With the exception of Gestational diabetes which usually rectifies itself when the affected pregnant mother gives birth, type 1 and type 2 diabetes are chronic and no cure is as yet known. This leaves patients only with the option of managing their conditions properly. Most doctors agree that the best way to manage diabetes is self management. This means that each patient must be the expert of their own condition and manage it well.
Like for all other chronic conditions, the use of drugs is usually the last option and doctors will always make efforts to put off this for as long as possible. The reason for this is that drugs are chemicals and their usage put a strain on the liver and kidneys. When this strain is over a prolonged period as in the case of chronic conditions, the likelihood of these vital organs failing is high. Many diabetes patients are put on drugs not because their condition warrants this but because as many doctors would agree, they have failed to adhere to their initially prescribed therapies. The most common areas where the patients fail is dietary requirements and physical exercises.
For patients wanting to avoid this pitfall in order to live longer and healthier lifestyles, the need for identifying what works cannot be over emphasized. The most ideal way to go is to train the mind and body to support your efforts to manage the condition. The mind can be trained through meditation and other exercises. This has the benefits of helping an individual come to better terms with self. This process is key because it helps increase self worth and motivation to stay health. It also helps the mind develop better control of the body both in terms of resisting temptations to go outside prescribed diets and deal with laziness to exercises.
Physical exercise on the other hand has several benefits: It helps the increase the rate of movement of glucose in the cells thereby reducing blood sugar; it reduces body weight; improves blood circulation; it reduces stress. All these are known goals of diabetes treatment. When an individual learns to manage their condition in this way, there is not need for any use of drugs. Besides managing diabetes, patients who use the mind-body therapies also avoid many side effects of diabetes drugs. These include diarrhoea, crumps, pain, headaches, anaemia and high blood cholesterol. Of course there is also the benefit of avoiding the cost of medication.
It is possible to get a one-stop “shop” that focuses on both the mind and body exercise. This is found in yoga sessions. A good example of this is Dahn Yoga which combines mental meditation and stretching and body posturing exercises. If there is a Dahn Yoga Centre in your area, you also stand to benefit from group support.
Here are some lines written by Ilchi Lee about subject in his book. He writes how do we achieve this completion? Let’s skip the amorphous, esoteric, and new age jargon that passes for spirituality these days. Instead, we can explain the process of spiritual birth using the Chakra system. We can think about this process of spiritual birth as part of our natural anatomy. To initiate the process of our physical birth, the sperm enters through the Jade Gate, the first Chakra, and lodges in the Earth Palace or Womb, the second Chakra. A life is conceived when the sperm joins with an ovum. After nine months of gestation, the physical body matures and is born, once again passing through the Jade Gate. These are the fundamentals of our reproductive system.
Now, let’s think about the spiritual birth process. The sperm is analogous to the seed of the soul, while the ovum is analogous to the divinity within us. The spiritual sperm, or seed of the soul, is not some abstract concept, however. It resides in the heart, the fourth Chakra, intertwined with the presence of energy there. Then where does the spiritual ovum reside? It lives in the sixth Chakra, which is also called Heaven’s Palace. Therefore, the process of spiritual birth is ignited when the spiritual sperm and the spiritual ovum merge in Heaven’s Palace, the spiritual womb within the human body. In order for the merging to take effect, the spiritual sperm, like the physical sperm, must pass through a gate. This gate is the fifth Chakra, or the Soul’s Gate. When the seed of the soul passes through the Soul’s Gate and lodges in Heaven’s Palace, where it meets with inner divinity, a spiritual embryo is conceived. After a process of maturation and growth, the spiritual body is born.
For the sake of your own health and happiness, as well as that of so many others around you, please pay attention to the quality of your thoughts. People spend many hours honing the shapes of their bodies through weight lifting, aerobic exercise, and other athletic endeavors. I believe people should pay equal, if not more, attention to the fitness of their brain waves. I believe that behind almost every illness and every relationship problem lies some habit related to unhealthy brain waves. Healthier brain waves translate into healthier emotional states, which in turn create stronger bodies and happier lives.
Coming Full Circle
The shamans of the past, and perhaps those existing in the present, were essentially brain wave doctors. They did not have the scientific understanding of brain waves that we possess, but it is clear that their healing system was designed to stimulate healing power from within the ailing individual. Often this involved vigorously shaking the body or dancing frenetically until a deep state of trance was achieved.
Excitement, heightened emotional state method by which subjects are trained to control various biological functions, can be used to help people with alcoholism overcome their addiction. Through biofeedback, these people were able to increase lower frequency alpha and theta brain waves, which are associated with a peaceful, meditative state of mind, while controlling higher frequency beta waves. This ability resulted in less depression and fewer cravings for alcohol among the subjects.
One of my students, in fact, is a researcher in the area ot bio-feedback, specializing in measuring brain activity through EEG machines. He was very skeptical about the claimed benefits oi Brain Wave Vibration, like many other scientists might be. But he gave it a try anyway because he was suffering trom a number of ailments and wanted to find a quick stress-reliet exercise that could fit his schedule. After a few weeks of practice, his focus improved, his headaches disappeared, and his shoulder pain subsided. He is now thoroughly convinced that brain waves can be influenced through movement of the body.
It is also clear that even the kinds of thoughts we have can greatly affect our physical health. Scientists demonstrated the effect of the mind on the body more than a hundred years ago.
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 ancestors 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.
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.
Of those, only one gets to impregnate the ovum, resulting in conception. So, the odds of conception are about 1 in 100 million. However, the odds are actually even higher than this, since not every sexual encounter will result in either ejaculation or the introduction of sperm into the vagina. Frankly, calculating all the social factors that go into a couple’s decision to bear a child, the odds of a human being as unique as you being born is truly unimaginable. The odds are literally astronomical. Being born as a human being is akin to a roll of the cosmic dice. That is why birth as a human being is a great blessing, too great to truly articulate.
But, what is the purpose of being born as a human being? To attain the physical body? According to Ilchi Lee No. You already know what it is… The purpose of a human birth is to complete the journey of your soul, to manifest your essence as a spiritual being, to effect the birth of your spiritual body. This is also the purpose of the Chakra system and Healing Chakra.
In one experiment, scientists showed fake flowers to highly allergic people. Almost invariably, the subjects, not knowing that the flowers were fake, had allergic reactions when seeing the flowers (Sapolsky). And for centuries physicians have noted the placebo effect, in which a patient’s beliefs about a given medicine may create as much healing as the medicine itself. It stands to reason then that all sorts of negative thoughts and beliefs may have a detrimental effect on the body and that positive thoughts may assist in the healing process.
Once I had a student who was a video arcade owner. He had a quick temper and found himself constantly irritated with the kids in his arcade. This anger spilled over into every part of his life. His body became very tense, and eventually blisters appeared all over his skin. Worried about his health, he came to a Dahn Yoga center and began practicing Brain Wave Vibration along with the regular Dahn Yoga class.
After only ten sessions, the blisters disappeared and his mind-set totally changed. He not only got along better with his young patrons, but he suddenly felt motivated to teach kids Brain Education techniques in a special .after-school program. This man learned to reverse his negative brain waves, and the effect on him and those around him was almost miraculous.
In the tradition of Shin-Sun-Do, the process of the completion and birth of the soul is called “Sung Tong Gong “Wan.” “Sung Tong” refers to awakening, or enlightenment. “Gong Wan” refers to the real effort and work required for a person to actualize enlightenment in the real world. Therefore, the process involves both profound internal awakening and real effort to actualize this new awareness in the world.
Healing Chakra of the Soul
In Words of Ilchi Lee do you remember your immediate past? I am not asking you to recall your previous lives, but rather to think about your recent past in this life… on a biological level. This may be a trick question of sorts, but no less true because of it.
You were a sperm. And you were an ovum. Then, you were an embryo and a fetus. Then, you were a baby, born into this world with the body of a human being. Some of you were received warmly, while others of you were not. This is not too important in the overall scheme of things. Do you know the odds of being born as a human being, not in a metaphysical sense, but in a biological sense? In the Buddhist tradition, they say the odds of being born as a human being are the same odds as a sea turtle encountering a wooden plank floating in the middle of the Pacific Ocean as it comes up for air. Let’s examine the odds in a biological sense. We all know how a baby is conceived. With each ejaculation, between 100 and 150 million sperm are released.
This story is copied from Ilchi Lee founder of Dahn Yoga’s articles about brain education. Ilchi Lee writes once upon a time, there lived a group of caterpillars in a great big, green field filled with flowers. Every morning, when the sun came up, they yawned and stretched, and rubbed their fuzzy tummies. “I’m hungry!” they would say before taking big, juicy bites of leaves.
Then they would slide down the leaves, playing and eating all day.
One day, Baby Caterpillar was taking a sunbath on his leaf when he looked up and saw a beautiful butterfly flying in the sky. “Come fly with me,” the butterfly said. “You can fly, too!” But Baby Caterpillar looked at his own short legs and said, “How can I fly? I don’t have any wings!”
A few days later, Baby Caterpillar’s older sister showed him a picture of their father when he was little. She told him a story: “Once, our dad was a baby eater-pillar just like you.
One day at caterpillar school, Daddy said, “I’m going to turn into a flying butterfly someday!” All of Daddy’s friends pointed at him.
Published by: Mr Ilchi Lee
This game requires quick thinking, and it will help kids learn the locations of organs in the body. Begin by explaining the basic function and location of the lungs, heart, stomach, kidneys, and liver. Have kids place their hands on each location Ilchi lee writes.
01. The Lungs bring oxygen to the blood every time you breathe.
02. The Heart pumps oxygenated blood throughout the body.
03. The Stomach uses acids and enzymes to break down food to make energy for your body.
04. The Kidneys filter blood to remove excess liquid and wastes.
05. The Liver removes toxic substances from the blood.