Every brain, like every computer, has an operating system through which it processes the programs it receives. If you have not been able to create your life as you really want, then perhaps you simply can’t run that program on your current brain operating system. To do so would be like trying to run a current computer program on a version of Windows from the 19 8 Os.

Your operating system is the system of beliefs and preconceptions through which you interact with the world. Sometimes these beliefs are very helpful to us if they help us understand the world by helping us process the data that we constantly receive through our senses.

But sometimes our brain operating system is programmed in a way that does not suit our intentions for our like. For example, let’s say you really would love to learn how to draw, hut you have a belief about yourself that says, “I am not talented.

What really matters is not why or how the problem is happening but your relationship to the problem. One thing is definitely true –you will never be able to hate your problem out of existence. What really matters is your attitude about it. To upgrade your attitude, you must first consider how your brain is operating in relationship to the problem.

Upgrading Your Brain Operating System

I see the brain as similar, in some ways, to a computer. Granted, the brain is far more complex and can be modified through self-directed intention, which is certainly not the case with computers. However, I think it is a useful analogy to think in terms of the brain possessing an operating system.

Consider, for example, two young men taking a graduate school entrance exam. Imagine they are taking the same exam and that both are equally prepared, but one person arrives at the classroom with sweaty palms and a racing heartbeat, while the other remains perfectly calm and relaxed. What really makes the difference here?

The distinction lies in the story that each of the students is telling himself. One student may be saying to him, “I will just do my best. Everything will be fine.” Meanwhile the other is saying, “I am terrible at standardized tests, and my whole future depends on this one test.”

In both cases, the story is the creation of the prefrontal cortex, the part of the brain that analyzes and judges our environment. In the case of the stressed-out student, he is sending out a message that says, “Emergency! Sound the alarms!” The hypothalamus, sitting like a guard on top of the brain stem, hears the message and then relays it through hormonal and bioelectrical signals to the rest of the body. The sympathetic nervous system also known as the fight-or-flight response, is activated- diction is slowed, heartbeat is increased, and circulation is compromised, including in the brain.

New discoveries about the cell membrane have led Lipton and other scientists to reconsider the ancient Asian concept of ki, which was once rejected as irrational. As it turns out, the energy emitted by your brain, your brain waves, may be crucial to the overall health of your cells.

Cellular health is critically important for your physical health because cells are the building blocks of your body. If your cells are not healthy, your body is like a building made of weak, disintegrated bricks.

Remember that all disease begins at the cellular level. All cancers, for example, begin with one mutated cell. When organs malfunction, this also begins at the cellular level. And the integrity of the cells that make up the artery walls plays a big role in cardiovascular disease.

Fortunately, healing also happens at the cellular level. Your body has an amazing ability to heal and grow itself, which is what Brain Wave Vibration is all about. Through it, you can learn to communicate positive, healing energy to your body.

Brain Wave Vibration training helps synchronize your brain waves with the natural healing power contained within every cell of your body. You can start by making sure that the content of your thoughts is positive. Many studies have shown the important role of emotions and attitude in determining long-term health. Positive thinking patterns are clearly a precursor to good health. In addition, they help facilitate proper flow of ki through the body, leading to a vital, fully developed sense of health and well-being. Quantum physics has taught us that everything in the universe is ultimately energy, and Brain Wave Vibration will empower you to use your brain stem to emanate positive, supportive energy throughout your body and into your life.

Energy Management Is Life Management

Brain Wave Vibration is essentially a means of managing your energy, in much the same way that you manage your time or your finances. If you feel stressed out or burned out, you may think it is because you have too much to do. That may indeed be the case, but for most people, burnout comes from the inability to manage their energy, not from having too much to do.

Our current approaches to health care have done much to extend our life span, but our health span may not be so impressive. American men, for example, can expect to experience some kind of debilitating illness by the time they reach age sixty-seven, and women can expect to experience the same by age seventy-one (World Health Organization). Thus, you can expect to spend most of the last decade of your life in ill health.

I firmly believe that this is not the way it should be. A friend of mine, named Kwan-sik Min, is a good example of how I think we should live. Mr. Min, who served as a minister of education in Korea before his retirement, was the picture of good health to the day of his death at age eighty-nine.

In spite of his advanced years, he never gave up his active lifestyle, sustaining a full schedule of speaking engagements and leisurely sports activities.

Research has shown that the body and mind function according to ultra biorhythms, cycles in which the body moves from high-energy to low-energy states. At the low point of the cycle, which occurs every 90 to 120 minutes, your energy dips and your mind wanders (Schwartz). In response to this energy deficit, people usually reach for that extra cup of coffee, grab a sugary snack, or just suffer through the feeling of listless fatigue. This kind of habitual behavior in the long run only produces burnout and inefficient working habits. What people really need is an effective way to recharge their energy, rather than to push themselves artificially through the feeling of exhaustion and brain fog.

On top of this tendency, most people’s work is not balanced from the brain’s point of view. These days, most people find that their jobs require a great deal of processing from the prefrontal cortex, especially for left-brain functions, like logical, symbolic, and verbal processing.

Tao Fellowship’s Sedona Mago Garden

An Extraordinary Place

Sedona Mago Garden (sedonamagoretreat.org) is a world-class, scenic-wonder and eco-harmony retreat site in the incomparably scenic Sedona, AZ, area – often called the most beautiful city in America.

“Mago” in Tao Fellowship – Mago Garden means “Mother Earth” in several Asian cultures.

Founded by Ilchi Lee in 1998, a world-renowned brain philosopher and educator and peace leader, Mago Garden is owned and operated by Tao Fellowship, a nonprofit organization committed to harmonizing humanity and the Earth.

Founded in 1998, Tao Fellowship – Mago Garden is located on 160 exquisite high-desert acres in the heart of Coconino National Forest.

Tao Fellowship – Mago Garden features spectacular mountain views, 126 casita-style guest rooms (for 250 guests), swimming pool and outdoor Jacuzzi hot spa, three vegetarian buffet meals daily, hiking trails, meditation areas, juniper and pine forest, three gardens (healing, herbs and organic), large lake, ponds, and a warm staff.

Tao Fellowship – Mago Garden is a recognized ecological and sustainable retreat center. On the Institute of Ecotourism’s self-assessment Green Checklist, it earned “Five Leaves,” the highest level possible (a score over 90 points on a 100-point scale).

Tao Fellowship – Mago Garden offers guests a variety of activities:  private healing sessions, exercise classes, health programs, horseback-riding meditation, rock saunas, and guided group tours of Tao Fellowship – Mago Garden’s vortexes, Sedona area vortexes and sites, and Northern Arizona (especially the Grand Canyon). 

Tao Fellowship – Mago Garden is ideal for having special occasions – be it a group/corporate retreat, rejuvenation vacation (for individuals, couples and families), family reunion, wedding and honeymoon. Tao Fellowship – Mago Garden’s staff helps make group retreats more creative and productive, and guests feel renewed and connected to Nature and themselves. 

Tao Fellowship – Mago Garden is a superb setting for our excellent educational programs in holistic health, brain education, youth leadership, and personal improvement.

Tao-Fellowship – Mago Garden has become the choice of ecological-minded guests from around the world who want greater health, happiness and peace in their lives.

It’s getting warmer and warmer and seems like it’s already Spring in Texas. When the weather changes some people catch cold and suffer from allergies.  I would recommend to practice Dahn Yoga at your home. It’s not difficult at all.  Any body can do it. First, sit down comfortably on the floor with the half lotus posture. If it is not comfortable for you, then you may sit on a chair. Second, place both of your hands on your knees having the palms facing upward. Close your eyes. Imagine that you are in the middle of a very peaceful, warm and cozy forest. Birds are singing and butterflies are flying in the sky happily. Breathe naturally. Watch how you breathe in and out. As you breathe in, you take in Cosmic energy which will make your body healthy and your mind clear. As you breathe out, you exhale stagnant energy out of your body.

Do this for 3 minutes. Remember, the thing is to relax and focus on your breath. Relax your shoulders. Let the tension in your chest go. It only takes a few minutes to practice Dahn Yoga for your health. This is a very basic and simple example of breath work for beginners. I hope all of you to enjoy energy training and breath work.

Have you ever stopped to realize that you owe everything you are to your brain?
If someone asks you who you are, what do you say?
Maybe you say something like, “My name is John. I am a twenty-seven-year-old man of African descent, and I currently work as an elementary school teacher in Dallas, Texas.”
Instinctively, you and John both know that there is much more to you. John loves most of all to be in the presence of greatart. The hair on the nape of his neck stands up when he smells freshly fallen rain. Both of you have experienced a great range of love and suffering throughout your life. How can one name
or one identity sum up all of this?
All these things do have one thing in common, however—they were generated through the brain. John’s brain enabled him to become a school teacher, and it is through his brain that he feels awe when standing before a powerful painting. A symphony of sensory input and memory within his brain gives rise to his reaction to freshly fallen rain. It is also within his brain that he stores his definition of what it means
to be a man, twenty-seven years old, and African-American.
In some sense, you could say that you are your brain. Or, at the very least, the brain is the instrument through which you experience all reality. And it is through it that you interact with reality—in every emotional reaction, in every choice that you make, and in every dream that you dream. Everything you
ever have been or will become is because of your brain.

The conditions of your life at the present moment are also dependent on the condition of your brain. If you love the conditions of your life, you must use your brain to help you maintain that life. If you want to change the conditions of your life, it will also require effective use of your brain.

From the book “In full Bloom” by Ilchi Lee