If you cannot breathe well because of asthma or cardiovascular problems

As you exhale, make a long “ahhh” sound while patting the chest to open up the airway. Focus on exhaling all air out of the lungs. You will feel a subtle vibration that spreads out from the chest to the whole body. Chest Twist Vibration (page 144) will be especially helpful to you.

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.

Deliberately make vibrations in your body

When you begin, you will make the vibrations consciously. You may do so by following the beat of a song, or you may just fol¬low a rhythm that seems appropriate to vou. At this stage you should locus on relaxing the body as you move to the rhythm. Try to quiet the thinking mind by focusing only on the beat and the movement of your body. Avoid self conscious concern about how you look to others; just focus on yourself. To begin, gently shake the head left and right. As the neck starts feeling relaxed, shake the shoulders up and down. Let the sensation spread through your body as you shake your entire body while lightly bouncing up and down. As you shake, imagine that you are shaking off all your complicated thoughts and emotions. Try to release all tension from the body through your exhalation.

Even inanimate objects can carry vibrations that influence us. Sometimes a room feels negative, not because of some hu¬man event but because of the vibration inherent in the objects in the room. You could say that interior decorators and artists are masters of vibration, manipulating the wav colors and shapes interact to affect your brain.

The experience of beauty is the experience of vibrations that resonate with you in a way that opens you up to the world around you. If you have ever experienced the feeling of awe, you have experienced the feeling of expansion that can come through beauty. When this happens, your brain is recognizing the high-level vibrations it craves. This sense of beauty can come in the form of beautiful objects, people, or actions.

If the color and shape of objects can have so much influence on us, imagine how much influence we can have on each other. I am sure you have experienced that when someone is in a bad mood, that mood tends to rub off on you. By the same token, someone’s smile can completely turn your day around. Imagine what a difference we could make if we really tried to put this to full use. Enough people producing positive brain waves could change the world, don’t you think?

A change in collective human consciousness essentially requires an invisible and inaudible communication between brains. As you learn to orient your brain toward positive information, the whole of humanity will be lifted up as well. That may seem overwhelming at first, but it requires only that you first change your own brain to work in a way that is most healthy for your own body and the Earth.

My initial interest was to create health through the enhanced flow of energy in the body. I began simply by teaching stretching exercises in a park. At first, only one person came a man who had suffered a stroke. I worked with him to stretch his body and to open the meridians that carry energy through his body. Over time, he gained more and more movement, attaining a remark¬able degree of recovery.

Most of us have been conditioned to think that the answers to life’s problems are complex. We look to complicated, obscure theories and scientific learning that require experts with years of study to interpret and apply. Furthermore, we tend to think that problems arise from somewhere outside ourselves. Thus, we also look outside ourselves for the answers. I am writing this book with the sincere hope that this method will help you dis¬cover that everything you need for health, happiness, and peace is already inside you.

LLTIMATELY, YOU CAN DO the training in any number of different postures, and you can create your own postures as you learn to follow the flow of energy and the needs of your body. You can do the training with or without music, but you may find that music with a strong basic rhythm will help you get into the natural rhythms of your own body more quickly. The most important point is to just enjoy yourself and to let your thinking mind drift away.

These postures are the most basic forms of Brain Wave Vibration, and I recommend that you follow* them in the beginning. After that, you can start improvising according to the dictates of your bodily needs. Immediately following this chapter you will find some variations that many students have found particularly useful.

Many people carry around a lot of emotional baggage that prevents them from fully experiencing the joy of life. On top of that, they have a lot of preconceptions and judgments that prevent them from simply being present in the moment and enjoying the beauty of the world as it exists. The primary goal of Brain Wave Vibration is to help you return to a simple state of being, a place where you can experience yourself and the world without thought or judgment. With practice, it will become natural to discard old, debilitating emotions and to develop a positive state of mind.

Restore a healthy energy condition in your body

In Asian medical systems, health of the body is dependent on the flow ol life energy through the body. This energy, called ki or chi, runs through channels in the body called meridians. II these meridians are blocked, pain or disease result. Muscle tension is a common source of energy blockage. Brain Wave Vibration helps release tension that blocks the flow of ki energy in the body thereby improving your overall sense of vitality and health.

Just by moving your body, you will activate your brain in ways that sedentary behaviors, no matter how mentally rigorous, cannot. Why? Because all parts of your body are connected to your brain, and when you move, many diverse parts of your brain are stimulated simultaneously. And beyond that, Brain Wave Vibration helps shift mental emphasis away from the thinking part of the brain, the prefrontal cortex, so that all parts of the brain can begin to function in beneficial ways. In particular, the brain stem can start to create balance in the body in ways that might otherwise be undermined by the stress-producing thoughts of the prefrontal cortex. Also, negative emotional content can finally be released and replaced with positive information. The rhythmic vibrations and spontaneous movements can also help activate creativity and imagination as you are transported to a place beyond the rational mind.

Develop positive habits.

Your brain has an amazing ability to restructure itself according to your wishes. However, your brain s neural connections can also become rigid through repeated patterns of behavior, and thus it can be very hard to change negative habits once they are solidified in your brain. Brain Wave Vibration helps you achieve a relaxed, open state of mind that will better facilitate the development of new mental and physical habits. To be continue………