This morning when I went to Zumba class, the instructor added the air guitar in the dance movement. She recommended us to close our eyes and not to care others watching us.

It was so interesting. When I played the air guitar with my eyes shut, I felt as if I were in the famous musician playing the guitar. I liked it so much and enjoyed the moment so much. The next moment when I opened my eyes, everybody already moved to the other movement.

When I was at the high school, for 1 year, I was so into playing the guitar. I enrolled to the fork guitar club, practiced on playing the guitar very eagerly every day, went to the local fork guitar concert often. When I finally mastered some songs and performed my guitar in front of people at the local mini concert, all of a sudden, my passion for the fork guitar cooled off. Then, next year, I enrolled to the volleyball club.

When I think back my high school days, there were many of my own actions that I cannot understand why I did so. For the three years of my high school days, I was not myself. I feel as if somebody else was using my body. Perhaps one of my family souls powerfully took over me and enjoyed my high school days. Who knows… It happens to everybody, right?

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Today I watched the video of Louise Hay & Cheryl Richardson from Hay House. When they talked about the woman who constantly concerns about her husband, it made me laugh so hard, because it is exactly what I am doing to my husband. I cannot shut my mouth to him…. But they mentioned the best way for the husband is to “leave him alone.”

I totally understand the importance of “mind only my own business”. But I have to admit knowing and doing are two different things. I need to work on that.

I have a wonderful life-long friend in Japan. We cannot see or visit each other often due to the long distance physically, but I can always feel her close to me in my heart.

She often shares with me her technique. Whenever I mention my concern about something, she always tells me “okay, I will send you happy thoughts and images to your way so that everything will go smoothly for you.”

I know this is what I should do for my husband. First, I should put my worry and concern about him aside. Then, I should keep on having great image of him, getting a great full time job that he totally enjoys working for it and being confident in him.

As for me, I would like to have somebody who constantly thinks of me as a very positive image, rather than constantly worries about me. Perhaps, only when we fully trust somebody, we never worry about the person but keep having a positive image about the person. And I think it is based on solid trust and love to the person.

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Last year I stayed being overweight, even though I did exercise daily. I needed to change my exercise method.

Starting from this month, which is the beginning of this year 2017, I switched my exercise from non-sweating to sweating. I noticed a huge difference. Sweating makes me feel really good. My skin gets clearer than before and my regular mood stays calm.

Yesterday during I was reading a book regarding detox, the author mentioned sweating is very good way to detox. Yep, I know that now. My weight has not shown any great result yet, but I am keep doing sweating exercise every day. My small wish is to have a small private sauna in my house, though…

Anyway, from the detox book, I learned two easy techniques.

The first technique is to swish a tablespoon of virgin oil in your mouth for 10-20 minutes. After that, instead of swallowing it, spit it out in paper towel or something (to prevent clogs in drain pipes.) Coconut oil kills germs in the mouth, so you can do it before you go to bed and after you wake up.

The second technique is to drink a lemon water right after you wake up in the morning.

Pretty simple and easy to do it every day, right? Happy detoxing to you all!

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I went to the planetarium again. The part I enjoyed the most was the scene that showed the picture of the Universe as a whole. It started from our planet Earth, then the perspective went back wider and wider, passing through our Solar System, to our closest galaxy, Andromeda Galaxy, bigger galaxy….all the way to bigger and wider vision to the point where we could not recognize our planet Earth anymore.

I felt I can utilize this technique in a daily life. Whenever I can view things from the wider vision as a whole, I can understand the bigger picture and reasons for the things happen. Then, I can become more generous and understandable person.

And, today’s show was especially interesting as it talked about the stars that we can see from our back yard. After we came back home, we went to our backyard and stargazed. We were so thrilled to see exact same stars as we saw at the planetarium. Today, the moon is still new moon, 2 Days of the Moon’s age, so we could see stars pretty clearly.

When we live in a city, we cannot see stars clearly because of city lights. I experienced to see clear stars at very rare occasions.

The first opportunity was when I participated during my kindergarten days. We camped at the middle of nowhere, where there was no city lights. It was pitch dark. The teacher took out a flashlight and pointed one star. Since it was pitch dark, the light made a straight line to a certain star that he pointed. It was like magic. He explained us about the star with the myth or folk tales about the star. I was so fascinated with the stories.

The second opportunity was after the big earthquake in Kobe in 1995. We went through power outage for several days. On those days everybody in that area experienced clear view of stars.

Watching such clear stars brings us back to the old days when our ancestors fully relied on stars for the directions and time. It is interesting to imagine how our ancestors used their night time without the lights that we currently take it for granted.

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During this morning’s meditation, I had a vision of my early 20s. In those 4 years, I was in a serious relationship. The boyfriend was 3 years older than I. Very smart and trustworthy man. Both of my parents liked him a lot, and everybody expected us to marry.

He proposed me for a marriage twice. The first one was right before I graduated from the university, and the second one was right before I graduated from the graduate school. Both of them were bad timing for me to decide a marriage. I wanted to focus on my own future possibilities rather than marriage at that time, so I turned down his proposal. He didn’t try the third one, and we decided to go to the separate ways in life.

Although he was not my marriage partner, he played a great role in my life. He is definitely one of my limited number of persons that I will go and greet (good-bye and thank you) in spirit right after I depart from my physical body, before I go back to my spiritual homeland.

While I was dating with him, I was pretty ignorant. I didn’t know much about everything. He taught me a lot. Starting from daily entertainments such as Pachinko, Mahjong, Horse-racing, Japanese chess, Nintendo, video games, and Moupai (盲牌, the technique to read Mahjong tile by ball of a finger), skiing, and how to attach chains on car tires. He taught me a variety of music genre such as classic, jazz, and R&B. He took me to many different types of music concerts. He introduced me lots of fun things.

Not only fun things but he also gave me a variety of knowledge of morals, histories, and studies. He shared all his techniques and knowledge with me.

Now I think I am doing the same thing to my husband. I am giving and sharing all my techniques and knowledge with him. I feel I am passing a baton.

During our life, we encounter somebody who introduces lots of valuable teachings to us. Then, when the time has come, it is now our turn to pass the baton to somebody whom you care for. That is how the life goes; passing a baton to somebody.

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Before my daughter was born, I always had a desire about my children. I wanted my children to learn Karate starting at their very early age (as early as 3 years old) and become a black belt Karate master.

This is simply my personal desire that I could not achieve myself. When I was very small, I wanted to learn Karate. I asked my parents to let me go to the class, but my parents said no to me. They had me go to the swimming class instead.

In my elementary school days, I admired one female classmate because she achieved my dream. Her parents had her learn Karate since she was only 3 years old. Her dad was the Karate teacher at the class. She was pretty popular among boys and girls due to her physical strength and good personality. She appeared pretty skinny from outside, but when she changed to a swimming suit, we all were astonished at her super build-up muscles on all over her body. She was very cool. Just like a hero.

So, that is why I kept the desire and wanted to achieve the desire to my children.

When my daughter turned to 3 years old, I asked her if she wanted to learn Karate. She would always answer no. She was born with the artistic gifts and is good at drawing.

Recently I have been searching for an art class for her. I have found some good classes, but I was told they are only for adults.

So, I have decided that I will teach her art myself. Today I taught her to paint a picture on a canvas with acrylic paint. She was so into it. She almost forgot about the time.  

She won’t become a Karate master for me, but I am happy to support her artistic gifts.

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I love watching stars. Recently my friend read my energy and advised me to stargaze. The word “stargaze” resonated me well.

The word stargaze made me think about a planetarium. I often went to a planetarium before I moved here. There was a planetarium close to my house. Just two stations away. And they offered the annual membership with a very reasonable amount. I loved going there.

There is no planetarium at the place where I currently live. I noticed I haven’t gone to the planetarium for more than 10 years now.

Today I went to the planetarium in another city. I really enjoyed visiting the planetarium.

I want to visit there often. However, there are small issues. In order to get there, I need to drive 1.5 hour on one way. Also, it is located at the heavy traffic area and I am not good at driving such busy area. Sigh…..

When I lived close to the planetarium, I took it for granted. Same thing goes to the ocean. When I lived close to the ocean, I constantly received the healing energy from the ocean. Now I don’t have them close to my home and I miss them.

I wanted to share this story as a reminder. Look around what you currently have. Acknowledge your benefits that you are provided. Enjoy them as much as you can. Once you lose it, you will miss it very much….

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I went to the Zumba class this morning.

There were around 25 people. Definitely I was the youngest, as the other students were around their 60s and 70s. Amazingly, they could really dance.

I enjoyed participating in the Zumba class for three reasons.

The first reason is to enjoy everybody’s colorful outfit. They expressed themselves by wearing their unique and colorful Zumba outfits. It reminded me of a bunch of parrots spreading their colorful wings.

I think this is one of the benefits on living in America. In Japan, as we get older, we tend to wear monotone color. The major color of old people’s clothes in Japan, as far as I remember, were black, white, and gray. Here in America, I’ve seen many old people in many times, in the teen clothing section in the store. I’ve seen many old people wearing a T-shirt with pretty heart or butterfly on the chest area. The color is pink, light blue, and orange.

The second reason is to enjoy many different nationality people doing the same thing together. It is great to see different nationality people becoming friends and smiling each other.

And the third reason is to enjoy the reasonable class fee. Compared with the class fees in Japan, the class fees in America are very reasonable so that everybody can easily join.

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I watched the movie Snowden. It is based on the true story of Edward Joseph Snowden who leaked the hidden truth about the government. There are many people posted their opinions on the Internet. Some support him as his good deed as a whistleblower and others blame his action as a traitor.

I personally support him and I think he did the right thing. I also admire and respect his courage for doing the right thing.

We encounter similar thing in daily life, although a scale is much smaller than his. Majority people don’t say or do anything to leak or correct it because they don’t want to get involved in any possible danger or trouble.

I have experienced a similar situation. Doing the right thing put me into a tough situation.

At the age of 13, I registered to the swimming club at the junior high school. There were 12 female club members at the beginning. The 12 club members were naturally divided into two groups; 5 members and 7 members. I belong to the first group where the members were fast swimmers with strong personalities. In the second group, on the other hand, the 7 members were not fast swimmers with shy and gentle personalities. The first group turned to be a bullying group and the second groups as a being bullied group.

From the beginning, my group members started picking the other group member one by one, by ignoring them or saying mean things to them, until they felt really sad about themselves and resigned the club.

Honestly, I had no idea why my friends were doing such things. Perhaps, they wanted to keep themselves showing strong or superior to others, or something. My friends kept on doing it to force 3 or 4 club members to resign. I didn’t like being around them to do such things with them.

One day, I took my courage and told my friends what I thought. I thought they should stop bullying other club members. Until then, I thought they were my friends, so I believed they would listen to me and stop bullying others. However, I could not stop them. From the next day, I became their bullying target. They started bullying me by all kinds of harassments.

The harassments continued for almost 3 years. It was very tough days for me, but I never resigned the swimming club nor took day off from the school.

Eventually, I noticed I was surrounded by the like-minded students. I found there were many supporters for doing the right thing.

In the movie, one man told the main character “you may not feel it, but you are not alone.”  This simple line resonated with me very well.

When we do the right thing, we may not be surrounded by our supporters right away, but there are supporters for sure. We won’t be alone for doing the right thing.    

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This morning in my dream, my family souls showed me one of my life experiences. They showed me a scene that I got bitten by a dog. When I was visiting my Navajo family at the age of 29, I got bitten by one of the dogs that my Navajo parents had.

Right after the incident, my Navajo dad told me it was my fault. He said I emitted the weak and timid energy around me. He said that it was obvious that I was too gentle and naïve to say no. Everybody and even animals could see it. So, the dog bit me to warn me to change the weak energy to the strong energy.

Although I hesitated to accept, I knew it was true. In those days, people casually asked me to do their favors and requests, and I could not say no to them. Simply because I was not used to say no to people. I didn’t know how to be strong.

In my personal opinion, in order to be strong, you don’t necessarily need to become a Karate master or a built-up muscle person. From my experience, it takes only a small technique. Input your thought that you are strong into your conscious level. Yes, that’s it. Pretty simple, right?

When you honor yourself and fully believe you are well protected, you naturally build a strong energy protection field around you. Then, nobody and nothing can mess with you anymore. We don’t need anybody and anything to mess with us.

To stay being strong in your energy is just a thought away.

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