If you stick your hand in the pool and stir up all the mud, how will you be able to find it? You need to let the mud settle to the bottom and the water to clear before you can see the needle. Then you can reach in and gently but firmly grab on to it. Enlightenment requires a simple belief. Simple choice. Simple courage. Simple discipline. Simple action.

The next big question Ilchi Lee think: why seek enlightenment? Once you are enlightened, then what? Is there anything further? Oh, yes. The reason to seek enlightenment is to recover the True Love that exists in our hearts. Not just to recover it in a passive sense, but to actualize it through concrete actions that benefit those around you. This will make enlightenment an experience, not just a concept.

Many people have been enlightened throughout the history of mankind, not just Jesus, the Buddha, or Muhammad. Thousands of nameless saints, holy men, and seers have realized the Oneness.

Living Now Book Awards--Brain Wave Vibration by Ilchi Lee

Two of Ilchi Lee’s books won Living Now Awards on Earth Day, April 22, 2009. Brain Wave Vibration: Getting Back into the Rhythm of a Happy, Healthy Life [BEST Life Media, June 2008] won first place in the Meditation and Relaxation Category and In Full Bloom: A Brain Education Guide for Successful Aging [BEST Life Media, 2007], co-authored with Jessie Jones, PhD, won second place in the Mature Living and Anti-Aging Category.

The Living Now Book Awards recognize books that help readers help themselves, and learn about enriching their lives in wholesome, Earth-friendly ways. These two winners, which describe Ilchi Lee’s brain and earth-centered philosophy for personal and global development, fit perfectly into the Living Now Book Awards’ recognition that society is “realizing the need to slow down, see and feel the natural world around them, and to find balance in their lives. […] We need to keep ourselves healthy, and need to keep the Earth healthy – today, and for future generations.”

Brain Wave Vibration fills this need by describing an easy and powerful natural method of bringing body and mind into balance for total health, happiness, and peace. The simplest form of practice merely requires moving your body to your own internal, healing rhythms in order to slow down and integrate your brain waves. Brain Wave Vibration is more than just a physical training technique, however. Through it you can come back to who you really are and create miracles in your life.

Like Brain Wave Vibration, In Full Bloom also teaches readers simple, natural methods that are a part of Ilchi Lee’s Brain Education System Training. However, this book focuses on how they can apply the training to live healthy, creative, and productive lives at every age. Co-authored with Jessie Jones, PhD, it celebrates the older brain and its unique capabilities, while offering practical advice to maintain and accentuate its attributes. In addition to examining the important interconnection between body and brain, In Full Bloom provides a fully-illustrated series of body and brain exercises.

Both of these books have distinguished themselves among other titles by independent publishers as books of quality that can help people live more natural, healthy lives.

Ilchi Lee article about gnawing anxiety, we have to somehow appease this gnawing anxiety that we feel. So we seek a form of fleeting security through competition, for by beating others we create a sense of superiority and security in knowing that we are at least less anxious or fearful than that person. Then we become addicted to this momentary high and make it our life’s goal. How much we make, how many cars we have, what wonderful vacations we will go to next . . . beat the Joneses, or at least keep up with them. And because of this instinctive anxiousness, we hurt each other, becoming the reasons for all the bad memories of others, and all the bad information about this world that is passed on to others. Ilchi Lee Prof says only a person truly at peace with who he or she is can be loving and magnanimous. If we are forever anxious and nervous about something, we can’t afford to be generous. We have to take the next person down to move on up in this world, even if we have to step on that person’s broken back. We have to look out for number one.

Those who seek enlightenment need to be simple. You can’t have complicated thoughts in your mind if you want a spiritual awakening. It’s like finding a needle in the middle of a muddy pool of water.

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It will be like building yourself up to jump into a pool of freezing water only to realize afterward that it is the most luxurious, warm, and soothing bath that you have ever experienced. You will laugh that you ever had any apprehension at all. But before you make that jump, the apprehension you feel is very real. Enlightenment is an exercise in trust.

Have you ever been stuck in traffic that won’t move an inch for an hour? Have you then noticed how some people deal with the time? Some sing out loud, moving their heads to and fro as if they were the original artists, rocking the whole car on its chassis. Ilchi Lee said some people honk for a minute at a time, as if the car in front of them was somehow the reason for clogging up the whole city block. Others even break out a deck of cards to whittle away the time while stuck in traffic. What do all these activities tell us? That people need to be constantly in motion. That they get nervous with time during which they don’t do anything. That they are ever so anxious to get on with something, anything.

Article by Ilchi Lee writer of book “healing Society”.

Time is money is the motto on which everything runs. After all, there are always others who will be spending their time constructively while you are stuck in traffic. You will be falling behind. Somebody else will take over your job, your security, your family, your everything, and you will lose if you waste any more time in this damned traffic. You will lose the game.

From where does this anxiety come? Where else—our competitive social paradigm. We think that in order to survive, we have to be better than everyone else. Prof Ilchi says our fear of losing is what drives us. We have forgotten that we are all interconnected, not just with each other, but with the whole cosmos, and that what affects one part affects every other part. We have forgotten what our True Selves know.

In the midst of this almost instinctive anxiety, human beings are nevertheless looking to escape it. We somehow know that there is something better than all this constant instability. That’s why we try to explain away our anxiety with logic, conquer it with religion, legislate it with government, and soothe it away with therapy, only to fail.