One of my Japanese friends shared some sky pictures that she took. Nowadays she has been enjoying taking pictures of sky. Especially the Sun. Whenever she takes the picture of Sun, it always turns out to have something else. At the morning, it was the orange energy. At the daytime, it was the blue energy. At the sunset, it was the yellow energy. It never be the same. The energy looks like an orb.

Other couple of my Japanese friends mentioned they have seen the dragon-like clouds. They live in the different area in Japan. They saw the dragon-like clouds at different time on different areas.

I believe they are personal message to the viewers. Whatever they felt at the first impression was the right message for them.

I try to see the sky and clouds whenever I am outside. Sometimes it is just a simple clear blue sky. Other times there was a lump of clouds looks like something.

I want to share the lump of clouds on last evening. Interestingly all the five pictures were taken on the same evening. And it actually was the same location.

The first two look like a phoenix (a long-lived bird that is reborn) to me. The last three pictures do not focus on the phoenix itself, but they show the bigger picture surrounding the phoenix.

I consider this phoenix as a representative of myself. I (my true self) am shining. I have the dignity. The reason I have the dignity is because I am surrounded by all my family spirits and angels. They too are shining around me. And it can be said to you too. You are shining and you have the dignity. You shine together with your family spirits and angels.  

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Today I chatted with one of my acquaintances. We haven’t seen each other for the last six months, so we started our conversation to catch up with each other’s recent life. She is around my parents’ age. And she has two sons who are around my age.

She came to me for the Reiki healing session. She says she likes my healing energy.

But in reality, it might be opposite. I might be the one who is healed by her. She has gentle healing energy with her.

I like her and I admire her because she never speaks ill of others. She always tells all the good things about her family and friends.

Her talking about all the good things naturally leads me to talk about all the good things too. Without noticing, I was sharing her about my wishes and desires with the full confidence. During our chat, we both enjoyed the uplifting energy.

Right before she left, she gave me a warm hug and told me “Enjoy your life!” Her saying this word resonated with my soul very much. She is absolutely right. We came to this lifetime to enjoy our life.

When you fully enjoy your life, you, without noticing, are uplifting the energy surrounding you. and it helps others to raise their vibration, just by having around you.

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Remember that I mentioned about the portal between the higher dimension and the planet Earth in my previous article of January 7th? This year the portal is constantly open throughout the year. Here I want to share my experience that proves the dimensional portal is really open.

Several days ago, a good friend of mine mentioned she wakes up at 5 am every morning. Her daughter wakes up around 6 am, so that she can use the one hour all by herself. She said she really enjoys the one hour in the early morning.

My husband too wakes up at 5 am. He would spend this morning hour for meditation or exercise such as running or walking. He described the early morning time as quiet and holy hour.

When I heard from them, I envied them. I normally wake up after 7 am with my daughter. In some special occasions whenever I need to wake up earlier than that, I need to force myself wake up with the help of alarm clock. I could not wake up naturally such early morning.

I thought to myself I want to wake up naturally at 5 am. It was not a strong prayer or anything like that. I just simply thought that way.

This will stay as my simple thought only, if it were previous years.  But trust me, this year is different from the previous years.

What happened to me was amazing. From the next morning, for a couple of days, I naturally woke up without any issues. When I woke up, I didn’t feel sleepy at all. Can you guess what time was it? Yes you are right. I woke up at 5 am sharp without feeling sleepy.

What do you think of this? I felt it interesting and awesome.

So, you too, believe in of your thoughts. The portal is open throughout this year. If you have any dreams, make them happen this year. It’s going to be a fun year, really. Don’t you think?

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I attended at the annual celebration of Japanese garden with my family. It was our first time to attend any kind of Japanese festival here in America. In short, I really enjoyed it. And I regret I had missed this opportunities for these past nine years.

They served Japanese traditional foods and snacks at the food stand. Nothing new. Curry and rice, rice ball, tonjiru (Japanese soup), rice cracker, and daifuku. My family enjoyed especially rice ball. I can make rice ball, but it always tastes different and special when somebody makes it for me.

We attended at the origami event. Since this year is Dog’s year in Chinese horoscope, we folded origami to a dog. It was pretty simple as Japanese, but it seemed to be confusing for non-Japanese. I always find it interesting to see how different result between my family in creating.

In the picture, the right-hand side, golden headed dog is mine. At the center, the orange headed dog is my daughter’s, and the left-hand side, the brown dog is my husband’s.

After eating lunch and entertained by origami folding, we went to the event circle. It started from the Japanese man’s singing. He was wearing kimono. I assumed he would sing shigin or something. The word shigin instantly reminded me of one Japanese comedian who sings shigin about erotic matter. I prepared myself not to laugh by remembering of the Japanese comedian. In reality however, the Japanese man didn’t sing shigin. He sang three Japanese traditional songs by himself without any musical instruments. The songs were Furusato, Aka Tombo, and Kojo no Tsuki. They are the songs of Home, Red Dragonfly, and the Moon over the ruined castle. All of these songs are familiar to Japanese.

If you are Japanese, you know all these three songs induce tears, right? Especially true for the people like me who lives far away from Japan. So, right when I heard him saying the song title of Furusato, I was about to leave the place. I knew I would cry by listening to this song. This song is about missing your hometown and your family there. I listened to his singing without leaving. And of course, I started crying at the begging and had been shedding tears all the way until he finished.    

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This is the continuous story about our home purchasing procedure.

My day started from two emails along with two cell phone text messages from the realtor agent. They were sent at 6:30 am. One document was attached in the email. She urged us to sign the document and submit to her within today by 5 pm.

I thought I made it clear to the realtor agent that we would not purchase the house last night, but she didn’t take it that way. The realtor agent and I exchanged some emails back and forth.

My main reason to back up was their asking to raise the price. I thought it is not fair. But she mentioned it is the typical procedure for the bank owned property. 

She seems to be loyal and trustworthy. Maybe I can trust her. Now that I understood the procedure was fair. I think our offered price was reasonable. She agrees with me.

I thought back about all the extra information and knowledge that I was told yesterday. Since the house is foreclosed, the seller will sell the property as is. Before we move in, we will need to repaint the entire house. Also, we will need to steam-cleanse the tiles on the entire house. There is one more thing we will have to pay for it. It is the fence around the swimming pool. Arizona law requires the house owner with small children to secure the home swimming pool with a fence and a lock. I received a rough quotation of all the extra cost. It was much more higher than I had expected.

When I consider all the extra cost, of course the total amount will be raised than the original price. I still think my body reaction of reluctance and heavy stress feeling was the right answer for me at this moment; which is not to purchase the house.

I still appreciate for the help of the realtor agent. She was kind and helpful during all the procedure. I feel sorry for her of our decision of not to buy the house through her.

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This is the continuous story from yesterday about our home purchasing procedure.

Yesterday we went to see the foreclosure house. The following morning, the realtor agent called me. She said somebody already made an offer on the house. She also said if we want to make an offer on the house, we have to do it today.

After a small discussion, husband and I decided to make an offer on the house.

Things went by so quickly. In 30 minutes, the realtor agent came to my house. My husband and I had to read a whole bunch of documents. Then we needed to sign here and there on the documents. We engaged our two hours for the paper work. After everything was done, we were exhausted.

Personally I wanted to deal with the paperwork after we win the bid. But the agent insisted she needed all the paper work done in order to make an offer on the house.

Our part was done. From here, it is under Universe’ realm. If the house is supposed to come to us, everything should go smoothly. If not, any blockage will be the sign that we should not take the house.

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On the same evening, we received the phone call from the realtor agent. From her low and sad tone of voice, we instantly knew our offered price didn’t win in the bid. And our intuition was right.

She mentioned the other party offered higher than ours. When I heard this from her, I was about to tell her thank you for her help. I thought this is the end of this house purchase procedure.

But what she said next startled me. She asked us if we want to raise our offered price. I doubted my ear. If we raise our offered price, then what’s next? She will call the other party to raise their offered price? I instantly didn’t like it. The other party already won in the original bid. Why she can’t just honor them? I want to deal with a fair competition.

I told the realtor agent we would not raise our offered price. We would not want to compete anymore. We decided not to purchase this house.

After we decided to not to purchase this house, I felt a great deal of relief in my heart. Maybe my body reaction tells me the right answer for me. We did a right decision on not buying this house at this moment.

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As I mentioned in my previous articles, I have started thinking about buying a house in this area. When I was taking a walk in the neighborhood area, I saw one house for sale. I went back home and researched the house online. The house was on the market for 11 days.

I was so curious about this house. Normally I hesitate to make a phone call to a stranger. And normally I wait for my husband come back home and have him call. This time though, for some reasons, I was brave enough. I just picked up my phone and called to the agent right away. I made an appointment of the house tour on the same day’s evening.

The house is located on the street next to our street. It only takes us two minutes walking.

The house was under foreclosure, but the conditions were not that bad. According to the realtor agent, some foreclosure houses do not come with most of appliances. And most cases the houses are taken care badly, such as stain in the carpets, holes in the doors and walls.   

In this house, all the appliances were there. The refrigerator was stainless steel made with side-by-side door design. The gas stove and the dish washer looked clean and new. The washing machine and dryer will stay with the house as well. The walls and doors were okay, at least no holes.

The house was spacious with three bedrooms and two bathrooms. The previous owner converted the garage into the room with carpet. It is more than 1,800 square feet in the residence space. And, the lot is 6,600 square feet. The roof sits high, and that makes the entire house look gorgeous. Among all, my most favorite aspect of this house is the big outdoor swimming pool.

I like the house very much. My husband and daughter don’t like it very much though.

After we came back home, we talked about the house. Both of my husband and my daughter didn’t like moving, but they didn’t hate the house neither. After our discussion, we all agreed to make an offer to the house tomorrow.  

I am so excited on purchasing the house. The moving should be easy. We have done the same type of moving four years ago. Since we already know the area and the neighbors, it won’t be a huge change. It will be great to have our own private swimming pool in our back yard.

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I finished reading a book E-Cubed written by Pam Grout. Her writing style is unique. That made me feel as if she was chatting with me right next to me.

This book talks about the logic of spirituality. There were so many books out in the market in the past taking about the exact same things. Nothing new. But still, thanks to her own unique way of explaining, it is easy to read and understand. This book tells one of repetitive reminders for people about our true self and true ability.

I want to share my favorite statement in her book. She wrote “God is a state of being, a loving energy that flows through me, sustains me, and surrounds me with light.”

It really is. God is not somebody else or something else that is separated from us. God is within us. We can see God in us. We are the God. We are gifted to create our reality in this planet Earth.

This year of 2018 will be a very interesting year. Many people, including the people who deny spirituality, will face the fact that we are God and we create our reality from our thoughts.

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Starting from the beginning of this month, I had been studying the relaxation massage through the online course.

Before I took the course, I doubted if I could learn massage online. But after taking it, I can say I could learn massage technique online. The course was pretty informative and in depths.

In the course, the instructor shared the technique on not to hurt us. He taught us to use body weight instead of using solely the arm muscle or thumbs.

I finally completed the course yesterday. Now I need to practice the technique.

I asked my daughter to let me practice the massage technique on her. She was excited about my massage. She quickly went to the white board and wrote down “massage” in today’s to-do-list.

The instructor made a video of one hour massage from the beginning to the ending. I just followed his movement one by one onto my daughter.

During giving her massage, I felt pain in my back. I will need to go back to the course and refresh my memory of not to hurt my back.

With this massage, my daughter felt deep asleep. That means she could fully relax with my massage. I was happy about that.

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My daughter’s school resumed from today. The two weeks’ winter vacation was finally over.

While I was walking to the school bus stop with my daughter, I was secretly excited to have my private time back again. I was happy about it.

On the other hand, my daughter looked sad. She said she had really enjoyed spending time with me during her winter vacation. “I love spending time with you. I love you so much. You are the best mom ever”, she said with her beautiful sparkling eyes. I felt ashamed of what I just thought.

At the end of the day, it turned out we had a great day. My daughter enjoyed reconnecting with her friends at school. I enjoyed spending my time by doing what I love. I need my alone time every day.

It is always good to get back to our routine after the vacation. I like the contrast between On and Off. In short, everything should have a good balance between Yin and Yang. Too much of only one side takes our energy out.

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