Ilchi Lee Images & Peace Quotes

This realization is clearly evident in the massive, worldwide popularity of the film The Secret, which reminded people that they can make the lives they want simply through positive focus of the mind. Many teachers, such as those featured in the film, are coming forward to help us rediscover our ability to create our lives with intention.

For almost thirty years, I too have been offering this awareness to my students. None of the many training methods I have created exist solely to promote physical fitness. Health of the body is important, but it is useless if one does not also possess a happy heart and a peaceful spirit. The overriding purposes of all these training methods have always been to help people create the lives they really want to live, especially through the development and training of the brain.

-Ilchi Lee

Brain Wave Vibration is a tool tor honing your ability to cre¬ate your life with intention. Most likely, I do not have to convince you that your thoughts are powerful and that positive thoughts are the key to making a better life.

This turning outward has ultimately been a blessing in its own right, helping us gain rational understanding of ourselves and the world. Many advances in science and medicine were made possible through the ability to perceive difference, to categorize, and to analyze. But now the time has come once again to acknowledge the intuitive side of ourselves, this time with an expanded sense of awareness and purpose. The rational mind has served us well, but there is potential in our brains far beyond surf ace-level rationality.

I believe that all people on the planet possess amazing ability within themselves, thanks to the marvelous features of the human brain. In fact, everything I seek to teach you in this book is already inside you, waiting to be uncovered. I am here only to offer guidance as you rediscover this vast storehouse of potential within yourself.

Fortunately, humanity is beginning to realize its true potential. People are starting to glimpse the incredible power that lies within the human mind.

-Ilchi Lee

All of this may seem too good to be true. The reason that you may not so easily believe in this method is simple: you don’t really believe in yourself. In order to convince you of this method, I must first convince you to believe fully in yourself. You may have a decent amount of self-confidence and a relatively high level of self-esteem, at least in the conventional psychological sense. But if you are like most people, you have no idea how much power you really possess.

At some point in humanity’s ancient past, it seems that we stopped believing in our own inherent power. Many of the world’s mythologies speak of a time during which all humanity lived in harmony with itself and the Earth. Disharmony came when people collectively agreed that power comes from some where outside themselves. They invented gods and kings and fought over which one should be given supremacy. All the power they needed already existed within them, but unfortunately they had forgotten this.

-Ilchi Lee

Healing is a very individualized experience, but here are some of the major benefits you can expect to receive:

Physical Benefits: Brain Wave Vibration will move your entire body, promoting cardiovascular fitness, improved circulation, and better strength and flexibility. It helps reduce the stress response in the body, inducing a state of deep relaxation. Finally,
it will stimulate the body’s innate healing ability.

Mental Benefits: Just as your body will relax, so will your mind. As you learn to empty your mind of extraneous thoughts, you will also learn to shake off burdensome emotional memories. Your mind will become clearer, and you will be able to access your full creative potential. You will also gain a new sense of confidence as you begin to send positive messages to yourself.

Spiritual Benefits: As you go deeper into the practice, you will become aware of the energy field that bonds us all together, while also solidifying your personal sense of life purpose. Compassion, loving-kindness, and gratitude will flow naturally from your heart. Your life will become a reflection of your internal sense of integrity.

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