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.

The soul is pure. Since it is pure, it is simple.

It knows that it wants and it is always ready to do anything to get it.

Once you have asked your soul and received the answer through your heart, then it is time to discuss how to go about getting it with your brain.

Your brain is monitor that displays the movement of the life current and records its path.

Your brain is part of your basic equipment to help you on your journey, much like a notebook computer you take on business trip.

The journey consists of a single seed of thought, which flowers and withers, returning to its original place.

People often call the end of this journey “”.

What does enlightenment mean? What do you have to know to be enlightened?

Is enlightenment the end?

What could be behind enlightenment?

The crux of enlightenment is that there is nothing to be enlightened about.

When you realize that there is nothing to be enlightened about, that is enlightenment.

Does it sound funny? Fishy?

Ilchi Lee

–TOUCH–

In the know: Skin deep
The skin is the body’s largest sensory organ, allowing us to feel touch, pressure and temperature, and even read Braille with our fingers. Within the skin, different types of receptors, activated by various stimuli, trigger nerve impulses. We feel the stimulus when those impulses reach the brain, according to research from the University of Washington . Some receptors, however, are superior to others. Our fingers and lips, for example, are more touchy than our backs because they have more receptors.

Sensory specialist: Sensing with fencing
When a cat is walking near a wall it can feel it with its whiskers, and nocturnal animals like highly intelligent raccoons have a finely tuned sense of touch, according to Fred Beall, general curator of Zoo New England. They love getting their hands wet as they amble along rivers and streams, plunging their paws underwater fishing for food.

Newly blind students in the Carroll Center for the Blind’s fencing program feel their way with foils, which they use to ‘measure’ objects in their mind’s eye as they suddenly find themselves navigating a world without the benefit of vision. They use visual imagery to adjust their mental image to the information they receive mainly with their sense of touch.

Participants also rely on their hearing, sense of movement and balance—an array of sounds tells them whether they are touching the end of the foil, its shaft or its handgrip, for example.

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