As I mentioned before, I have been studying macrobiotics through the online course. The first study materials (the DVDs and textbooks) arrived at my house on August 28th. Since then, I have been incorporating the cooking techniques that the instructor shared with us.

It has been more than a month passed. I noticed several differences in me.

The first finding is that I stay in the kitchen longer than before. I have started cooking more homemade fermented foods and pickles than before.

The second finding is that I like cooking more than before. The small things made my cooking easier. Followed by the instructor’s some advice, I changed the way to hold a kitchen knife and the way to cut ingredients. I also changed my cutting board from a plastic thin one to a wooden thick one.  

The third finding is that I feel calmer and happier than before.

At last, I have noticed my husband becomes calmer and happier than before. My daughter is always calm and happy, so that I don’t see any differences.

We all started enjoying homemade foods more than before.

Incorporating macrobiotics in our kitchen was definitely a great benefit to us.

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October is around the corner. My daughter’s school will have a one-week off for the autumn break in October.

My daughter has been counting days until the autumn break. She feels great about the break and it is a “thumbs-up” event. I secretly feels it as a “thumbs-down” event as I won’t have my alone time for the entire week.

That being said, I love spending time with my daughter. My daughter and I have started making a “to-do-list” during the autumn vacation.

She wants to create her own webpage, like I do. I offered her to add a page for her in my homepage. So, we will be working on creating her first homepage during the autumn break.

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As I mentioned in my previous article, my daughter attended at Basic Electric club twice so far. It was held at the local library, taught by the volunteered instructor.

My daughter really liked the electric club, but there was a small problem. The basic electric club is held on the same time and the same day (Thursdays) with the art club at school.

In the previous two years, she had attended at the art club. My daughter likes the electric club and the art club equally. She had wished that she could have two bodies so that she could attend the both.

During such days, my daughter run into the art club teacher at school. The teacher was really looking forward to having my daughter at the art club again this school year. With the teacher’s nice and sincere words, my daughter decided to attend at the art club.

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The library director is a very nice person. I mentioned the library director about my daughter’s situation. Unexpectedly, the director offered my daughter the basic electric club on the different day, only for her. We set the day as Fridays, after school.

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So, today was the first day for my daughter to attend the special electric club. For the previous two clubs, my husband attended with my daughter. He was not available today, so I attended with my daughter. It was my first time to meet the electric club instructor.

The instructor is a part-time librarian. She is probably in her 70s. She has retired from her life-long career as an electric engineer. She had dealt with the airplane’s safety in terms of electrically calculating the angle of an airplane’s taking-off or landing. She seems to be intelligent.

The club was for about one hour and half. Today she taught Ohm’s law. We started watching a 20-minute video of the story of the German physicist George Ohm. Then, the instructor explained about the resistance with demonstrating by using her handmade circuit board and battery.

My daughter seemed to be interested in. Whenever the instructor asked some questions to my daughter, she answered to them properly. I was surprised at her understanding ability.

I learned Ohm’s law at my junior high school days. It will be definitely beneficial for my daughter to jump start in learning electric logic in such an early age. Among all, she likes this special club. It is like having a private tutor for free of charge.

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I needed to get a set of a bolt and a nut for our treadmill, so I went to the local hardware store. The store clerk helped me to find them, and I was ready to go to the cashier to pay for them.

Just before my reaching at the cashier counter, two other store clerks beckoned me. Both of them were smiling like a child. Because their smiling faces were cute, I put a smile on my face too and followed them.

When we reached at the certain isle, they both told me “Ta-da!!” They showed me something huge sitting on the store floor.

At first I thought it a huge rock. When I took a close look, I finally noticed they were extremely gigantic pumpkins.

They had put a label of their net weight on each pumpkins. They were “693lb” (314kg) and “382lb” (173kg.)

They were not for sale. One of the two workers bragged that the two huge pumpkins grew at his garden. He just wanted to show them to many people.

While I was watching the huge pumpkins, I thought of the theory of macrobiotics.

In the course, my macrobiotics instructor explained about the energy of yin and yang. Yin is the expansive energy, while yang is the contractive energy.

She talked about the difference between the western people’s land and Asian people’s land. She personally feels that in the western land such as America and Europe, the land energy seems to be yin energy, as their produces as well as the humans living there tend to be grow bigger and taller. On the other hand, in Asian countries, the produces and the humans living there tend to stay compressive as smaller and shorter.

I thought it interesting. Maybe the energy from the center of the Earth influences all the living creatures. In my personal experience, I know many Japanese people who have moved to America have gained their weight within the range of 10 to 20 pounds more than before. That includes myself. I guess I am getting the yin energy from the land and that is why I am gaining weight. I can use this as my excuses from now on.   

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I don’t use an alarm clock to wake up, except for some special days. I can naturally wake up with the sun light and many birds’ chirping and singing (they are kind of loud).

Not using an alarm clock is a good way to remember my dreams. I believe that is why I can remember the details of my dreams.

Recently for these past two weeks, however, I haven’t remembered the details of my dreams. When I wake up, I have certain feelings from my dreams. I haven’t had any negative feelings of scared, upset, angry, nor frustrated. Instead, I have had positive feelings of happiness, achievement, fun, and confirmation from my dreams.

This morning I wanted to ask my family spirits about the reason why I haven’t remembered my dreams recently.

Before I start my morning meditation, I read my daily calendar “Ask and It Is Given Perpetual Flip Calendar” created by Jerry Hicks and Esther Hicks.

Interestingly, my question was written on today’s message.

It says “your dream is a manifestation of what you have been thinking during your awake state.”

It made sense to me. I have been having peaceful days recently. And that is why I haven’t remembered the details of my dreams. My feelings of my dreams are the confirmation that I am doing well. I don’t need any messages or warnings at this moment through the details of my dreams.  

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