Choose Your Identity

Ilchi Lee has dedicated his life to health and peace education. He also founder of D Yoga. Lee writes about identity and said that people tend to think they are born into their identity as though it were written into their genetic code upon conception. In reality, though, identity is a mental construct. Your identity is invented in your head, or you adopt it from others who invented it for you. Breaking this illusion of identity may be one of the most important things you can do in the quest to become the true master of your own brain.
When you were a small child, you may have had a clearer picture of who you wanted to be.

You simply wanted to be one of the good guys who were nice to others and did something helpful with their lives. But as you grew up and experienced life, you added layers on top of that desired identity. These are the ways you choose to present yourself to others, and the way you choose to define who you are to yourself. You accepted a lot of notions about who you are from your environment because you wanted to be loved and accepted. As you became an adult, you added additional layers of your own invention because you wanted to present yourself to your best advantage among your peers and in society at large.

While many of these layers do help us function in society and give us a reference point from which we can estimate our place in the world, they can hold us back from what we truly want to be.
To start peeling these layers back, always ask how and why you created a particular notion about yourself. If you say, “I am no good at math,” or, “I am a shy person,” ask yourself how and why you took this identity upon yourself. You will find that many of these identities are related to emotional memories that may or may not be serving you well. You may decide to keep those which are beneficial to you and to discard those which are not.

While it may be true that some tendencies are genetically hardwired into our brains, it is up to you whether or not you follow your simple biology. The more you take control of the things you are and the things you will become, the more satisfied and confident you will be within yourself.

What the World Needs Now

Extract From famous Doctor Ilchi Lee’s Book

On a piece of paper, write down a list of the values and attributes that are most desperately needed in the world. To what extent are you currently helping to provide these to the world? Is there more you can do to help provide these?

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Seek Fulfillment

Sir Ilchi Lee is founder of Healing Society and Earth Human Movements and also Dahn. Lee has authored twenty eight books. Scholar Joseph Campbell used to give his students this simple advice for life: “Follow your bliss.” This is very good advice. The trick is to recognize the difference between true happiness and mere excitement. True happiness is lingering, while excitement will tend to fade when the honeymoon is over. Try to find that thing that brings you happiness in a pure, continual way. Not only is happiness good for the brain, but focusing on achieving something of this sort will require you to constantly sharpen the use of your own brain.

Ultimately, this will require action that is connected to your most precious core values. Most people want to leave the world in better condition than they found it, to contribute in some way. You might start by asking yourself, “What does the world really need to make it a better place?” Your answer will reflect your basic values and beliefs. Helping to provide that thing is probably related to your ultimate calling in life.

If you choose your life purpose appropriately, it does not mean that your life will be free of strife. If anything, you will invite difficulty because it will mean taking a less safe, less clearly established path in life. Like the heroes of the ancient epics, your resolve will be tested over and over again. An easy life, of course, is not the same as a fulfilling life, and challenges are fuel to a vital brain.

If you look at the world around you, you will see that there are two directions that life can go. Living things either grow or they decline. Your body is bound to decline one day. But if you choose a path that challenges you to continually refine and develop your mind and spirit, you will provide yourself with a lifetime of growth and fulfillment.

Positive Reinforced

It may be difficult at first to redirect your emotions in a positive direction. You may find yourself returning to the destructive emotion, even after you have made up your mind to change. Remember, though, that it is just a habit of the brain that keeps bringing you back to that point. Doctor Lee Ilchi Suggests that as with any habit, it will take time and practice to break it.

To keep yourself on the positive track, find a way to remind yourself of the constructive action that will replace the negative emotion. For example, you might want to get a small stone and write an inspiring word on it. Or wear a ring that reminds you of your promise to yourself. Every time you see it, your mind will be redirected in a more positive direction.

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Zero In on Nothingness

The best way to become more creative is to create nothing. By this, I mean that you should return to zero point. Ilchi Lee advice that rid yourself of all the mental and emotional blocks that keep you from manifesting your full creative potential. These are the preconceptions and emotional memories that prevent you from living your dreams fully.

Ironically, it is your ego that prevents you from creating what you truly want. Your ego says to you, “I am this,” or, “I should be that,” which often stops you from doing what you really want to do. For example, you may have always wanted to learn to sing well, but your ego says, “I don’t have musical talent,” or, “I will probably embarrass myself if I sing.” These things are usually rooted in your past experiences, times when you were hurt by others or were discouraged in some way. To challenge your brain more, try to let go of these old memories and self-imposed limitations.

True genius is not about retaining a lot of information and performing well on intelligence tests, but rather it is about being able to use that information in unique ways. Anyone can be a genius in some way because everyone possesses creative ability. But you must believe you have limitless potential in order to manifest your genius fully. Tell yourself every day, “I am a genius,” and believe it. When such a thought is completely and honestly formed in your mind, you will find that creativity begins to flow naturally from your brain throughDahn Y.

So to become more creative, begin to watch the internal conversations you have with yourself. How are you limited and boxed in by your current thinking about yourself? How does it stop you from doing what you really want to do? What emotional patterns prevent you from pursuing your dreams?
Let go of illusions about how to be creative. Many believe that great geniuses get an idea out of the blue one day, and all they have to do is to seize that idea and put it into action. Such is not the case. Before they were able to take off into the sky, the Wright brothers went through hundreds of experiments. For the wing alone, they tried out over two hundred variations.

Be patient in allowing your creativity to blossom. The “aha!” moment of inspiration comes when knowledge, experience, and ideas coalesce; it is the moment the brain connects them. It is crucial to know that until the light bulb in the brain turns on, there must be constant planning, a determined will, and a whole lot of trial and error.

The most important point is to do something. If you have a good idea, you must act on it or it will be meaningless. As you are involved in executing an idea, new ideas will come to you. As you repeat this cycle, solutions to your problems will be found and you will become more creative. Creativity is not the result of chance and luck. Creativity happens through focus, determination, and passion.