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During Yoga Exercise sit on a chair or in half lotus position and straighten your back.

Place your hands on your knees with your palms facing up and close your eyes. Relax your body, especially your neck and shoulders. Relax your mind. Inhale deeply, and let go of any remaining tension while exhaling. (Soft meditative music in the background may be helpful.)

Raise your hands slowly to chest level, with your palms facing each other. Concentrate on any sensation you may feel between your palms. At first, you may feel warmth in your hands, but you will soon feel your own pulse.

Self-Help Tips By Prof. Ilchi Lee: When You Don’t Feel the Energy

When you cannot easily feel the energy, it is probably because you are tense, or have too many other thoughts in your head. You will be able to feel the energy when you are totally relaxed and you concentrate fully on your hands. Relaxed concentration is the key.

Now, put about two to four inches of space in between your hands and concentrate fully on the space. Imagine that your shoulders, arms, wrists, and hands are floating in a vacuum, weightless.

Pull your hands apart and push them closer in again as you maintain your concentration. You might feel a tingling sensation of electricity, a magnetic attraction pulling your hands toward each other or pushing your hands apart. You might even feel as if you are holding a soft cotton ball between your hands, or moving slowly through warm water. All these feelings are a manifestation of your energy flow.

When the sensation becomes more real, pull your hands farther apart or push them closer together. The sensation will not go away but will expand and become stronger.

Brain Respiration tips by Ilchi Lee

We begin Ji-gam training with our hands first, because hands are the most sensitive part of our body, allowing us to feel Ki energy most easily. When we are able to sense energy in our hands, it becomes easier to awaken this same sensitivity in other parts of the body, including the brain. Although the amount of time it takes to feel this energy for the first time varies from person to person, everyone will eventually succeed with enough practice in Dahnhak.

When you become used to feeling energy in your hands, you can maintain the sensitivity and the feeling without having to be in a special position or environment. This also means that it is possible to function in the everyday world in a clearer and calmer state of consciousness. When you are able to feel the energy through Ji-gam training, then you are ready to begin the five main steps of Brain Respiration training.

All gods seem to have their hworile n.ilions or peoples, toward whom they direct their tavor. These nation or ethnic-centered gods represent the collective identity and q’,o ol’a particular group or organization. The fact that we are still engaged in religious conflict speaks to the essentially prejudicial nature of our current gods. We do not have a god that can represent the whole Earth. The god-centered age is therefore an era of immaturity of the human spirit. Academics generally agree that god-centered world gradually gave way to modern science and humanistic philosophy of the seventeenth century, though its influence is still pervasive.

According to Professor Droctor Ilchi Lee book the humanism began with the Renaissance and the Age of Science and Reason, opening our eyes to the power and potential of the human intellect. We can refer to this as a human centered time, which continues to this day, as the Rational Age. In this age, humanity has acquired technical skills, and information that we could not previously have imagined. Unfortunately, with advancement in technology, we have become a threatening entity to all life and to the Earth herself. Most of us are still drunk on the success of human civilization, wreckage strewn along the path of achievement. This is evidence that the Human-Centered Age, like the Cod-Centered Age before it, is still imperfect and immature.

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Prime examples of duality are the organized religions of the world. Conlronl.ilion over their respective gods has led to unending bloodshed and sullering, which we need not go into deeply here. It is ironic that loving and merciful gods have been the source ol so much violence and bloodshed. The fact that we do not share an awareness of this inherent contradiction is one ol the bigger mysteries of the human condition. Until we address this contradiction, we cannot bring peace into this world. Ilchi Lee explains that without reconciliation among gods and religions, peace is impossible.

In order to overcome the problem of different gods, we need a higher divine entity. Who could bring all these omniscient and omnipotent gods together for a round of negotiation and reconciliation? Ultimately, the responsibility lies with human beings. It is up to us to require gods of love, to love, gods of peace to be peaceful, and gods of mercy to exercise mercy. When there is peace on Earth, our gods will become peaceful. When we exercise love in the world, our gods will become gods of love.
Let us examine our relationship to our gods. First, lets look at the “god-centered” Age of Faith.

In this age, god(s) became the center of our world, controlling everything from plants and animals to floods and lighting. We were at the constant mercy of this god. Gods that rose to prominence during this period shared several general characteristics. Chief among them, were selfishness, possessiveness, immature display of anger and sexual conquest, and often cruelly, administered by severe punishment.

Dahnhak Principles By Lee Ilchi

Professor Ilchi Lee an underlying philosophy of duality, which set’s the sell
and the world as disparate and separate parts, is at the root of
our material civilization. Heaven and earth, mind ami body,
subject and object, god and man, you and me, nature and civi
lization, good and evil, black and white, yin and yang
Whether you are from the East or the West, these dichotomies are part of the world we live.
In such a world, you have to die so that I might live. It is a matter of you or me. There is no space for you and me. Since we define society and the world in this way, I must conquer you in order to save me and decrease your lot to increase mine. Confrontation, domination, competition, opposition… these are driving forces of dualistic thinking. The result ol this is a lack of peace.

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