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7 Tips to Enjoy Your Dahn Class by Ilchi Lee
By Phil | September 13, 2007
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Follow the following tips to enjoy Dahn Class.
1. Prepare your mind
The key influence on your experience in Dahn class is your state of mind. If you have time to stop your busy mind before you enter the center to prepare yourself for training, the maximum benefit is guaranteed. An easy way to calm your mind is to participate in the warm-up exercises, or if you are running late, take a deep breath as you remove your shoes before you join the class.
2. Focus on your dahnjon
As your practice grows deeper you will clearly experience the benefits of this “Do.” Your dahnjon (an energy center in the abdomen) is your energy bank. If you keep focusing on it during the class and between every exercise, you will feel much more energy circulating through your body. This also has the advantage of tricking your mind to stay present during the class, enhancing your training.
3. Have fun and smile
Your Dahn master’s motto. After you attend the “Ready for Awakening” workshop, you will understand more clearly why you are always encouraged to smile. On the scientific side, stimulation of the muscles around your mouth actually triggers endorphin secretion which is the “feel good” neurotransmitter in your brain. Endorphins help elevate your pain threshold and stimulate the healing process of your body.
4. Notice and enjoy every bit of progress
This attitude greatly enhances your self-motivation. Only you know your body exactly. If you realize, for example, that you can now touch your toes in a stretch when you couldn’t two or three weeks ago, you will see for yourself the changes happening in your body. Initially, energy training creates subtle changes. If you keep noticing them your mind will become more positive, and the changes will become more evident and happen faster.
5. Focus on feeling energy at every point of your class
Even if subtle at first, try to catch energy sensations in every moment of your class (e.g. during do-in exercises, haeng-gong, jigam) to enjoy the true depth of your Dahn training. Your jigam meditation, especially, will get deeper and you will receive the full benefit from your class.
6. Consistent class attendance for training
Attend Dahn classes regularly two to three times a week. When you stop training for over a week, you will start to lose the rhythm and balance you attained through earlier training efforts. When you make out your weekly or monthly schedule, set aside time for Dahn classes. Those times when it is not possible for you to attend the classes, ask staff at your center for training advice that you can do on your own at home.
7. Keep a training journal
Each time you attend a Dahn class or complete an at-home training session, write an entry in your training journal. Observe the changes in your body and mind felt during training, and record frank and detailed accounts of them. After keeping your training journal for a month, you will be pleasantly surprised to find how helpful it was in improving your health while also enhancing the results from your training.
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September 20th, 2007 at 3:55 am
Thanks Mr Lee for your wonderful adice
October 1st, 2007 at 10:29 pm
When I notice and enjoy every bit of progress I made from my Dahn Yoga practice, my body and brain scream with delight, “Thanks! Thanks!”