Doctor I Lee tips on Brain Respiration and D and H Yoga
Knowledge, if defined in terms of neuroscience, is a pattern of neural pathways or connections in the brain. Accordingly, learning is the addition to, or alteration of, neural pathways. Using the computer analogy, the brain is unique in that changes in software, or information, effect changes in the physical hardware. A change in one affects the other. This is unique to the human brain and distinguishes us from mere machines.
Therefore, neural pathways are both the network along which energy travels and the pattern through which information is processed in the brain. According to this definition of the brain, our understanding of the world, our value system, personality, and even our habits are just ingrained patterns of neural pathways. The countless experiences and information that we come across are stored as memories or knowledge in our brain. A corresponding pattern of neural pathways is formed according to the content of information and experience. The most important and influential information forming neural pathways relates to life values. Wherever you place the highest value, neural connections will be developed to facilitate pursuit and achievement of that value.
What we should take note of is that our neural pathways are not written in stone. They can be altered and expanded depending on the type of information fed to the brain. If you consistently feed it the highest level of information that emanates from spiritual reality, then your brain will undergo a fundamental and comprehensive change in its neural pathway pattern. Since change in neural pathways denotes change in consciousness, such fundamental change in the neural connectivity pattern can accurately be described as “enlightenment.” The change in the neural connectivity pattern that we speak of in Brain Respiration has as its goal, transformation of consciousness from the False Self to the field of the True Self. The purpose is to become consciously aware that our life has deep roots in the soul. Only when our brain is deeply rooted in the True Self will the full potential of the brain come alive.