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We live surrounded by a sea of information. It is difficult to find one or two droplets of fresh water, or good and helpful information, in an ocean of salt water. It would be a tiring, if not futile mission. However, Ilchi Lee says that let’s change our tactics for a moment. How great would it be if we could make the few droplets of good information find us, instead of the other way around? Our primary source of information is through our interchanges with other people. Therefore, the first condition to receiving good, productive information is to develop good relationships with others. In this vein, a smile and courtesy are two primary tools for information gathering. An open heart, a heightened sensitivity to others, a comfortable and natural smile, and a trustworthy and solid presence are all key to inviting good information to come your way. The second condition for becoming a magnet for good information is a philosophy for living. This philosophy is a system of living values by which the brain can correctly judge which information is good or bad.

During Dahnhak when our brain operates according to a warped value system, then our brain cannot perform to its fullest potential. This is akin to loading an incorrect program on a computer and then asking it for a correct answer. This will only decrease the performance of the computer, create errors in the system, and precipitate a full system crash. An unproductive value system in the brain will create an unproductive brain. An unaware value system in the brain will create an unaware brain. Even worse, a distorted, unhealthy value system in the brain will create an unhealthy brain. However, from the point of the view of the brain, it has met an unproductive, unaware, and unhealthy master. Actually, there are no unproductive, unaware, or unhealthy brains to begin with, only unproductive, unaware, or unhealthy situations.

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Although we can’t adjust the size of our brain on a physical level, we can do so on an energetic level. Brain Expansion-Contraction Exercise uses the power of imagination to stretch and pull the brain in order to stimulate the fixed neural pathways and to enhance activity during DahnHak. With time, you will be able to match the expansion-contraction cycle of the brain to the rhythm of your beating heart. For this exercise, you will be using the energy sensitivity of your hands that you have experienced in Ji-gam training. In fact, this exercise is often called the Brain Ji-gam Training.

As Ilchi Lee tells in his book that your breath, hands, and brain become attuned to one rhythm, you will feel your whole body expand as you breathe in and contract as you breathe out. With enough concentration, your body will seem to expand to infinity when you inhale and contract to a dot on a page as you exhale.

With deeper immersion, your body itself will seem to disappear and only your consciousness will expand to infinity and contract to nothingness along with the rhythm of your breath. If you form a connection of your upper, middle, and lower Darm-jons, you will experience your body being transformed into a bright light. After thirty minutes in this state, you will feel that your body is filled with fresh energy and every single cell in your body is purified and rejuvenated.

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For body infinity coordination exercise Dr. Ilchi Lee tells that if Raise both arms and trace a large infinity sign in the air, hand following hand.

Now use the movements of your arms, neck, waist, and hips.

Next, trace the infinity sign using your whole body as you simultaneously imagine the sign being drawn in your head.

Now rest your hands by placing them behind your waist. Imagine a circle of infinity on the ground in front of you. Skip and jump your way around the edge of the circle

Stop and sit in half lotus position. Now just trace the circle of infinity in your head with your imagination.

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Dahn Yoga can be used purely to promote physical and mental well being. However, this system is comprehensive, integrating not only the physical and mental, but also the spiritual aspect of human existence. Dahn Yoga practice helps you develop a peaceful mind and stimulates your spirit.

Energy is a defining element in Dahn Yoga because it is considered to be the medium that unites body and mind.

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During the learning process of Dahn Yoga place both hands on your chest, with one hand in a fist and the other open. With the open hand, rub your chest up and down. Simultaneously, tap on your chest with your fisted hand.

Repeat ten times and then switch hands. Repeat ten times and switch hands again.

Alternating Separate Hand Drawing Exercise Instructions By Ilchi Lee

In the air, draw a circle with your left hand and draw a triangle with your right.

Next, draw a square with your left hand and draw a reverse triangle with your right.

Alternate hands and repeat the above.

It is possible to follow Dahn Yoga training without feeling energy. However, when practitioners feel energy, they experience the true character of Dahn Yoga and more than anything else, the training itself becomes more joyful and grows into a multidimensional experience.

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Ilchi Lee writes that all of our movements in DahnYoga, from a twitch of the eye to the subtle movement of a smile, are connected to a specific part of our brain, for our brain controls every single movement that we consciously make. Therefore, working on specific parts of the body translates into stimulating the associated areas of the brain.

We have an established pattern of movement and exercise in our daily lives. Even if we work out at a gym, we tend to repeat the same motions over and over again. This means that we are stimulating identical parts of the brain again and again. If we want to stimulate less frequently used areas of the brain, then we must work with parts of our body that we have neglected. We must engage in new patterns of exercise. This is exactly what we seek to do in Brain Flexibility Exercise. We shall try new exercises with different rhythms, concentrating on left and right brain coordination, to stimulate and bring flexibility to our brain.

When we make a movement or a motion, its pattern is already designed and laid out by the brain before the body signals to actualize it. Therefore, a physical motion signifies that a mental design or image has already been completed. For example, when we draw a sign of infinity in the air with our hand, our brain has the same image already drawn onto its surface.

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There are two ways to introduce flexibility into your brain. Like a computer, the brain is comprised of software and hardware. The actual physical brain is the hardware and the information processed by the brain is the software. The difference between the brain and a computer is that the software and hardware inside the brain form a symbiotic relationship of mutual transformation. In other words, a change in software can transform the hardware.

According to Dr. Ilchi Lee views “Softening” the brain’s hardware means that we exercise the brain through physical stimulation. Just as you need to stimulate your muscles to develop them, you also need to stimulate your brain to develop and enhance its neural network. And exercise will relieve latent stress in your brain just as it does for your muscles, not to mention increasing efficiency of the brain with an enhanced neural network.

“Softening” the brain’s software means to diversify7 and transform the information processing activities of the brain. The more diverse the information processing procedures are, the more mental stimulation your brain will be subjected to. This results in the formation of a greater number of synapses, in effect, expanding the neural highway system of your brain. You will develop new insight pertaining to the world, formulate a new system of values for your life, and focus on more creative and novel ways to reach your goals. Traveling, meeting new people, and encountering new environments all act to bring about changes to your brain, for these experiences leave a new neural imprint in your brain.

So, we are able to change the “software” of the brain by changing its “hardware.” Or, to transform the “hardware” by changing the “software.” Then how do you stimulate the brain? Since the brain does not have any motor nerve or muscle to move itself, we cannot physically move it. However, we can utilize our body parts wired to the brain nerve system and our sensitivity to energy to stimulate the brain. We are, in effect, engaging in an “energy” workout for the brain.

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Peaceology emphasizes the brain so much is that peace depends on the human brain. The way for your brain to become a powerful tool lor peace is to develop it into a Power Brain.

According to Prof. Ilchi Lee Power Brain is a aliveness brain. A creative brain has bright imagination and is flexible enough to accommodate many diverse ideas. A Power Brain will not give in to the despair of present adversity, hut will use its bright imagination to picture a bright future. A creative brain can find a solution to any problem it faces on the journey to peace.

A Power Brain is a peaceful brain. A Power Brain knows that its true nature is peace, and considers peace its highest value, using it to measure everything else. A peaceful brain understands the principle of harmonious living and adheres to the rules of harmonious order. A peaceful brain produces positive information that will help actualize peace on Earth. A peaceful brain generates healing information.

A Power Brain is a productive brain. A productive brain is not lazy, is always responsible and realistic. A productive brain is a brain that can achieve real gains in this world for the purpose of peace. A productive brain utilizes all resources at its disposal efficiently and without waste, finishing all tasks cleanly and completely. A productive brain has the ability to become a CEO of peace.

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The same goes for a politician. The primary goal of a politician is to attain and maintain power. When a politician speaks of peace, he may be using it as an issue to keep his grip on power. Ask him whether he would be willing to relinquish his power in order to facilitate world peace, then you will see his true intentions. The primary job of a military officer is to win a war. When he justifies killing with rhetoric of peace, ask him whether he would willing to surrender a battle or lose the war in the interest of peace.

The divine mission of a religious leader is to bring more people to his particular faith. Ask him whether he would be willing to forsake his religion for world peace and you will know of his true will. Similarly, celebrities focus mainly on expanding popularity. Ask if they would accept anonymity for world peace. If not, when a celebrity speaks of peace, he is using it as a tool to gain popularity and fame.

For many ol these people, peace is nol .in end, hul a means to personal gain, without any real bearing on world peace. Of course, Ilchi Lee not discounting the people who are willing to give their best in the interest of world peace. Though I am perhaps a bit cynical, peace will not come out of blind naivete. I’eace will come about only by the conscious choice of determined people who are masters of their own brains.

Many people continue to exploit the issue ol peace lor many reasons. Yet, peace seems farther and father away from our immediate realm of experience. A wall of experts h.is made the choice for peace inaccessible to most of us. We have surrendered our inherent right to, and responsibility for peace.

When I point my index finger to the ceiling, unless there is a problem with your vision, or you are predisposed to see more than one finger, you will see one finger. II you linn this eye on the world today, you will see what I have iusl described. The amazing thing is that we have ignored such obvious hypocrisy and double talk for such along time. Who then, will be the protagonists of peace? Who will actuality peace on Earth?

During DahnYoga training practitioners lerrn to communicate with their bodies through energy.

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Practitioners of Dahn Yoga often report that through their practice, their family life improves.

The crisis that we are facing today stems from our failure to adhere to the three rules of peace. A devastating result of this is our tendency to see everything in parts, to divide everything into “me” and the rest of the world. Another tragic result of disregard for these rules is the prevalence of human selfishness and egotism. This is none other than the proverbial “fall from grace” or expulsion from the Garden of Eden.

The concepts of “the fall from grace” and “moral corruption” denote none other than our disrespect for the rules of harmonious order and peace. Original Sin refers not to Adam and Eve’s eating of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, but to our forgetfulness regarding ihc rules <>l h.innony and order that run the universe and all of life. Selfishness and egotism are direct evidence ot our collective divine lall. Our disregard for the rules of harmonious order has led us dircc. My to ihe current crisis, or lack of peace. This is nothing less than a crisis of human identity and of human survival.

Dr. Ilchi Lee says that if our fall from divine grace is the result ol our disregard for the rules of harmonious order, then we can expect recovery of our true nature to begin when follow them once again. However, recovering our capacity to observe the rules will not happen without effort on our part. This is a matter of intellect, understanding, and awareness, by individual and collective choice.

Peace will not occur magically because one or two individuals awaken to the truth of the nature of harmony and order. Peace will only prosper when the principle ol harmonious order becomes common sense, rather than a novel idea. Therefore, Peaceology suggests that the solution lies in education in all its forms, for unless there is a fundamental change in human beings, changes in government and social policy will have little effect. This is why I say in my book Healing Society, that enlightenment is the answer lor building a peaceful world.

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Rule Three, Fairness vs. Equality. Systemic balance depends on fair judgment of the various differences within a system. Fairness must come before equality, for the reverse of this breeds resentment and contempt, leading to apathy and inaction. The old Soviet system is an example of this. A lair judgment of the differences in ability, production, and circumstances is prerequisite to equitable balance wilhiu a community. Otherwise, it is the same as giving the identical amount of food to both a child and a grown adult and expecting them both to do the same of work. Not only will this waste food, it will also create unrealistic expectations that are bound to fail. Therefore, lairness must precede equality. In society, fairness and equality represent a clear delineation of roles and responsibility lor one’s actions, followed by fair judgment ol the achievement of individuals.

With faithful adherence to these rules, whole systems will run smoothly regardless of size, from the nuclear family to the multi-national conglomerate, to the universe itself. Without maintaining synchronistic orbit by working with the center, we will collide with others. If we do not maintain velocity to sustain balance of multidirectional forces, we will fly off into oblivion. Without a fair way to judge inevitable differences in ability, productivity, and circumstances, we will not be able to maintain balance and harmony in a given system.

According to Doctor Ilchi Lee book in Dahnhak the human body is a prime example of this. Each cell has a set of infinite possibilities to choose from, for it contains a complete set of information to become anything in the human body. However, cells align with the needs of the whole organism. External force does not impose order on our body. Rather it is an example of a self-organizing and self-maintaining bio-order. It truly is a miracle. This is only possible because each cell follows the three rules discussed above. This is why the phenomenon of life is so precious and beautiful in its expression of harmonious order. No cell can exist without first considering the entire organism. No individual should exist without thinking first of society. Similarly, humanity cannot exist without first thinking of llie system <>l lile lluil is the Earth. Such is the basic principle of harmonious order. This is the basic principle oi peace.

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