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On August 1, I'm going to Kyoto!
The seminar details are here
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https://peatix.com/event/4943681/view?k=e5a788fcc7b77ea675db0af98ab9386316e77a46
Masanori Kanda's talk
completely blew me away.
At first, you start out with the energy of evil.
But that way, things begin to break down.
Your health, your family, your relationships.
How well can you control your shadow?
It's about shifting toward contribution.
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Without a mission, AI will end up using you.
“You'll fall behind if you don't learn AI!” say the people whose business is teaching AI…
Is that really true?
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It comes back to you.
Do it with a sense of purpose.
AI
creates cognitive debt —
it runs up a debt of cognition.
For adults it may be fine, but for children it robs them of the ‘0→1’ — creating something from nothing.
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Many creative people keep a lid on it.
Am I really allowed to do what I truly want, right now?
Example
Two years left until retirement.
A sizable retirement package is expected.
Right now, you can't quite say “I always wanted to be an actor.”
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There's a timing for it.
Your own timing.
The book “Family Secrets”
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Summary of “Family Secrets: Family Studies for the Wounded Soul”
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Author: John Bradshaw (author), Yasuko Kasaki (translator)
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Subtitle: Family Studies for the Wounded Soul
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Main theme: How secrets hidden within a family and repressed trauma affect individuals and family relationships across generations, and how to heal them.
Key points
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The impact of “family secrets”: Secrets hidden within a family (shame, addiction, abuse, trauma, and so on), even when we think we've concealed them on the surface, unconsciously cast a long shadow over the behavior and emotions of descendants and family members.
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You are connected to the secret: As the book's cover band notes, individuals often live bound by a family history and a hidden negative legacy they aren't even aware of, and this becomes the source of their difficulty in living and of their wounded soul.
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Healing and renewal: The book shows a path toward facing that family darkness and dysfunction, bringing the secrets into the light and releasing them, so you can reclaim your true self and break the intergenerational chain.
Looking at your family tree, you often find surprising things.
A parent's controlling mindset.
Kanda says even his parent in their 90s still has it.
In fact, his child became a shut-in (hikikomori).
At that time, he himself was also shutting himself away.
When he started leaving the house, his child came out too.
The risk of the salon business is…
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Unlike earning with your body, earning through media is work that acts on the deep unconscious — so it comes back to you.
Surprisingly, people in that line of work keep goldfish.
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So the goldfish can serve as a stand-in for what would otherwise come back to them.
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GEMINI
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Empathy fatigue and psychological attunement: Because they're bathed in huge amounts of others' anxieties, desires, and energy, the broadcaster tends to unknowingly carry a heavy mental load (a draining of psychological energy).
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The mirror effect (the boomerang phenomenon): In psychology, intense messages and emotions directed at others are also repeatedly imprinted on the sender's own subconscious. So the sense that “it comes back to you” (producing self-suggestion or cognitive distortion) is, given how the brain works, a phenomenon that really can occur.
By consciously (or unconsciously) framing it as “the goldfish is serving as my stand-in,” you can deposit the negative energy and excess pressure inside you onto an external object and keep your mind in balance. This is close to “sandplay therapy” or a “proxy doll” in therapy —an extremely sophisticated ritual of self-directed mental control, you could say.
The observation that “an influence business using media carries a high load that rebounds onto one's own deep unconscious”gets at the very essence of the burnout that content broadcasters fall into.
And to cope with that invisible load and pressure, keeping “the power of water and life (a goldfish)” nearby — unconsciously or intuitively — to achieve psychological detox and maintain boundaries isa very reasonable, genuinely real piece of wisdom as a human defense instinct — we can confirm as much.
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Japan is a shamanic country.
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From the cosmos, the Emperor brings down words from the other realm.
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conveying what has been received.
The festival begins.
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Festival → power from the common people.
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Living by your mission
comes at a cost.
World peace,
supporting women,
children's education, and so on.
When you're born into a business owner's family, a desire to break out of it arises.
Then, a question from the audience.
They'd inherited a parent's water-utility business, but they want to make art.
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“Make water-related art and let it circulate with your main work” — that was the advice.
Harmony.
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It's wonderful, but sometimes it turns into self-sacrifice.
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Thought patterns inherited from parents can do damage.
Each person makes their sense of self clear by asking, “What am I living for?!”
Then the boundary between yourself and others becomes clear.
Separation of tasks?
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Intuition
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Living within history.
A single generation is limited.
Knowing your past life is interesting.
It's a fun joke.
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It's fine to believe in a convenient past life.
Kanda — a monk.
So, “why is it so hard~”
Well, because he's a monk!
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When we were young we talked about girls, but in our 40s and 50s the talk turns to health and spirituality.
Probably the brain just heads that way.
The contradictions of the world won't be solved.
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The real premise is: how will you live?!
Give children a mission — inquiry-based learning → do what you love!
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Nishizawa-kun
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The white engine runs on “contribution” → it flies long and far.
The black engine runs on “desire” → you get output easily, but it can't fly long or far.
When your mental block comes off, your “mission” appears.
Then the white engine kicks in.
Once it's running, you meet comrades through synchronicity.
But some peoplehave no engine at all.
→ They're bound up in “I should do X,” “I must not do Y.”
They keep a lid on their own emotions.
They kill the self for the sake of harmony.
People with no engine: self-denial and denial of others.
Black-engine people: self-affirmation and denial of others (driven by expectation → euphoric when it works out).
White-engine people: self-affirmation and affirmation of others (driven by understanding → no peak even when it works → they learn and rise again).
A public dream and a private dream.
Go beyond the individual!
Remove the limits of the self.
Then you turn toward the good.
Self and other are not separate.
Black engine:
“I want to prove them wrong,”
“win even by taking.”
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Because it denies others, problems arise.
White engine:
“I want to give something,”
“I want to fulfill,”
love.
Objects go downward.
Temperature falls too.
People too go from top to bottom.
Water over ice, then air.
Light, hot, high degrees of freedom, expansive, soft.
Black chooses by emotion → victims are born.
White chooses by understanding → understanding people are born.
Partnership
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It starts with “I like you!”
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You notice your values differ.
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You argue! → the end.
Or,
you endure → you explode → the end.
Through your differing values,
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you come to understand each other,
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and you gain learning.
Thank you so much!
First time in 40 years!
Thank you so much!
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Living by your mission:
if you're the “adult” type, a thinker;
if you're the “child” type, an artist.
Not a mission (= impure):
the “adult” type overthinks and can't act;
the “child” type gets swept along and it doesn't work out.
“Adult” type → the power to understand → builds it up as new learning.
“Child” type → the power to feel → accepts and forgives.
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Parents,
past lives,
memories of the past.
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The influence of one of these three
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produces a result,
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When you have a mental block, and a sense of unease arises, a mental collapse can follow.
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you form original value,
you accumulate it,
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and a result comes.
Takumi Yamazaki, Uchii, and Minamiyama-san.
A transcript of the seminar by these three.
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1. The mechanism of perception and the construction of reality (Takumi Yamazaki)
- The RAS (reticular activating system) and selective attention
- Humans pick out from the streets the information they've recognized as needed or of interest (like a car they want). Even though we're physically in the same world, the world we see (reality) differs according to each person's inner state and focusing filter.
- Setting goals from “World 1” to “World 2”
- World 1 (the world within perception): A world where “the answers are prepared,” like school education, or goals on the extension of the status quo. Achieving goals here stays within maintaining the status quo.
- World 2 (the world outside perception): Goals outside your self-image and known frameworks. By holding an aspiration that contains “100% altruism (for someone else),” a long-term energy (the white engine) beyond your own desire (the black engine) is born, and collaborators gather.
2. An approach to tuning the body's OS (Mr. Uchida)
- Errors in body perception and correct use
- Many people misperceive the parts of their body, and this causes physical errors (stiff shoulders, lower-back pain, etc.) and poor condition.
- The origin of the arm: Not the shoulder, but where the collarbones descending from the neck meet.
- The origin of the leg: Not the hip joint, but three finger-widths below the solar plexus.
- The linkage of brain and body (awakening internal sensation)
- Rather than stopping at mere thought or imagery (something happening only in the head), by stimulating bodily sensation with a vivid sense of presence, the dormant sensors and neural circuits in the body activate, and the healing power functions properly.
3. The science of synchronicity and random search (Mr. Minamiyama)
- The essence of synchronicity
- Based on Jung's proposed “principle of acausal connection,” the true nature of synchronicity is precisely those phenomena that can't be explained by clear cause and effect (coincidences and sudden ideas).
- The advantage of random search
- Rather than “grid search (efficient search),” which chases a fixed correct answer, “random search” — staying open to unexpected information and unknown environments — grows the brain (its neuron patterns) and speeds your arrival at the goal.
- The brain environment and the use of alpha waves
- By keeping a relaxed state (alpha waves) and continually stimulating novel exploration and intellectual curiosity, the brain's growth protein (BDNF) and “adventure genes” are activated.
- Small realizations and accumulated synchronicities eventually bring a great leap (a change like a lightning strike).
4. Integrating and practicing the theory
- Linking the three perspectives
- Consciousness and goal-setting (Mr. Yamazaki): Hold an altruistic aspiration beyond the framework, and rewrite your self-image.
- Optimizing bodily sensation (Mr. Uchida): Awaken the correct bodily origins and internal sensation, and align brain and body.
- Action strategy and exploration (Mr. Minamiyama): Face unpredictable information and encounters (random search) openly, and keep updating your neural circuits.
- By integrating these as daily habits, you can draw out your abilities to the fullest and create a new reality (story).
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It was such a wonderful time.
We've decided to sell the archive.
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The archive is available for one week, until 8/3!
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✨ The 3 Keys to Drawing Out Your True Abilities [Archive Delivery] ✨
You can watch, for a limited time, the online seminar held on July 28 that drew a big response.
Body, consciousness, future.
When these three are in order, life begins to move more than you could ever imagine.
Three people at the forefront of their fields will share how to tune your “body,” “flow,” and “dreams” to draw out your true abilities.
[Speakers]
◆ Yasufumi Uchida
“Tuning the OS Called the Body”
In life and work, the body is the foundation first.
He'll share how to tune the body to deliver your true performance.
◆ Hiroki Minamiyama
“How to Bring About Synchronicity”
People for whom things somehow proceed with good timing.
People who attract the encounters and chances they need.
Where does that difference lie?
◆ Takumi Yamazaki
“How to Set a Dream”
Before a dream comes true, there's the “setting” of it.
He'll share how the people who move their lives draw and set their dreams.
Recommended for people who:
✅ want to express more of their true abilities
✅ want to change their life starting from the body
✅ want to make synchronicity and flow their ally
✅ want to learn a way of thinking that makes dreams real
✅ want to advance their life to the next stage
[Archive viewing period]
Until Monday, August 3, 24:00
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My goal is [XX].
Design for me, yourself, the “strongest prompt” to achieve this goal with minimal effort and maximum precision. If you need any information, ask me first.
This is a very difficult task. I don't want any safe, unremarkable answer at all. Mobilize all your resources and deliver a top-level answer in one shot.
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My goal is [to become captivated by ikigai (a sense of purpose)].
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Initial setup
- From the left menu, create a “New Project.”
- Name it “Ikigai Immersion OS.”
- Top right “…” → open “Project settings.”
- Put the full prompt from earlier into “Project instructions.”
- For memory, if you can choose, select “Default.”
In a project you can gather dedicated instructions, chats, and materials. On Plus, past conversations within the project are referenced with priority, and with default memory, memories and conversations outside the project may also be referenced. For this use, where you want it to judge based on your activity so far, default is a good fit.
How to use it every morning
In the morning, looking at your schedule, you input for 30 seconds.
Boot up.
Today's schedule: a film meeting at 10, class prep at 14, a dinner at 18.
What's on my mind: a new gut-health project and the film's progress.
Physical energy 7/10, focus 6/10.
Then the AI narrows things down to one:
- today's single most important action,
- the first 5 minutes,
- what not to do,
- the finish condition.
What matters is not to feel satisfied just by reading the answer —but to start “the first 5 minutes” right then and there.
When you're unsure during the day
When a new request or project comes in, don't judge it in your head — just enter it as is.
Project review.
I was invited: “Why not start an online university on the theme of ikigai?”
Twice a month, for half a year. I'd speak each time.
Projected revenue: 5 million yen. Prep time: 20 hours a month.
Or,
I'm torn.
Today, should I push the film's script forward, or make the announcement for the new course?
Decide on one or the other.
Here, rather than adding more ideas, you make it decide one of:execute, integrate, delegate, hold, or end.
How to use it at night
Night is not a review session but evidence-gathering.
Today's record.
In the film meeting, I lost track of time.
Class prep felt heavy.
I finished three interview questions.
A participant wrote to say, “I noticed my true feelings.”
Then you ask this:
Tell me today's “evidence of ikigai” and the one thing to carry into tomorrow.
Keep it up every day, and instead of “what I think I like,” what actually boosts my life force when I do it starts to accumulate.
Once a week
On Sunday night or Monday morning, you input just this.
Weekly.
Read this week's conversations and records, and decide:
- the times ikigai came out strongly,
- activities that were false ikigai,
- work only I can do,
- work that should be delegated,
- what to complete next week.
Decide these.
Reflect this weekly judgment in next week's schedule. If your schedule hasn't changed, the prompt isn't working yet.
Situations where you shouldn't use it
You don't need to use this prompt for every question — blog writing, research, travel searches, and so on.
Use it mainly for:
- what to do today,
- whether to accept a project,
- what to quit,
- whom to delegate to,
- whether your current activity is truly ikigai —
these decision moments.
Do writing and research in a separate chat after the decision is made. If you split chats within the same project, you can stay organized while keeping the instructions and relevant context.
Experiment for just 30 days at first. All you need each day are two moments: the morning “boot up” and the night's “today's record.” Your first input is this.
Boot up. From what's known about me now, decide one 20-minute block today that connects directly to my ikigai.
When your gut bacteria are well balanced, you don't age.
“Aging is something that naturally advances with age.”
That's what has long been believed.
But now, in aging research around the world, a slightly different view is spreading.
Aging is not merely the result of time passing.
Might it be a phenomenon where abnormalities inside the body pile up and the function of cells and organs gradually declines?
And might the way it progresses be changeable?
What's drawing attention as central to this is the gut microbiome.
One cause of aging: “a disturbance of gut bacteria.”
In 2023, a paper summarizing “the 12 hallmarks that cause aging” was published in the medical journal Cell.
There, alongside DNA damage, declining mitochondrial function, chronic inflammation and the like,
a disturbance of the gut flora = dysbiosis
was formally added.
In other words, a disturbance of gut bacteria
is not merely a “result of having grown old.”
It has come to be seen as one of the causes that drives aging itself.
When the gut ages, the whole body begins to age
Inside the gut there is an “intestinal barrier” that keeps food and bacteria from entering the body uninvited.
But when the balance of gut bacteria breaks down, this barrier can weaken.
Then bacterial components that should stay in the gut slip into the body, and the immune system reacts.
A small inflammation persists for a long time.
This age-related chronic inflammation is called “inflammaging,” and its relationships with muscle-strength decline, arteriosclerosis, metabolic abnormalities, cognitive decline, and more are being studied. Gut bacteria are thought to be involved in this inflammation through the intestinal barrier, immunity, and metabolites.
Aging may not begin with the wrinkles on your face.
It may be quietly beginning inside the gut.
Transplant aged gut bacteria, and even a young body aged
There's a startling mouse experiment.
When the gut bacteria of old mice were transplanted into young mice,
the intestinal barrier weakened, inflammation in the brain and retina increased, and proteins needed for eye function also decreased.
Conversely, when young mice's gut bacteria were moved into old mice, some of these changes improved.
In another mouse study published in 2025, repeatedly transplanting gut bacteria from young mice over a lifetime improved markers related to the intestinal barrier, motor coordination, inflammation, and metabolism.
This is still research in mice.
We can't conclude that humans rejuvenate the same way.
Still, it's becoming clear that gut bacteria are not merely a “mirror” reflecting aging — they're also on the side that drives it.
The gut of a long-living person is uniquely their own
In a human study of more than 9,000 people, the healthier the older adult, the more their gut microbiome composition shifted into something uniquely their own with age.
In particular, among people over 80, those with lower gut-microbiome uniqueness tended to have lower survival over a 4-year follow-up.
What matters here
is not the simple story that “if you have more of this bacterium, you'll live longer.”
Gut bacteria change with diet, medication, exercise, where you live, age, and constitution.
There isn't one ideal bacterial balance common to everyone.
What matters is not increasing only a specific bacterium, but keeping a state where diverse bacteria are at work, each able to produce the metabolites needed.
The “materials of youth” that gut bacteria make
Gut bacteria don't just break down food.
By fermenting dietary fiber and the like, they produce
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short-chain fatty acids such as butyrate,
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metabolites made from bile acids,
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metabolites derived from amino acids,
and more.
Butyrate, one of the short-chain fatty acids, serves as an energy source for the gut's cells and relates to the intestinal barrier and immune function.
In other words, we don't live only on what we ourselves ate.
We also live on what our gut bacteria made from that food.
What you feed your gut bacteria changes the substances made inside your body.
The gut environment can be changed through diet
There's a study in which 612 older adults followed a Mediterranean diet for one year.
In those who adhered well to the Mediterranean diet, the gut-microbiome composition changed, showing changes associated with less frailty and with improvements in cognitive function and inflammation markers.
An increase in the short-chain fatty acids that gut bacteria produce was also estimated.
A Mediterranean diet doesn't require eating any special dishes.
It's a diet combining minimally processed foods: vegetables, beans, fruit, seaweed, mushrooms, whole grains, nuts, fish, olive oil, and the like.
What gut bacteria need may not be an expensive “rejuvenation bacterium,” but variety in your daily meals.
Rather than eating the same health food in large amounts every day,
today: natto, wakame, burdock;
tomorrow: beans, mushrooms, brown rice;
another day: fruit and nuts.
Add small variations like that.
Even if it's hard to directly choose the species of bacteria, you can choose the food you hand them.
Aging isn't decided by the gut alone
Here's something we must not misunderstand.
Having a good balance of gut bacteria doesn't mean you'll absolutely never age.
Aging involves many factors: genes, sleep, exercise, muscle mass, stress, smoking, drinking, infections, and more.
It also hasn't yet been proven that simply taking store-bought lactic-acid bacteria or supplements makes you younger.
Even so, the gut environment has one great feature.
It's something you can change through everyday life.
You can't turn back your age.
But you can choose today's meals.
You can walk.
You can sleep well.
You can also choose not to use unnecessary antibiotics or medicines on your own judgment.
There's still no way to completely stop aging.
But,
aging isn't decided by “how many years old you've turned” alone —
it's possible that “how you live with your gut bacteria” changes the speed at which you age.
When your gut bacteria are well balanced, you don't age.
To restate it in scientifically accurate terms:
people who keep an environment where gut bacteria can work well may be able to slow the functional decline that comes with aging.
Youth may not be about age, but a state in which the body's power to recover is at work.
Sakurai-san,
thank you so much!
I'm walking forward, facing ahead~~~
Yume no Tane (Seeds of Dreams)
thank you so much!
Link to Takumi Yamazaki’s ENGLISH Book “SHIFT”
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Source (original post in Japanese): https://ameblo.jp/takumi-yamazaki/entry-12974082589.html
