If you look at the progress of your life so far, it will not be hard for you to figure out how your brain operating system might not be working in accord with your dreams. It will be especially evident in any self-doubt or negative assumption you hold. As you practice Brain Wave Vibration, visualize yourself deleting these limitations and replacing them with completely positive, supportive beliefs.

I encourage you to set a truly marvelous goal for yourself. Don’t choose something small and safe that you already know you can achieve without much of a problem. Rather, choose something that would amaze even you if you were to achieve it. Choose something that fills you with delight just to think about. If some part of you says, “But I could never do that,” just dismiss it as some out-of-date part of your operating system that needs to be replaced.

Of course, I know it is not so easy to set a grand goal. Like anything, it needs practice. You can practice by moving toward your big dream through small achievements.

If you are experiencing or recovering from an extended illness…
You can still practice Brain Wave Vibration, but you should take steps to conserve your energy during practice. You can easily practice from a lying position, and you can do it with the help of a caregiver. Lie down comfortably, relax your body, and close your eves. The caregiver should hold both of your feet and lift up your legs slightly. The caregiver can then begin to shake the feet and bounce the legs gently up and down. You will feel the vibration starting from the feet and spreading to the whole body. Lying in bed for a long time can stagnate the energy circulation if the body, so practicing a mild vibration of this sort can make the body feels refreshed and lighter. If you have arthritis or other joint problems…

Pain in your joints may become distracting or discourage you from practice. To combat this, start with very slight movements in the joints to bring increased circulation to these parts. Also, if you do feel pain, concentrate on exhaling the pain along with the breath. Visualize healing energy from the brain stem traveling through the body to the joints. As the pain decreases, increase your vibration to envelop the entire body.

You are there, inside the golden aura of the cosmos…Observe yourself floating in space, Pure and unadulterated as at birth, neither man nor woman… Without name or title… Pure life… is what you observe. You are infinitely peaceful, within a space inviolable to all, a space of pure consciousness…

From this place of pure consciousness, body and mind find harmony and all memories of suffering dissolve, returning you to the place of zero.

Body and mind become pure and clean in this place of emptiness… You return to the place of original being, where true shape is the purity of the soul that exists within you always. Whenever you wish, you may return here To purify your body and mind…

Every color has its own unique frequency and energy. Psychological and physical responses to different colors are already the subject of much study, with some colors being used for healing purposes. The colors of the Chakras incorporate the spectrum of the rainbow, making it impossible to define a spe­cific, definite color for one Chakra. The actual colors sensed during Healing Chakra training will vary among individuals. This is why books or meditation groups differ in their choice of colors of the Chakras.

Passion, creation, life, love, peace, wisdom, and completion… these energies are essential to living. By meditating on these words and concepts everyday. you can create happiness and joy. You can be reborn everyday with renewed body and mind. It is the energy of your mind and consciousness that heals you. For your mind and consciousness are the mind and consciousness of the cosmos. “My Energy is Cosmic Energy; My Mind is Cosmic Mind.” This is what I shouted at the moment of enlightenment. This is truth as I have experienced it.

If you practice the type of meditation described here, you will not only be able to heal yourself, but also you’re neighbors, society, and the world. You will become a bright light in your community. When you are at a crossroads, when you feel down or lacking in energy, when you feel confused and chaotic… when you need the power of the cosmos… just reach out with your hand, and in return, you will receive health of body and mind.

Chakra Brain Respiration is a training method designed to awaken the infinite potential of the brain by activating the Chakras through color. We will use the unique vibration of each color to stimulate each individual Chakra, which in turn stimulates the brain. When engaging in Chakra Brain Respiration, you can choose a color according to your condition. You can choose a different color for each day of the week, since there are seven to choose from. You will then feel your life filled with energy.

Use the Healing Chakra booklet that accompanies this book to help you visualize the colors for a more effective training session.

Sit in a comfortable position and relax your body. Set up the individual Healing Chakra picture about 20 inches from your eyes. Choose the color you want for the day. Observe the picture calmly and silently, feeling the sensation of the color…cold, hot, warm… comfortable… disturbing… soothing…

Now, close your eyes and imagine re picture you’ve just seen. Let the picture become larger and onghter in your mind’s eye, infusing your whole being with its light. Let the light cascade over you… allowing the light to be absorbed by your body, exploding in intensity as it hits the corresponding Chakra. If you want passion in your life, repeat the words, “Passion… passion…” as you visualize the color red. Feel the sensation of the particular frequency of vibration that corresponds to the color you have chosen.

Now, breathe the color in. And breathe out. Accept the color as you breathe it in, then expel all the negative energy from the Chakra as you breathe out.

Now, tell your brain the specific color that corresponds to each individual Chakra. Our consciousness moves faster than the speed of light. If we will the energy of love, our body will be filled with that energy in an instant. If you need healing energy, visualize the golden light of healing… and your aura will immediately shift to the color gold. Create a button inside your brain that you can press to elicit a immediate energy response throughout your body.

Bright, solid red symbolizes strength of life force energy. Red is also the color of the earth, which is the source of all other earth energies. Focus on the first Chakra and commune with her energy for the strength to forgive and the will to be courageous. You will acknowledge and love yourself, with overwhelming passion for life. This passion will make you shine brightly in this reality.

Passion… Courage… Strength… Decisiveness… Forgiveness…

Call forth these fundamental energies to the Hwe-um. Feel the energies seep into your being.

“I live life with a passion.” “I have courage and strength.”

“I am decisive and forgiving.” Breathe in… And out… concentrate on the Hwe-um. Breathe in, and the red energy comes into you through the Hwe-um.

Breathe out, and the red energy goes out through the Hwe-um.

With the breath, you feel the crimson energy envelop your body.

“A red rose rises through me, a wave of red energy cresting within my soul.”

“Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work or art.” – Stanislaw Lec

Through the continual, lifelong practice and Brain Mastering, you will truly become master of your brain. This means building a lifestyle centered in part on the four previous stages of BEST. You will continue to engage in part on the four previous stages of BEST. You will continue to engage in Brain Sensitizing, Versatilizing, Refreshing, and Integrating. As you do, over time you will continue to create new neural pathways that will help you discover new abilities and new ways of thinking. In short, you will find new solutions to the problems of living.

This new lifestyle can truly lead to a new life! For example, if you were not previously interested in writing, but then in your brain education journey you discover an urge to write your memoirs, you might find yourself in writers’ workshops, meeting other writers, and engaging your creativity to the fullest. Who knows, you could be a published writer for the first time in your seventies. The important thing is that you tried something new.

Brain Mastering, by Ilchi Lee, makes maturity what it should be: a prime time of life when you are free of the constraints of work and children and are free to pursue a rich, rewarding existence. So many older adults miss out on this time because they cling to old grudge of let their minds become frail and halting, but that is a fate to which no one need be consigned. Science is showing us that our minds, emotions, and attitudes affect how long and how well we live as much as, or more than, what we eat of how much we exercise. A positive, hopeful, curious mind is a resource for exploring all the wonders that later life has to offer: Want to travel? Go back to school and get your master’s degree? Start a company? Volunteer? Learn to meditate? Do it. Ilchi Lee tells us, when you are master of your brain, you are master of your life.

You might also inspire others. Not all people who reach maturity will hear of BEST on their own. Some short-sighted people might even consider it New Age mumbo-jumbo. We know the truth: You must grow older, but you don’t have to grow old. You can just grow-in sagacity, purpose, joy, and energy. By pursuing your Brain Mastering lifestyle, you may well motivate others to do the same. You may change one life or a dozen.

“In Full Bloom” by Ilchi Lee and Jessie Jones, PHD

This story is universal. By opening their minds and seeking beyond themselves, wanderers come to a wider wisdom, a larger view not only of the world but of themselves. They learn to give and be enlarged by the act of giving. Others may scoff and misunderstand their intentions, but in the end, they are transformed.
This is the essence of your journey. As someone who has lived five, six, seven decades of more, you have probably found that you were expected to adhere to a set of predetermined ideas. But all the while, you have wondered if there was a way you could escape the limitations of your thought habits and become a larger person with greater vision.

There is. It’s Brain Mastering, in which the skills and concepts you have learned throughout the first stages of BEST come together as a single unified discipline.

BEST (Brain Education System Training, by Ilchi Lee) is a spiritual quest-a quest to become a person of greater enlightenment as you make the transition into the mature years of your life. You have plenty of goals: to heal from the traumas of the past, to find peace, to develop a healthier body, and even to discover a new purpose for your life. Brain Mastering is discovering the life you want to live and developing a mental discipline that allows you to turn your brain into a tool to create that life. It is a continual process of improving your brain to become a better human being.

Essayist Sidney Smith said, “Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not that is inconsolable.” Many of us struggle with regret about the things we have not done in our lives. These regrets become more acute and painful as we age, like a disease that eats away at the peace and serenity of many older people, turning what should be a time of exploration, vitality, and joy into a shadowy country of unfulfilled promises and resentment.

With Brain Mastery, created by Ilchi Lee, you can break free from the unrealized goals of your past. You become a new person with new perspectives and a new ability to harness the creative and reasoning powers of your brain. Free from the unrealized goals of your past. You become a new person with new perspectives and a new ability to harness the creative and reasoning powers of your brain. Free from past fears, prejudices, and preconceptions, you can create a new future and do after seventy the things that you wanted to do at thirty-five. Have you read about those men and women in their seventies and beyond who are climbing the Himalayas, winning literary awards, and starting world-starting world-changing charities? There’s nothing in them that is not in you. You cannot go back and rewrite chapter one, but you can start now to make a fantastic finale.

“In Full Bloom” by Ilchi Lee and Jessie Jones, PHD

“Each material thing has its celestial side; has its translation, through humanity, into the spiritual and necessary sphere, where it plays a part as indestructible as any other”.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

And now we come to Brain Integration by Ilchi Lee. This works to reunite the diverse processing centers of the brain, reviving dormant connections between thought, emotion, and reasoning and helping you to discover your true self.

The human brain is the most complex structure we can imagine. Its billions of neurons interweave in countless neural connections, and it is a living, dynamic system. Millions of nerve cells die every day while more are created as a result of new experiences. Though we have made great leaps in our knowledge of the hormonal, electric, and functional operation of this amazing organ, we are still light years away from understanding how the physical brain gives rise to self, awareness, and consciousness.

According to a 2006 study conducted at the Yale School of Medicine, the brain uses both digital and analog coding for communications across its expanse. Digital signals, the yes/no option that defines today’s computers in everything from cars to video cameras, are very efficient and were though to be enough for the brain to do its complicated work. Not so. It turns out that analog signals, which depend on changes in the voltage of the electrical impulses that drive our brains, are also involved. The result is a solution far more subtle and efficient than we ever expected. Our brains are full of surprises, as are we. Your brain gives you the potential to reinvent yourself at any age.

In a way, your brain is three brains layered together. It has three distinct parts that echo or evolutionary past. At the deepest level is the reptilian brain, or R-complex. This is the brain we inherited from our distant ancestors, long before there were human beings. This brain is home to our most primitive instincts: reproduction, movement, the fight-or-flight response, and territoriality. The reptilian brain tends to be very resistant to change.

Above the R-complex is the limbic system. The parts of this higher brain control learning and memory, the expression of emotions, and the linking of past events to strong emotions. So when you remember a traumatic breakup with a boyfriend or girlfriend many years ago and feel the anger or grief again, that is your limbic system in action. This center is also responsible for attachment and protective, loving emotions, so it might be called the source of our emotional intelligence.

In Full Bloom—Ilchi Lee & Jessie Jones, PHD