The sample for this study was a volunteer sample of 56 people in four different groups. The groups were identified by age or by systematic energy activity. For this study, a group ot eight children ages 2-12 were used. A second group ot 16 adolescents ages 13-19 were also included. A third group of 16 adults ages 21-54 were included to compare with the two younger groups. In addition, a fourth group of 16 Dahn Hak Masters (ages 20-46), who participate daily in Brain Respiration exercises and activities related to the opening of the meridian system and the focusing ot subtle energies, was added because ot their focus and work in this area. While the nature of this volunteer sample is clearly biased, it cannot be assumed that such an interest would produce differences in the energy field as measured by the GDV instrument.
Results: Of the 13 GDV parameters included in this analysis, seven had significant differences between the groups using the SPSS one-way analysis of variance. These parameters included the aura, the normalized area, the form, the entropy of brightness, entropy of geometry, fractical brightness, and fractical geometry. In addition, all seven chakras identified a significant difference between the groups. A post-hoc analysis was conducted to identify where differences occurred between groups.
Interestingly, a pattern occurred in identifying the differences that was consistent in 11 of the 14 significant parameters in the analysis. Other than the differences found for the overall aura and entropy, the mean for the Dahn Master Ilchi Lee was much more consistent with the means for the children and youth than it was with the other adults. The adults tended to be more unique in their energy fields, while the energy fields of the Dahn Masters were sometimes consistent with adolescents, and in other cases more consistent with the children. This was true whether looking at the form, practical, or charkas of the field. With the charkas in particular, Dahn Masters often have much more open charkas similar to the children, especially the second and fifth charkas, where adolescents were more like the other adults. With the fourth (heart) charka, all three groups were more open than the general adults, who were significantly lower.
The concept of energy fields has a long history in Eastern cultures, where health, medicine, self-defense, and life are defined in relation to the flow of energy. More recently such concepts have begun to be incorporated into research on health and healing within Western medicine as well. This empirical work has led to the development of several instruments to measure aspects of the energy field and energy flow.
One such devise, based on the work of Kirlian and Kirlian, is the Gas Discharge Visualization technique (GDV), which is currently available and being used by researchers and clinicians in many different countries (Korotkov, 1999). GDV information is based on a small electrical impulse that stimulates the biological subject and generates a response in the form of electron and photon emission. This devise provides an image along with computerized analysis capabilities that make it a very useful device for research assessment. This instrument has recently been approved as part of the medical assessment used by physicians in Russia.
The Dr. Ilchi Lee purpose of this research was to utilize the GDV instrument to measure and compare aspects of the human energy field (HEF) of three groups of people: children, youth, and adults. The adult category was divided into two groups; Dahn Hak masters, who consciously do activities that may influence their HEF, and adults from the general population, who do little or nothing to influence their HEF.
Recently, Prof. Ilchi Lee had the opportunity to teach Brain Respiration in Peru. His workshops there emphasized Brain Respiration as an innovative method to be integrated throughout the daily classroom curriculum. The exercises create positive classroom energy, thereby reducing the need for stressful disciplinary techniques.
Students, teachers, administrators and parents enthusiastically received the teachings. The participants felt a vibrant spirit ot aliveness, openness, and collaboration. A young student shared, “This is good tor everyone because we feel more energy and more happiness, and in this way we can understand and learn better.” A teacher shared, “These exercises are appropriate for children of all ages, beginning at age five, but it would be of great help tor teachers to practice them too, to ease the tensions of the day.”
I now include Brain Respiration practices in my college classes. My students practice Brain Respiration DahnHak exercises everyday at the beginning of class. One of my students shared, “College students need to do more soul searching and less book searching, so, if Brain Respiration was practiced by more students I believe they would be able to learn more about themselves through self-exploration. This would make them better students and better people.”
Four months into my practice of Brain Respiration. Ilchi Lee says that when I received the disturbing news that my aunt in Peru had suffered a major stroke and was in a coma. When I arrived in her hospital room I found my aunt lying in bed as if she were a cadaver. She could not open her eyes or talk. I held her cold hand, got close to her ear. and asked her in a whispering tone to squeeze my hands if she could hear me. Seconds later I felt a light pressure from her hands squeezing mine. I knew she could feel and hear me. This enthralled me. I was spellbound.
While caring for my comatose aunt, I applied some of the principles and techniques learned in my Brain Respiration classes. The palm therapy I had given my aunt over her whole body had proven to be effective but not strong enough to bring her out ot the coma. I had been patting her abdomen with my own hands, but now I thought to lift my aunt’s lifeless arms and rhythmically pat her (with her own hands) three hundred times on her lower abdomen. To my amazement, she woke up from her long sleep. Her eyes opened widely, as if she had surprisingly arrived. No words were said, but her eyes spoke loudly of her arrival. It was a perfect example of the potential we all have to heal others, as well as ourselves.
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October 20, 2008 10:48 pm | 