In my previous short articles, I mentioned about the pain in my left arm and wrist. Deep inside, I know this pain is nothing to do with my physical condition such as bones or muscles. But the physical leveled me freaks out of this pain. I wanted to know the causes. And I wanted to get rid of this pain as soon as possible.

I talked about this pain to my doctor, and he referred me to have an X-lay. The result was normal. According to the doctor, this is called as rotator cuff tendinitis. It is also known as swimmer’s shoulder, pitcher’s shoulder, or tennis shoulder. In my case, I was a swimmer in my student days, so mine is swimmer’s shoulder.

This doctor’s visit reminded me about my back pain when I was a high school student. I played the volleyball every day at the school club. During that days, I started suffering from the back pain. One day the pain got extreme level that I could not walk. So my mother took me to the doctor and I had an X-lay taken for my back bones.

Based on the X-lay result, the doctor told me I was born lacking one spine. The doctor told me not to worry too much, because I was not the only one. There are many people born like that, lacking 1 or having 1 extra spine.

He said I might have a tendency of chronic back pain. And he suggested me to maintain good muscle in my back so that the muscle could support my back as spine. Since then, I started sit-ups and push-ups at home every day to maintain good muscle. I liked this doctor. He never made me feel scared. He told me to consider this as a blessing, because I would pay more attention to maintain muscle on my body.

Perhaps my left shoulder might be healed with some exercise or muscle training. I will pay more attention to each part of my body. And I will appreciate each of my body for functioning well for me. Maybe, the pain on my left arm wanted me to tell this message.

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I want to share one of my favorite meditations. I call it as a shining meditation.

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Find a quiet place and time. Sit down comfortably.

Imagine a broom in your head. Using your imaginary broom, sweep off any unnecessary thoughts. Sweep off worries, concerns, do-to-lists, and wish lists.

Take three deep relaxing breathe. When you breathe in, imagine white shining light is coming into your body. Feel your body filled with white shining light. Breathe out any unnecessary energy and used energy. Trust mother earth is good at recycling used energy and she will give back refreshed energy. Let go and trust mother earth. Everything is taken care of.

After three deep relaxing breathing, go back to normal breath.

Feel your body is filled with white shining light. Enjoy the white shining energy. You are merged into the light. You are the light. Feel the oneness and enjoy the happy and calm feeling.

Now your body is shining from inside to outside. Your white light is illuminating. It is getting bigger and bigger, coming out from you, filling up your room with white shining light. Then, filling up your house, your neighbor area, city, state, country, and reaching to the entire world. 

You are happy. You are smiling. You are loved. You are taking care of. Your guides and angels are with you, enjoying everything through you.

Before you come back to normal state, let’s show your appreciation to everything and everybody. This white shining light will always stay with you. You are the white shining light.

Slowly come back to your normal state. Take another three slow relaxing breath.

Welcome back. You are ready to go back to your routine now.

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As I wrote down on my short article at the beginning of this year, I feel this year’s theme is “making it happen.” Some people like to pray. I do too. I pray for every little things in a daily life.

But I feel that praying is more like depending on something else rather than myself. I feel it more important to trust ourselves. Instead of asking for help to external existences, by fully trusting myself, I can make the reality happen through my strong will and solid thoughts. We can make the reality as we like.

I want to share an interesting synchronicity. Last night my husband and I prayed for a certain thing. And after our prayer, I asked angels for guidance or message, and pulled one card. The card says “Alchemy.”

I tend to forget the important logic in living on the planet Earth. All the materials look like “real”, however, this is based on our agreements to “look like real”. The truth is we are the one to make it look like real. In other words, we can create any kinds of reality from our thoughts and strong willingness.

So, this is my small suggestion. Once in a while, let’s have a strong will to make things happen as we like, instead of praying really hard. Let’s put our strong energy to our ability to make the reality happen as we like.  

Remember, we are all magical beings. We can create magical things, right?

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I went to see the doctor for my diabetes routine checkup. My A1C got worse than last time. It was 7.0. In addition to that, I gained more weight. I got disappointed.

The good thing for me though is that I have the good doctor whom I respect. I like this doctor and his way of thinking. I know it is very rare to find a trustworthy doctor. I consider myself as lucky.

My doctor believes diabetes can be healed. It is up to the patient. He encouraged me it is up to me on how serious I want to regain my good health. He told me that having exercise to make me sweat, maybe twice a day, will make a huge different.

His belief is based on his own experience. He incorporated the sweating exercise twice a day and built good muscle. Then he lost 40 lb and regained his good health. He smiled at me and told me “I could do it, so you can do it too, right?” I really like his way of motivation. Yes, I can do. I can lose my extra 15 lb by our next appointment in 3 months. I am fully motivated. Thank you, doctor.

I believe all doctors should be like him, the one who does not scare their patients but encourage and motivate. Above all, doctors should give their patients hope to heal by using their vital healing energy, which is their willingness to heal.

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I am from western Japan. In western Japan, we have a typical greeting.

When we see somebody, we ask the person, “儲かりまっか？”, then the person replies “ぼちぼちでんな”.

This conversation can be translated as “How is your business going?” “It is going”. It sounds like talking about business (making money), but I believe this conversation has deeper meanings.

We say “it is going”, but we don’t say “going well” nor “going bad”. I think it is Japanese ancestors’ wisdom. Almost similar to the topic that I wrote yesterday. It is about moderate level. Not too good or not too bad. It is going. And I believe, as long as it is in progress, it’s great.

This reminds me of another common way of thinking of Japanese people. On the New Year’s Day, it is our custom to visit the local shrine to greet to the local god. We appreciate for their support for the land and the people. Also, we draw a written fortune (O-mikuji in Japanese) to learn our fortune for the new year. There are seven different fortunes. 大吉, 吉,中吉, 小吉, 末吉, 凶, 大凶. Starting from the best fortune (dai-kichi, 大吉) and ending at the least fortune (dai-kyo, 大凶).

I heard many elders saying that the middle one, 中吉, is the best. Because it is not too good or not too bad.

I believe O-mikuji is not just to check your fortune but to receive the tip to live a daily life with the harmony with other people and surrounding environment. If you draw the best luck, it means everything is going well for you, so you should keep sharing your good luck with others; family members, relatives, and friends. On the other hand, if you draw the least luck, it does not mean it is the end of the world. It means you should pay more close attention on what you say and what you think. When you don’t have much good luck, all you need to do is to make some efforts to draw good luck.

Also, I believe it is Japanese culture, which is based on our ancestors’ agricultural culture, to share with others. When somebody has more than others, the person is supposed to share the excess one to somebody who does not have. We can receive it with appreciation. Then, next time when we have excess, we can share the excess with others.

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Today I was chatting with a Japanese elder woman. After our conversation, I became loving her of her humble life style. I was amazed that she preserves the Japanese traditions even though she has lived in America for more than 60 years.

If somebody asks me to describe about her, one word “humble” really fits her. I think it is awesome. I wish somebody will describe about me in the same way. I would like to live my life in a humble way as she does.

The Japanese traditions that she preserves every day are based on simple and humble life. When I was small, I was told some tips to live simple and happy life by many adults. The tips are to keep clean at the house entrance area. The house entrance is the place where other new energy comes into our house. We want to have nothing but good and pure energy to come in to our house. That is why we keep our house entrance area clean. We sweep dirt off and wipe dust off our entrance area. Our cleaning process is like our prayer for ourselves and our loved ones who live in the house.

Regardless of her old age, she is in a healthy state. She does not take any medications. Her face skin looks shiny with pinkish warmth. I asked her how she could maintain her good health. She said she maintains everything in a moderate amount. Even when she was young, she never went too far in her eating or drinking amount.

I thought this is a great lesson. When we eat something, especially the food that tastes good, we want to have more. If we eat more and more, eventually we cross the border line that we will never appreciate the taste anymore. Overeating will affect each of our organs.

However, if we always eat in a moderate amount, we appreciate the taste of every food that we eat. And each of our organs can function properly.         

Maintaining a moderate amount can be applied to everything in a daily life. We can do so for the time for watching a television, the frequency of having a lunch at restaurant, or the time for talking on the phone with your friend. When we keep them at the moderate level, we will never get bored. We can always appreciate them.

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When I was in my 20s, my dad told me to go see a doctor a diabetes checkup. I didn’t see any symptoms for diabetes and I was reluctant to go to the hospital. But my dad insisted. He loves me and he wanted me to prevent any unpleasant experiences that my father had from his diabetes. So I went to see a doctor and had a diabetes checkup. The test result showed my glucose level was within normal range. 

With my health checkup result, the doctor came into the room and we had a small conversation. I became liking the doctor instantly. He had a calm smile on his face and greeted me.

He asked me if I felt myself healthy or not. I answered “Yes I feel I am totally healthy.” Then his second question was why I decided to have the checkup for diabetes. I answered “because my dad insisted.” My dad was told that diabetes is a generational disease and it passes down to children and grandchildren inevitably.

Then the doctor faced to me in his serious face and kind of whispered to me. He told me like this. He did not believe diabetes was generational disease. He thought it wrong as a doctor to scare patients. It is like imprinting fear to the patient and the fear will bring disease.

And he said “病は気から”. (Yamai wa Ki kara). It is Japanese old saying. It means “your mind controls your health.”

He warned me to be careful for health checkup. Even though he is a doctor, he is against of having a health checkup every year. He believes people pay attention to find something bad in a health checkup and it can be dangerous. Once people find something bad, then disease will start from there.

He told me to focus on my good health, and not to scare of upcoming disease that has not come to me yet. I thought what he said was philosophical. What he said was “Focus on now, don’t worry about future.” So, as long as we focus on our good health and appreciate it, we won’t create disease. Our thoughts create the reality.

The doctor told me “Don’t come see me again, because you are totally healthy.” I replied to him “I definitely won’t. I don’t need to see you again, because I am healthy.” We laughed together out loud.

This experience was long time ago, but I still remember our laughter together. I appreciate this doctor for his great tip about good health.

In a daily life, we tend to forget this. We tend to be influenced by what the society tells. Regardless of what the society tells or ordinary doctors tell, the important thing for us is trust our own vital energy. As long as we believe we are in a good health, our mind creates good health.  

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Today was valentine day. It supposed to an expressing love day. However, I was surrounded by harsh energy here and there all day today. I wonder why. Did anybody feel the same way as I did?

In the morning I went to the interview and found out the discrepancy of the offered pay rate. It dropped to half price. I couldn’t mention it was different from what I heard. I didn’t have courage to say it.

Then I had a lunch with the new people at the restaurant. I wanted to turn it down the offer because I don’t like eat at the restaurant, but I could not say that. All the experiences at the restaurant were not fun at all. The restaurant owner told me “the food doesn’t taste good, right?” At first, I thought she was joking. But she told me the same thing twice with a serious face. She was not joking. She meant what she said. I still don’t understand the restaurant owner says such thing to the customer? What was her intention? I totally don’t get it. And most importantly I don’t like the comment about the food that I was eating.

One of us didn’t get her food after 1 hour waiting. We found out her ordered food was completely forgotten. The waitress was unbelievably rude. The waitress blamed her that she didn’t order clearly. But I heard she ordered cleary. No apology at all. I just wanted to yell back to her “what is wrong with you?” but I didn’t.

In the evening, when I went to the bus stop, I encountered another turbulence. One girl came out from the bus crying. She was sad because nobody gave her a valentine card although everybody else except for her received valentine gifts from classmates. The other boy who lives on the same street of ours was furious for his brother. He kept on complaining about his brother all the way back to our house. I wanted to tell him to stop talking about that to me. I wanted to talk to my daughter. I wanted to ask her how her day was. It was not pleasant to hear the other boy’s complaint. But I could not ask him to stop.

Now I am writing this article thinking back about today. I take today’s uncomfortable experiences as lessons. Today, in each scene, I could have chosen the better option. I didn’t feel like eating out at the restaurant, so I should have chosen the option not to go to the restaurant. And I should have asked the boy to let me talk to my daughter. Whenever I don’t feel comfortable, I should stand up for myself. Before I say anything, I should take a deep breath in and out, and connect to my inner peace. Then I should be able to find the best option to turn down or voice out, not in a harsh way but in a peaceful way.

So, today I learned the importance of connecting to my inner peace and selecting the better option in every moment. I will live better tomorrow. I will select the better option at any scene to protect myself.

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I just experienced an interesting synchronicity. Two days ago, I asked my friend for advice regarding the pain on my left shoulder, arm, and wrist. She recommended me about Tapping. And this morning, Hay House sent out the tapping mediation video, so I did the tapping meditation.

Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) is the psychological acupressure technique. It is derived from acupuncture, but EFT tapping does not use needles. EFT Tapping uses fingertips and gently stimulates meridians to release energy blockages and negative emotions. And not to mention, it regains the natural energy flow.

Tapping definitely helped me. I shed lots of tears. My memories flooded into me. It was great opportunity to heal the fear emotion.

During the meditation, I noticed the root cause of my overwhelming feeling. My soul believes, when I speak up the right thing in public, bad people will take away my loved one (my family) from me. I experienced similar traumatic life events many times, not in this lifetime, but in previous lifetimes.

Although I know it won’t happen in this lifetime, my soul remembers the hurt. I think that is why I pretend being shy, even though I am not originally shy. I am in a way trying to be invisible from people for my safety and my family’s safety.

I admit that I am scared of being in public and having my voice to be heard. Maybe this is the reason of the pain in my left shoulder, arm, and wrist. My friend mentioned the pain on the left side can mean I am receiving but not processing it out. I thought about my fear about sharing the messages and visions that I have received so far.

My ego filters them to the folder of “not safe to be shared in public” and hides the folder deep inside.

I will keep on the Tapping to heal myself and to release my fear.  

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Normally I don’t pay much attention to the world news especially to sad one, as I don’t want to get caught in concerning about something that I cannot do anything for. However, regardless of my small efforts, while living in a daily life, sad news and unpleasant information inevitably come in from someone somewhat. If you are like me, you probably feel that way too, right?

Nowadays there seem to be more and more movements and actions to make people hate one another. I feel somebody or some group have been manipulating or guiding people to bring hatred one another. The current situation is getting similar to that of before world war.

Dr. Wayne W. Dyer shared the story of his childhood days in his audio lecture The Secrets of an Inspirational (In-Spirit) Life. His story resonated with me well, and I wanted to share with you.

When he was small, one of his baseball team members didn’t like the fluff of a dandelion. So, he beat them up with a baseball bat hoping to get rid of them. However, on the next year, there were more dandelions in a wider area because the boy scattered the seeds to wider area.

Dr. Wayne used this example to teach us a lesson. When people want to get rid of something from their hatred feeling, such as in war by killing people or destroying countries, actions based on hatred (which are seeds of hatred) will just spread around even to a wider area. Hatred will attract more hatred. It gets worse and bigger, and comes back to the original person who sends out the hatred feeling and action.

I agree with him. We have to shift from hatred to love, from war to peace.

I strongly believe that world peace is achievable only if each of us works on it. Each of our action and thought matters to it. Nobody cannot be just an observer. We are all involved.

In every moment, we are equally given an opportunity to choose. Is your action or thought a seed of hatred or a seed of love? If you notice it is a seed of hatred, let’s shift it to a seed of love intentionally.                    

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