Ilchi Lee

Last time I wrote about a quote on life from Ilchi Lee. What shall we use the life given to me for? What will we have to use the energy we have for? They are questions which we should ask ourselves all the time. What is life? What is energy?

Like Ilchi Lee said, if we think we own the life we have then that’s where all selfishness and victim consciousness begin. After all, I came into existence not because I asked for. In some way I don’t know, I find myself living on this earth. I didn’t pay a tax for the opportunity of living here. I did not buy my life paying money. My parents did not let me know why I live and what the purpose of my life is.

We didn’t earn the life, but we are given the life for free. We don’t own the life we have, but life lives through me. Life demonstrates its joyfulness, happiness and love through me. Again, this line “The selfishness and obsessions within us begin with the thought that this life is mine,” really touches my heart.

My body is not me, but mine. My emotions are not me but mine.

What do you think of life? What your view of life? Ilchi Lee says on life that if you think the life given to you is yours, you are greatly deluded. We have not made a contract to get this life. We don’t have the life because we asked the creator for. We don’t know when and where this life will leave me. Death doesn’t give us an advance notice. All we can know is that this life given to us is available for our use. Our lives are part of the great life of the cosmos. The idea that “the life given to me is not mine” takes a dramatic shift on our view of the world and life. And, in turn, the idea will make a significant change in our life, once we apply it to our lives.

Ilchi Lee says “The selfishness and obsessions within us begin with the thought that this life is mine.” I am greatly moved by this line. Life belongs to no one. The life is given to a human being for a short time, only to return to its source. The life given to us does not belong to us.

Direct excerpts of Ilchi Lee from his book Brain Wave Vibraion:

If the color and shape of objects can have so much influence on us, imagine how much influence we can have on each other. I am sure you have experienced that when someone is in a bad mood, that mood tends to rub off on you. By the same token, someone’s smile can completely turn your day around. Imagine what a difference we could make if we really tried to put this to full use. Enough people producing positive brain waves could change the world, don’t you think?

A change in collective human consciousness essentially requires an invisible and inaudible communication between brains. As you learn to orient your brain toward positive information, the whole of humanity will be lifted up as well. That may seem overwhelming at first, but it requires only that you first change your own brain to work in a way that is most healthy for your own body and the Earth.

According to Ilchi Lee, he views one’s brain stem as a marvelous antenna that can send and receive messages to and from the world around you. This medium of communication is called Chun-ji-ki-un, or cosmic energy. Because you are connected to all other living beings through this cosmic energy, you are an integral player in creating a better, more sustainable way of life on this planet.

Ilchi Lee emphasizes the importance of the brain. Take a look at the Ilchi Lee on brain stem article. Truly, Brain Wave Vibration training is about freedom. Our life should already be free and we should be free as a bird. Every morning, I do Brain Wave Vibration training for about 20 minutes. Whenever I feel I am distracted by lots of thoughts, I begin to shake my head left and right.

I have never seen my brain, not to mention the brain stem, which I heard is far inside of my brain, but I think I can feel something from inside of my brain, maybe brain stem. I know that the brain stem is the source of our life. Our fundamental life function is controlled by the brain stem. We don’t have to breathe deliberately. We don’t have to make an effort to have the hearts beat. They work by themselves, thanks to the brain stem.

What if we can breathe only when we do it deliberately? What if we can digest our meal only by conscious concentration? What if we forgot to keep our heart beating for 10 minutes? It will be a disaster.

Eighty five percent of Modern people suffer from stress-related illnesses. It is a tragedy in today’s era. We should really know how important it is to go back to our innate healing ability in the primitive brain area.

Ilchi Lee says in his book Brain Wave Vibration:

In many ways, our senses fool us into thinking that various people and objects in the world are separate from each other. Now physics tells us that there are no distinct boundaries between anything or anyone.

In a very practical way, you can see how vibrations can influence us. You have certainly experienced walking into a room that feels heavy and negative. Sometimes this may be because the people in the room have just been arguing or discussing a somber topic. Even if they have stopped talking, or even if they have left the room, you can still feel it. This is the effect of those people’s brain waves on the surrounding atmosphere.

Even inanimate objects can carry vibrations that influence us. Sometimes a room feels negative, not because of some human event but because of the vibration inherent in the objects in the room. You could say that interior decorators and artists are masters of vibration, manipulating the way colors and shapes interact
to affect your brain.

The experience of beauty is the experience of vibrations that resonate with you in a way that opens you up to the world around you. If you have ever experienced the feeling of awe, you have experienced the feeling of expansion that can come through beauty. When this happens, your brain is recognizing the high-level vibrations it craves. This sense of beauty can come in the form of beautiful objects, people, or actions. And the really wonderful truth is this: as you expand your brain’s ability, more and more of the world’s beauty will become apparent to you, until finally the whole beautiful picture of reality is revealed to you.

As Ilchi Lee sees it, the human life span has three phases. First we have a growth phase that usually is experienced during childhood, adolescence, and our early twenties. Of course we continue to grow throughout our lives, but this is a particularly intense period of investigation and experimentation during which we try to get to know ourselves and the world.

In our late twenties and thirties, we move into what Ilchi Lee calls the “success phase,” during which we try to create something tangible with our lives in the physical world, perhaps through career or the development of our finances. The problem is that most people seem to get stuck in this success phase, thinking it is the most important aspect of life. This is a little like a caterpillar thinking he can do no more with his life than spend it eating leaves all day.

In reality, the caterpillar has the ability to transform into a beautiful butterfly, just as you can transform far beyond success in the physical world. Not realizing this, many people choose material success only to feel unfulfilled when it finally arrives.

From Ilchi Lee’s new book Brain Wave Vibration

Fortunately, healing also happens at the cellular level. Your body has an amazing ability to heal and grow itself, which is what Brain Wave Vibration is all about. Through it, you can learn to communicate positive, healing energy to your body.

Ilchi Lee says Brain Wave Vibration training helps synchronize your brain waves with the natural healing power contained within every cell of your body. You can start by making sure that the content of your thoughts is positive. Many studies have shown the important role of emotions and attitude in determining long-term health. Positive thinking patterns are clearly a precursor to good health. In addtion, they help facilitate proper flow of ki through the body, leading to a vital, fully developed sense of health and well-being. Quantum physics has taught us that everything in the universe is ultimately energy, and Ilchi Lee stongly believes that Brain Wave Vibration will empower you to use your brain stem to emanate positive, supportive energy throughout your body and into your life.

Ilchi Lee says energy is the language spoken by your body. You probably already know that your brain sends bioelectric signals to your organs and muscles through the nerve pathways in your body. But did you ever consider how your brain talks to your cells?

Not long ago, biologists believed that the cell membrane was relatively inconsequential, that it simply functioned as a containment system to absorb chemical substances as needed. More recently, however, says Ilchi Lee, biologists have looked more carefully at how the cell membrance responds to its surrounding environment. Bruce Lipton, a biologist studying how the cell membrane works, claims that the cell interprets its environment not solely based on chemical information but also on energetic information.

New discoveries about the cell membrane have led Lipton and other scientists to reconsider the ancient Asian concept of ki, which was once rejected as irratioinal. As it turns out, the energy emitted by your brain, your brain waves, Ilchi Lee says, may be crucial to the overall health of your cells.

Cellular health is critically important for your physical health because cells are the building blocks of your body. If your cells are not healthy, your body is like a building made of weak, disintegrated bricks. Remember that all diseases begin at the cellular level. All cancers, for example, begin with one mutated cell. When organs malfunction, this also begins at the cellular level. Ilchi Lee adds, the integrity of the cells that make up the artery walls plays a big role in cardiovascular disease.

Some people, Ilchi Lee says in his book Brain Wave Vibration, perhaps through natural personality traits or through the example of very positive parents or role models, have already learned to control their brain waves, at least to a certain degree. They can instantly redirect their minds in a positive direction, no matter how dreadful the situation. But most of us do not possess a very high degree of control over our brain waves, and thus we need some tool, like Brain Wave Vibraion, to help us shake off the burdens of life.

Imagine if this same young father had had a simple method to help him through his day. As Ilchi Lee mentioned, imagine if he had taken a few moments during the day to feel the rhythms of his body, like you did earlier in this book. With each frustration of the day, he could stop for a few moments to return to a neutral place rather than simply building up a stockpile of stress and tension that he carries home with him at night.

Ilchi Lee says he is sure it is not difficult to see how the quality of your brain waves affect the quality of your life. If you can get hold of your brain waves, you can also overcome many obstacles in your life. Ilchi Lee wrote the book to teach you that you have more control over your brain waves than you might think, and Brain Wave Vibration is a simple way you can exercise that control.

From Brain Wave Vibration by Ilchi Lee

If you brain waves can have such a dramatic effect on other people, Ilchi Lee says, imagine what kind of effect your brain has on your body! Your brain is in constant communication with your body’s various organs and processes. Although we do not precisely know the role of brain waves in this process, it stands to reason that healthy brain waves can help produce a healthy body.

In fact, medical science is increasingly willing to acknowledge the connection between mind and body. it is clear that our attitudes and emotions can affect our overall health. But how are our body and mind connected?

Ilchi Lee says in his book Brain Wave Vibration, he believes that all the systems of the body are connected through a system of energy channels. Cultures all over the world have sensed that such an element exists and have given it many names. The Pacific Islanders call it mana; Australian Aborigines call it joja; Indian Hindus call it prana. Native Americans have many different names for it: maxpe (Crow), waken (Dakota). In Asian cultures, it is known as chi, qu, or ki.

Ilchi Lee’s new book Brain Wave Vibration.

From Brain Wave Vibration by Ilchi Lee

The time has come to mix the wisdom of East and West to really get the most out of life. Scientists have set the human life span at 120 years, yet few of us live even two-thirds of that in good health. The pharmaceuticals and medical technology we have are amazing, but to live fully we must rediscover some of the old wisdom that connects us more intimately with our own bodies. Western medicine has many gifts to offer, but the old systems, based on sometimes on hundreds of years of human experience, should not be dismissed out of hand.

When thinking about the definition of health, Ilchi Lee suggests, we should think about more than just the mechanical functionality of our bodies. We should consider the quality of our actual being and the content of our moment-by-moment experience. Our technological society has, in many ways, given us a more comfortable existence, but it has also separated us from ourselves. The key is to evaluate the invisible energetic element that cannot be so easily assessed by scientific investigation, but that has been understood intuitively by many generations of people across cultures.

The difference between Mr. Min and most people his age is not the superiority of his biological functions but the energetic spirit with which he lived. Ilchi Lee says, “Essentially, he learned to manage his energy effectively.”

Our lifestyle today could be likened to a yo-yo that is continuously on the move, up and down, over and over again. If you have played with a yo-yo much, you know that after a certain amount of time the string becomes kinked and the yo-yo no longer runs smoothly. Every once in a while, you have to stop and let the string unwind. Think of Brain Wave Vibration as a way for you to stop the constant movement of your mind to let it untwist and become whole again.

At times, it may indeed appear to you as though the world is spiraling downward. And in fact, it is not certain that we will ultimately make the right choices to ensure our collective survival. However, there is a tremendous amount of hope to be had. Humanity is awakening.

I know you are not one of the sleepwalkers. You are waking up, and you can see the vibrant beauty of the world around you, a world with which you are one, a world that you can also help create. But you must not sit in bed wondering what to do with your day. Get up and start creating your world. Your life is like one quickly passing day. You must get up and make the most of everything it offers. Ilchi Lee who created Brain Wave Vibration answers questions you might have. You can use Ask Ilchi Lee at his website.

Many teachers and visionaries are coming forward to help nudge us out of our sleepy state of being. I hope you can accept me among these as your teacher, for that is why I bring this book to you. I wish to stand among them as a teacher who, along with your own experience, guides you toward the wisdom you already possess inside.