There are two kinds of meditation: for relaxation and for spiritual development. Meditation in the beginner's state is great for removing complicated thoughts and calming both body and mind. Meditation for spiritual development requires Seon Breathing. Seon Breathing is the most advanced breathing method, and as such requires a period of disciplined training. But the benefits more than outweigh the effort!

Two inches below your navel is your breathing point called Danjeon(in Chinese Tantien, in Japanese Hara, and is known throughout East Asia as the spot for health and awakening. The Danjeon is not a chakra point; it is the place for storing energy, and as such does not function without this philosophical understanding. The Danjeon is also known as the invisible mind or Universe within you; all answers can be found there if you concentrate with consciousness and sincerity. The Danjeon begins its formation the moment you begin Danjeon Breathing and grows from a seed to the size of a soccer ball.

Please take a look at the way our meditators' breathe!

East Asian culture believes that the Danjeon is shaped like a pottery vase and that its function is to gather vital energy while you meditate. Meditation for health and spiritual development requires the storage of vital energy. Stored energy is the impetus, will power, motive to accomplish a task, intention or goal.

In Oriental medicine, the natural cycle of the body is heat descending and cool rising. Seon breathing balances this heat/cold cycle. Does your neck feel hot? Do your feet feel cold? This is a simple sign of a heat/cold cycle imbalance. Seon breathing pulls down the heat causing havoc to the upper body and sends up the cool energy creating physical and mental equilibrium. Give your body that balance and health it desires!
 
"Dan" means the state where energy accumulates and turns red. "Jeon" represents the container in which the energy is stored. Danjeon is not visible anatomically, for it is made of vital energy.

However, once you do Danjeon breathing, you can feel it exists. You will feel warm in that area. As energy is accumulated there, you will have some strange feeling as if there is a globe in your lower abdomen. The Danjeon can't be over emphasized.

Just as precious things kept well in a safe storehouse can be made good use of all your life the Danjeon, the vessel of vital energy, if well grown and utilized will give you inexhaustible possibilities.

As we grow older, our breathing capacity decreases and abdominal breathing changes into thoracic breathing. Those who aren't healthy move their chests rather than their abdomens when they breathe. If you train to do Danjeon breathing, your breathing will return to the breathing of newborns. Babies move their lower abdomen up and down while breathing comfortably.

Abdominal breathing, moving the entire abdomen, is helpful for health. But its effects are far less than those of Danjeon breathing for it is not vital energy-centered. Danjeon breathing, which acts as a pump by moving only the lower part of the body, draws vital energy deep into the Danjeon. Energy, once drawn into Danjeon, is stored there.

Life itself starts from breathing and ceases with the last breath. From birth to death, one's life and future is changed according to by which method one breathes.

There is nothing which can exist without breathing. Even rocks or stones, which we have considered inanimate objects, exist through breathing, and the earth itself and other stars are growing, expanding, and diminishing while breathing. The Universe is something alive and the criteria for this "alive" is breathing. Even though something consists of the same molecules and atoms, it is dead if there is no breathing in it, and if there is breathing, it is alive. Breathing goes beyond our imagination because it plays the role of making oneself involved in the Universe as well as giving the positive driving force when one pursues the aim which fits to reason.