This morning after I saw my daughter off at the bus stop, I was about to do my routine. The routine is to greet at other parents, wish them to have a nice day, and run back home.

This morning was different from my routine. One neighbor mom quickly run after me and asked me if she could join me walking. I said okay to her, and we started waking together.

While walking, she asked me if I would come to the bus stop this evening after school. I was not planning to do so, because my daughter had a club activity after school. The mom mentioned she had an appointment of surgery on her leg today. She was wondering if I could walk with her sons back to their home this evening, in case she could not make it until then. I told her I could help her for that.

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My neighbor could not come back home in the evening. So, I waited for her two boys at the bus stop on behalf of her. Other kids were curious where my daughter was and why I was with the two boys. After I roughly explained to other kids, I started walking with the two boys. The brothers were one year apart. The younger boy was the classmate with my daughter.

They recently moved to this area, so that it was our first time to have a conversation together. I started our conversation by asking them how their day was. They talked a lot. They talked about what they learned in the class, about their teachers, and their classmates. We enjoyed exchanging our opinions about the certain movie. Their house is further than our house, about 10 minutes longer than my usual route. We had enough time to get to know about each other.

I walked to their house, saw them enter the house safely, and called their mom letting her know they were safely back home.

***

Walking with two boys made me think the simulation situation as if I had two sons. Since I have only one daughter in the real life, the simulation was a totally new experience for me. It was fun.

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P.S.) On the next day, my daughter told me her conversation with her classmate, the younger boy. The boy told my daughter that he really enjoyed walking with me. According to the boy, I am pretty, kind, smart, and fun to talk with. He also said I am his type, and he likes me a lot.

It was a nice complement for a 9-years-old boy to an old woman. He made my day.

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Recently I have been studying Macrobiotics through the online course. While I was watching their classroom, I noticed one thing. It is about how the students participate in the class.

I have teaching experiences in both Japan and America.

In Japan, I taught various aged students from kindergarteners to high schoolers at Kumon, junior high schoolers at the private cram school, and junior high schoolers and high schoolers at their house as a private tutor. My students seldom asked questions during the class. Some of them waited until the class was ended, then they came to me and asked questions privately.

While I was watching the Macrobiotics class, I noticed the students were similar to my students. They quietly listened to the instructors. They never disturbed the class by abruptly asking questions. They asked the questions only the instructor asked if they had any questions.

In America, I taught Reiki class. My students were never quiet during the class. Rather, they participated the class by freely asking a whole bunch of questions during the class.

I am not talking about which is good or bad. Both habits simply show the personality and tendency of the country. I thought it interesting to know the difference.

This is my 11th year living in America. I might have incorporated some habits of American students without noticing by myself.

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I had a panicky dream this morning.

In my dream, my family and I were in England for vacation. On our departure day back to our home, we were late leaving for the airport. It would take two hours from the hotel to the airport, but we left the hotel just one hour before the departure.

On the way, we run into many local people. Their accent was too strong to understand for us. We knew they were trying to help us or to cheer us up, but since we didn’t understand what they were saying, we got frustrated. My husband and I started fighting by punching each other (remember, it was only in my dream. We don’t punch each other in the reality).

My daughter stopped us. With her calm voice, she told me like this.

You know what? People usually have a hard time on manifesting their preferable reality in the real world. But for you, you have been doing very well on manifest the reality as you like in the real world. Why can’t you use your manifestation ability right now, in the dream world?

I agreed with her. I understood what she meant.

I tried to manifest the reality where we arrive at the airport before the departure so that we can catch the airplane. My daughter laughed, saying “why do we have to take an airplane? Why do we have to go through the detailed process?”

Then she showed me her preferable reality. It was the reality where we are already back home from our vacation to England. She skipped the detailed process to the goal.

She told me “in our preferable reality, we can cut any unnecessary scenes to reach at the goal.”

In this scenario, our goals are to have fun on our vacation to England and to come back home safely. We can skip the detailed processes such as going to the airport, going through the security check, and being in the airplane for many hours.

***

When I woke up, I thought it a good reminder.

When we think of our preferable reality, we tend to concern about the process. But we don’t need to focus on the process. Because we will naturally be guided to the process. Instead, all we need to do is to focus on the goal.    

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This morning I started my day with a 10-minute meditation as usual. Right after the meditation, I had a conversation with my family spirits, just like having a conversation with somebody else, talking out loud.

I started thanking them for being with me. I am thankful that everything is going well for me and my family. I have one concern. It is about MVD. I sent an official complain to them regarding their mistake on the expiration date. I haven’t gotten any reply from them for almost two weeks. It seemed that I had been ignored by them. I don’t feel comfortable about that.

Right before I finished talking with them, my phone rang. The phone monitor showed a call from “Restricted number.” I looked up in the air, as if I looked at my family spirits’ faces above. I felt they were smiling at me.

I smiled back at them, and answered the phone.

***

It was from the branch manager of the local MVD.

She tried to give me a refund for their mistake, but the system did not allow her to go to the refund page. It was because I updated the address. She said if I didn’t update any information from last time, she would not have any issue to give me a refund. She did apologize about what happened to me at MVD. She cannot do anything at this moment.

She said only thing she can offer is to expertise my turn on my next visit. I will need to renew my driver’s license two years later. On my next visit, if there is a long waiting line before me, I can mention her name so that her workers can put me in front of other people. It is her way to say sorry to me.

I told her I don’t think I need to do so. This is a small town’s branch. Last time when I was there, only one customer was before me. I didn’t need to wait for that long.

She said that would be all she could offer at this moment, and so, please let her help me for this.

I asked her if she would be still there as the manager two years later. She pondered for a while, and responded that she would be there except for two unfortunate conditions. One is she is fired and the other is she is dead.  

I started laughing. Even though she could not give me a refund, I started liking her by her sincere way of talking. With my laughter, she started laughing too. She was happy to have made me laugh.

With our good laughter, we ended our chatting.

I am always amazed how my family spirits hear my wishes and solve issues for me.

***

Speaking of my family spirits’ hearing my wishes, I want to share one more recent experience of mine.

When I talked with the travel agency on September 4th, the representative could not hold our seats side by side. He could only hold our seats in vertical way, in different rows. He said the other representative would negotiate with the airplane company and get back with me later on. He put on hold the airplane tickets for two days. The deadline was 5 pm of September 6th.

I called the travel agency in the afternoon of the deadline. The situation was the same. He was still waiting for the reply from other representative about the preferable seat option. He even advised me to give up on the preferable seats arrangement and purchase the ticket with the one row different condition.

From my previous experience, the airplane ticket fee goes higher as the departure days comes closer. I started concerning about it.

I talked to my family spirits. I told them I would go with the flow. If I could not take the preferable airplane seats, I would take it as a sign that I should not visit Japan in this schedule.

Then I heard their voice “call their Los Angeles branch and ask for your preferable seats.”

I was surprised at their precise advice.

Last time I purchased the ticket from Los Angeles branch. The representative was a young woman. I had a good experience purchasing my airplane tickets with her. This time when I sent a price inquiry through their official website, the representative of other branch replied back to me. I didn’t mind working with the new branch.

***

I followed their advice anyway. When I called their Los Angeles branch, a young man answered the phone. He sounded trustworthy. I had a good feeling about the way he spoke.

When I briefly explained my situation, he quickly understood. He said all the branches uses the same program. He could easily find my information by typing my family name.

He told me the same thing as other representative, that this type of airplane ticket has the limited options on selecting seats. However, he didn’t end. He continued “But…, I know some secret tips to select your preferable seats. Just give me a second and wish me luck…”

After a couple of minutes of silence, he said “Okay, I could enter the page with more seats options. Which seats would you like to hold?”

On the way, the airplane has the seats alignment of 2, 4, 2. I asked the window side and the most front row in the economy area. On the way back, the airplane has the seats alignment of 3, 4, 3. Only on the last row, the seat alignment is 2,4,2. I asked the window side of the last row.

He could hold our preferable seats as I wished.

***

This year the surrounding vibration has been raised much higher than before. In this blessing situation, humans and our guide spirits and angels can communicate much clearly and easily than ever before. I am sure I am not the only one who enjoys the high vibration.

So, let’s enjoy manifesting our desires. Let’s enjoy our days on the planet Earth.

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Early this morning I received an email from the lab. My lab test result I took on last Friday was already available. It was amazingly quick.

I was so happy to see the improvement in my Hemoglobin A1C.

Last time was 7.9% on April 25th 2018. This time it was improved to 6.4%. According to The American Diabetes Association (ADA) guidelines, the diagnostic criteria for Diabetes is equal and more than 6.5%. Therefore, based on the result, I am diagnosed as “pre-diabetic”. I am not “diabetic” anymore.

My doctor does not recommend his patients to take any medication when their hemoglobin A1C is less than 7.0%. So, I am going to stop taking Metformin starting from today.

I also took the lipid panel test.

Compared with the result of this April, generally the values have been improved, except for Triglyceride. It got worse than last time. It is supposed to be ≤149 mg/dL, but my value was 294 mg/dL. I will need to work on reducing my fat, especially around my belly.

All I all, I am happy for my improvements. Unfortunately I cannot celebrate my improvement with a bunch of sweets, but I am okay with it.

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Recently I have been studying Macrobiotics through the online course.

The other day I learned how to hold a kitchen knife and how to cut ingredients. I followed the instructor’s tips and cooked miso soup.

My miso soup turned out well. I noticed the difference by my tongue. My husband and daughter noticed it too. I was glad they noticed the difference.

On the next day, I leaned something new. I learned how to take care of the ingredients and how to place them into the pot. Also I learned how to deal with miso. I followed her instructions and cooked miso soup.

This time also, all of us could feel the different taste by our tongue.

If you have a mom who have learned from her mom or grandma on how to deal with food and cooking, you probably already know these tips. They are the basics in cooking.

In my case, my mom does not like cooking and she never taught me how to cook. I taught myself on cooking when I started living by myself at 22 years old. I learned though watching the television cooking show.

My instructor’s teaching reminds me how important to pour our good energy onto our foods while cooking. It is a good reminder of “we are what to eat.” I started considering cooking as sacred even more than before. I want to love myself and my precious family through my cooking.

I am thankful to be able to learn from my instructor.

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This morning I went to the lab test. I ordered two tests; one was for Hemoglobin A1C, and the other was for lipid panel (various cholesterol values).

I don’t know exactly how much blood was drawn. All I knew was the nurse drew two bottles of my blood.

After I came back home, I felt dizzy.

I am having my monthly period too. Maybe it was because too much blood was out from my body.

The nurse told me test result would be available on next Monday or Tuesday.

I am feeling two opposite feelings. I am looking forward to seeing my good results, and also, I feel scared of seeing my bad result.  

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I went to my sixth acupuncture treatment. As usual, my acupuncture started asking me about my recent life; if there was anything new, anything upsets me, or anything stresses me out.

I thought about my past one month. I answered her there was nothing new, nothing upset me, and nothing stressed me out. I told her everything is going well. Everything stays the same.

Then I moved to the treatment table. My acupuncture checked my pulse and tongue.

She asked me if I feel sad about something. She said my body showed I had some sadness and nervousness. My stress level was slightly high.

I thought about that, but nothing came out. I still thought everything stayed the same. I didn’t feel anything stressed me out.

Then my acupuncturist asked me about my relationship with my husband; if we argued a lot or if we didn’t communicate well.

I thought about that too, but everything was great in the relationship with my husband. We communicated well and we didn’t argue for this past month. I didn’t have any concerns or complains about him or our relationship.

I mentioned that to my acupuncturist. She shrugged her shoulder and told me “well okay, if you say so…”

I didn’t like her response. She seemed to have expected me to say something bad about my husband. I honestly don’t have any complain about him or my recent life. I don’t know the reason why my body showed some signs of sadness and stressed out.

***

After I came back home, I felt relaxed and calm. I felt little bit embarrassed that I felt slight anger to my acupuncturist. She didn’t do anything wrong. She was there for me to help me out.

With my relaxed mind, I understood that the fact that I felt uncomfortable to my acupuncturist showed some hints about my route cause. I still don’t know exactly what I feel sad and being stressed out at this moment. I hope it will be revealed by itself soon, so that I can work on the hidden route cause.

***

Based on her diagnosis this time, my kidney, heart, and lung had become much stronger than my first treatment. I was happy to hear that. However, my spleen had not got any stronger at all, compared with my first treatment.

She said the spleen is a very important organ that functions as a filter for blood as part of the immune system. It might take a while to heal, but once it is healed, all the issues in my blood system, such as blood sugar, cholesterol, and blood pressure, will get back to normal. 

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I went to the parent conference at my daughter’s school. It is always fun to get to know the new teacher for my daughter.

Her teacher told me there is no concerns about my daughter, both in her academic levels and in her social skills. Based on the test reports, her academic levels of language, in reading, writing, and comprehending between the lines, were at the top level. Her math was not in the top level though, but it was still not that bad at all.

I concern about her friends. Since her previous best friends (so far, four friends) moved out to other school, she does not have any close friend in the class this school year. The teacher told me my daughter is good at socializing with everybody. Because she is always nice, kind, and polite, she is very much loved by all the classmates, the teachers, and the faculties at school.  

As a parent, I wish her safety and happiness all the time. I hope she will have one nice and steady friend in this school year, so that she will enjoy the school even more.

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Yesterday was a national holiday of Labor Day. After a long weekend, everybody complains about going back to their routines, such as going back to their work places or schools.

This morning my husband and daughter were reluctant to go back to his work and her school. I was secretly happy to be back to my routine; enjoying my alone time. Many housewives will understand exactly what I mean, right?

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Today I talked with the travel agency regarding an airplane ticket to Japan. The price was higher than last autumn by 1.5 times. The fee of an airplane ticket varies to the departure date. If I purchase an airplane ticket in autumn, it will be slightly lower than spring. Maybe next time I will choose autumn.

The travel agency told me that he could not reserve seats next to each other, side by side, at this moment. The closest seat is in different rows, such as 20B and 21B in vertical way. I cannot take such seats for my little daughter, especially for a long flight of 12 hours.

According to the travel agency, because this is a cheap airplane ticket (as a matter of fact, it is not cheap at all), the customers cannot reserve their preferable seats. They said they will contact the other representative to negotiate for a better seat arrangement option. I will need to wait for their further contact for this matter. 

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