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ISBN-13: 978-1-935127-04-8
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The part can never be well unless the whole is well.
Plato
Contents
Guide to Healing Chakras Self-Training CD
I assume you picked up this book because you are interested in chakras. Well, let me set the record straight. This is really a book about happiness.
Chakras would have no interest for me whatsoever if they were just some esoteric spiritual concept. The only thing that interests me is helping people create better lives for themselves. To that end, chakras are really just a practical matter. You cannot live a truly happy life if your energetic condition is not in a healthy state. My hope is that the information in this book will help you achieve just that.
The seeds of Healing Chakras training were actually planted over thirty years ago on a mountain top in Korea. It was at that time, when I was in my early thirties, that I underwent my own deep training experience. For years, I had been searching for the answers to some of the fundamental questions of human existence. I kept desperately asking myself, Who am I? Why am I here? I would not be satisfied with conventional ideas about personal identity. I had to know, really know, what this life was all about. Thus, I went up into the mountain, determined to not come down until I found the answer. I didnt even care if I were to die in the attempt.
Fortunately, I did find the answerafter twenty-one days of grueling ascetic training. The answer came to me like a thunderbolt to my brain, just at the moment I thought I would die up there in the mountain. While deeply meditating on a rock on the edge of a cliff, I suddenly felt as though my head were going to explode, and electricity was coursing through my body. I thought, This is it. I am going to die here, as I imagined myself tumbling over the edge of the cliff.
But I did not die. Instead I heard a voice in my head saying, Cosmic energy is my energy; my energy is cosmic energy. At that moment, I felt as though my entire being was dissolving into the energetic soup of the universe. Feeling my existence as pure energy, I felt without any doubt that all separations are illusion- ary, and that all is one through cosmic energy. With this realization came an incredible sense of peace and bliss. Since that moment, it has been my mission to help people open themselves to this enlightenment experience.
I have identified the brain as the ultimate mediator in this enlightenment process because it is only through the brain that people can experience oneness, just as it is the brain that creates our illusions of separation. Thus, for the past thirty years, I have been constantly working to create training methods that help develop the brains hidden abilities and sensitivities. These methods, collectively called Brain Education System Training (BEST), are now taught in more than 1,000 centers around the world, as well as in numerous schools and community centers.
Much of the BEST system is an expanded and modernized version of the training practices that were part of the Korean Shin-sun-do tradition, the original Korean culture of more than 10,000 years ago. Ruled by enlightened figures known as the Dahn-guns, this society was one of the most peaceful, advanced cultures ever to have existed. For them, energy study was a normal part of everyday life. I believe that this ability to sense and connect to energy was a key element of their enlightened culture, and I believe energy study can do the same for people today, which is why I have written Healing Chakras for you.
I consider Healing Chakras training to be an important part of BEST because understanding of and sensitivity to energy is the key to health, happiness, and peace. One unique aspect of this Chakra program is how it is connected to the human brain, which is ultimately the mediator for the health of the entire chakra system.
In 1999, I first started a training called Energy Capsule Training, and two years later developed it into Healing Chakras training, the one you will experience through this book. From 2001 to 2003, I traveled around the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Korea, and Japan to present Healing Chakras. I conducted about ninety trainings and met some 15,000 people through this training. Starting in 2004, I selected very advanced students of mine to give Healing Chakras training. Since its inception, about 30,000 people have experienced Healing Chakra training through 300 sessions.
Much of what you will read and experience through this book is related to the Healing Chakras lecture and training workshops. Healing Chakras training is a four-hour intensive workshop. You can feel, activate, and balance all seven chakras through the training, which emphasizes the spiritual aspects of chakras and restores a strong connection between the human and the divine. Many wonderful stories of healing and personal transformation have resulted from this training. While there are many chakra books on the market today, you can rest assured that the exercises contained within this book have worked for real people, making their lives more healthy, happy, and peaceful.
This book is based on the notion that energetic health is the foundation of mental, physical, and spiritual health, what I call health, happiness, and peace. As far as I am concerned, asking, Are you well? is akin to asking, Are your chakras healthy? Energy is the root of body and mind. By understanding and mastering energy, you can unlock the secret to changing yourself and the world. When a chakra changes, energy changes. When energy changes, personal transformation is achieved.
Thus, by learning to pay attention to your energetic health, you are learning to look deeply at the underlying causes behind any physical ailment or mental discomfort you may have. As you will discover, the various chakras represent different aspects of human existence. To a great degree, healing your chakras is about finding the right balances in life.
Ultimately, however, I believe that Healing Chakras is about healing the Earth. The imbalances we see in the world today are a keen reflection of the imbalances people have in their bodies, minds, and spirits. By learning to feel and understand your own chakras, you will bolster your connection to other people and to the Earth. Divisions will disappear. As we heal ourselves, we heal each other and the Earth.