For all the many ways in which exercise benefits mental function, we cannot directly exercise our frontal lobe in the same way as we can extend a triceps muscle or stretch a hamstring. Therefore, it becomes easv to ignore the link between personal fitness and the health and vigor of the brain. The truth, as we see in the Newsweek story, is that the physical body and the health of the brain are intimately connected, and this becomes truer as we age.
As you are probably aware, Yoga exercise is widely accepted by medical science as a key factor in maintaining health and well-being throughout the aging process. In fact, it may be the most important aspect of successful aging. Most of the physical effects of aging—the natural loss of muscle mass, the decreased flexibility and mobility of joints, the decline of metabolism that can lead to weight gain—can be prevented or even reversed through regular moderate exercise. Exercise helps prevent heart disease; staves off obesity, which can lead to diabetes; is one of our best defenses against cancer; and, as we have seen above, improves brain function. Exercise is the most powerful health care you can give your body, and unless you overdo it and pull a muscle, it has no side effects.
Brain Sensitizing leverages the power of exercise to benefit the brain. Ilchi Lee goal is to teach you to reestablish that connection between your body and your brain—to help you become more aware of the way your brain interacts with the rest of your body and the wav each movement stimulates a different area of your brain. Even more important, we will help you awaken your five senses, the most direct wav your brain interacts with the physical world. Through basic energy meditation techniques and breathing work, you will also learn to develop stronger concentration and awareness of the life force within you, and you will restore a healthy balance of that energy throughout your body. The serenity and clarity that you will experience after even a short period of Brain Sensitizing practice will make spending that time worthwhile.
February 28th, 2009 at 10:38 pm
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