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Whose responsibility is it to educate our children about sexuality? I hope you share my sense of absurdity about asking this question. I consider the sexual education of children to be one of the most critical tasks of parenting. Given the power of sexual energy, why would we give away the authority to teach our children about sexuality?

Many couples cannot communicate honestly about sex, so it is not surprising that this topic is difficult to communicate to children. For children and adults alike, the first step to being comfortable with discussions about sexuality is being comfortable with our bodies.

Ilchi Lee advice that children should be comfortable with every aspect of their bodies from as early an age as possible. Once they are old enough to be curious about human anatomy, we should teach them the names and functions of all our organs.

The health tools we described in Chapter 5 have the added benefit of helping us gain this familiarity. Acupressure and mox-ibustion allow us to be intimate with ourselves and others we trust in a safe, healing environment. Such practice can easily lead to natural, comfortable discussions about sexual anatomy or sexual energy. When we address sexuality from a healing perspective, our children will be more likely to think of sex in terms of love, trust, and mutual respect.

In a similar way, concentrated sexual energy can be used to heighten your overall vitality and passion for life. It can power the creation of art, writing, music, or even social or political endeavors. When sexual energy flows naturally, we experience the greatest harmony in our human relationships.

Ilchi Lee hope that these HT guidelines and exercises will inspire you to create a vital, positive place for sexuality in your life, as is your right.

HAVE YOU EVER SHARED A CONVERSATION with your children about sex? For many parents, when children reach a certain age it becomes difficult to discuss sexual issues with them.

Sometimes during seminars, I ask the parents in the audience if they have discussed sex with their children. It they say no, I ask “So, if you do not have a conversation about sex with your child, would you want your next-door neighbor to do it for you?” This usually gets their attention and elicits chuckles while highlighting the absurd paradox that characterizes much of our experience of sex education.

Prof Ilchi Lee writes that I have devoted a great deal of my life to sharing energy sensitivity training methods, and have developed mind-body connection programs that are intended to heighten our powers ot perception and enrich and broaden our experience of lite on earth. Sex is called Seong in Korean. The character Seong combines two characters: one means “mind,” and the other means “to be born” or “to come into being.” Thus, sex means “the place where the mind comes into being.” Here “mind” refers to the Universal Mind, the fundamental source of all creation. This interpretation reflects that sexual energy is regarded as an important and powerful force in our lives.

There is a difference between sexual energy and the life-energy that circulates through Su-seung-hwa-gang (see Chapter 3). Sexual energy is a special form of this life-energy. When sexual energy in the lower abdomen area (Dahn-jon) is activated, it doesn’t stay there quietly, but moves. It has a tendency to “wander” around the body if not managed well, and can “rise” to the head, manifesting in preoccupations or dreams.

We can use Dahn-jon breathing (see Chapter 4) to concentrate and transform our sexual energy. Through diligent and consistent practice of Dahn-jon breathing, Su-seung-hwa-gang circulation improves and Dahn-jon energy increases. A strong Dahn-jon acts as a magnet for scattered sexual energy. The weaker the Dahn-jon, the more vulnerable one is to being controlled by sexual desires. It is a good idea to build basic physical strength, get balanced, and practice Dahn-jon breathing to accumulate and transform your sexual energy.

Furthermore, depending on your attention and choice, you may use this energy to enhance and deepen your sexual experience. Energy can be focused on any of your three mam energy-centers or Dahn-jons, upper (forehead), middle (chest), and lower (abdomen) helping you to embrace the spiritual, emotional, and physical aspects of sexuality.

There is a close correlation between depth of respiration and health. Our breathing is deeper when we are younger and becomes shallower with age. We observe that newborn children breathe with their abdomen, their lower belly rising and falling. The center of breathing gradually rises as children grow older. This change proceeds from what is called “abdominal breathing” to “chest breathing,” and then to “shoulder breath-ing.”

If you watch people of advanced age, or patients who are seriously ill, you will see that their shoulders rise and fall as they breathe. This indicates how shallow their respiration has become. In Korean, the shallowest respiration is called Mok-sum, or “throat breathing.” When respiration becomes shal­lower than this, a person dies. His or her Mok-sum, or “throat breathing,” is cut off.

In Ilchi Lee point of view breath-work is a simple discipline that allows us to train our­selves to breathe in a certain way, essentially to keep our breath­ing naturally deep. As a basic principle, respiration should be deep, light, and natural. Breathing that is natural, and yet deep and light, is healthy. It may seem that breathing both deeply and lightly is contradictory}’. We associate deepness with heavi­ness, and connect lightness with shallowness. This principle of deepness and lightness might seem at odds with itself. How is such breathing possible?

According to Ilchi Lee research inhaling takes energy, while exhaling does not require much energy at all. Try breathing a few times and you will see what I mean. A breath taken is exhaled naturally. On account of this, as long as we are strong enough, we try to breathe in again because of our attachment to life. This explains why in most cases life ends with an inhalation.

It feels stuffy to stop in the middle of inhalation. This means that for many people, dying is not a very pleasant experience. Dying on an inhaled breath means dying in struggle and often pain. In contrast, when people are absolutely satisfied with what they have done through their lives, when they are totally sure of the continuity of their existence, then I think they will be more likely to exhale. Their experience of death will be that much more pleasant. So please remember the proper way of breathing, even at the moment of death—just in case.

Breath-work is really very easy; so we do not need to “over-think” it. Simply watching and focusing on our respiration, fol­lowing along with its natural rhythms, causes our breathing to deepen automatically. Very few people, however, take the time to do this. Breathing has become so automatic that some peo­ple go through their entire lives and never use the mechanism of breathing intentionally—that is, in a certain way, on purpose, at least once a day.

Consider the following question for a moment. Does life begin by breathing in or out? We cannot really remember this our­selves, but witnessing childbirth allows us to confirm that life begins with exhalation. We let out a great cry when we are born, “Waaa!” This is the beginning of an exhalation. By emptying its lungs of the small breath it holds, the baby leaves room for air to enter, becoming connected with nature’s great current of life. In the Korean language, the word, Ho-heup (which means respiration or breathing) has both physiological and philosoph­ical significance. Ho means breathing out, and Heup means breathing in. We need to pay attention to the fact that this com­pound word is Ho-heup, not Heup-ho. This signifies that breathing out comes first, not breathing in.

Life begins by emptying oneself. The rhythm of life starts when we have emptied ourselves and then allow that empty place to be filled. When I let go of something small (the small breath I hold on to), I gain something great (the atmosphere of nature). This understanding, also applied to our “small think­ing,” can lead to enlightenment.

Now, let us examine death. Does life end with an inhalation or an exhalation? If you have witnessed a death, you may have noticed that many people stop breathing after inhaling one last time. Although this could be explained in various ways, we might simply say that the body has an instinctive mechanism by which it tries to maintain life as long as it has even a little strength left.

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As long as your life’s goal is the perfection of the soul, every moment and every situation is an opportunity for learning and growth. However, you may choose to consciously facilitate the process of the soul’s perfection by pursuing these three studies: study of principle, study of practice, and study of living.

Study of principle signifies the realization of the truth; study of practice means internalizing the truth in your body; and study of living refers to actualizing the truth in everyday living. Through these studies, the soul will mature and eventually reach perfection. These studies are concrete and accurate and focus on the most important point. The preconditions most needed to successfully engage in these studies are not innate intelligence, money, or any special abilities, but honesty, diligence, and responsibility. No one can complete these studies for you. Read more about Prof Ilchi Lee.

The most fundamental of them is the study of principle. It is not a study that can be accomplished by reading books. The essence of this study is to realize the reality of the self, to know that you are the cosmic energy and the cosmic mind, to acknowledge perfect knowledge within. This is akin to knowing where the finish line is before starting a hundred-meter dash. To have a successful run, you have to know in which direction the finish line lies and to not lose that knowledge along the way. It is not a matter of running in general, but of running toward a specific goal.

Although the brain is open to all sorts of information, spirits, messages, and ideas, we have the option to choose which ones to accept or reject depending upon our taste and habits. At the basic level, it is a matter of the strength of your desire. In a bookstore full of many types of books, which one you choose is directly dependent on the strength and level of your desire for a certain subject. A divine person is thus someone who has a strong desire to benefit all of humankind, gathering and generating information productive towards that end. That’s the kind of “book” such a person would choose.

Prof Ilchi Lee said all of the above is easier said than done. Although each of the five conditions is important individually, the most important part is strong desire and will to benefit the world, a desire that becomes lifelong. I call such a goal a vision. Only when used in accordance with such a vision can the New Human’s tools and conditions fulfill their potential. By achieving your chosen goal through the use of these tools and conditions, you can realize and complete yourself. I call this the completion and perfection of the soul.

Soul is the seed of divinity within. The reason for our bodily manifestation on Earth is not to attain enlightenment (already given us), but to perfect the soul and help it blossom into a flower of divinity. Realization of enlightenment signifies the end of lost wandering and an entering of the correct path. This is why you will sometimes feel tired, frustrated, and even tempted to give up after enlightenment.

The journey is concluded only when the soul has been perfected by the completion of its original mission. Vision acts as the lighthouse that shows the path, so that we won’t lose the way again. All the effort to actualize enlightenment in everyday living by reforming ingrained habits and nurturing good character goes to perfect the soul. This is the life of a New Human. This should be life of a Dahnhak practitioner.

The word information is very familiar. It has become more familiar ever since computers became such a large part of our lives. Although the first image that comes to mind now when someone says “information” is the computer, when I was a child, information was something that was passed along in secret from a spy to an agent in hushed whispers or in notes wrapped inside newspapers.

Today information is a part of everyday life, and our lives have been organized around it. The meaning of information has expanded to include not only writing and symbols, but music and pictures. Everything has been “datafied” and “informationalized.” Living in this sea of information, have you ever asked yourself what information is and how it exists?

The definition of information in Ilchi Lee point of view has shifted throughout the ages as technology has advanced. In ancient Mesopotamia, information was symbols on pressed clay; in Egypt, information was figures drawn on papyrus paper; in China, information was the irregular patterns on the back of a turtle’s shell. After the invention of the printing press, information was printed writing in books. Now, with the widespread use of computers, information is no longer limited to the realm of paper, pencil, or pen.

Prof. Ilchi Lee advice that to actualize your divinity through your vision may be a matter of choice, but it also can be a matter of situation, because a vision is created not for self-satisfaction but for the purpose of sharing your enlightenment with others. Say a flower recognized itself as a flower and bloomed forth in all its glory; however, if this flower did not have anyone who could appreciate its beauty and with whom it could share its fragrance, then what good would this flower be in such a place? We are fortunate. We are blessed with a situation in which we can fully use our abilities to heal society and Earth.

To know that physical life is suffering, to know that your body is not all of you, and to know that divinity exists within— these are insights that will set you free to pursue the vision through which your divinity can flower. This is perfect enlightenment and a complete life. This is salvation. This is a blessing.

Today information is a part of everyday life, and our lives have been organized around it. The meaning of information has expanded to include not only writing and symbols, but music and pictures. Everything has been “datafied” and “informationalized.” Living in this sea of information, have you ever asked yourself what information is and how it exists?