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Hydrotherapy

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Collected by: Ilchi Prof

Hydrotherapy, the treatment of sickness with the bath, is one of the most useful nature treat. The hipbath is one of the most functional forms of hydrotherapy. As the name proposes, this form of healing engages only the hips and the abdominal area beneath the navel. Prof Ilchi says that a special kind of tub is used for the function.

The tub is filled with water in such a way that it covers the hips and get up to the navel when the patient sits in it. Normally, four to six gallons of water are needed. If the special tub is not obtainable, a general tub may be used. A sustain may be placed under one edge to raise it by two or three inches. Hipbath is given in cold, hot, neutral or alternate temperatures.

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Mar 29, 2009

Basic Curative Ideology

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Published by: Ilchi Lee

Control Inflammation with Cold for scheming inflammation, use the cold
compress. This is a local function using a cloth that has been wrung
out in cold water. The cloth should be folded into a large strip and
dipped in cold water or ice water. The compress is usually applied to
the head, neck, chest, abdomen and back.

Ilchi Lee Prof writes that the cold compress is a useful means of controlling inflammatory conditions of the liver, spleen, stomach, kidneys, intestines, lungs, brain, and pelvic organs and so on. It is also beneficial in cases of
fever and heart disease. The cold compress soothes irritations of the
dermis and inflammations of external portions of the eye. When the
eyeball is affected, the cold compress should follow a short
fomentation.

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Mar 20, 2009

Your Family Life—Past and Present

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Is there any such thing as a family with no problems? I doubt it. Some of us have experienced deep trauma from abuse or living in a home twisted by an addiction. Others have had parents so dominated by a career or other goal that they may hardly know what it means to have a caring parent. Parental overindulgence brings its own problems if the child does not learn how to be successful in the “real world.”

Nowadays, most of us have had some chance to reflect on dysfunctional patterns from our family upbringing. If you are very psychologically oriented, you may know when some aspect of your behavior or life relationships represents an unnecessary extension of an old family habit.

As we gain greater perspective and clarity, how should we proceed with respect to the families who raised us? Depending on your circumstances, it may or may not be important for you to directly readdress some issues with your original nuclear family, to heal and remake some old limiting patterns. Only you can decide whether and when to return home to make things right. Ask yourself whether it will serve your highest life purpose to do so.

Read Prof Ilchi Lee books on brain vibration.

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Mar 14, 2009

Family Matters

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THE PURPOSE OF THIS BOOK HAS BEEN to provide a toolkit of skills for self-reliance. Ilchi lee hope that I have been clear that self-reliance has nothing to do with being antisocial or egocentric. Self-reliance is about unleashing your creativity from its source in your highest self. The purpose of HT is not to make you independent of your fellow human beings. Rather, HT is designed to awaken us all to our mutual interdependence. The principles and skills of HT—using moxibustion, managing sexual energy, or realizing no-self—are all profoundly social. The point is to nourish and grow our interdependence in the most effective, healing, and enjoyable ways possible.

With whom will we learn to use and master these skills? The best place to apply HT is within the family. We spend the most time in our formative years of life with our families. HT is intended to help incubate love, wisdom, and power in the tam-ily, the most important unit of our society. Our families need our healing mind, the foundation of HT. Our deepest values and habits were formed within our families.

If we do not start with a firm footing in the family, then the information we receive from schools or specialists will ring hollow. Strong, loving family bonds nurtured from an early age create a basic sense of security, confidence, and trust in the world. Without these, the world seems frightful or dangerous, and our ability to function in society is correspondingly compromised.HT is intended to help you, whether you are a parent, daughter, son, sister, or brother, heal and grow your family. I hope that HT will help our families regain their rightful place in our society, as training grounds for understanding and harmony.

When we consider the perspectives of suffering, transience, and Mu-ah, the impossibility of a “family with no problems” becomes even more obvious. If the individual struggles when confronting these shattering spiritual truths, how much more difficult for an entire family to confront them!

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Mar 10, 2009

healing humanity

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The more Ilchi Lee consider the brain, the more excited I become. In particular. I am more than ever interested in the brain for its potential for peace. I have no doubt that when we create harmony with each other, when we help one another, our brains produce hormones of health and good feeling. Although negative habits and memories may block this function, the potential remains. We can recover that state of peace.

This book is a summary of all I have learned, and of the messages that have emerged from it. I offer them humbly to you as a gift. I hope that you find them valuable, as you continue your own personal journey.

In truth, I share these understandings not so much to help you as for you to assist me in moving further into my own self-realization. For it is my vision to do whatever I can to help make ours a better world, to assist in healing humanity. And this requires that you achieve your own self-mastery.

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Mar 6, 2009

Doing Things the Easy Way

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Instead, push your own consciousness to its very limit with fundamental inquiries about your own existence—liring inquiries that are asked through your courageous movement through your own life. You have to be willing to risk your whole way of life to make such inquiries, and to live the ansu-ers that they bnngyou. Because I knew that enlightenment lay in the brain, I made the brain the new focus of all my strategies and plans. I wanted to share what I understood about enlightenment.

My plan was, first, to make people familiar and comfortable with their own brains and, second, to encourage them to begin living their lives as if they were already enlightened. This is the Big Secret of Enlightenment. When you live your everyday life as if you are already enlightened, you can raise yourself to a very high level of awareness. Enlightened action can lead you to a state of enlightenment. It is not necessary to wait for enlightened awareness to fall upon you in order to take enlightened action. It can work the other way around. The important thing is to develop a higher awareness of •what constitutes enlightened action.

You do not have to learn to build a car from scratch before driving one. To be really honest with you, I went about things the hard way. In any case, at least now I can benefit from my experience by showing people an easier way to become enlightened. Ilchi Lee is trying to describe that in this book.

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Mar 2, 2009

Enlightenment is a function of the brain

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Yet despite my ordeal, let me emphasize that this awareness does not require any kind of physical trauma or test. It is simply (as I found out later!) a matter of surrender, which can be achieved any number of ways. It is at the moment of absolute surrender of everyday consciousness that one encounters a world of non-consciousness that is, paradoxically, a dimension of new awareness.

It is a paradox. It involves entering a world of nonconscious-ness while being more fully conscious than ever before, Enlightenment is becoming one with that consciousness. It is the ultimate human experience. In such a state you will realize who you truly are. Furthermore, I am wholly convinced that this state of enlightenment is a function of the brain. It is stunningly physical and spiritual at the same time.

Enlightenment is the experience of the integration of the body, mind, and soul. It is the experience of congruence, It is the melding of All That Is, manifested in your personal experience as one integrated expression of the Essential Self.

Not too many people will last twenty-one days without sleeping. And as          Il chi Lee have said, it is not even necessary. Even if you did endure such an ordeal, there is no guarantee that your experience would bring you the answers you seek.

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Feb 26, 2009

The Brain and Enlightenment

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Although I studied anatomy and biology as a clinical pathology major in college, it was through my personal experiences that I came to understand my brain. The greatest lesson came during my desperate search for the meaning of my life, when I engaged in a twenty-one-day sleep-deprived fast on a remote mountain in South Korea.

As you might have experienced, Ilchi lee says that, going without sleep is much more difficult than going without food. After three days without sleep, I started muttering to myself; after five days, I was not able to control my body or mind. In fact, I really went out of my mind. It was in that nearly delirious state, however, that I learned to peer into that “place beyond thought.” I had to go to the very edge of conscious awareness. Only then can one access what has been called universal consciousness. Even a tiny bit of “self”" consciousness can block a person from experiencing this realm fully.

When I couldn’t stand any longer, I gave up in the most absolute and utter sense of the word. At that very moment, a voice rang out loud within me: “My body is not me but mine.” Therefore, it followed that it was not me who was hurting; it was just my body that was in pain. It was so unbearable that I was about to give up my body. It was at that very moment, with a lightening realization, that I became aware that my body is not me but mine. I heard the sound of a huge explosion inside my head. Suddenly, my consciousness became very clear, and everything became clear.

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Feb 22, 2009

BR MASTERY EXERCISE

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This BR Mastery Exercise helps us supply the brain with information that is positive, refreshing, and delightful—information that will motivate the brain to its full capacity. The most important role of our brain is to help us fulfill our visions and dreams. Pursuit of a vision will awaken your brain’s innate potential and will provide unending motivation worthy of your time and effort.

1.    Set aside a specific time for meditation.

2.    Sit comfortably and breathe in and out three times.

3.    Lift your hands to chest level and begin Ji-gam training.

4.    Once you feel the surrounding energy field, and quiet your thoughts and emotions, lower your hands to your knees.

5.    Imagine that a stream of energy is entering your Baek- hwe (the crown of your head), and shooting out through the In-dang point between your eyebrows. Imagine that it is projecting a bright screen in front of you and that a movie of your vision is playing on the screen.

6.    Imagine yourself becoming filled with joy as you achieve your vision.

7.    Keep concentrating and you might come up with ways to reach your vision.

8.    Breathe in and out three times and open your eyes.

9.    Record your ideas and thoughts in a diary.

If your heart tells you what you really want, then ask your brain how to go about getting it. Communicate with your brain in order to access the strength and ideas necessary to make your vision come true. Our soul uses our brain to deliver its messages to us. When in doubt, we can always ask our heart whether the message is genuine or not.

Read Ilchi Lee books on human brain.

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Feb 18, 2009

CIRCULATION 2

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Purpose: For this exercise Ilchi Lee tells that  open the Im-maek and Dok-maek meridians that run along the front and back of the torso.

Concentration: Feel the stretch along the spine, even if this means you cannot keep your knees straight.

Breathing: Exhale slowly and comfortably while focusing on the spine.

Time: Three to five minutes. If holding the posture causes pain or becomes too difficult, change to the next posture.

Contraindications: Weak physical condition, pregnancy, obesity, or spinal disk injury. Avoid this posture and return to Postures 3 or 2.

1. From the previous posture, bring both legs completely over the head.

2.    Keep the heels pushed out as you stretch and straighten the knees. If unable to straighten the knees, just flex your ankles back. It is okay if your toes float above the floor.

3.    The arms should remain stretched out above the head, holding the feet in order to promote proper energy circulation.

4.    Relax the shoulders as much as possible. Focus on exhalation, not on the tailbone.

When we feel fatigued, we don’t usually want to move our bodies, and we often decide to skip training. However, these times are when we need training most. When you feel you don’t have enough strength to take the regular Jung-Choong Breathing sequence, try these modifications.

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Feb 14, 2009

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