Linda Mazur, West Linn says through the following stories, you will see in detail how physical ailments can disrupt a person’s life. You will also see that no matter how desperate the situation, things can turn around quickly if you give the body a chance. In the first story, you will meet a woman, now on the road to recovery, whose life was completely derailed after sustaining a painful injury.

Ten years ago, I was injured while helping my coworkers lift a woman who had a seizure. I ended up having neck disk surgery, and a disk pin was placed in my neck. This was never comfortable, but then last year things really got bad. I suddenly started having pain all over my body, as though my entire nervous system were affected.

Eventually it got so bad that I could not function at work, and I was hospitalized for a while. I tried many drugs, including cortisone, but nothing helped much. Fortunately, the first day away from work, I happened to pass a Dahn Yoga Center. I had taken tai chi before and loved it, so I was interested in giving it a try. Because I was in such bad shape, I decided to take private healing sessions, which focused on Brain Wave Vibration as a Ilchi Lee healing method.

BASIC BRAIN WAVE VIBRATION

LJ. LTIMATELY, YOU CAN DO the training in any number of different postures, and you can create your own postures as you learn to follow the flow of energy and the needs of your body. You can do the training with or without mu¬sic, but you may find that music with a strong basic rhythm will help you get into the natural rhythms of your own body more quickly. The most important point is to just enjoy yourself and to let your thinking mind drift away.

These postures are the most basic forms of Brain Wave Vibration, and I recommend that you folksy them in the beginning. After that, you can start improvising according to the dictates of your bodily needs. Immediately following this chapter YOU will find some variations that many students have found particularly useful.

Developing Infinite Mind

You may wonder why humanity so often chooses negative consciousness vibrations when the brain’s natural inclination is to choose positive ones. In fact, when you look at the events of history and the current state of the world, you might be inclined to think that we choose negatively more often than not.

Basically. Humanity has become addicted to negative information. At some point in our development, perhaps through over dependence on our rational minds, we convinced ourselves that life is all about competition and acquisition.

I believe that all the systems of the body are connected through a system of energy channels. Cultures all over the world have sensed that such an element exists and have given it mam names. The Pacific Islanders call it mana; Australian Aborigines call it joja; Indian Hindus call it prana. Native Americans have many different names for it: maxpe (Crow), waken (Dakota), manitou (Algonquin), to name a few. In Asian cultures, it is known as chi, qi, or ki.

You can feel this energy simply by quieting your mind. Close your eyes for a few seconds. Breathe deeply and just feel the es¬sence of your being, without any thought or judgment. Can you feel the vibrations running over the surface of your skin? Can you feel it emanating from the interior of your being? This is your vibration—the vibration of life, the vibration of the universe.

This phenomenon stems from the brain’s tendency to resonate in accordance with other brains. You know already that your brain produces vibrations called brain waves. This cannot be directly observed, but I believe that these brain waves literally interact with other brains as we interact with people. Thus, we The Language of Life

If your brain waves can have such a dramatic effect on other people, imagine what kind of effect your brain has on your body! Your brain is in constant communication with your body’s various organs and processes. Although we do not precisely know the role of brain waves in this process, it stands to reason that healthy brain waves can help produce a healthy body.

The worst is when you give yourself this information. Your brain will take you very seriously if you tell yourself that you are not good enough or that you are lacking in any way. It will live up to what you tell it you can do, so always give it clear and positive information about yourself. You can acknowledge that you have shortcomings to work on, but you should not think that your faults are a permanent part of who you are. When doing Brain Wave Vibration, imagine that you are shaking all of this kind of limiting information out of your brain.

Science, tending to reject that which cannot be directly observed, usually dismisses the notion of life energy as superstitious and irrational. In the past, however, many scientists sought proof of what they called elan vital, an invisible life force that animates living creatures. Unable to find such proof, scientists have tended to prefer a more mechanistic understanding of life, and they reject this concept.

However, they do know that one measurable form of energy docs play a role in the body—bioelectricity. Bioelectricity is the language used by the brain to communicate with all the organs of the body, telling them when to spring into action, when to speed up, and when to slow down. Signals arc sent down through the nervous system via nerve fibers, which signal a myriad of biological processes, from muscle movement to organ functions.

The “Three” in the first line above refers to the three main inter-nal Chakras, the 2nd, the 4th, and the 6th. The “Four” in the first line above refers to the four external Chakras, located on each of the palms and the bottoms of both feet. The external Chakras locat­ed in the center of each palm are called “Jang-shim,” and the exter­nal Chakras located in the center of each foot are called “Yong-chun.” When the three major internal Chakras and the four exter­nal Chakras are working as one circle (Sung Hwan), the body is filled with free flowing, life-giving energy in accordance with the direction of Su-Seung-Hwa-Gang (Water Energy Up, Fire Energy Down).

The “Five, Seven, and One…” in the line above refer to the 5th, 7th, and 1st Chakras. When these Chakras, which are the three gates of life (to be explained later), are connected with the other four internal Chakras (2nd, 3rd, 4th, 6th), and with the four major external Chakras, the life force within us will flow freely, bringing infinite creativity and joy to the soul. These lines copy from book of Ilchi Lee about Chakras.

Some people, perhaps through natural personality traits or through the example of very positive parents or role models, have already learned to control their brain waves, at least to a certain degree. They can instantly redirect their minds in a positive direction, no matter how dreadful the situation. But most of us do not possess a very high degree of control over our brain waves, and thus we need some tool, like Brain Wave Vibration, to help us shake off the burdens of life.

TYPES OF BRAIN WAVES

DELTA
2-3.9 Hz
Deep sleep, unconsciousness

THETA
4-7-9 Hz
Deep meditation, sleep

ALPHA
8-12.9 Hz
Relaxation, meditation

BETA
13-30 Hz
Everyday activity

GAMMA
30+ Hz