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Wednesday, 20 February 2008 |
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On February 17, I had a great time with around 120 Sedona residents sharing my philosophy and methods of successful aging.
I enjoyed autographing copies of my new book In Full Bloom, co-authored with Jessie Jones, for a long line of kind people. Sedona was the first book-signing for In Full Bloom.
Most of the participants in the room were over 60 years old. My hair also is no longer black. Many people think of their youth as the norm of their lives, and therefore feel hopeless as they feel they are now old. With America's growing population of senior people, maintaining health while aging is a very important issue to the individuals aging, their families, and the entire society.
Think of the life of an older person as a car. If you think that you are going down hill, you can slowly step on the brake. While you can't stop the aging process completely, you can definitely slow it down. You can control your health. If you manage yourself very well, you will be amazed how healthy you can be, even if you are in your 60s, 70s or 80s. The key to successful aging is to have hope. If you give up on hope, you are stepping on gas.
Not only green leaves are beautiful. Autumn leaves are also beautiful. It is not only the sunrise that is wonderful. Sunset is also very wonderful.
You can make yourself happy. Knowing your brain is knowing yourself.
I sincerely extend my gratitude to the participants and the Honorable Pub Colquitt, Mayor of Sedona, who greeted with her warm heart the audience at the Sedona Public Library, where I lectured.
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Saturday, 16 February 2008 |
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Today [Feb. 16], I had the opportunity to give a lecture to the Sedona Dahn Yoga Center’s members, in Sedona, Arizona.
Since I live in Sedona myself, it was a great pleasure to meet people who practice Brain Education program in the same city.
My new book regarding using the brain for successful aging, In Full Bloom, coauthored with Jessie Jones, Ph.D.,was just published. I donated 300 copies of the book to be shared with deserving people in the greater Sedona area. Because some of the Dahn Yoga Center members have taught Brain Education in near-by senior centers, they were very happy with the book and being able to share it in the community.
Sedona is an extremely beautiful city, which attracts more than 4 million visitors from around the world each year. Many people are amazed at its natural beauty of red rocks and green trees, and mystical vortex energy. However, each of you has a soul that far exceeds the beauty of Sedona!
Our true nature is so beautiful, and becoming one with it is very important and meaningful. This is the real reason to practice a body-mind-spirit system. The emotions you feel sometimes in daily life – loneliness, fear and anxiety – are just a tiny tip of the iceberg. They are not the true you.
Depending on where you place your focus, your emotions change. The way to do that is to shift your focus. Please write this on a paper and post it on your wall, “At any time, I can focus on whatever I want to focus.”
Many people live their lives enslaved by memories and emotions. If you want to taste sweetness, please don’t put salt in your mouth. If you like this message, please share it with people around you.
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Tuesday, 12 February 2008 |
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A few days ago, I had the pleasure to lecture to the 30 student-healer-entrepreneurs in the Brain Management School at the Fallsview Best 5 Resort, Ellenville, New York.
These budding entrepreneurs are preparing to open and operate franchised Body & Brain Centers that will serve their local communities in the U.S. with innovative, customized holistic health training, based on Brain Education principles.
The word that came to my brain when I thought about addressing the workshop was hope. These students were overflowing with hope to become healer-entrepreneurs – to learn and disseminate health, happiness and peace in their communities. The new Body & Brain Centers will become beacons of hope in the American health-and-healing field, with their blend of Oriental and Western methods for people with various physical, mental-emotional and spiritual conditions.
What the Body & Brain Center owner-managers will provide gives me great hope that the vision they and I share of a world of health and well-being will prosper in the decade ahead.
About Hope
It is hope that makes our soul tremble.
Without hope, our soul won't be impressed.
Hope is something that one chooses.
Hope is something that one creates.
No matter what despair and difficulties happen, we can have hope.
"I have hope," please tell this to yourself.
"I am the hope," please declare this to yourself.
Losing hope means losing everything.
Recovering hope is the beginning of all good things.
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Sunday, 10 February 2008 |
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Recently, when at the HSP Ranch in British Columbia, Canada, I guided a peace walk with a class of college-age "English as a Second Language" students from South Korea. Before starting off to explore the beautiful snow-covered ranch, we engaged in a conversation, in which I responded to their concerns and questions about life.
One woman asked me for advice about her job decision. She admitted that she had thought very much about getting a good job, but had not been able to decide yet. I told her to stop thinking and make a choice. Many people spend their lives just thinking and not taking action.
Next, I advised her to think more of her goals in life, and then select the job according to its probable meeting these goals. Don't choose a job first, no matter how good it looks according to conventional criteria – such as prestige, salary, training, pension, etc. Instead, go deep inside yourself to get in touch with your heart's goals, and then your choice of the job will clearly follow.
This young lady had been conditioned by society's educational system to think of a job, not her desired life. The primary purpose of the schools is to prepare people for entry into the work force so that society can function with stability. Thus, the schools largely align their courses and methods to the work world's current inventory of jobs. No wonder the vast majority of youth feels confined by the societal system, and thinks mainly in terms of jobs, even suppressing their interests and goals. Once they are in a job or career for long time, there is a tendency to become locked in and feel stuck. Much later, people experience regret and say to themselves, "I don't know why I lived my life like this." But by then, there is usually no easy way to reverse it.
Why should you first set your life goals and then pick your job? It's because you are the master of your life. The reason why I am building this Earth Village at the HSP Ranch is to enable people first to dream and have hope. And then they can identify their life goals. When you live your life sincerely for your dream and with hope, you will naturally choose the job that is really right for you. I want to create this kind of society with you.
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Wednesday, 06 February 2008 |
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 One of my most enjoyable activities is to walk in Nature's splendor, and talk to the people with me about what is inside them and around them and what will be emerging in the future. I had an occasion like this at the HSP Ranch, near St. George in British Columbia, Canada. This retreat center is an area blessed by nature and now snow covered.
With a group of volunteers and “English as a Second Language Course” students, I was delighted to lead a walking tour of where construction is planned. I explained the vision of the buildings that will constitute the Earth Village, where diverse people will come to be in harmony with each other and the Earth.
I facilitated them in connecting with their inner nature as they experienced Nature on the route. Later, I guided the group to wash their faces with the recently fallen snow, to refresh themselves after having done rigorous exercises the day before.
We passed the site of a hotel that will become the future Peace Headquarters, from which peacemaking policies and strategies will be shared with peace leaders around the world. We envisioned today’s basic 5,000-foot runway being upgraded for flights that will bring guests from around the world to experience health, happiness and peace at the Earth Village.
With pleasure, I described the future of this ranch, where the International Peace Research Institute and Educational Center for Earth Leadership will have buildings, personnel and programs to help create a world of peace and harmony. I sensed that everyone present was filled with hope for a bright future.
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Monday, 04 February 2008 |
It is a good feeling when two things I love intersect each other. This happened in January when the field of Brain Education, which I have been developing for nearly 30 years, was presented at a conference of the United Nations.
Two years ago it became apparent to me that the common core of all the programs and projects that my colleagues and I have been creating is the human brain. The brain has a key role in determining the quality of our physical health, mental capacity, and spiritual harmony. Brain Education is about understanding the brain system, and utilizing more of its extraordinary potential. In our modern era, when we face tremendous risks to our environment and humanity, more of us need to access more of our infinite creativity to contribute to the enhancement of human life and this planet’s viability.
I am grateful to Dr. Warrington Parker and staff of the Korea Institute of Brain Science (KIBS) and International Brain Education Association (IBREA) for presenting “Brain Education for Human Rights and Dignity,” to the Educational Committee of the Conference of NGO’s in Consultative Status at the United Nations, New York, January 17, 2008.
 Dr. Warrington Parker speaks passionately about Brain Education The United Nations has enlarged its vision and activities beyond peace to include its causes – such as the economic, social, health, education and environment factors. Thus, it was reasonable for the UN to reach beyond the resources of its member governments and welcome NGO participation. The UN’s Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) recognizes certain NGOs that can bring expertise to the UN’s dialogues and projects. It was an honor, in July 2007, that ECOSOC approved KIBS (of which I am the president) as a NGO with consultative status.
I believe that the foundations of Brain Education are securely built on neuroscience and the behavior sciences, and its potential applications in diverse fields – such as health, education, business and peace – offer hope and help to the world. |
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Friday, 01 February 2008 |
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Music is a universal language, with the power to heal mind, body and spirit. While we listen mainly with our ears, the auditory experience is happening throughout our body and especially in the brain. If you want to change, combine the right music, message and action, and the prospects of success soar.
Around two weeks ago, I had the opportunity to listen to the new music of Arang, one of my students. He selected 10 songs from among those that he composed during the past two years. I listened to them in a state of meditation and joy. It was a deeply renewing experience to take in wonderful music with all my being. And what also pleased me was knowing that one of my students, with whom I have been working for a long time, composed this body of music, with all his talent and soul.
Arang is a passionate and pioneering composer, pianist and drummer, in both the Western and Korean musical traditions. He benefits from living and working amid the exquisite beauty and incredible energy of the red-rock country of Sedona, AZ.
I use music a lot when I give lectures or conduct training programs, and his music is one of my favorites. I especially appreciate Arang's instrumental pieces with complex sounds, and his songs with deep meaning. His style of music and my messages on health, happiness and peace go well together, creating a resonating synergy in one's body, mind and even the spirit.
We have had fruitful collaborations in recent years. For example, one of Arang's 10 works was his music set to my poem "White Dragon." In particular, I was most moved by his extraordinary piece "Peace River." He said that he composed it thinking of his friends and colleagues who share the same vision path – namely, improving the health and well-being of humanity and the Earth. When I relaxed and listened to this piece music, my heart became warm and smiled inside of me, and I felt grateful to all those with whom I work and serve. This song inspired me to realize that I am living my life in a more beautiful way.
I want to share my sincere heart and encouragement to Arang, who is very busy in Los Angeles and Sedona, being absorbed in preparing for his new album, his fifth one.
With Arang's kind permission, I want to offer his song "Peace River" (below) for your listening delight. Just as I was touched by this music, I hope you too will enjoy it and sense its deep inspirational intent.
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Monday, 28 January 2008 |
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The snow covers the ground at the HSP Ranch in British Columbia, Canada, on a cold and sunny January day. Riding a horse from the HSP Ranch I recently had an opportunity to look over the beauty of the meadows, forests, river and hills of this training center, and envision the future potential of this pristine setting.
On the ride, I could see vividly and feel deeply the vision of an emerging Earth Village here where HSP (health, smile/happiness and peace) is the core culture within which the residents and visitors from different cultures and nations can live, work, learn and create a model harmony of humanity and the Earth. Today, there is a small group of trainers and staff living and working in a few rustic buildings. At present, the roster of training programs is modest.
But every great enterprise begins with a dream. Then there is a focus and energy given to the work that many can do together, to make the dream into a vision and then into a reality. The world today needs successful role models of how people of various cultures – who see themselves more as Earth Humans or global citizens, rather than as members of a narrower nationality, religion or creed – can work productively, creatively and peacefully to build a village in total harmony with themselves and Nature.
 Waving to you in -22 F weather The HSP Ranch is surrounded by an expansive and rich land, and the challenge of a Northern climate with its long winter. The core people and buildings are in place. The vision and strategy are taking shape. Soon, more and more visitors from all over the world will gather to learn, celebrate, meditate and heal – themselves and the Earth. There is and will always be plenty of room at the HSP Ranch for its horses to be ridden so that other people can frame their own loving and practical visions for humanity and the Earth. |
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Thursday, 24 January 2008 |
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On January 15, a very sunny day in Sedona Arizona, I talked with Dr. Jessie Jones, Kinesiology and Health Science specialist, and co-director of the Center for Successful Aging at California State University, Fullerton. I have shared Brain Education for 30 years to children, employees of companies and the elderly, in order to improve their health, creativity and well-being.
One of my main concerns has been how to improve the health of the elderly through Brain Education. Last year, Jessie and I agreed to co-author a book to improve the health and life of the elderly. The book’s title is In Full Bloom and it will be published in late February.
I feel very grateful and honored to write this book with Jessie. She is nationally and internationally known for her research, program design, and curriculum development in the field of exercise science and aging. Her work has been published in numerous professional journals and cited in more than 100 popular newspapers and magazines. I am very glad that she and I agreed on the concept that the brain is one of the key factors in successful aging.
 Dr. Jessy Jones has a wonderful smile. Aging is inevitable and all humans shall die eventually. However, there can be a huge difference as to how we deal with aging. Many people think and take it for granted that as they grow older their brain performance gets weaker and weaker because the number of brain cells decrease. However, I think it is very important to know how to operate and utilize the brain well. If we make good use of the brain, we can live more a beautiful and healthy old age. That’s why I wrote this book.
So, how can we utilize and operate our brains the best way possible? The answers cannot be simply and entirely derived from knowledge. My idea is instead to introduce a program, Brain Wave Vibration Training, for regular and active use by elderly people. With this new and unique training that I have recently designed, you can focus on the brain’s waves, do certain vibrational exercises, and thus maximize the innate natural healing power and potential. I think that old age life is very important to our lives.
If today we regard 60 years of age as a new beginning of our life, that kind of mindset will bring about a very meaningful change in the brain’s functioning to benefit our physical and mental capability and performance. And this in turn will upgrade the very quality of our lives and the value that we can share with the rest of our families, communities, societies and the world. |
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