Archive for July, 2008

I like healing chakra book by Ilchi Lee. It’s very simple way to improve my physical body and mental health. So, I’d like to share core content in here. I hope you to find own the road to true happiness, peace, and health through Healing chakra. enjoy this time. ^^  Today, I introduce an exercise about chakra relaxation.

Self-Observation
Sit or stand in a comfortable position and close your eyes.
Before meeting with your soul,
Let us take this opportunity to meet with the body.
In order to meet with your body,
You must separate your consciousness
from your body.

Whisper to your self…
My body is not me, but mine.
My mouth is not me, but mine.
My head is not me, but mine.
My eye are not me, but mine.
My legs are not me, but mine.
My arms are not me, but mine.
My chest is not me, but mine.
My thoughts are not me, but mine.
My emotions are not me, but mine.

Whisper to yourself continuously,
As you feel every part of your body,
From your head to your toes…
Whisper to yourself.

With confidence and conviction
until you feel yourself looking at your body.
Who is the master of my body?
My soul is the master of my body.

How about your feeling? I felt my mind is very comfortable after this exercise.

The Chakras are the seven key energy centers of our body. When all seven Chakras are active and functioning optimally, we live a life of physical, mental, and spiritual health. Healing Chakra is training system designed to activate, cleanse, and integrate the individual Chakras, in order to create a hamonious and holistic Chakra system.

1st chakra : Dark Red
Characteristics : Success, patience, acknowledgment,courage
Anatomical correspondence : Intestine, spine, bones
Signs of problems : Selfishness, anxioussnee, criminal intent, rage, problems with the spin, chronic constipation

2nd Chakra : Soft Red
Characteristics : Health, desire, joy, passion, emotions, sexual needs
Anatomical correspondence : uterus, sexual organs, prostate glands
Signs of problems : Loss of appetite for food and sex, lack of life purpose, jealousy, gynecological problems

3rd Chakra : Orange
Characteristics : self-control, will, discipline, desire for power and authority, warmth, happiness, need for recognition
Anatomical correspondence : stomach
Signs of problems : lack of desire for life, fear, hatred, problems with liver and stomach

4th Chakra : Gold
Characteristics : compassion, forgiveness,understanding,passion,honesty,diligence,responsibility
Anatomical correspondence : Sternum, heart
Signs of problems : Repression of love, emotional instability, lack of balance, problems with heart/circulation

5th Chakra : Blue-green
Characteristics : Trust, Sincerity and faith, peace with gentleness, balance and harmony
Anatomical correspondence : Thyroid glands, throat
Signs of problems : Lack of conversation or speech skills, ignorance, depression non-discernment, incorrect use of knowledge, thyroid disease

6th Chakra : Navy blue
Characteristics : Enlightenment of the soul, intuition and insight, peace of mind and heart
Anatomical correspondence : Brain stem
Signs of problems : Lack of concentration, tension, headaches, problems with eyesight, nightmares, overactive cynicism

7th Chakra : lavender purple
Characteristics : Transcends time and space, unity of divinity and true self, wisdom and insight
Anatomical correspondence : Neo-Cortex
Signs of problems : Confusion, early senility, lack of inspiration

From Healing Chakra by Ilchi Lee

We have come to the Earth

To experience the flowering of our soul,

Rising from our upper Dahn-jon,

Blossoming from the Seventh Chakra.

Who has seen this flower?

Beautiful flower of our soul….

Humans have endured endless suffering,

Long nights of despair,

To nurture this flower of Heavenly Transformaton.

Flower of Heavenly Transformation…

Only we humans can help the petals unfold.

When it blossoms within each and every heart

We shall herald a new Age of Peace.

By Ilchi Lee

The process of Brain Education is divided into five 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. Throughout the Brain Education five steps, about which you can ask questions using Ask Ilchi Lee, the creator of Brain Education, You will notice that most of the lessons in this blog focus on the first and second steps, which are most appropriate for children and beginning practitioners.

Step 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 overstimulation. The sensitizing process begins with relaxation of body and mind through stretching and breathing exercises. This step primarily corresponds to Lesson 1-3.

Ilchi Lee suggests in his book Brain Wave Vibration on a wide-benefit brain

The best thing you can do to bring a sense of hope to your life is to discover a sense of purpose. But how can you know your real purpose? Maybe you have searched for that for thirty or forty years and have never found the answer.

I cannot answer that question exactly for you because it is ultimately up to you. What I do know is that whatever your mission in life, you will be of great service to humanity. I believe that every person has a great internal desire to find a harmonious way of living on the planet and to contribute something of value to the world. In Korean we call this the Hong-ik ideal, which refers to the desire to be beneficial, not just to yourself but to all of humanity.

This sort of mind-set can be a great source of continual hope in your life. People who have a clear sense of purpose are never hopeless because they always know they can make a difference, even if just one step at a time.

There is a natural progression to life that unfortunately many of us have stepped away from. It is like many of us are caterpillars who have decided not to become butterflies. Or maybe we have just forgotten that we are able to become butterflies.

Ilchi Lee says in his book Brain Wave Vibration

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.

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Brain Education is especially apporpriate 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. Youngsters 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.

The number of academic articles on this topic is staggering, offering research on almost every possible topic, from learning disabilities to gender differences to brain development. The underlying message of all this research is very simple: to understand the child’s brain is to understand the child.

Ilchi Lee developed the Brain Education method in South Korea in the 1980s as an updating of traditional Korean mind-body health training systems. The principles and practices of the method were then combined with knowledge about the brain gained from neuroscience, psychology, and other fields. Its essential goal, however, remains very straightforward and practical — the physical, emotional, social, and academic betterment of human beings. If you have any question about Brain Education, you can use Ask Ilchi Lee function of Lee’s main website.

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 especially successful in teaching the English language to Korean schoolchildren 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 three 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 Research has clearly established that emotional and physical health directly influence children’s ability to learn and consequently affect their performance in school (see Vail). Essentially, the best students are the happiest students. For that reason, Brain Education seeks to enhance learning ability by first creating happier and healthier children. Through consistent BE practice, children gain a sense of empowerment toward the creation of a fulfilling and healthy lifestyle.

Of course, Brain Education created by Ilchi Lee is not only educational system to emphasize the role of the brain in the learning process. Educators are increasingly turning to the discoveries of neuroscience to help them better understand how students learn, and many brain-based educational methods are in use today. In some ways, however, the study of the human brain is still in its infancy, and many aspects of brain function remain a mystery. You could say that we are just now entering “the era of the brain,” as neuroscientific knowledge increases almost daily, and the link between this information and education pedagogy grows stronger and stronger.