It started with a chilly morning. My backyard was lightly covered by snow. After we came back from the morning walk, it started snowing heavily.

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A birthday card with a gift card arrived. It was from my in-laws. I appreciate they had thought of me and keep loving me as their daughter-in-law. It was an interesting synchronicity. My mom-in-law put a sticker of “Good vibes.” I just purchased a tee with a logo “Good Vibes Only.” I guess this is a message for my birthday of this year.

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I also received a letter from USCIS. It informs me that my green card renew process has been processing. It also informs that I won’t need to appear the USCIS local office to collect a biometric as they will use the previous data to renew. At the end of the letter, it says they are not going to refund the biometric fee, which made me laugh. It is okay with me as long as they process the renew process as soon as possible.

At 9 p.m., I attended my tenth mediumship class. There were ten students attended.

Today’s guided meditation was a spiritual journey to Jerusalem that had sad history of wars due to different religious belief.

My guide spirit appeared in a male elder figure. He was tall and skinny with white long hair and long bearded in a while simple robe. I could not see his face, but he did not look like an Asian figure.

My guide spirit gave me a white box. It was a size of a lunch box. When I opened the lid of the box, white smoke came out and I was covered by the smoke. I asked him if I had become a very, very old grandpa just like the story of Urashima Taro. My guide spirit laughed and told me I was fine. He told me the smoke would enhance the ability to bring back my memories of the past.

This gift makes sense to me. I am in the process of writing a memoir. I have diaries and blog log files, but I don’t have all the events of my life. So, my guide spirit will help me to bring back memories. He told me I am not writing this book all by myself. They are always helping me, so technically speaking, the author of my memoir should be a group of my family spirits and me.

When I shared this experience, the instructor told me it also could be a gift to see other people’s past lives when I start reading for others. She made a good point. I never thought of that, but I appreciate if this gift will help me for it too.

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Practice (1) – Reading the energy of a picture hidden in an envelope. The instructor asked to check the three facts of alive/dead, male/female, and Japanese/foreigner.

I felt like this.

Already passed away, female, foreigner, a photo of Black and white, Caucasian, wearing a dress, a white cloth around head, nurse, in a war area, and devoted her all life for others. So I thought this person might be Florence Nightingale.

The answer was Yogananda. I was right in some aspects.

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Practice (2) – Energy reading with a reading partner. The instructor told us to get any information.

I paired with a female student whom I paired up a couple of times. I believe this is our first time to pair up, but we didn’t remember about each other in details of our previous readings.

I felt like this.

Coffee, little bird, train and railroad crossing. I saw a female figure on her right shoulder. I thought she is her paternal grandma. She didn’t appear in her old age, instead, she appeared in her younger days. She had a little bird on her right shoulder. On top of her head I saw Virgin Mary holding a baby as for her guide spirit.

I got some aspects right. She confirmed she loves coffee and drinks every day. She commutes with train. She has a little bird. Her paternal grandma has passed away. Her dad had a little bird and the bird has passed away, so her grandma is with her dad’s little bird. As for her guide spirit, some people have mentioned the same thing as I did, so it resonated with her.  

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She read my energy like this.

She saw me busy writing with various colored pens. I am full of curiosity and ideas. à She was right. I am in the process of creating a picture book and writing my memoir.

As for my ancestors. She felt a male figure with defined facial features. Normal height. Paternal uncle. He used to work for an organization. He was a detailed oriented person while he was alive. à I could not recognize who he was. My paternal uncle still alive, and I don’t have any uncles on my mom’s side.

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All in all, I enjoyed this mediumship class. I think I got enough and I am not interested in taking any more classes in the future semesters.  

At 6 p.m., I attended my seventh mediation class. There were four students attended.

In the guided meditation, I experienced like this.

I was in the white world. I saw my maternal grandma and grandma. They were gently smiling and holding hands together.  

I asked them about a dog. I wanted to know when and how our dog would come to us.

They smiled and told me that I would always receive what I need at the right timing. Our dog is the same way. At our best timing, a dog who is spiritually connected with us will be delivered to us in a miraculous way. I think I saw a male puppy. A black dog with white round dots above his eyes. He looked like Siberian husky.

When I mentioned it to the instructor, she asked me to let her know once we have a dog. I told her I will. I look forward to our dog.

Today’s dream: I was in the train heading to Tokyo. I belonged to a talent agency in Japan. I had appeared in some movies and a television programs. I was a celebrity. While I was waiting for my train, I happened to meet my Japanese friend and her daughter at the station platform. We had a good time to catch up with each other and took the same train. Then I woke up.  

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My family and I have kept on thinking about a dog that was almost become our family. Today we made an appointment to visit the local animal shelter and finally met all the rescued dogs.

When we arrived at the parking lot, there was one car parked beside of our car. There were a couple and they were about to enter a dog to their car. It looked like the couple just adopted the dog. The dog was so happy licking their faces and jumping around. It seemed the dog was saying thank you to them many times. They happily left. I was in awe to look at the precious scene.

Then we entered the building. One worker guided us to the door to outside where all the rescued dogs were waiting for visitors.

When we opened the door to outside, all the dogs started barking loud. I was overwhelmed by the barking sounds. It sounded to me all the dogs were shouting from their heart saying “take me, save me please.” I almost cried.

We greeted the dogs one by one. Every dog looked nice with pure souls. I felt sorry for them. At the last dog’s cage, I met one dog with black in most of his body with white chest. He didn’t bark that loud; instead, he looked me straight into my eyes, whining very sadly. Kind of begging me to take him with me. I knew I was not ready to take him back home, so I said sorry to him and left the place.

Now I understand people really cannot leave with empty handed. They could not do nothing but adopt at least one dog on every visit to an animal shelter.

Right before we left the building, the staff members were nice enough to tell us that their dogs won’t stay there for long. There are always somebody to adopt the dogs and cats. I am glad to know there are many dog and cat lovers saving their lives.

I finished reading a book that was recommended by my massage therapist. “The Diabetes Code: Prevent and Reverse Type 2 Diabetes Naturally” by Jason Fung. The author is a Canadian doctor. He writes in his book that this book is not about diabetes abut about hope. He is right. In the majority books about diabetes, they talk about all the facts that scare diabetic patient without any hopes. On the other hand, his book includes lots of successful stories who completely reversed their diabetes or on their way to reverse. He states many times in his book that diabetes can be reversed with a simple method. Also he states diabetes meditations cannot improve the patents’ condition, which I totally agree from my own personal experiences.

He says the situation of diabetes is similar to the situation of flooded house. People try to get rid of the water inside the house with using a bucket and a mop to suck up the water. His suggestion is to turn off the faucet that keeps the condition the same. Once you turn off the faucet, there will be no more water coming in and making the situation worse. Turning off the faucet is a metaphor of sugar intake. The only solution lays in fasting.     

Today I tried a 24-hour-fasting. Last night I had dinner at 4 p.m., so I wanted to wait until 4 p.m. today for my first meal.

I was doing pretty well at the beginning. I never became cranky or suffered from hunger. I think it is because I have continued the intermittent fasting of 16/8 since October 2019. My body gets used to have an empty stomach. However, after 23 hours, around 3 p.m., I started having dull headache and feeling tired. So, I had light dinner.

My goal is to set my daily routine to have only one meal a day. I will make my effort every day. I am pretty sure I can concur this goal. Keep it up–to myself.

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In the evening my family and my in-laws; five of us, could talk on Zoom app together. It was real nice to see them laughing happily together. They are planning to visit us in next month. They also decided to go to a vacation with Amtrak and a rent-a-car along the west coast. I hope they will enjoy their late honeymoon.

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Update for Moneygram trial.

My husband has been cautious and hesitating to submit the refund request form, because it asks SSN. I personally it is legitimate and safe to provide SSN. We did some research. (1) We talked to the local police office and they sent pone policeman to our house. He was a friendly one and we have known him for many years. He was not sure if this is legitimate or scam. He suggests to keep doing research. We appreciate him for his honest and sincere input. We will still keep doing some more research before we submit the form. (2) We called the Federal Trade Commission (ftc.gov) official phone number. The receptionist confirmed it is legitimate as the trial is posted in their official website. After these two talks, my husband still hesitates to submit the form.

At 9 p.m., I attended my tenth Mantra class. It was my last class as I am not going to take the mantra class any more. There were seven students attended.

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The instructor introduced us one breathing method. It was like this.

Sit on a chair or on a floor. Make sure your spine is straighten up. Breathe out with focusing your conscious on your base chakra and imagine a light ball. The light ball has a root. Imagine pulling the light ball down to the center of the Earth; the magnetic field. Then, breathe in with focusing your conscious to the light ball coming back to your base chakra. Extend the light ball all the way up to your crown chakra. When the light ball reaches above the crown chakra, imagine it has a lotus flower. Imagine the locus flower open and closes three times. Then again, breathe out with focusing your light ball pushing down in your spine all the way down to the center of the Earth. Repeat this breathing 11 times.

This breathing method calmed me down. I was fully relaxed. I was burning lots of calorie while working on this breathing method. by the time I finished the one cycle of 11 times, I was all starving.

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At the last 5 minutes of the class, the instructor introduced one song. I fell in love with this song. The instructor didn’t give us the title of the song. After the class, I did some research and finally found the right one. It is called Prabhujee sung by Ravi Shankar and George Harrison.

With the melody of the song, I could easily picture myself relaxing and meditating by the Ganges River at the sunset. It also reminded me of old Japanese songs, Enka songs of Showa-era.

It was my birthday. In my dream, the yesterday’s dog was already living with us in our current house. We enjoyed having her in our life. Then I woke up comfortably.

The first thing I received was a wonderful birthday wish from my daughter and husband. They went to the store to get me a pack of sushi as their birthday gift. My daughter made me a homemade birthday cake with non-dairy whip cream.

I also received several emails and texts from my friends and my mom-in-law. I enjoyed my special day.

I appreciate my peaceful days with my family here in America. I thank all my family spirits to have guided me to this peaceful stage. I am loving my life.

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In the evening my daughter and my mom-in-law talked via Zoom app. I am glad they had a good time together. I wish my late mom could do the same thing, if all the conditions were available for her. But then again, my mom does not want me to regret anything. She can stay with us anytime and that is what she’s been enjoying it. So, I guess all is well.

In the night right before we went to bed around 8 p.m., I opened my LINE app. I seldom open this app, as I don’t use it regularly. I opened it today because I thought some of my Japanese friends have sent me a birthday wish as they are 16 hours ahead of me.

I found one new messages. It was from my local Japanese friend. It was sent around the lunch time.

The message was a surprising one. She attached one cute dog’s picture and asked me if I want to adopt the dog. She said one of her Japanese friends are moving to somewhere and they cannot keep the dog anymore. They are looking for a new home for the dog. The dog was female, just 2 years old. She is “Golden Shepherd” mixed breed of Golden Retriever/German Shepherd. She looked smart and adorable.

I quickly replied back to her that we would love to. She called the owner, but it was too late. It has already 6-7 hours have passed and they already found a new owner for the dog.

We were very close to be a dog owner. Very close.

A couple months ago, new family moved in to our next door. We saw one couple on the moving day, but we never had an opportunity to talk, because the couple kept on arguing while moving their items.

Today we finally had an opportunity to talk. Actually the man talked to us.

He was washing a huge container. He explained his hobby that made us astonished.

His hobby is to raise snakes and spiders as pets. He said he has several huge snakes which the size is taller than my height. I am 5’3. He also mentioned a whole bunch of spiders in a container. Ewww.

The only one thing that made me calmed was his snake can eat a rattle snake. In the event of finding a rattle snake, I can knock his door telling him “it’s lunch time for your pet.”

The other day when I went to the local library, my favorite librarian recommended me one movie; Movie Peanut Butter Falcon (2019).

This morning I watched the movie. It was a heartwarming and touchy movie. I loved it.

The main character is a 22-year-old boy with Down syndrome. I saw his profile and looked at his picture. I was attracted to his palm lines. His left hand has a powerful Masukake line (Simian Line in English); the head and the heart line are merged into a single line.

I find it interesting the reactions difference regarding a simian line between Japanese and western people. A simian line is considered as positive sides such as an intense creative genius in Japan, while it is considered as negative sides such as common in apes and Down syndrome in Western countries. Since I was born with simian lines on my both palms myself, I personally want to support the Japanese way of interpretation of a simian line being as a creative genius and with special gifts. The lines are changed over the time and now I have individual lines of heart line and head line though.