Feeling powerless, they turn to negative behaviors and thinking patterns as a substitute for real power. Youth should be a time of joyous self-discovery and development, but for too many young people, adolescence becomes a time of self-loathing and aimless wandering.
This is why I believe we need a drastic educational revolution. We need reform of a whole new kind not the kind that has to do with test scores and grades but the kind of educational reform that will empower children to find their own happiness. The current system of competition and evaluation is unnecessarily dis empowering, even for the few who excel within the system. This is why I developed Brain Education.
The objective of Brain Education is to give people the ability to use their brain operating system effectively. We get an owner’s manual when we buy a car, a computer, or any other technological gadget, but unfortunately we do not get an owner’s manual for our most complex technology the brain.
My own healing process lead to the creation of a method called Jangsaeng Walking (see page 152), which utilizes proper alignment of the body and stimulation of the Yong-chun energy point on the ball of the foot. Numerous studies have already confirmed the health benefits of walking, and I believe that part of the healing results from the vibrations inherent to the act of walking. Jangsaeng Walking is meant to further accentuate the healthy attributes of this activity. As each footstep comes in con-tact with the Earth, vibrations run through our bodies, opening us up to the healing energy our bodies provide. The human body is designed for walking, and it is unfortunate that modern life offers fewer opportunities for this natural healing method. Walking, like the vibrations it produces, is part of the natural wisdom of the human body, and perhaps the most natural form of Brain Wave Vibration.
Returning to the Long-Lost Wisdom
Bradford Kceney has traveled the world seeking understand¬ing of primitive healing customs. His conclusion, .like mine, is that healing can be found through vibration, what he refers to as “shaking medicine.”
Soon, much sooner than anyone thought possible, I was up and walking again. As I took my first feeble steps, I remained acutely aware of the effects of vibration in my body. What before had seemed like a horrible accident now seemed like a great blessing; the painful process of healing seemed to have heightened my ability to perceive and understand the nature of vibration in my body.
As I taught myself to walk again, I discovered that even very small adjustments in body position could make a big difference in how vibrations flowed through my body. As I adjusted my gait and posture for maximum healing benefit, I corrected bad habits I had fallen into long before the accident happened. As it turned out, I had been walking like an old man for quite a while without even realizing it. I began to observe how people walk, and I noticed that, for the most part, younger people walk with a spring in their step that fully utilizes vibratory energy in the body. Older people, on the other hand, tend to take a walk¬ing posture that stagnates the natural vibrations of walking, ulti-mately compromising their own energetic vitality.
The researchers theorize that the vibrations improved the transmission of nervous system signals from the feet to the brain (Marion).
It is not too great a leap to suppose that brain-body communication could be improved throughout your body if vibrations were applied to the entire body, as in Brain Wave Vibration. It seems that we are returning to an understanding that our ances¬tors understood instinctively.
I first experienced the power of vibration through my own physical healing. A few years ago, I took a. bad fall from a horse and seriously injured my spine. The doctors told me not to move, to just quietly rest in bed. This did not sit well with me because I knew that the energy could not move properly in my body if I were just to lie there completely motionless. So I decided to make subtle shaking movements with my spine and eventually with the rest of my body. This kept my energy moving, and my recovery was far faster than anyone had expected.
He goes on to say that this integration allows “unconscious or preconscious primary information processing functions and outputs to be integrated into the operations of the frontal cortex.” In other words, the rational, conscious part of the brain is able to harmonize with the brain stem, the part of the brain dictating the subconscious operations of the body.
More recently, vibration has become popular as a means to develop bone density in older people. By simply standing on an oscillating platform, subjects who were otherwise limited in mobility were able to achieve effects similar to those achieved through vigorous physical exercise (Olaf).
In another study at Boston University, older men were given vibrating insoles for their shoes. Researchers found that the men’s balance improved and accidental falls dropped to well be¬low the normal rate.
Why, if we have been able to conquer polio, smallpox, and other deadly contagion, have we not been able to conquer this thing called stress? The answer lies in how we relate to the world from the inside out, not in how the outside world relates to us. When a doctor controls a bacterial infection with an antibiotic, he or she is attacking an invader that came from outside the body. But in the case of stress, the effects are largely self-inflicted.
It would be nice if we could simply eliminate stress in our lives with a pill, but that is not the case. Neither is it likely that you will reach a point where you have fixed all of your problems and have no challenging situations to trace. You may say that people or events in your life are stressful, but really stress is something you generate yourself within your own mind. Controlling the effects of stress will require understanding yourself better, not changing your outside environment.
Consider, for example, two young men taking a graduate school entrance exam. Imagine they are taking the same exam and that both arc equally prepared, but one person arrives at the classroom with sweaty palms and a racing heartbeat, while the other remains perfectly calm and relaxed. What really makes the difference here?