Ilchi Lee

Its final form is an expression of its true nature — its divinity. But in order for this true nature to come out from the inside and shine brightly, the catterpillar has to overcome many challenges and glean lessons from them. Its instinctive knowledge of its final beautiful form helps it to keep going despite the difficult process. I think we all have this instinctive knowledge inside that gives us hope and guides us to our own completion.

The beginning of the song (translated lyrics below) speaks to our innate sense of purpose, hope, and possibility. Please enjoy the English version recording below, and let me know what you think.

"Looking down this dark road
A larva I'm all alone,
Crawling, praying to be something new.
Breaking through my scars to survive,
a pupa asleep alone,
Resting, waiting for my wounds to heal.
Snowy winter covers the night,
but I hold onto dreams inside.
When the spring breeze offers the light,
then you know it's my time to rise, and fly!"

According to Ilchi Lee, author of Brain Wave Vibration, “The technique…is a healing and self-development method that anyone can learn in two minutes.” It is that simple. All you need to do is close your eyes and gently shake your head back and forth. Concentrate on the movement of your head—the natural rhythm—for a couple of minutes. Try it. How do you feel?

Those who have used the technique claim it relaxes them—releases tension, giving them better concentration and better sleep during the night. While the physical, mental and spiritual benefits may be individualized, practitioners report one common thread—the vibrations tend to go where the body needs it the most. The result: your body will get a work out, and your mind will become clearer. Compassion and gratitude will flow from you.

According to Lee, at some point in our past we gave up believing in our inherent power. Brain Wave Vibration is a method that allows you to take back that power. Best of all, that power is within all of us. It’s within you.

Ilchi Lee, in his book Power Brain Kids, writes: “We say, ‘This makes me happy’ or ‘That makes me mad,’ but in reality, emotions come from within ourselves, from inside our brain.” We need to master our emotions to take full ownership of our brain.

Children can change from one emotional state to another a lot quicker than teenagers or adults. By learning to identify these emotions, it will be easier for them to let go of emotional states as they gain the skills to cope.

As a parent, you need to let your child experience, express and talk about any emotion that he or she may be feeling or witnessing. It is your job to communicate with your children on the meaning associated with these particular feelings. Otherwise it’s easy for children to confuse their emotions. For example, explain that their faces and inside feelings are clues to their emotions.

Lee suggests the following exercise, happy face/angry face, to introduce the notion that your children can choose which emotions they feel. It will also help drain your child of past negative emotion.

From Ilchi Lee (Excerpted from Power Brain Kids):

• Remember a time when you felt very angry or unhappy. Tell about that time, and then blow up a balloon, imagining that all the anger is going into the balloon.

• Tie up your “angry” balloon and draw an unhappy face on it with a permanent felt-tip marker.

• Now remember a time when you were very happy. Blow the happiness into a second balloon.

• Tie the “happy” balloon. Using the marker, draw a happy face on the balloon.

• How does each balloon make you feel when you look at it? Pop the one you least prefer.