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A Healing Trio: Acupuncture, Acupressure, and Moxibustion

BY USING THREE BASIC HUMAN TECHNOLOGY TECHNIQUES that

Activate the body’s natural healing capacity—acupuncture, acupressure, and moxibustion—we can prevent and treat many common health problems. Amazingly, all we have to do is stimulate our internal healing mechanism—almost like turning on a switch.

Practiced on specific response points on the human body, acupuncture, acupressure, and moxibustion have long been roundational to the healing arts in northeast Asia. In acupuncture, a thin needle is inserted into response points. Acupressure is pressure applied to the same points using the fingers or tools. Moxibustion is the practice of burning small, tightly rolled dried cones of the plant mugwort on or over specific points.

In 1976, the World Health Organization (WHO) recognized acupuncture as a legitimate practice. After exhaustive scientific study, WHO declared in 1998 that acupuncture is an appropriate treatment for 300 common illnesses, and recommended that acupuncture be used as a diagnostic tool.

Jewels from Ilchi Lee

Every jewel, which has a bright and beautiful light, has been hardened deep inside the earth. After enduring this hardship, it becomes more beautiful. Same as our soul, after we are tried in the furnace, we get stronger. Ichi Lee shows us how much stronger we can become.

How Ilchi Lee Uses Music

Most people would agree that music gives us so much benefit. Soft music helps us relax, dance music gets us excited, and classical music enriches our spirit. Dahn Yoga (founded by Ilchi Lee) is usually taught in a way that focuses around the style of music used for a particular class or training — like the music, the class gives us a similarly specific benefit. Ilchi Lee always uses special music during his trainings to help audience members feel the messages and get a deeper experience of the training.

How to work with your emotions, according to Ilchi Lee’s teachings

One day, my aunt asked me how you could be so calm even somebody makes you get mad?

She said, “I can’t control my emotions and they hurt me.”

Yes I have emotions too. I get hurt when somebody is hard on me.

But the important thing is not whether I have emotions or not, but how am I dealing with it.

If I am a slave of emotions I could be miserable, but I become a master of them I can live my life much more as I wish. In my case that’s the result of Dahn Yoga and Brain Respiration, and Ilchi Lee suggested these way.

Learning from Ilchi Lee how to manage your information

With some focus, you can control the information that forms your worldview. Each part of your daily experience is based on information, and with careful scrutiny you can choose what information you keep and what you discard or reject. Even pain is simply information, translated into feeling. When you don’t give up in the face of difficult information, or negative information, or discouraging information, but you proactively choose different information instead, you will discover like Ilchi Lee that you have the power to get over the pain, to move beyond your challenges. You can say ‘I did it!”

Ilchi Lee: Focus and Attachment (I)

This is a part of teaching by Ilchi Lee on Focus and Attachment.

Let’s say that my brain remembers some intense pleasure. Then it will want to reproduce that pleasure. Or, if it remembers some intense pain, it will want to avoid that pain. For example, if a person has satisfied her need for recognition and control, and so has the pleasurable memory of feeling better as a result, her brain will try to satisfy those needs again, to receive recognition or control others. If someone had a very intensely painful experience with a hard training, his brain will want to flee in fear on just hearing the word “hard training”. Human beings have bodies, and so they have pleasures that come out of their desires. They have desires for food, sex, sleep, leisure, and they have an ego; they also have the pleasure of feeling better when they satisfy these things. Physiologically, the brain seeks to reporduce those pleasures according to the information that is stored in it.

As a result, it concentrates on various desires in ways that are different from what I intend. That concentration doesn’t drop off easily, either. They lay hold of my mind and won’t let go. This is attachment. And they seek to avoid pain in circumstances where pain is anticipated. That’s why resistance arises in my brain when I want to concentrate on my wish to do a hard training. This is the brain’s emergency brake. All of these pheonomena arise based on the memories and animal desires of the brain. At such times, I am unable to concentrate as much as I would like to concentrate. To put it another way, the brain is focused by emotion and desire. My mind is led about by them.

Ilchi Lee: Something good

I like the movie ‘The Secrets’. It says about the principle of attraction very clearly. In the movie, it says ‘Thoughts become things’. That’s why positive thoughts are important, we need to focus on good things to be manifested. To do that, no matter what’s happening now, we need an ability to imagine something good.

If possible, we’d better see,hear,feel something good in our daily lives. Because they will help us to imagine something good again. That is, we need to feed our brain with good information such as Good messages, Good views, Good sounds, …

Today I ride a bicycle for about 2 hours. It smells very fresh around meadow, it’s so beautiful landscape. Naturally I got to have good thoughts in my brain. Also I did some practice of Brain Wave Vibration there. There seems no people around me, I shouted to myself, ‘Im a master of my thought, my life. I’m creating my dream~’ Ilchi Lee sometimes says, it is easy to stop thought unwanted in our brain by chanting or shouting something good.

Ilchi Lee: Choosing what I want

When we go down a road for the first time, we feel nervous and look carefully as we move forward. But we don’t think anything of going down a well-travelled road and just proceed without caution. The brain is the same way. When making a new choice, we ask all kinds of questions, such as “Is it right?” or “Is it safe?”. But if we continue this same behavior, then it becomes a habit and we just do that action each time without thinking about it. This means that a circuit which has been habitualized in the brain is performed by the brain without doubt or fear. But when making a new decision which is not an everyday practice, we must overcome the functions of doubt and fear that strongly resist our decision.

How can we increase the power to overcome doubt and fear? One effective way is imagination. Keep an imagination that how great or joyful we feel when we achieve a new decision or dream. Repeat and repeat. Then a new circuit will be formed in our brain. If that dream is really what we want, such an imagination will be not that difficult.

Now I’m thinking about habits I want to change. And I’m asking to myself if I really want to change them. If not, I need a new information and practice for my brain ready to accept that information. For example, through ‘Brain Wave Vibration method by Ilchi lee. Let’s become a master over our brain.

Ilchi Lee: A rainbow

Yesterday, I went to a bicycle hiking to mountains near my house. Riding a bicycle, Hiking, Exercising Brain Wave Vibration,…It was a great time for me. And when I got back, it started raining and I had to be wet fully. But I imagined that the drops of rain on my head and body are like cosmic energy from heaven. And the wind, the sound of water-fall, the sunshine after rain are all for cleaning my inside of body. I felt I was so blessed. And I experienced very special thing. I saw a small rainbow, a size of a small hill. It was at just a few feet front of me. So I tried to touch it ^^. I could understand I can’t do it. Then I imagined again with eyes closed that the rainbow is coming inside of my body and my body becomes shining like a rainbow man. I felt so peaceful and thankful. I thought I gave my brain a beautiful image and a great information.

Brain has lots of information. Some of them are not wanted one but come to my brain on a certain time in a certain way I don’t remember. Then that information is affecting my life consciously or unconsciously. We need to release that kind of negative information and feed positive information. Ilchi Lee says, ‘a human life depends on the amount and quality of information of his brain.’ Let’s practice and take many good experience for our healthy brain.

More Focused In Life

I began Dahn Yoga in February 2006. My major health condition like many other middle aged men was frequent urination too many times to count. This condition was most active at night. Getting up 8 10 times per night was keeping me very stressed.

After two months of Dahn Yoga practice I noticed I was not getting up as many times. Now I get a full nights sleep. As a result I am more patient, more focused and much less irritable.

For confidentiality and personal embarrassment reasons I do not want to divulge my complete name. Many men like myself would be happy to know there is some relief out there besides medications.

Ray

Steps To The Health

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I enjoy my Dahn program because:

The teachings, philosophy and exercise have led me to a greater understanding of myself. I feel more healthy and happy than before I started this practice.

My Dahn practice has benefited me in the following ways:

More flexible body and mind. I carry less stress the time I get to spend with my wife and children it better less arguing and fighting. We have greater happiness and love because my ability has increased as I have become more in touch with myself.

I believe Ilchi Lee should be recognized because:

The teachings, philosophy and exercise taught at Dahn are a direct result of the dedicated thought, practice and sharing of Ilchi Lee. I think the whole humanity can benefit from the peace and love that result from the teachings of Ilchi Lee.

Pondering

How you ever sat for a long time pondering the purpose of your existence? Try it, and then let us know how it went:

Creating your information

One thing I’ve learned through my BEST 5 training is that whatever your mind focuses on will begin to happen. Related circumstances and information will come your way. This is one way to achieve a goal, by focusing on it. This sounds kind of obvious, what most people would say, but when I heard it the way Ilchi Lee explains, especially by explaining it through energy, I began to understand it more deeply. I gained new insights through practicing it. Thank you.!