Ilchi Lee

The spirit of giving back

Dahn Yoga for MS is an initiative inspired by Cathy Downie. Cathy suffered with MS for 13 years and is now volunteering her time to spread Brain Education System Training (BEST) principles and tools in the form of Dahn Yoga to people who are suffering from the symptoms of MS.

As a member of the Glendale Dahn Yoga Studio in Arizona, Cathy was able to alleviate her MS symptoms through various BEST programs including Dahn Yoga, Dahn Mu Do, Dahn Tai Chi, and Dahn Healer School among others.

The Dahn Yoga for MS program consists of stretching, breathing, and self acupressure techniques. The various poses open the joints and improve the overall blood and energy circulation throughout the body. The results are not only a reduction in muscle pain, but also spasticity, and fatigue while boosting energy and stress management.

Inspired by Cathy Downie
Instructed by Dawn Quaresima

Gain strength and curb the symptoms of MS with Dahn Yoga for MS, an instructional DVD that focuses on achieving balance, clarity, and energy through breathing, meditation, stretching, and acupressure stimulation. The DVD also includes firsthand testimonials from MS patients who use Dahn Yoga. Purchase it now.

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.