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"I very much appreciate the Pure Heart, Simple Mind newsletter, and I highly recommend it to everyone. It promotes a picture of mental, physical, and spiritual health and world peace, and it’s framed with gentle wisdom. We can all benefit from its heartfelt wisdom. Thanks, Charlie, for making this effort for us all!"
Judith Delozier, NLP Co-Founder
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I write about topics that reveal themselves to me as I go about my work and my life. I look for stories that exemplify the Seishindo approach. My articles cover such things as:
• How each heartfelt connection between individuals creates a web of respect, caring, and life among communities throughout the world.• The intelligence of your body, which can be a source of great intuition and wisdom when you learn to pay attention.
• How listening deeply and acknowledging that you don’t know can help you embody a life of courage, creativity, and humility.
• The reality that every challenging situation has many high-quality solutions.
• The different ways in which the greater intelligence/God-mind present in our world manifests for each of us.
Charlie, I just wanted to send you a quick note to thank you for your newsletter. I find your writing and teaching to be an oasis within my busy life. Your style of writing, the messages it gives to me, and the feeling of wanting to strive to be a better person are truly uplifting.
I’m keeping your newsletter in a folder I’ve named "Self Development," as I’m convinced that in re-reading your writings I will find things I have missed first time around.
I appreciate what you are doing.
Respectfully,
Andy Clayton
I treasure your newsletter as a source of knowledge and inspiration. Every issue has led me to reexamine my strategies and behaviors.
Chris Case
Hello Charlie! I’m a new subscriber to your newsletter. I find that it touches me in a way that is so suggestive of the oriental body arts you frequently refer to. These stories are an invitation to explore these arts much further. I also love the stories’ simplicity, the lack of artifice, making their lesson even more suggestive. It shows their soul. Please keep sending them.
Best wishes,
Philippe Truffert
Certified international professional coach & an international executive search consultant
www.carpe-diem-coaching.com
Though I am very far from your presence and haven't had the privilege of working with you in person, I thank you and acknowledge you for the very real contribution your work and your newsletters have made to my being and to my experience of the world.
I'm a man in my late 40s whose career has never really taken off. One thing that has lifted a little of the darkness from my soul has been the Seishindo group and your newsletters.
Bran MacEachaidh, Australia
Newsletter Archives
Newsletter Archive 2011
- Courage in the face of perceived failure
- Everyday mind and time
- Biting the hand that feeds you
- Simplicity
- Orienting to Success
- Stones of Wisdom
- The experience of “being centered”
- Living Calmness
- The more you resist, the more you restrict… what is possible
- Work hard, don’t worry
- Problems First – Toyota
- Faking It
- Vulnerability can be a strength
- Never underestimate the power of your original self
- Fundamentals of Happiness
- Mushin- A concept of innocent simplicity
- The Ebb and Flow of Life
- The Mind of Aikido and Water
- A crisis of faith
- Pain and Suffering
- Koans, paradox, and prayer
- Lessons learned from hard times
- Anxiety and Fear
Newsletter Archive 2010
- Sediment
- Old Japanese houses
- Pain, and the mind of an undisciplined child
- Life is a self-fulfilling prophecy
- Learning how to learn
- Endless Determination
- Stalking the truth
- The power of culture
- Love and Marriage, Revisited
- Everyday mind and relativity
- Mama
- The benefits of working
- Punishment, and the concept of “right or wrong”
- Take the initiative by doing nothing
- “We-dentity” in the dojo
- What’s the basis for your self confidence?
- What have you come here to learn?
- Nurturing a Problem
- Move less, and do less, and you’ll have all the time you need
- What disturbance?
- Atonement
- The three hearts of a Japanese man
- The Circle of Life
- Life is a full time activity
Newsletter Archive 2009
- The passing of my mom
- On being a man
- Pampering myself
- Kanai (my wife)
- Love and Marriage
- One thing leads to the next
- Shopping with Oba-chan (a grandmother)
- Thoughts to Ponder
- Rainy season
- Sharing the wealth
- Suffering, and Happiness
- When you’re not here… Where are you?
- Forgiving is not condoning- Part 2
- Forgiving is not condoning
- Mother’s Day
- Birds of a different feather
- Sometimes… When it rains it pours
- The flow of “mind” in water and Aikido
- A window on the world
- The ebb and flow of life
- Everything just as it should be
- Cultivating beauty, cultivating love
- New Year Greeting
Newsletter Archive 2008
- God and Santa Claus
- The more you resist, the more you restrict… what is possible
- Your “body language” determines your thoughts and emotions
- “Reality” is a frame of mind
- The math just doesn’t add up
- Embodied Leadership
- Such a good looking suit!
- Have you been lucky in life?
- Why do you talk so fast?
- The flight to freedom
- On becoming a man
- Perfection, and the impermance of life
- A full life is not necessarily a long life
- From The Perspective of a Child
- Sixty….. And Counting….
- Footsteps in the Sand
- Courage in the face of failure
- The passing of a dear friend
- Changing the way you feel and think
- Appreciating life’s ups and downs
Newsletter Archive 2007
- Preparing for success – Till the soil before you plant the seeds
- Planting and nurturing the seeds of success
- Appreciative Relationships Help Resolve Conflict
- Learning from the past, rather than living in it
- The wisdom of grandma
- Deal with stress before stress deals with you
- Self Hypnosis and The Human Spirit
- Identifying with the Master
- Problems First
- Never underestimate the value of suffering
Newsletter Archive 2006
- Do you realize you have a “learning style”?
- The best day of my life!
- The Language of Your Body
- Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
- Teaching Self-Love to Dogs and Humans
- Everyday Life
- The magnetic pull of your judgments
- Are you avoiding what you truly want in life?
- Giving Thanks
- Do you feel disabled?
- Do you take the time to care for yourself?
- Everything just as it should be
- Somatic Wisdom
- A concept of “embodied presence”
- The somatic self, pain, and suffering
- Do you suffer from performance anxiety?
- The flow of “mind” in water and Aikido
- Ten important principles of self hypnosis
- “Everyday Aikido” – Build relationships rather than manage conflict
- Learning About Yourself
- Zen koans and prayer
- God and Santa Claus
- Stalking the truth
- Learning styles and “true love”
- I’m always busy, but nothing much gets done!
Newsletter Archive 2005
- Learning From Life
- Reincarnation – A radical alternative to Darwinism
- Karma – The Wheel of Life
- A full life is not necessarily a long life
- Cultivating Ki Flow and Mindfulness, Manifesting Mind
- We-dentity
- The Philosophy of Fear and Confrontation
- Adapting, healing, and connecting to life
- Are you feeling in control?
- What is your element?
- Perfect Imperfections
- No thinking leads to only being. No worry, no fear.
- The Process of Ongoing Success
- The truth can set you free!
- Memories are made of this
- Intermezzo: There is no more important person to love than yourself
- Intermezzo: Living with Fear
- Are you able to say both “Yes!” and “No!”?
- The unexpected rewards of exiting your comfort zone
- Stress and the fear of failure: Lessons Learned in Somatic Coaching
- Coming to terms with anger
- Balance your emotional life – Meld the wisdom of your body with the wisdom of your intellect
- Fear, Anger, and Love
- Stacking Realities
- Intermezzo: Your life IS going according to plan!
- Reflecting and Giving Thanks
- The Gift of Forgiveness
- With a little help from our friends
- Our work with organizations | Arati Co. Ltd.
- God is talking… Are you listening?
- Intermezzo: Fear is a relationship
- Intermezzo: Appreciating your exceptional learning abilities
- Where is your mind right now?Where is your mind right now?
- Celebrating a Thank You Day
Newsletter Archive 2004
- Dog Whispering
- What is your relationship to Time?
- Does your story have a future?
- Your identity as a learner
- The Paradox of Reason and Emotion
- The Language of Love and Emotion
- Appreciating your time on earth
- Harmonizing the intellect and the body
- Trust in the moment, and trust in yourself
- The Clock is Ticking
- Is it finally time to forgive?
- Live a Life That Matters
Newsletter Archive 2003
- Energy, Spirit, and Mind
- Where do “I” begin and end?
- The Importance of Not-knowing
- Wide Angle Perspective
- Self Hypnosis
- The Paradox of One And Many
- Self Hypnosis as a tool for Stress Management
- Recipes For Creating Stress
- Peak performance or poor performance; it depends on what you say to yourself
- The Dreams of Childhood
- Something extraordinary is taking place
- Self-regulating Mechanisms in Machines, Nature, and Human Beings
- Innovation, Adaptation, and Co-evolution
- Mushin – An Introduction to Peak Performance States
- Group Mind, Innovation, and Creativity
- The whole universe is learning and evolving. How about you?
- What is your primary identity?
- A small piece of carpet
- Contemplating the Wisdom of Grandma



"I very much appreciate the Pure Heart, Simple Mind newsletter, and I highly recommend it to everyone. It promotes a picture of mental, physical, and spiritual health and world peace, and it’s framed with gentle wisdom. We can all benefit from its heartfelt wisdom. Thanks, Charlie, for making this effort for us all!"