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In a restless world overflowing with stimulation, the ancient principle of Geumchok reminds us how to return to our natural state of clarity through stillness, focus, and endurance.

If we look honestly at our lives, we can see how little time we spend being truly still. Even when our bodies are motionless, our minds keep moving—thinking, comparing, worrying, and reacting. Our senses always turn outward, and our attention constantly collides with sights, sounds, and information.

This unending contact with the external world drains our energy and scatters our consciousness. We become restless even in silence, and peace feels far away. That is why we need Geumchok, one of the three pillars of the ancient Korean practice of Sundo: Jigam (stopping emotion), Joshik (balancing breath), and Geumchok (forbidding collision). Together, they form a path back to our natural connection with the universe and to rediscovering who we truly are.

The Study of Principles: Understanding Geumchok

The word Geumchok literally means “to forbid collision.” Perceptions actually form when external physical stimuli collide with our sense organs. Geumchok is a state in which we cut ourselves off from outside information and focus our awareness on a place deep within. In terms of the brain, it’s the process of our awareness going from our neocortex and paleocortex to our brain stem, which governs vital functions and relates to our subconscious mind.

Practicing Geumchok means choosing not to be led around by our senses and desires. We regain mastery over our senses rather than being controlled by them. Through Geumchok, we cultivate inner stillness even amid constant motion.

When the noise of the outside world no longer pulls at our consciousness, we begin to sense the life energy flowing within us. We gain clarity from which our true self appears—not as a thought or an image, but as a feeling of presence and vitality.

The Study of Practice: Experiencing Geumchok through Yeondahn

Understanding a principle is only the beginning. True wisdom comes from experiencing it. We can do that through simple practices such as energy meditation following Brain Wave Vibration and other forms of vibration training. What’s more, methods such as Yeondahn, which involves holding an energy posture for an extended period while breathing into the lower dahnjon (the energy center two inches below the navel), also train our core on an active level.

When we hold a Yeondahn posture, such as Sleeping Tiger or Chukkigong, our body may begin to tremble, heat may rise, or old emotions may surface. These phenomena are signs that stagnant energy is moving. The key is to keep our focus on our dahnjon and persist.

At first, the mind resists. Thoughts arise: “This is uncomfortable,” “How long must I stay like this?” But if we continue breathing deeply and evenly, something begins to shift. The surface noise of the body and mind gradually quiets, and we become aware of a deeper current within us.

Rather than forcing our minds to be empty, we can achieve stillness naturally through persistent, relaxed focus. Just as a pond becomes clear only when the wind dies down and the mud sinks, our inner world clears when we stop reacting and let energy find its balance.

Through such practice, the lower dahnjon grows stronger. The stronger our dahnjon, the steadier our awareness becomes. This is the kind of calm, focused, and unwavering strength the world needs most today.

Practice Guide

Hold a simple Yeondahn posture such as Lung Energizer Posture: Stand with your feet wider than shoulder width apart. Bring both of your arms above your head with your palms facing the sky and fingers pointing toward each other. Bend your knees and elbows slightly as you open your chest and lengthen your spine. Breathe normally as you focus your mind on your lower dahnjon. Hold this posture initially for 5 minutes. With increased practice, you can extend the time you hold this posture up to 30 minutes.

At first, you may feel your muscles tremble or your thoughts race. Instead of fighting them, simply breathe and keep holding the pose. The longer you stay with relaxed awareness, the more your mind and body will begin to harmonize. Over time, you may find it easier to hold the posture, even as it gets harder, because the strength of your focus and the flow of energy will hold you up more than the strength of your muscles.

The Study of Living: Applying Geumchok in Daily Life

The third step in mastering Geumchok is to bring what we have understood and experienced into how we live. When we walk, eat, speak, or listen, we can practice Geumchok by noticing when our attention wanders outward and gently returning it inward. We can practice it when we choose not to react in anger, when we turn off the screen to feel our breath, or when we pause before responding to someone’s words. Bringing our awareness down to our lower dahnjon in these moments can also help us stay grounded and steady no matter what is happening around us.

Each time we do, we create a small space of awareness. In that space, conscience and creativity can arise. Then, practice becomes life, and life itself becomes meditation.

Bringing the principle and practice of Geumchok into our lives purifies not only our personal energy but also the energy of the world around us. A person who has found their center can naturally calm others and create harmony with their very being.

Rewards of Persistence

Inner peace, enlightenment, or just living stress-free may not come easily. Geumchok reminds us that chasing them here and there doesn’t work. It shows us that having faith in our inner core and steadily setting our sights there remains the only way forward.

To remain persistent while everything in us wants to give up is a profound form of strength. Each moment we continue to practice despite discomfort, distraction, or doubt, our inner light grows brighter. Persistence transforms stillness into mastery. Through it, the bright, unshakable mind of our true self is revealed.

The world outside us will never stop changing. But within us is a place that never changes—the bright, calm mind of our true selves. Through Jigam, Joshik, and Geumchok, we can return to that place again and again until it becomes the foundation of how we live.

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When making a new path
Don’t hesitate or look back
You have to move straight forward.

When acting with a sense of speed
Unnecessary thoughts fall away
Your dormant, infinite potential awakens.

With boundless energy and boundless passion
Move forward with courage and perseverance.

In it, great creation takes place.

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Simple actions such as clapping can snap us out of our memories and return us to our original creative power.

We normally clap our hands in applause or to cheer someone on. Maybe we’re happy or want to get someone’s attention. When we clap this way, we’re giving energy to others. But clapping can also be used to help ourselves.

Clapping as Energy Meditation

Just as massaging our feet can affect our entire body, clapping can stimulate and awaken the energy in all our energy channels. It brings our mind to attention and gives us strong stimulation on which to focus. In other words, clapping can be a form of energy meditation.

Try clapping vigorously thirty times, do you feel more alert, maybe even more energized? How are you different from before? A simple action like this can quickly snap us out of a stupor or a spiral of negativity and draw our attention back inside ourselves.

Simple Actions to Shift Our Energy

Clapping is one way to return to the present, but it’s not the only one. Other simple actions include:

Smiling and making a happy facial expressionSpeaking in a higher tone using more positive wordsWalking with a spring in our step

These actions that involve our body can switch our mood and our mindset. They send a signal to our brains that: Now, I will enter my body. And they can go even further: they can open our BrainPhone.

Opening the BrainPhone

The BrainPhone is what I call the deeper, wiser, creative, more intuitive parts of our brains. It is a direct line to our original nature and inner creativity. Even without being meditation masters, we can use simple actions like clapping, smiling, or walking consciously to access these parts of ourselves.

We open up these abilities when we exist here and now instead of in our memories or information. In the present, we can be the infinitely creative energetic beings we really are, beings who see more possibilities and who are 100 percent positive with zero negativity. Then, our hearts open, and the energy of our original nature, our existence without our bodies, will explode inside us, making waves that awaken our creative abilities.

Returning to the Present

But these simple actions can only work if we recognize our current state and take them. So we can check ourselves. Check our brains and our bodies. Throughout the day, we can look at our expression, listen to our voice, and notice how we are walking. By adjusting these, we can return to the present moment and turn on our BrainPhones. Then, what seemed annoying or impossible will become simply part of the great dance of life.

Every time we choose to return to the present is like a choice to be reborn. Once, twice, or even ten times a day, we can recreate ourselves anew by returning to our original nature by returning to the here and now. No matter how many times we drift away to memories, worries, or limited information, we can come back to the current moment and begin again.

Choosing Joy in This Moment

Birth, aging, sickness, death are not areas we can completely control. However, today, living joyfully is our choice. It’s the only thing we can do. In this way, our day becomes our lives. Walking, voice, expression—changing these means we have the greatest creative power.

So, when we find ourselves lost in the past or trapped in needless worry, we can immediately clap our hands, start walking, or look in the mirror and smile. In that moment, everything changes. We return to the present, we dwell in energy, and we rediscover the joy of being fully alive.

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Bohn!

Return to the place of origin!
Bohn is the sun!
It is the conscience within us!
It is the character and integrity of a sincere person!

Make your sun shine.
When each person’s sun shines,
our great sun will be completed.

Everyone, become one. There are no conditions.
Go forward as one.

One heart is love.
There is nothing but love.
If you always stay in the place of origin,
you can break through everything.

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We can reclaim our focus and creativity by turning on the BrainPhone within us through meditation.

Do you feel as if your concentration and accomplishments are limited? You try hard, but new ideas don’t come, and no matter how much effort you put in, the results remain the same. Many of us find it difficult to focus our energy, be productive, and stay creative.

Smartphones have made this problem worse. A 2023 study at the University of California, Irvine by Dr. Gloria Mark reported that the average attention span on a screen has fallen to forty-seven seconds, down from two minutes and thirty seconds twenty years ago. While smartphones are convenient, they are designed to capture and hold our attention, presenting us with an endless stream of new, titillating, and triggering content in smaller and smaller bites. They drain our attention and steal our time. The apps feed us ideas while weakening our ability to generate our own.

This decline is not because our brains are inherently weak, but because they are adaptable. Our brains respond to the demands of our environment. Smartphones train them to expect new and multiple stimuli every few seconds, which we cannot fully process but which nevertheless provoke emotional reactions. The good news is that just as the brain can be trained in this way, it can also be retrained. We have the power to restore focus by turning on what I call our BrainPhones.

“BrainPhone” refers to our brain’s creative and intuitive abilities and its subconscious control of the body. Just as smartphones connect us to outside networks of information and communication, the BrainPhone connects us to an inner network of wisdom and energy. Both are tools for connection: smartphones to the external world, and the BrainPhone to ourselves. When we connect inward, we better understand our thoughts and feelings and gain the clarity and focus needed to take purposeful, creative action in daily life.

Meditation for the BrainPhone

Decades of research confirm what human beings have known since ancient times: meditation improves attention and focus. While meditation takes many forms, most involve choosing a point of focus and gently guiding the mind back to it, over and over. With practice, the mind learns to rest in focus for longer periods. This practice induces a state of relaxed awareness, slowing the brain’s frequency to alpha waves—or even slower—quite different from the restless state stirred up by our smartphones. When we enter this calm, focused state, we can begin to use our BrainPhones.

To activate the BrainPhone, we bring our point of focus inward. By concentrating on physical and energetic sensations, we connect body and mind and gather energy to ourselves, letting the BrainPhone switch on. Visualization directed inward also helps calm the mind and sharpen creativity.

Here is a meditation you can try:

Stand with your feet shoulder-width apart and your knees slightly bent.Pat your entire body with your palms: top to bottom, front to back, and along the sides. As you tap, close your eyes and focus on your body’s sensations. Notice the movement of your arms, the moment of contact, and the subtle vibrations that resonate from it.Place both hands on your lower abdomen. Breathe deeply in through your nose and out through your mouth. Keep your awareness on your body and the air flowing in and out. Feel your thoughts and emotions gradually quieting.After a few minutes, sit in half-lotus or in a chair with your feet flat on the floor. Rest your hands lightly on your knees, straighten your back, and close your eyes. Continue to follow your breath for several more cycles.Imagine a BrainPhone switch—an “on” button—in the center of your head. Visualize pressing the button and your brain glowing golden, radiating light. Hold this image.Whenever distracting thoughts appear, press the switch again. You can even say aloud, “Stop! Go away!” See the bright golden brain once again. This practice helps your brain block out unnecessary stimuli, deepen concentration, and relax.

How did the meditation feel?

Returning to Focus

The BrainPhone reminds us that our ability to focus and create does not depend on external devices but comes from within. By choosing where to place our attention, we reclaim our power to shape our lives. As we train ourselves to use this inner network, we find that clarity, creativity, and peace naturally arise. With practice, we can live with focus—not scattered by distractions but guided by the wisdom and energy that flow from our own brain.

Editor’s Note: Learn more about using your BrainPhone in Ilchi Lee’s book, Take Back Your Brain: Reclaiming Your Power with Brain-Centered Living.

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With the extraordinary power of ordinary individuals choosing compassion over division, AI can fulfill its promise of a better world for all.

I have been following the conversations around Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) with both curiosity and concern. Many experts believe that within the next five to ten years, AGI could appear. Some speak of it as humanity’s greatest hope. Others warn it may become our greatest threat.

Both could be true.

AI can already process information faster than we ever could. Imagine what that means for solving urgent problems like climate change, disease, or food distribution. The possibilities are breathtaking. But I’ve also seen how technology, when created and controlled by a few with narrow desires, can deepen inequality and fuel conflict. Even when freely used by the masses, it gives more power to bad actors to cause damage and create chaos. If AGI is born from greed and short-term profit, it will not serve humanity—it will dominate it.

That is why the future depends on more than just technological progress. It depends on us.

It’s Time for the Fifth Industrial Revolution

We’ve lived through several “industrial revolutions,” each one reshaping the way we live and work. Today, many say we are in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: the age of AI, robotics, connectivity, cloud computing, the Internet of Things, and biotechnology. But if humanity is to survive and thrive, I believe we must enter a new era—the Fifth Industrial Revolution. This revolution is not driven by machines or markets but the awakening of the human spirit. The Fifth Industrial Revolution is one of consciousness, where the greatest resource is not data or capital, but awareness, empathy, and wisdom.

When I think about the role of humanity in this moment, I return to something very simple: the quality of our hearts. Machines can analyze, compute, and even simulate emotion, but they cannot cultivate compassion or wisdom. If we lose touch with these capacities, we risk creating a superintelligence that finds no reason to respect us.

What we need, urgently, is to restore our humanity.

For me, that restoration begins in the body. Through qigong, meditation, and energy practices, I have learned to sense the deeper rhythms of life flowing within me. These practices are not abstract. They are as practical as exercising a muscle. The more we strengthen our inner sense of connection—to ourselves, to others, and to nature—the more resilient and clear-minded we become.

And we need that clarity now.

Spiritual awakening is not about belonging to a religion or adopting a belief. It is about remembering that we are more than consumers, competitors, or data points. We are living beings with the capacity to imagine a better future and to make that vision real. True spiritual power rises not from a single leader or institution, but from a public mindset—ordinary people who care not just for themselves, but for the whole world. This kind of power is the foundation of the Fifth Industrial Revolution.

A Call to Become an Everyday Saint

I believe that small groups of people who have had this kind of awakening—people who experience their own value and feel empowered to act for the Earth—can spark a collective movement. I call them “everyday saints.” They are not perfect or distant. They are people like you and me who choose, again and again, to live with compassion and courage. When everyday saints come together, they create something larger than any single practice or philosophy: a culture of awakening.

This is where hope lies. Not in resisting AI, but in meeting it as fully awake human beings who know who we are and what we stand for.

If you are reading this, perhaps you have felt the same stirring. Perhaps you sense that your life is not only about personal success, but about contributing to something greater. That feeling is not small—it is the seed of transformation.

In this age of AI, the most important technology we must learn to master is not artificial but natural. It is the technology of our spirit, accessed through awareness, practice, and connection. If we can awaken this together, then AGI will not be our rival. It can become our partner.

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Don’t fly off the handle; give strength and balance to your actions by maintaining a continual focus on your center. Effectively achieve your goals with the guidance of your inner compass and the laws of the universe.

A circle is often used to represent wholeness, eternity, harmony, and spirit. To live a life that’s an expression of these qualities, therefore, you need to make your life a circle. In order to do that, you need a strong enough focus on your center—your inner compass, your soul, which is also the center of all existence.

An object in motion travels in a circle when a force, known as a centripetal force, pulls it toward a central point. This pull needs to be equal to the object’s forward inertia. Without enough pull toward the center, the object would fly off. Together, these two forces create a push tangential to the circle, which is known as the centrifugal force, although it is not technically a force. The balance between this push and pull, which creates a circle, demonstrates the universal law of centripetal vs. centrifugal. Without the centripetal force, however, there would not be any circular motion, so it is the more important force philosophically.

The law of centripetal vs. centrifugal says to make your center strong first, and then take action out in the world. Without an inner, centripetal focus, you can get lost and imbalanced in the outer distractions of life. Acting without looking to your center first is like having a tree without roots. Such a tree could never bear fruit. However, if you act while keeping your focus on your center, you will become stronger and stronger.

The law also says that if there is something you want to change, look to yourself first and check your responsibility in it. Take care of your responsibility first and then look to others because the core of any action is you. Once you start to act on this law, then you can find peace. When you follow it, gain power over your life.

By looking to the center, your inner guide can give you a vision for your life and tell you the principles by which existence works so you can achieve that vision. The vision at your center is always one that is widely beneficial. When you work to achieve this vision by following your inner guidance and universal energy principles, you are in a sense surrendering to the needs and flow of all life. In that flow, your own personal needs balance with the needs of everything else.

Therefore, to create a centripetal force in your life and balance your centripetal (inner, reflective) and centrifugal (outer, expressive) tendencies, maintain a clear focus inside yourself to follow your guidance, realize and live by universal law, and discover and manifest your vision.

Centripetal forces and centrifugal phenomena are at work in revolution and rotation, which was discussed in the previous blog post. This further demonstrates that looking toward your center, building a strong core, and moving toward your vision is the means by which you can work in harmony with others to achieve a greater goal while achieving your own personal growth.

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Each of us carries a hidden genius within our brain, and by awakening it we can discover new confidence, creativity, and purpose for solving life’s challenges.

Do you realize that everything in our human world, from the technology we use daily to the art that inspires us, came into the world through the human brain? The human brain is truly our most precious gift. Through it, we will create the world of tomorrow, and it is only through the brain that we will find the answer to all the problems we face. As I see it, every baby born is a potential genius because of this powerful gift we have been given.

However, very few people realize their true genius. Most people think geniuses are incredibly rare, and they rarely believe that they themselves have such potential. I believe that all humans are geniuses because they have the power of imagination, which gives them the power to create and the true essence of genius.

We do not need to have special talent to use this power of your brain, either. In fact, we use your creative powers all the time, such as when we daydream about our ideal vacation or when we plan how we will spend our evening after work. All these creations start with a spark of imagination that you turn into reality. And, while these examples are rather mundane, you can use your genius for much greater creations if you choose. You can use your genius to improve your life and solve the most difficult problems you face. In fact, you can even change the world and help solve its many problems if you choose.

Here are a few tips for realizing our hidden genius:

1) Believe in your brain. Believing in the power of the brain is the critical first step in realizing our full potential. Perhaps because of how we are raised and educated, most people view their potential in rather limited ways. If we are not the ones who receive awards, gain fame, or reach the top of our professions, we tend to think of ourselves as having limited potential for creativity and problem-solving. This is unfortunate because it wastes the brain potential of millions of people who could be contributing to a better world. We must believe in the power of our brains before we can fully access it, so we can keep telling ourselves, “My brain holds the key to my limitless potential.”

2) Develop self-confidence through goal achievement. To overcome any self-doubt that we have about our potential, we can set some achievable goals for ourselves and dedicate ourselves to achieving them. Begin with something small we know we can do every day, and then do it. The important thing is to make goal achievement a regular habit; otherwise, we will undermine our self-confidence. Establishing a goal achievement habit literally embeds a success mindset into the structure of our brains as it forms new neural pathways and connections that support the positive habit. I recommend beginning with a physical fitness goal so we can really see the changes it makes in our bodies. As I often say, “Making a miracle body makes a miracle brain!” In particular, I recommend doing pull-ups. Often, people can’t even do one when they start, but over time, they improve greatly, gaining the ability to do one complete pull-up, then a few, and many more by the end of a year. If we dedicate ourselves to this sort of goal, we will be amazed by how quickly we gain strength of both body and mind.

3) See the world beyond the surface level. Having confidence in our brains and reaching our full potential also requires seeing reality beyond the surface of things, which is what I call “the zero point.” This reality is the dimension beyond the illusions of the material world to the world of pure cosmic energy. If we can begin to feel and understand energy, we will understand the importance of the soul’s defining purpose in this life, the purpose that will manifest through the brain’s unique genius. Holding this realization in our hearts will help us work past any obstacles that the physical world presents because we will know our true value and the ultimate value of our contributions to this world.

4) Visualize yourself as a saint. The saints presented in the world religions often have amazing abilities to perform miracles, such as healing the sick or feeding the hungry. All of us can see ourselves the same way. Because we have souls and thus a spiritual purpose for our lives, our brains are here for us to accomplish miracles and to live our lives like saints. By this, I do not mean adherence to any particular code of conduct or belief system. Rather, I mean that we can offer solutions to the world’s problems and create a new and better world for humanity. Ultimately, this purpose is our souls’ fulfillment, the real reason we were born into this life. By visualizing ourselves as saints, we are committing ourselves to the highest possible version of ourselves and the healing of all humanity.

5) View every challenge as an opportunity for self-discovery and growth. Persistence in the completion of all goals is critically important. If we give up in the face of hardship, we will undermine our chances of reaching our full potential. So, since obstacles are inevitable, we can visualize ourselves overcoming these obstacles and becoming stronger and better because of our determination. Although these difficult times are very uncomfortable, and the temptation to quit can be strong, we needn’t forget that these are the moments that are the greatest blessing because they are the ones that help us grow to our highest possible potential.

At this time in human history, it is more important than ever for people to realize their brains’ full potential and use their inner genius. We have entered a whole new globalized world of connection between diverse cultures, and we are facing difficult political and environmental problems. We won’t be able to overcome any of these difficulties using the same perceptions and mindsets that we’ve used in the past. We need a world of people who are willing to rise to their highest selves and work to make a better world for everyone. So, our time to become a saintly genius has arrived. All we have to do is use our brains.

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When our minds grow quiet, the vibrations of life strengthen and move us toward health and peace.

Sometimes, when we think of meditation, we think of stillness—the still pool of the mind that lies beneath the chaotic waves of our surface thoughts and emotions. Yet that stillness, just like everything else, is full of energy—the vibrating energy of life.

Vibrations of life energy can be perceived as subtle or small, only perceptible when our minds are quiet. These subtle vibrations don’t move our body. But when flowing and vibrating life energy encounters an energy blockage in the body, it moves and shakes us. These vibrations open the blocked, stiff meridian points throughout our bodies, giving us more vigor and health. Through movement, both chaotic and smooth, our bodies express life energy.

What caused the vital phenomenon called “vibration” to arise? The brain does. The brain has such a function. Who was it, then, who made the brain cause the vital phenomenon of vibration to arise?

Our Movements Reflect Our Minds

Vibration doesn’t happen when we are immersed in thought in our daily lives. But when we focus on our feelings and our thoughts cease, in other words, when we experience Jigam, our brains connect with the pure life energy of the cosmos. The energy of life is the power that returns everything to its normal state. So what arises in us is an autonomous vibration for normalizing our bodies’ abnormal waves.

When energy flows through our bodies, our hands and feet move on their own. Since it is like a dance, we call that movement “Dahnmu,” an energy dance. When the energy flows more vigorously, martial-art-like Dahngong movements emerge.

The brain executes that energy because, when thinking ceases, the energy of life grows stronger. The energy of life always exists within us. We are always connected with the great life energy of the cosmos. It is simply that this life energy is sleeping because the brain ordinarily is executing the thought of “self.” The brain has been carrying out the thoughts of the ego, not the energy of life.

When thinking ceases, however, the energy of life grows stronger, allowing the brain to run on that energy. The brain goes with the energy that is presently the strongest. Life energy is a power that returns everything to normal.

Also within this energy of life is the mind of life. When we are in the energy of life, our inner soul awakens, and a numinous mind arises within us. Then, we experience deep emotion, peace, and love. We’re at peace when we stop thinking and dwell in the energy of life, but we return to our ordinary patterns when we start thinking again. Then we reenter the world of our tangled thoughts.

How to Stay in the Fullness of Life Energy

What should we do? What do we have to do to always be able to work and think in the fullness of life energy? It’s simple. We just have to make good use of our minds. Use our minds for what? That’s why it’s important to choose and concentrate well. Our brains work on what is of greatest interest to us, and they go with the most potent energy. This principle is simple but clear.

Ultimately, if the circuit of cosmic life energy is strengthened in the brain, and so we overcome the power of our egos, then our brains start moving without resistance as our souls intend. A process for taming the brain is needed to reach that point.

We can use the power of the brain to its greatest extent when we have a dream and a clear goal. In this way, we can develop the power of our souls to overcome the power of trivial emotions and desires. And we can create the circuit of our souls in our brains. That’s why dreams and goals are truly precious.

Do you have a clear dream and goal?

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Breathing is the most natural opportunity to expand your awareness and reconnect with your deepest being.

Breathing is something we are doing every moment we are alive. But breathing does not only keep our body alive, it can keep our spirit alive as well. Breathing is the secret to discovering our depths and reaching the sky.

Breathing is one of the simplest forms of meditation. By focusing on the sensation of breathing, you automatically relax. Your heart rate and breathing rate slow down. With time your breathing becomes deeper without trying. If in the beginning you are breathing from your chest, with your chest rising and falling, as your chest and abdomen relax, you will begin to breathe from your upper and then lower abdomen.

When you breathe from your lower abdomen, your diaphragm extends more and you take in more air. Your brain gets more oxygen. Your breaths are longer and slower, keeping you in a restful and peaceful state—one in which the parasympathetic branch of your autonomic nervous system is activated.

Abdominal breathing circulates your body’s energy healthfully in a Water Up, Fire Down cycle. Hot fire energy generated in your heart goes down and gathers in your lower abdomen. Your furnace-like energy center there uses that fire power to shoot the energy up to your kidneys, which cool it down with water energy that travels up to your head and finally down to your heart once more. Water Up, Fire Down is the ideal state for your body and mind.

In this state, your perception and awareness change. Your consciousness is immersed in the present moment. Because your brain waves are slower in this relaxed but awake state, your awareness is able to sink from the thinking of your conscious mind into the myriad memories, emotions, and ideas swimming around in your unconscious mind. With increased awareness of your unconscious mind, you are able to see, and release with each breath, the energy of whatever has been stored there. The mental baggage of your unconscious mind is usually put away without your conscious permission. However, by making yourself aware of what’s there through breathing, you can clear it out or make it work for your goals.

Deeper than your unconscious mind, however, at the very bottom of your consciousness, you can meet the greater consciousness and energy of the source of life. It is a state of oneness and revelation. In this place, you meet your true self, your divinity.

At this level, you can see all things clearly, you can integrate the knowledge you’ve acquired and truly make it your own, and you can create change with a heart alive with passion.

Mindful Breathing Practice

Straighten your spine in a way that is comfortable, not forced, so that your brain is not under pressure. Breath will enter your body comfortably only when you’re well centered. Keep your legs uncrossed and put a comfortable smile on your face. These three things are the basics.

You shouldn’t do unnatural and painful breathing, such as forcing yourself to take long breaths or holding your breath. You shouldn’t breathe too rapidly, and you’ll get drowsy if you breathe too slowly. Just breathe very simply.

As you breathe, focus solely on the energy center in your lower abdomen. Don’t concern yourself with the different phenomena that appear before your eyes—with seeing auras, with darkness or brightness. Just watch your energy center and discard thoughts that would rush you.

You may find yourself vibrating as energy accumulates in your abdomen. This is natural and ok. Keep focusing on your energy center, letting yourself vibrate. The vibrations will disappear, and your body will start to grow warmer. This is when Water Up, Fire Down circulation will begin, making your head clearer. This is a state without any desire, fear, loneliness, or boredom.

Then, like a dragon appearing out of deep waters, the true nature that is the master of life, divinity, will appear. When you have encountered that, the ecstasy is indescribable. That is the mystery of the human body. Once you experience that, you won’t be so caught up or led by worldly things.

Live within breathing. Everything will look new if you do. Rocks will seem new, trees will seem new, and even the stars of heaven will seem new. With mindful breathing practice, you’ll feel your cells awakening and your consciousness awakening.

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