Brain Expansion-Contraction Exercise Instructions
Sitting in a comfortable position, raise your hands to chest level, with your palms facing each other. Begin hand Ji-gam training exercise by pushing your hands together and then pulling them apart.
Now move your hands as you breathe in and breathe out.
During Yoga Exercises picture your lungs as you continue this exercise. Let your lungs inflate as you breathe in and deflate as you breathe out, while your hands move outward and inward, Ilchi Lee instructs that feel the fresh air enter your lungs as you inhale and the spent energy and gases flow outward as you exhale.
For Your Body
The combination of breathing techniques and deep stretching movements evenly work every muscle and joint in your body to Increase flixibility and balance, improve respiration, energy and vitality, improve bone desity and muscle tome. Help maintain a balanced metablism, promote cardio and circulatory health. Help manage pain in the body, increase circulation to all organs of the body.
Listen To Vour Conscience And Become Divine
The fourth by Prof. Ilchi Lee is to listen to vour conscience. Although social definitions of right and wrong may change with evolving culture and ideas, our devotion to truth is universal and immutable. Conscience is an expression of our perfection, the divinity within. Because of our conscience, we know that we are wrong when we have done wrong and we seek to right the situation. We instinctively seek to return to a state of balance when we have lost it. Without a conscience, health of body and mind, intellect, and social ability are just tools that have lost their original purpose. Even worse, without a conscience, these tools can be used to kill, rather than to heal as was intended. Conscience is an inner drive toward Truth and an essential desire for completion based on our acknowledgement of the divinity within.
The fifth is to become divine. Divimtv in lite does not refer to some type of super-human ability to see and hear things that normal humans cannot. The spirit is information. Spirit is communicated through energy vibrations. When our brain waves are allowed access to the energy vibrations of the spirit, we are said to be “inspired.” Since all things in the universe are filled with spiritual energy, strictly speaking, every existence is already divine. A person’s level of divinity, therefore, depends on the level of his or her spiritual information. To be divine is to possess a high quality of information.
Although in Dahn Yoga our brain should open to all sorts of information, spirit, messages, and ideas, we have the option to choose which ones to accept or reject depending upon our taste and habits. At the most basic level, it is a matter of the strength of your desire. In a bookstore filled with countless types of books, your choice directly depends on your desire. A divine person is someone who has a strong desire to benefit all of humankind, gathering and generating productive information to that end. Brain Respiration is an educational system of experiential training for the development of New Humans.
BR Tapping
BR Tapping is designed to open up the acupuncture points (the 365 energy points) that are distributed throughout the body. With concentrated light tapping, every cell in your body will come alive, and you will feel the refreshing tingle of breathing through the skin. Furthermore, the movements of BR Tapping are along the meridians (energy pathways). This is the same direction as the flow of Ki life energy, which is stimulated by tapping.
BR Topping Instructions By Ilchi Lee
Form your fingers into stiff claws and lightly tap all around your head with your fingertips.
Stretch out your left arm with your palm facing up. Take your right hand and starting from the left shoulder, rhythmically tap downward with your palm all the way to your left hand.
Then turn your left hand over and with your right hand, tap your way back up to the left shoulder again.
DahnHak Basics By Prof. Ilchi Lee
Brain Respiration Calisthenics
Brain Respiration Calisthenics are a series of carefully chosen movements designed to relax the body and mind in DahnHak by releasing tension in muscles and joints. The pulling and stretching motion of these exercises stimulates the meridian system of the body and facilitates the free flow of energy throughout the body.
With careful and concentrated breath work, you can assist in a dynamic exchange of energy. When exhaling, imagine that you are releasing all accumulated stagnant energy in your body, and when inhaling, imagine that you are breathing in fresh clean cosmic energy. This conscious concentration on the exchange ot energy is what sets Brain Respiration Calisthenics apart from other stretching exercises.
In order to Doctor Ilchi Lee maximize the benefits of Brain Respiration Calisthenics, breathe in before the start of a movement, and pause and hold your breath during the movement itself. Then, breathe out as you release the movement and return to at-ease position. Imagine that you are having a conversation with the part of the body that is being worked on, concentrating fully on the sensation of the moment. Develop a deliberate rhythm and pace for your movements and breathing.
Although there are three hundred different movements in Brain Respiration Calisthenics, we can divide the movements into six basic categories. It is best to choose one exercise from each category and learn it well, rather than to just choose as many exercises as possible.
Intestinal Exercise Instructions
You can do this exercise standing up or lying down. When standing up, assume the same position as the Dahn-jon Clapping position (knees slightly bent, toes turned slightly inward). As Ilchi Lee instructs when lying down, lie on your back with your legs shoulder width apart. Form a triangle by touching your thumbs and forefingers together, and place them lightly on the lower Dahn-jon.
When pulling in, pull as if the front wall of your abdomen is to touch your back. Tighten your rectal muscles at the same time.
Then, as if breathing into a balloon, push your lower abdomen out slightly, until you feel outward pressure in your lower Dahn-jon area.
Start with fifty at one time, and work your way up to three hundred as you advance.
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