Last night before I went to sleep, one of my friends’ face kept on popping up into my head. I prayed all the good things for her and said Thank-You to her from my heart.

On that night, she visited me in my dream. She showed me one Angel Card deck. The design of the cards looked like the night sky with the color of deep violet and indigo blue. The color reminded me of my aura color. She conveyed the energy her Yes to me. In the dream world, we communicated with our thoughts telepathically. She took my hand and gave the card deck to me. She told me she wanted to give this to me because it had my aura color.

In the real life, I rarely don’t communicate with this friend. But it doesn’t mean we are not friends. I always appreciate for her friendship and think good things about her.

This dream tells me that she feels the same way to me. To me, it does not matter if I see the friend often or not, rather how we feel about each other.      

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As of today, my short articles has accumulated to 365. That means, I have kept on writing a short article for one year so far. I would like to congratulate myself for that.

When somebody asks me what my favorite thing to do is, I would answer that I like anything creative. When I think back of my younger days, I was always good at expressing myself. The methods that I used to express myself include water color painting, writing a fiction story, speaking up of my thoughts, and sharing what I know.

In the real life, I don’t have my audience. I sometimes share my knowledge with my family and small number of close friends, but not always, not to everybody.

I usually don’t talk much about myself. People would think of me a quiet person or a good listener. The truth is however, I have much that I want to talk about and share with many people.

In that meaning, this homepage by posting my short article every day is my private and comfortable room.

It is only recently that I finally understand the critical thing. I write short articles and stories just because I like doing so. My main purpose is not to be praised or awarded by somebody else. I write because this is the way I can find my inner peace. Writing is my hobby and my meditation. It is my teacher and my sacred space.   

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Today when I picked my daughter up at the school, she was so excited about the exciting event at the pool.

She told me that while they were in the swimming pool, a pelican flew from somewhere and soaked himself in the swimming pool. The pelican sank his head into the water trying to find any fish or something. Since the pelican was a big sized one, the life guard announced all the kids and other participants to come out from the pool. Then, a police man captured the pelican by its body and beak.

I don’t know what happened to the pelican after being captured. One thing for sure is that the people around this area are very nice and kind. Most likely they figured it out the best rescue method for the pelican. Today’s event definitely would stay in kids’ memory of summer vacation.  

Speaking of wild animals, my neighbor area is surrounded by wilderness. Within 5 minutes from my house, I have seen some wild animals such as a deer, cottontail rabbit (cute and small one), a hare (huge one; it looks like a dog), a coyote, a javelina, and not to mention, a variety types of snakes.

If I had a swimming pool at my house, all the wild animals would jump in the pool in the night to get their body cool off.

PS: This pelican was on the local newspaper. The picture really shows that the pelican had a blast in the pool :).

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I started taking one online class since two days ago. The class is designed to heal our past traumatic events.

The class proceeds with the workbook that contains lots of questions. The first question is to recognize our fear-based story that blocks our future path.

I searched around my traumatic events in my younger days, but I could not find any. I was a pretty happy kid, because I was well taken care of by my biological parents as well as my family spirits. My safe and happy kid days had continued until I turned to 11 years old. From the age of 11, I came out from their protective hands and started experiencing tough challenges. So, my traumatic events were focused on for 27 years from the age of 11 to 38, when I moved to America.

As for the healing process for these 27 years, I have already taken care of. My biggest transition in my life happened when I was about to move from Japan to America. During this transition term, I went through a great amount of healing process.  To me, it was like a near death experience. During this death experience, my family spirits showed me a digest version of my life so far. Just like a movie. Most of the parts that I was shown were the parts that I didn’t want to see. The memory at that time came back to me vividly, and I felt the feeling one more time until I owned and learned from the event fully.

During the process, I got angry, suffered from regret, shed tears, or forgave myself for my immature decisions. Then, I could finally release it. I repeated this process on all the uncomfortable memories.

So, now, I am ready to start the healing process of my past life. After I moved to America, my family spirits let me see one of the biggest traumatic event of my past life. Since it dealt with my dear family’ death, it was not easy for me to forgive the enemies for long. I have to admit I am still dealing with the healing process.

On the first night, I had a dream that I was staying at the hot spring hotel. The hotel was a tall building with many floors, perhaps around 50 floors. At each floor, they had a different type of hot spring. To me, a dream of hot spring means that I received some types of healing methods.

On the second night, which was last night, a black bear came into my dream. My power animal is a bear, so every time a bear comes in my dream, it also means I receive some type of healing processes or supports. In this dream, the black bear represented my strong will to heal.

At the begging of my dream, I recognized a black bear, about 30 meters ahead of me. The bear and I stared at each other. Since I was reluctant of facing at the bear, which was my strong will, I kept a distance from the bear. Whenever the bear tried to come closer to me, I walked to the opposite direction. However, at the certain point, I recognized that I could not do this forever. I decided to face to the bear. As in the spirit world and dream world where a thought creates the new reality, right after I thought about facing to the bear, the bear was sitting right in front of me. I started talking about my feeling to the bear. I knew it was my first brave step toward the healing process.

This is how our real world and spirit world work together. Whatever you do in the real world, it works in the spirit world too. They are back to back, never going alone.

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Today my daughter came back with a big smile. She won the second place at the artwork contest that the local public library held. In this contest, kids were asked to create any kind of creative object by using candies and marshmallows.

My daughter made a flower bouquet. Her flower bouquet was pretty. The color was well organized in a variety of different tones of pink and white. It had certain power to make people happy. Through her artwork, people can see her kind heart. Her artwork always has pure and happy energy.

Last weekend when we ate at the Chinese restaurant, she carefully picked her fortune cookie. Her fortune says;

You are gifted with artistic talents.

We all laughed and said “Yes, we know.”

By the way, my fortune says

A distant friendship could begin to look more promising.

I thought to myself, “Yes, I know.” I have precious friends in Japan and Australia.

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Today I watched the interview of a former Japanese newsreader who died from breast cancer on June 22nd 2017.

The interview was held on January 2017, which was six months before from now on. She looked healthy and answered the interview with her normal voice tone.

During the interview, I felt her great love to her husband. After she experienced great amount of sadness and loneliness that she could not express in wording nor share with others, she could somewhat start understanding her husband’s feeling that he had had since he was a small child. The way she expressed her appreciation to her husband and her other family members was touched my heart.

I would like to say thank you to her soul to share her story with us. Her life reminded me of the importance of living our life fully. Although her life span was short, she could experience a great amount of love. And she shared them with many people by being a public figure. I am sure that her soul was welcomed and praised by her family spirits for her living fully her life.

Every individual has their own unique experiences. I would like to honor everybody on their precious life experiences.

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I watched the movie The Shack (2017). The Japanese title seems to be set as アメイジング・ジャーニー 神の小屋より. And it will come to the theater on September 9th 2017 in Japan.

This movie is based on the nonfiction novel written by a Canadian author. The novel originally was self-published, and later became a USA Today bestseller.

I am not going to tell you the details in order to reserve your fun on watching this movie. I just want to share some of my personal review about this movie.

I loved this movie. The novel is based on Christianity, but in my opinion, you can see the basic idea of spirituality in this movie.

My favorite part is the conversation between the main character and God. For many people who have some traumatic experiences, it is not easy to forgive the bad person who has caused the traumatic events. It is not easy to forgive their deeds.

God tells the main character to make efforts to forgive. It is good to say it out loud “I forgive you.” It will not be easy for the first time, however, repeating this effort (saying it out loud) will eventually make it real (you can eventually feel you can forgive).

As for the judgement feeling toward the bad person, trust God will take care of it. God says “all the actions bear its consequences.”

It resonates with me. It is not my job to judge and punish the people who did bad things to me. Besides, I don’t want to spend my precious time on being vigilante. I prefer to spend my time and energy on something good on myself. I prefer to believe God or Universe will take care of it, to make it fair at the end.

Same logic is applied to the good deeds as well. That is why it is important to keep being kind and nice to other people. Our good deeds in daily life will impact the bigger world.   

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Today, I went to the planetarium again. Nowadays I go there very often. Today’s show was new one which is probably special during summer vacation.

In this show, Magic Tree House® Space Mission, two kids go to the adventure to the space to find out answers for some questions. It was easy for me to follow the story and understand because they use easy terms for kids to understand.

Whenever I think of my “summer night adventure”, my memory goes back to one summer camping when I participated at the age of 11.  It was 2 nights and 3 days camping. For the first night, we slept together with the team members, but on the second night, we needed to sleep alone.

When I heard that, I was freaked out. I never slept alone until then. Since I have an older brother, I slept with him every night. I was not sure if I could sleep alone.

We set up our one-person tent during the daytime. I remember I felt so scared while I was setting the tent.

After the sun set, the camp leader told all the kids to follow him to the middle of meadow. There, we all sat down on the grass field. It was pitch dark, since that area did not have any bright light from streets or buildings.

Then, the camp leader took out a flash light and turned it on. He shined the flash light to the sky and started telling us some stories about certain stars. It blew me away. Those days I had an excellent eye vision so that I could see even tiny and dim stars with my naked eyes. After listened to his star stories, I noticed myself calmed down. I felt myself being a part of a big nature. Above us, we have stars watching over us.

When I went inside of my one-person tent, I was not scared anymore. I could sleep soundly with the confidence of being watched over by nature.  

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I had a dream this morning. A spider came in to the room, so I grabbed a flyswatter and banged the spider and killed it. Then, a fly came in to the room, so I killed it with the flyswatter in one shot.

I usually receive messages from my family spirits before I wake up, but this morning I didn’t. I had a good feeling from this dream, and so, at least I knew it should be a good message.

I looked it up many different people’s interpretation of this dream online. Most of them say it implies a good luck in human relationship or finance is on my way.

Interestingly, one website says the different interpretation. It says that any person whom I dislike or the person who disturbs my way will disappear. After I thought about any such person, I recognized I don’t have anybody whom I dislike.

I was surprised. Wow. This is a great improvement for me that I don’t hate anybody. I thought about my younger days when I had a whole bunch of people whom I disliked, especially in my workplace. But right now, NONE. What a great improvement for me. Yay!

I make efforts on this improvement.

In current daily life, whenever I run into somebody who is not nice to me or whom I feel uncomfortable, I at least make my efforts to like the person. I try to find something good about the person so that I can spend time with the person comfortably. Most of the time, whenever I put a smile on my face and say something nice to the person or do something kind to the person, that will break the ice between us, and I will be able to feel comfortable spending time with the person. I guess, aging is not bad at all. I have learned from my tough experiences in my younger days.

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Last night I attended the workshop sponsored by the local university. The target audience was small business owners, and the topic was to discover your customers.

The speaker shared his personal knowledge on how to discover your customers.

Here are some tips that I learned from the speaker today.

In order to widen your potential, first, ask advice to your family member. Usually your mom is the best person to ask for advice. Second, fully utilize your network. – This is true. Your family is on your side but they can see situations and potential customers more objectively than you do. Indeed, people is eager to help you. When you ask for help, they are willing to help with whatever they can.

Then, the speaker shared some technique in writing an email. Take time to write an email. Start taking about some common ground, such as “we met at the workshop the other day” or “I am a friend of your coworker”. This helps the email receiver to recognize that you are a regiment person, not spam. Take time to create some template based on the situation.

Finally, the speaker shared some technique in a phone conversation. He demonstrated four patterns in different situations. During the conversation, let a customer talk — refrain taking over the topic. This is your valuable opportunity to know your customer. Take a memo of any of your impression or thoughts about the customer. Write down about what kind of topic a customer likes or dislikes. In case a customer navigates the topic to negative way, take a lead to change it to a positive way. This resonates me very well. I feel the best technique to navigate a great conversation is to listen carefully to the other.

This workshop was beneficial for me. These types of tips and technique cannot be gained in school. Rather, we can gain through our direct experiences in daily life. I am away from business world for these 10 years. So, it was good for me to refresh my memory on how to navigate a conversation in positive way.

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