Dahn Yoga DC Metro Member’s blog

When you keep yawning or your head is foggy, it is because the brain cells are not activated. If this condition remains, your concentration level drops, you lack motivation, and your consciousness becomes dim.

Then how do we revive this tired brain? First of all, the brain should be supplied with plenty of oxygen. And in order to supply plenty of oxygen, one’s blood circulation must be smooth. Most of us acknowledge that the heart should run smoothly in order to have smooth blood circulation, but we cannot operate the heart at will. However, we can move the feet at will. Therefore if we move and train the feet to help the operation of the heart, the whole body’s blood circulation gets smoother and the supply of oxygen gets better, and now we can maintain a healthy condition from head to toe.

According to Ilchi Lee research your brain records habits easily. Every time you repeat a particular action, your brain uses the same set of circuitry, and those connections become all the more solidly reinforced. In essence, it is more comfortable for the brain to keep your same old habits, whether they are good for you or not.

Eventually, I started feeling like my body was full of vibrant energy, as if I were young again. My body felt unbelievably light, my movement became quick, and I became nearly unaware of my injured back. I discovered the joy of walking and looked for chances to take increasingly long and more frequent walks. This way of walking not only helped me return to my previous level of health, but I now feel ten years younger than I did at the time of my accident. I named the walking style Jangsaeng Walking, which roughly translates to longevity walking, because I feel it has restored youth and vitality to my body.

According to Ilchi Lee research walking is a perfect path to wellness. Basically, it can be done anywhere at any time and, more importantly, it works. Numerous studies have confirmed that walking-any kind of walking—is tremendously good for the body.

Walking is a whole body exercise that uses more than six hundred muscles and two hundred bones that move along with those muscles. Walk-to ing stimulates countless nerves that are spread throughout the body through the soles. It strengthens the lower body muscles by vigorously promoting blood circulation in the legs and intestines.

This exercise will help you feel strong, grounded, and centered. Through this exercise, you can grow your personal strength and integrity.

Stand with your feet shoulder width apart and parallel. Make sure that your weight is distributed evenly so that it rests firmly over the soles of both feet. Gently tuck in your tailbone. Relaxing your upper body, raise your hands to chest height, and spread them apart about one foot. Imagine that you have a ball of energy between your hands and your chest. y Concentrate on your lower abdomen and maintain this posture for about 3 to 5 minutes.

SLEEPING TIGER

This exercise is designed to strengthen, rejuvenate, and energize the body.

Emotions are the primary reason we place limits on our brain. It is because of emotions that we tell ourselves, “I can’t try that. I will only embarrass myself.” Out of fear, we stop short of our dreams, and because of past hurts we close ourselves off to others. Fortunately, it is possible to relieve your mind of debilitating emotions, but you must first learn to let go of them.

LAUGHING EXERCISE

You already know that laughing is powerful medicine. But unfortunately vou can’t buy laughing pills at the pharmacy. You could go to a funny movie or meet with a funny friend, but why rely on them? You can laugh any time you want.

So try sitting down on the floor one day and laugh to your heart’s content. You may ask, “But how can I laugh if there is nothing to laugh about?” lust try it. lust laugh as hard as you can. At first, it will seem award, but keep going. Flail your arms and pound the floor, busting up with laughter. Soon, you will feel like a kid again.

This exercise is great for releasing emotional tension from the body, bringing energy away from your head to your lower body. Also, it is a great cure for insomnia, when your head is full of worries.

Lie on your back with your feet and legs together. Place your hands on the floor with your palms on the ground. Flex your feet back and keep your heels close together.

Tap your big toes together, then open your feet so that your little toes tap the floor. Repeat as rapidly as you can.

Start with 100 repetitions and increase the number after more practice.

The ideal characteristics and conditions in Dahn Yoga for 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. 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. 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.

The fourth is to listen to vour conscience. Although social definitions of right and wrong may change with evolving culture and ideas, our devotion to truth is universal and immutable. Conscience is an expression of our perfection, the divinity within. Because of our conscience, we know that we are wrong when we have done wrong and we seek to right the situation. We instinc­tively seek to return to a state of balance when we have lost it. Without a conscience, health of body and mind, intellect, and social ability are just tools that have lost their original purpose. Even worse, without a conscience, these tools can be used to kill, rather than to heal as was intended. Conscience is an inner drive toward Truth and an essential desire for completion based on our acknowledgement of the divinity within.

The fifth is to become divine. Divimtv in lite does not refer to some type of super-human ability to see and hear things that normal humans cannot. The spirit is information. Spirit is com­municated through energy vibrations. When our brain waves are allowed access to the energy vibrations of the spirit, we are said to be “inspired.” Since all things in the universe are filled with spiri­tual energy, strictly speaking, every existence is already divine. A person’s level of divinity, therefore, depends on the level of his or her spiritual information. To be divine is to possess a high quality of information.

Although our brain is open to all sorts of information, spirit, messages, and ideas, we have the option to choose which ones to accept or reject depending upon our taste and habits. At the most basic level, it is a matter of the strength of your desire. In a book­store filled with countless types of books, your choice directly depends on your desire. A divine person is someone who has a strong desire to benefit all of humankind, gathering and generat­ing productive information to that end. Brain Respiration is an educational system of experiential training for the development of New Humans.

Ilchi Lee Books About Human Brain

Let us examine the brain stem. Although little is actually known about the brain stem, now and then we glimpse its inexplicable powers. The work that the brain stem does cannot be controlled or even sensed by the neo-cortex. All the essential functions of the body are controlled by the brain stem. If we had to con­sciously sense and control every little thing that the brain stem does, we wouldn’t be able to do anything else for fear of killing ourselves by neglect or by mistake. We can be thankful for the benevolence that separated the brain stem and the neo-cortex. Imagine what would happen if our basic life functions were affected by the type of information that came into our head! A harsh word from our boss and we would have trouble breathing. One kiss from a lover might overload our hearts. Any passing thought of suicide would stop our breathing. Thank God we have the cerebral linibic system to act as a barrier between the neo-cortex and the brain stem. We don’t have to think about staying alive. We just do.

However, there are cases in which the information in the neo-cortex has an immediate and dramatic effect on the function of the brain stem. When the neo-cortex determines without an iota of doubt that a piece of information is true, then it has an effect on the brain stem. However, the neo-cortex must believe one hundred percent in the truth of the information. Normally, when information conies in, the neo-cortex critically and skeptically examines it. However, something that is believed absolutely is delivered directly to the brain stem. The incredible power of absolute belief is that it can actually affect the most basic functions of life itself.

Ilchi Lee writes in his new book about brain respiration for example, it a suggestion is made during a state of deep hypnosis that a scalding hot coin has been placed on your hand, a blister will appear on the spot where the coin is placed, even if the coin is not actually hot. This is possible because, in hypnosis, the function of doubt in the neo-cortex is temporarily suspended. Therefore, the message goes straight to the brain stem, causing it
to signal the body part to activate the self-defending mechanism for a burn. The body then gathers water to cool the heat and to mobilize immune cells to fight against a possible invasion of harmful germs.

Here is a true story, reported in Korean newspapers in the mid-Seventies. A mother whose little child had somehow slipped into a tiger’s cage bent the metal bars of the cage apart with bare hands and rescued the child. Afterwards, she couldn’t even move the bars a millimeter, despite using all her strength. How did this happen? Where did such strength come from? It came from the power of her brain stem, activated when information that her child was in mortal danger was registered with purity and urgency without being filtered through the neo-cortex. This is the same type of extraordinary power we read about in the Bible when a cripple is suddenly able to walk or an incurably ill child wakes up smiling at a word from Jesus. The absolute belief in Jesus’ divinity and healing power, registered directly by the brain stem, brings about a miracle. This is actually the exertion of the potential power of our brain which effects on Yoga Excercies.

I woke up with a diarrhea and hot and chill within me 2 nights ago. I had not much to eat yesterday for lost of appetite. I went to an intensive Brain Wave Vibration Training–Dahn Ho last evening. During the training, the hot and cold energy were fighting within my body that created a huge headache. When I got home, my body temperature was 101 degree. I took 2 Tylenol, 2 glasses of water and a wet towel on my forehead, then, I went to sleep. When I woke up this morning, I went to work and filled with energy. I had stomach flu! Before I practice Dahn Brain Wave Vibration, it would last me 4-6 days to recover plus a doctor visit and antibiotic. After I practice Brain Wave Vibration, it last only 24 hours. Brain Wave Vibration will help you to discover your hidden healing power within your brain stem. Please practice with sincere mind and daily. Good health to me and you. (Aug 27, 2008)

Abdominal breathing is a perfect companion to meridian exercises, says Dahn Yoga instructor Alex. After relaxing your body through meridian exercises, perform abdominal breathing for about ten to twenty minutes. It will enhance your health dramatically. Abdominal breathing is related to the movement of the diaphragm, a dome-shaped structure that assists in breathing and acts as a natural partition between our heart and lungs on one side, and our stomach, spleen, pancreas, liver, kidneys, bladder, and small and large intestines on the other.

When we breathe deeply, our diaphragm moves downward as we inhale and upward as we exhale. The more the diaphragm moves, the more our lungs are able to expand, which means more oxygen can be taken in - and more carbon dioxide released - with each breath. Dahn Yoga practice encompasses abdominal breathing.

When we breathe fully and deeply, the belly, lower rib cage, and lower back expand on inhalation, thus pushing the diaphragm down deeper into the abdomen. The same structures retract on exhalation. In deep abdominal breathing, these rhythmic movements help to detoxify our inner organs, promote blood flow and peristalsis, and pump fluid more efficiently through our lymphatic system. Dahn Yoga practice daily exercise.

When we refer to Dahn Jon, it means the lower Dahn Jon, which acts as the fuel tank that stores energy for circulation throughout the body. When your lower Dahn Jon becomes strengthened, the overall energy balance of your body will be restored, amplifying your natural healing power. You will exhibit more patience and drive, developing a stronger sense of self-confidence. When you practice meridian exercise, it is always recommended to focus on the lower Dahn Jon.

Deep breathing occurs naturally if we breathe with our awareness focused on our Dahn Jon. It is located roughly two inches below the navel and two inches inside the body, in the center of the abdomen.

As you do your breath work, focus your mind’s attention on this area of your body. Feel your lower abdomen rising when you breathe in and falling when you breahte out. Do this slowly and concentrate on your breathing. If this method seems difficult, place one hand on your lower abdomen and the other on your chest. As you breathe, feel the hand on your lower abdomen moving while the hand on your chest stays still. This approach is called abdominal breathing or Dahn Jon breathing at Dahn Yoga. If you take time to practice this daily, soon your mind will do it automatically — abdominal breathing will simply become part of how you breathe. One part of your mind will do this deep breathing while other parts of your mind focus on other things that allow you to move through your day.

Abdominal breathing is a perfect companion to meridian exercises. After relaxing your body through Dahn Yoga meridian exercises, perform abdominal breathing for about ten to twenty minutes. It will enhance your health dramatically.