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The second Chakra is located at the very end of the tailbone as Ilchi Lee writes.

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.

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Prof Ilchi Lee writes in his book that Neuroscientists say that our personal experience of emotion is based entirely on changes in the body. An accelerated heart rate when we feel fear, or the facial muscle changes associated with a genuine smile are examples. I dispute that contention.

Try an experiment for ten days. The next time you find yourself experiencing a really distinctive emotion (joy, anger, or sadness), focus for a second on your brain. Do not be surprised if it feels, in a physical sense, something that very closely correlates to your emotions. Keep a record of your findings in a small notebook.

For instance, if we are experiencing joy. our brain may feel light. If we are experiencing anger, our brain may feel hot. If we are experiencing sadness, our brain may feel heavy. And you may begin to spot other bodily signals, such as heartbeat, body temperature, and perspiration, physical signals of the emotional content of your next moment. As you become comfortable with this process, you can choose to change that moment.

If you can learn to change a moment, you can learn to change your life! It is not that difficult to achieve.

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Ilchi Lee CREATED Brain Respiration (BR) as a program for people to gain control over their lives. Brain Respiration consists of a variety of physical, emotional, and mental exercises, progressing through five stages: Sensitizing, Versatilizing, Refreshing, Integrating, and Mastering. Each stage is directed by core principles and training methods, which I will discuss briefly in this chapter. For more details, please consult my book Brain Respiration or the website www.brainrespiration.com.

Before we can direct our lives, we must first attain a certain level of sensitivity. Imagine being an artist who cannot tell the difference between red and blue! Our senses must be awake and discerning if we wish to make progress in any kind of endeavor.

Many teachers, myself included, have described exercises that can help you recover your sensitivity to your body, your emotions, and even the voice of your soul. Here I would like to talk about a different challenge—becoming sensitive to the brain itself! Scientists state that the brain is numb, because it has no sensory receptors. I do not dispute their laboratory findings, but allow me to offer some speculation based on personal experience.

Please notice how your brain feels when you experience different emotions or behaviors. Observing your brain takes practice and a great deal of focus, because we have to decide to do two things simultaneously—experience our emotions and notice how our brain is feeling. I believe it is possible to feel an emotion directly in the brain, before it manifests in the body.

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Concentrating on the brain sensations associated with certain emotions, as I am suggesting here, will soon allow us to recognize the emotionally reactive patterns that are unique to us in given situations. Then, if we become good at this, we can “head off” an upcoming emotion if it is one that we do not wish to experience!

If we can teach ourselves to “feel our brain” and watch the rest of our body for the signs that our brain is feeling a certain way, we will be able to predict in advance that a certain emotion is coming on. If what is emerging is an unwanted emotion, you can literally tell your brain to stop doing that.

Watching Your Body’s Reactions

We are being rained upon, drenched in data, even,’ day. Information from thousands of sources competes to get noticed by your consciousness, like children raising their hands in a classroom to get the teacher’s attention.

The information that is chosen goes through a certain process before becoming reality. For many people, this process is automatic. Your brain “decides” what to look at. what to take in, and you have no conscious awareness of this process taking place.

It only you could consciously monitor this process, you would be able to gam greater control over your life. In fact,you can.

Brain education by Ilchi Lee

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The limbic system is a set of structures that produces emotions. These emotional systems create the approach or withdrawal behaviors that ensure our survival. For example, mammals can be conditioned to fear a situation that has life-threatening potential. Or displays of anger can ward off competitors for a scarce resource.

The neocortex is the newest part of the brain. This part of the brain underwent an amazing, rapid expansion that differentiated us, the human species, from our predecessors.

As a whole, the neocortex has endowed us with a capacity for reasoning, planning, and creativity unprecedented in the history of life on earth. It is the neocortex which is primarily responsible for our thinking intelligence.

However, Ilchi Lee contend that it is a grave mistake to think of the neocortex as the central structure of our human character. Emotions have a deep influence on our relationships, decision making, and life purpose, in both positive and negative ways. Learning to recognize and manage our emotions is a critical life task whose importance can hardly be understated.

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The brain directs the activities of all our other vital organs. It processes information to coordinate our bodily functions and activities, and their interaction with the environment. Although it weighs just three pounds, the brain commands 20 percent of our blood circulation. Scientists say that the human brain is the most complicated object in the known universe. It is our brain above all that sets us apart from all other life on this planet.

Although the brain has billions of individual neurons and many different structures, Ilchi Lee find it helpful to think about the brain in terms of its ancient history as all life on earth is connected through the history of evolution.

The brain has three major subsystems that correspond to dir-ferent evolutionary eras. These subsystems are the brainstem, limbic system, and neocortex, and they are shared by reptiles, early mammals, and later mammals, respectively.

The brainstem governs automatic processes which are necessary for the most basic life functions. It controls our heartbeat, breathing, and basic aspects of arousal and consciousness. These activities are crucial to life. If the brainstem is injured, we will die in a matter of minutes.

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EACH DAY,WE PROBABLY THINK AT LEAST ONCE about OUr health, sex, or the purpose of our life. Most of us think very little of our brains—we do not think often about our brains nor do we think much of our brains. Most of us do not really understand the true nature of our brains and thus, our true values.

So let us now talk about the master controller of Human Technology—the brain. I have said that HT is a toolkit for improving the quality of life, ending our over-dependence on experts, and helping us become self-reliant. Our brain is the way to attain these goals. There is no human activity that can happen without the brain.

Understanding and mastering the HT tools presented in this book are only possible through the brain. Optimizing our brain function is the thread that weaves together all the tools of HT. If we were to use our brains well, we would be more creative, productive, and peaceful in our daily lives.

Everything we do in HT is ultimately intended to help us better care for our brains and improve brain function. Prof Ilchi Lee tells that I believe the brain is the key to all learning and human betterment. Here are some basic facts about the evolutionary history of the brain which everyone should know.

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