Aug 04
Sir Ilchi L guidelines on human breath and brain
In some ways, this step is a rebirth for the brain. Throughout your life, you have experienced things that have had a lasting effect on your brain. These things linger on as a kind of emotional residue that affects your life. From this residue, you may have created the preconceptions and negative thought patterns that have kept you from reaching your full potential. The intention of Brain Refreshing is to release and clear away these burdensome memories to allow healing and renewal.
Through expressing and releasing old emotions rooted in the traumatic experiences of the past, you will learn to control the content of your own mind rather than being controlled by the whims of emotional variation. You will learn to use the energy of your mind in a more concentrated and uninterrupted way.
Definition of Dahn Yoga
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Aug 03
The great news about D Hak Yoga is that you have infinite power to change and refine your brain. A few decades back, scientists thought that people could have very little influence over their brains. It was assumed that by the time people reached adulthood their brain connections were permanently and indelibly in place. In childhood, one might be able to exert some influence over the development of the brain, but for the most part these things were genetically determined. It was thought that the old adage “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks” was literally true.
More recently, scientists have discovered that the opposite is true. There is a quality to the brain called neuro-plasticity that allows you, right up to the end of your life, to restructure and adapt your brain according to your needs. You can learn new things and adapt to new environments, even in extreme old age.
You may protest that the “old dog” does seem a little resistant to “new tricks.” Common experience would suggest that young children learn and adapt more quickly than adults, especially older adults.
Dr. I Lee says that this is, in fact, often the case, but I would suggest that it is partly a matter of choice, rather than a predetermined trait of the brain. There may indeed be some biological barriers to overcome as we get older. The brain’s connections do become denser and slower as we fill the brain with the experiences and knowledge of a lifetime. However, most people lose a great deal of their neuroplasticity simply because they choose not to use it. For that reason, I encourage you to use and challenge your brain as much as possible. You will find that, in the end, developing your brain is the same as leading a vital, fulfilling lifestyle.
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Aug 01
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
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