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Read these lines recommended and suggested by Ilchi Lee. Ilchi Lee is a world renowned peace activist and spiritual leader.

Bullfrog Belly:

1. Stand with your feet shoulder width apart and your knees bent slightly. Position your hands in the shape of a triangle with your thumbs on your belly button.

2. Push your abdomen out, making your belly round.

3. Pull in your abdomen deeply, keeping your shoulders relaxed. Breathe naturally. Continue to push out and pull in. Repeat 50 times.

Touching Clouds:

1. Clasp your hands together and push your palms to the ceiling. Inhale as you push. Older children can rise up on tiptoes. Hold for a few counts.

2. Exhale and return to the original position. Repeat 3-5 times.

Published by Mr Ilchi Lee

These lines are copied from the world renowned Ilchi Lee’s book. He writes that as you begin these lessons, it is important to remember that this is a non-traditional educational method. In the past, many educational curricula have focused on the development of specific academic skills, especially verbal and mathematical skills. Brain Education also seeks to develop skills, but many of these skills, such as emotional awareness, creativity, and cooperation, are not easy to measure or quantify in some way. For that reason, it is best to approach these lessons as guided play, rather than as compulsory homework. If your child really does not want to participate, please do not force him or her.

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 (see Lawrence). In addition, it helps to circulate oxygen and nutrients to the brain and stimulates the production of hormones that combat stress and depression.

Here is and informative article by Ilchi Lee about heal of body and mind. Ilchi lee is founder of dahn yoga and also writer of many books about dahn and brain education. He says starting the day this way is a special gift to my body, mind, and soul. Through Brain Wave Vibration—moving my body, following my rhythm, and stopping my busy mind—I am able to connect and heal my body and mind. It is absolute­ly one of the most effective techniques I’ve experienced for purifying my whole body, clearing my mind, and nurturing the spirit. It’s simple to do and allows me to deeply connect within, listen to my body choose, create, and achieve what I want. Amazing! -Helen Nelson, Kipling, CO

I think Brain Wave Vibration is helping me a lot—I feel en­ergized, I feel lighter, and my brain wakes up a lot, which is helpful because I do research and writing a lot. After yoga practice my body and brain are stress free and very light. My neck pain is relieved. -Ayesha Yasmin, Franklin Square, NY

Posted by Lee

There is no question that stress is an underlying cause of so mam-health problems in today’s world. Release from the vicious cycle of stress and tension is at the root of all healing experienced through Brain Wave Vibration. Even if stress-related health prob­lems have not yet appeared, many people report feeling more re­laxed and less stressed.

When I started doing Brain Wave Vibration, I wondered if it was just a gimmick. How could something so easy create long-term benefits? After experiencing it just a few times. I changed my opinion. It has helped me manage my chron­ic pain, increase my energy level, and improve my attitude about life in general. In just a short time, my quality of life has improved, and I know it will continue to improve as I progress in my training. Read more about stress and its causes by Ilchi Lee.

Here are some lines by Ilchi Lee about natural beauty. He writes I hope also that you will have the courage to face greater and greater waves during your life. There is no joy in riding safely in the protected waters of a bay. You must be willing to challenge vourself in order to achieve the life vou want.

As you ride the wave of your life, look ahead to the waves that are coming, but keep yourself in harmonv with the mo­ment. The wave will go up, and the wave will go down. Either way, realize the natural beauty of this and learn to always be grateful. This is the source of lasting joy.

In this story, the original couples—Yellows, Whites, Blacks, and Blues—take collective responsibility and decide to leave the castle with all their descendants, for they have decided they could not stay in that perfect world in such an imperfect state. Ilchi Lee is a world renowned peace activist and spiritual leader. Outside the castle, they go on their separate ways. Before leaving, however, they vow to recover their divine selves and return to the castle, taking with them two things each that will help them accomplish this: one, a method to control and commune with the Ki energy that forms the source of all things visible and invisible; and two, a simple scripture of eighty-one letters summarizing the essential Truths of the cosmos. This scripture is called the “Heavenly Code.” It is our great fortune that we have this scripture with us still. Then the couples go in separate directions, promising to meet inside the castle walls again.

This history of Mago’s Castle shares many things with Genesis and other Creation stories. The similarities are obvious. It speaks to the fact that we, as humanity, share the common root that we all have a deep spiritual need to go back to. But in order to go back, we need to recover the sense of Oneness and harmony that we have lost. And we can recover this sense by achieving enlightenment, for enlightenment is our natural, truly original state of being. When enough people recover this Oneness, when enough people reach enlightenment, we will march together back to Mago’s castle and collectively shout for our ultimate Grandma to let us back in. I bet that she’s waiting for us with all her heart.

What a welcome party it will be.

It Is the Humans Who Have to Do the Work

Why do humans insist upon differentiating everything, ever since we ate of the grape in Mago’s Castle, or the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden? Why do we separate God from humans? Mine from yours? My religion from your religion? My country from your country? Is it so difficult to create this concept of “us” as you and I as One? Can we open up our minds a little bit more to allow the possibility of coexistence in harmony and tolerance? Can we create this new road, the road that the Creator surely would want us to take? The road we are on right now will ultimately lead us to ruination.

Looking back on our various traditions and history, we know that, although the Creator has given us life. He has also given us free will. The Creator has given us the power to utilize nature for our benefits but has not actively stopped our abuses, giving us choice in our actions. The world’s problems lie not in the realm of the Creator, but in the realm of humans. If humanity should perish due to our misjudgments and arrogance, the Creator will watch and observe but will not actively intervene, for He has given us all the tools necessary to make corrections. It is up to us to do the work.

Ilchi Lee is the author of 26 books including Healing Society he says five, a New Human is a divine person. Divinity is an expression of energy that connects us to the Cosmic Energy. When we are inspired, we are connected. Everything in this universe is filled with this divine energy, and therefore, all existence is divine. It is up to the individual to decide upon what level of divinity he or she chooses to experience and stay at. We have access to all types of information, messages, and ideas, but it is our choice to accept which ones. I propose that a New Human is someone who uses the divinity within as the tilter through which he or she culls through the information that is input into the brain. And experiencing and recalling forth this divinity needs to become an everyday habit, not just a temporary ray of light that is soon lost.

A New Human is someone who has made enlightenment a habit and trains hard to keep up the level of his or her spiritual fitness. As I said, we need one hundred million New Humans in ten years to reach a critical mass that will jump start the Enlightenment Revolution.

Let us join in.

Three, a New Human needs to be emotionally rich. He or she needs to feel the beauty of existence and harmony. Ilchi Lee describe this does not mean that you should be fickle or emotionally undulating. Nor does this mean that you should avoid emotional swings by being barren of emotions themselves. A New Human knows how to use emotions to appreciate the surrounding beauty, making life rich, harmonious, and relaxing. Our emotions are not us, just tools for us to “feel” the Truths about life.

Four, a New Human needs to be honest and conscientious. The line between wrong or right can vary according to culture and age, but the will to be honest and conscientious is always forever and uniformly valued in all cultures and throughout history. Conscientiousness means listening to the voice of divinity within. Without this, it is impossible to be healthy in body and mind. Who am I? What is the purpose of my life? Conscientiousness is the will to listen to the answers to these questions honestly and courageously.

Edited and suggested by Prof Ilchi Lee

Generally, our focus, our awareness, and our everyday concentration are located in the neocortex layer of our brains, with its reasoning and analyzing frame of mind. This is inevitable because this competition-driven society of ours forces us to use our neocortex constantly. To do better than the other students in class, we have to memorize. To earn more money and be promoted in the workplace, we have to constantly come up with new ideas and methods. In a competitive social paradigm, we cannot escape the realm of the neocortex. However, with such constant usage, the neocortex is under pressure always, leading to various stress-related ailments such as compulsive disorder and insomnia. In fact, a Duke University Medical School study in 1998 concluded that close to one hundred percent of modern ailments can be traced back to one factor: stress. We have lost our ability to relax.

It is the cerebral limbic system that demands that we fulfill its appetite for sex and food, in addition to satisfying its need for security, recognition, and dominance. Prof Lee recommend we have been trying so far to appease our cerebral limbic system through competition. However the wants of the cerebral limbic system are endless and limitless in nature, always leaving something more to be desired. It is impossible to fully satisfy our cerebral limbic system unless we do it through the power of the brain stem. That is the crux of Brain Respiration.