SEIMEI is our Vital Life Force and Life Force is in everyone and everything. Over the centuries, Life Force has been studied and named many things. The word SEIMEI translates as Life Force (but has many other meanings in Japanese.)
Because we are all connected through our vital Life Force, it’s easy to incorporate SEIMEI into one’s life after learning it.
As SEIMEI students, our SEIMEI, or Life Force, gets awakened, or activated, by the lead instructor, Nicola Bertolo. She awakens our SEIMEI by giving it motion. After it is awakened, we are no longer separate from our SEIMEI. When we use it, we keep our SEIMEI in motion (Jyouka). As a result of using our SEIMEI, we impact our performance, health, relationships, and our communities in a positive way. Students have an edge in solving problems and making change and this is demonstrated each and every day through thousands of SEIMEI "Jyouka" stories.
Because SEIMEI cannot be seen by the naked eye, once it is awakened, students continue to improve their skills by keeping current. This can be done in several ways: a) by visiting one of three teaching centers: Hawthorne or Basking Ridge, New Jersey, Santa Fe, New Mexico, or Saga, Japan b) by attending a special practice space weekly or monthly or by c) using our SEIMEI regularly.
SEIMEI requires utilization. After acquiring the skill, students practice it, just like tennis or golf. Students can flex their SEIMEI "muscle" by doing such activities as helping to relieve pain, changing the taste of juice, or working on a pet or flower garden.
SEIMEI offers advance practice: traveling to Japan, chanting, enrolling in higher classes, participating in community or Foundation activities, offering leadership, or helping run community-based healing clinics. Many students visit Japan as often as possible for an immersion experience and to “tune up” their SEIMEI. Advanced students use their SEIMEI in everything they do.
In SEIMEI, students use their Life Force to affect change: a change in the nature of pain, a change in a situation, a change from stagnation to motion. Therefore, the word practice in SEIMEI is both a noun and a verb!