This evening my husband and daughter attended a science fair at the school. I always appreciate the school for offering a variety of events for the students and parents to enjoy.

I left behind at the house and talked with my mom in Japan over the phone.

It was always great to know that my parents are doing fine. Even though they are suffering many inconveniences compared with their younger and healthier days, they still can live in their house without anybody’s help. They can walk around the house and eat whatever they want.

Now that I can totally understand how precious they can keep their normal routine.

It was another peaceful day.

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In Japan they are in the middle of Golden week. This year most people are enjoying a 10-days’ vacation.

That being said, according to my Japanese parents and friends, there are some people who already miss their normal routine. I can easily imagine how they feel. In my last 10 years in Japan, I was working as a temporary worker. Since I was not a full time worker from a company, I was not paid during any holidays. During such long holidays, we saw nothing but long waiting lines and traffic jams everywhere.

I am glad I am not suffering the same situation anymore.   

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Currently I have been studying two online courses from Japanese company. The two classes are from the same company. They teach macrobiotics for its theory and actual cooking recipe. I like both of their courses.

I have wanted to take their advanced course. I didn’t purchase it because I thought the fee is a bit high. Thus, I had been wishing they would reduce the course fee. I was planning to purchase the course once the fee is dropped down.

My small wish naturally came true today.

The company owner sent out a notification via email. They decided to have a campaign of their online courses for a limited term to celebrate our new Emperor and new era.

They offered a 20% discount. The company owner made a small mistake. He posted the wrong amount in his email notification. Later he recognized his mistake, but he accepted the lower amount. So, the course fee ended up being discounted by 30% from the original amount.  

Furthermore, they added a small gift to people who purchase their courses in this campaign term. The small gift is a box of fresh organic vegetables. Since I cannot receive fresh produces sent from Japan, they accepted my request to send it to my friend in Japan. Even though I cannot eat their vegetables, I am so happy for my friend and her family to be able to enjoy them.

I considered this campaign as a gift from my family spirits. Not to mention that I purchased their advanced course right away. I look forward to learning more knowledge through their courses.

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On Sunday night, my daughter’s lips started getting slightly red. I thought it was simply due to dry skin and would be healed by itself.

On the following morning, Monday morning, it was not bad at all. It was still slightly red, but hardly noticeable.

However, every time after she went to school, her lips got worse and worse.

On Monday afternoon, when I picked her up at school, it already became noticeable.

Then, on Yesterday afternoon, Tuesday afternoon, when I picked her up at school, my daughter had pain in her lips. Obviously it got much worse than the morning. It was painful for me just to look at her swollen lips.

After I came back home yesterday, I sent an email to my daughter’s teacher and asked for some advice about the swollen lips. I was not sure if the teacher could read my email in the evening or not.

An amazing miracle happened. She must have been sitting in front of computer and reading her emails, right at the moment when I sent her an email. She replied back to me instantly, with lots of helpful information.

She said it is pretty common among young children. They get it after having a cold. It also can happen due to allergic reaction or low immune system. Her son used to get it very often when he was around this age. The teacher also mentioned there are three to four students in her class at this moment, who have the swollen lips. She told me not to worry because it will eventually go away. That being said, some children make the situation worse. Whenever they get embarrassed or stressed out about it, they bite off their lips or lick their lips off.

While I was reading her email, I had a strong feeling that my daughter needs to rest up in order to heal her lips. As long as she goes to school, other students and adults will freely ask about her swollen lips. That makes her feel embarrassed and stressed out. That is the main reason why her lips are getting worse and worse every time she goes to school.

I asked the teacher if I could have my daughter rest up for the following day. The teacher agreed with my idea.   

I ended our conversation by telling her I will have my daughter decide if she wants to go to school or stay home tomorrow.

It was very nice of her for giving me those inputs.

***

Fast-forwarded to this morning.

Right after my daughter woke up this morning, she said she wanted to stay home. She actually felt sick. She had headache and sore throat. Her nose was stuffed. Her swollen lips were still there.

So, my daughter stayed home and had enough resting today. Her lips got much better.

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This morning the first email I read was the thank-you letter from my life-long friend.

She said she thought of me and wanted to say thank-you to me, at the very moment of transitioning from the old era to the upcoming new era.

On May 1st 2019, the current Japanese Emperor’s son is expected to ascend to the throne as the 126th Emperor of Japan. Our new era Reiwa (令和) is about to start.

My friend and I met and became friends when we were 11 years old. She has known about me the best of anybody else. Especially for the recent 30 years, which was during the current Heisei Era, we had gone through lots of life transitions. We both have observed each other’s life changing events.

We both feel in awe about our long term friendship.

Even though we live far away physically, we always feel each other very close mentally.

I really appreciate her to be my life-long friend.   

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In the morning I ate healthy breakfast of as brown rice and miso soup along with some vegetables.

For lunch I had a bowl of corn flake cereal and mixed nuts.

One hour after lunch, I started suffering from a severe headache.

I checked my glucose level. It was surprisingly high; it was 277.

In order to lower my blood sugar level, I walked for 15 minutes on the treadmill and did a 10-minutes muscle training.

By the time when finished the short exercise, my headache was gone.

I checked my glucose level again. It was lowered to 94.

So, I guess either a corn flake cereal or mixed nuts is not good for my body.

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PS: After I received the result of an allergy test on June 3rd, I learned I am allergic to a corn flake cereal and a cashew nut. I started avoiding consuming these foods since then. My small mystery was solved.

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This morning I was having a breakfast with my friend. My dining table is set next to the three glass windows. While eating, the scenery of outside naturally came into my vision.

The man who lives across our house was with his neighbor. It was a pretty common scenery for me because they are best buddies visiting each other every day.

However today was different from usual.

All of a sudden, the two men started arguing in their loud voice. Their quarrel developed into a scuffle. One man was pushed down to the ground, and the other man sat astride of the man, punching his face.

My friend and I were astonished by the scenery. I had not seen any actual fighting by adult men for a long time.

I didn’t know what the cause for them to have a punching fight was. I didn’t want to go out and get involved in their fight. I shut the window blind so that I didn’t need to see them fighting.

After 10 minutes or so, they stopped cussing each other. It got back to quiet.

When I opened the window blind, both men were gone. Probably they went back to their own house.

I got relieved.

But on next moment, I was astonished again with other scenery.

There were two birds fighting in front of our house. They kept violently hitting each other by their bodies.

*** 

I thought to myself.

It’s got to be a message for me by witnessing these two fights in such a short time.

I got an inspiration right away sent from my family spirits.

These two different fights made me realize of my anger toward my friend. I had been irritated by her for these days. Because I didn’t want to argue with her, I did my best on not argue with her. Every time I had an anger feeling to her, I swallowed my emotion.

I interpreted like this.

To me, witnessing these two fights is reflecting my inner feeling. It worked as a mirror. I needed to admit my anger, instead of swallowing it all the time.

I think it was teaching me to find an alternative way to discuss about my feeling to her peacefully, not by a fist fight.

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Recently I have been wishing to cook with fire.

Our current house has an electric cooking stove. Since we are renting it, we cannot change the complete cooking stove set to a gas stove. As a countermeasure, my husband and I started thinking about buying a portable butane stove burner.

We went to a store and found one with the reasonable price. On the moment, my husband remembered he has the same one at home. Several years ago one of his coworkers gave it to him and he completely forgot about it.

We quickly went back home. My husband took the portable butane stove burner out to the kitchen.

This portable stove was actually almost new, since his coworker used it only once, while he was in the business trip. The portable butane stove worked great. The gas power was much stronger than I thought.

As a starter, we warmed the leftover soup with gas fire. All of us had the soup. It tasted much better than warming up by electric stove.

In the evening I cooked brown rice with a stovetop pot with gas fire. The brown rice was cooked perfectly. It turned out soft and juicy.

I am so happy that I can cook with gas fire from now on. I feel good that the god of fire will be one of my strongest healers for my body and my family’s.

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I woke up much better than yesterday. Although I still had my stomach pain, I could walk around and do lots of chores around the house.

While I was walking around, all of a sudden one idea popped up in my head. The idea was to take a food allergy test. I am pretty sure my family spirits sent me the idea.

As soon as I started researching about a food allergy test, I was guided to one website. They offer a food allergy test. I had a good feeling about the test.

The procedure is simple.

As soon as I purchased the test online, they sent me the instruction. They need 3-5 strands of hair. The hair can be anywhere from my body. I can pull it out or cut it. They recommend a hair with root, for a better analysis. I am instructed to send the sample hair and the necessary information to Texas via US postage. From there, they will forward our sample hair to their lab in UK. I should receive the test result via email. They said it will take around 21 days .

I look forward to hearing from them. I hope the test report will provide me some helpful information so that I won’t need to vomit or get sick anymore.

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For your information. The local walk-in lab also offers an allergy test. It is done via a blood test. They will decide if a patient has allergic reaction to cats’ hair or some other plants. I don’t think it is helpful for me. I cannot avoid the specific plants and pet’s hair. They are everywhere anyway. I need to know what type of food I am allergic or sensitive so that I can prevent them as my option.

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I woke up with dull tummy ache.

Still I could prepare breakfast for my family and myself. I didn’t have appetite, but I forced myself eating some soup and crackers. I ate a very little amount. In every minute of the morning, the pain had become stronger and stronger.

I somehow could escort my daughter to the school bus stop. While we were waiting for the bus, my tummy ache reached to the limit that I could somewhat keep standing.

I honestly don’t remember how I could walk back home with the extreme pain. I could not hold my body upright. I walked back home in an almost-crawling posture.

As soon as I arrived at home, I went straight to the bathroom. I vomited a lot. Then it followed by having a diarrhea.

I felt extreme thirsty. It was uncomfortable feeling. Every time I had a sip of water, I needed to go to bathroom and vomited. I didn’t have much left in my stomach. Every time I vomited nothing but clear water.

With the pain, I lay down on bed. I dozed on and off.

I worried about my family.

If my daughter feels sick, I should get a phone call from school. I didn’t receive any phone calls from school. That means my daughter is doing fine at school.

I texted my husband and asked if he felt fine. He quickly replied back to me saying he was totally fine.

So, it was only me who got food poisoning. Taking the fact that my family and I eat the same food into consideration, my getting sick should be detoxing.

The idea made sense to me.

I just had an acupuncture treatment from my first acupuncturist. I almost forgot her treatment is powerful. I recall my very first treatment from her. It was May 2018. On the day and the following day of my first treatment, I got sick and stayed in bed all day long. I believe this is the same. Since I hadn’t had her treatment for six months, my body was reset and took her treatment as something new. So, I am having a detoxing process, and it was triggered by my first acupuncturist.

I asked my husband to take care of our daughter for me. He left his work earlier than usual, picked our daughter up at the school, and prepared dinner for her. I really appreciate my husband to support me for those.

I hope I will get well by tomorrow morning. I don’t like being sick and staying in bed all day long.  

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Since my recent lab test result was not great, I needed something for my healing modality.

I asked my family spirits what to do now. My family spirits gave me a clear answer. I instantly had a clear vision of my first acupuncturist in my mind. She was gently smiling at me in the vision. When I thought of having an acupuncture treatment from her, I already had a good feeling.

Right after having the vision, I called my first acupuncturist and made an appointment.

Today was the day for the acupuncture treatment from my first acupuncturist.

I haven’t seen her for six months. My last treatment from her was in September 2018.

The reason why I stopped seeing her was not anything personal, rather, practical. Firstly, my body got used to her treatment and stopped making any improvements. Secondly, my lab test result was good in September and I thought I could stop the treatment. Thirdly, I wanted to have a second opinion and a different acupuncture treatment from somebody new. And lastly, I found somebody who offers slightly lower fee.

Same thing goes to my second acupuncturist. I don’t have any complaints about her neither.

When I thought of the necessity of choosing only one acupuncturist, I felt my family spirits telling me something. I focused on their chatting. I felt having two would be even better than choosing only one. So, I guess this was the advice from my family spirits. It makes sense to me. Their treatments are totally different anyway. I decided to have an acupuncture treatment from these two acupuncturists in turns from now on.

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For today’s session, my first acupuncturist did something new. Her new modality was to work on my back accompanied with a short session of tuina massage. She worked on my front body on my previous six sessions.

I had stopped taking Chinese herbal teas prescribed from her for these six months. I purchased them again and started taking them. One is called 六味地黄丸, which is for diabetes, and the other is called 降脂飲, which is for lowering cholesterol.

I am already feeling positive to resume her acupuncture session.

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