Dahn Yoga on Neck Pressure
Dahn Yoga exercises with pressing acupressure points in your neck.
Neck Pressure: Dahn yoga
- Kneel. Sit on your heels with your toes pointing forward. Place your hands on your head with the fingers pointing upward and the thumbs on your BI 10 acupressure points at the base of your skull.
- Inhale and tilt your head to the left. Press the BI 10 and hold for 7 seconds. Exhale. Bring your head back to center. Repeat on the right side. Perform this exercise five times.
The BI 10 acupressure points are located about one half to one inch on either side of the Ah-moon. Pressing these acupressure points helps to relieve headaches and hypertension.
Toe Tapping: Dahn Yoga
- Lie down or sit up with your legs extended in front of you.
- Keeping your heels together, tap your big toes together, and then separate them so your little toes tap the floor on either side.
- Bring your feet up so the big toes touch again. Repeat as rapidly as you can 100 times. Increase repetitions and practice.
Dahn yoga and your life
We breathe in and out, a lot of times a day. We can feel life through breaths, blood circulation and energy.
Ilchi Lee asks how we should use this life. When I saw this title, it was not that intriguing, but anyway I continued to read the article. He challenges readers, “Is the life given to you yours?” Wow. How strong is that? I felt like I got beaten in my head with hammer or something. If the life given to me isn’t mine, who should it belong to? Can’t I call the life my life? He moves on saying life belongs to no one, which was not less sensational.
Actually I don’t know where the life originally began. I don’t know why I have the life now. I do believe that I am given the life because I have wished for it, but it does not explain the whole story. Ilchi Lee says, the selfishness and obsessions within us begin with the thought that it is I who own this life. We came from the source. Yeah. It’s the same message with that of the movie the Matrix.
The Source of Intention
Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn’t know it, so it goes on flying anyway.
You came 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 grashp them. You fumbled them around in hands, feeling their shape and texture, and even popped them in your mouth, wanting to know everything about the world around you.
As you gained knowledge of the world, you wanted to assert your influence over these objects. You pushed your bowl off the table, just to see it fall. You cooed and squealed, trying to understand the nature of your own voice. All your senses were open to discovering the living world around you.
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. Dahn Yoga practice can help expedite this process. As you grow 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 Ilchi Lee, the founder of Dahn Yoga did, “What is this really about?”
The problem with the physical world is that it is easy to forget 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, who you really were.
From Brain Wave Vibration by Ilchi Lee. You can practice this at a local Dahn Yoga center.
It has often been observed that there are two selves within the human being. There is the self 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. In Dahn Yoga center you can practice various programs to take care of this issue.
Announcing Healthy Living Pro WordPress Theme
Healthy Living is simple and elegant theme for WordPress created by Aqeel Syed. Healthy Living comes with many cool features built in. This 2 column widget ready theme allows the user to edit the looks of the site with ease from the WordPress admin panel. The theme works right out of the box with no set up. Overall a nice clean theme for all your blogging needs.
For latest releases and updates please visit theme page.
Look Younger And Happier With Dahn
Kristen
How have you improved in these areas? When I began I was very stiff and inflexible. When I went to my physical 2 weeks ago, my doctor commented on how very flexible I am now! I am also able to withstand the Houston heat better than I have in the past.
How often do you attend class? 3 - 4 times per week.
What others notice about you now? People are saying I look younger and happier, and that I am more relaxed.
