 everybody. Hello. Welcome to another live from brain education TV. I have here someone who's very familiar on our channel, my good friend, David Driscoll. He's a brain education instructor. Hi, everybody. And the face of body and brain TV. Yay. Alright, so today we're going to talk about something that's pretty much the essential to our channel. And I so it's in the name. And I can't believe it took us this long to talk about the most basic thing about our channel. Well, you talk about it every day a little bit at least. Yeah, but I don't think we did a video that actually talks about what this thing is. So some people are still wondering what is brain education? Right, they're like, okay, it sounds good. And I think it's it's it sounds like it's helping me. But what is it exactly? Yeah, is it some kind of textbook that I need to study? Right? Is it a course that I can take online or in person somewhere? Yeah, what is brain education? Isn't everything education that is actually for your brain? Isn't that brain education? What makes this unique? Right. So all of these questions that you may have about brain education, we're here to talk about what it is, the background of it, how it's impacted our lives, and what potential we see with brain education in society from here on out. Wow, this sounds very informative. I'm very excited. I'm so excited. I'm so excited that I'm doing it with David, because he's actually been practicing this for way longer than I have. So he's, I would say an expert on this topic. Wow. I hope so. So if I would invite anybody on the channel to talk about what is brain education, it would be you, David. Oh, thank you very much. Alright, so we have some comments. So yes, if you are tuning in, please type in the chat where you're tuning in from. We always like to see where you guys are coming in from. Kathleen, we see you. Thank you so much for enjoying our channel and Jofi, we see you too. Oh, yeah. And then brain fog due to COVID. Yeah, brain fog, anything physical, emotional, mental, all these things are related to how we use the brain, how we respond to these things. So we'll get into that. Yes. Alright, so before we dive into the topic, I want to do a little intro here. As you guys know, if you have been in the lives before, we have a function called the super chat. Yes. And the super chat is your way to show us some love by donating any amounts to our channel to help fund our content to help fund our activities here on Brain Education TV. So if you particularly enjoy the content and have benefited from it, I encourage you to hit the rectangular button with a currency symbol underneath the line where you type to chat your messages. So in the US, you will see a dollar sign, and then wherever you are in the world, you will see your currency symbol. If you click that, you can send us some love by donating any amounts that you would like to our channel. Yeah, much appreciated. And all the great work that BETV is doing is supported by you. Yes. So thank you all so much. And everyone else that's joining in. Thank you. Manish, Bink Mama, and Esosa, Esosa Rain. I hope I'm saying these names right. I'm sorry if I'm not. All right, so let's dive into the topic of it. Let's go. Let's go. Let's get started. So maybe a good place to start is what is Brain Education? How would you define Brain Education? Well, since that's the title of this live, then that is a good place to start. I would say so. So Brain Education, because it encompasses so many things that could be a little tricky, but Brain Education is a comprehensive system of mind body training. And it's designed to awaken the creative power and potential in your brain. That's really important is there's creativity in your brain. So we'll talk more about that. There's actually something we call like the creator in your brain that can help you design every aspect of your life the way that you want. And Brain Education is to help everybody awaken that. I really like that because have you in the audience, I know I haven't thought about this before, but have you ever thought that physical health, so the condition of your body is something that you create? And also have you thought that your emotional state is also something that you create? And finally, your mental state is, last but not least, also something that you create. The key here is create, that I create. Because a lot of the times, David, I feel before me too, before I met Brain Education, I just thought that things happen to me in life. And they're out of my control, especially if it's somebody else causing me emotional pain, or I want to be healthy, but my hormones are out of whack and my body is gaining weight and it's out of my control. Then you feel like I'm a victim to the circumstance. I'm a victim to people doing this to me. And I'm a victim to people causing me mental stress. Right. So it's like, okay, well, if these people are doing this to me, I'm powerless. So do I have to just suck it up? Like, what do I do? And it's making me so miserable. A lot of people get caught up in that victim mentality. It's really hard sometimes not to because if we don't understand it completely, or we don't see how we're creating it, it's easier to feel like I'm not creating it. It's something else. And when that happens, in some ways, it feels nice to blame something else. Oh, I understand why this happened. That person did this or science says this about my body. But actually, we give up our power, we give up, we give up our creativity if we only look at the outside influence. Yeah. And I think, I think maybe if I were to kind of like, draw a conclusion that a lot of unhappiness, and maybe dissatisfaction with your current state, physical, emotional or mental, something in your life comes from being in victim mentality, that I can't change it because my husband is doing this to me, or my friend is doing that to me, or my body is doing this to me, or my boss is doing this to me. So I am powerless because other people are doing these things to me. So when you're in that victim mentality, there's really no hope, because I can't change people, I can't change these things. So then does that mean that my life is just set out to be miserable for the rest of my life? Yeah, and we can still be working really hard to try to improve things, but usually it's directed at other people like why don't why don't the other people love me more? Why don't other people recognize and appreciate me more? Well, if I'm not creating that kind of energy inside myself first, then even if I do get it from outside, it's only temporary. It's not really something I can trust is going to be there forever. Right. So the beauty of brain education where the brain education comes in to solve this problem, if you also feel like somewhat of a victim in your life, that things are just happening to you and they're out of your control and you don't know what to do, and you feel powerless. The start, the first button that you button for brain education, the foundation of brain education is the belief that your physical health, emotional state, and mental and or spiritual health is something that you create each and every moment, every single day of your life. Yeah, when you can change your thought from victim to wait, I have the power to create. It seems like such a small thing, but it's a huge shift, huge shift. And we can understand that it's there, but really, like really owning it sometimes is challenging. I can understand, Oh, maybe my habit every day contributed to the way my body feels now, maybe I should change that. But there's always other things when you really accept it, then it's challenging like, Oh, I got to get up early, or I got to make time even though I don't feel like it to do some exercise or to eat differently. And then we get challenged. But through that challenge, that's where we get some of the power to awaken that creative life, that creator inside of us. Yeah. And I would say when you can shift that consciousness and that awareness, that you are the owner of your brain and you have the power to determine how you create your life. That is really the foundation and starting point of when you really start to live. And when you start to live. So we're talking about, okay, this creator exists inside of me and I should be the owner of my life. And what do I want? What do I want to create? What do you want to create? If I don't even know that, then it's hard to feel motivated. Here's one tip. One thing about brain education is it's personal. It's very much about me and my life and my brain, but it's also about the outside, the community, the earth, other people and how I influence them. So if you're having a hard time feeling motivated about your own change, how about helping others? Is there something that you really care about to change in the world or to help other people deal with? Then that can also be a good motivation for your own change inside. Right. It gives the why. The big picture. And we need both. So one of the things about brain education is also if you do want to change the world, if you want to make it more peaceful, if you want people to be healthier in general, you've got to be able to create some of that inside yourself. It doesn't have to be perfect, but you have to be working on it and learning what it takes to create that energy for yourself because that's what other people are going to really sometimes learn the most from is what you did, not necessarily just what you say. Right. And then also just piggybacking off of that is how can you truly help people if you don't know how to help yourself too? Right. Right. Because we can only deliver as much as we know. Yeah. And knowing from up here is very quick and easy, but kind of surface level. Like I read a book about diet or I read a book about exercise. So I know a lot from the book, but does that mean that I've actually studied it with my body or with my emotions in a way that other people might feel? Maybe not yet. Yeah. Because I think just being healthy isn't really the end goal for myself. Right. Because of course in the first stage you might want to be healthy. For me, before brain education, I was unhealthy. I had a lot of hormonal problems. So for me, the first motivation was I wanted to be healthy. But then moving on from there, the real purpose of brain education is not so that only I can be healthy because what good is it if it's just me? And if this this good feeling that I have can't be delivered to other people, what's the meaning of that? Right. And also even if I'm healthy, but if my community is really not healthy, like everybody's angry, everybody's stressed out, then my health is going to be very fragile because I'm affected by the world around me. So ultimately we need to work with each other because we're affected by each other a lot. Yeah. Yeah. So that's the real goal is it opens up a lot of doors. And if you're struggling, if you're struggling to feel like you have any creative power in your life because of the things that are happening to you, maybe start with one thing. Just start with one thing that you can focus on and maybe you have some idea how to take action on and start practicing brain education with that one thing if it's exercise, if it's diet, if it's a meditation, if it's some kind of relationship thing. Practice using your brain well in that one area and it'll open up doors in many other areas where you can see your power. Yeah. All right. So now that we kind of have a working definition of brain education, I want to share with you guys the background of how this came to be. Great idea. Yeah. And how we got involved with brain education too. Yep. All right. So you guys, if you haven't been following this channel, you already know him, but the person who created brain education, his name is Il-Chi Lee. So Il-Chi Lee is a meditation expert and he's also a New York Times bestselling author from Korea. Since 1980, he, so let me go before that, before 1980. So Il-Chi Lee has, is someone who has struggled with ADHD his whole life. So he's one of those people, you might think that oh he must have been born extraordinary to be a New York Times bestselling author and born extraordinary to do these things, but actually he says that no, I was born with ADHD and I struggled in school my whole life. So he wasn't a good student? Never a good student. And actually he was such a bad student that his teachers said you would amount to nothing. You are hopeless and you will be nobody in society. Which, you know, teachers are working hard to try to help kids and if they say that there's, there's a lot of frustration. Yeah and the teacher sat Il-Chi Lee's parents down. His father was actually a principal of a school. So a lot of pressure. A lot of pressure. They sat his parents down and said your son will amount to nothing. His father must have been devastated. Right. So he struggled his whole life to find self-confidence and to find some meaning in his life. So when he turned 30 he went through the traditional route of what society told him to do. He got married. He had kids. He got a job. He went to college. You know, check off all the boxes that society said you need to do these things to be successful, to be worthy, to be happy. He checked off all those boxes and at the age of 30 he was like you know what? I checked off all these boxes but something still doesn't feel right. Something still feels like it's missing. I'm missing some kind of important thing in my life. I bet a lot of people can relate to that. Yeah. I totally relate to that story too. So at the age of 30 he said I'm going to find the answer to this if I die trying. So he went up to the mountain. He did intense practice and then after 21 days of intense practice of going within himself to find the answers. He discovered something very important. He discovered the value of his existence. The enlightenment that he had in his brain was cosmic energy is my energy. Cosmic mind is my mind. So that is a really fancy way to say I am one with the universe. I am the universe and the universe is me. Wow. So yeah, oneness. Yeah. People talk about oneness. Right. But he did meditation and training it and then he really felt that. Right. And to break it down even less or even smaller if the universe is too big it's like other people are like me. I am like other people. Trees, nature, everything. Life itself on earth is like me and I am like life itself too. Which means that anybody has potential to feel what I'm feeling and to awaken to what I've awakened to through my practice. So from there he felt motivated to deliver this awakening to people. And so he's been researching for many many years and he really discovered that the answer that he found on that mountain came from his brain. Right. And it's kind of like simple to say but this profound like spiritual experience almost happens in our brain. Yeah. And every one of us has a brain. Yeah. Which means I think what you're saying the potential for that deep oneness experience is in each one of our brains. Right. But how do we get it? How do we like get there? Yes. And the beauty of that is like David said since everybody has a brain it doesn't discriminate based on gender, religion, social class. It doesn't matter. Their material things different social classes can have different things but every single human being as long as you're alive even dead people actually have a brain. So everybody has a brain which means that anybody can really discover themselves and connect with them to find their own value to find that creative potential within themselves to create the life that they want. So when Il-Chili discovered that part he said okay this is how I'm going to really modernize and make it realistic for people to accept and practice this awakening that he had that the universe is me and I'm the universe. So you don't have to go to the mountains for 21 days and do meditation and then have like this profound just enlightenment experience. Good news is not at all. Not at all. Okay. Maybe you're into that kind of stuff but me personally I don't think I can do it. I think most people might have to quit their job if it required 21 days in the mountains. Right. Yes. Not easy. Not easy at all but yeah since Il-Chili said it's not realistic for most people to do that for to go into the mountains and to meditate and to find themselves. So by introducing the brain and introducing the the spiritual potential of the brain but then backing that up with scientific research because he always wanted to make this enlightenment realistic. That's something that he emphasizes a lot. Something about the brain it's very esoteric it's hard to understand and a lot of people think that maybe only neuroscientists know about the brain but actually what Il-Chili did was get his energy kind of experience and principles and then did some research in neuroscience and then merge these two together to bring some substantial I guess backing or substantial information that solidifies the energy principle that could feel a little bit esoteric. Yeah because the energy experiences even if you try to put it into words if any of you have done the energy meditation or meditation with breathing it's hard to just explain it with words but our brains also like understanding. So I think Il-Chili as you're saying has taken the evidence that neuroscientists have accumulated and said well you know this might explain some of that energy and meditation experience that we not just him but many people have expressed over the years when they do spiritual practice or meditation things like that. Yeah so then that developed into creating a term he said okay now I need to make this a word so that people can know what I'm trying to explain. So then he said okay I'm going to call this brain education. Why brain education? Because this is education to learn the full potential of your brain. It's different from neuroscience because neuroscience breaks down the brain into scientific things. It is about two pounds, it has about however many trillion neurons like it's very like. This connects to this. Yes very factual. And that's as I said it's very helpful as like anatomical background but in our daily lives how often do you or I or you guys actually think about neuroscience and like how it's affecting your day. Or how useful is the fact that you know that your brain is two pounds in your life. Does that like solve any problems in your life? Yeah right I know that there's three trillion neurons firing like it's impressive but. What does that do? But I have stress because of something somebody said to me today what do I do with that? It's a little bit of a gap so brain education is kind of closing that gap and it reminds me of one story so Ilchili went to the United Nations and Ilchili has been talking about how do we achieve personal well-being and also collective peace. I've been talking about this for a long time so I think in 2000 2001. Yeah year 2000 the new millennium. New millennium there was a conference at the UN about creating a more peaceful planet and then many spiritual leaders and influencers were there and I think the takeaway that Ilchili said from that meeting was there's so many great ideas. There's so many people with a vision of peace but there's some gap between all of these great ideas that people learn about and our ability to actually create peace you know starting with myself but in real communities so when he left the UN in 2000 I heard that he said when I come back here next I'm not going to come back just to talk about peace again I'm going to share some actual training some techniques some curriculum that we can do to create that energy of peace and I believe that that was where brain education really took off. Yeah yeah so brain education is basically a lifestyle so he created this as a it started with an idea it started with an experience and then he created step by step methods training methods and principles and different academic fields and research to give you ways to practice this experience in your life so that he can share what he awakened to about the power of his brain in us because we too that we often think that this kind of stuff is only for extraordinary people but what I really love and resonate about each practice is that anybody with a brain has this latent potential inside we just need to learn how to tap into it and the way to tap into it is using energy connecting with myself and and using that sixth sense that goes beyond my five senses of the physical body and I think all of us want we want that like we need that sometimes when we're facing challenges or we're getting stuck we want that potential to break through and be more creative and if it feels like we don't have that inside it can be very hopeless but when we know it's inside that's actually a starting point to try to try again to focus on myself a little bit deeper so just knowing that is a good starting place. Yeah so do you guys have any questions so far about brain education I know this is a lot of information to try to digest but what comes to your mind what resonates with you the most or what is still unclear anything that you want to ask us about brain education if you could type in the chat please let us know and then as we continue with this live we will answer your questions about brain education yeah absolutely do we have anything so far oh yes transform our subconscious mind through brain education in time yes because in your subconscious mind there's a lot of memories emotions that are stored deep within that we don't really even realize how big of an effect they have on our behavior and thoughts and perceptions of people that's right but brain education through the energy work the meditation it helps you go into your subconscious part of your brain that you can't access with your thinking go into your subconscious and then have some kind of resolution with these things have some kind of like understanding and have some kind of compassion for yourself experiencing these things so that you can finally let go of these unresolved emotions and negative thoughts that have been deep inside of your mind that's absolutely so this specifically can we transform our subconscious mind through brain education and tapping techniques the answer is definitely yes because as Linda said your your subconscious mind is really the accumulation of information and experience that you've taken in and some of that may not be information that's useful to you anymore but we don't have direct access just by thinking about it to make our subconscious change it's kind of protected it's like password protected there's a firewall between our thinking brain because our thinking brain goes up and down and here and there and we want one thing and then another thing if our subconscious deep mind changed every time our thinking mind changed we would have a very unstable life so it's kind of protected in there but to get access and meet with it there are brain education techniques including tapping which will help you make the connection and kind of plant the seeds of new information in your subconscious mind especially over time that's a really good great question yeah i like that so if you have any other questions about brain education or if everything is clear even if you guys can just type everything is clear that would help me to make sure that this is getting through it properly yeah yeah because because there's a lot right there's a lot so don't be shy if things are not clear say unclear or if it's clear please say clear so we know that it's clear enough so i think one of the things that can be helpful about understanding what is brain education is how is it being used where and how are people like really concretely putting this to use in the world right because you know a lot of people think that it's just our channel that does brain education i'm sure you yeah they think i'm the only instructor out there she's not the only one she's she's probably the most famous one besides till she leaves i'm just one out of like i think thousands around the world oh yeah there are definitely thousands of people professionally teaching and utilizing brain education and then just for their own experience there's hundreds of thousands of people who've utilized brain education yeah so please tell us david how brain education is being used around the world so that our audience here can understand that brain education is like a global thing that has way more people than what you see on the channel and has done way more work internationally than what we have shown on the channel so far yeah well there's some i think you can get the idea of the diversity by looking at a couple of the organizations a couple of the campaigns first of all there is body and brain yoga which is kind of just a personal health and wellness practice excuse me so body and brain yoga utilizes brain education through korean kind of yoga and stretching through tai chi or keegong breathing and meditation but with an understanding of the brain and how these traditional techniques affect our brain so it's that area kind of your personal health and wellness and then there's an organization known as eyebrow and eyebrow is a nonprofit organization international brain education association and they focus on using this curriculum this system to empower especially kids and teachers in a lot of communities around the world where there might be suffering from violence or other issues which make it really hard to have kind of a safe and productive learning environment it's this idea that empowering students and teachers personally is one of the ways that you can help improve that overall situation and brain education has been really well received and effective especially in places like El Salvador central america where they the schools faced a lot of difficulty kind of non-traditional what we might not in the u.s. we might not think of too often but it's a very common thing around the world with violence drugs poverty yeah people who don't make it past elementary school you know kids who are dealing with issues that we really feel like kids shouldn't have to deal with like family members in jail people being murdered like this kind of thing can affect obviously your education and if you're not able to deal with that stress then it can affect your whole life so i bray is doing a lot of good work there and there's also the earth citizens organization eco and they focus on again personal empowerment and education about how to live a healthy sustainable life that communities can be in balance with the earth with nature and we can have a future that where the earth is healthy and we're living kind of in harmony with that so eco does a lot of education and they run sustainable farming center in arizona so they're doing a lot of stuff that's kind of in a different area it's very different yoga un non-profit work sustainability and farming but all of this utilizes brain education so it can be utilized in many different places right which is why we say it's a lifestyle yeah it's a way to live your life to live as the creator of your life to live as the master of your life to truly live as the owner of your life in all these different realms whether it's physical health emotional health uh mental health and then also going beyond that the health of my community oh yeah health of my family and then going beyond that the health of the world nation and world together so brain education has that big dream that starts with my personal health and then going from there radiating out like a ripple in the lake to my family to my community to my country to my uh society and to all of humanity yeah the whole planet so you'll hear linda and and other guests and me talk a lot about how you are feeling and connecting you know with yourself and what kind of energy you're creating because that's the the beginning is it has to be happening inside of you if you want to have a better life want a different world if you look at the world and you think i wish it would change i wish this was different you got to create the energy that you want to see more of in the world and uh brain education is really as we say about awakening the creator inside of you to do that it's like the quote by ghandi either change you want to see in the world it's really exactly like that or the movie the secret the book the secret is like thoughts become things that happens inside of you happens inside of you so there's got to be this kind of system working here yeah so i see a message in the chat thank you very much for your answer david i practice tapping techniques through your videos daily to help you so much great thank you begum is that right yeah please let us know from turkey from turkey oh wonderful yeah keep practicing daily practice that's why i say for the subconscious mind it's not going to change all at once usually it usually responds to sincere and consistent effort that's what's necessary if you want the deeper layers of the brain to change yes all right so now that we talked about the background of brain education the definition and how it's being used around the world i think it's a good time for us to now share our personal experience with brain education because i think that little bits and pieces of our story people are going to resonate with for yeah you guys might catch something from like linda's personal story yeah and then once you resonate with how it helps our lives maybe you can see like oh you know what i'm going through that too so maybe brain education will help me in that aspect as well right so how did you find brain education what did that what did that come from for you yes so how i got started with brain education i will start from my childhood so i'll kind of give a summary of my childhood so i grew up in a very strict asian household where academics was number one and success was number one and i had three choices of careers that i can take doctor lawyer or failure oh doctor what did you want to choose doctor lawyer or failure that were my only option so you had actually two choices yes but my life was looking towards the failure because i didn't want to be a doctor and i didn't want to be a lawyer so the only other option was failure oh no and i'm the oldest daughter out of three kids so i have two younger brothers so not only did i have the pressure to perform academically and the pressure of choosing doctor lawyer or failure i also had the added pressure of i felt like i need to be a model for my brothers so that's all to say that i was under a tremendous pressure that i put on myself and then also i felt like society was putting on me and my family was putting on me and then from there i developed a lot of stress i developed a lot of anxiety and i developed a lot of anger because i didn't want to be a doctor i didn't want to be a lawyer i didn't want to have all this pressure i didn't want basically all the circumstances that were happening in my life and in my family it wasn't really encouraged to express yourself it's kind of like suck it up and press on kind of attitude just success yes and just keep going no matter what so i didn't know how to process my emotions and process my thoughts in a healthy way and i also had a lot of anger from my parents are immigrants so they brought a lot of like Korean or like traditional Korean ideas into the house and me being a second generation here i had a lot of American values and those career like east asian Korean values and American values clashed a lot little different clashed a lot throughout my life and i couldn't even express myself in that because it wasn't encouraged so i built up a lot of anger a lot of rage a lot of sadness at the same time all throughout elementary school middle school and high school and then when all of those emotions mixed with puberty hit in high school it was a volcano waiting to explode so i went away awaits for college and then in college because i went away from the house that's when everything unleashed exploded all riddles all the emotions exploded and i spent four years just wandering wandering physically emotionally mentally spiritually i didn't care about anything i didn't care if i died i wasn't that kind of mentality i was kind of an effort mentality mm for four years because i didn't know how else to process these emotions sure yeah it feels like this is my life right and then because i didn't know how to process these emotions i also had a deep deep lack of self self-respect and self-confidence even though i was performing in school academically i did well in school it's a strange thing even though like even valedictorians have self-confidence issues oh yeah sometimes very very big yeah so it was a strange thing for me to see i was performing academically i was doing all these things checking all the boxes but i still didn't like myself i still didn't like my life and i was still angry i still had no self-love no self-respect no self-confidence so i wandered a lot in college but then at the end of college i came to a point when i walked across the graduation stage a thought came to me and it said i can't live like this anymore because this is not the kind of life that i won't after i i wandered a lot in college by the end of college where i was at physically i had hormonal issues as i mentioned in the beginning of this life i had hormonal issues because my body system was out of whack to the point where i wasn't getting my period for like six months yeah and there was nothing that would like i wasn't pregnant you know so and because my hormones were out of whack and i wasn't getting my period for like six months at a time i was breaking out so badly all across my face i was gaining weight and then i became allergic to a lot of different foods so basically it was a domino effect my life was crumbling before my eyes and at the end of college i said i can't live like this anymore so thankfully my mom had started this thing called brain education before i even knew about it and i didn't know that she was practicing brain education at that time but what i did know was for some strange reason like a few years back i remember i could clearly see this woman changing right i didn't know what she was doing and i didn't really care at the time because i was in such like a deep hole myself but i could totally tell my mom's facial expression started to change yeah with family you don't even need an explanation you can totally feel any change her face started to get brighter and the way she would talk started to change and it didn't feel like a fake change it felt like a genuine change so i was like well i don't know what she's doing but it seems to be good and it seems to be working and if my mom's happy whatever i just left her alone right but when i was in my dark stage i remembered that i was like you know what i don't want to live like this anymore but i don't know what to do to get out of this but hey you know what my mom's doing something and i know that it's changing her i can see it in her face so i don't know what it's about but let me ask her to see what she's doing uh-huh me because i want my face to become bright like that so i asked my mom what she was doing and then she told me about brain education she told me about the body and brain yoga centers where she first experienced brain education and then she told me about her changes and told me about what she felt and i was at first all skeptical because i'm a very naturally it wasn't love at first mentioned not at all because i'm a very left brain person i'm one of those like i have to see it to believe it i don't believe in energy i don't believe in this hua until i see it right and i don't believe anything except data and research and science right so when she talks about energy and connecting to yourself i was like okay this is bs but you know what i'm at rock bottom i have nowhere else to go wow so i followed her to body brain yoga studio and it was a very unfamiliar experience for me because there's a lot of techniques that we use in brain education that are non-traditional because it makes you break the mold break your preconceptions break your limitations yeah as you saw in our youtube channel she brainwave vibration tapping this is non-traditional things right well a little weird yeah a little bit better now but like 10 years ago when i started really weird this is not this is not the business right so long story short i started with the body and brain practice i got familiar with brain education and slowly as i did this practice something indescribable happened to me and that indescribable thing was my whole life i felt like i had a big gaping hole in my chest and i couldn't explain why no matter how many a's i got no matter how much money i had no matter how many friends i had no matter how many parties i went to no matter how many things i try to put in here that gaping hole only became bigger and bigger and bigger and i couldn't explain it but with brain education with this mind body work that i started to do with connecting with myself and connecting with other people in the community who are going through similar things like me and learning about my brain learning that i can create my life learning that i can take control of this hormonal issue and that i can reverse it through different ways to talk to myself different energies that i can have within me something started to change and that thing was i will never forget this moment this gaping hole in my chest that i've had my whole life started to fill up i couldn't describe it but it was a feeling like this hole was getting smaller and smaller and smaller and when i felt that there was no going back because i tried so hard so long to fill that hole and nothing else could do it except for the strange thing called brain education yeah you know it reminds me of tony robbins he says what we're really looking for is a feeling like what we really want is a feeling and once you get that feeling it's like anything is worth this this is where i want to be so after i felt that i said this is it this is where i want to be like you said this is this is what i want to commit my life to so i quit my job that i had before i was working as an event coordinator in hollywood living a glitzy glammy life that looks so cool to other people but i still have this big gaping hole in my heart so i quit that and i moved to sudona arizona and i said i'm going to be an instructor because i want other people who are feeling this hole in my chest to know that they can change and i want to be a source of inspiration for those people by first healing myself so now it's been about nine years since that moment since i moved to sudona and i decided to become an instructor so after there are a lot of ups and downs in the in my journey because the spiritual spiritual growth is never linear it's always up and down up and down up and down as any growth in life but over the nine years it's been so there's hasn't been anything more rewarding than this i can truly say that from the bottom of my heart and now i'm in a place where i love myself i respect myself and i trust myself and i have a connection with myself and i feel like i'm doing something good for the world and i feel like i'm doing something that people need so i'm sharing that on this youtube channel and i've kind of taken it as like my personal mission to help people who are feeling the things that i once felt too and let them know that hey if you know the power of your brain if you can connect with that then there's hope you're not a lost cause so i think you you must have a lot of work now lots of work i think you must be working harder than ever but yes i'm guessing it's more fulfilling and you're more energized yes i'm working harder than ever but my smile is bigger than ever and that's you know isn't that like what we want like we all say we want relaxation and something easy but don't you feel most alive when you've got a purpose and especially when you feel like you're helping people and that when you're doing what you really are meant to be doing it sounds like you you found that yes so that is my brain education experience story wow thank you for listening everybody's so lucky she's a great storyteller too so let me answer this one question so Kathleen is it beneficial to do just a few minutes of brain exercise if you don't have the time yes a little bit is better than nothing yeah just like when you're hungry even though you might not have time to eat a meal eating a little bit of snack here in there is better for your hunger than not eating anything at all right so don't think black and white don't try to be perfect don't think if i can't do one hour of brain exercise i'm going to do nothing it's not black or white if you can't do an hour do 30 minutes if you can't do 30 minutes do five minutes if you can't do five minutes do one minute if you can't do one minute do 10 seconds if you can't do 10 seconds just smile like this and then done yeah you can do that and then even if you're in a meeting or something and you need to change your brain you just smile your brain will change your hormones change maybe you heard that before that's also brain education it's intentional so just a few minutes yep yep absolutely you can do it Kathleen do it your your brain is watching yes all right David now i want to hear your story brain education story yes of how you changed and got involved with brain education changed uh yeah i wasn't expecting because i some of you may have seen the video that was here on BTV i was i was brought up where you know you have to succeed also in some ways like linda mentioned the pressure but also that's at the time what i wanted i wanted to succeed and when i got recognition for that it felt really good so that was kind of like my pattern i was hooked on it try hard push yourself to the limit and then get recognition feel good do it again and it worked for a while it worked up until high school actually and in high school i was i was a pretty successful athlete and i was a good student and i got into a good college he went to princeton by the way i went to princeton but right before college right like ivy league princeton yeah that one harvard yale and princeton yes that one but right before i got there was when i kind of hit my first limit and it was in sports i injured my knee you know badly and it was just kind of like oh my body should just do what i wanted to do like this is important why is it getting injured and limiting me i didn't get it i didn't get that you had to take care of your body so that threw a wrench into my plans and i couldn't be an athlete first so then okay i'm going to be more creative and i'm going to do lots of different things so in college at princeton i basically did everything that there was to do i did music i did break dancing i did i changed my major three times four times i switched into engineering my junior year in college and the the advisor the professor said i think this is a bad idea i think you're going to be back here switching out of engineering next semester and i said no way i'm all about this and then next semester i was back switching out of engineering like he had said so i did that a lot i tried a lot of different things and inside honestly i was pretty depressed because the more i did the less fulfilled i felt interesting i felt empty and i just did more and more and more and more so i finished college and didn't know what to do i thought maybe just do more school like try to keep going on this path and see if i feel better again but i came back to chicago where i'm from and one of my symptoms of depression was i didn't want to be anywhere for a long time i didn't i didn't want to like work at a certain place so i had six different jobs part-time jobs and i'd go from one to the other to the other to the other and it just so happened that i found an ad for working in a yoga studio and i thought yoga felt really good in college so i'll try that while i'm doing these other things and i got there and it turned out to be like the feeling that i had been looking for and also i saw oh this brain education is really looking at why my brain is depressed and not just like looking at the chemistry or the psychology of it but what i can do about it so i knew that was really important and i started teaching and practicing and i said to myself as long as there's some challenge with my brain and i'm studying this brain education i'm not going to give up because i can see there's more potential to awaken myself and i still even to this day i think it's been 16 years i still face some challenges my brain still has some habits that i would like to be more the creator of not the follower of and so i'm still working on it and i i recently had a chance to really deeply reflect and i saw wow i have changed i'm much more positive when i'm faced with uncertainty than i used to be i'm much more compassionate to myself when i'm not strong when i make a mistake and i'm much more creative than i used to be when i'm facing problems i can see my brain automatically finds some solution whereas before it would get really stuck and frustrated and maybe give up so those things it's so rewarding to see a change inside yourself in my experience it's like a hundred times more powerful than people saying from the outside oh you've changed you look good you're doing great because i know sometimes they can't see the real thing inside what's going on but when i see inside what changed it's like nothing can shake that so as i said there's still lots to work on but i'm really grateful for this brain education practice and also i'm excited about what kind of changes are going to come in the future so that's kind of my story wow thank you so much for sharing yeah it's so interesting because as you mentioned there's hundreds of instructors and every single instructor has their own story own unique reason and method of how they got involved so we're going to be featuring more of the instructor stories on our channel so stay tuned for that you're right every single it's like every human being is an incredible person even if sometimes on the outside they hide it you know but if you give the chance they open up it's really amazing all right let's answer some questions here so core love what is brain education core love i think maybe you joined in the middle of this broadcast so we're going to have a recording of this yeah go back to the yeah the beginning recording of this on our channel so please re-watch it from the beginning because we give the like definition and then some examples and everything yeah so make sure you watch it from the beginning and then do all of the brain education videos awaken the vagus nerve not all of them you probably saw the one that awakened the vagus nerve so belly button healing and we have a vagus nerve activation video but not all of the videos here are designed to activate the vagus nerve no although like indirectly a lot of the techniques you will see that focus on the core the gut abdomen you can imagine that yes there is some activation of this central nervous system in the digestive system which is close to the vagus nerve how about that one our friend from turkey yeah if we manage our brain can we attract more love in our life like true love that's a that's a great question can managing your brain bring something like love I think so and the reason why I say that is because if you are somebody who knows how to create their own health happiness at least no matter what the vibe the energy that you radiate out is completely different yeah and people get attracted yes to like your face and physical things that is one aspect but people get attracted to energy so if you are really beautiful and you're putting out like really negative nasty energy then maybe that attraction is only so much and it won't go far but if you are radiating a different kind of bright light people get attracted to that brightness and that brightness radiates from somebody who knows that they're the master of their lives somebody who has self confidence somebody who knows and trust that their body emotions and mind is working with them that kind of person exudes a totally different energy that people get attracted to I totally agree and if you're asking about true love like what what is true love you know obviously it's not just physical attraction right it's not even just emotional attraction because if you're truly in love with someone there's going to be moments when there's fights and like love is still there whereas if it's just I like this person and I don't like them anymore after one fight yeah so I think it's really true that uh if you practice brain education if you manage your brain well then at some point you get to choose do I do I love myself or that awakening comes like yeah I really do I like myself and I love myself and that's the kind of energy that's going to attract that to in your life outside yes yeah great good question yeah all right so David I want to ask now okay we've heard the stories so going forward from here what does brain education mean for the 21st century how does this apply to our lives right now I think that's a great question and like uh Ilchi Lee the founder he makes a point that this era in history is really important that we need to collectively wake up that creator and we can't just wait and I personally believe that's really true because of the environment because of the social issues and just the way that people feel I think I think it's really a hard time for many people we need to awaken that power so I think brain education is going to become more and more normal where people look at how they're using their brain and how they're feeling and what they're projecting into the world and they take that seriously I think that's becoming a big thing mm-hmm yeah and um something that Ilchi Lee also does mention is that if you just see out in the world there's so much despair and hopelessness there's a war going on right now there's inflation there's so many more problems that keep coming out out of society and we hear about them all the time yeah so why is it that we who are more technologically advanced than ever and more wealth is more wealth is existing than ever why does that kind of world produce more despair more suffering these atrocities that should not be happening in 2022 why are they happening now and Ilchi Lee when he looks at the world he says it's because ultimately it's not because we're not wealthy it's not because we're not advanced it's because people who are in power and people who are not in power are doing what they're doing in life without awakening that divine nature that creative potential in their brain in other words they are not using their brain for good wow and it reminded me of something else that I've heard talked about a lot which is the rise of artificial intelligence and some people love the idea of artificial intelligence because it'll make things faster and smarter and other people are really afraid of it for obvious reasons and one of those reasons is if artificial intelligence is so much smarter than us like calculation and memory and analysis then what is our real value as a human being like and has our own growth of intelligence and calculation power which we have experienced a lot of has it really solved our deepest problems and like you say I think the answer is no it doesn't fundamentally solve the problems it may make it easier to apply solutions like some things have gotten better but at the root it's a human creative energy that actually solves these root problems and that is something I think it's fair to say that artificial intelligence will not reproduce it will not really be able to handle that's something that human beings have and it comes from what we're talking about that creator inside the ability to have true empathy true creativity and oneness sense all of those things artificial intelligence no matter how much it calculates like I don't think it will recreate that I think that's something that human beings have and we have to share a lot of and the world really needs it so I see that being a guiding force right so we don't need any more doctors, lawyers, scientists although I'm not saying that they're not important if you are a doctor, lawyer, and scientist I'm not downgrading your job at all but my point is we don't need any more smart people not just smart yeah just just smart people who don't really have conscience yeah that's what we need yeah we need doctors we need lawyers we need politicians we need bankers we need everybody and everybody do their job live in their community with that creator that oneness then anybody whether you're the highest position in a company or the lowest rank in some society like there's some power there that people really need right so conscience is what we need healers I think so too so doctors who have that healing spirit lawyers who have the healing spirit scientists and politicians who have that healing spirit by activating that creativity in their brain activating a positive area of their brain these people need to be in power these people need to be the ones who are leading society so more than anything we need people to recover their conscience and to live by using the full potential of their brain for good that's right and one of the things I've heard from the Earth Citizens Organization is this talk of no matter how much we feel like people in power are making all the decisions ultimately it's still the voters the consumers the common population that chooses to some extent and so what we really value and what we show through our actions our votes through our buying that will ultimately change the policies and decisions of the people in power so it's up to each one of us to have that kind of interest and and feeling what is important to me yeah great so if you have any questions about this please type in the chat about what we've discussed so far yeah absolutely yeah so we have a question from core love can you touch on using binaural beats and other sound techniques for deep states of consciousness to use brain entertainment technology it can be very useful to get into deep states of consciousness for people who are new to meditation also for focus we can use these brainwave states to have our advantage in brain yeah absolutely yeah definitely we say in brain education that there are three ways for you to access energy light sound and vibration things like binaural beats are sound and vibration and using those forms of energy you can experience deep healing and activate like you said core love deeper states of consciousness for healing so yes we do believe in that kind of stuff but we don't have like binaural beat music per se but we do have our own deep drumming music that we practiced for the same effect to get deep into your subconscious for when we do brain education type trainings yeah you know what's so awesome is that a lot of the traditional kind of drumming techniques that many cultures had for thousands of years around the world they also activate the brainwaves in a similar way to some of the modern binaural beats and hemisync and all of that stuff like this is something that human beings have been doing for generations for thousands of years and yes we are now we have technology to help us and where wherever you're doing that whatever you're using I think one of the key components is this idea of the creator inside and that sincerity we can use a tool and may feel some benefit but ultimately it's my self my connection inside that's producing the real healing or the real awakening so every tool can be used you know quite well but if it's just a tool and we don't use that connection inside and it may be just a tool yeah all right so we're just about ready to wrap up this live it's been about an hour so far so before we go David can you answer how can someone let's say that they listen to this live from the beginning to the end and they're like you know what this is great I love it and I want to get involved I'm gonna try it out myself can you guide our audience on some ways that they can take part or experience brain education I would be happy to the first one is obviously to follow subscribe to this channel BETV because you'll get more discussions a chance to do Q&A live with Linda and with other brain education instructors you'll also see practices that you can follow and put into your daily routine on video so I highly recommend following subscribing and clicking the notification bell so that you get an announcement when one of these lives is happening and then for a little bit more material a little bit more practice you can go over to the YouTube channel that I help manage which is body and brain TV and you'll see some of the Korean yoga meditation breathing and Tai Chi classes and techniques that we use in body and brain centers around the country make sure you subscribe click like and the bell for notifications on that channel as well yep we would love to hear and if you watch the videos comment I'm sure Linda as well we love to see the comments questions or the way you've been applying these techniques so you've got YouTube you can use that for those of you who want and I can't stress this enough like one-on-one personal interaction in in-person classes body and brain centers around the country utilize brain education through that Korean yoga meditation breathing Tai Chi and they do classes every day online and offline usually so check them out and you can get started with an instructor and kind of just learn about it in a one-on-one session then what else we have also our brain education utilizing community which includes nonprofits like Ibrea which I mentioned before and you can check them out in the world they're doing great work around the world there's also Sedona Mago Retreat Center in Sedona, Arizona those of you who've been to Sedona know that just going there the red rocks the energy vortex it's amazing and Mago Retreat Center is the perfect place for you to experience brain education in that setting so check it out really awesome and Honors Haven is for those of you on the east coast in New York Ellenville, New York about two hours from New York City another place where you can experience a lot about brain education and ECO the Earth Citizen Organization so ECO is in Arizona but also in New York Honors Haven and they do as I mentioned before sustainability and personal wellness for a happy healthy community and planet yes so if you guys are interested in brain education take a snapshot of all of these links or copy and paste them onto a notepad real quick yeah many things that you can get involved with whatever fits your kind of passion yeah because again it's not just this channel or it's not just me and Gabby or a small amount of people who do brain education it's a lifestyle that is practiced through thousands of people we have hundreds of instructors and we are in many many different countries around the world so it's a global global thing and a global movement and a global kind of community that you can take part in so there are many options for you and there's there's more things being created every year yeah so online and in communities around the world brain education will be applied in new and different ways and I'd be excited to see what you want to do with brain education too yes yeah so now it's time to wrap up our lives so if you have any final thoughts questions concerns comments things that you want to say oh I resonated with this or oh I don't get this or anything like that is okay please type in the chat yeah like things you want to talk more or hear more about next time yeah even some things about like our personal story that you were like oh I really resonated with that part or I have a question on that part anything is okay so please type your final thoughts in the chat and as you do so I want to remind you before you go about the super chats that we have it's again that rectangular icon with a currency symbol it's the middle icon in the three below the line that you chat so if you click that it's the super chat where you can donate any amount to our channel to help fund our content to fund our activities it'll help us do more things to get brain education out there to provide this as a resource for more people in the world so if you benefited from the contents of brain education like the vagus nerve videos the tapping videos then please consider donating to our channel to help support us and the work that we do yeah and then you know share this video or some of the other videos here with your friends your families who might not have had a chance to practice before and you know see how they feel and answer some questions for them too yeah so thank you guys as always for coming to the live and thank you David for always joining us on our lives too thank you Linda like I said if I were to invite anybody to talk about brain education it's David because he's been practicing for a long long time thank you very much I'm really proud of what you're sharing with everybody here thank you all right well thank you all so much for coming and stay tuned for our next live on BETV and again make sure you subscribe and check out Body and Brain TV that David is in and you'll find a lot more content on that channel as well yes great job subscribe to both channels yeah she made a meditation playlist wow great job thank you that's the way to do it like routine yes thank you all right we will end our live here today thank you all so much stay tuned for our next live subscribe and subscribe to our email list and you'll be notified about when our next live will be