Ilchi Lee Images & Peace Quotes

As you get older, it is as important that you have a dream for your life as it was when you were young. You may have a better chance of achieving it, now that the basics needs of life-financial security, starting a career, raising a family, etc. – are no longer of primary importance to you. So, before you close this book up and put it back on the shelf, make sure that you have developed a vision for yourself. Make a plan for who you want to be one, five, or ten years from mow. This does not have to mean starting a new career or taking on some huge project (but that is okay, too). More importantly, it means becoming the kind of person you really want to be in terms of character and your interaction with the world around you. If you have ever thought to yourself, “I want to leave the world a better place than I found it,” now is the time to act on that desire.

Find your vision, find what really fills you with a sense of joy and contentment. For most, this will probably involve contributing something of value to your community or the world. Don’t be afraid to set your goal high and to dream big.

-Excerpts from Ilchi Lee

Smiling meditation
The act of smiling produces positive changes in your brain. This exercise combines smiling with relaxing meditative exercise.

1. Sit comfortably and shrug your shoulders up and down several times to relax.
2. Breathe in and out several times, massaging your face to release the tension in your facial muscles.
3. Breathe in, close your eyes gently, and breathe out while forming a slight smile. Breathe in and out deeply and naturally.
4. When breathing out, combine your exhale with a widening smile. Repeat this several times, focusing on the motion of the smile on your face as a light breath escapes through your lips like a gentle wind.
5. Slowly shift your consciousness to your brain and feel your brain become lighter and more refreshed when you breathe out with a smile.

Brain Breathing
Through this exercise, imagine hurt, negative feelings being replaced with bright, positive emotions.

1. Sit in a comfortable position and place your hands on your knees, with your eyes closed. Relax your body and mind by taking several deep breaths. Feel the stream of energy move from the top of your head, down to your chest and then to your lower abdomen.

2. Concentrate on the top of your head.

3. As you breathe in through your nose, imagine a stream of energy entering through the top of your head, circling around your head, and clearing your brain of negative emotional energy.

4. Breathe out through your mouth with a soft whooshing sound. Imagine stagnant, negative energy being expelled from your body.

5. Breathe in and out slowly as you imagine bright light entering and darkness moving out.

6. Breathe in and out 3 times and open your eyes.

7. Rub your hands together until warm, and gently massage your head and face.

Emotions are the primary reason we place limits on our brain. It is because of emotions that we tell ourselves, “I can’t try that. I will only embarrass myself.” Out of fear, we stop short of our dreams, and because of past hurts we close ourselves off to others. Fortunately, it is possible to relieve your mind of debilitating emotions, but you must first learn to let go of them.

Laughing exercise
You already know that laughing is powerful medicine. But unfortunately you can’t buy laughing pills at the pharmacy. You could go to a funny movie or meet with a funny friend, but why rely on them? You can laugh any time you want.

So try sitting down on the floor one day and laugh to your heart’s content. You may ask, “But how can I laugh if there is nothing to laugh about?” Just try it. Just laugh as hard as you can. At first, it will seem awkward, but keep going. Flail your arms and pound the floor, busting up with laughter. Soon, you will feel like a kid again.

Ki-energy is another name for cosmic energy. It is the energy that circulates throughout the universe. As the poets have written, all human beings are made up of stardust and cosmic energy. This is the connecting thread that helps human beings understand that all beings in the cosmos exist as one. As many religious and spiritual traditions have tried to impart, all living beings residing on earth are individual components of the oneness of the universal Ki-energy. The concept of Oneness changes for practitioners from an intellectual concept to one of knowing, through actual experience, that Ki-energy moves throughout the body.

It is overwhelming for human beings to imagine the immense power of the energy circulating through the vast universe. When people are connected with that universal energy, the Ki-energy in their bodies actively circulates like the movement of the solar system.

To connect and interact with this energy is very easy: breathe. Everyone inhales and exhales whether or not they are conscious of this activity. Through breathing exercises, practitioners become aware of inhaling as the taking in of universal Ki-energy and exhaling as the releasing of used, dissipated energy back into the universe. This energy-focused respiration is called “Dahn-Jon Breathing.”

from dahn hak book by ilchi lee

How happy I feel on the way to my self!
I’m on the happy road to find the self.
If you go astray leaving the self,
You will have aching feet
before going Ten Miles.

What a joy I’m having on the way to my spirit!
I’m on the happy road to meet the spirit.
If you go astray leaving the spirit,
You will have aching feet before
reaching the Tenth Village.

I am happy on the way to Our self.
I’m on the happy road to join our self.
If you go astray leaving our self in yourself,
Your aching feet will fail you
far away from the city of ten.

* The word “Ten” in Korean means perfection and enlightenment.

From Dahnhak book by ilchi lee

In his book, Brain Wave Vibration, Ilchi Lee speaks about information as food…

Information used to be held by an elite few, the scholars and rulers of a time gone by. But now there is an excess of information available for everyone. Every piece of information is like a calorie. The brain, which has a natural love for acquiring information, slurps up the information wherever it can be found. Soon the brain is overwhelmed by the vast amount of information entering it. Information in its own right is not bad, no more than food is bad. But too much is too much, especially when the quality is not good.

Like fast food, you can get a lot of information cheap these days. Your mind, like your body, gets heavy and clogged up quickly if you don’t make good choices about what you feed it. Brain Wave Vibration is meant to help you stop processing information, almost like a temporary information fast, so that you can begin to take control of your information consumption. To determine your information nutrition level, ask yourself three basic questions.

Ilchi Lee has taught me a lot about the relationship between the brain and information. To me, it is a very impressive to say “Think of information as food for your brain.” Like fast food, you can eat lots of information cheap everyday. That does not mean that the information has high quality. We should care about the information we take, as much as we do about the food we eat.