As I mentioned in my previous article, Japanese Consulate General offers Japanese school textbooks to Japanese children living in a foreign country, in the condition where the family is planning to go back to Japan and live there.

I received the textbooks for the second grader and the third grader. Unfortunately they could not provide me the textbooks for the first grader.

It might be hard for my daughter to learn from the second grader. I want to start teaching from the first grader’s level.

I found one organization who can sell and send the Japanese textbook. Their price of textbooks for the first grader with the shipping fee is about $80. It is a bit expensive for me.

I decided to search around other options of less expensive. I believe the textbooks will eventually come to us. I already mentioned my request to my family spirits and Angels. I also sent a letter to Universe. All I can do for now is believe and wait for its manifestation.

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In my recent life, I have been experiencing lots of unbelievable greats. I do believe Archangel Michael is with me, and my requests are always being heard and taken care of. I talk to him, in the same way as a regular conversation to another human, in my daily basis. After I state my request, I let it go and keep believing its manifestation. Then, later on, I enjoy experiencing the manifestation, exactly the same way as I had wished.

It is amazing. It might be thanks to the higher vibration of this year of 2018. I feel the people’s vibration is being raised with the help of Universe, Spirits, Angels, and our ancestors, ourselves.

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I run into one of my fellow students of the exercise class. She was surprised to see me again. She thought I already moved to other state. I never mentioned such things to her.

According to her, our exercise instructor mentioned to the class, that we had already moved to East Coast. This time, it was my turn to be surprised at what I heard from her.

I didn’t like being treated as something like a ghost, who are not supposed to be here.

***

I felt anger to the instructor. Why did she do such a stupid thing? Why did she spread the wrong information about me to the entire class which includes some people whom I know and whom I hardly know?

From the anger, I felt like calling the person. I wanted to complain to her and yell at her. 

However, I didn’t do so. I don’t like being angry at anything and anybody. I quickly took several deep breaths. That helped meto calm down.  

***

After I came back home, I did a meditation. It was “Letting go and surrendering meditation” guided by Denise Lynn.

This meditation helped me to see this event objectively from the other side.

As a matter of fact, this is not the first time. I went through the similar experiences from this instructor’s gossiping about me. That is why I had stopped attending to her class long time ago. I haven’t seen her for quite a while. I am in the safe place.

It is not my responsibility to point out that to her. If she keeps doing this bad habit (gossiping), people will eventually notice it and stop attending at her class. This is her lesson to learn.

It is though, my responsibility to keep my inner peace, no matter what.

***

Everything happens for a reason. Although I had gone through the similar experiences from this person or another individuals before, I get mad every time when it happens.

What did this event teach me?

Then, I realized these answers for my question.   

—First, I don’t like being gossiped.—

There is some ways that I can avoid being gossiped. I should be alert to people. I should tell my private information to only my trustworthy friends, never to the other people whom I don’t fully trust.

I recall I wrote about Eleanor Roosevelt’s quote in my past article. I should keep her quote in my mind. 

“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”

Knowing what I don’t like helps me to know what I like. I like people with great minds who discuss ideas. I should focus my energy to attract only “great minds people” in my life. 

— Second, don’t waste my energy and time for others.—

Know that there are some people who love gossiping. Don’t even mind them at all. Cut the energy cords with them. Let go and move on.

So, I learned these lessons from this event.

 

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It is August 15th in Japan. My Japanese friend told me it was a comfortable sunny day in Japan.

I was happy to hear that.

Interestingly, here in Arizona, we had a comfortable sunny day too.

As I wrote in my previous article, August 15th is the day when we see our ancestors’ spirits off, back to the spirit world. Besides, it is a very special day for Japanese people as the anniversary of the end of World War II.

I felt our ancestors’ spirits had spent good times with their dependents during Obon, and they went back to the spirit world safely and peacefully.

I recall my childhood days.

It was our annual routine for my family and me to go to the local harbor to see them off. They put some offerings and candles on some small wooden ships floated on the ocean. Along with the Buddhism monk, we prayed for our ancestors’ safe return back to the spirit world. After the prayer, we were supposed to go back home straight, without stopping by any stores or anything. We were told not to turn back. Our turning back will make our ancestors feeling sad. It will make them hard to leave.

I believe the departed spirits have their own life routines in the spirit world. They cannot keep thinking of their loved ones on Earth. We have to let them enjoy their life in their world.

Moderation is the key for any relationships to keep. It can be applied not only to the relationship with spirits living in the spirit world, but also to the relationship between living humans on Earth.

Instead of missing specific somebody too much, we should cherish and enjoy every moment and every encounter in our daily life.

Let’s live our life on Earth to the maximum. We will see the departed spirits again soon; either in our dream world or the time after our lifetime is done.

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I deserve to enjoy seeing only happiness and joy.

I deserve to enjoy hearing only great news making my soul dance.

I deserve to enjoy smelling only gentle and solemn aroma.

I deserve to enjoy eating only healthy and high vibrational foods.

I deserve to enjoy speaking up my wisdom and knowledge.

I deserve to enjoy feeling high and fast vibrations.

I deserve to enjoy being surrounded by high vibrational energy.

I deserve to enjoy being happy.

I deserve to enjoy manifesting whatever I wish.

I deserve to enjoy glowing from inside out.

I deserve to enjoy loving me.

I deserve to enjoy sharing my love with my loved ones.

I deserve to enjoy being true me, all the time, no matter what.

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In Japan, it is August 13th, and Obon has started. In my house, we welcome our ancestors’ spirits on August 13th, and see them back to the spirit world on August 15th. The schedule might slightly varies depending on the area and Buddhism sects though.

While I was living in Japan, I used to hate the routine of August 13th. My parents would invite the Buddhism monk to chant a sutra for our ancestors at my parents’ house. Listening to the sutra chanting is just fine. I love it. The issue occurs after the chant.

The Buddhism monk turned back to us and search around the best victim to preach. I was the youngest female who was still single. He always chose me to be the victim of preach.

He would talk about me on how undutiful daughter I was, in front of my parents.

He was an old traditional thinking person. According to him, it is dutiful for children to have a good spouse and to have two children (preferably a boy and a girl). That is how we pass down our blood linkage, connecting from our ancestors to our descendants.

I was against his opinion. I didn’t keep quiet. I would always talk back to him some sarcastic comments.

In my opinion, human’s value cannot be evaluated by simple conditions such as married / single, or with children / without children. Such conditions are just a tip of icebergs that the soul chooses in their current lifetime. Nobody can judge other peoples’ life. We can judge only our own life after we finish this lifetime.

Besides, our ancestors’ spirits have much wider visions than humans. They never judge their descendants for not having their children. Because they know the physical family linkage is just this lifetime only. They have their own spiritual family linkage. Therefore, they respect each decedents’ free will and support them unconditionally.   

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By the way, if I were at the same situation, I would not talk back to anybody else in my current age. I could talk back those days, because I was young and brave on speaking up my opinion. I kind of miss my younger days’ braveness in speech.

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I want to share the story about my in-law’s dog.

My in-laws have many dogs, approximately ten dogs. Most of them stay outside. They survive the hotness in summer and the coldness in winter of severe weather, outside.

Unlike the outside dogs, there is only one dog that my in-laws allow to come into the house. The dog is their only house dog.

The house dog is treated specially by my in-laws. The house dog sleeps with, eat with, and go shopping with my in-laws. Once in a while my in-laws even take the house dog to a pet’s salon. The house dog had her body shampooed, body hair cut, and even her nails polished. She is decorated with a diamond-looking collar around her neck.

Dogs are very smart animals. It is very natural for the outside dogs to be jealous to the house dog. Every time when the house dog needs to go bathroom outside, my in-laws need to watch over the house dog. Because of the jealous, the outside dogs pick the house dog on.

Before this current house dog, my in-laws had another house dog. When the previous house dog was outside to do her bathroom, the outside dogs jumped on the house dog. The poor house dog was killed by the outside dogs due to jealousy.

The current house dog came to their house after this sad incident. My in-laws told the current house dog to come back straight after she is done with bathroom.

Now, the current house dog is extremely smart. She never does bathroom inside the house. She listens to my in-laws. She is just like a well behaved human child. She understands English very well. Perhaps, this dog understands English even better than I do.

***

During our visiting my in-laws last time, the house dog wanted to follow us to walk to the hill. We always enjoy the short walk to the hill. When we were about to leave the house, some dogs from their neighbors came to my in-law’s property. By the way, the res dogs are not leashed. They are all free to go everywhere.

The neighbor’s dogs and my in-laws’ outside dogs were about to fight.

It was a scary scene. They would fight hard on each other. Sometimes some dogs get injured or killed in the fight. I don’t know exact reasons why they fight that hard. Maybe it’s their hobby, or it’s their training to build their muscle. Or, they are simply bored.

***

When their fight started, the house dog started running toward the fight. We all yelled to the house dog not to join the fight.

The house dog, though, didn’t join the fight as we concerned. She run very fast, went straightback home. I never saw her running so fast.  

Once the house dog entered the house safely, we got relieved. It was smart of her to run back home without joining the fight.

The house dog knows that she is loved very much by my in-laws. She knows her safety is the number onepriority for them.

When I saw her action, running away from trouble, I told my husband and daughter to do the same as the house dog did. I told them their safety is the number one priority for me, so don’t join any fight or danger. Just come back home straight, safely.

As the old proverb goes, Discretion is the better part of valor.  -– Always stay away from danger. Stay safe for the sake of your loved one.

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Today I want to share the story about my former neighbor. They moved out one month ago.

I moved to this area nine years ago. They had lived there before us. The previous house owner used to have a pest-control company spray the weed killer medicine all over their property. 

The pest-control company workers appeared like the characters of Ghostbusters (1984). They carry a tank on their back and wear a mask on their face. They spray the toxic chemicals their property.

After their weed killing treatment, their property would be covered by dull light blue paint-look liquid. It was unnatural appearance, compared with natural dirt.

The weed killing treatment worked. I never saw any weeds on their property. 

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Now, it has been one month for the land to recover. With the help of rain of Monsoon, it has been recovering their own natural status, getting healthy-looking weeds back on. Among the weeds, in the areas next to the street, there was a family of flowers. They are beautiful orange flowers. These flowers attract a bunch of beautiful butterflies. It is a healthy and happy appearance.

They brighten my day up every time when I pass by them.

Don’t you think it amazing?

Their land had sucked up the toxin for years, but deep inside, their vital natural energy never died. Now they are showing their original state to us.

I took this as a precious message. Human bodies are the same.

Even if we had taken some unnecessary toxins in the past, our vital energy never dies. It is never too late for us to recover our natural good health.

When we change our lifestyle or diet, listening to your own intuition on what is good for our body, we can recover our good health.

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In my dream this morning, I fought with a huge pink snake. The snake was way bigger than me in size. It was like a whale versus a human. Still, I didn’t have any tools or weapons to fight. In fact, I fought with my bare hands. All I had was my great muscle in my entire body. I could jump high like a super ninja. I could kick like a professional kick boxer. My high jumping karate chop was my final move. I won the fight.

When I came back to conscious world, even though it was in the dream, I was out of breath from the tough fighting. I enjoyed an immeasurable sense of accomplishment for a while.

I don’t know what the message from this dream was. I don’t need to know. All I can say is I had a great time with this experience.

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My husband received an automated phone call from the school. It was the announcement about some of their school buses. Due to the Hazmat influence, the certain roads were closed so that the buses on that route would not go through.

Since I didn’t receive the phone announcement, I was not sure exactly what I should do, on either picking my daughter up at the school right away or at the bus stop at the normal time.

So I called the school.

As soon as I mentioned my name, the receptionist gave me the exact information I needed to hear.

To my surprise, she knew the street name where my daughter’s regular bus stops. She also told me my daughter’s bus would be able to drive normally. She answered right away. She didn’t need to check any information paper or anything.

I thanked her and hang up the phone.

That was amazing. The school has approximately 500 students. I wonder how the receptionist can memorize the street name of my daughter’s bus stop. It is still mystery to me.  

It is definitely one of our great benefits living in a small town.    

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In my dream, I was a mother eagle. Right next to me, there were my three eggs. I was watching the very moment when each egg being hatched.

Each of my baby eagle smiled at me. I knew they were all safe and healthy.

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When I woke up from my dream, I felt great. I felt something good was coming in to me.

Recently I found an online class of macrobiotic. The instructor is a Japanese woman who is around my age. When I saw the sample video of the instructor, I liked her personality and the way she talked. I decided to register at her class right away.

I have communicated with the husband of the instructor via email. This married couple is the owner and the founder of this macrobiotic organization. They seem to be trustworthy.

My eagle dream might be the sign from my family spirits. They are happy for me to be connected with them. I look forward learning from their online courses.

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