Ilchi Lee Day Information

Ilchi Lee has been teaching Brain Wave Vibration for years. Previously, he called it Jin-dong, which literally means “vibration exercise.” The purpose of this training was to open the energy system of the body for improved health. In those days, the focus was on the flow of energy through the body in the more conventional sense of traditional Asian medicine. Through the years, however, Ilchi Lee has come to realize the role of the brain in this process. Thus, the name for this training is now Noe-pa-jin-dong, the word noe-pa meaning “brain wave.” The brain orchestrates our bodily functions, and it is through the brain that we make the choices that determine the quality of our life experience. As Lee’s understanding has increased, Ilchi has come to see that the brain is the key to mental and physical health.

Ilchi Lee suggests that if you have had difficulty making your reality follow the wishes of your mind, it is because you have not taken the time to change the tool with which you can change your reality. In other words, you have not taken steps to train your brain.

On the surface, it is easy to convince yourself that your thinking is positive, but in reality you may have many layers of negative thought that can undermine even the most sincere effort for positive change. Brain Wave Vibration offers a way to break through the layers of self-negating thought patterns so you can shake them off and begin again. For this purpose, we will look directly at the bodily organ that produces thought–the brain–and we will attempt to tap into tis full ability through a remarkably simple and effective technique.

Brain Wave Vibration training helps reawaken your natural healing abilities by activating your brain stem. Your brain stem is critical to your health because it is the area of your brain that controls breathing, heart rate, stress response, and all the many other automatic functions of the body.

In a way, this training helps you integrate your neocortex with your brain stem. If you are under continual stress, it is likely that your brain stem cannot create equilibrium in your body. Your neocortex, which is the thinking part of your brain, is continually sending messages to your brain stem that keep you in a fight-or-flight state. For example, your thinking mind may continually generate messages like “You are not keeping up with the competition” or “You are not being a responsible parent.” Hearing the alarm generated by your brain, your sympathetic nervous system puts your body into the fight-or-flight state, which increases your heart rate, brings tension to your muscles, and generates a host of other bodily effects.

The parasympathetic nervous system is also there, waiting to return the body to the rest-and-digest state, but if you cannot learn to quiet the messages of alarm from the neocortex, you will be left in an almost constant state of stress. Eventually, the stress response creates great wear and tear on the body, and many stress-related problems come about precisely because the brain stem is never given the chance to create balance in the body.

From Brain Wave Vibation by Ilchi Lee

Posted by Phil in Dahn Yoga