Dahn Yoga MA Member’s blog

There are a number of different hand-coordination exercises that can challenge your brain and help you grow new brain connections. In fact, when children play hand-clapping games, they are doing a lot to help develop their own brains. There is no reason that this sort of self-development play should take place only in a schoolyard, though. Practicing and mastering a variety of hand-coordination games will help keep you in the habit of growing new connections for brain flexibility.

Try this one, which is based on the old Rock, Paper, Scissors game. First, practice making the three motions with both hands until you can do it with either hand very quickly and easily. Then, try doing it with both hands together so that one hand is making the symbol that cancels the other. For example, when the right hand is making the rock symbol, the left is making paper. Continue practicing Dahn until you can do this very quickly and flu idly.

Even more important than the neo-cortex and cerebral limbic system combined is the brain stem. This term is used to refer to several sub-cortical structures that include the medulla, inebriate, talents, and the hypothalamus. Located where the spinal cord meets the brain, the medulla is an approximately cylindrical structure about one inch long, which is responsible for regulation of respiration and blood pressure. Moving up the medulla, it swells into a structure called the pans.

The pans is responsible for communication between the neo-cortex and the cerebellum, which regulates balance and movement. The thalamus, a neurological relay station, sends sensory input to the neo-cortex. The hypo-thalainus controls food intake, sexual activity, endocrine levels, water retention, and the autonomic nervous system. In short, the brain stem is in charge of the autonomic nervous system that is responsible for basic life functions of the body, including digestion, respiration, and circulation. It is the least known and yet most important part of our brain.

Once delivered from the ravages of continuous stress, practitioners are ready for the next step, Brain Versatility. This step takes advantage of the fact that the brain possesses a remarkable ability, called neuro-plasticity, to restructure and reorganize itself. At one time it was thought that the adult brain is more or less hardwired, but now it’s clear that people possess the ability to create new brain connections until the end of the abdomen warm, and energy circulates continuously throughout the body.

The continuous stress that people experience is rooted in sensory input that over-stimulates the sym-pathetic response. When we meditate or practice deep breathing, we essentially turn off the brain for a while, which delivers it for a moment from the sensory burnout that has become a typical part of our lives. Multiple studies have confirmed the effectiveness of meditation. In actual fact, the brain is not turned off during meditation, but its lobes associated with the five senses are quieted and the regions associated with happiness and well-being are activated.

I saw this article: Ilchi Lee on a Mulberry tree and a Pine tree. This is about how important making a choice and concentrating what you have chosen.

So far, I have hesitated to make a choice especially when the choice I have had to make was a decisive one. What was worse was, after I made the choice somehow, I thought about the other possibility I could have chosen. I was not able to focus fully. I could not make the full benefit from the choice I made. Ilchi Lee’s message on a mulberry tree and a pine tree is very impressive to me. Since I was aware that I should build up more conviction to myself, I felt some impression in my brain with this post.

Where it is a mulberry tree or a pine tree, focus on what you have chosen. Don’t think about a mulberry tree in a pine forest. Thinking about a mulberry tree while standing in fron of a pine tree would be a waste of time. A mulberry tree is great and a pine tree is wonderful. They are all trees in different names.

Once you made a choice, be confident and bold about it and move forward! That’s what I learned from my Dahn Yoga instructor.

More important than the neo-cortex and cerebral limbic system combined is the brain stem. This term is used to refer to several sub-cortical structures that include the medulla, inebriate, talents, and the hypothalamus. Located where the spinal cord meets the brain, the medulla is an approximately cylindrical structure about one inch long, which is responsible for regulation of respiration and blood pressure. Moving up the medulla, it swells into a structure called the pans.

The pans is responsible for communication between the neo-cortex and the cerebellum, which regulates balance and movement.  In short, the brain stem is in charge of the autonomic nervous system that is responsible for basic life functions of the body, including digestion, respiration, and circulation. It is the least known and yet most important part of our brain. The thalamus, a neurological relay station, sends sensory input to the neo-cortex. The hypo-thalainus controls food intake, sexual activity, endocrine levels, water retention, and the autonomic nervous system.

Ki, the energy body, principally controls mental and emotional energy of the body through the middle Dahn-jon. For the Ki to become strong or mature, your heart must open to receive the natural wellspring of love and peace within. Strengthening of the Ki allows control of emotional energy according to your will. You will realize that your emotions and your thoughts are not you, but yours to command.

Jung-Choong: My Body is Not Me, But Mine

Jung, the physical body, is the vessel of earthly life that you have received from your parents. The physical body is sustained with breathing and eating. The lower Dahn-jon, associated with the physical body, is completed when it is filled with Jung energy-derived from food and breath. When you have reached the level of Jung-Choong (Jung fulfilled), then you have achieved optimal physical condition through the completion of the lower Dahn-jon. Increased adaptability to new surroundings and resistance to disease will result. When your Jung is “fulfilled,” then you will experience the truth of, “my body is not me, but mine.” You will be able to control your sexual energy and channel it according to your will.

Physical energy is filled

Once again, the human body can be described in terms of the physical, energy, and spiritual bodies. In traditional Korean terminology, the physical body is called Jung, the energy body is called Ki, and the spiritual body is called Shin. These three terms are collectively referred to as the Sam-Bo, which literally means the “three treasures” of the human body. Jung-Choong, Ki-Jang, and Shin-Myung correlate with the process of energy control and maturation, eventually providing a map for completion of the soul. In Brain Respiration, Jung-Choong, Ki-Jang, and Shin-Myung also represent total reintegration of the three layers of the brain.

If you continue splitting an atom to find the smallest particle of matter, you will find that a particle loses its identity and merges into the universality of the cosmos. This proves the Oneness of the universe in a very real sense. This is also true of human consciousness.

The world appears to consist of separate and distinguishable parts when our thinking is limited to the logical, rational realm of the neo-cortex. As we enter the world of the limbic system, we realize that we share the same emotional and instinctual make up, a commonality found to an even more profound degree in the brain stem through which we are all tethered to the same lite energy that animates the cosmos. And it is within the brain stem that we meet with Ynllyo, the fundamental rhythm of the cosmos, the sound of creation itself. We meet Yullyo not as an abstract intellectual exercise, but by experience, transcending past, present, and future. We go beyond the false concept of’”me” as being separate from “you” to immerse ourselves in its all-encompassing vibration. Yullyo is basically the omnipresent vibration of life.

According to the Book of Genesis. “In the beginning, was the Word.” This word refers not to human language but rather to the light, sound, and vibration that make up the reality of all life in the universe… that makes our heart beat, makes the earth revolve around the sun, and causes the stars to shine brightly. It is in the moment of meeting with Yullyo that recognition of our True Self occurs. The dark fog of our consciousness is suddenly lifted by the fresh breeze of our soul.

Meeting with Yullyo is characterized by wealth of emotion, healthy conscience, rich creativity, and bright vision for life that is large enough to include all lite on Earth. Awareness and experience of Yullyo will allow you to have a vision of a wider and more beautiful world. In Brain Respiration terminology, Yullyo unites the life energy of the brain stem, the emotional richness of the limbic system, and the creative intelligence of the neo-cortex, to allow you rebirth as a New Human.

If only we could harness the extraordinary power of the brain stem according to our will! How great would that be? Before we contemplate that question, let us examine another issue.

“Am I able to think as I wish?”
“Am I able to feel as I wish?”

We cannot consciously control our emotions and thoughts one hundred percent. Generally speaking, we do not control our minds. Our minds drag us around. If we had unlimited access to the tull power of the brain stem, with such lack of control over our own wishes and thoughts, we would be likely to hurt ourselves and others.

Through Brain Respiration, you learn to calm your emotions and direct your thoughts, in preparation for taking advantage of the amazing powers of the brain stem. When you gain conscious access to the power of the brain stem, you gain the ability to fully utilize innate healing powers at will. You awaken the full potential of your brain.

Extract From Ilchi Lee’s New Book

The principle of Shim-Ki-Hyul-Jung states that, “Where consciousness lies, energy flows, bringing blood and transforming the body.” It implies that consciousness is the true reality behind the reality of form.

Breathe in and out a few times to relax your whole body. Then focus your attention on the center of your palms. Keep concentrating and imagine that your palms are becoming hotter than the rest of your body. After a while, if you measure relative temperatures with a thermometer, the temperature on your palms will have increased compared to the rest of your body. That is because your conscious concentration sent energy to your palms, bringing increased circulation and warmth.

When you develop deeper sensitivity, you gain the ability to send energy to any part of your body. You can warm or cool a specific part if you so desire. With an amazing switch, located deep within our consciousness, we can draw on the infinite energy of the cosmos at will. With enhanced concentration comes increased ability to control this access to energy.

When you align consciousness, energy and body with one single wish, and have developed the strength and maturity to maintain and protect that single wish, you will recognize the amazing power of a wish. You will witness the wish, a thought in your consciousness, come into being in the world of form. You will have become a Creator in the fullest sense of the word.

To clarify your understanding of Shim-Ki-Hyul-Jung, imagine using a magnifying glass to gather and focus sunlight. If you move the glass around instead of leaving it in one place, then the sunlight is scattered. However, it you maintain exact focus in one place for a prolonged period of time, then the sunlight becomes strong and enough heat builds to create fire. Our thoughts are similarly powerful, capable of generating concentrated energy to express our own divine creativity.

SEDONA, Ariz., July 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — The summer of 2008 has proven to be one of the most stressful times in recent American history, with seven stressors leading national headlines:

    --  Gas Prices at all time highs
        --  From $25/barrel in 2003 to $134/barrel for August 2008

    --  Housing Market & Foreclosure Rates
        --  1 out of every 501 households

    --  Unemployment Rates
        --  National Average 5.50%

    --  Economic Recession & Inflation
        --  June 2008 Inflation Rate: 5.02%

    --  International Conflicts
        --  Iraq, Afghanistan & Africa

    --  Obama vs. McCain: Election 08 atypically polarizing

    --  Baby Boomer Health, Aging Concerns & Social Security

The health concerns posed by the rise in stressors in America translate to numerous physical and psychological health concerns. And with over 67 million Americans qualifying as obese, and an additional 75 million as overweight, solutions to reduce stress and improve health that are attainable regardless of health or fitness level are in dire need.

Researchers from Weill Medical College of Cornell University have reviewed a lesser-known form of exercise originating in South Korea, Dahn Yoga, and the quality of life improvements associated with this energy-based form of yoga, unlike traditional Indian yogas.

The results of the study, as published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, found that after three months of Dahn Yoga classes, participants in a cohort study reported fewer depressive symptoms, less anxiety, and greater self-efficacy than they reported prior to taking the classes, and scored an increase of 15.5 points on a mental health exam. Complete details published in “Prospective study of new participants in a community-based mind-body training program.”

“Mainstream forms of exercise have clearly proven health benefits, yet as Americans continue to suffer from stress-associated health challenges, more than ever we need ways to better manage integrated physical and mental well-being,” said Dr. Sung Lee, M.D., formerly of the Weill Medical College of Cornell, and currently Secretary of the International Brain Education Association. “I was much impressed by the depth and range of quality of life improvements among persons practicing Dahn Yoga, and believe this method has significant benefits for both individuals and organizations.”

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