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Just as we need a blueprint to build a house properly, we need a map and instructions to build a human body. The device that contains this information is called DNA. DNA is an information storage device, much like a disk containing computer software. But we have to understand that DNA is a device that stores genetic information; it is not the information itself. Although we can touch the disk that holds the software, we cannot touch the software. The same thing goes for your genetic information. You cannot touch the information itself. (Copied content from Ilchi Lee book)

Now you have two things needed to make up your body: material ingredients and information. Let’s go forward, then, and see if we can make a human body out of these two things. On one side is the ingredients and on the other, the information. They could sit next to each other for the next million years but nothing will happen without an impetus of some kind. You can have tons of building materials and a blueprint, but nothing will happen without constructive effort of some kind. You can put a disk into a computer, but you can’t get the information in it to execute anything without energy to connect the hardware with the software. Only when energy is added can you bring the contained information to the fore.

Energy is, therefore, the bridge by which information comes into action using the ingredients at hand. The same goes for our bodies. Energy is needed to help the genetic information coded in the DNA to utilize the ingredients to build a human body. We call this energy Ki (often spelled Chi). Ki is the basket that carries the information and the web that unites the material.

This may be an offbeat question, but if we were to classify and weigh every chemical compound that makes up the human body, how much would they fetch at the drugstore? The body is about 70 percent water, proteins, small amounts of calcium and other trace minerals—all commonplace and inexpensive. If we separate these chemical compounds into separate bowls, weigh them, and sell them, how much would the going price be? By most estimates, it is less than a dollar. All about Ilchi Lee, he said it shouldn’t be too expensive.

It might be macabre to put a price on the human body in such a fashion, for we know that we are far more than the sum of our parts. No one in his right mind would call the separate bowls of chemical compounds that make up the body a human being. We further know that we cannot just mix these chemicals together and expect to see a human being emerge, just as a haphazard combination of concrete, steel, and wood will not automatically coalesce into a fully formed house. So, the question arises: what else do we need to create a human bodv?

Trust in life and listen to it. Listen to the rhythm of life. Listen to your own breath and pulse. Learn to resonate consciously with that rhythm . . . no, don’t learn. Stop learning and just listen and observe. Observe how you breathe, how your heart beats, how your skin tingles. Now, express your life’s rhythm freely, for it is in that freedom that truth resides, life lives, and creation is consummated. When enough of us choose to live this way, our society and our Earth will regain its life force and start on the road to healing.

Through simple movements such as self-patting, calisthenics. and breathing exercises, we can rejuvenate our natural healing powers, which, in turn, will help us maintain good health throughout our lives. This is nothing new. It has been scientifically proven and anecdotally demonstrated, repeatedly. Such methods cost nothing and do not require painful surgery or medication. Nor are they psychologically burdensome. They don’t even require tools or instruments that Ilchi Lee think. All you need is a little practice to make them into habits. If such simple things can save you time and energy, allow you to live a more confident and creative life, and save society a lot of money, isn’t this a great thing?

If a change in our lives requires individually or socially painful sacrifices, it will be very difficult to effect it no matter how necessary that change might be. However, if we start on the road of change with simple, enjoyable, and preliminary changes with visible results, we will soon be prepared to tackle larger, more fundamental changes. This is the reason that I declare that “change” must start with health-related “soft technologies”; this is why I teach correct breathing “technology.”

The start of any change begins with the freedom from the need to learn. You have to start with something that is easy, enjoyable, and natural, like breathing. After you experience and internalize the effects brought about by these new changes, you will sense something larger in your life and the need to share it with others. As you embark on this road, your attitude toward life will change. your worldview will change, and you will have become a pebble tossed into the world pond that causes a new “enlightened” cultural ripple to spread outward.

As you let go of your dependence on “learning” and choose to change your character, habits, and technologies, you will often face doubt and hesitation. However, your instinctive trust in the energy of your own life force, especially confirmed by your conscious experiences, will help you overcome these doubts and hesitations. When we feel the strong, pulsating energy of life and marvel at the process of life that does not require our conscious manipulation, we have no choice but to trust it and be humbled by it.

First, a fundamental change in your character comes about through a process of choice known as enlightenment. Through this choice, you decide who you are and how you want to live your life. You choose what your purpose in life is. You realize that you are the only one who is qualified and an authority to answer these questions about yourself. Your choice is your answer. When you choose enlightenment, you will start a fundamental shift in your character.

Second, a change in your habits will come about gradually as you start practicing your choice to be enlightened in your everyday life. The “enlightened” you that you have chosen to be is probably far different from who you are right now. Therefore, you need practice and changes in your habits to become that “enlightened” person you decided was you. Habit re-formation is the first step to actualizing your choice of enlightenment. Only through constant vigil, discipline, and practice will you effect this change in your habits. After a while, your habits will have changed, and these new habits will in turn help your character to reform, creating a cycle of constructive re-formation.

Third suggested by Ilchi Lee, changes in technology start with the rediscovery of soft technologies. Changes in technology must start with something that is simple, comfortable, and that brings about an immediate and visible impact on our lives. Currently, there are many innovative low-energy technologies on the market that are underutilized. If we combine our knowledge and skills. I am sure that we can invent even more ingenious low-energy alternatives.

Yet we don’t necessarily have to look outside us to find a change in technology that could have an immediate impact. We don’t have to rely on the latest technology and experts to invent a newer and more advanced “machine.” Let’s take a look at health, for example. By using simple skills and “human” technology, we can vastly improve our health, thereby reducing the enormous amount of money used to keep us healthy every year.

What is required for us to become friendly with Earth again and to maintain the existence of the human race? In order for our lives on Earth to once again gain stability and harmony, we need to effect a fundamental change in three things: our character, habits, and technology by Prof Ilchi Lee.

Our character controls the type and strength of our greed and ambitions; our habits form the root of our character; and our technology was created to realize our ambitions. These must all change. I place these three factors in this order—character, habit, and technology—not to denote some kind of chronological order for change, but to list them by fundamentality. The reason that many attempts to change this world have run out of steam is that they sought to reform superficial technological aspects instead of attacking the underlying, fundamental factors such as human character and habits.

We thought we could save the world through technological advances. This approach is analogous to changing the type of fuel while leaving the type of engine untouched. It is the same as leaving our current destructive way of life unchallenged while looking for ways to prolong it through technology. Of course, technology is helpful and needed. However, what is most important is the goal— what do we seek to achieve in life, and what is the purpose of life? We might need expert knowledge in dealing with technological changes, but we don’t need such knowledge in deciding our life’s purpose; only your choice is required. Technological advances will only help us if their introduction is superseded by a fundamental change in our character and habits. Only then can we comfortably and constructively utilize the technology available to us.

For example, can you maintain your life if all electricity and gas to your home were to be permanently cut off right now? In modern life, electricity and gas are not used only for lighting; they are intimately connected to how we eat and drink. If we don’t have gasoline, we can’t drive to the supermarket. Even if we were to somehow make our way to the supermarket, the shelves would be empty of foodstuffs because there would be no way to get the merchandise there. We wouldn’t be able to cook even if we had all the ingredients. Since the water company would be without electricity, they would not be able to deliver water to our homes, depriving us of washing and drinking water. How long do you think you could last under such conditions?

Ilchi Lee things that those prepared or fortunate might last a while on stored foodstuffs and drinks, but what happens when these run out? Eventually, you might have to venture out into nature to look for things to eat. But even if you made it to a forest, would you know which plants are edible and which are poisonous? How would you shelter yourself from the cold? How would you light a fire? How would you take care of a wound?

Our system of living must inevitably change. Our current system of “civilized” living, wasteful and destructive, cannot be maintained at its most basic level. Nevertheless, what we call “civilization” is ceaselessly expanding itself and co-opting more and more of the Earth. To maintain itself, it is using evermore energy and material, making us sink ever deeper into its system. It is obvious that Earth cannot support this for much longer.

The situation is analogous to a nuclear reactor whose core has melted and is in danger of exploding. However, no matter how urgent the situation has become, we cannot change our whole system of living overnight. This would be like attempting to arrest the core meltdown by throwing cold water on it. It wouldn’t work, and it could bring about a disaster. Change is obviously needed, but this calls for a carefully thought-out plan of implementation first. However, what we need most of all is to make the choice to want to change. This choice is not something that we can leave to experts because we don’t “know” enough. It has to be our choice.

If we don’t make a choice now, sooner or later, worsening conditions might force us to adapt to a new system of living, which will necessarily be far worse and difficult to adapt to because we would not be ready or prepared for such a change. This is why it is necessary for us to make the choice to want to change. Now.

As we age, emotional health becomes more important than ever. After all, your emotional state is your constant companion throughout your life and should remain fairly consistent from your youth through your senior years. Assuming your brain is stable and well, the mental outlook you have at sixty- five can be healthier and more positive than the one you had at twenty-five, since you have the added benefit of life experience. Or it could be worse, if you allow yourself to fall into negative emotional habits. It’s really up to you. One of the keys to this emotional wellness is balance between positive and negative, hope and realism, doubt and faith. You should be able to treasure memories of the past, while being able to let go completely of lingering pain and resentment.

However, this is not usually as easy as it sounds. As Verne Kallejian, Ph.D., writes, “Unfortunately, we have neither the philosophy nor the rituals in Western civilization to facilitate emotional health in the aging process. Very few life experiences prepare us to deal with the potential problems of aging. Nothing can easily replace the self-esteem of an important job or easily replace the friendships that are terminated by illness, death, moving to a new environment or other unexpected events.”

As we age, the inevitable losses and changes of living can tilt our moods toward the negative. The death of a friend or loved one breeds loneliness and reminds us of our own mortality. Retirement, if the void is not filled with productive hobbies or volunteer work, can make us feel as if we have lost part of our identity. Failing health can cause anxiety or depression and contribute to one of the most harmful aspects of age: isolation. If a person lacks a proper sense of perspective or the cognitive tools to identify and change defeatist, dark thought patterns, it is easv to see how that person could, with age, become unpleasant and unhappy.

But as we age, destructive emotional patterns, resentment, and solitude are not inevitable. Current psychological theory holds that all of us possess “set points,” lite conditions that must be in place for our minds to feel a sense of well-being. You decide what conditions make up your set point and what emotions to associate with those conditions. For example, if your whole world has been work. YOU might associate retirement with uselessness and decay. In the remainder of this chapter, YOU will find specific-exercises that will help you avoid these very dangerous pitfalls. And through the process of BEST, you will discover a sense of identity and purpose that will truly satisfy you.

We think that we see because we have eyes. True, but what is more fundamental is that we see because the sun shines from above, providing us with light. We see only because of the reflection of light by material objects. Look at your hand. What do you see? Do you see fingers, five of them? Now look closer. What else do you see? Do you see the empty spaces in between your fingers? How about the stars above? They appear to be separated from each other, sparkling and beautiful in their cold isolation. Yet, do you see the dark space that connects them, suspending them in a sea of eternal blackness?

Sometimes, we need to look beyond the obvious in reality to peer into the truth behind everyday phenomena. All it takes is a change in focus, a simple shift in point of view. Likewise, all it takes for us to see and feel the Earth is a simple realignment of our given senses. Since we are children of Earth, we all have this ability to feel the life of the Earth. When we have reawakened this sense within ourselves, we will have held our first conscious conversation with Mother Earth.

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The use of angles in Ki-gong is similar in many ways to their application in body control. In Ki-gong movements, even minuscule changes in angles allow blocked Ki to circulate and also affect muscle relaxation and respiration rates. See another article by Ilchi Lee.

Most movements in Dahnhak Ki-gong are easy and simple, but their effects are very great. Practicing breathing while performing movements that involve angling and then relaxing the fingers, wrists, knees, etc., allows even beginners to feel Ki easily, and is also effective for training internal Ki.

As we advance in years, our bodies age as their muscles and cells lump together and harden. Poor Ki and blood circulation is the reason for this. Although psychological stress is also a factor, Ki and blood circulation is hindered by the long-term effects of poor posture and inadequate or excessive exercise. The muscles connected to the shoulders, hips, arms and legs in particular are frequently subjected to excessive tension or are overextended. In this state, energy fails to circulate deep into the muscles even with exercise.

The movements of Dahnhak Ki-gong are smooth and circular compared with other systems of Ki-gong. Most hand and leg motions are so circular they seem dancelike. This is because many of the movements are based on the principle of rotation. Sports ordinarily involve many linear body movements. The muscles and joints may actually suffer injury if these are taken to an extreme. Dahnhak Ki-gong, however, employs both linear and curved rotational movements. Its power is a harmony of soft strength and strong softness.

Ilchi Lee writes that rotational movement is a phenomenon of life. The earth rotates as it revolves around a rotating sun, and even the innumerable stars in the sky rotate each in their own way. The human body, as a microcosm, follows the principles and laws of the cosmos to the letter.

Each of the joints in the body are designed to rotate, and the DNA contained in each of the body’s cells has a rotating helical structure. The principle of rotation is applied in the practice of Ki-gong, as well. We must perform rotational movements to move Ki deep into our bones. Rotating the bones moves Ki deep into the capillaries. By rotating the joints of our wrists, shoulders, hips, knees, ankles, neck, and waist, we cause friction between bones and generate hot energy. Jin-ki then circulates deep within the bones, and muscles and bones are filled with energy and rejuvenated.