Ilchi Lee - Brain Education for Peace

Take Back Your Brain!

michela — Tue, 14 May 2013 18:58:40 +0000

Many people correctly understand what it means to master their brains. Some, on the other hand, wonder whether there was ever a time when they weren’t the master of their brain. How could it be possible not to be the master of their brain? They think because they studied hard in school and got good grades or bad grades based on their brain’s abilities, they were always the master of their brain.

However, being a true master of your brain isn’t about doing what others tell you to do. Say someone told you to do 100 math problems, and you just solved them without question. Whose brain did this? Although your brain solved the problems, the person who issued the instructions to do them is its master. Living surrounded by instructions, we don’t realize how much they influence us. We believe this is being the masters of our brains. But it’s not.

The kind of brain mastery I’m talking about is creating and asking your own questions. When your brain answers them, you can take those answers with you. You own them; you did not ingest them passively and blindly. For example, most people have smart phones. These phones have countles advertisements that pop up for you to see. If you keep looking at those advertisements habitually and automatically, then who is master of that smartphone? You paid for it, but if your brain is moved by all of that information, then you are not master of it.

A master determines whether information contributes to his or her values. You should be able to choose it. You are the master of your brain only when you can determine whether different emotions and habits contribute to your family’s happiness and to realizing your own values, and then choose the ones that do. If advertising makes you feel unhappy about buying something, if you have to buy what they are selling to feel happy, then, ultimately, you’re made a slave by the person who conveys the information to you through the smartphone you keep carrying.

You have the power to search for information and the power to cut yourself off from information. These days, if you look, you’ll see that everyone is getting hacked. You can say that you are the master of your brain when, with your own insight and philosophy as one who has observer consciousness, you can judge these different things for yourself.

To be able to do that, your mind needs to reach the zero point. The zero point is a perspective of neutrality, balance, and clarity; it exists at the very center of your consciousness. Only when you have reached the zero point will you understand the true substance of all information and find your true value. You’ll be able to see where some information has come from, why you were made aware of it, and what significance it has for your own value and life. Without reaching zero point, however, you cannot make such judgments because you do not have a valid basis for comparison.

People who learn their true value do not have the drive to possess or rule. Rather, they discover the will to create a peaceful and harmonious world. When those people carry out their will, then an era of spiritual civilization will overtake our current material civilization. That is what it means to be the master of your brain, and it is the reason to recover your zero point with meditation.

Hearing the Call of the Earth

michela — Tue, 07 May 2013 05:16:01 +0000

The waters of Oak Creek ripple through the Verde Valley bringing the green blush of deciduous trees hinted at in the valley’s name. I sat on the bank of one part of the creek recently, dangling my feet in the chill water. Here, the water level was shallow, and my feet brushed against the rough gray stone below. I let my mind sink into the sensation, delighted for a moment’s respite from an always demanding schedule.

After more than thirty years of daily meditation and a mindful lifestyle, my mind easily opened to the natural feast for the senses around me. The steady rushing and trickling of the water over the rocky and uneven creek bottom, the numbing coolness of the water and rock against my skin, the fresh greenness in the air with the faint scent of spring flowers all embraced me.

My mind did not remain with my senses, however. Its awareness soon went deeper and wider, and I could sense the spirit and soul of the earth that underlies and animates its form. As I did, my own spirit and soul felt more alive and I merged with that of the earth. I rejoiced as the boundaries between myself and nature shimmered into nothing.

And then I became nothing. As my consciousness descended even deeper and wider, I dropped down to the origin, the center of all, where nothingness is everything. I was beyond the compilation of cells and experiences and ideas known as Ilchi Lee. I became consciousness itself—the ultimate awareness and source of creation. I could see everything in that nothingness; it was in harmony and balance. From that perspective, everything was without flaw.

At the same time, Mother Earth, Mago, called to me, and I felt the usual urgency. In that ongoing moment of fundamental peace, I could still feel the mission that had been burning in my heart for years, and I knew once again that everyone needed to bring their awareness to zero point, to nothingness, and become the creative observer that could view the universe with clarity and balance. Only with this creative observer consciousness could the citizens of the earth adopt a lifestyle that expressed the absolute and essential values that exist at zero point when all that is ephemeral is stripped away. Only with this consciousness could all of us work together to imagine the creative solutions for changing the systems we operate under to be in alignment with these values. Only with this consciousness could we all live with love, oneness, and peace.

The towering red rocks looked ever more majestic when I opened my eyes. I got up and began my work again.

LifeParticle Meditation

michela — Fri, 03 May 2013 02:41:25 +0000

A meditation book like no other, LifeParticle Meditation provides targeted visualization techniques for waking up your mind’s abilities and making the changes you want in your life. Rather than being dragged by life’s inevitable flow of change, the meditations and ideas in this book allow you to understand, manage, and direct that flow. Join thousands of other LifeParticle Meditation practitioners in using LifeParticles to experience profound healing and self-transformation.

Magnets for Health and Peace

michela — Thu, 02 May 2013 06:22:56 +0000

When people fight, they think that they’re just fighting. When they put others down with caustic remarks, it may seem as if they are just bruising their psyche. But if you look deeper, you’ll see they are damaging more than that. If you zoom in to the magnification of LifeParticles, the elementary particles we are all made of, you’ll be able to observe the “dark holes” in the subtle electric and magnetic fields within and around our bodies.

LifeParticles have the properties of electricity and magnetism. As compositions of LifeParticles then, everything that exists—our body, the earth, the sun—also generates electric and magnetic fields. Electricity and magnetism are interrelated as two sides of the same coin. Electric currents, the flow of charged particles, produce electric and magnetic fields. Magnetic fields affect the flow of electric currents.

Excessive worry, anxiety, and negativity from within and without weakens the body’s magnetic field. When the magnetic fields of two or more people clash, their protective layer of energy tears. Too many of us are walking around with damaged and weak magnetic fields. If our energy field is damaged, it’s bound to result in emotional turmoil. That is the main stressor and the cause of the mental disease that underlies many of our personal and societal issues. On the other hand, when the electricity and magnetism in our bodies is healthy, then emotionally and mentally we are also very stable and healthy.

To repair, utilize, and magnify the electricity and magnetism of our body, we do not need complex technology. We simply need to practice meditation. Meditation adjusts our energy and our brain, which go hand in hand. The magnetic field produced by the brain is generated from the blood that flows through it and from the electrical impulses created by the flow of ions through nerve cells. Therefore, when we change our thoughts, we change our brain’s wiring, and we change our magnetic and electric fields. The process also works in reverse. A “healthy” magnetic field means a healthy brain, which produces a healthy life, and collectively creates a healthy society.

I’ve been guiding meditation for over thirty years now. Some people have trouble learning and doing meditation; they have trouble managing their thoughts and focusing. However, I’ve found that if you do energy meditation, if you simply feel your energy, it’s much easier to focus. The moment you feel the energy, that’s the best meditation because you cannot feel energy unless you focus. The easiest way to feel energy, I’ve found, is to use magnets. I call it Magnetic Meditation.

Everyone can feel the push and pull of two magnets as they play with them. If we keep playing with them–moving them toward and away from each other or circling them around each other or our body in any way we like—and observing our body as we feel the magnetic pull, we’ll be able to feel our own energy more strongly and clearly because magnets expand and magnify our energy. Also, concentrating on the magnetic sensations focuses our mind so we can sense our own energy more easily.

As we focus, our brain will return to a completely normal and healthy state. The more we focus on our energy, the more quiet our mind becomes—all of our idle or unnecessary thoughts disappear.

We don’t have to do Magnetic Meditation for a long time. Just five minutes is more effective than an hour of most other kinds of meditation. Typically, when one starts meditating, it takes a long time to get into a calm state of mind. But with magnets this happens very quickly. If we were to do Magnetic Meditation every time we had some free time, or five minutes at a time three times a day, we could experience a more profound change in the condition of our brain and magnetic field, which would lead to a change in our consciousness.

With that change, we would wake up in the morning refreshed with energy, rejuvenated, and confident. Our voice would carry more power, we would glow with brightness, and we would be free of addictions and victim mentality. Most of all, by keeping our magnetic field and brain healthy, we could maintain an absolute and enduring peace.

The One and Only You

michela — Wed, 01 May 2013 02:57:25 +0000

Don’t keep belittling yourself.
You are a unique, one-and-only being.

No matter how small it may be,
something that you feel
is a precious thing.

If you keep acknowledging and accepting and expressing yourself,
that feeling keeps growing.

When you dig up arrowroot,
the stems don’t look like much,
but the roots that come out are large enough that several people can share it later and be satisfied.

In the same way,
when you trust and love yourself,
you can ultimately uncover the great and sacred
“true self”
that’s inside of you.

People who don’t even try digging and give up, saying,
“What do I expect? Digging is only going to make my hands hurt,”
end up not being able to get closer to the treasure
that is their one-and-only being.

Ilchi Lee

Stream the Change Film

michela — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 17:30:22 +0000

By the Editor

CHANGE: The LifeParticle Effect, a film produced by LifeParticle TV, will host a promotional gift giveaway in conjunction with the film’s online release May 2nd through May 8th. Twenty-one select people who stream the film online or recommend it through social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, etc. will receive a prize. To enter please tag @lifeparticletv with the hashtag #ChangeFilm. Ten of the winners will win a copy of executive producer Ilchi Lee’s latest book, LifeParticle Meditation: A Practical Guide to Healing and Transformation, and another ten will receive magnet sets for meditation as shown in the film. One final winner will receive a sterling silver LifeParticle Pendant inlaid with colored crystals valued at $90.

The Theory of LifeParticles, featured in the film, offers a fresh perspective on who we are as human beings and what we are capable of. In essence, we are LifeParticles, the inseparable unity of consciousness and energy. Through this realization, you reach the very foundation of the reality that connects you to everything that exists in this universe. The film denotes that we create the world around us on a much deeper level than most realize. In fact, we can “consciously” create the world that we want when we realize our potential as creative observers and train ourselves to use the inherent and often untapped capabilities of the brain. This film offers viewers a new perspective, combined with working principles, so that lasting changes can be created.

Leaders in the fields of education, medicine, neuroscience, and spirituality such as Ilchi Lee, Neale Donald Walsch, and Stuart Hameroff share their insight and techniques to effect real change in our lives and in the world. Individuals who have experienced the LifeParticle effect in their own lives share their personal stories. Enlightening new perspectives combined with the scientific background of modern physics and neuroscience as well as mind-body self-help tips to utilize in daily life are fully presented in this film to assist in the fundamental understanding and practical usage of LifeParticles for real Change.

This film is offered as a tool to enable a clear understanding of your creative potential so strongly that you feel an invincible hope for yourself and the world. CHANGE is more than just informational—it is transformational.

LifeParticle TV is committed to offering life-enhancing programming through motion pictures, lectures, and meditations to engage the human imagination in the quest for growth and completion. All of the programming produced is designed as a support tool to help expand horizons and make mindful living something that comes effortlessly.

To view the film and learn more, please visit www.change-film.com.

CHANGE: The LifeParticle Effect Official Web Release
Thursday, May 2nd thru Wednesday, May 8th 2013
www.change-film.com

Why Do I Live?

michela — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 02:52:53 +0000

Regardless of who you are
or what you have gained
throughout your life,
you must set it all down at some point.
You must discard it and let it go.
But you must know the purpose
of letting go.
That’s what matters.

In order to properly let things go,
you must always ask yourself:
“Why do I live?”
“What standards do I live by?”

As you keep asking yourself the question,
“Why do I live?”
you find your own answer.
Through this answer,
you can know yourself.

The immediate answer that comes to mind is false.
The genuine answer is one
that won’t change
a year from now or ten years from now.

An answer that comes out of
just thinking in your head
can change.
Only the answer that comes from your true self
is unchanging.

Why do I live?
It’s a question to ask yourself your entire life.
If you always ask yourself,
“Why do I live?”
throughout your life,
you will discover what to throw away and what to attain.

Ilchi Lee

Change Documentary Film Premiere

michela — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 07:14:07 +0000

By the Editor

Last Tuesday, April 16, 2013, 243 people gathered at the Sedona Creative Life Center for a red carpet premiere of the documentary film Change: The LifeParticle Effect, for which Ilchi Lee was the inspiration and executive producer. The event was hosted and organized by the Sedona Meditation Center, a non-profit in Sedona, Arizona that teaches the many meditation methods developed by Ilchi Lee. The free, semi-formal event included a catered reception, a photo zone for professional pictures, the film screening, and a talk by Ilchi Lee on personal and planetary change. Producer co-director Eunjin Lim and co-director Edwin Kim were in attendance, with Edwin making a short speech beforehand. Many of the film’s crew and stars also attended.

The event was a mixture of celebration and inspiration. As one attendee, Lorrie Lawrence, expressed, “Being here at this event was a great opportunity to listen to the message Ilchi Lee is giving to the world for us to all help each other and learn how to use our energy and the energy that is all around us to create change in our lives and the world.”

The simplicity of the message of the film and the talk was evident: We are all made of LifeParticles. LifeParticles are consciousness and energy; at the same time, LifeParticles are brought together, moved, and pulled apart by consciousness to form what we wish. We all inherently have the power to foster change if we can clear out thoughts and emotions that inhibit our brain power and put enough energy into what we want through focus and action. When we clear our brains, we reach a point of zero, a state of balance in which we can see reality as it really is and make choices unencumbered by our past baggage. LifeParticle Meditation and meditation with magnets enable us to achieve balance and clarity and send energy for a new reality for ourselves, for society, and for the planet. During the talk, the audience was able to taste this by experiencing their own energy through feeling the energy between two small but strong magnets given to them by Ilchi Lee.

“I really enjoyed the simplicity of the message,” commented emcee Gaetano Frankel, “and how it was delivered with such sincerity, honesty, and clarity where it’s the message of being that zero point where you’re just in balance. Mainly that, I enjoyed that a lot. So that was very inspiring. And how that can inspire change, by that zero balance.”

His wife Erika DeCoronado was “so overjoyed by this concept and belief system that needs to be shared with the whole world because it’s such an important message, so important for all humanity. And I feel it’s going to really spread because we’re coming together in this oneness. It’s just so beautiful. . . . It’s just really magnificent, just to come together, in this room, . . . and share this same belief system. It’s very powerful, and this can spread like a domino effect. So it’s very touching, inspirational.”

Dawn Quaresima, manager of the East Meadow, New York Dahn Yoga Center, couldn’t “wait to share it with [her] members back in New York.” She thought the film took “many of the principles that we’ve been sharing . . . and put them together in such a clear, scientific way. Everybody I think can digest this, understand it, and connect to it.” Overall she thought the event was a “wonderful time spent to connect to yourself and reflect on where you are in your life and what you want to change. And being able to be here with Ilchi Lee is so spectacular and precious, to hear where he came from and how this all came about; it’s truly inspiring and it makes each of us feel anything is possible if we choose it.”

The film premiere was the first of a national tour hosted by Dahn Yoga & Health, Inc. and Body + Brain Holistic Yoga that will go on from May to July this year. The tour is part of a larger Change Project, which also includes two companion books and a website. Change: The LifeParticle Effect will be available on DVD and Blu-ray in May 2013.

The scope and purpose of the Change Project will evolve as new people and ideas are added to the mix. While many offer solutions to make change easier and better, an understanding of the role energy plays in the process of change distinguishes this project from other endeavors. Many people become frustrated because they cannot bridge the gap between their thoughts and their experiences. However, the Change Project believes that if we understand energy is in play between these two, and learn how to use it, creating changes will become easier and more enjoyable.

For Peace & Harmony

michela — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 02:48:51 +0000

The body and mind are two sides of the same coin.

Like the river water and the river bank, without one, the other loses the value of its existence.

Restore the harmony of your body and mind by unifying them as one.

When your body and mind are harmonious and peaceful, you can also achieve harmony with other people.

When you become aware that the body and mind are two sides of the same coin, you can see that you and others are also two sides of a coin,
which cannot be separated.

In a state where the self and the other appear to be divided, and you dislike them or regard them as an enemy, unification or peace is impossible.

For peace and harmony, it is important to see reality as it truly is.

My thoughts and prayers go out to everyone affected by the Boston Marathon bombing.

Ilchi Lee

Be Like Water

michela — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 21:55:05 +0000

A true spiritual practitioner
must be like water.

Like water, you must discard
your own individual form
so you can enter into people’s bodies
to become blood.

Like water, you must flow
into every corner of the world,
all of its smallest spaces,
and make everything wet and clean.
After that, you must sublimate
the entire world to the heavens.

As you do all this,
because you are water,
you never come forward to boast
you did this or that excellent deed.

People who put themselves forward
have already given up on being water.
Such people are not
real spiritual practitioners.

A true spiritual practitioner
has to know how to vanish
without a trace
like water.

Ilchi Lee