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.