Nowadays people visit me in my dream. They are real. I have been brushing up this gift lately.

Here is one example.

Recently, one of my acquaintances visited me in my dream. He showed me his empty handed. I asked him what it meant to him. He said empty hands represented that he was stress free. Empty hands also represented that he was ready to receive whatever he needed. He said he was very happy for his current situation. He showed me his big smile. I gave him back my big smile.

Then I woke up.

I had been busy on catching up my daily life for a while. Today I finally had time to contact him. Although I knew he was doing just fine, I thought I should contact him anyway to say hi. So I did.

In his reply, he said he left his former job in July and now he is back to the job on his own. He sounds like he has been pretty well. I also liked the part he commented about his appreciation to his wife. He said his wife has been very supportive for his transition.

I was very happy to know of his transition and his current happy status. And I was also happy to know that my dream was true about him.

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Have you ever heard of a 100-yen shop in Japan? Throughout Japan, we have stores called “100-yen shop”. The shop has a whole bunch of helpful goods. And, they are all 100-yen. It is approximately 1 US dollar.

Recently Japanese television company makes a regular program. The program brings the 100-yen shop goods to all over the world and introduce them to many people. Since I don’t live in japan, I am with other foreigners. I am surprised and amazed at most of their items

I have heard many Japanese people saying they feel so blessed to be born as Japanese. I am definitely with them. If I could, I am willing to be any kinds of help to pass down Japanese great wisdom to our next generations.

I have still been searching the reasons why I moved to America. One of the reason is to appreciate for being Japanese. When I lived in Japan, everything I received from my parents and ancestors came so natural to me, and that was why I took them for granted. Once I moved to America, I have started seeing the true value of Japanese. 

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In this morning’s dream, my family spirits kept on showing me several sceneries that I went through in my younger days. They showed me a scenery from my perspective at first. Then, my conscious left away from the experience, and observed the same scenery from somebody’s point of view. After they repeated this process, I finally got it. They wanted to teach me the importance of the balance between subjectivity and objectivity.

When I experience an event in the first place, I can feel my emotion toward the event. The emotion can be hurtful to go through. The emotion comes directly because I see the event from only one direction. It is a narrow vision.

On the other hand, when I see the event from somebody’s perspective; aka objectively, the vision gets wide. Observing the event does not accompany with any emotions anymore, because the event is just an event to teach me something.

It is a great skill to see an event from subjectively and objectively. If I can fully master this skill, I can always enjoy experiencing the direct emotion, then right after that, I can learn the lessons from the experience.

It might sound difficult, but I think it is possible to master it. It is just a skill. We need to practice this over and over again by being alert of this skill.

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This morning a Kappa visited me in my dream. In my dream, I was not so surprised at Kappa. He said something to me and I nodded to it. I understood the message from Kappa. Unfortunately, when I woke up, I didn’t remember the message. The only image that I remembered clearly was the details of the appearance of Kappa. It was beautiful. It was shining with happy and satisfactory energy.

Kappa is described as an imaginary monster or a river sprite. To me personally, I don’t have any bad image of Kappa. To me, Kappa is a water spirit with a childlike pure heart. To me, Kappa and a frog are similar. They both can live both on land and in water. They need water energy for their living. Water represents moisture in air. At the same time, water represents spirituality.

In this sense, I am more like Kappa and a frog. I live in the dry area where is away from water energy. After I enjoyed staying with the water energy in Japan, a part of myself is missing the water energy.

Kappa came in to tell me that I need the both aspects balanced out in my life. While living in the physical world which is dry, I do need the water energy at the same amount. So that my life and the surrounding environment have both balanced out. The dryness and the humidity balanced out in the physical world, and logical sense and spirituality balanced out as well. Maybe that is the message to me from this dream.

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Starting from the beginning of this month, October 2017, one of my old Japanese friends showed up in front of me as a vision. She passed away in 2012. She projected the scenery when I noticed of her being passed away. I regretted that I didn’t contact her until her death. I should have contacted her. I should have kept in touch with her. I wanted to listen to her and comfort her when she was in physical pain at her last months and days.

There is one American friend whom I met in January 2016. We became friends instantly and started seeing each other frequently. However, after July 4th cerebration of last year, we had stopped contacting each other. We haven’t argued nor fought. Nothing happened between us. For some reasons, when I met this American friend, I instantly thought of my late Japanese friend. I felt they are spiritually connected. They do share some aspects in common, in their personalities.

I felt my late Japanese friend came to me was because she wanted me to reconnect with my American friend. Maybe she needed somebody whom she could trust to express her feelings. Maybe she has been having tough days.

Following the advice from my late Japanese friend, the other day, I contacted my American friend. And today, I reconnected with her.

We went to hiking to the place where we used to go together. While we were catching up each other for our missing months and days, she shed tears. She needed somebody whom she could trust to speak up her feelings. I listened to her, encouraged her, and praised her for her efforts.

By the time when we were heading back home after our three hours walking and chatting, she looked like happier than in the morning. I was glad that I could be there for her.

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This morning’s dream was not fun to watch. I was working for a big corporation at a higher position. I was one of the management group. People envied me for my high rank and high salary. One day, when I went to the office, everything was changed. The people were different, and the office layout was different. I finally noticed the company name at the entrance was different from mine. Then my cell phone rang. It was from my supervisor. He was mad at me for not being at the new office. I told him nobody told me anything about moving. I didn’t know where the new office was located. He didn’t believe me and fired me from the position and hung up the phone.

Then I woke up. I still vividly remembered all the details. Although all the characters in my dreams were the local people whom I knew in this land; America, I went through the similar event in Japan. 

For a while after I woke up, I was filled with anger. Why the supervisor fired me without giving me another chance? I knew the reason why nobody told me about the moving of the office. It was because of their jealous toward me.  In the corporation, nobody could built trust between workers. Nobody could talk anything from our heart. Everybody was enemy to one another. When one worker is fired, that means one spot becomes available. It was a very sad environment. Everybody was suffered from the old concept that we had to keep on going upward in the hierarchical rank to be successful and to make money. The old concept told us that we have to keep winning in the competition. 

Then, I started calming myself down. It was a past. I am not in the environment anymore. I am not in the midst of competition world anymore. I am away from the business world. I am living my life peacefully. I am comfortably going downstream. I am loving the current environment where I am.

This realization reminded me of the Japanese movie Oriteyuku Ikikata (2009) (降りてゆく生き方). I haven’t watched this movie yet because this movie is not available in DVD or television program. I have read the concept of this movie, and I am interested in watching it. I hope someday I will have an opportunity. From watching some summarized versioned of short videos and reading the introduction story, I think this movie encourages Japanese people to live with our truth. The truth is that we are not here to join into the competition world. We are not here to hurt somebody. We are here to regain true ourselves. Our soul shines when we make others happy. Our soul shines when we follow our true inner voice. That kind of lifestyle looks like going downstream. And it is good and true for our soul.

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My friend told me about the story of one Japanese farmer. His name is Akinori Kimura. He succeeded to grow apples without pesticides. He was perhaps the first person in the world to make this happen. I was moved how strongly he cringed on his dream. He never gave up his dream despite of many mistakes for the past 10 years. On his 11th year, he finally succeeded. They made a television program and a movie about his life. I watched both of them. You can also see and hear his talk in his TEDx talk in Japan: Miracle apples. Unfortunately his talk is available only in Japanese, but you can still feel his sincere and humble personality in his talk.

I happened to see Kimura-san’s both palm lines. I was not surprised to see his both hands have a Masukake line; the Heart Line and Head Line are fused together. The person with this line is rare. Traditionally in Japan, this line is considered as a good luck. The person with this line has a strong will to achieve their goals. They don’t let a good luck go away from them.

Ieyasu Tokugawa is the famous example to explain about masukake line. He was a Japanese historical hero. Ieyasu achieved a great success for Japanese ancestors. He settled down all the ongoing battles in Japan and became a founder of the shogunate in Edo. His decedents effectively ruled Japan for about 260 years. I also have a Masukake line on my both hands. And interestingly, the majority of my close friends have this line on their both hands as well. I guess we attract each other. Like attracts like.

The people who has a masukake line prefer to have their life with full of ups and downs. They prefer an exciting life rather than a peaceful and boring life. That means, the people who have a masukake line are strong souls who can endure and survive higher hurdles and challenges in life.

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Today I want to talk about my brother.

My brother and I are just 13 months apart. In our childhood, we were very close to one another. We grew up together. We laughed together. We fought for snack and disciplined our physical strength together. Many people thought we were twins. I also felt we were twins. I could feel my brother very close. He had been a happy boy all his younger days. I liked being around him.

However, after his marriage, sadly our relationship was changed. Since his marriage, we had stopped talking each other. After his marriage, he even looked like a different person to me. He does not look funny anymore like before. He looks more serious than before. I don’t see his smile or big laughter on his face anymore. He seems to be depressed. Sadly though, it is nothing to do with me, and I cannot do anything for that. It is none of my business.

In my recent trip to Japan, I had an opportunity to have a dinner with my brother and his family. It was the first time after nine years’ no-see. I looked forward to seeing my brother again. But, we had no talk except for just a casual greeting in the beginning and a couple of his mean comments about me during the dinner. That was it. I felt the connection between my brother and I was already cut. I felt sad about it, but I cannot do anything to repair. I just gave up. I thought I should forget about my brother.

Then this morning, my brother visited me in my dream. We traveled together by a train. We had a really good time, just like our childhood days. During the trip, we laughed a lot together. We enjoyed watching the same beautiful scenery together. We traveled along the beach. The weather was nice. We enjoyed watching the clear blue sky. We enjoyed listening to many birds singing. We enjoyed feeling the ocean breeze together. We enjoyed smelling the salty ocean tide together. Everything was shining for us. We were so happy being together.

Then I woke up. I still remembered all the details. Perhaps, my brother is thinking of me. Our family spirits brought some sweet old memories of ours back to us in this dream.

I learned from this dream. Our connection was never cut off. Despite of the appearance, despite of the truth that we don’t talk anymore, I still think of my brother in a good way, and perhaps he does the same thing to me.  

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I gifted my friend an Angel card deck; Life Purpose Oracle Card by Doreen Virtue.

She started pulling one card in the morning every day as the day’s message for her. Then, an interesting coincidence happened. She pulled the same card three times in one week. It was Oracle card.

She asked me some advice for enhancing the reading ability of oracle card. Right after I heard her question, my family spirits sent me a messages to her. Since this message is good for her as well as for myself and others, I decided to share this with you here in this article.

To enhance the reading ability, the practice is inevitable. We can practice every day consistently. It is a good idea to pull one Angel card in the morning. Take a picture of the card with the date. It might be convenient to take a picture of the card with a daily calendar. If your cell phone has a calendar app, write down a memo of your inspiration when you see the card. When doing this, focus on your feeling and intuition, rather than any texts and sentences on the card. Focus on the color and picture. Focus on the angel’s face expression and the human’s action in the picture. Which part you take a look at the first sight? What was your first impression? Did you feel this is an advice or a warning? Or a praise? Write down all the feelings and impressions into the memo.

Then, at the end of the day, before you go to sleep, take a look of the photo of Angel card and the memo you wrote down in the morning. After you went through the day, how the messages from the card related to the certain event of the day? Write down whatever came to your mind.

Rest assured. This process does not take long. It can be done within 5 minutes or so. You don’t need to show it to anybody. Your spirts and angels are watching, but don’t worry about them. They never judge you. They are always happy for you on whatever you make efforts.

As for me, I never thought of this method. I thought it a good idea. So, I pulled a card for myself for the day. It was a card of a yellow rose. I felt the message of “Play! Have Fun!” from the card. In the afternoon, I was talking about my Mexican friend to my family. I haven’t talked to her for a while and I miss her. Then, even before I finished talking that, my phone rang. Guess who was the caller? It was her that I was just talking about. She invited us to her Halloween party. Don’t you think it great coincidence? I think this is how angels give you confirmation that your intuition is getting better by your consistent practice.

The picture is from Flower Therapy Oracle Cards, by Doreen Virtue and Robert Reeves.

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While I was staying at my Japanese friend’s house, she cooked enzyme brown rice (酵素玄米). At the first sight, it looked like Festive red rice (赤飯). We eat this red rice at the time of cerebration. Normally when a girl has her first period, the mother cooks festive red rice. When I had mine for the first time, I asked my mom not to tell anybody. She said okay, but she cooked the festive red rice for the dinner. My dad and brother asked mom what was the cerebration for. I was so embarrassed for the red rice.

Anyways, back to the story of enzyme brown rice. It has reddish color and red beans, but enzyme brown rice and red rice are made from different ingredients and different recipe.

I never heard of enzyme brown rice and never ate it. The taste and texture were amazing. It was sweet and soft. It gave me a satisfaction sensation as if I was full with a small amount.

After I came back to America, I cooked enzyme brown rice. It turned out pretty good.

I could not cook brown rice well before, and my family and I never liked it. But with this recipe of enzyme brown rice, all of us became a big fan of brown rice. I appreciate for my friend to introduce me this amazing food.

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