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Brain Educator Ilchi Lee the founder of Dahn Yoga writes until now, your left-brain ruled the day. Logical, rational, and strict…

A prison of negative information and memory…

Now, rest your left-brain and give your right-brain free rein.

For your right brain knows what you need.

Let the right brain move you in all the right ways…

In all the right places…

To fill you with passion, love, and peace…

And deaf your tangled thoughts ana1 emotions.

Feel the Chakras move and stir…

And your soul calls out for freedom.

Hold a conversation with your soul

As you dance the Dance of Energy.

Dahn-mu will move you with the flow of energy.

According to Mr Ilchi Lee flowing within our bodies is the energy that drives and main­tains our life functions. This energy flows not only within our bodies, but also through the very fabric of the universe. In the Orient, we call this energy “Ki,” “Chi,” or “Prana.” There are seven major points of intersection for the flow of this energy in our bodies. These points are called Chakras, or in the Korean tradi­tion, Dahn-jons.

Chakra, a Sanskrit word, means a wheel or a circle. This is because energy tends to swirl in a circular motion as it gathers in the Chakras. In the ancient Asian mind-body-spirit discipline of Shin Sun Do (Way of the Divine), Chakras are called Dahn-jons. Literally translated, Dahn-jon means “field where energy gathers.”

Knowledge of the Chakras has long been important in the Vedas and Yoga of India, as well as other Asian traditions. Due to the importance of this knowledge to spiritual traditions of the East, and to the exclusivity of transmission of this information, the Chakras may have been a bit over mythologized. They have been relegated to the realm of the fantastic and have become inaccessible to the average person.

In words of Ilchi Lee even in the Korean Shin-Sun-Do tradition, only a very few, select individuals were lucky enough to find a teacher to guide them. In this tradition, “Small Universe” is the state in which all of the Chakras are activated, all meridians of the body flow freely, and the mind and body become one. “Great Universe” is the state in which cosmic and bodily energy merge into one continuous and conscious flow, allowing discovery of the True Self.

A similar philosophy is expressed in Kundalini Yoga. This tradition was similarly limited to a very select group of individuals. Kundalini means “life energy coiled in the shape of a snake at the bottom of the spine.” It is said that when the coiled life energy awakens, the energy will travel up the spine through the Chakras and effect a spiritual awakening.

A picture from “Sung-Myung-Ji-Gwe,” a Century book on the practice of Shin-Sun-Do. The pathways of the “Great Universe” – various Dahn-jons or Chakras – are symbolized by drawings of a pot, crescent moon, and stars, among others.

Chakras have an intimate relationship with the spiritual growth of a person. To experience and understand the Chakras means that you understand the flow of life, including the meaning of life and death. You might posses the most precious of gems, yet, if you don’t know its value, then there is no difference between the gem and an ordinary pebble. One of the primary reasons that people are in con-stant search for “meaning” in life is that they don’t understand the Chakra system within their own bodies. Understanding the True Self, and thereby life’s meaning and purpose, lies in an understand­ing of the Chakras. Experiencing the Chakras will bring about an overall understanding of life.

More about subject Ilchi Lee writes in the ancient Asian mind-body-spirit discipline of Shin-Sun-Do (Way of the Divine), there is a system for achieving spiritual com­pletion through the Chakras. Healing Chakra training is a modern­ized version of this ancient system of advancing the spiritual journey, adapted for modern times.

It is with the hope of utilizing this system of Shin-Sun-Do to effectively awaken the potential of the seven Chakras, that I write this book. The name “Healing Chakra” is simply the term I use for this modernized version of traditional Asian Chakra training.

In the ancient tradition of Korea, there existed a body-mind-spirit training system called Shin-Il-Hap-Il (Divine-One-Together-One), which sought to elevate human consciousness to its highest plateau, that of divinity. More widely known by the name Shin-Sun-Do, the philosophy and ideas contained therein were originally derived from an ancient sacred text called “Chun-Bu-Kyung,” or the Heavenly Code.
The Chun-Bu-Kyung is the highest authority among the sacred texts in Korean spiritual tradition. It is said that an ancient sage who realized his own enlighten- recorded the Chun-Bu-Kyung.

Secret of the Golden Flower mint through his training regimen of Shin-Sun-Do is thereby gaining insight into the realities of life and death and the operational flow of the universe. Because the Chun-Bu-Kyung is essentially a numerical representation of the laws of the cosmos, it cannot be interpreted lit­erally. It will only reveal its true nature and meaning to someone who has experienced the realities of life through Ki energy. Read more articles by Ilchi Lee.

Some interesting information in words of Ilchi Lee in his book about subject. If I didn’t finish out today, then I would have failed. The ninety-nine days before would have been for naught. With that in mind, I sat like a stone statute in the middle of a snow-covered field, braving the skin-biting wind. I think it was about minus twenty degrees Celsius. I had trained before in weather about minus ten degrees, and was able to fight off the cold by accumulating and directing the flow of energy around me. But this was severe cold. My body shook and my breathing became haggard.

I just accepted the cold. I wanted to wait it out. I would watch what this extreme cold was doing to my body. I said to myself, “Let’s see how cold it really gets and what it does to me.” After a short while, my body started going numb. After that, my breathing became even more difficult. I was losing consciousness, slipping into a warm haze. I wanted to get up at that time, but I couldn’t. My body was no longer mine to command. It was too late. I was going to freeze to death right there. So, I gave up.

I mean, really gave up. I didn’t give up just in words, thoughts, or mind even, but totally. I gave myself up in absolute completeness to God above to do as He wished. God is not stupid. God doesn’t get suckered into helping you because you say that you will do something. God knows when you mean something with your whole being. So, when I felt.

I was able to see and talk to the spirits or ghosts. I would call and send away different spirits. I would see ghosts haunting or attaching themselves to some house or person. I would talk to these ghosts and tell them to leave. I was also able to sense the different diseases or states of mind of different people before even walking to them. A person with cancer feels and smells is differently from a healthy person. A person with diabetes is the same way. A person who just went through an emotional trauma has a different reel to him or her. Their energy vibration is just different. Local Mudangs. Or traditional Korean shamans would come to me with their heads bowed and want me to lead them in some exorcism or another. They would prepare pork heads and other required foods and dance crazily for hours, banging on their drums and wailing and chanting.

And I would see these spirits hanging around, some with hate and vengeance from previous lifetimes, and I would tell them, “Stop it already. You are only increasing your own Karma debt, no matter what manners of wrongs this person’s ancestors have done to you.” Then they would go. Once you enter into the world of energy, it is no big deal. What are ghosts anyway? Just a pale reflection of energy that is too weak to manifest physically.

One morning when it was bitterly cold out, I was sitting in the middle of fresh snow, meditating. This was the last day of a hundred straight days of training that I promised myself. For more information read articles by Ilchi Lee.