Ilchi Lee

When you are exercising, you should make sure you have good posture and alignment. Through the years, your body has probably developed habits that are less than ideal. If you conscientiously strive to improve your posture, you are essentially retraining your brain to adopt a healthier habit.

Week 2 introduces you to brain sensitizing, an integrated mind-body training method that focuses on stimulating specific areas of the brain to awaken the senses, develop a keener sense of energy flow, and gain a greater awareness of the brain’s functioning. The goal of this method is to help you establish a connection between your mind and body through deep stretching, meditative breathing techniques, and energy awareness.

Week 3 continues with an exercise in brain sensitizing and introduces you to brain versatilizing, the process of creating new neural connections in the brain. Brain versatilizing is designed to help you develop the plasticity and vibrancy of a high-demand brain faster. The goal of this process is challenging your brain to master new tasks and to become more supple and flexible—freeing your mind from rigid habits.

Week 4 continues with an exercise in brain versatilizing and introduces brain refreshing, the process of releasing negative emotional residue and letting go of past traumas. The goal is to gain a more positive state of mind and greater, more productive control over your pattern thoughts.

Week 5 continues with an exercise in brain refreshing and introduces brain integrating, a method that reunites the diverse processing centers of the brain; revives dormant connections between thought, emotion, and reasoning; and helps you discover your true self. The goal of this method is to fully integrate your thoughts and emotions and to bring out your whole true personality—a healthy body, enriched emotions, and blooming creativity. Building on your earlier BEST work, this is a very self-reflective week, asking you to be completely honest with yourself.

Week 6 continues with an exercise in brain integrating and introduces brain mastering, the process of discovering the life you want to live and developing a mental discipline that allows you to turn your brain into a tool to create that life.

At this point, you have received a basic introduction to and are practicing the five levels of the BEST program. Your body should feel better (it may look better, too), and you should feel a greater balance between your mind and body, as well as a heightened level of self-awareness and energy.