Welcome.... and getting started

Over the course of many years of study, I developed a rather extensive collection of Stress Management “Practices” (Exercises) you can take part in on a daily basis. In the process you will wind up feeling more alive and at peace with yourself.

These Seishindo Practices will help you slow down, recover your sense of flow, and find rejuvenation in your everyday life. Step by step, and little by little…. You will be giving yourself an opportunity to experience your life from a more mindful, thankful perspective.

Please give yourself time to grow comfortable with each exercise. Take little baby steps, rather than giant leaps. The slower you go, the sooner you will reach your destination! And I will always be here in the background, should you need my help!

Seishindo practices are gentle activities to help you become more aware, perceptive, and attuned to your “in the moment” experience. Depending on where you are starting from you might find some of the Practices daunting at first. If after exploring a few of these exercises you would like some help, I invite you to contact me to schedule a complimentary “chemistry check” conversation. Many people wind up working with one or two exercises for a week or so, and then they get together with me to clear up any uncertainties they might have. An occasional private session will help you to deepen your experience, and get better results.

The first exercise is right below- “Mushin” - Peak Performance State. After you click on this first one, keep scrolling and you will find many more! If you go to the bottom of a practice there will usually be a link on the bottom right that is titled “Older Post” which will take you to another exercise.

Enjoy!

Heartbeat Breath—Calming Breath

Your heartbeat helps to set the rhythm of your day to day life. This exercise helps you to breath in harmony with the beating of your heart. Remember, when you calm your breathing you calm your body. When you calm your body, you calm your thinking and your internal dialogue. When you calm your body and your thinking, you calm your mind.

I am – a Concept of time and identity

Learn how to formulate your intentions in a more productive manner. Find out why telling yourself what you want to accomplish, often will take you further away from your goal. This Practice assumes you have an issue, relationship, or circumstance in your life that you would like to better understand or change, over the course of time. In other words, it assumes you have an intention to somehow be or do things, differently.

Stand in “Hanmi”

This is a basic activity taken from Aikido and further elaborated on for our purposes in Seishindo. Performing this Practice from time to time will give you an active experience of developing a calm presence. When you are feeling fully present you will notice that your thinking mind and your feeling mind are both calm, yet active.

Breathing With Grace and Power

Most everyone has a tendency to restrict their breathing when they are frightened, anxious, or feeling overwhelmed. It is not “natural” to restrict one’s breathing at such times, but for most of us it is a default habit nonetheless. This Practice is meant to reawaken you to the process of breathing, and help you to reverse debilitating breathing habits, so that you can once again, “Breath with Grace and Power.”

The Gift of Forgiveness

This is a simple yet profound Practice. If you have been following and experimenting with our other Practices along the way, you might notice that today’s Practice has a very similar structure to two other Practices. These three Practices (“Today …”, “Today, my anger is about …, and ) follow a particular structure for meaningful personal dialogue that I have uncovered over the years. Little by little, absorb this structure into your bones, and then start creating your own Practices, based on different concerns!