What is also emerging is the concept of health as not being just reference to the physical well being or absence of disease. Rather it is the realization that peaceful mind in harmony with the environment is a requirement for a truly god health.

So what really is meditation?

There are various forms of meditation; these vary depending on the lead inspiration for the meditation. For example, Buddhists meditation may have a few areas of variation from that practiced by followers of Toa. Some aspects meditation emphasized in the Eastern tradition may not be emphasized in Zen meditation.

Whatever the meditation, there are certain features that cut across various types of meditation. These features are what provide the healing and relaxation associated with meditation. This makes meditation a science that provides similar results across board. It does not matter whether you are in the United States of America or Japan or African or Australia, you will be able to enjoy all the benefits of meditation.

Perhaps this is arises from the fact that every human being has more than just the brains and the body. There is a space in us that is often empty and does not get filled by the material things. You have to fulfill this emptiness to be able to feel at home and in harmony with the rest of the planet earth.

How is meditation done or practiced?

All the forms of meditation focus on keeping the body at inert position and allowing a focus in the inside. This focus can be termed as a focus on the spirit. This emanates from the fact that more often than not, we engage our bodies in too much hustle and tussle that we lack the time to really find ourselves. Finding self is more of finding purpose in the many events or activities we undertake.

Meditation therefore often involves sitting down quietly. The environment must be serene and no distractions should be allowed. The body and mind are let free of thoughts and attentive to self.

One of the most successful meditations is one practiced in dahn yoga. This form of meditation is based on principles of Ilchi Lee. The practitioners of this type of meditation have develop a tradition of visiting particular sites in middle East for meditation. The result is great self awareness, being at peace and healing from lifestyle diseases such as diabetes. Dahn yoga presents a full package of meditation and promotes unity among the adherents.

Serendipitously, the word mu can also translate as “nothingness.” The state of mu, or nothingness, is achieved during Brain Wave Vibration when the mind is truly empty of thought, and you are able to simply follow the rhythms of life without hesitation. At this point, the boundaries of your body cease to exist, and you may experience a profound sense of oneness—first with the rhythms of your own body and ultimately with the universal rhythms of all life as your sense of separation fades away.

Seeking Oneness

When you consider the many different manifestations of spiritual experience in the world, it obviously does no good to debate which one is right. That has been the root of unbelievable amounts of suffering in the world. In fact, in the way I see spirituality, it is quite contradictory to differentiate in this way. It is best rather to focus on the concepts we have in common.

One thing is clear to me: the brain is indeed designed for spiritual experience. It is also clear that such experience does not come from thinking long and hard about the minutiae of theological issues. Rather, it comes from a quieting of the thinking mind so that one mav open up to the mysteries of experience.

To me, it is not a worthwhile question to debate the existence or nonexistence of God. One way or the other, the spiritual realm is beyond the power of the human mind to describe, and as soon as we attempt to put our experience of it into words, we have already shrunken it, regardless of how beautifully we speak.

The lower Dahn-jon is where the earth’s energy, flowing in through the ‘Yong-chun’ points, combines with both the energy of heaven, coming in as you breathe, and the energy of life that exists within us all. Here these energies merge and are transformed into a higher form of energy.

Energies gathered in the lower Dahn-jon also stimulate the kid­neys to elevate water energy and lower fire energy, facilitating opti­mal flow of energy according to the Law of Su-Seung-Hwa-Gang (Water Energy Up, Fire Energy Down). This results in a relaxed mind, clear head, and strong Dahn-jon.

In order to activate the second Chakra, concentrate on your lower Dahn-jon, which is located about two inches below your navel. The second Chakra connects to the prostate gland in men. In women, it is connected to the uterus.

It is also connected to the reproductive organs, bladder, and kidneys. When you breathe in, imagine a stream of air entering your body through the ‘Myung-moon’ point in your lower back, curling and swirling as it enters…

When you breathe out, imagine the stream of air uncurling as it exits. When you breathe in, your lower abdomen expands when you breathe out… your lower abdomen contracts…

Continue breathing as you are feeling your Dahn-jon, the second Chakra. You may feel emptiness in your lower Dahn-jon, you may experience a feeling of fullness…

Silently follow the path of your breath. You will feel warmth in your Dahn-jon. You may feel a beating pulse coming alive.

A person with a healthy first Chakra is full of life and the will to grow. If your first Chakra is blocked or impeded, you will experi­ence a lack of will, vigor, and passion. Without sufficient physical energy, the body cannot act as a solid anchor for consciousness, resulting in the lack of a sense of reality. This may result in the appearance of illness and over sensitivity to external circumstances. Spiritual richness can only arise with plenty of energy.

One of the most important decisions for your child will be how to use his or her brain in relation to other brains. Technology has caused the world to effectively “shrink.” As a result, children will have to deal with a large variety of cultures and people in their lifetimes. The artificial barriers of political boundaries are breaking down in light of the communication age. In fact, the younger generation may be the first in the history of humanity to identify themselves as citizens of Earth, rather than of a single nation.

Furthermore, environmental concerns are bound to reach their zenith early in the twenty-first century.

The first time I felt the power of Ki energy was when I went on an errand for my mother when I was five. The next time was in my mid-twenties, when I visited an old bookstore in the old center of Seoul in Korea. I picked up a book whose cover was falling off and turned it to the first page. There I saw a sentence that sent jolts of electricity running through me. It said, “If you achieve enlightenment through positive energy and deeds, you will be invincible.” As soon as I read that sentence, a live wire was running through me and an invisible warmth formed a blanket around me. I was a third-degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do and had even run a martial arts school, but I had never felt this way before. I did not want to let this feeling go. As I rode the bus back home, I sat huddled to myself, quiet, drunk on that wonderful and powerful feeling. Afterwards, my life became dictated by Ki energy,

The next day, I woke up at four o’clock in the morning. And the morning after that later on, I found out that four A.M. is the time when the energy connection between the cosmos and Earth is the strongest. If you become sensitized to the flow of Ki, then your body will naturally respond to its rhythm. I did not used to be a morning person at all. But afterwards, I would get up at four A.M.

The Earth may look large, but it has truly become a small town through advances in communications and transportation.

That’s why we call it an Earth Village. If we gather our strengths together, can we not positively influence this little village? What are the obstacles that face us? Not enough food? No. Environmental problems? Since we human beings are the cause of the environmental problems that we face today, we can also be the solution. We just need a shift in our thinking. We just need to move away from the paradigm of competition and domination. Then this world will not end. In fact, the world will prosper and return to its original place as the warm cradle of self-discovery and the advancement of human spirituality. And such a world is true democracy.”