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Arousing internal Ki during Ki-gong practice to create Jin-ki (energy that generated through deep, concentrated breathing) is done through the “power of the mind” based on this principle of Shim-Ki-Hyul-Jung. Accumulating Jin-ki in the body is yet another important role played by the mind. “Ui-su Dahn-jon,” or focusing awareness on the Dahn-jon by Ilchi Lee to gather Ki, is based on the same principle. This is why, among the three elements of Ki-gong practice, the method of concentration called “Jo-shim-bup,” or mind control, is treated as particularly important.

The mind is like empty space. In the absence of movement, it is completely empty, quiet and unbounded. When we move our minds, however, the Ki, blood, and spirit of our bodies moves with it, and infinite creation unfolds within.

Although strong intent and continuous, repeated thoughts can take material form. In other words, energy gathers where we place our minds, and when energy gathers, blood flows well and vital activity is invigorated, creating our bodies’ jeong. This principle applies not only to the bodies of people, but also to the human societies and universe in which we live.

Everything is energy. The earth’s atmosphere is filled with energy. The land is streaming with energy. The sea is swimming with energy. The hills and the mountains are spewing out energy every second. The reality of every entity and object is energy. Through the sensation of ‘Ki’ energy, we can feel the Earth’s body. Raise your hands into the air. What do you feel? You will feel air passing through your fingers. Earth’s breath is hidden in the stream of air that passes through your fingers. Rotate your hands and feel how the wind, the breath changes.

Now place your hands in front of your chest, palms facing each other. Focus your attention on your palms, and concentrate on the subtle but definite sensation in your palms. First, you will feel heat, but then, you will start to feel the beating of your own pulse within the heat. Concentrate on the pulse, allowing its rhythm to ring throughout your being. Now, bring your hands closer to each other, without touching, and then slowly pull them apart. Concentrate on your palms. You may feel anything from a prolonged sense of deep warmth to a subtle tingling or tickling sensation. Now, imagine that there is a small ball that you are holding. Cup your hands and rotate them along the contours of the ball. Feel the balloon-like presence of the energy within your hands, soft yet firm, amorphous yet shapely, in constant flux within your hands.

What you are feeling is ‘Ki,’ energy of Mago, the Earth. Immerse your consciousness in this sea of energy, feeling it expand along your arms, your shoulders, your face, and downward, as if a soft, warm rain is soothing every part of your body. You feel the breath of Mago, and her love. Our soul is riding upon this stream of energy to become one and to commune with Mago, the soul of the Earth. This energy is peace, absolute freedom, allowing you to break out of the shell that is your body. You can now send this stream of energy to your loved ones, using it to comfort and heal. In merging with Mago’s energy, we can soothe our hearts, harmonize the flow of energy within our body and mind, and replenish our bodies’ vitality.

Ilch Lee expert of brain and breath respiration.

Earth whispers with a voice, gentle and soft
Land is my bosom
Sea is my soul
Wind is my breath
Sky is my heart
And you are all my children

Earth whispers in a voice filled with longing Feel the sun tingling on your skin Hear the whispers of the moon and stars Hear the radiant symphony of nature Speaking with one voice Let Mago’s dream come true
Mago, Mother Earth, is even now sending her life-giving breath to us with every breath we take, accompanied by her plea for Mago’s Dream. When you feel an empty tiredness in your heart, wanting warmth and energy, join in the breathing of Mago. You will always be welcome.

Yoga practice guideling by Ilchi Lee.

The next time you enter a forest, open yourself to the sights and sounds made by the forest. Don’t use your ears, but use your hearing. Don’t use your eyes, but use your vision.  According to Ilchi Lee research if you strain to hear the sounds and see the sights, you are putting on a filter of your own preconceptions of what a forest is supposed to be like. Just open yourself up and feel nature as it really is.

Listen to the sound of a bird chirping. This sound is vibration. However, depending on how awake your inner senses are, you will register this sound merely as a chirp, … or as a vibration of life immersed deep within your own being, through which you can feel the beating of your own heart, variations in body temperature, and the flow of blood through your veins. The sound of the bird chirping contains infinite life. Through it, you can feel the sparkling of sunlight as it strikes the bird’s feathers.

You can feel the whisper of leaves on the branch that the bird is perched upon. Through the simple sound of a bird singing, you can hold a conversation with the earth.

This world is filled with the fantastic and the wonderful. However, we have considered ourselves merely an audience of such wonder, instead of being a part of it. We have limited our own sense of wonder by the narrow window of our five material senses. When we make ourselves wide open, the bird will no longer look like just a bird, but will look like the sun, moon and, most importantly, the Earth. With expanded senses, we can see the reality of ourselves as an integral part of the relationships in life, erasing the artificial barriers that our own limited thinking has created. We are all interconnected with the life that is Earth. When our senses are really open, even a rock underneath our feet is precious and a dry leaf falling from a tree in autumn, exquisite.

According to Ilchi Lee book humans and trees have no business dealings in the normal sense. There are no brokers who take their cut, whose profit is calculated by the amount of air that we consume. We don’t need a lawyer, an accountant, or an arbitrator to regulate our dealings with the trees. Therefore, we haven’t had a single incident of conflict. No tree has refused us its exhalation of oxygen just as we have never refused a tree our breath of carbon dioxide. The reason why there are no conflicts in this life exchanging process is that there are not any interlopers seeking to take credit for what is not theirs, coveting honors they don’t deserve. All conflict arises out of just such misguided self-aggrandizement. However, the real giver of life does not seek any recognition, prayers, or worship. If this is not real love, then what is? If this is not divinity, then what is?

All of life is intimately involved in this cycle. There is no sense in labeling who the giver is or who the taker is. Everybody owes somebody something. I literally owe my life to a plant, tree, or a shrub nearby, not in any metaphysical sense but in a real sense. Ultimately, a tree is a tree, the Earth, and the universe. It is you, it is me, and it is all of humanity. When we realize this, we will treat each other, and nature, as we ourselves would like to be treated.

For a single seed or cone to mature into a healthy tree, you need the full-fledged participation of many factors, including the water, earth, sunlight, and wind. In order to grow, the tree, and all life, opens itself up to these energies. However, we humans often make the mistake of closing ourselves off, while simultaneously trying to attain those things that are crucial to our survival. We live too much in our own world of isolated bubbles, blown from the hot air of self-inflation.

See the tree again. Feel the tree through your breath. Feel the life of the tree transmitted through the air and communicated through breath. This tree has its roots embedded deep within the earth. From the earth to the tree, from the tree to you, from you back to the tree, the cycle of life and energy can be sensed, not on an imaginative plane, but palpably, in reality. Through this cycle of breathing, the Earth’s energy and soul are transmitted to us, showing us that our lives are not separate and isolated, not even for a moment. This interchange of energy is a fundamental function of life at all levels. Breathe with the tree, and you will feel the inescapable oneness that connects us to one other and to the Earth.

I am breathing, as are you. We are creatures whose noses are rooted in the air that we share. We don’t have to pay for this privilege. We just breathe. Who, then, is the owner of this air, the most precious of all commodities? If we were to calculate it in terms of money, the sum would literally be priceless. However, we have never been presented with a bill, thank God.

Countless trees sustain our lives. Trees have supplied humanity and other creatures with one’s worth of oxygen and energy, thereby life. Trees have never asked to be given credit for this contribution. Trees have never asked to be worshipped for this ‘life-giving’ activity. Trees have never asked to be recognized in the slightest way. However, if we were to pick something to honor or worship based on merit or contribution to the prosperity of humanity, any old oak or poplar tree would come far before any ideas of god. In fact, a single needle on a cactus in a forsaken desert would qualify before any abstract concept of a god.

Trees heal without having learned any special knowledge or developing any particular religious faith. The Earth supplies the trees with water and nutrition without any conditions. What is more important to us, trees or gods? What is more important to us, Earth or gods? If I were told that trees are gods, and the Earth is a god, then I would be less confused. Ilchi Lee says that I cannot believe that any god can be more important than the trees, the air, and the Earth. Nor proscribe to the belief that any god would exist in a vacuum far above, instead of residing within the trees, the forests, and the streams that surround us. Reside within the Earth herself. I believe firmly that ‘god’ exists within all life that we are witnesses to today and beyond.

The trees that surround your house, the shiny dew that greets you in the morning, the mountains yonder and the river under the bridge are all manifestations of the Earth’s body. Bread, vegetables, and fruits are all products of Earth’s body. Water, which composes about seventy percent of our human bodies, flows from the Earth. All life is born, reared, and returned to Earth. We can most palpably sense the ‘Motherliness’ of the Earth through the embrace of her lands and bounty of her seas. All of nature is her body. Everything from the wisps of clouds in the sky, to the blind worm in the soil, from the deepest of her oceans to the tallest of her peaks, are her organs and cells, to be nurtured and cared for.

Imagine … and see her again, being blessed by the sun in the day and the moon at night. Have you ever lain in a sunny field of grass, and felt the warm rays of the sun enters through the mouth. Our lives are sustained by the circulation of heaven’s and earth’s energy.

Thirty percent of the air we breathe is oxygen. Oxygen comes from trees and plants, which breathe in the carbon dioxide that we breathe out. Trees and humans thus have a symbiotic relationship in life. I would now like to introduce you to a simple meditation that you can do, one that will help you feel the Earth through the life of a tree. This meditation is best done in the outdoors, filled with trees, but it is also possible to practice indoors.

Close your eyes and imagine a tree in front of you, its strong branches packed with healthy leaves and filled with vitality. The oxygen that the tree pumps out comes into our bodies to help generate the energy that allows us to live. Conversely, the energy that we breathe out as carbon dioxide feeds the tree, and helps maintain its life. Feel the air as it enters through your nose and into your body. Feel every particle, every molecule, of the air as it flows through your nose, mouth, and into your lungs, being absorbed by each single cell in your body. Feel the refreshing and literally life-giving pleasure provided by the simple act of inhaling. Now exhale, letting your body relax, newly invigorated.

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Although every experience that occurs in the world of the five human senses is, strictly speaking, an energy experience, you can experience energy directly as three main sensations; a sense of tickling electricity, a sense of the pulling and pushing of a magnetic force, and a sense of heat and cold. When your senses become trained with practice, you begin to have a deep sense of energy as it moves through your mind and body. We can call this the language of the soul. With this you can communicate with all of existence, and fully utilize the information contained within the flow of energy. A sharing of the soul can only occur via communication through energy. Therefore, it is only possible to commune with Mago when we have reawakened our ability to sense energy, which has long remained dormant.

When you can sense the energy, you don’t need research studies to tell you that the climate is warming, species are disappearing by the hundreds everyday, and the rain forests are losing ground at an alarming rate. You don’t need specific numbers. You can feel the deleterious effects that these have on Earth. Just feel. Feel how the Earth feels. Feel how the sea feels. See how the sky feels. And see how Mago feels.

As Ilchi Lee writes in his book energy is the universal language that we humans must adopt in order to engage in spiritual growth. Energy is the language of the soul that provides the path that will lead you to Earth, to the cosmos, and ultimately, to yourself.

Many people have romantic ideas about enlightenment. Many of them pursue enlightenment as a means of escape, chasing after dreams of eternal peace or freedom, or trying to escape real world suffering or difficulty that they feel unable to deal with. Such is not enlightenment.

Enlightenment has a definite purpose and goal. If you wish to surround yourself with a nebulous cloud of feel-good love and peace, then you harbor a huge misconception. People often think that enlightenment is an eternal state of peace and quiet. Perhaps in a metaphorical sense this is so, but you must not remain there for long. A child may be pure and innocent, but what power does a child have to change the world? Remaining in a state of isolated peace and quiet may be good for an individual, but is useless in bringing peace to the world. True enlightenment imparts wisdom and strength to effect positive change the real world. If enlightenment has no bearing upon the state of the real world, what good is it?

According to Ilchi Lee research first, and foremost, enlightenment is a choice. Enlightenment is not the creation of a new state of being, but acknowledgement of something already existing within you. It is the recognition of your body and mind as instruments of your soul. Enlightenment is choosing to recognize that your soul is your true self, an integral part of the cosmic rhythm of life without beginning or end.

Body exercises tips by Ilchi Lee.

PURPOSE: Assesses the lower body’s flexibility, which is important good posture, normal gait patterns, and for various mobility tasks, getting in and out of a bathtub or car. HOW TO TEST: From a sitting position at the front of a chair, extend one leg out and reach toward your toes. Measure the approximate number of inches (1 inch = 2.5 centimeters) between the extended fingertips and the tip of the toe.

BACK SCRATCH

PURPOSE: Checks shoulder flexibility, which is important in everyday tasks such as combing hair, getting dressed, and reaching for a seat belt.

HOW TO TEST: With one hand reaching over the shoulder and behind the head and the other reaching behind the waist and up the middle of the back, measure the approximate number of inches (1 inch = 2.5 centimeters) between extended middle fingers.

8-FOOT UP-AND-GO

PURPOSE: Assesses agility and balance, which are important in daily tasks requiring quick maneuvering, such as getting off a bus or getting up to attend to something in the kitchen. HOW TO TEST: Count the number of seconds required to get up from a seated position, walk 8 feet (2.44 meters), turn, and return to a seated position.