We were invited to a birthday party from my daughter’s best friend. They have been the classmates and best friends for these past two grades. Whenever I participate some activities and events at school, I always saw them sticking together. They have been very good friends to one another. Their personality is similar; they are both nice and kind. They look alike outside too.

At the beginning of this month, her family bought a new house and moved there. It is next city from ours so that the school district is changed to different one from ours. Since it was in the middle of school year, her family decided to keep sending her to the same school until the end of school year. From next school year, she will be going to another school, which is much closer to her new house.

We met at the public indoor swimming pool at 2:30 pm. Our kids enjoyed swimming and playing with water until 5:30 pm. After that, we went to her new house and celebrated her birthday party until night. We came back home after 10 pm.

We had a great time together. It was our first time to actually chat with her parents. We enjoyed getting to know her parents along with both of their parents, siblings, and their children. There were more than 30 people as their family members.

During such fun time, every time when I took a glance of my daughter and her bestie playing together, I had a hard time to hold off my tears rolling down on my cheeks.

I felt sad for them about the fact they will not see each other every day at school from next school year, this coming August. I know how close my daughter and her bestie are. They appreciate one another. They like one another a lot.

I know it is very rare to meet somebody who is strongly connected. My daughter and her bestie are very lucky to have one another in this early age.

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Today I did something unlike me.

I registered for the upcoming live event of Hay House Writer’s Workshop. It is a workshop for the full 2 days, which will be held in November 2018 in Las Vegas.

I don’t like the idea to go to Las Vegas. I don’t like the idea to attend any events that will be crowded with a whole bunch of people, neither. The receptionist told me it would be about 500 people to be attended. Regardless of my dislikes, I felt a strong urge that I should attend this live event.

After I registered the event and made a reservation for the hotel, I felt relieved. With the mixed feelings of scared, excited, and happy.

Later on, while I was driving for my dental cleaning appointment, all of a sudden, I fall into the channeling state, or the deep meditation state.

My family spirits communicated with me.

It was them who pushed me and encouraged me to attend this live event. They don’t want me to give up on writing a book. It was not only my mission but also their mission. They are not a small group, but a huge group of spirits. Each of them individually sent me a block of memories that showed the clear reasons why I needed to convey their divine messages through me.

Lots of lots of memories came into my mind. Lots of lots of clear visions came into my third eye. It was too much that I could not stop myself shedding tears.

It was awesome moment to have connected with my family spirits. But please, next time, please visit me while I am in the house alone. Not while I am driving. I want to concentrate on driving when I am driving, you know.

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Today I went to see the doctor for the annual physical checkup. The detailed blood test result will be sent to me one week later.

They quickly checked my hemoglobin A1C level and told me the result right away. It was much higher than I thought. It was 7.9.

Last time I checked was seven months ago; last September. It was 7.2 at that time. Now it got worse.

I thought back about his past winter. I knew I was not doing well on my blood sugar control. Once in a while my blood sugar soaked up to over 400. It was the level of going to ER.

So, considering those months, I think today’s result is better than those days.

I started seriously considering on changing my exercise and diet one month ago. As for the exercise, today is my 29th day of one-hour muscular training. I believe my blood sugar is in the process of recovering.

Instead of giving up, I decided to do the best effort to heal myself.

Nobody can heal me except for me. I will be able to reverse my diabetes.

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Two years ago I purchased the online course Writer’s Workshop from Hay House. The price of the course was not the casual one that I couldn’t spontaneously purchase it right away. It was $999 at that time. The current price is $1,199. I really wanted to publish my book and learn about the publishing procedure. After I slept on it, I dared to purchase it. It was a huge shopping for me.

After I entered the writer’s contest and didn’t win it, I was shocked. I even cried out loud. Then, I was totally discouraged.

Since then, I didn’t continue watching any of new contents Hay House added newly. The CEO of Hay House, Reid Tracy, offered several free webinar about publishing books and answering questions, but I was not interested in them at all. I kept on ignoring the webinars.

A couple of days ago, I received an email again from Hay House. The title of the email was “Can I ask you something? (Please read)”.

Scary, right?

So, I opened the email and read it. It was from the CEO asking why I haven’t signed up to his new upcoming courses. It contained the link for the recipients to send their feedbacks. It says the CEO will personally read each and every reply.

I was surprised at the fact that the CEO of such a huge publishing company wants to read every single feedback about their course. I thought it was sincere of him.

So, today, I devoted my time on watching his two recent webinars.

Toward the middle, one woman asked the question. It was exactly the same question I wanted to ask him, but I was too shy to ask.

Here goes the question.

She didn’t win the contest. She wanted to know the reason why Hay House didn’t pick hers. She believes her book proposal was great.

The answer of the CEO was beautiful.

He mentioned like this.

Not winning at their contest does not mean your book isn’t good nor you shouldn’t send your book proposal to another publishers or agents.

He mentioned about the book Chicken soup for the Soul. Before this book being published, it was turned down by 30 publishes. Hay House was one of them. This book has become one of the biggest selling books ever. He said “The book publishers are not always perfect. They don’t always make the right decisions.”

When I heard him saying this, I got goosebumps. This is the right message I should hear.

I appreciate Reid Tracy for the beautiful answer and powerful encouragement. I turned out he sent out the email to a whole bunch of people. He read individual feedback replied back to him. He said it was about 1,500 people. 

And, I know it was my family spirits to have guided me to this webinar. Thank you to my family spirit, for always guiding me to the right message. I love you guys always.

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Yesterday I mentioned about my addiction to the video game. My old pattern was to take care of the game character right before I went to bed and right after I woke up. So my days started from the game and ended with the game.

Now that I decided to quit the game, I slept without taking care of the game character last night.

When I woke up this morning, I felt so light by thinking I didn’t need to take care of the game character anymore. What a relief!

Yes, I admit that I should have done this long time ago.

For the people who have been hooked by a certain addiction, make a decision to let it go. You will be amazed how light you will feel without the addiction.

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I don’t do video games. I don’t buy them. The reason is simple. I know the danger of addiction of playing games.

Some people who love playing video games might get offended by reading my article. Please know that my intention is simply to share my feeling and experiences, not to offend anybody.

When I was a university student, my boyfriend-at-that-time gifted me a Nintendo Family Computer. He taught me how to play video games. I was into them. I played Super Mario Bros., Baseball, Golf, Mahjong, and Tetris. Especially I was into roll playing games of Mother, Final Fantasy, and Dragon Quest.

Once I started, I would reduce my time on eating, going to bathroom, and sleeping. I even skipped going to the university just to continue the games.

After devoting my time on doing nothing but games for several months in a row, I realized I had wasted my precious time and energy. Then I completely quit doing them.

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Two decade later, the addiction came back to me easily.

It was about two years ago, my daughter started using my iPad. I let her download some free games. I told her not to play the game for a long time. She has been doing pretty well. She plays the game for a short period time and moves on to something else such as draining pictures or reading books.

Unlike my daughter, I had fallen into the trap.

One of the games she downloaded was a Pet training game. I helped my daughter to read Japanese instruction and explanation at the beginning. Eventually she got bored from the game and completely forgot about it. I started taking care of the character. Then, without knowing, I started taking care of it every day.

I don’t know why it was today, but today, I strongly felt I should stop doing this game. I had spent lots of my time and energy on this game. After I noticed to my game friends of my quitting the game, I felt relieved.

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In these several months, going to the grocery store in the early morning has become my routine on Saturday morning.

The grocery store is popular and always crowded with customers. When you go to this store at crowded time, no matter how well you guard yourself, you will run into rude and mad people of both workers and customers.

I noticed the very early morning is the best time to go there. Everything is calm and quiet. And that makes people calm and nice.

That is why I ended up going to the grocery store leaving my house around 6:30 am arriving there before 7 am.

During autumn and winter, our 6:30 am is still dark and cold. But my small effort is worth. The parking lot was almost empty, and I would not run into anybody rude nor mad in the store.

However, during spring and summer, our 6:30 am is not dark anymore. It is bright with sun rise.

Starting from this month April, it is not peaceful anymore. Slightly after I started waking in the store, which was still barely 7 am, I saw a whole bunch of customers in the store. They made a long waiting line in front of the cashier counter. I witnessed the exactly same workers being irritated and rude in this hectic situation.

I want to deal with only nice and kind workers and customers while shopping. In order to protect my peace, during summer time, I should wake up one more hour early to go to the store.

That reminds me of my Japanese friends. They leave their house 30 minutes early so that they can catch the early train. It prevents them from getting caught in the uncomfortable crowded train.

Today I have reminded myself that just an extra effort makes a huge different.

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I watched the movie Downsizing (2017). It talks about the overpopulation in the world. As one of the contributions, a scientist team succeeded to develop a new procedure to shrink humans to small size of five inches tall.

I am not going to talk about the detailed story of this movie to save your fun in case you are planning to watch it. I liked the ending. It leaves up to the individual audience to decide what they want to do, either to go on to the Noah’s Ark or to stay where you are and do what you can do there. I will stay where I stand and do what I can do the best there.

I like the sub main character in this movie. She acts as a Philippine woman and she speaks broken English. At the beginning, many audience might feel her as rude because of how she speaks. She does not know English well, so she doesn’t pay attention to the proper grammar or word choice. She speaks up directly from her heart.

I was drawn to my feeling toward the sub character. It reminds me of myself of years ago.

When I moved to America, many people might have thought me as rude because of my broken English. Many people looked down upon me because of my broken English and ignorance in their way of doing things. I could sense by skin how the people got offended by my broken English. That discouraged me to go outside from my home. In a way, it still continues that way. By thinking back of those days, I still think I did pretty well for having done with the best ability and knowledge I had at that time.

Now that I went through the experience, I at least will not get offended by somebody’s broken English. I will do my best to understand what they are trying to say, so that they can adjust themselves as soon as possible, without feeling isolated. 

I believe that is how we can make ourselves to a nice person. A kind person is the person who had gone through their tough moments in the past and know the pain.

Every day’s experience will be your power and better understanding for the future. Even a bad experience can play a great role in the future. Because all the experience will make you learn from them.

When we run into somebody who speaks broken English, before considering the person as rude or stupid, let’s take a moment and imagine what kind of toughness the person might have gone through to come to the foreign country. Just one or two imagination might be able to make us to be open minded and accept the person without judgment.    

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A couple of my friends introduced me a homemade enzyme juice. With their advice, I made my first homemade enzyme juice on April 14th. So today is the 6th day. It seems to be successfully fermenting. Every time when I opened the lid, the fresh aroma spread around and the fizz is very active.

The recipe was pretty simple. The only tiresome part for me was to sanitize all the kitchen tools and bottles with boiling hot water beforehand.

First, soak your fruits and vegetables into the mixture water with baking soda. It helps to get rid of pesticides and unwanted chemical attached to the skins. Next, slice them to small pieces. I left the skins attached. Then, I rubbed each pieces of vegetables and fruits coated with brown sugar and layered them neatly in the bottle. The lid should be lightly tighten so that they have enough oxygen to breath. For the next five to seven days, every morning and evening, I shook the bottle gently.

You might want to do some research before you make. Some people use white sugar to coat the ingredients and stir them with their bare hands. The important thing is to follow your intuition.   

I used the following ingredients.

I got mint and sage from my backyard. Then I added tomato, celery, yellow apple, red apple, pineapple, strawberry, raison, goji berries, and ginger. This time I added 11 different vegetables and fruits. Ideally 20 – 30 different types should be added.

I liked the fresh aroma and natural sweetness of my homemade enzyme juice.

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At the begging of this month, my husband went to the grocery store and bought a whole bunch of boxes of frozen meal for his lunch. These kind of frozen meals are popular in America. They are pretty cheap ranging from $2 to $4. It is easy to cook. After throwing it in a microwave for the allotted time, your meal is ready to eat.

When I saw the piles of frozen lunch boxes stacked in our freezer, I felt uncomfortable. I shared my intuition with my husband, that I didn’t feel good about these meals.

My husband didn’t pay attention to my intuition. He mentioned about the benefits of the cheap prices, convenience to cook, and the deliciousness, etc.

After having eaten frozen meals for several days in a row, he finally shared his experiences. He kept on eating the frozen meals almost every day at the office for his lunch. On the first day, it was okay. From the second day, after he ate, he noticed his energy drained. He once almost puked. Among the artificial delicious scent, he could somewhat smell a certain type of chemical that was not pleasant at all. So, he finally stopped eating them. In his office freezer, there are still some more frozen meals untouched. He doesn’t feel like eating them at all.

While I was listening to his experience, I was sure the reason why he got very sick and could not go to work this week. It was obvious to me that was from unnecessary ingredients and chemicals contained in the frozen meals.

Now that he decided not to buy any more frozen meals. I am happy for his decision.

We tend to forget how dangerous the convenience foods can be. Let’s not forget the old saying. We are what we eat. When we take our time to prepare our food, cherishing and thanking all the ingredients, the good energy will come into our meal, so that it makes our body healthier and stronger.  

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