The end of school year is coming closer. My daughter had attended at two club activities during this school year; the science club and the art club. Both club activities were pretty good programs. Also, it was beneficial for her to become friends with different aged students.

This week was the last week for both club activities. They had a small wrap up party. My husband attended the small party of the science club with my daughter.

Today was the last day of the art club. They were planning to have an ice cream party as the wrap up party. I was not sure what time I should attend.

In the morning I received a phone call. I usually don’t pick up any phone calls with unknown number, but the number was one that I registered for the school. So I picked up the phone, expecting it was from her art club teacher.

When I answered the phone saying “Hello?”, a cute and familiar voice came into my ear. “It’s me!”

To my surprise, it was my daughter. She asked her teacher to let her make a phone call to tell me the time of the ice cream party.

I was happy to know she memorized my phone number and could give me a call all by herself.

She is eight years old, so most likely it is not such a surprise for most people. But for me, everything new about my daughter is such a wonderful delight.

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I went to see my acupuncturist. She gave me two pieces of papers that included the recommended food list for my symptom.

One is for Liver Yin Deficiency and the other is Kidney Yin Deficiency.

According to the information papers, I should eat vegetables and fruits to keep my body cool. It includes celery, cucumber, spinach, tomatoes, fermented dairy, carrots, seaweed, pears, strawberry, and watermelon. Interestingly, they have already become my routine food that I consume in the daily basis. My body intuitively sensed the best food I should take, and that was why I bought these ingredients at the grocery store without thinking.  

The food I should avoid includes coffee, curry, cinnamon, garlic, ginger, warming foods in general, and hot spices. Okay, this will be a bit tough for me. These are my favorites.

My acupuncturist is a thoughtful person. She told me to take it easy, and not to get stressed out by this information papers. They are just suggestions.  It does not mean I cannot take them at all from now on, but it means I should avoid whenever I can.

I will keep making my efforts. A baby step every day, having a vivid image of myself smiling and standing at my goal.    

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I watched the movie Maudie (2016). It is based on the true story of a Canadian painter, Maud Lewis.

I like this movie very much. The main character loves painting. Even though she has grown up to an adult, she still can draw something very pure, just like a young age child can draw. When she was hired as a housemaid, she started painting a bunch of drawings everywhere of her employer’s house. Her drawings were on the windows, walls, and furniture. When she found some scraped wooden boards, she used them as her canvas.  

I know how a natural born painter does. To them, anything and anywhere can be their canvas. And they can stay happy as long as they can express their creativity through drawing. I know that because my daughter is one of them. She loves drawing. Our house is filled with her art works.

Once we buy our won house, I want her to decorate our house with her awesome drawings on the windows, walls, and furniture. She cannot do so that much freely, because our current house is for rent. I look forward to living in such the fun house, in the near future.

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My day starts with reading a message on the calendar Ask and It Is Given Perpetual Flip Calendar created by Esther and Jerry Hicks (Author).

I really liked today’s message (May 6th). It resonated with me, so that I would like to share with you.

It says

“When you stay aligned with your Energy Stream, you always win –and somebody else does not have to lose for you to win” — cited from their calendar.

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This morning my daughter woke up crying. She had a nightmare of being involved in the war.

I told her not to worry. It was probably one of her past life events.

The positive aspect however is that everything has been evolving. We all have been learning and getting smarter in every moment. The same tragedy cannot be happened again.

As long as we all remember the Universal logic “we all can win,” we don’t need to compete or make somebody to be a loser in order to make us a winner. We all can win. Let’s make our efforts to have a win-win situation on every aspect.

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In our backyard, we have many visitors every day. The most present ones are birds. Their singing songs are always beautiful and uplifting. We have a family of lizard, which I don’t’ mind. I saw a family of mouse, which I do mind, to be honest.

Among them, there is one same cat visiting our backyard very often, almost every day. I do mind her visiting to our backyard. She likes digging around my vegetable garden. As a matter of fact, I had been searching around some good ways to prevents cats from come to our backyard. All I learned from my research was there was no such way to prevents cats from coming to our area. They can jump to a high fence. They can squeeze their body into small gap to enter. They are free anyway.

Today I watched the movie Peter Rabbit. I enjoyed the movie as an entertainment, but I also learned something from the movie.

At the beginning, the main character hates the wild life, especially rabbits. He tries to get rid of them from his garden. The more he hates them, the more the rabbits senses the hate feeling and attacks back to him. During the war, it is nothing but chaos. Once he decides to make peace with them, everything starts turning much more fun.   

After I watched this movie, I finally realized one thing. Animals are energy sensitive. They stay at their comfortable place.

In our case of the cat, the cat comes and stays in our backyard because she likes our place. I can appreciate for that, because that means our housing area is filled with comfortable and pleasant energy.  

So, from now on, I am not going to think about the war toward the car. Instead, I will honor the cat’s free will. She wants to come and stay at our backyard as long as she wants.

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Today is my friend’s birthday. I always feel awe when I think about how we met.

We met at the camping program during the summer vacation. Our houses were not close at all, but we lived in the prefecture. Our prefecture offered the camping program for kids at the mountain area, where was pretty isolated from main cities.

I saw the poster at the door of the teachers’ room. When I saw the poster, I instantly thought I had to attend this camp. It had the participation fee that I could not afford to pay from my monthly allowance. I was surprised when my parents not only approved me to participate at the camp but also paid for the participation fee right away.

To think back those days, I really was meant to participate at this camp. I met my friend there. We have been close friends since then.

I heard her daughter envy us to have met such a good and lifelong friend at our young age. It is true we are lucky to have each other.

In every day’s life, there might be a precious meeting with somebody who will become your life-long friend.   

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Today I woke up sick. I had spent almost all day in bed sleeping. I needed to have that much resting.  

Yesterday after I came back from the acupuncture treatment, I had spent the rest of my day sobbing. My both eyes were swollen and I had suffered from dull headache.

Last night I had a good talk with my husband and daughter. They are willing to support me on my healing.

One of the findings during the acupuncture treatment of yesterday was my husband’s Japanese language. When my mom and my husband met for the first time in Japan, my mom asked him to study Japanese. My mom said she wanted to communicate with my husband in Japanese. My husband promised he would.

However, it never happened.

In these past 10 years, I reminded him from time to time. He didn’t like hearing that and he would get mad at me. I have met many international marriage couple. They have made efforts to master their spouses’ language so that both of husband and wife can speak both languages to communicate. I always feel envious of them. Between my husband and me, the only language we can communicate is English. I feel it unfair. I have made efforts in mastering English, while he hasn’t. In order for a good communication, we need mutual efforts. I mentioned that to my husband last night.

I experienced a small effort this morning.

This morning, my husband said to me “Ohayo” (good morning in Japanese). Then, right before he left for work, he said “Itte-kimasu” (“off I go” in Japanese).

Just only two words, but they were enough to make me feel happy.

I never thought I have gotten hurt by my husband’s not speaking Japanese. We always hide our true feeling deep inside of our mind. Once in a while, we need to clean up such clutter, before it gets piled up to become a cause to bother your body.  

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I went to my first appointment of acupuncture treatment.

I had filled with the long list of questionnaire regarding my medical history beforehand. Based on the list, the acupuncturist asked me many questions about my life. Chinese medicine takes consideration of the balance holistically between body, mind, and spirit. That is why they need to know about a patient from every angle. Their approach to a patient is similar to that of homeopathy treatment.

The acupuncturist checked my blood pressure, pulse, and tongue.

According to her diagnosis, I am lacking in Yin energy. That is why my body keeps warm and I keep feeling thirsty. That makes sense to me. I had lived for about 40 years close to ocean and we had lots of rain. My body had used to be surrounded in the high humidity environment. My current environment however, is very dry with low humidity. As a matter of fact, my regular body temperature has been slightly higher than before.

Another diagnosis was my sadness. My tongue showed the line of sadness. And it also showed the weakness of my lung. She said it is common for a person who devastates from deep sadness to have weakness in lung. Lung represents emotion.  

I like this acupuncturist. I could sense her willingness and passion to heal her patients. I felt relaxed and comfortable. I felt like I was embraced with something huge loving entity surrounding her energy field.

During the counseling, I talked about my life history up until now. I noticed I had gone through a lot in my life. Before the counseling, I thought myself as a very happy person. I thought of myself as stress-free. I was surprised I started crying so hard when it came to talking about the current life. They were related to my loneliness living on this land.

I have social anxiety disorder. I don’t scare of people in my county Japan, but I do here in America.

During the acupuncture treatment, I felt that my diabetes comes from the disorder of mind. My body is supposed to function properly. In my case, diabetes had come to me as a sign of “no sweetness in life.”

I am confident that I will be able to heal with the help of acupuncture treatment. I look forward to my upcoming treatment with her.

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In the television show, they introduced one actress who recently lost 12 kg (26 lbs.) for only three month. She looked much younger than her age. She also looked happy and healthy.

She got the help with the private gym program. There is a popular private gym program in Japan. Based on their official website, the fee for their basic program for 3 months is 530,000 JPY (approximately 5,000 USD). It is definitely not a casual amount that people can take it spontaneously. However, considering of the result, it might be worth to pay it.

After all, money is energy. When somebody really needs the proper help, the expensive fee that they have paid is the equal amount of their willingness.

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I really want to reverse my diabetes. After I prayed my family spirits for support, the vision of acupuncture popped into my mind.

I think it was back in summer 2016 when I attended the presentation about acupuncture.

The acupuncturist was originally from Germany. She was probably in her early 60s. She seemed to be well-experienced with acupuncture treatment by offering it to many patients for many years. What impressed me the most was she could tell the patient’s health condition by inspecting their tongue. In her presentation, she said “the tongue shows the person’s the general health of the organs and meridians”. 

She offered all the attendance a demonstration of acupuncture. She poked two needles each of our ear (four needles on both ears) to enhance our energy flow. I was amazed at the fact even these tiny needles triggered the energy flow. My body temperature was raised and I immediately started sweating.

I was fascinated with her acupuncture treatment. I wanted to make an appointment with her right away, but I didn’t. The reason for pulling me back was the fee. Since acupuncture was not covered by my health insurance, I would need to pay the fee of 100% out-of-pocket. It was not that reasonable amount, at least for me.

Now the situation was changed. I desperately need any support and help to heal my diabetes. I am willing to pay for any support and help I need.

So, I called her and made an appointment for the acupuncture treatment. I also went to their office to pick up the paper work that I need to fill up before my appointment.

My appointment is set at Wednesday morning, two days from today. I really, really hope the acupuncture treatment will trigger my healing process.

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