My husband and I made a phone call to a Navajo medicine woman. Since she is a woman, my husband recommended me to speak to her first. So I took his advice and started talking to her. She didn’t like talking to me. Maybe she instantly knows that I am a foreigner. She yelled at me that she doesn’t understand what I am saying. Then from there, my husband switched and started talking. The first thing she asked to my husband if he is a full blood Navajo or not. He said he is a full blood Navajo, then, the woman’s voice obviously changed to a higher tone and sounded much nicer than talking to me.

It was a shocking to me. My husband noticed the medicine woman’s voice tone change, but he made an appointment with her for a diagnose of my dad in law’s medicine bundle. She said her fee is $100. I don’t feel like meeting her honestly.  

My husband came back with the good news. His company, even though it didn’t win the governmental bit for the upcoming three years, confirms that it has extended the job contract with the government for another 6 months. It means my husband and other workers will stay working for the same company for the time being.

I’ve been suffering from the allergic symptom such as runny nose and sneeze for these past weeks. I needed to take a 1–2-hour nap. I know my health has been improving than before. I should appreciate the improvement.

I still suffer from the billing issue from the phone company. I wanted to avoid to issue a complaint to BBB website, but I needed to take this last action.

Even though I don’t like this, I am the only person in this household to take care of this issue. My husband does not want to deal with any kinds of issues. He said he would put up with their mistakes even it is a pretty high amount of $1,200.

I don’t want to put up with paying for the extra fee that was created by their mistake. I guess I am fighting with my inner-child of “should’ve” belief. I admit I have lots of fixed ideas and sense of justice.

Today was the first day of my spiritual teaching course, that is titled as Awakening Spirituality gathering. It was a new moon night in my area. I considered it as a good sign for us to start a new beginning. I enjoyed getting to know all the attendees. I hope they had a great time and will do so for the remainder of the course. Thank you so much to the attendees for trusting me.

I woke up early in the morning to talk with my friend in Japan. It has been a while since we talked last time. Nothing particular nor nothing new, but we enjoyed catching up with each other. I appreciate for her long-term friendship.

I attended the online reiki gathering at 5 p.m. It is always nice to see my Reiki teacher Hyakuten-san.

At the end of gathering, he shared his wisdom of “Equanimity”. He said he honors this philosophy in his daily life. This term was new to me. It means mental calmness and evenness of mind especially under extreme stress. My reiki teacher explained it as non-attachment and end of suffering.

In the morning I had the inner child therapist certification exam online. There were 2 types of the exam. The first one was the actual knowledge test, and the last one was the interview. They were much difficult than what I had expected. The first instant that I saw the question on the exam, I felt overwhelmed. But on the next second, I told myself that I could do it well. I took a long relaxing breath, and started. I am glad that I could focus fully on the exam. I think I did well. I hope I would pass the exam and receive the certificate, so that I can start working as a professional inner child therapist.

I was in tense in preparing for the upcoming exam, that is scheduled on tomorrow. I almost got panicky that I noticed I don’t have all the files in hand. Two files were missing. Most likely the files were not successfully downloaded for some reasons. I didn’t want to disturb the school worker, but I sent a request to them if they could send me those files. I was lucky enough to have a very kind worker to open my email. She sent me the files right away. She also added some thoughtful wordings and encouragements. I appreciate for her kindness.

It was Rittou (立冬) in Japan. It is the first day of winter according to the lunar calendar. To me, it is amazing that Japanese people still value the traditional teaching based on the lunar calendar.