Ilchi Lee
Sep
As children become increasingly sedentary in today’s technological world,it becomes all the more important for them to make exercise a deliberate and regular part of their daily routine. Research has shown conclusively that movement is essential to a healthy brain since exercise creates the nerve connections needed for optimal brain function
In addition, it helps to circulate oxygen and nutrients to the brain and stimulates the production of hormones that combat stress and depression.
Just as you guide your children to create healthy habits for nutrition and cleanliness while they are young, guide them also to make physical movement part of their healthy lifestyle. As you may know from your own personal experience, it can be difficult to establish a habit of regular exercise in adulthood.
If your child gains this habit now, it will be very firmly established in the actual circuitry of the brain, and he or she will naturally crave physical movement of all types, rather than avoid it as an unappealing chore.
The first section consists of a collection of basic stretching exercises for kids.
These yoga-like movements are designed to open up the body’s joints, to stretch and strengthen the muscular system, and to promote relaxation. Exercises of this type are wellsuited to brain development because they require the child to use a wide variety of muscles in unique combinations.
Any kind of exercise is good, but these are especially effective for creating a balanced and strong bodily structure while at the same time strengthening unity of the mind and body. And kids will become more aware of their own body as they gain flexibility and coordination. If you would like to adapt them to make them fun and appealing to your child, feel free to do so. The important thing is to move!
from the book ‘Power brain for kids’ by ilchi lee
Sep
Brain Education is especially appropriate 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.
from ‘Power brain for kids’ book by ilchi lee
Sep
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 the Dahnhak 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
Sep
“Ki” is the Korean word for cosmic vitality that is the true essence of every creation in the cosmos. Most people begin their understanding of Ki by experiencing it as bio-energy or the vital life force in the body. Ki is the connection between the physical body and conscious mind. When practitioners learn to control the Ki in their bodies, they begin to understand that they have control over their bodies. In the orient, people have known about Ki for thousands of years. Oriental medicine, such as acupuncture or acupressure, utilizes the knowledge of Ki-energy by healing people through correcting the distorted energy flow in their body.
Sep
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 teh 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
Sep
Survival on this planet is dependent upon the truth that “Our neighbors are the same as ourselves.” All living things are interconnected.
All of humanity can experience what Jesus, the Buddha, and Krishna taught. When this happens, people will begin living their lives, not individually but collectively, in a way that is called “enlightened.”
Enlightenment or spiritual self-completion is no longer a personal achievement. This growth in human consciousness must become a massive social movement, a universal life-styple, and eventually a global culture.
When this happens, the human race will be able to deal with pressing issues from a unified, global perspective. These ideas are not dreams. Enlightenment for the human race is possible right now.
There is a way to build an “enlightened culture” by reawakening the senses and rediscovering the inner light. Conflicts can dissolve. Relationships can improve. Consciousness can arise. The human race can move past the present global struggles for survival into a new way of living on Earth.
This is not an intellectual his is a movement based on the spontaneous awareness of people.
Form Dahnhak book by ilchi lee
Sep
Chon Ji ma um
Chon-Ji-Ma-um is the originator of Chon-Ji-Ki-Un.
Chon-Ji-Ki-Un is the carrier of Chon-Ji-Ma-Um.
Chon-Ji-Ki-Un is the Body of Chon-Ji-Ma-Um.
Chon-Ji-Ma-Um is Mind of Chon-Ji-Ki-Un.
Chon-Ji-Ma-Um creates ideas.
Chon-Ji-Ki-Un realizes ideas.
Chon-Ji-Ma-Um motivates Chon-Ji-Ki-Un.
Chon-Ji-Ki-Un empowers Chon-Ji-Ma-Um.
Chon-Ji-Ki-Un resides in Chon-Ji-Ma-Um.
Chon-Ji-Ma-Um lives on Chon-Ji-Ki-Un.
Each is the gate to the other.
Their duality makes their oneness alive and creative.
By Ilchi lee
Sep
Chon-Ji-Ki-Un
(Highest Level of Energy)
Chon-Ji-Ki-Un brings health to the body and peace to the mind
Chon-Ji-Ki-Un heals grief and loneliness.
Chon-Ji-Ki-Un fills the mind with confident quietude and fertilizes the heart with love and joy.
Chon-Ji-Ki-Un gives the power to forgive even the unforgivable.
Chon-Ji-Ki-Un produces no fright and no fear.
Chon-Ji-Ki-Un knows nothing of victim consciousness, selfishness, or arrogance.
Chon-Ji-Ki-Un encourages honesty, trustworthiness and responsibility.
Chon-Ji-Ki-Un is the pure cosmic energy guiding seekers to eternal life through enlightening the spirit and raising the soul.
By ilchi lee
Jul
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Jul
Joan Robinson
Started Dahn yoga at Bethesda center in December 2005
Female (Separated/soon divorced)
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