A collected extract from Ilchi Lee’s book
Have you ever stopped to realize that you owe everything you are to your brain?
If someone asks you who you are, what do you say? Maybe you say something like, “My name is John. I am a twenty-seven-year-old man of African descent, and I currently work as an elementary school teacher in Dallas, Texas.” Instinctively, you and John both know that there is much more to you. John loves most of all to be in the presence of great art. The hair on the nape of his neck stands up when he smells freshly fallen rain. Both of you have experienced a great range of love and suffering throughout your life. How can one name or one identity sum up all of this?
All these things do have one thing in common, however—they were generated through the brain. John’s brain enabled him to become a school teacher, and it is through his brain that he feels awe when standing before a powerful painting. A symphony of sensory input and memory within his brain gives rise to his reaction to freshly fallen rain. It is also within his brain that he stores his definition of what it means to be a man, twenty-seven years old, and African-American.
In some sense, you could say that you are your brain. Or, at the very least, the brain is the instrument through which you experience all reality. And it is through it that you interact with reality—in every emotional reaction, in every choice that you make, and in every dream that you dream. Everything you ever have been or will become is because of your brain.
conditions of your life at the present moment are also dependent on the condition of your brain. If you love the conditions of your life, you must use your brain to help you maintain that life. If you want to change the conditions of your life, it will also require effective use of your brain.
Relationship between D Yoga and Brain