October, 2008


6
Oct 08

Five Characteristics of a New Human

The ideal characteristics and conditions for becoming a New Human can be organized into five categories.

The first is to be healthy in body and mind. Health is defined as the ability to use one hundred percent of your body and mind for the purpose that you consciously choose. It is the state of knowing that your body and your mind are not you, but yours. It is mastership of your body and mind.

The second is to be fully capable of living in society. You must be able to take care of your own basic needs. You cannot expect to help anyone else if you don’t know where your next meal is coming from. This capability can be defined as a combination of information and skills. While there is no fixed standard of information or achievement to determine if you are functioning successfully in society, creativity in finding solutions to the problems you face and discipline and perseverance in their implementation are necessary. A person exhibiting this type of ability creatively pursues his or her life goals.

The third is to have a rich emotional life. Ilchi Lee explains that a New Human exhibits a complete range of emotions. He is angry when appropriate, exhibits sadness, and expresses joy. Emotion is not something that should be repressed or controlled, but experienced as a tool for life. According to DahnHak rules when emotions are expressed in a natural and healthy way, you are able to play well with others and with Nature, Earth, and Heaven. Yullyo. Therefore, a New Human is someone who plays well.


5
Oct 08

Be Healthy In Body And Mind

Brain Respiration also emphasizes the relevance of habit to the transformation of consciousness. When we judge a person’s character or his level of social consciousness, we do not judge him by one or two acts. We tend to examine his overall behavior, or his habits. A person’s level of consciousness is expressed by a habitual set of behaviors. In fact, habits are the only way that we can judge a person’s character and level of consciousness.

Therefore, in order to effect a transformation of consciousness, we must first change our words and our behavior. According to Doctor Ilchi Lee research Brain Respiration initially shows a person what his or her mental and behavioral habits have been. It then shows the individual how to develop the strength and will to change ingrained habits by becoming master of his or her own brain. In this way, Brain Respiration educates people to reform habits through a self-train ing process and re-create oneself into a new being, a New Human.

Yoga Studio guide by Ilchi Lee


2
Oct 08

Transforming Consciousness Through Experience and Habit

One of the unique methods of Ilchi Lee employed by Brain Respiration is the use of the body to change the mind. It is possible to undergo complete mental and spiritual transformation through physical activity. Brain Respiration tackles the complex problems related to our dominant social paradigm through a basic understanding of the brain itself.

Many people attempt to solve emotional problems with emo tions and mental problems with the mind. However, as we have all experienced, this is not very effective. The mind, though fickle and wild when untrained, has unlimited potential for wisdom and creativity.

Training the mind to achieve its highest potential is much easier if we start with training the body during Yoga Exercises. Brain Respiration, by adding the element of Ki energy to physical training, facilitates development of the path to the mind. It’s a fact that people change when confronted with a personal danger or threat. No matter how much the newspapers talk about environmental crisis, most of us are more concerned about the latest sports scores than the rain forests. However, when our drinking \vater becomes poisoned and we become sick as a result, then we will sit up and take notice. Likewise, Brain Respiration induces people to expand their awareness through physical, energy, and spiritual experience, rather than by intellectual understanding. Only personal experience can change people in a fundamental way.