Start with yourself first

I participated in one week Ki camp held by the late chairman in 1992.
Back then, it was named medical qigong therapist training seminar and health restoration seminar. In 1994, the late chairman removed the distinction between the two and changed the name to Shinkiko Retreat Seminar.
This seminar changed my perception drastically and I strongly realized the effect of Ki which could make our bodies feel better.
I thought that the idea of Ki was important for anyone such as office workers like me, housewives and students and I joined the company in 1993.
Now that I think about it, I really didn’t understand the mechanism of Ki transferring machine, High Genki which gathers Shinkiko energy from the space and emits. After 30 years have passed, the idea of Ki and Shinkiko energy have become my core values now.

By the way, the thing I learned at the seminar back then is that Ki inside me and my mind were closely related. If we can change for the better, Ki inside us will influence others. The important thing is to change our own Ki first. Then, the positive Ki will easily radiate to the surroundings by the synergy of positive Ki inside us created in our minds and Ki taken in from outside.
I wrote, “How can we change ourselves not blaming somebody or something else?” in Shinkiko news on October 14th. It is very important to change ourselves for the better with the index for Senshin(Purifying the mind).

We read aloud “the good quotes from various religions” during the time for breathing techniques in the morning at the retreat seminar.
Today, I will introduce two quotes from the handout which can tell us how we can change.

A Simple Prayer for Peace (Saint Francis of Assisi)
“Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; ….
O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand. To be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive;….”

A Native American Prayer
“O’ Great Spirit, whose voice I hear in the winds, And whose breath gives life to all the world, Hear me! I am small and weak. I need your strength and wisdom….I seek strength, not to be greater than my brother, But to fight my greatest enemy-myself….”

We often want others to do something for us but we have to start with ourselves first. Our greatest enemy is ourselves with weak mind and I would like everyone to receive Shinkiko well.