Today’s dream: I was in an outdoor swimming pool with many other people. Somebody asked me to show them my diving. I climbed up to the jumping stand and dived beautifully like an Olympic athlete. I woke up feeling refreshed. In the reality I don’t know what I should dive in. I don’t know what this dream suggested.

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In the early afternoon I received a phone call from the librarian. They had an art contest during summer and my daughter won the first prize. My daughter received an art supply set as the prize. It was a very nice set. I appreciate the local library staff member for keep praising and encouraging my daughter for the art work.

Today’s dream: I was working at an eye glass store. I was helping one female customer to find the best matched eye glasses for her. She happily accepted my suggestion and purchased one pair of glasses. She gave me a phone number in a small paper. I could not see the digits. I realized I also needed a pair of new eye glasses. Then I woke up.

I found out this dream and today’s meditation were connected. During the meditation I felt the message from my family spirits through this dream and the meditation got clear for me. Recently I had dealt with a new Reiki community people including the teacher and the staff members. I experienced being offended or feeling uncomfortable in dealing with them. Maybe I had expected certain actions and behaviors from them based on my expectations. These events happened to me for reasons. I should respect the different perspectives because they have different cultures and way of thinking. With the messages from this dream and today’s meditation, I finally could see the fact and truth. This community is not for me. I should walk away if needed.  

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My mom-in-law had a Covid-19 test yesterday. She had worried because she had been feeling sick yesterday with sore throat and headache. The test result came in as negative this morning. We were all happy for her with the good news. I am always impressed at her high immune system. She had been 24/7 taking care of a Covid-19 patient, but she never got infected. The germs should be everywhere in the house and she was touched the accidentally. She taught me Covid-19 is all up to the person’s immune system.  

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At night I received a phone call from my dad. His voice sounded strong and healthy as usual. It was good to hear his voice.

When I woke up, I thought it was Wednesday morning. When I mentioned it my husband and daughter, interestingly they thought the same way. My husband also told me some of his coworkers felt one day earlier than reality. I think we just experienced distortion in time. When the planet Earth has drastically shifted its vibration, many people tend to sense it as in distortion in time. I felt this morning that I got lighter in my energy field.

There was one more peculiar thing. It was on Sunday night. My daughter and I were checking the weather report app on the cell phone. In the weekly report, it marked “Today” on Monday’s weather even it was still Sunday night. So, not only humans but also even internet app got confused by distortion in time. I thought it interesting.

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In the later afternoon, I received a phone call from a new teacher of my daughter. When the teacher casually announced that my daughter will be in the middle school, I was surprised. In Japanese school system, six graders are still in the elementary school, but here in America, they are in the middle school.

My dad-in-law got worse in his health condition and returned to the hospital. I remember my mom-in-law described about my dad-in-law at the moment of discharge. He didn’t look well, rather he looked still very sick in the wheelchair. We all think the hospital wanted to get rid of many patients as much as they could in order to vacant the hospital beds. Maybe he was not ready to be discharged. I hope this time he will be discharged after he got completely healed from Covid-19.

It is really hard for me to listen to their tough situation. That reminds me of the two years ago that both of my parents got very sick. I know we all have to go through old age. I want to stay healthy in old days, so I keep good exercise and intake healthy food. I am willing to keep my good habit for the future.  

I read two books Gift Horse: A Lakota Story and Coyote Christmas. The both books are written by S.D. Nelson. I like the Coyote Christmas. It was a folk tale that the author heard from his mom and his mom heard from her mom. This story made me happy that the trickster, Coyote, accidently without planning, gifted the great gifts to one family.

In our neighbor area, we have a coyote. He used to be always alone, but recently I saw him as a family of three. I am not sure if I am hallucinating or not, but I saw the male coyote walking with the other two. One was slightly smaller than him, looked like his wife, and the other one was much smaller than the other two, looked like their child. Even if it is a hallucination that a coyote is making me to see, it is fine with me. I am happy for this coyote anyway.

Today’s dream. I was with my mom and brother at my dad’s company. We were discussing something peacefully. Then my conscious jumped to another scene. I was served turkey at dinner table, but the turkey was still alive and healthy. The turkey looked like smiling at me. Then I woke up. I guess it was a good dream as turkey is considered as a sign of the abundance to come and seeing a turkey in a dream symbolizes prosperity. The dream interpretation dictionary also says a dreamer will solve some problems with the division of property.

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It was one of the rare days in our area. We had rain all day long from the morning to the night. It was a quiet and peaceful day. I enjoyed this lovely day.

We have been blessed with lots of rain in our area this year. While we had a dry monsoon last year, this year is a wet monsoon. Our okra started really growing strong.

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Today was the last day of Summer School for my daughter. She made two very close friends at this school and they had been together for 7 weeks. The three of them are the same age and will be classmates if my daughter goes back to the public school. My daughter has chosen to continue homeschooling for this year, so they won’t see each other at school. They said they would miss each other and one girl shed tears. I am happy for my daughter to have built such a nice friendship with them. I will think about some plans that they will be able to have time together even after the school starts.

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I read one book Black Elk’s Vision: A Lakota Story written by S.D. Nelson. I like the part where the author describes about heyokas; the holy and funny ones who make people laugh.

My favorite part is the author’s comment about the Lakota people. He says “We are not victims of a destiny forced upon us by others. Instead, we are the makers of our people’s future.” Cited from page 43 of Black Elk’s Vision: A Lakota Story.

I agree with him that we are responsible to make a better world for our future generation. I believe everybody should keep it in mind and be responsible on what we say and act, and even what we think. Because everything what we think, say, and act will impact the energy surrounded us and that will create our future.

Today’s dream. Interestingly I was visiting Japan for two days straight. My family and I were visiting my Japanese friend and her daughter. We were enjoying shopping at a huge store. All of their items were sophisticated and high-quality, but everything was in a reasonable price. My family had a male German Shepard as our family. After the shopping, I let him to do bathroom. Lots of amount of his pee accidentally got on my arm. I was not mad at him though. We all laughed about it. Then I woke up feeling comfortably.

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My mom-in-law informed us that my dad-in-law was discharged from the hospital last evening. It was good news. But her voice did not sound pleasant. When he was discharged, he didn’t look healthy or strong at all. He looked weak and sick. She said having a Covid-19 patient at home is tough. My dad-in-law has been suffering from low oxygen level so that my mom-in-law keeps an eye on him of his oxygen level all the time. She needs to prepare three meals and do extra cleaning, and grocery shopping all by herself. While listening to her, I felt sorry for her.  

She informed us another good news. Last evening one of my dad-in-law’s friends brought a new born puppy to their house. It was a tiny buckskin colored Chihuahua. They named the dog as Bucky. My dad-in-law thought it was a nice gift from Creator to celebrate his discharge from the hospital. My mom-in-law said it was like having two babies need to be taken care of, but her voice sounded like happy. I hope they will get back to their healthy and happy life soon.

I went to the dental office to have a dental cleaning. Since my husband didn’t have a full time job for the past one year, we could not have the dental insurance and thus, no dental cleaning for more than one year. I desperately needed one. Today I could finally have it. I was happy to see my favorite hygienist. I have had her cleaning treatment for several years now. We always start off a small conversation as we both are a mother of a young age daughter.

When her assistant was taking an X-ray picture of my mouth, she retook it several times on my left side. I was wondering about it. Later, the hygienist solved the mystery. When the dentist checked my teeth, he said everything looked good. I didn’t have any cavity and my gum looked healthy. Then the dentist turned back to the hygienist and kind of whispered to her that they would keep an eye on something. They were pointing something on their computer screen that showed my X-ray picture. After the dentist was gone, I asked the hygienist what they were talking about. She showed me the X-ray picture and pointed one area. She told me my X-ray shows that I have an extra tiny tooth inside the gum in the wisdom tooth area. I took out 4 of my wisdom teeth in order to have a braces in my younger days. I asked her how rare to have an extra tooth. She said it was not very rare. After I came back home, I did some research about an extra tooth for adults. It says 1 out of 40 people have it. I am glad to know I am not the very rare person to have it.  

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School update: The school sent three school textbooks for my daughter’s homeschooling. They are all thick and hard cover books. Luckily the three books look like brand new ones. They sent all the old and beat up textbooks last year. We expect to receive some more text books to arrive. The new school year is coming very close.  

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Today’s dream. I was with my brother in Japan. We were in the process of selling my parents’ house. This dream didn’t accompany with any emotions. I watched the process with neutral state of mind.

In the late afternoon, I received a phone call from my mom-in-law. I had been busy with chores and didn’t noticed the phone’s ringing sound. She called me three times. When I returned her call, she answered the phone with a high pitch tone. She wanted to share the good news with me as soon as possible. Her Covid-19 test result came back as negative. She said it was miracle because she had been very closely staying with my dad-in-law who got infected. I am happy for her good news. I believe my dad-in-law will get well soon and be discharged from the hospital soon.

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In the evening I attended the online Reiki sharing at 5 p.m. It was my second attendance in this gathering. There were 35 attendees.

It was good to see my Reiki teacher at the gathering. He came back from Russia and has been staying in a hotel room for two weeks in Tokyo as the government order.

He started off explained what happened to him in his last tour. While he was teaching Reiki in Moscow, he lost conscious. He was quickly sent to ER by an ambulance. There, the doctor diagnosed as a stroke. He had been hospitalized for 3 days, then he was discharged. The doctor didn’t know what happened to him, but he got all well and fully recovered from a stroke.

Even the doctor was confused and had a hard time to explain what happened to my teacher, as a Reiki practitioner, he has experienced many miracles all in his life, so it was not unusual for him. He said he truly appreciates everybody for sending him Reiki healing energy. He fully believes in Reiki that healed him.

He explains the Japanese culture. We put 「お」 or 「ご」 in front of some specific words as prefix and by doing so, we naturally show our respect to the certain word. For example, we say money in Japanese “O-kane” instead of “Kane.” “O-kaasan” and “O-tousan” are more polite way to say “Kaasan” or “Tousan.” We even say “O-toire” to respect “Toire (toilett).” So, for my Reiki teacher, since Reiki has been helping and supporting him all his life, he personally wants to call it “O-Reiki” instead of just saying “Reiki.” I totally agree with him. I will start saying Reiki as O-Reiki to show it my respect.

We performed Shuchu-Reiki, sending Reiki energy one by one to whomever needs healing energy. We had 9 people in the list. Two of them were my dad in Japan and my dad-in-law in Arizona that I asked the gathering host to include. While I was sending Reiki to my dad, I felt calm and gentle energy from him. I felt he is ready to depart to the spirit world anytime soon. While I was sending Reiki to my dad-in-law, I felt he was feeling and enjoying our Reiki energy in the hospital room as he is energy sensitive.

After sending Reiki healing to these 9 people, the host proceeded to Q&A session. My Reiki teacher answered the questions easily and naturally. I always impress him to be totally natural to him.

He said the chronical diseases may take some time to heal, but always trust Reiki works for the person at their highest goods. He also advised us to stop thinking; rather, surrender and smile. Follow our heart and intuition, and keep practicing. Focus on NOW and presence, which is tough for everybody.

He also shared what he learned about recent hospitalization. It reminded him the importance of keep maintaining his vital energy high, especially while traveling a foreign country. It also reminded him that everything is impermanent. He is not young anymore and needs extra caution on his physical body. He got a stroke and healed. Nothing stays the same. Everything keeps on changing its status. At the end, he gave us his advice that no matter what happens, do not worry and know everything goes well. I always enjoy his teaching.