When you begin to awaken your body’s senses through BR Calisthenics, you will become very familiar with your five senses, eventually experiencing sensations that you haven’t consciously experienced before. This is the subtle flow of Ki energy. To experience this energy flow, we need to awaken a new sense that we have not been consciously aware of before now.

Relaxed Concentration

In Dahn Yoga Relaxed concentration is an absolute prerequisite to being able to teel the flow of Ki energy. We usually tense up when we concentrate, and we let our thoughts wander without direction when we cease to concentrate. Therefore, relaxed concentration may sound like an oxymoron. However, only when we can direct our consciousness while maintaining a relaxed state of body and mind can we feel the flow of energ

During our normal waking hours, our brain waves are usually at the beta frequency of between 13 and 30 hertz. Beta frequency brain waves are typically associated with normal everyday activity and often with negative emotions. When you are feeling at peace with clear consciousness, your brain waves will be at the alpha frequency level of between 8 and 12 hertz. When you are sleeping or in a state of deep, reflective meditation, your brain waves will be in the range of the theta frequency between 4 and 7 hertz. Deep sleep or unconsciousness will typically measure at the delta frequency of between 1 and 3 hertz. The lower the frequency of your brain waves, the more relaxed and peaceful you will feel.

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BR Burst requires a sudden burst of strength In DahnYoga to pump stagnant energy out of the body and bring the reservoir of energy stored in the lower Dahn-jon up. During this exercise, hold your breath as you concentrate on your lower Dahn-jon and tighten your fingers and toes as much as you can, feeling the sensation of the energy flow throughout your body.

While standing, spread your legs wider than shoulder width, and bend your knees forty-five degrees as in a horse-riding stance. Breathing in, raise your hands to chest level. Hold your breath and fully extend your arms out to the sides and tighten and hold.

Breathe out as you release and return to your starting position.

Repeat this three times.

Remember to tighten your arms, fingers, and toes.

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As Doctor Ilchi Lee writes in his book this motion is similar to wringing the water out of a towel. In a similar fashion, you are trying to loosen the muscles and joints to facilitate the flow of energy, by putting your body through a “wringer” so to speak.

Place your feet shoulder width apart and raise your arms to your sides, level with your shoulders, palms down.

Breathing in, twist both arms forward as far as they will go.

Breathe out as you return to your starting position, arms level with your shoulders, palms down.

Breathing in, twist both arms backward as far as they will go.

Breathe out as you return to your starting position

Breathing in, twist both arms in a clockwise direction as far as they will go, keeping your eyes on the right arm. Your right arm twists back; your left arm twists forward.

Breathing in, twist both arms in a counterclockwise direction as far as they will go, keeping your eyes on the left arm. Your left arm twists back; your right arm twists forward.

Be at ease while breathing out.

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BR Rotating is very important in Dahn Hak as exactly what the name suggests. It is used to loosen the rotating joints in the body with a slow and deliberate circular motion. The movement needs to be done slowly and carefully.

First, slowly rotate your neck counter-clockwise four times, and then clockwise four times

Then, rotate your arms in a large circle forward and backward four times each.

Raise your arms to shoulder level and rotate your wrists forward and backward four times each.

Place your hands on your waist and rotate your waist to the left and to the right, four times each

Place your feet together and bend slightly, placing your hands on top of your knees. Rotate your knees counterclockwise and clockwise, four times each.

Rotate your ankles counter-clockwise and clockwise, four times each.

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As Prof. Ilchi Lee advice, to become the master of your own brain means that you can fully use one hundred percent ot your innate creativity. Because the brain is nurtured by a steady flow of information, feeding it positive and supportive information is the key to maximizing its potential. Vision is the term used to refer to the type of information that stimulates maximum brain activity toward achieving a certain goal.

Having a Vision must be the underlying motivating force for all activities in order to stimulate your brain to reach its maximum potential. In order to be effective, a Vision must be simple and clear enough to be easily understood. It must be realistic enough to be worthy of the investment of time and effort, concrete enough to measure progress, and attractive enough for you to want to devote one hundred percent of your energy to it. During Yoga Exercises most importantly, the Vision must ultimately benefit the goal of peaceful coexistence on Earth. For the divinity that lies within every single one of us longs for peace, and our brains are designed to work toward this very goal.

During Yoga Exercise BR Stretching is designed to stretch your arms, legs, spine, neck, etc. to facilitate the flow of energy by stimulating the muscles, ligaments, and joints. According to Dr. Ilchi Lee, BR Stretching releases tension and corrects maladjustments of the joints and muscles, which can be corrected as they are stretched out and released to their original positions.

Place your legs shoulder width apart and clasp your hands together. Breathing in, lift your hands and straighten your arms overhead with palms facing the sky until your arms are touching your ears on    either side.

Twist your hands, keeping the palms facing toward the sky.

At the same time, lift your heels and tilt your head backward and look at your hands.

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In Dahn Yoga starting from your chest, tap your ribs, abdomen, and sides with both hands, tap the area just below the right ribcage where your liver is located and concentrate on radiating positive, clear energy to the liver.

TU With both hands, tap the area just below the left ribcage where your stomach is located and concentrate on radiating positive, clear energy to your stomach.

USe Bend over slightly from the waist, and tap the area on your lower back (on both sides) where your kidneys are located and move up, tapping as far as your hands can reach. Then tap your way down to your buttocks.

Starting from your buttocks, tap your way down the back of your legs to your ankles From the ankles, start tapping your way up the front of your legs until you reach your thighs Now, from the ankles, tap your way up the insides of your legs to your upper thighs.

From your upper thighs, tap your way down the out-sides of your legs to your ankles.

Finish up by striking your lower Dahn-jon about 20 times. Dahn-jon clapping is most effective when done with the legs shoulder width apart with the knees slightly bent.

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The desire to possess and control, govern the drive to pursue external goals. With these, competition, victory, and defeat are inevitable. The need to win far exceeds that which can be possessed or controlled. More and more people are fighting for smaller and smaller pieces ol the pie. Competition cannot satisfy everyone, lor it is a system ol separating the players into winners and losers, l-’or every \vnmer there is a loser, for every success a failure, and for every feeling of happiness, a sense of despair. This creates a pool ol losers filled with insecurity and fear. Eventually this results m violence, creating even more victims to perpetuate further violence.
The harder we pursue the goals set by our material civili/a-tion, the more we destroy our own ecosystem, deplete our resources, pollute our air, and lay barren mental and spiritual richness. As Doctor Ilchi Lee writes in his book our material civilization is ever growing and becoming more complicated. When a system gets loo large, its efficiency decreases dramatically, requiring more and more energy to maintain less and less of the system. Ironically, we call this process, “growth.”
Since such “growth” destroys the very platform it rests on, it is bound to self-destruct. We are riding on a bicycle that we cannot stop pedaling because if we stop, we will fall. Although we know that we are heading toward a cliff, we cannot stop for fear of falling and skinning our knees. In spite of knowing that our demise is imminent, we cannot stop this process ol endless competition for the thing called the “growth.” We are breathing in only, without breathing out. ff we continue to pursue only external goals without pausing to breathe out, we will surely be history ourselves in the near future.

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The primary goal of Brain Education is to create “power brains” that are

creative, peaceful, and productive. Its intention is not only to make better students

but also to create happier, healthier people. While education traditionally

emphasizes analytical and verbal skills ( consider, for example, the content of the

SAT), Brain Education develops interpersonal and intrapersonal skills, as well.

Brain research has clearly established that emotional and physical health

directly influence children’s ability to learn and consequently affect their performance

(see Vail). Essentially, the best students are the happiest

students. For that reason, Brain Education seeks to enhance learning ability by

first creating happier and healthier children. Through consistent BE practice,

children gain a sense of empowerment toward the creation of a fulfilling and

healthy lifestyle.

Prof. Ilchi Lee writes in his book that consciously or unconsciously, we follow the rhythm of breathing faithfully. In accordance with the laws ol breathing, we must exhale in order to inhale, or contract in order to expand again. We can lill up again when we have emptied ourselves. Life moves with natural rhythms and cycles of the universe. Our breath, our heart beat, all our crucial life functions follow this rhythm without fail. Our lives are an essential part of  Ihcihylhmol Yullyo.

The life ol an iiulividu.il, the’ lile ol a nation, and the life of each species moves according lo this rhythm. I low well and healthy an organism’s lile is, depends on how well and harmoniously the organism maintains this rhythm. This goes lor an entire nation as well as the whole of humanity. On an individual level, we are healthy in body and mind when we adhere to the laws of breathing. On a larger plane, all of society will be in harmony when this rhythm is collectively recognized and maintained.
Unfortunately however, our current way of living is not following this the most basic law of life. Let us see what our current civilization teaches us to pursue and what it considers growth or maturity. In Dahnhak When we equate ourselves with our physical bodies, and consider our consciousness to consist merely of the knowledge and information that we have injested since our birth, we arc unaware of our true place as a grand expression of the cosmos. Then we have no choice perhaps, but to pursue goals that are external and material.