I watched the DVD of Abraham. Abraham is a group soul that Esther Hicks channels. I started watching and listening her channeling videos and audios for 9 years as of now. I love their teaching and answers to the audience.

In today’s video, what stood out for me was the question about animals.

One person asked about eating animal meat. Do we need to switch to vegetarian? Do we need to feel guilty in eating animal meat? Abraham answered that the souls of animals came to this manifestation dimension knowingly. That means they know they will be food for humans. In animal kingdom, all the living creatures belong to the ecological food chain. They all know they eat something smaller or weaker, and they are eaten by something bigger or stronger than them. If they don’t like to be eaten by human, they won’t come to this manifestation dimension. In other words, they come here, and that means they know and understand they will be eaten by humans; they will be part of energy of humans.

Other person asked what animals and pets think about receiving healing work from humans. Abraham answered that animals are annoyed by that. It made me laugh. I agree. Animals have higher energy; higher vibration than humans. They know how to keep a good balance within them. Even when they get sick, they don’t fight. They don’t scare of death, like humans do. In my opinion, animals can be healers for humans, but not vice versa. To me, the idea that humans want to heal animals is based on humans’ ego.

Another person asked about crystals. She goes to mountain and digs crystals out, and sells them in her business. Some of her customers asked if it is okay for her to dig out crystals from the mother earth. Abraham answered it is okay. To me, it sounds like if crystal stone wants to be hidden in the deep inside of mother earth, it won’t come out to let humans to dig out. It sounds to me that when you find a crystal stone, that means the crystal stone allows you to find it, you already have a permission from the crystal stone to dig out and bring it back to your house.

While listening the communication between Abraham and the audience, I kept on having one message. The message is to focus on ourselves first, instead of worrying about other things such as animals or mother earth.

I agree with this message. Before we do something to others, we first take care of ourselves. Our thoughts create the reality. I think I am finally understanding the universal logic.

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I watched the movie Wolf Children. It is a Japanese movie, and the original title is おおかみこどもの雨と雪 Ōkami Kodomo no Ame to Yuki.

It is a great movie. It is fun, cute, and romantic.

I should not write the story in details on behalf of people who is going to watch. But I want to share what I learned and experienced from this movie.

It is a love story. It is a story of a family; dad, mom, and two children; a boy and a girl.

I got very emotional when I saw the little boy was so attached to his mother when he was little. The little boy would stay with his mom all the time. He loved his mom’s gently stroking on his back with her calming voiced mantra “everything will be okay”. When the son grew up at the age of 10, he decided his way of life. Although the mom was very sad to see his son leaving, she respected her son’s decision and let him choose his way.

I could not watch this movie without tears. I thought about my son-to-be who could not be born in a physical body. I knew if he were born, we would be so attached to one another. Then, when the time has come for him to be independent and choose his way in life, I would be very sad but at the same time, I know I would respect his free will.

As a matter of fact, I already experienced it. When I was pregnant with him, although it was only for 9 to 10 weeks, I was so happy to feel him and stay with him. Then, things didn’t go well during my pregnancy and his soul needed to go back to his spirit hometown. Although I was very sad of his leaving, I could respect his will and let him go, for his highest good. I am fine with this relationship with my spirit son. Because I am just a thought away from him. I feel his existence whenever I want to communicate with him.

It can be said to other relationships as well. Staying with your significant others (such as family and friends) physically close is wonderful, but even if we are separated in physical distance, we can be connected by our thoughts. I think if we love somebody truly and unconditionally, physical distance does not matter. And we can respect the person’s free will for his/her highest good.

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Today I want to talk about sleep length. People have different opinion about sleep length. Some need eight hours while others think they can survive only four hours sleep a day. When I googled sleeping length, I found many people wrote an article about the myth of eight-hour sleep.

This is my personal understanding and belief. I believe high quality and enough length sleeping is a must for everybody.

“High quality sleep” is a sleep that we can freely go back to our spiritual homeland without any disturbance. When we have concerns or worries before sleep, our Etheric body becomes so heavy that we cannot flow back to our homeland quickly. In some cases when our etheric body is too heavy to fly, that is how we get stuck in the middle world and we cannot get rid of any tiredness even after sleeping. The middle dimension is located between physical body and our spiritual homeland. The middle dimension is where some souls who cannot go back to their spiritual homeland after their death. The reasons vary to each soul. Some due to their belief system after death, and some have so heavy obsession to something such as money or somebody.

“Enough sleep length” varies to people. In my belief, we are supposed to have eight hours sleep a day in average in our entire life.

Let me explain what I mean saying “average in our entire life.” When I was working in Japan, I had so much concerns about everything and I could not sleep well. Especially when I was working as a freelance translator, my sleep length used to be four hours a day at the maximum. Because I was working alone, and usually the deadline was tight, I was obsessed to finish my work done before the deadline. I used to whip myself to stay up late and tried to finish my work as soon as possible.

Nowadays I sleep nine to ten hours a day. I feel like my body is trying to compensate of lucking of sleep in my young days. Eventually my average sleep length in my entire life will catch up with eight-hour sleep a day.

Now I thought back to my younger days, I know “high quality sleep” and “enough sleep length” make me more productive. I can concentrate more and I have higher energy so that I can receive enough support from my family souls.

So, here is a tip for you. Whenever you get stuck for something, instead of forcing yourself lacking sleep, just surrender and go to bed. After high quality sleep and enough sleep length, you will be amazed on your high efficiency on your performance.  

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I don’t like my pictures taken. I don’t like it especially when somebody takes my picture and I don’t know what the person will do for the picture. I don’t like to be posted my picture in any kinds of SNS or tagged my picture in my Facebook without my permission.

I was like that even when I was small. I remember I didn’t like my pictures taken by the school teachers or other classmates’ parents. Whenever some strangers took pictures of us, whenever I could, I hid myself from somebody’s back. I am sure this dislike regarding photo is rooted from my past lives.

Have you ever heard that elders of Native American and Australian Aborigines don’t like their pictures to be taken? Some people say it is because they believe the photo shooting takes part of your soul. I believe that, and that is why I don’t like my pictures taken by strangers.

In this modern days, everybody takes pictures and posts the pictures without the permission from the person in the picture.

I want to share two of my personal experiences regarding the picture taken of my daughter.

First experience is a good one about people with commonsense. When she was still small (before reaching at the school age), in the library or the park, strangers came up to me and asked me if they could take pictures of my daughter (because she was so cute.) I would always reject their request with my politeness and respect. I appreciated them for asking me a permission and I asked them not to take pictures of me or my daughter. I just told them the reason as “for our safety.”

“For our safety” is the most appropriate reason. Many people don’t understand that we are all energy. We are all made by vibration. I believe that our part of energy (our part of soul) enters even in a photo.

The second experience is not a pleasant one. At the preschool, the parents received a letter from the director. The letter was to inform the graduation ceremony. Also it asked parents to let her know if any of us don’t feel comfortable to our child’s pictures taken and posted in SNS. So I visited the director, who was young maybe in her late 20s. I explained the reason why I don’t want my daughter’s picture taken and posted in SNS. Then, the director, to my surprise, started raising her voice. What she told me did not sound right. She said “This is America. We live in America. Americans do whatever they want. America is the country of freedom. I, as the director, cannot stop anybody posing their pictures in their SNS. They might have their parents or grandparents in another state. Such long distance family enjoy the pictures posted in SNS.” She suggested me not to attend the graduation ceremony.

I was furious. I wanted to raise this conversation as a complaint to her supervisor or somebody who is responsible to the preschool, but I didn’t for our safety.

The lesson that I learned from this experience is to protect myself and my family as much as possible. And, I should express my feeling about taking pictures and posting in SNS whenever I need to. I wonder what other people who have same opinions with me will do.

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I have heard many people saying that last year (the year of 2016) was the toughest one ever. I did have tough year in 2016. It was tough as a family, but not to me personally. I already went through my toughest one in 2002.

In 2002, everything I did went wrong or to the direction where I did not prefer. I completely lost confidence in myself. I lost interest in talking with anybody. I just wanted to stay home alone, doing nothing and talking nothing. However, in those days I was living alone. I needed to take care of myself. Regardless of my depression, I needed to go to work to earn money to pay off my bills. These days I shut off my heart to anybody. I seldom went to lunch or dinner with my friends. I hardly never talked on the phone with my friends.

I thought about how I could survive this tough year. During the tough days, I kept seeing myself as very strong in spirit. I kept telling myself about that. I kept having hope in the near future. During these days, I read my natal horoscope chart thoroughly. I wanted to reconnect with my soul. I wanted to know what my intention to come to this lifetime was. I also devoted lots of time to meditate. I wanted to see every tough events that happened to me, from a wider perspectives. Instead of focusing on each small events, seeing things in a bigger picture does help to see the future. That was how I survived my tough days.

I am sure that these tough days made me better and stronger than before. I don’t want to go through them again, but I appreciate these tough experiences. These tough events are now my good memories.

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Recently I started making “sun water.” It has been two weeks as of today. I am enjoying it so much so that I want to share it with you.  

To make sun water is not difficult at all. I put filtered water in a glass jar with a lid, and placed the glass jar in the sun.

Nowadays my day starts from going out to my back yard. I bring the water glass jar to my back yard, put it on a chair where it gets enough sun light.

Then, I sit down on a chair, put my bare foot on the ground. And I enjoy earthling as well as a short meditation. Usually only 5 to 10 minutes. Not very long. But very helpful for me.

I leave the water glass jar for about two hours in the sun. Sun water tastes milder than normal filtered water. If you love moon better than Sun, you can try this method on your favorite moon phase day. My sun water is a morning sun water.

If you are a full moon lover, do it on a full moon night. If you are a new moon lover, do it on a new moon night. Enjoy.

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In my front yard, we have lots of roses; red, yellow, and white. In my back yard, we have lots of mints, thyme, and sage.

Nowadays I started noticing my gray hair here and there. I don’t want to use any unnecessary chemical in my body, so I am not going to use any kinds of commercially available hair dye products. Then, I thought about my herbs in my back yard. When I searched the information, a bunch of articles are talking about DIY hair dye using sage.

So, this morning, I went to the store and got an empty spray bottle. Then, I went to my back yard, stood in front of sage. I told them I would like to ask their permission and support to make my DIY hair dye using sage. Then I said Thank-You to the sage and picked some bunches.

I boiled the sage leaves with hot water for a while. During the process of making a hair dye with sage, my thoughts went back to my memories of my past lives. I strongly felt that I used to make natural medicines using herbs by communicating with natural kingdom. I enjoyed the nostalgic feeling for a while.

My entire house was filled with gentle flagrance. The articles say we cannot expect a sudden hair color change with a sage hair dye, but after some weeks, we will start noticing the change. It won’t dramatically change the hair color but works on boosting the good health in scalp and entire body. I will update the change in some weeks later.

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I found an interesting app “How Old Do I Look?” From curiosity, I checked about myself, my husband, and my daughter.

Three of us took the pictures at the exact same conditions; at the same time, under the same light condition, and at the same angle. We took two pictures each. The perceived age of my husband and my daughter from their two different pictures both showed the right on thier age; their actual age. We were amazed.

For me, I got the result of my perceived age from my two different pictures as 10 years younger than my real age.

I usually don’t mind on how people think of my age; on either I look older or younger than my real age. At least that is what I tell to people. However, when I saw these results of 10 years younger appearance than my real age, I could not stop putting a big smile on my face.

I guess I am the same as many other people. I feel happy when people see me younger than my real age. I already passed the turning point of my life. I want to keep appearing younger than my real age for my latter half of my life.

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Today I want to share with you about one interesting synchronicity.

Yesterday when I was chatting with my friend, she concerned about her coworker whose mood swings a lot. My friend got stressed out with her coworker.

I instantly got a message for her. Maybe the message came from her guide spirits. I conveyed the message to her. It was about taking deep breathing. I mentioned to her about how important and how valuable to take a nice long deep breath before we express our feeling to others, either in an email or in face-to-face conversation.

This morning, I started reading some unread promotion emails from spiritual teachers. Interestingly, two of them mentioned about the importance of breathing and shared some technique of beneficial breathing for healing. I thought it interesting synchronicity. The people all over the world is getting the same message regarding the importance of breathing.

One spiritual teacher mentioned that we take it for granted about the importance of our lungs. I agree with her. We tend to take it for granted.

Yesterday in the Ki-Gong class, the instructor mentioned to give thanks to all our body parts. We gave the specific body parts a thank-you-kiss.

I thought about my lungs. In my early age, I used to have strong lungs. At the elementary school and the junior high school, when I had a lung capacity test at the psychical checkup, my result value used to be much higher than the average value. I think that is why I was good at long-distant swimming and a marathon. As I age, however, I have developed the habit of taking quick and shallow breaths.

I think a little daily effort to pay attention to our breathing will make a huge difference, not only to the strength in our lungs but also to our mental health.  

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My daughter told me about one of her friends. My daughter noticed that the friend often seems to be very happy playing alone. She even puts a big smile on her face when playing by herself.

The friend was in the same class with my daughter for these two years, so I have talked to her several times. She is not shy nor weird; rather, she is polite and pleasant.

My daughter was wondering why the friend can be happy by playing all by herself. She was wondering why the friend does not feel lonely by being alone.

I told her perhaps the friend has many invisible friends. They can be fairies, angels, or spirits. She won’t feel lonely because she knows she is always surrounded by invisible friends.

When I was small, I used to play with such invisible friends. So I know them pretty well. The invisible friends are fun to hang around. And they are very loyal and trustworthy.

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