Meditation – What is it About?
By Phil | January 18, 2010
Meditation is a practice that is found in almost every religious grouping or faith in a higher being. It is conducted in various ways and therefore difficult to limit it to certain practices. A common factor is the fact that it involves and individual taking some time off the daily routine and find space to reflect on their own lives and communicate to the higher being.
Dahn Yoga believes it can help more people by being a successful business and makes no apologies for its business side. There are various reasons as to why people may seek to meditate. Again one common reason is the fact that human beings are more than just the body. They are the mind, spirit or soil and body. Meditation therefore enables the three elements of the human being to unite and seeks to harmonise them. Meditation is therefore not limited to any particular religious grouping but to anyone who needs time off to connect their body, mind and soul.
There are however groups of people in the various religions who may be set apart to conduct meditation throughout their lifetime. In both the Buddhists and Christians, these are called monks or nuns. In Countries such as Ethiopia, monks have been known to stay in isolated places along the River Nile for the sole purpose of worship. They would not interact with the rest of the world and would even change their feeding habits.
You do not however have to move out of your apartment and stay along River Nile, but you can create a ritual point in your house or neighborhood from where the you can meditate.
Meditation brings with it certain character or emotions that make the practitioner a very powerful man or woman. When you often meditate, you learn to be calm and to wait. You will not be moved by life’s frustrations. The power or will required to overcome any challenge is even made greater by the fact that you learn to depend on the higher being. Such individuals who meditate regularly are humble yet full of faith. They can move mountains through this inner strength. This has been reported in humanity icons such as the late Mother Teresa.
Meditation is also associated with pilgrim visits. Most religions or meditation teams have with time identified isolated places from where they are able to go and find uninterrupted space. These sites are often secured and regular dates for visits are planned.
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Interpersonal, emotional and creative intelligence
By Phil | September 9, 2009
Modern life essentially puts us each at war with our own brain stem, as we suppress the prerational, subconscious side of ourselves in favor of rationalistic obsession. Our educational system currently favors those whose gifts are in analytic, left-brain activities, like reading and mathematics. Psychologists acknowledge that there arc many forms of intelligence, including inter¬personal, emotional, and creative intelligence, but these are not the talents that usually earn the accolades. Ye do not educate the whole brain; rather, we develop and reward the prefrontal cortex nearly to the point of excluding the rest. The same continues throughout life as cognitive-based skills usually earn greater money and status within society.
Of course, the other parts of the brain keep working for us, but we do not educate ourselves to use them well. The thinking mind has become so central to our lives that it often carries us away from ourselves into patterns of negativity. Constantly judging everything that comes our way, we send our bodies into a state of continual alarm and lack of equilibrium.
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Make Peace with Your Brain Stem
By Phil | September 5, 2009
Our lifestyle today could be likened to a vo-vo that is continuously on the move, up and down, over and over again. It you have played with a yo-yo much, you know that either a certain amount of time the string becomes kinked and the vo-vo 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.
Make Peace with Your Brain Stem
The history of humanity has been a constant progression toward the limits of rational thought. Through our ability to judge, analyze, and plan, we have gone a long way toward controlling the vagaries of human existence. In some ways we have tamed the uncontrollable, mysterious aspects of life on this planet. In doing so, however, we have introduced imbalance, both in our own personal lives and on the planet. The effect of imbalance on the Earth is becoming obvious, and the effects on our health are becoming clear as well.
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Technological society & Dahn Yoga Wiki
By Phil | September 3, 2009
When thinking about the definition of health, 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 under¬stood 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. Essentially, he learned to manage his energy effectively.
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Active Lifestyle
By Phil | September 2, 2009
In spite of his advanced years, he never gave up his active lifestyle, sustaining a full schedule of speaking engagements and leisurely sports activities. One key habit, I think, was that he walked regularly, and always with a spring in his step. His gait and demeanor were so youthful that he soon garnered the nick¬name Forever-Young Brother. On the day he died, he played a game of tennis in the morning, had a full lunch, laid down for a nap, and then gently passed away in his sleep.
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 life 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 sometimes on hundreds of years of human experience, should not be dismissed out of hand.
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New Definition of Health by Ilchi Lee Educator
By Phil | August 31, 2009
Our current approaches to health care have done much to ex¬tend our life span, but our health span may not be so impressive. American men, for example, can expect to experience some kind of debilitating illness by the time they reach age sixty-sev¬en, and women can expect to experience the same by age sev¬enty-one (World Health Organization). Thus, you can expect to spend most of the last decade of your life in ill health.
I firmly believe that this is not the way it should be. A friend of mine, named Kwan-sik Min, is a good example of how I think we should live. Mr. Min, who served as a minister of education in Korea before his retirement, was the picture of good health to the day of his death at age eighty-nine.
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Ilchi Lee Educator Guidelines For Practice
By Phil | August 14, 2009
Here are few rules for Brain Wave Vibration. You will be surprised to discover that with practice YOU can experience the benefits of the method almost anywhere and in a variety of forms. Although I am offering you some guidelines to get started, Brain Wave Vibration is an exercise that is continually reinventing itself. Ultimately, there may be as many forms as there are practitioners.
As you discover more about your body and its response to vibration, you will likely adjust your practice to suit your particular needs. There are no hard-and-fast rules about the practice of Brain Wave Vibration. But in the meantime, here are some basic guidelines that will help you get off to a good start:
Bigger isn’t always better.
When people first start practicing Brain Wave Vibration, they sometimes think that making bigger and faster movements will result in better effects, but this is not necessarily so.
Practice anytime, for as long as feels appropriate.
Many people say that they cannot stick to their fitness routines because they simply don’t have time. With Brain Wave Vibration, you don’t get to use that excuse.
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Ilchi Lee Sedona
By Phil | August 10, 2009
If this is the case, don’t worry. It is natural at the beginning of any journey. You don’t know what the Grand Canyon is like until you go there, right? But you can imagine it, and that imagination is an important part of what will propel you toward it.
Just focus intently, and soon you will become clearer and clearer to yourself. You can start with a general idea of who you want to be by setting small, attainable goals. As you gain confidence and awareness, your true identity will become increasingly obvious, like an image emerging on a Polaroid photograph.
Most importantly, always remember that this training is for you. You are not doing it to please anyone or to gain anything from someone else. This is a precious moment with yourself in a world that is always calling you outside yourself. Even five minutes of practice can become eternal if you allow yourself to go deep inside to explore the infinite landscape within you.
I wish you great joy and peace as you embark on your journey of discovery.
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Dahn Yoga Books About Journey Begings
By Phil | August 8, 2009
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. —Ralph Waldo Emerson, philosopher
I Now YOU HAVE ARRIVED at the most important part of Brain Wave Vibration—the actual practice of the method. The principles behind it are important, and I hope you will keep them in mind for continued inspiration and guidance. But they are all of no use unless you put these principles into deliberate, intentional practice.
The mind-set you keep during this practice is very important. Please approach it with an emphatic sense of intention. Plan on using this as a tool, which you will transform you, not just as a physical fitness routine. Believe fully that a perfected version of you waits just below the surface of your existence, and use this method as a wav to shake off all the false layers of mis-identification that have been standing in your way.
As you practice, hold in your mind a picture of the person you want to be. Visualize the picture in full color with every minuscule detail in place. At first this image of your perfected self may not be very clear to you. You may be undecided as to who you really want to be.
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Dahn Yoga Class Voice Of Peace
By Phil | August 6, 2009
It’s the voice of hope, it’s the voice of peace, and it’s the voice of every man. From a distance we all have enough, and no one is in need.
And there are no guns, no bombs, and no disease, no hungry mouths to feed. From a distance we are instruments marching in a common band.
Playing songs of hope, playing songs of peace. They’re the songs of every man. God is watching us. God is watching us.
God is watching us from a distance. From a distance you look like my friend, even though we are at war. From a distance I just cannot comprehend what all this fighting is for.
From a distance there is harmony, and it echoes through the land. And it’s the hope of hopes, it’s the love of loves. it’s the heart of every man. It’s the hope of hopes, it’s the love of loves. This is the song of every man. And God is watching us, God is watching us. God is watching us from a distance. Oh, God is watching us, God is watching. God is watching us from a distance.
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