Ilchi Lee, Healing Society

From Ilchi Lee’s book Brain Wave Vibration

I believe that everything in human existence is part of the great unfolding of consciousness in the universe. All the saints and sages of the world have been giving essentially the same message that contains a plea to return to oneness. Even the sciences have moved us in that direction. For example, Einstein’s search for a unified field theory, his elusive “theory of everything,” can be seen as this same yearning for oneness in scientific form. It is a defining characteristic that science separates and labels, hence the classification system into which living things are divided—phylum, class, order, and so forth. But quantum physics, as represented in books like The Tao of Physics and in films like What the Bleep Do We Know!?, shows that when we divide things into smaller and smaller particles, everything is just energy. We eventually come back to the same conclusion as the ancient sages did long ago—form is illusion and all are one.

I believe that information comes to us in three important forms, and together these elements have amazing power to transform brain waves—as well as lives and ultimately our entire planet.

Take a quick look at the list of words Ilchi Lee presents and figure out which words are positive and which ones negative. You’ll see that it doesn’t take a second to tell a specific word is positive or negative. You can tell by instinct. That’s how our brains work. Not only the brain but also muscles in our bodies know.

We should really watch what we think in our daily lives. Be careful what you wish for too. The brain doesn’t tell imagination from the the reality. Whether it is fact or just an imagination, doesn’t matter to the brain. Knowing it’s not real but a movie, the brain feels sad with a sad movie, scared with a scary movie. That is why what we think and what we imagine is important.

Happiness, honesty, loyalty, love, hope, gratitude, appreciation, etc. We should use this kinds of words a lot.

Ilchi Lee says that brain stem is the core part of the body, which plays the crucial role in keeping our body equilibrium status.

If you say, “I did my best. This is good enough. I can’t do it any more or better.” Whether you say I can do it or not, you are right. If you take your limitations for granted and think of the limitation as permanent, you will never be able to overcome them. Brain stem does lots of things to keep the body alive. Our brain has three layers. Neocortex, limbic system and brain stem. Neocortex is only for primates and human beings. This is what Ilchi Lee calls the thinking brain. This part is what differentiate people from other animals. Animals don’t have the ability to think or reason. Next one is the limbic system. This is called the emotional brain. This is what mammals have and reptiles don’t. The last one is brain stem. This is the brain of life.

Which one of the three is most important? I don’t know what is most important, but am sure that brain stem is the most fundamental and basic. Without it, the other two brains cannot exist. When we believe in our innate power and focus, we can demonstrate our great potential power. We should trust our power and keep move on. Let’s not say too easily, “This is good enough.”

You could say that one central message is coming forward: you are more powerful than you think. The remarkable worldwide success of the film The Secret shows how ready humanity finally is to hear this message. The trick will be for us to get past our own self-limiting thinking, which so commonly blocks the expression of this amazing power that we hold.

Ilchi Lee says he is here to teach you Brain Wave Vibration, which exists to reveal one simple fact: everything you need is already in you. You might have questions on how you can utilize the brain well. If so you can use Ask Ilchi Lee at Ilchi Lee’s website.

Life is vibration.

People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life… I think that what we’re really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive. Joseph Campbell, mythologist

This morning, I read excerpts of Ilchi Lee on Information and growth of life. It’s quite interesting to compare information with food of the brain. We should manage the quality of food to my brain. I usually take great care of what I eat. I don’t like to eat meat very much, even though I am not a vegetarian. I very rarely eat McDonalds or other fast food. I try to eat three meals a day, even when I am very busy. However, I am prone to play with negative information very much. I think my brain is, to a certain point, addicted to the negative information. So I shall take care of my brain well so that it always eats good food.

Anyway, I did Brain Wave Vibration training yesterday too. I had some negative information to shake away from my brain. So I gently shaked my head, lying on my bed. I think it was a bit lazy to do the Brain Wave Vibration training lying down, but anyway, that’s what I did.

I got greater effect when I do it with my mouth open. When I close it and do the training, I feel my brain is not relaxed and see less effective. Plus, I try to smile always. I want to make it my habit to smile always. When I smile, I feel my brain is much more relaxed and I find myself become calmer and able to see things from a distance. I heard that smiling is a great brain exercise.

Brain Resonance

All of your five senses are dependent on messages in the form of vibrations reaching your brain. But you may have one more sense of which you are less aware. You have felt this sense if you have ever had your mood affected by someone else. Perhaps you were in a persistently glum mood, and suddenly a cheerful person lifted you out of your cloud. Or maybe the opposite happened, and someone’s internal anger contributed to your own growing sense of irritation.

This phenomenon stems from the brain’s tendency to resonate in accordance with other brains. You know already that your brain produces vibrations called brain waves. This cannot be directly observed, but I believe that these brain waves literally interact with other brains as we interact with people. Thus, we have an effect on others, and they have an effect on us before we have even said a word. And of course, our eventual words and actions in the world will also follow the dictates of these waves.

To determine your information nutrition level, Ilchi Lee suggest in his new book Brain Wave Vibration, you ask yourself three basic questions:

1. Is the information I am receiving empowering to me?

No piece of information is worth having if it weakens you or detracts from your ability to realize your full potential. Throughout their lives, many people receive disempowering information, messages that tell them “You are not good enough,” “You are not pretty enough,” “You are not smart enough,” and so forth. You must learn to view these beliefs as tragic pieces of misinformation that have given rise to disastrous results in the world. You must be willing to reject this kind of information, because if you believe any of it, even a smidgen of it, you have unconsciously allowed a destructive virus into your brain.

The worst is when you give yourself this informatioin. Your brain will take you very seriously if you tell yourself that you are not good enough or that you are lacking in any way. It will live up to what you tell it you can do, so always give it clear and positive information about yourself. You can acknowledge that you have shortcomings to work on, but you should not think that your faults are a permanent part of who you are. When doing Brain Wave Vibration, imagine that you are shaking all of this kind of limiting information out of your brain.

The two other questions will be featured in next posts.

The history of humanity has been a constant progression toward the limits of rational thought. Through our ability to judge, analyze, and plan, we have gone a long way toward controlling the vagaries of human existence. In some ways we have tamed the uncontrollable, mysterious aspects of life on this planet. In doing so, however, we have introduced imbalance, both in our own personal lives and on the planet. The effect of imbalance on the Earth is becoming obvious, and the effects on our health are becoming clear as well.

Modern life essentially puts us each at war with our own brain stem, says Ilchi Lee in his new book Brain Wave Vibration, as we suppress the prerational, subconscious side of ourselves in favor of rationalistic obsession. Our educational system currently favors those whose gifts are in analytic, left-brain activitites, like reading and mathematics. Psychologists acknowlege that there are many forms of intelligence, including interpersonal, emotional, and creative intelligence, but these are not the talents that usually earn the accolades. We do not educate the whole brain; rather, we develop and reward the prefrontal cortex nearly to the point of excluding the rest. The same continues throughout life as congnitive-based skills usually earn greater money and status within society.

Of course, Ilchi Lee adds, the other parts of the brain keep working for us, but we do not educate ourselves to use them well. The thinking mind has become so central to our lives that it often carries us away from ourselves into patterns of negativity. Constantly judgin everything that comes our way, we send our bodies into a state of continual alarm and lack of equilibrium.

Many recent studies have shown the beneficial effects of meditation, Ilchi Lee says, which is essentially the practice of slowing, or even stopping, the thinking mind. The physical benefits occur because meditation gives our brain a much-needed rest from the constant mental chatter that keeps us stressed. Thinking is not necessarily bad, but at times we need to find ways to move beyond thinking, for our own health and for the health of others.

Miracles are really not so extraordinary. Actually, just the fact that all your bodily functions keep going as they do is a miracle in its own right. Ilchi Lee says “When we say something is miraculous, to me it only means that someone has managed to tap into a power that was already within his or her brain, waiting to be discovered.”

One of Ilchi Lee’s students had sustained an injury to her tailbone that caused her constant pain. She went to many doctors, but they told her the problem could not be fixed. She came to a Dahn Yoga center in Arizona to practice Brain Wave Vibration, hoping she could find some relief. She was a doctor herself, a dentist, so she remained skeptical that she would ever find permanent relief. At best, she thought, she could lessen the pain to some degree. To her surprise, her pain completely disappeared after only three months of practice.

Ilchi Lee is not telling you this story so you can be impressed with Brain Wave Vibraion; it is a very simple activity that requires little effort. Rather, he is telling you this story so you can be impressed with the marvel of the human body. He believes this woman was able to heal because the subconscious part of her brain, the brain stem, already knew what it needed to do to create wholeness in her body; she just needed to get out of its way, which is what Brain Wave Vibration allows. The body contains a wonderful intelligence that surpasses our current understanding of the human body. This is the intelligence of the brain stem, a part of the brain that orchestrates things so complex that our thinking brain can only begin to grasp them.

You are a being designed to perceive vibration. All of your senses are made to collect different kinds of information from the world around you through vibration. When you look at something, your eyes are receiving and processing the waves of light as they appear in the form of shape and color. When you hear, your ears funnel in the vibraions of sound, which your brain translates into meaningful interpretations of reality. When certain oscillations and combinations of sound are especially pleasing, you call it music; when the sound of words are moving, you call it poetry. When you touch something, you perceive the dance of molecules beneath your fingertips - some moving quick and hot, others slow and cold. When you run your fingers over the surface of an object, vibrations inform the peripheral nerves just below the surface of the skin, helping you make judgments about shape, size and texture. Even when you smell and taste, the experience is dependent on the vibratory interplay of molecules interacting with your own molecular makeup.

Brain Wave Vibration book is written by Ilchi Lee, and you can practice it in Dahn Yoga centers.

What we often do not realize, however, says Ilchi Lee, the creator of Brain Wave Vibration training, is that we are vibration-producing creatures as well. Of course we can sing and talk with our voices, which are ways of making sound vibrations. But there is another kind of vibration that cannot be so easily perceived with the five senses. It is an especially powerful form of vibration called thought. While we may not often perceive thought as being real in the same way that an object is real, it is in fact the most real and powerful thing in the universe.

Every achievement of humankind - from the prehistoric paintings on cave walls to rockets blasting into outer space - all began with a thought conceived in someone’s brain. We communicate these thoughts to the world by means of vibraion - through the words we speak, the ways we touch, and the actions we create. When these thoughts find accord with the thoughts of others, truly amazing things happen and even entire planets can be transformed - sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse.

There is one key player in all this vibratory communication. It is what is responsible for both receiving and producing the vibrations that shape the quality and content of our lives. It is the human brain.

Fortunately, says Ilchi Lee on his new book Brain Wave Vibration, people can learn to control their brain wave states for the improvement of mental and physical health. Eugene Peniston and Paul Kulkosky have shown that biofeedback, a method by which subjects are trained to control various biological functions, can be used to help people with alcoholism overcome their addiction. Through biofeedback, according to Ilchi Lee, these people were able to increase lower frequency alpha and theta brain waves, which are associated wtih a peaceful, meditative state of mind, while controlling higher frequency beta waves. This ability resulted in less depression and fewer cravings for alcohol among the subjects.

One of Ilchi Lee’s students, in fact, is a researcher in the area of biofeedback, specializing in measuring brain activity through EEF machines. He was very skeptical about the claimed benefits of Brain Wave Vibration created by Ilchi Lee, like many other scientists might be. But he gave it a try anyway because he was suffering from a number of ailments and wanted to find a quick stress-relief exercise that could fit his schedule. After a few weeks of practice, his focus improved, his headaches disappeared, and his shoulder pain subsided. He is now thoroughly convinced that brain waves can be influenced through movement of the body.

From Brain Wave Vibration by Ilchi Lee

A human being is a part of the whole, called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts, and feelings as something separated from the rest — a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

- Albert Einstein