 Hello Earth citizens! In this video, I will show you a 10 minute routine to do to develop the power of your mind. This routine is taken from Ilchili's book Water Up Fire Down. I'll drop a link in the description of this video how you can get a copy so you can follow along to this exercise and read more about it in detail. To start, sit in a comfortable position preferably in a half lotus posture like me. If you have difficulty or pain in your hips sitting like this for a long time, you can sit on a chair with your feet flat on the floor parallel like this. So your toes are not pointed out and your toes are not pointed in and your legs are not crossed. Feet flat on the floor and facing forward. So get comfortable in that position, rest your hands on your knees, palms facing upward, close your eyes. First, ask yourself a couple of questions to see the condition of your mind. Number one, am I affected by my environment a lot? In other words, if someone or something does something that I don't like, does it really ruin my mood? And does that mood affect me for the rest of the day? If yes, then that means the power of your mind is very much affected by external things. If no, that means you are very centered in yourself which means the power of your mind is stronger than someone who is affected by their environment constantly. Now keep your eyes closed and next, feel your heart. Focus in the chest area, your heart chakra, middle of your chest and now face your palms towards your chest and bring up all the things in your mind that make your chest and heart heavy. Things like some sad memories, emotions, things that you're holding onto in your hearts that prevent you from becoming free, prevent you from becoming happy. Can you think of those things in your mind now? As your palms are now facing your heart, imagine warm energy, sparkling warm glitters of light coming out from your palms and into your heart. As your heart receives this golden light, exhale out through your mouth in a who sound and with each exhale, imagine you are letting go, releasing, dropping all of these emotions, all of these memories, all of these false beliefs that make your heart heavy. Breathe in through your nose, exhale out through your mouth, as you exhale, these negative emotions, negative thoughts, negative energies that you carry in your heart become released. Feel your chest emptying as you exhale in front of your face, facing your forehead and now same thing, visualize sparkling golden glitters of light coming out from the middle of your palms and traveling towards your brain, through your forehead, through your skull, deeply into your brain and now as you keep receiving these glitters of light, slowly move your palms around the shape of your head as if to move any stagnant energy, any heavy energy, moving it through and out of your brain, making your brain clean, making your brain bright. Please keep focusing on the sparkling glitters of light coming out from your palms and into your brain. If you're very sensitive to energy, you will feel some heaviness, some kind of squirming feeling moving in your brain, let it out of your body by breathing out. Now let's help your brain release more stagnant energy inside by moving your face muscles too. Stretch, pull your face muscle side to side and make us soft out. Through your face stretching, it helps your brain stretch and release tension too. I know you might feel or look a little silly but trust me, this works. Your facial expressions are directly connected to the status of your brain. If your face is tense, your brain is tense. If your brain is tense, then energy cannot flow to your brain, weakening your brain power. Stretch your face, let's do 20 more seconds. Relax your face and simply focus on sparkling golden energy, entering your forehead, entering your face, entering your brain. Great job. Now slowly drop your hands but let them float three inches above your knees. Do not rest your palms on your knees. Let them float three inches above your knees. Relax your wrists and focus on the middle of your palms and now let's receive pure energy into our acupressure points. Focus your mind on these three points. One, middle of your left palm, two, middle of your right palm, and three, your seventh chakra, the highest point on your head. As you focus on these three points, now visualize three golden pillars of light coming from the sun, splitting through the clouds and touching the top of your head, left palm, and right palm. As this light touches your body, now receive this bright light from your palms into your wrists, into your elbows, and imagine it flowing up to your shoulders and merging together in your chest, filling your chest with bright golden light. And now down to your abdomen, into your belly button, and let it flow further down into your tailbone. As you imagine this pathway of energy coming through your palms, now focus on the top of your head and let the golden light from the top of your head sink down to your brain, down to your face, down to your neck, down to your chest, filling your chest with bright golden light, down to your abdomen belly button, and down to your tailbone. You are now receiving energy from three main points into your body. Let it fill up your whole body. Let all of yourselves absorb this golden light. Your whole body is transforming into light. Feel the energy and breathe and now gently rest your palms on your knees and one more time relax your whole body, straighten your spine and feel. Can you feel tingling flowing through your whole body? This electric sensation is energy flowing in your body now and if you focused well, you will feel some sort of centered energy aligning you from the top of your head down to your tailbone. The more you focus on this energy feeling and the more you recharge the spirit inside of your brain, the stronger the power of your mind and heart will become. Breathe in one more time through your nose, let that oxygen go all the way into your brain and exhale out any remaining stress and tension from your body. One last time take a deep breath in through your nose, fresh oxygen enters your brain, exhale, bend your upper body, return, open your eyes. How did you do? We all intuitively know to exercise and eat well to strengthen our physical body and muscles. However, this kind of meditation where you focus on releasing attachments in your heart, focus on sending energy into your brain and then receiving fresh energy into your body is not as common. That's why people have chronic fatigue or they feel brain fog because they are not feeding their energy or spirit. So this is directly taken from brain education and directly taken from this book Water Up, Fire Down based on the teachings of Il-Chili. So if you want to find out more information behind this practice, behind this exercise, behind this routine, I highly, highly recommend getting a copy of this book so you can follow along and learn more about Water Up, Fire Down and learn more about the energy flow that I just guided you today. If this felt really good, feel free to sit here for longer. Do this for longer while releasing your attachments. You can send energy to your brain for longer while imagining bright golden light entering your brain. You can also sit here and receive energy as I guided you in like this, in like this, into your whole body to recharge more if you felt like 10 minutes wasn't enough. You did great. To experience a full one-hour brain education-based class, please visit a local Body and Brain Yoga Studio near you.