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For some reason we had a very busy couple of months at work. The result of it was that I had to work longer hours and could not come to the class as often as I normally do.

What I felt was a huge difference between my left and right side. While I was tense all over, my right side felt really rigid and the difference between sides was amazing. I think it was the result of overusing my left brain and totally neglecting my right brain.

The exercises (once I got back to class) did help but the feeling that right side was stiffer then the left remained for a while. Finally I took my BRQ and that did it. I slept like a baby and the next day this stiffness was not there.

A while ago I felt so depressed that I spent hours crying. But something very interesting happened. At one moment I was able to feel my soul. And it felt very compassionate, like it was saying yes it is terrible, and yes it is sad but at the same time it was happy. So here I was crying with this very soft and compassionate yet happy presence inside of me. It did help me get out of my emotions pretty quickly.

Another time I felt really sick. Stuffed nose, headache low fever I definitely did not feel good. And again I could feel her soothing presence, like yes you are sick, you need to take care of your body so it gets better. But can we sing for a while? I felt quite ridiculous, singing with a voice of the crow, but it did feel good and it made my soul even happier.

What I noticed is that when I am deeply disturbed or confused by something and I go for a class I can more easily access her. I would guess that while my thinking brain and my ego are engrossed in stretching and feeling my body, my soul gets to communicate more clearly and without any screening. So I go to the class with this chaos inside and come out feeling a deep tranquility.

So I made it a conscious effort to talk to my soul every day. Even if it is just “thank you for being with me” before I go to sleep.

Dahn Yoga members and employees alike are strongly motivated by their own sense of enjoyment and commitment. Meditation is practiced by various groups, both religious and non religious. It involves seclusion of an individual or a group of persons and seeking to focus on the higher purpose in life.

There are various ways of meditating. Some of the ways are inspired by the religious teachings or traditions passed down the generations. More often than not, it involves a quiet moment and focus on a single thing. It may also be referred to as prayers offered in serenity.

Among the Buddhists, meditation is inspired by Buddha himself (Siddhartha Gautama) who is said to have gotten inspiration for the religion’s teaching while meditating under the Bodhi tree. The followers are inspired to conduct their meditation in similar style. The goal in Buddha meditation is to be able to focus on one thing as it brings you enlightenment. During the meditation exercise, the mediators focus their attention on their god and you to keep off other thoughts. It equally leads to enlightening and is called samatha. Vipassana is a form of meditation that seeks to reveal the truth in nature. It gives perspective to the individual that hopefully results in harmony with the environment and the neighbors.

The Christians have meditation though also referred to as prayers by some members. There is a difference between the two in that meditation often involves quite prayers offered in quite places. There are special groups that have been founded to meditate. A group of monks formed by John Main, a Benedictine monk 1975 has emerged to be on 1975 has emerged as a strong meditation group. Other meditation forms include recounting of the certain words as is the case in rosary prayers. The memorization of biblical verses and recounting them over a period of time or chanting specific prayers is also a common form of meditation.

In the Muslim tradition, there are various schools of meditations. These include Tafakkur which is a meditation to reflect on the universe. It enables one to be become self aware and also aware of god. The individual also gains inner growth through learning to be submissive to both men and god.

Whatever the form of meditation, there is a common factor, that of having to seek a higher being. It takes seeking the inner purpose and seeking connection with cosmic. The results are often admirable as it leads to more respectful, tolerant and humble men and women.

We had such a beautiful training with Aaron-nim. It was a very short noticed and I had to literary jump through hoops to make it but it was worth it.

We learned that there are four basic ways of doing dahn mu do forms. We should do them very slowly at first. I tried it with a sword and it really is a completely different feeling. Second we do the forms with a lot of energy or with holding the postures for a longer period. Third we try to the form very fast and then we do it smoothly.

So far I’ve been doing the forms with holding the postures longer/or with putting a lot of energy into it (like with pinches and kicks) but slow and smooth I never tried before. It is challenging because my mind wants to hurry in both. The smooth part is very difficult because I guess you really need to know the form very well and be very focused at the same time.

All in all I feel so grateful for the opportunity to attend this training.

Dahn mu do really changes my energy very quickly and very significantly. After only 2 hours of practice my accumulation posture felt so different from usual. Much deeper with an amazing feeling of energy.

Thank you to all Dahn masters for making this short training possible!

It has often been observed that there are two selves within the human being. There is the sell who is present in the surrounding world—interacting, doing, making, having—and then there is the self watching the self. The false self is a mask we wear for the world, a manufactured product of the ego. It is something we build on and construct throughout life to give ourselves a role to play in the world outside ourselves. The true self, on the other hand, is the higher you, the essential and unchanging part of you. It craves the highest forms of human interaction, such as unconditional love and harmonious unity with others. The struggles of life stem from lack of accord between these two selves, a predicament that arises from humanity’s unique place in the universe.

Human beings are unique among the inhabitants of Earth because we are simultaneously Earth-bound and divine. You have probably noticed how vastly human behavior can differ, ranging from the person who gives all in service of others to the one who violently uses and abuses other people.

This same drive eventually pushed you up through your own developmental process as you experimented with your body, and you eventually learned to walk and talk. All the while, magical events were happening in your brain—brain cells growing and connections developing.

As you grew older, you became more and more proficient at influencing the world around you. You earned money, gained status, and developed a solid sense of identity. But along with this came suffering and a yearning to go somewhere beyond this physical world. At some point, you may have asked, as I did, “What is this really all about?”

The problem with the physical world is that it is easy to for¬get what lies under the surface of things. When you were that infant exploring the world, you had just come into the world with a purpose. But the world of form distracted you, and you forgot, for a moment, which you really were.

Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn’t be able to fly;
But the bumble bee doesn’t know it,
So it goes on flying anyway:

Mary Kay Ash, founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics

J. ou CAMK INTO THIS WORLD wanting to be someone who makes things happen. From day one, you were a creation machine. You picked up objects in your tiny hands as soon as you could manage to grasp them. You fumbled them around in your hands, feeling their shape and texture, and even popped them in your mouth, wanting to know everything about the world around you.

As you trained knowledge of the world, you wanted to assert your influence over these objects. You pushed your bowl oft the table, just to see it fall. You cooed and equaled, trying to understand the nature of your own voice. All your senses were open to discovering the living world around you.

One of my students had sustained an injury to her tailbone that caused her constant pain. She went to many doctors, but they told her the problem could not be rixed. She came to a Dahn Yoga center to practice Brain Wave Vibration, hoping she could find some relief. She was a doctor heresy, a dentist, so she remained skeptical that she would ever find permanent relief. At best, she thought, she could lessen the pain to some degree. To her surprise, her pain completely disappeared after only three months of practice.

I am not telling you this story so you can be impressed with Brain Wave Vibration; it is a very simple activity that requires little effort. Rather, I am telling you this story so you can be impressed with the marvel of the human body. I believe this woman was able to heal because the subconscious part of her brain, the brain stem, already knew what it needed to do to create wholeness in her body; she just needed to get out of its way, which is what Brain Wave Vibration allows. The body contains a wonderful intelligence that surpasses our current understanding of the human body. This is the intelligence of the brain stem, a part of the brain that orchestrates things so complex that our thinking brain can only begin to grasp them.

Many recent studies have shown the beneficial effects of meditation, which is essentially the practice of slowing, or even stopping, the thinking mind. The physical benefits occur because meditation gives our brain a much-needed rest from the constant mental chatter that keeps us stressed. Thinking is not necessarily bad, but at times we need to find ways to move beyond thinking, for our own health and for the health of others.

How Miracles Are Made

Miracles are really not so extraordinary. Actually, just the fact that all your bodily functions keep going as they do is a miracle in its own right. When we say something is miraculous, to me it only means that someone has managed to tap into a power that was already within his or her brain, waiting to be discovered.

In a way, though, we do have this owner’s manual, but we must relearn how to read it. It exists in the form of the inherent wisdom that is every person’s birthright. If we can just get out of its way, all of this wisdom is right there, written into the very nature of the brain itself.

I know that if you are reading this book you are already interested in your own self-development. That is rare and wonderful in itself, but I would like you to make one small shift in your perspective on that. Please change your self-development mind into your infinite-development mind. In other words, really believe in your true potential and feel the joy of your own infinite nature. Run, do not walk, forward—the world is waiting for you. Don’t settle for good enough; stop making limits. To create limits is to deny life, and limits are a desecration of vour brain.