In these recent years, I have tried to live my life without merchandised products as much as I can. It helps to get rid of unnecessary chemicals from my body as well as to save daily costs.

I make my laundry detergent at home. I make my bath bomb at home. I make my cleaning detergent at home. I make my sanitary pads at home. I make my shirts, pants, and skirts at home.

I use olive oil for hair moisturizer. I use coconut oil for face and skin moisturizer. I brush my teeth and rinse my mouth with baking soda. I use vinegar as softer when washing clothes.

Last night I used vinegar as hair conditioner. I was amazed the efficiency. It soften my hair as well as moisten my skin.

I am amazed how our daily things can be handy. Items such as vinegar, baking soda, and coconut oil are inexpensive and handy in our daily life.

My house does not have a microwave since October 2016. It has been 6 months without a microwave. I noticed it totally fine. Getting rid of the harm of electromagnetic radiation caused by a microwave might be subtle but when it accumulates years and years, it will show much improvement for our body.

Let’s continue doing our efforts to maintain our good health. We can start from tiny efforts in our daily life. Taking small steps every day continuously will eventually amaze us on how far we have come from the start point.

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When I was a teenager, the doctor told me my spine is missing one bone. I was born like that. I think that is why I have chronic pain in my back. Whenever I had a severe pain in my back, I used to go to the local osteopathic clinic. The clinic was very small. The osteopath therapist was an old man. He used one room of his residence house as a clinic room.

I used to go see him for my back pain very frequently. My health insurance covered the therapy and my fee was always 500 Japanese Yen (approximately $5); very reasonable price.

Every time when I went there, I entered the clinic with severe back pain. It was almost impossible for me to normally walk. I needed to bend my body and walked like an old person.

The osteopath would give me a quick treatment (for less than 10 minutes) by pushing and moving my bones in certain area. With his treatment, all my pain would go away right away. I always felt like he had a magic wand or something to fix my bone alignment. After the quick magical therapy, I always left the clinic without any pain. I could even run back to my house. I would feel I got taller with his treatment.

The osteopath always warned me not to cross legs, because it caused the distortion of the spines. In my younger days, I often crossed my legs as my unconscious habit. Nowadays I completely stop crossing legs.

Now I am in America. I cannot find any osteopaths in my area. Chiropractors are available, but health insurance does not cover the fee. I heard the average fee of chiropractic treatment is around $70 for less than 10 minutes. Due to the high fee, I am reluctant to have the chiropractic treatment.

I really miss the Japanese medical system which offers the osteopath in such a very reasonable copay. I know the osteopath will be able to fix my pain in the left arm within 10 minutes, and he won’t charge much for the miracle.

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Recently I thought about earthing. Several years ago, one of my acquaintances showed me the earthing sheet and mat that she purchased online. I did not have opportunity to ask her to let me try out, so I don’t know if the products work well or not.

I did some research about an earthing sheet and an eathing mat. These products can be a bit pricy and I hesitated to purchase them right away. Then, I heard my inner voice saying “just go outside and enjoy standing on the Earth with bare feet.”

So I followed my inner voice. I went to the backyard, took off my shoes and socks, and enjoyed the earth with my bare feet.

I don’t know how to explain but I felt so calmed and relaxed.

I have kept doing this for about one week so far. Regardless of the weather, on a rainy day, a windy day, and a sunny day, even only five minutes or so, I do my new routine every day. It does make difference in my health mentally and physically.

The simple and luxurious time can be created for free of charge. We are surrounded by abundance.

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I sweat a lot. When I was in my late 20s, I worked as a sales person and wore a dress shirt and a business suit jacket during the work. I hated my sweating, especially in my under arms. Younger version of me thought my excessive sweating as a curse.

In such days, I seriously had thought about having a surgery to get rid of sweat glands in arm pits. My boyfriend-at-that-time and my friends were strongly opposed to my idea. They persuaded me not to have the surgery. They said sweating is necessary for maintaining good health. So I refrained from having the surgery.

Since then, I have studied about human body’s vital energy and immune systems. Our body naturally tries to maintain our good health by cleansing energy. Our body functions on constant circulation, by bringing in fresh energy and taking out used energy. Sweating is one of the most beneficial functions in our body. 

As a result of my research and study, now, 47 years old version of me think of my excessive sweating as a blessing. I appreciates for my body and sweating function.

We are designed to sweat. Everybody needs to sweat for the energy circulation in our body. So, sweating is good. And, I truly appreciate my boyfriend-at-that-time and my friends to stop me having the surgery.

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I went to the rehabilitation center. The pain in my left arm has been so bad to the extent that I cannot ignore the pain anymore.

I hate going to the hospital so I was reluctant to go there as usual. But today’s experience in the rehabilitation center was totally different. Everybody that I met there was polite and nice. And most importantly, they were helpful. It is always good to dealt with nice people from the beginnng to the end.

My physical therapists was a young female, maybe in her 20s. After the diagnosis, she treated me the dry needling.

It was my first time to receive the dry needling treatment. It is similar to acupuncture. Dry needling is used to treat myofascial pain. It came with slight pain with the needle poking, but I felt the point where energy was clogged now started going smoothly.

I still cannot say my pain is all gone, but at least, I made a progress in moving my arm.

I have four more treatments coming up. I hope through these treatments, my pain will all go away and I will get back to a normal state.

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Today my essential oil I ordered online arrived. When I picked up the box, it smelled so good. I mean, so very good. When I opened the box, I found that damaged bottle. The essential bottle was completely broken and the glass was scattered everywhere in the box.

All of a sudden, one of my old memories came back to me.

When I was in Japan, I was communicating with my husband through airmails. In those days, 15 years ago, my husband’s house area did not have internet access. He didn’t have fax either. So, the only way we communicated was through airmails.

One day when I received his airmail, the letter envelop and the papers smelled so good. I knew he was not the type of person who puts essential oil or fragrance in letter envelop and papers. Since I could not ask him the reason via phone or email, I didn’t know the reason.

I wondered why they smelled so good. They smelled like fresh rose flowers. The fragrance was so uplifting that they made my day. I still remember the happy feeling.

Today’s experience, my essential oil bottle broken while being delivered, gave me the answer. So, my husband’s letter was located close to somebody’s essential oil or fragrance while they were delivered, at that time.

My conclusion made me feel happy. So, I received my essential oil bottle broken, and it can be said unfortunate experience. However, my essential oil’s wonderful fragrance might have made somebody in somewhere in this world very happy.

It is interesting to see one thing from a different angle. Even a tiny event in a daily life might make somebody happy without your being noticed.  

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One more week left in March. This month was a hectic month for me. The weather changes drastically. One day, the temperature was raised to 97F (32C) so we turned on a swamp cooler and wore a tank top and short pants. The next day, we had a windy and rainy day, and the temperature dropped to 52F (11C) so that we turned on a heater and wore a jacket and long pants.

My daughter had 10 days spring vacation and we played together all day long. These 10 days went by so quickly.

As usual, March is my pollen allergy month. I suffered from sneezing and sniffling for days and nights. Thank god, by now, I am getting recovered from these symptoms. March went by like a spring storm.

Since I was small, my favorite season is winter. I love cold weather. I love fresh cold air that our breath gets steamy white. I hate summer and hot weather. When spring comes, I get depressed getting ready for upcoming unfavorable season; hot summer. When autumn comes, I get energized getting reading for upcoming favorable season; cold winter.

Speaking of weather, my dad used to tell me to see people and things in all the four seasons. When I date with a boyfriend, my dad would tell me to see his personality in all seasons. Before I determine if he is truly good for me or not, I should experience his different seasonal personality. My dad would tell me “he might be nice and happy in spring, but he might change into cold and mean in winter. And you have your own tendency depending on each season.” My dad used to tell about other things too, such as in interested study field.

Those days I wouldn’t listen to him seriously, but now, it makes sense to me. It is for sure beneficial to observe people or interested study/field for all the four seasons. It is also beneficial for us to observe ourselves and analyze the pattern depending on each season. It helps to get to know ourselves.

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Recently I kept on having a clear dream almost every day. The dreams always show something symbolic. At first I didn’t understand the meaning. When I see the only one symbol, I would not understand the true meaning and true message.

I write down the dream diary every day. I always add the feeling that I felt in the dream along with the feeling after I woke up.

Today, I carefully took a look of my dream diary, and then asked for my family souls to show me clearer message during my meditation.

And I finally found out. Their message was simple. Come out from shyness.

These days I have been feeling lonely. I feel lonely because I haven’t met my spiritual tribe yet. My dear friend told me that unless I put myself out in the public, unless I put myself in a vulnerable place, my spiritual tribe cannot find me, because they are too hiding from public.

I honestly don’t know exactly how I should come out to the public.

My dear family souls, please guide me my responsibilities. What can I do? How may I serve people? How can I reconnect with my spiritual tribe so that we can support and encourage each other? I know it will be a group of people. And I know once I meet them, I will instantly recognize them as my spiritual tribe.

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I watched the movie “The Abundance Factor” directed by Mr. Riley Dayne.

Toward the ending of the movie, the interviewees were asked a “what if” question. What if you can go back to the past and tell “20 years old you” any message, what would you tell him/her from the point where you are right now? For your information, these interviewees were in their 40s and above.

Their answers were interesting. They would tell younger version of themselves that “Chill out: everything will turn out okay”, “You are doing just fine”, “Enjoy everything”, or “I forgive you whatever you have done”.

One man said he would not change anything even if he is given opportunities to change things. He believes everything was needed to make current him. I agree with him. I believe all the things that I went through was needed to make the current me. I just don’t want to go through them again, so I need to learn from them.

Interesting, isn’t it? When seeing ourselves from current us to younger us, we can be very generous, by sending us unconditional love and forgiving us for our silly mistakes. Even while we are alive, we can act like our spiritual guides.

Then, why can’t we do so from current us to current us? Most people are strict on themselves. They keep hitting the whip to themselves. But as the future version you would tell you, chill out; everything is going fine.

Please ask yourself this question. If you can be generous and kind to younger version you, then, please do so to current version you as well. Let’s know, everything will turn out as they should be.

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Today I found somebody used my email address and emailed me. I learned it is called spoofing. I got panicky and changed password right away.

After some research, I run into one article. The article writer said “if you get spoofed, stay calm. Just delete it and move on.”

He wrote the reasons why. When you find your email address spoofed, if you open the email and do lots of research, following the instructions here and there, that will cause another tragedy. That will cause another spam mail activated or something.

The writer also stated that “it is not your fault. It is everywhere.”

I thought this can be applied to anything. No matter how hard you try to avoid getting influenced by negative energy, as long as you live in a community, you will for sure get influenced by negative energy. It is everywhere. People get negative feeling and spread around. In a workplace, grocery store, school, park, or neighborhood.

Whenever you run into someone who has negative energy and influences you, all you can do is to do your best. Shake it off, take a deep breath in from father universe and breath out unnecessary energy back to mother earth. Mother Earth takes care of it by recycling used energy and gives us back fresh energy through plants.

So, no matter what happens, let’s not get bothered by external factors. All we can do is keep moving forward.

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