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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Today is the Day-6 since we came back from Japan. This morning, I finally could wake up normally in the morning. The web article was right. It says six to nine days to fully recover from jet lag. My daughter was the same way. She could finally woke up by herself at the normal time. She made it to the school bus as normal. At the past three days, she could not make it to the bus, so I gave her a ride to school. It is good to get back to normal.

This morning I had a dream of ants. In my room, I saw a whole bunch of big ants here and there. I didn’t feel any negative feeling. Instead, I felt this dream represented to praise my daily efforts.

I feel something was changed in me, after my trip to Japan. My energy was uplifted. My way of thinking was changed into positive.

The biggest change is my feeling about my mom.

In the past, we did not have enough communication. The lacking in communication brought us misunderstanding each other. Eventually, that caused us not to get in touch one another anymore. We went through several years not to talk each other. I had doubt about my mom.

During my recent trip, my mom and I had an intense talk. We communicated well. We expressed our feeling and listened carefully one another. After our communication, now I fully trust my mom. Now I feel comfortable to think about my mom. Now I know about my mom’s true feeling. The truth was she has been loving me all my life. Since she expressed her love in a weird way, I couldn’t understand her.

For the past many years, I had thought and wished to have an opportunity to talk to my mom like this. I think this task was one of my life missions. I am glad I finally cleared it. I proudly checked my to-do-list for this task.

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Have you ever heard of the Japanese term “omotenashi”? This word has been often heard through media since Japan got the right to host the 2020 Olympic Games. In fact, when you google the word, you will find about 1,730,000 results.

I am Japanese, and I thought I was familiar with the essence of omotenashi. However, my recent visit to Japan made me truly realize the great value of Japanese people.

In my visit, the heartwarming omotenashi started from the moment when I landed at the Japanese airport. The workers were very nice and friendly.  Everybody whom I encountered during my stay offered me their kind supports. Japanese hospitality is offered in a natural and humble way.

I didn’t encounter even one Japanese worker who was rude or arrogant, whenever I went. Now I live in America, I know how amazing Japanese services are.

Many Japanese people fully realize and appreciate for Japanese people’s soul maturity, after they live in a foreign country. I am one of them. I feel blessed to be able to be born as Japanese this lifetime.

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It has been 4 days since I came back from Japan. I am still suffering from jet lag. I wake up after midnight and cannot go right back to sleep. Then, after I finally fall asleep, I have a hard time to wake up in the morning. Among all, daytime is the hardest time. I have a hard time to stay up after lunchtime. My daughter is the same way. She could not wake up as normal in the morning for these two days.

The web article says it may take six to nine days to fully recover from jet lag. Hopefully, we will be fully recovered by next week.

In my 20s and 30s, I often traveled abroad. I don’t even remember if I ever suffered from jet lag. Maybe it was because my body was used to the time change. And also, it is because I could easily sleep in public transportation.

Thinking about traveling by airplane, I noticed many changes in their systems. There used to have smoking areas within airplanes and airports. Nowadays most airplanes and airports are smoke free. I am glad this system has been changed into this way. The airport security screening system used to be simpler and easy, but nowadays all the travelers have to go through uncomfortable screening of our bodies and belongings. I don’t like the current security screening, but it is for our safety anyway.

Everything in this planet, where we use the linear time system, nothing can go backward. All we can do is adjust ourselves to the new systems as soon as possible. In the future, in our children’s or grandchildren’s age, I hope airplanes might go faster so that they can go foreign countries much faster and more comfortable than now.    

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Now we are in the middle of October. By this time of the year, it is supposed to be autumn with a cool temperature. Therefore, I brought autumn clothing to my trip to Japan.

For some reasons, however, during my stay in Japan, I experienced extremely hot days except for my arrival day and departure day. On my arrival day, they had a rain in the morning. By the time when I arrived at Japan in the evening, the rain had stopped. On my departure day, we had a cloudy day with sprinkling rain. Other than that, every day during my stay, we had sunny days with extremely high temperature. That reminded me of Arizona climate.

I am glad I had sunny days during my stay, so that we could enjoy the clear and sunny sky every day.

After I left Japan, some of my Japanese friends told me they are having a very cold days with high wind and rain. The current temperature over there is like that of December.

My husband told me that I brought “hot Arizona” to Japan. That made total sense to me.

When I was young and traveled to Navajoland, I often had a rainy day in Navajoland during my stay. Since Navajoland is the dry land, they needed rain. The Navajo medicine people often told me that I brought rain to Navajoland from Japan, just like an ambassador between the two countries. They appreciated me for bringing rain to their land.

Somehow, I bring the weather energy with me whenever I go.

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In order to travel between America and Japan, we have to take a long hour tiresome flight. In such the long flight, luckily I did not get bored, because I encountered one great movie. I thought it was a new movie but it was not. In fact, it was published seven years ago.

The title of the movie is Eat Pray Love (2010).  The main character is Julia Roberts.

I liked the movie very much. I even watched it three times straight. At first, I watched it in Japanese voice-over, then, in English, and at last, in English again. I thought it interesting to watch a movie in different languages. When I watched in Japanese voice-over, the main character seemed to be humble and polite. When I watched in the original English voice-over, the main character seemed to be a typical American woman. The voice changes the impact to the audience’s impression. Perhaps, I give different impression to others between the time when I speak my own language Japanese and the time when I speak my foreign language English.   

Anyways, there is one scene that resonated with me so much. Here I want to share with you.

“There’s a wonderful old Italian joke about a poor man who goes to church every day and prays before the statue of a great saint, begging, “Dear saint-please, please, please…give me the grace to win the lottery.” This lament goes on for months. Finally the exasperated statue comes to life, looks down at the begging man and says in weary disgust, “My son-please, please, please…buy a ticket.” —Note: I quoted from Goodreads homepage: Quotes About Eat Pray Love

The author states “Prayer is a relationship; half the job is mine.”

I totally agree with her statement. I believe that when we ask for something, we need to take the necessary action half, then God or spirits takes care of the reminder half. Suppose if there is the long stairs between humans and divine beings. We humans have to climb up the stairs in a lower half way, and the spirits (angels or God, whichever you name) come down a higher half way. At the middle of stairs, we meet up. There, we can talk about our prayer and wish, and the holy beings give us the necessary support and advice to make it happen. Therefore, in order to make something happen, it is a job done cooperatively with a human and the divine beings.

I want to share one more information. This movie was based on the book written by American woman Elizabeth Gilbert. This book turned out a huge hit. I found her TED Talk Your elusive creative genius.

I like her talk very much. She talks about creativity. Creativity comes from divine beings. They don’t care of our humans’ daily life. They come to us and give us amazing idea at our most unexpected moment. She suggests to keep on doing our job whether you can catch the glimpse from divine beings or not.

She ends her talk by saying “Olé!” to you, nonetheless.” I love it.

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We stayed one night at my friend’s house. Today was the last day of our trip in Japan.

My friend and I definitely have a strong spiritual connection. We met in Lakota land in 2006. We both participated the Lakota tour for one week. I was hired as an interpreter, and she was our customer for the tour. We shared some fun and spiritual experiences together such as a sweat lodge ceremony and a horseback riding. We even slept outdoor together. I felt comfortable to exchange our feelings and messages that we received with her.

We also share our life events at the similar timing. She and her boyfriend had lived together for 10 years, then they got married. My husband and I also had known each other for 10 years before our marriage. After four months from their marriage, my husband and I got married. It happened naturally. They attended at our Navajo traditional wedding ceremony held in Navajoland. One year after our daughter was born, their daughter was born. So, our daughters are just one year apart and shared the same birth month.

My daughter and her daughter met each other for their first time. They became friends right away.

An interesting coincidence happened.

Right after we said good-by to them at the airport, while we were walking to the custom, my daughter told me she and her new friend actually knew each other for long time. Before they were born, they were together in the sky, as angels. They came from the same star. They were observing us as their mom-to-be from the sky. When my friend and I became friends, my daughter and her daughter were so happy. Because that meant that they would be able to see each other after they were born.

A couple of days later, I received an email from my friend. She told me that her daughter said the same thing as what my daughter had said to me. She remembered my daughter and that they stayed together in the sky observing us.

In the process of our life, we encounter such strong spiritual connections. It does not happen all the time. And that is why it is very precious. We have to cherish such connections.

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I received a 90-minute lomi lomi massage from my friend. I loved it.

I think she started the massage session from her prayer. Although she said her prayer quietly in her mind and it was not audible, I certainly felt the energy surrounding us uplifted. I felt her sincere prayer for me about my good health mentally and physically.

The 90 minutes went by quickly as I was in the deep meditation state. My conscious was somewhat awake but stayed being quiet for me. I was filled with appreciation feeling toward her. Her massage touch was just right; not too strong, not too weak.

So far, I have received a variety of massages from both Japanese and American. I don’t know exactly how many times I had. Perhaps, more than 30 times. With my experiences so far, I am for sure my friend’s massage session was the best ever for me. I definitely would love to recommend hers to anybody I know.

On that night, I had a deep relaxing asleep. On the next morning, I felt much energized. I felt lighter in mind and body.

I love receiving massage, but someday, I also would love to learn it at school and offer my sincere massage to my loved ones. That is my strong desire.

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In Japan, the air is moisten. In this trip, I am enjoying new findings about Japan, which I didn’t pay attention when I was living here. The moistened air is one of them. I am surprised how this moistened air is good for my skin and hair. We cannot experience this type of moisture in our skin and hair in the dry aired Arizona.

During the trip, I walked a lot. I felt comfortable to see the dirt ground covered by green grasses and moss plants. There are also lots of clovers.

Since I was small, I had one thing I could brag about. I am good at finding a four-leaf clover. As soon as I start finding it, I see it right away. It always has been like that. During this trip too, I kept on finding a four-leaf clover whenever we encountered a clover family area. As you know, a four leaf clover brings a good luck to the finder. So, that means I am good at finding a good luck.

While I found a four leaf clover every time we looked for, my daughter always found a five leaf clover. A five-leave clover is far rarer than a four leaf clover. One person says in his blog The Odds of Finding a Four-Leaf Clover that “Irish legend indicates that those who find a five-leaf clover will actually have more luck and financial success than those who just find a four-leaf clover.” So, my daughter is better than me in finding a good luck.

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