I went to see a dental appointment.

When I sat down in the dental office chair, the nurse gave me a television remote, a blanket, and a comfy pillow. It was unusual. They never gave any of them for a dental cleaning appointment. So, I thought this appointment would take for long. I went in the office at 8:30 am and left at noon. I stayed there for three hours and half. By the time I got out from the office, I was totally exhausted.

I have many metal crowns and fillings in my molars. They were treated when I was in my 20s and early 30s. Since the crowns and fillings of tooth color were not covered by the insurance company and they were expensive, so I had no option except for metal ones in those days. I have always hated to have metals in my mouth.

So, today’s treatment was to change my metal crown and filling in my left lower molars into tooth colored resins.

Since I haven’t done any of dental drilling work for more than two decades, I was so scared without knowing by myself. Even before the drilling treatment, I felt my eyes shedding tears very quietly.

The result was great. I love the new look of my molar tooth.

Perhaps, nobody notices my small improvement. But to me, this small improvement gives me confidence and relief. It is good for me mentally and physically. It is good not only for teeth but also for total me holistically. 

In order to completely change metals into tooth colored resin, I will have to put up with this long and painful work three more times. I look forward to my further improvement.　

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I cannot believe it has been one year since my husband had his Navajo traditional ceremony.

My family had gone through tough days last year, and we decided to have a Navajo traditional peace way ceremony.

It started with a protection ceremony with arrow heads. It followed to a cleansing ceremony with yucca soap, a smoking ceremony with mountain tobacco, a sand painting ceremony with corn pollen and buck skin. Then, it led to the all-night prayer in Navajo chant. The ceremony started the night of June 5th and ended at the dawn of June 7th 2016.

During the ceremony, I kept having a same vision over and over again. The vision was that three brown bears who kept approaching to me. The three bears looked like a family of three; dad, mom, and child, just like us. When I had the vision, I felt comfortable and happy.

I mentioned my vision to the medicine man. He assured that the bears represented protection, and that my family and I would be well protected.

Since the ceremony, our life situation got well gradually, taking days and months. Now we have finally reached at peaceful days where we can somewhat appreciate for these tough days as life challenges.  

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My daughter has a habit to eat breakfast with watching a cartoon show on the iPad. When she does that, it takes forever for her to finish eating only one slice of toast. So, this morning, I told her to eat her breakfast without watching iPad.

During her eating, I was moving here and there to finish some chores. Then I started hearing my daughter’s laughter. It sounded the same as she watches a cartoon show.

I asked her if she was watching iPad. She replied “nope.”

I wondered what made her laugh if it was not a cartoon show. I stopped my chore and went to see her at the dining table.

She was still laughing and watching outside. When I watched outside through the dining window, now I noticed the reason why she was laughing so hard.

We have rose trees next to the dining window. On the tree branch, there were two little birds singing. They seemed like singing as if they recognized my daughter as their audience. They were so cute. I also joined in my daughter’s laughter.

There two little birds made our day for sure. Perhaps they were sent from spirits as divine entertainers.

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I went to swimming pool with my family. The water color was clear blue.

I enjoyed floating my body on my back in the water and looking at the sky. The sky was gentle blue. There were some thin layered clouds. They looked like feathers.

With my body floating on my back on the water surface, I started moving my legs and created water splashes. I was in awe to the scenery. The water splashes were sparkling with gentle sun light.

In my background, one girl kept on saying “I am a dolphin. I am a dolphin.” Her voice sounded like a gentle meditation music.

I truly enjoyed the moment surrounded by blue. With every aspect combined, I was in “a moment of bliss.”

I believe our daily life is full of bliss moments.    

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Has anybody experienced any wrong charges due to computer communication error in these couple of days? For me, I went through three errors. I was charged the wrong charge from the credit card, I received the duplicated invoices in the water bill, and my auto insurance payment was rejected for unknown reasons. Nobody knew the exact reason of these rejections. I talked to the credit card company and the bank, and they could not figure it out the reasons of rejections. These issues started from June 2nd and finally resolved yesterday June 8th. Everything dealt with the communication error between computers through the Internet.

My husband went through the similar error that he was charged three times by mistake. He talked to the merchandise. He felt the merchandise tried to the right procedure, but for some reasons, it went wrong.

Combining together, we went through four errors in total regarding communication error.

First, I wondered if we were in the Mercury retrograde duration. After I checked the dates, it was not. So, what were the causes of these computer communication error, I wonder.

That made me think about the difference of monetary system between my younger days and current days. In my younger days, I used mainly cash for shopping. Even after I became an adult, I preferred to using cash. I seldom used credit cards.

After I moved to America, for these five years or so, my payment method has completely changed from cash to credit cards. In recent years, I heavily depend on credit cards.

While I was writing this article, one message popped into my head. They happened to warn us to be alert, rather than fully depending on computers and credit cards.

That can be applied to everything that we take it for granted for its convenience. We should pay extra caution to convenient things. Let’s not fully depend on machines or computers.  

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Today’s dream was about a butterfly.

A big pink butterfly came frying in front of me. I knew this butterfly was sent as a messenger from family spirits. I gently reached out my both hands. The butterfly came into my hands. Then, I reached my ear to the butterfly. The butterfly conveyed the message to me. The message was simple as this.

Everything is going well.

I love this message. It reminds me that happiness lays in our ordinal daily life. 

My daughter has pink butterfly wings. Maybe I should borrow these wings and dance around to express my appreciation and joy to my family spirits. They will be happy to see me dancing.

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Today is my Japanese dad’s birthday. When I mentioned it to my daughter, she got excited and told me “let’s call him and sing a birthday song to him.”

Her statement startled me. I wish I could…, I thought to myself. Instead of saying my mind’s voice, I told her “I cannot call him because of the time difference. It is 7 am here, but it is 11 pm over there”. Then my daughter said “okay then, let’s send an email to him”. So, we did.

My parents live in Japan and I live in America. The physical distance is far away and we are in the different time zone. But, between my parents and myself, there is more. I feel a huge gap between my parents and myself. I feel sad about it. I know, though, I need to accept that. My parents and I are not closely connected spiritually.

If we were spiritually close, it would be much easier to be born as a family member and live a life as a family. On the other hand, it is a tough challenge for both parties in case one soul is born to one family who is not spiritually close. However, this tough situation brings lots of learnings and lessons for both parties.

I had a hard time being a family member to them. That means, most likely, my parents had a hard time to accept me and understand me.   

I always appreciate for their unconditional love to accept me to be born as their child this lifetime.

Although I am away from them physically, I always think of my parents and send happy thoughts and prayers to them.

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Recently my family’s night routine is to watch Netflix together for one hour and half before our bed time. Netflix has started showing one Japanese television program called 和風総本家. The English title is set to Japanese Style Originator.

This program shares a variety of Japanese culture. Some of them are familiar with me, while other are new to me. There are some items that are familiar with me but I don’t know the proper name for them. I certainly enjoy watching Japanese scenery and items. It is good for my family to get to know Japanese culture.

This television show makes me think how deep Japanese culture is. Although I was born and raised in Japan, and I thought myself to know enough about Japan, it is obvious that I need to learn more to get to my own country.

Last night’s show introduced us the Japanese traditional way to survive hot summer days. I was amazed how our ancestors have passed down their precious wisdom and technique. They are ecological and kind ways to humans as well as other living creatures.

I think it can be said to any other culture. Just because you are born in a certain race or group, it does not mean you know about your race or group fully. It is always to review and re-learn about your own race and roots.

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Today was the first day for my daughter to attend the summer class. The class is only for four weeks. The age range of participants is from 1st graders to 5th graders.

My daughter was nervous for the first day, but I know she will come back smiling and tell me she had a good day at the end of the day.

I feel it interesting because for these past weeks, every time when my daughter pulled her angel cards asking for some message, she always pulled the card “Make New Friends.”

In my elementary school days, I liked to make new friends. Every time when I participated in something new such as a study group, a play group, or a play troop, it was super easy for me to make new friends.

Everybody gets nervous to meet new people. If you take one step for others by greeting and smiling at them, you are already done the first step to make new friends. You have already broke the ice.  

I learned the Japanese term 一期一会 (pronounces as Ichi-go Ichi-e) at the junior high school. This term vividly stayed in my mind. I like this term and the meaning. This term originated from Japanese traditional tea ceremony, 茶道. During the tea ceremony, a host and a guest should treasure the encounter as it may not come again. Every encounter is once in the lifetime chance.  

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My daughter had a clear dream this morning. Her dream was like this.

In her dream, we were in the amusement park. There, we found a cave and decided to explore. We decided to go one by one. I was the first. When I came back from the cave, my appearance was back to my younger days, in my early 30s. At first, my daughter did not recognized me. Then, I waved at her and called her by her secret nickname which only I use it in our daily life.

Both of us noticed that the cave functioned as a time machine that we can time-travel.

My daughter asked me to try again. This time, she asked me to set my intention to go back to my even younger days, in my early 20s. So I did. I came back with my appearance of early 20s.

In my daughter’s turn, she came back as her current age appearance. And, it was when she woke up.

Her dream was pretty accurate. When I want to time-travel, I always imagine a hole on the ground and jump in the hole. Inside the hole is a tunnel so that I can walk to anywhere I want. To me, it is a time machine that I can go anytime I want. It is based on my intention. I learned this technique when I had a past life regression session.

In my case, I came back with my appearance with my younger days, in my early 30s and early 20s. That makes sense to me. I like my appearance of those days, but I like my inner self of now. In my younger days, I was not fully awaken spiritually. Now, I am much more awaken than those days. 

In my daughter’s case, she does not have her older version in this lifetime yet. I guess her favorite is the current appearance. If she wants, she can go back even before such as her past life.

I told her when we are done with this lifetime, we get rid of our physical body and regain our spirit body. When we want to go see our loved one who is still in this planet Earth, we can show ourselves with our favorite appearance. In the future once I am done with this lifetime and whenever I want to see my daughter, I definitely use my appearance of the younger days.

My daughter told me “okay mom, I will remember your favorite appearance so that I can recognize you in the future.”

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