Today’s dream: I was with my family and friends whom I don’t know in the physical world. Maybe they were my family spirits. We were standing at the top of the steep skiing slope and started skiing on the slope. Even though it was in the dream state, I actually enjoyed so much for feeling the high speed and the cold winter breeze. Awesome.

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In the early morning my family and I replanted our okra plants in the paper coffee cups to our bigger garden bed. I hope they will grow healthily and produce lots of okra just like last year.

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I received an email notice of my yesterday’s lab test result. I appreciate the speedy notice. It was 6.8. It was the evidence that I have been making efforts every day considering that the result in last December; 6 months ago was 7.8, then the result of this March; 3 months ago was 7.6. I will keep making efforts to keep my good health.

I woke up early in the morning as usual, went for a morning walk in the neighborhood, and run at the treadmill. After I got a good amount of sweat, I took a shower. I was ready for the lab test.

My appointment went through very quickly. I didn’t need to wait for long. And the nurse didn’t come to check my vital (body temperature, blood pressure, and oxygen level). I was little disappointed because I wanted to see how my blood pressure does. I am sure it should be good.

The test result will come back possibly tomorrow or next Monday at the latest. I am looking forward to hearing a great news of my recent A1C result. I hope it will be 6.2.

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This week we have rains and rain clouds in the afternoon. Even though we haven’t heard the official announcement yet, monsoon season has started or almost there.

I noticed a new line appeared in my palm. It is a vertical line on the Mount of Saturn in my right palm. This line shows that I have been diligently working on something and making lots of efforts. This line also shows good luck in wealth and brings a great success and achievement. Indeed I have been making efforts in many different things. I promised to my family spirits that I will keep making efforts in many things and keep improving my spiritual awareness until my last day of this lifetime.

Since yesterday I started watching a Navajo elder’s YouTube videos; Navajo Traditional Teachings. He started uploading his video since 2017 and posted 148 video clips so far. I am planning to watch all his videos with taking notes. His video clips contain his and his tribe’s wisdom. I appreciate him for sharing his knowledge and wisdom with us younger generation people.

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My daughter has been enjoying with her friends in the summer class. I am happy for her whenever she is happy.

At 5 p.m., I attended the zoom meeting for the upcoming Sedona tour’s introduction. There were 30 people registered to the tour and the host expected to have them all attended, but there were only 19 people attended to today’s meeting.

The host asked the Reiki teacher to talk about Gaman. He asked me to speak something about Gaman, but I misheard what he said. I just said Gaman is patience. I should have added something in my mind without being shy. Thank you to the teacher for giving me the opportunity to speak up, and sorry for not saying anything today. I will get used to speak in front of people more often. Please provide me more opportunities in the future gatherings too.

What I wanted to share with everybody was like this.

Gaman is to keep faith and trust. I believe everything happens for reasons and everything has its own best timing. In order for a thing to happen at the best timing, we have to patiently wait for the best timing. Sometimes it does not happen at the timing we expect. It may not happen the way as we expect.

The Reiki teacher explained Gaman like this.

Gaman is a Japanese virtue. We know in nature that everything is impermanent and that is why everything is precious. One of his favorite tea ceremony terms is Ichigo-Ichie. It means once in a lifetime. Nothing stays the same. Everything happens in this world is unique and precious.

I always like how he explains things.

Toward the end, one attendee asked the teacher what she should prepare for the tour. The teacher answered to her with his policy; His policy is no preparation. Then the host chimed in and asked to come with open-minded and flexibility as all the attendees are diversity in nationality and culture. I think it is the great advice.

During the gathering, there was a part where I really wanted to give a big applause to my Reiki teacher. When the host mentioned to the Reiki teacher about the area that used to be Native American’s sacred area between Sedona and Phoenix, my Reiki teacher commented her in a loud voice like this. Remember, the sacred area is not only that area, but the entire America used to belong to Native Americans. I still cannot speak up like he does whenever needed. This is one of the parts I respect my Reiki teacher that he can speak up whenever he needs to do so.

I always enjoy participating in this group. Thank you everybody for having me in the group.

After I dropped my daughter off at school in the morning, I started enjoying my alone time. I started off my 30-minute meditation. While I was enjoying visiting my family spirits in the spirit world, my conscious was pulled back to the physical world. I heard the bell’s tinkling sound at the entrance door. I hang some small bells at the entrance door so that I can be alert if somebody tries to open the entrance door.

My conscious came back to my physical body. I found my husband at the entrance door. He said he needed to come back home to finish up the orientation procedure for his new company. I was glad to know that he didn’t bring back any bad news. I kind of scared for the reason why he came back unexpectedly early from work.

Today was his first day for a new company. He had worked for the previous 6 months for the agency under the restricted conditions. It was like a trial term for the company to trust him. Under the bad working conditions from this agency, they don’t pay for the federal holidays and they don’t offer any health related insurances for the employees. Now that he has earned his trust in his job, he was transferred to a good company. I am happy for him to be able to move to a better conditioned company.

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Today’s mediation: I went to see one of my past lives. I saw myself in a buckskin dress. I was slender with long beautiful straight hair. I didn’t decorate my dress or hair. I lived very simple life. I often spent my time sitting down on the ground and communicating with nature and holy people. In my adulthood, I fell in love with a man, but he was in a different tribe. My parents didn’t allow us to marry. My parents and relatives arranged one man in the same tribe as my husband. My husband and I were blessed with our children and I had a simple and happy life with my family.

In the past life I didn’t live my life as I wished. Everything, even my husband, was provided. From the experience from this past life of living a life in which I always received, I chose this life to be different from the past. In this lifetime, I can choose to get what I want. I can choose to speak up my opinion. I choose to change the same pattern as my past lives.

I started reading the book; Tall woman: the life story of Rose Mitchell, a Navajo woman written by Rose Mitchell.

It is interesting to know how the old days’ of life; life of her grandparents before the U.S. Cavalry came was. At that time The People needed to move around and hide from their enemies of Ute, Apache, Pueblos, and Mexicans. The women used to have many children but not all of them grew up to adult or old age. Many children died in baby or young. At that time it was their custom for sisters to share one husband. Since they lived away from the hospital, when somebody got sick, they relied on a hand-trembler for diagnose and then go to a singer for prayers and ceremonies.

When she was young, there was no wells. They needed to dig a hole for water. There was no store to buy a bucket, so they used the skin of a young goat to carry water. She and her family ate rabbits, prairie dogs, and wild nuts and berries. Most of them walked around without shoes because buckskin was not always available for everybody.

It is interesting to know how old people used to live. It is not very old, but just 100 years ago, our great-grandparents’ age.

Today is a new Federal holiday; Juneteenth commemorating the end of slavery.

In the morning my family and I went to the canyon hiking. There were only two cars before us. Even after we were done hiking and about to leave the parking lot, not many cars were parked

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In today’s meditation, I asked my family spirits about my people phobia.

I saw full moon. Then I saw myself in one of my past lives communicating with stars and moon in the night sky. In the past life I served my entire life to be a messenger from spirits. To me, it is easy to communicate with divine beings because they don’t lie. Their natural self is pure and easy to understand. On the other hand, humans lie and some of them are mood swingers that makes me hard to fully understand. That is why my original self likes to communicate with the nature and divine beings. I feel relaxed and comfortable whenever I stay alone in the nature. My family spirits told me I don’t need to adjust myself to be around and with a whole bunch of people if I don’t feel comfortable. Rather, I should be selective to people whom I can fully stay being myself and feel comfortable. I don’t need to compare with anybody else. I am unique and different from others and I should be proud of being myself. Their messages really make sense to me. That was what I needed to hear today. Thank you to my family spirits for our great advice and encouragement.

Today’s dream: I ate some snack with my family. The snack contained Umeboshi and some nuts such as walnuts and almond. Then my husband and I rode a bicycle. He pedaled and I sat on the back seat. We run so fast on the freeway as well as on the dirt roads. We enjoyed the ride. I didn’t feel scared of the high speed. At the certain point, my husband told me he would go alone before me. We promised to meet each other somewhere on the road. I didn’t feel uneasy for separating, because I was fully confident that we would definitely find each other soon. Then I woke up.

My daughter shared her dream. Her family spirits told her she would meet her right partner in 2023. I still remember she told me when she was still very small like 5 years old or so. She told me her right partner had been already born to this Earth 3 years before her as a Navajo boy. I wonder when and how they will meet each other. I look forward to their romantic meeting in the near future.  

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In the morning when I stopped by at Walmart for shopping, I saw a couple sitting down under the tree in the parking lot. They had a sign says Free Puppies.

They had five puppies to give away. They were 7 weeks old, a mix of pit bill and blue heeler. My husband held one of them, the one of grey haired with blue eyes. The puppy seemed to like my husband very much. He was calm in his arm and wagging his tail. Even though we liked the puppy very much, we decided not to take him because of our current situation. The puppy tried to follow my husband. He was super cute.

I finished reading the novel book Soldier Sister, Fly Home written by Nancy Bo Flood. It took me 6 days to complete reading this book. I like the latter part where the main character and her grandma spent several days in the sheep camp. It reminds me of the days when my Navajo friend took me to his mother’s sheep camp. It was the middle of nowhere. Just us and animals. There I felt very close to spirits. We enjoyed looking at stars in the night sky. The air was fresh and the land energy was high. Reading this book made me eager to go back to Navajoland. We will go back there in August. I can’t wait for our next visit.

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At 5:45 p.m., I met my new friend on Zoom. We met on the last Reiki share gathering. After the gathering, I received an email from the host and told me one of the attendees would like to contact me. That was how we started talking. She would host my Reiki teacher to Sedona in this October and wanted to know if I was interested in joining them.

We started off introducing ourselves. It was nice getting to know her more. I want to attend my Reiki teacher’s class. I will need to figure it out the best way for me and my family. I trust everything will go smoothly for the best way for us.

Early this morning I had a workshop to attend. Last night after the Reiki share gathering ended at 7:15 p.m., I was still excited about the powerful energy I received. I needed to walk them off so that I went for an evening walk. Then I took a quick shower and went to bed. It was a hot night and I had a tough time to fall asleep.

I set two of my alarm clocks; one at 2:55 a.m. and the other at 3 a.m. I woke up with the first alarm clock and turned off the second one. And without thinking, I fell back to sleep. But thankfully my family spirits had my back. I managed to wake up with the subtle sound of shaking the bedside table. I knew it was definitely made by somebody from my family spirits because there was no earthquake or anything in this area to shake the table. I asked my daughter later on who helped me to wake up. My daughter saw my maternal grandma raised her hand and smiled. Thank you Fude-obaachan for waking me up.

With my grandma’s support, I attended the Self-healing workshop at 3:30 a.m. There were 16 attendees.

This workshop contained 2 parts; lecture and meditation.

I want to share the three self-healing techniques that resonated with me.

(1) The instructor emphasized the breathing, especially focusing on breathing out.

(2) She also shared her experience of fasting. She has done a fasting for several years now, and her body gets used to it. She said she just finished her annual long term fasting of 18 days. I was amazed on the length. She said she took 3 of Umeboshi (pickled plum) and 200 ml of Amazake (fermented rice drink) daily. I agree with her that fasting is one of the greatest technique for self-healing.

(3) She told us the importance to give a permission to ourselves. “I allow myself to have great miracles to happen very often.” “I allow myself to be loved by people and spirits.” “I allow myself to recognize my spiritual gifts.”

Toward the end of the workshop, we did the instructor’s guided meditation.

When we were guided to walk on a bridge to the Spirit World, I saw the bridge with a various colors of pink, purple, bright light blue, yellow, and brown. Maybe I needed to receive the energies of these colors to heal and compensate my energy.

My guide spirit appeared in a gentle mother figure. She was holding a baby girl in her arms and passed the baby to my arms. She told me the baby girl represents a pure heart, lots of laughter, and healthy body. She told me to make everything to simple. Simply live, simply laugh, simply trust myself and others, simply intake necessary foods, and simply digest them. I think it was a nice gift and messages. Thank you to my family spirits.