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Ilchi Lee Day Proclaimed by the City of Houston

The City of Houston honored Ilchi Lee by Mayor Bill White officially proclaiming August 28, 2007 as Ilchi Lee Day, at a ceremony at the City Council of City Hall.

Mayor White presented Ilchi Lee with the official proclamation document; also attending were Peter Brown, City Council Member, and Terry Ferro, representative of the Houston Region Dahn Centers. The proclamation states that Ilchi Lee is being recognized because of his major contributions to the health and wellbeing of Houston and the world, and wished continued success for many more years.

A partial list of his contributions were given in the proclamation document: Ilchi Lee developed Brain Education System Training, the core curriculum of the Dahn Yoga Centers, which he founded; as a leading Brain Philosopher and Educator, he has improved the health of citizens of Housto, as evidenced by testimonials of its members; Dahn Yoga Center’s conduct of Walking for Health at the University of Houston, May 2007; his continued devotion to the study of brain awareness and its potential to improve the human condition.

The August 28 ceremonty that preceded the proclamation of Ilchi Lee Day was the Mayor’s recognition of the opening of the Korean War Veteran Museum in Houston.

Ilchi Lee Speaks to CEOs in Houston on Brain Best Practices for Business

To a CEO Roundtable of 30 presidents and chairpersons of a cross-section of the Houston Area’s largest and most innovative corporations, Ilchi Lee shared his views on Brain Best Practices for Business, at the prestigious Brennan’s Restaurant, August 28, 2007.

Ilchi Lee began his lecture with the inspiring business story of Ju Yung Chung, the founder of South Korea’s Hyundai industrial empire and symbol of the country’s post-war economic revival. In the 1980s, Ilchi Lee had been Mr. Chung’s adviser in matters of physical, mental and spiritual health. Mr. Chung’s rise from poverty to great wealth mirrored South Korea’s economic transformation. While he had retired from managing the 170,000-employee Hyundai conglomerate, he retained considerable influence, until shortly before his death at 85. He earned his first wages as a rice delivery boy and his first business venture was a car repair company. Hard work, creativity and a capacity to never give up were the essence of his life. After the Second World War, he branched out into the construction business, gradually building the Hyundai Group into a conglomerate making everything from cars to mobile phones.

Next Ilchi Lee pointed how Mr. Chung, characteristic of most highly successful business leaders utilized their brains in positive, creative and bold ways. He described the value of his Brain Education System Training, or BEST 5, indicating its five steps. These steps consist of principles and methods concerning brain education—sensitizing, versatilizing, refreshing, integrating, and mastering. Each step is linked in a series that lead to profound new ways to think, feel, learn, grow, and interact with the world around us. He invited the CEOs to regard their brain as one of the key assets of their career and business success, creativity in business and their personal life.

Ilchi Lee Addresses Doctors in Houston on Brain Best Practices for Better Health

Ilchi Lee conducted a workshop for 17 physicians, most of them clinical psychologists, presenting Brain Best Practices for Better Health, in Houston’s Tarantino’s Properties Building Conference Room on August 28, 2007.

The lecture was well received, as shown by the many and spirited questions asked by the participants concerning mental and physical health and the interplay between them.

Ilchi Lee spoke about his life journey, especially his overcoming his ADD condition and realizing the profound interconnectedness in the brain of the determinants of our physical, mental/emotional and spiritual health. Then he described his Brain Education System Training, or BEST 5, including brain sensitizing, versatilizing, refreshing, integrating, and mastering. In this brain-capability growth approach, one improves one’s brain functioning, lessens the limitations from the past, incorporates new and positive information, and utilizes the brain-body system in new and profound ways to obtain one’s physical, mental/emotional, and spiritual goals.

It was apparent that the doctors in the workshop were eager to learn through experience more concerning the nature, scope and applicability of BEST 5 in the physical and mental health fields.

Ilchi Lee Is Interviewed on XM Radio Broadminded Program, Washington, DC

Ilchi Lee was interviewed on XM Radio-Channel 155’s Broadminded program by the hosts Shari Elliker and Molly Dedham, out of Washington, DC, August 21, 2007.

The focus of the interview was on the uniqueness of the training approaches in Brain Education and holistic fitness, which he has been developing for the past 30 years. Broadminded discusses a wide range of topics, especially of interest to women, including lifestyles, health-fitness, and entertainment.

Ilchi Lee Day Proclaimed by the City of Gaithersburg

August 20, 2007 was officially designated by the City of Gaithersburg, Maryland, as Ilchi Lee Day, in a proclamation issued by Mayor Sidney Katz and presented in a ceremony at the City Hall.

The purpose of the proclamation was to honor the accomplishments of Ilchi Lee in the field of Brain Education and its contribution to the general health and physical, mental and spiritual wellbeing of the people who practice it.

As stated in the proclamation document, Ilchi Lee was recognized for these reasons (partial list): his Brain Education System Training is the core curriculum of the Dahn Yoga Centers, which he founded; as a leading Brain Philosopher and Educator, he continues to contribute to the health and wellness of Gaithersburg and the District of Columbia community, as evidenced by member testimonials; Dahn Yoga Center members are aligned with the Mayor’s Office to make Gaithersburg a more fit city; members report improved health with practicing Brain Education; members participated in the Montgomery County Women’s Fair, presenting a well-received lecture on Human Technology for Holistic Health; Dahn Yoga Centers provided warm-up exercises for the participants of the MS Walk; members are offering free classes at their companies, churches, hospitals and community; and Ilchi Lee has devoted his life to the study of brain awareness and its potential to improve the human condition.

Ilchi Lee Day Proclaimed by City of Alexandria

The City of Alexandria, Virginia, honored Ilchi Lee by officially proclaiming August 20, 2007 as Ilchi Lee Day. Mayor William D. Euille on behalf of the City Council signed the official proclamation.

A partial list of his contributions were enumerated in the proclamation document: He developed Brain Education System Training, the core curriculum of the Dahn Yoga Centers, which he founded; as a leading Brain Philosopher and Educator, he has improved the health of citizens of Alexandria and Washington, DC, as evidenced by testimonials and 30% of members reporting health improvement results; Dahn Yoga Center members are aligned with the Mayor’s Office to make Alexandria a more fit city; more than 1,000 local members are sharing wellness techniques with their families, businesses and communities; Dahn Yoga Center’s Walking for Health in Alexandria was enthusiastically received; and CEOs have described success resulting from Brain Education and related workshops.

Ilchi Lee Speaks on Innovations in Education at Washington, DC

Ilchi Lee spoke on Innovations in Education, to an audience of 400 people, at the George Washington University Cafritz Conference Center Grand Ballroom, Washington, DC, August 20, 2007.

He discussed his conclusions after three decades of investigating ways to develop the potential of the human brain for the benefit of humanity.

After explaining the connection between our brain’s functioning and our health, Ilchi Lee introduced the five steps of the Brain Education (BE) program: sensitizing, versatilizing, refreshing, integrating and mastering. Putting words into action, he lead the participants through two BE sensitizing exercises — Jangsaeng Walking and Ji-Gam.

Jangsaeng (or longevity) Walking, is a walking meditation method he developed with Dr. Sung Lee of the Ilchi Center for Applied Neuroscience, Sedona, AZ. Ilchi Lee instructed the participants to tuck in their tailbone to keep the spine long and feel the soles of the feet to circulate energy to vital organs. By implementing the simple guidelines of Jangsaeng Walking, we can activate our brain, and regain and maintain our physical body’s health.

Ilchi Lee introduced a way to calm one’s brain by focusing on the ki or life energy in one’s hands in a sensitizing exercise called Ji-Gam. It is a moving-meditation exercise that in Korean means to stop thinking to calm the brain. He told the participants to sit up straight in their chairs and bring their palms to face each other in front of the chest. Without touching, attendees focused on their palms and slowly began to move them apart and back together to feel the ki sensation.

Ilchi Lee Announces the City of Phoenix’s Proclamation of Brain Education Week

Ilchi Lee, developer of Brain Education and president of International Brain Education Association, announced that Mayor Phil Gordon on behalf of the City of Phoenix signed a proclamation on August 16 declaring Brain Education Week in Phoenix to be September 5-11, 2007.

The starting day of the Brain Education Week coincided with Ilchi Lee’s Light of Tao workshop for Dahn Yoga Center members in the Phoenix region. As with this workshop and nearly all the programs Ilchi Lee presents, their content and methods are related to Brain Education.

The Phoenix proclamation for Brain Education Week was based on these declarations: Brain Education Week celebrates the promotion of the awareness of the brain and its potential to improve the human condition; Brain Education consists of training programs to improve physical condition, ability to create and manage emotions skills of cooperation, and creative power; Brain Education can help students reach their full learning potential through body and brain exercises; and the Third International Brain HSP Olympiad and Brain Education Conference took place in New York State in August 2007, with 700 adults and children participating.

Ilchi Lee Hosts the 3rd International Brain HSP Olympiad, Ellenville, NY

Ilchi Lee, along with Oscar Arias Sanchez, President of the Republic of Costa Rica and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, were Co-presidents of the 3rd International Brain HSP Olympiad and Brain Education Conference.

The international events took place at Best 5 Resort, Ellenville, NY, August 10-12, 2007. The 700 participants included renowned scientists, government officials, educators, parents and children from five countries — United States, Canada, South Korea, Japan and United Kingdom. The brain-focused, international Olympiad and Conference demonstrated and advanced the utilization of the human brain for the purposes of creativity, productivity and peace. The Olympiad and Conference main sponsors consisted of the International Brain Education Association (Sedona, AZ) and the Korea Institute of Brain Science (Seoul), both of which are headed by Ilchi Lee.

Ilchi Lee spoke at the Opening Ceremony of the Olympiad and Conference, gave the keynote address at the Conference, and made remarks at the Closing Ceremony of the Olympiad and Conference.

At the Opening Ceremony, Ilchi Lee declared the brain to be the final frontier of the 21st century. Human civilization has been the product of the infinite creativity of the human brain. But most people do not know how to use their brain’s full potential. We are facing a historical crisis in which most people have lost their humanity by not properly using their brain. Now more than ever, we need a new awareness of the brain. This Olympiad is held to widely communicate the value of the brain and the development of new approaches to Brain Education.

According to Ilchi Lee, focusing on the brain in education is the key to achieving real progress for humanity and the Earth. The ability of the brain to be highly creative is dormant in all of us. The focus needs to shift from what is in the brain to how it can be developed and utilized. Brain Education is an opportunity for humanity to step forward into a new era, where we are concerned with the integrative thinking of Brain Management and Earth Management. Each person’s brain has the power that created our impressive civilizaton. The brain is the human body’s only component where matter contains spirit. This Olympiad is opened to awaken the awareness of the infinite creative power of the brain for the benefit of all humanity.

In his Keynote Speech to the Brain Education Conference, Ilchi Lee focused on the unlimited potential of the human brain and how to use PDCA (Plan, Do, Check, Action) to make our dreams happen in reality. The huge problems facing us today include people losing their humanity and the Earth warming based in part on our civilization’s choices. The root of people enjoying health, happiness and peace lies in our global and local environment. But there are many signs that the Earth is become more ill. We must change our ways soon or the planet will not be able to recover and thus not sustain life. The environment will be saved only when all of civilization’s institutions commit to finding and implementing innovative solutions. The keys are to shift our perspective to Earth-centers and humanity-centered management and take action. In the end, the brain is responsible for all solutions and actions. Therefore, we need Brain Education.

To change the course for humanity and the Earth, we must think like management. We start by setting specific goals, including how many people should be involved and by when. Ilchi Lee envisions 100 million Earth Humans by 2010. Earth Humans have a strong Earth-centered and humanity-centered philosophy and passion for action taking. They would be the core thinkers and workers in spreading a movement worldwide that would change the agenda and reality of the quality of our lives and planet. Taking action means making plans and putting them into practice. This involves a mentality of being engaged in creation, and having the power to create. With our brains, we possess unlimited creative power. Each of us needs to grow it further inside of himself or herself. An excellent way to do this is to follow the PDCA process — taking action that get results. Plan, Do and Check are the build up, but Action is the key. Do and Action are different: Do is a test that one must Check; Action is only genuine when it produces positive results. We all must utilize our brains more fully, and develop our creative power until our results change the world for the better.

The 3rd International Brain HSP Olympiad had events that highlighted the infinite potential of the human brain as developed through Brain Education. (HSP stands for Health, Smile/happiness, and Peace; as well as for Heightened Sensory Perception). Competitions challenged motor skills, sensory systems and brain perception and speed.

The Brain Education Conference featured lectures by distinguished educators and scientists, as well as workshops for teachers and others to help children to learn to use their brains to their fullest potential. Lecture topics included brain education as a new frontier in learning, brain-body connections, brain-considerate classrooms, and the role of proper walking for healthy brain functioning. Workshops covered concentration and memory, creativity and imagination, stress management, and emotional control.

Ilchi Lee Quoted in Daily Freeman Newspaper on “the Era of the Brain”

Ilchi Lee described Brain Education in Dianne Wiebe’s “It’s All in the Mind,” in the Kingston, NY-based Daily Freeman Newspaper, August 13, 2007.

Here are excerpts from the article:

ELLENVILLE, NY – Hundreds of participants cheered the Friday opening of the third annual Brain Olympiad at the Fallsview Best 5 Resort and Spa in Ellenville.

The weekend Olympiad, coupled with a conference on brain education, is co-sponsored by the International Brain Education Association (IBREA) and the Korea Institute of Brain Science (KIBS).

“Many people say that the 21st century is the final frontier, the era of the brain,” said Ilchi Lee, founder of both organizations. “Brain education will become the key to the future of civilization, with the development and utilization of the dormant brain to full functioning.”

Through brain education, Ilchi Lee believes that disciples can develop innate human capacities and creativity to better use the brain to influence physical, emotional and social well-being, as well as academic excellence.