I set my goal of this year 2017 to honor myself. I am not being “Yes person” or “obedient” for anything that my gut feeling gives me any reluctant sign. I can say NO lovingly to anything I don’t agree with and I don’t want to.

It was interesting to know I was not the only one who think so. When I attended the drumming session the other day, two people were saying this magical sentence; this year I will work on honoring myself.  

Obviously, honoring myself is a challenge for most people. In our daily life at our workplace, school, or home, we all encounter many situations to test us to say no for unwanted request.

I really want to emphasize the importance to honor ourselves. We are not here to please somebody else. We are here to shine ourselves; shine our souls.

There are many situations we have to say no. We don’t need to sacrifice ourselves to work for a company that the managements don’t appreciate you or don’t value you. We all are precious being. It is our job to honor ourselves. And of course, it is also our job to show appreciation to our surrounding people, things, or Spirits and Angels. We should not take anything for granted. Everybody and everything deserves to receive somebody’s appreciation.

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Today my family and I attended a mandala coloring class. My Ki-Gong teacher started organizing this class since last year, and it was my 4th time to participate.

From time to time, we practiced Ki-Gong and foot massage along with conversation with different people.

I spent more time on water coloring. It reminded me of my elementary school days. Every year we had a drawing day and went to the closest pine woods. There we sketched the pine trees and painted watercolor all day. I used to love this day, and I won 2nd award twice.

My elementary school teacher told us there was no specific rule on drawing. She said it is okay that everybody sees different objects from a different angle. We don’t need to compete each other. We can just enjoy our own view and the creativity process.    

It was relaxing time. My family and I totally enjoyed this creative process.

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Today I was invited to the awards ceremony at the elementary school. My daughter received Straight A’s award. I never had straight A’s in my school days. I used to receive straight A’s in my health checkup until I moved to America, but it is not like that anymore.

It was my first time to attend the awards ceremony in America. It was interesting to observe the cultural difference between Japanese schools and American schools.

In Japanese schools, the awarded student and the principle bow each other, and other students quietly clap their hands to celebrate the awarded student. The principle wears an official dark-colored business suit. On the other hand, here in America, the principle wears a casual colorful T-shirt and jeans. The awarded student and the principle hug each other, and other students cerebrate the awarded student with clapping their hands grandly and whistling through their fingers.

I am getting used to the cultural difference and feeling comfortable to be part of the new culture. I like both ways equally. I still cannot whistle through my fingers though…

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Today I feel down because I heard my husband’s job will be ended on this Friday. It is a temporary job and every time the job ends, we both get disappointed and depressed. I really hope my husband will get a full time and regular job soon. Working as a temporary job and being laid off frequently is definitely not a good thing for my heart.

My family souls keep on telling me “stay being uplifted in any situation.” I know all the Universal Law. When I feel down, I attract lower vibration. So, I need to raise my vibration and stay there to attract good luck. I know all that. But knowing and actually doing are two different things.

One great benefit for us that we receive every day is our daughter. She stays happy all the time. Her happy energy and her laughter always raise our vibration higher.

When I think back about last year, when it was the same condition as we are right now, I felt more scary than I feel right now. So, I think I am slightly improved than last year when it comes to my mental state. Once I can fully master on staying being uplifted no matter what, then, our finance situation might get better. Perhaps, once I master it, I won’t concern about financial situation anymore. I guess I should enjoy this learning every day. 

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This morning I had a calm dream. I was sitting with a male Reindeer at the side of a lake. The reindeer had huge horns. The water surface of the lake was calm. We were enjoying gentle breeze. It was relaxing. We had a visitor. It was a Hay House author whom I admire. She sat down with us and had a conversation. The conversation was done telepathically. I don’t remember what she shared with me, but it was something about my book that will be published soon.

I didn’t receive any specific message from my family souls. According to the research on the Internet, the horn of reindeer and the calm water surface are both representing good luck.

So, my dream tells me that I will get a good luck for something. I don’t know if it is about my small business job or my book proposal. In any cases, I will leave everything up to the Universe. When the good luck comes to me, I might get busier than now. Until my good luck brings me super busy days, I should enjoy these quiet days as much as I can.

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Today one of my friends shared 3 poems that he wrote before. Two of the poems were about his daughter when she was 7 years old. They were filled with his love toward his daughter. During reading them, my eyes got filled with tears. They were so beautiful. They touched my soul because I have a 7-year-old daughter, and I know how a parent feels about their kids.

The third poem was written about the author himself when he was 12 years old. The 12-year-old version’s he was full of hopes and pleased with himself. This poem inspired me how I felt when I was at this age.

I felt honored that he shared these poems with me. These are hidden gems. Very, very precious.

I encouraged him to keep writing poems.

His poems gave me strength that I should keep doing what I am good at, too.

I feel it great that everybody knows their gifts and keeps on making efforts for the progress of their gifts on a daily basis.  

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Today I feel free because I don’t have any schedule, plan, or event coming up in this month. My schedule book is completely open, finally. I’m loving it.

I know some people are opposite from me. They feel comfortable when their schedule book is filled with plans and appointments for next 3 months. I know one massage therapist who always tries to put an appointment 3 month ahead. I personally think it is crazy. I don’t want to have my massage appointment 3 months from now. People need a massage because they have some pain that need to be fixed right away.

Anyway, I don’t like to have a super busy schedule. When I lived in Japan, I was constantly filled with some plans, appointments, deadlines, and events that kept on pushing me forward. I was constantly overwhelmed by time. I kept myself busy.

I am glad that I am done with such busy days. Now I am not overwhelmed by time. I know I can manipulate time as I like. I feel more relaxed than before.

I have lots of things that I want to do in my free time.

Oops, I almost forgot one important thing. Yesterday I conveyed the message to my client to sleep 1 hour extra. That was the message specifically for her, not for everybody. But I know the message was for me too, because during I was conveying the message, it resonated with me very well.

So, whomever this message resonates well, please do so, and take 1 hour extra sleeping time. Enjoy reconnecting with your family souls in your sleeping time.

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Today I gave a horoscope chart reading for a married couple. To my surprise, the couple had two exact same Sabian Symbols out of their 10 planets. It was amazing. I never saw even one exactly same symbol in a married couple. Sabian Symbol has 360 symbols. So, it is safe for me to say, it is very rare.

I always enjoy listening to a story of married couples, especially that of old married couples. It fascinates me to know how they met and how they felt at their first impression.

The story of my husband and myself is pretty interesting one. We met in March 1999. Interestingly, it was right during my Saturn Return. During the Saturn Return, most people will experience something significant in their life. For me, meeting my husband was a significant life event. I didn’t notice the importance at that time though.

On our first meeting, my husband saw me glowing, surrounded by shinning light. He knew instantly I was the right one for him. He told his mom that he would marry me in the future. During that time, I never thought of marrying him. It took him 9 years to finally get ready for proposing me for a marriage. And now, here we are with our daughter, living peacefully.

I think everybody has a dramatic story with their significant others. It may be a spouse or lifelong friend.  Sometimes a short-period friendship or romantic relationship may be a critical for the person to trigger something important in their life. The person, even though with a short-term relationship, will stay in their heart forever.

If you have such a wonderful story about your significant others, why don’t we share the experience with your family or friends? Your story might inspire somebody in some miraculous way.

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Today I attended a drumming session. During the drumming, I saw a vision of bamboo field. Each bamboo grew on their own pace so that there were variety of height and thickness. I was drawn to see one important message. Each bamboo honor themselves; loving themselves and taking good care of themselves. I did not find any bamboo leaning over to other bamboo. Every bamboo stood straight, setting their goal to the sky, to the Sun.

After the session, some participants shared what they felt during the drumming. It was interesting synchronicity.

One person mentioned about honoring herself. She tends to use her time to take of other family members, but this year, she wants to focus on saving some time for herself every day, to honor herself.

The other person mentioned about making time for herself to take care of herself. It was very similar message as the first person.

Then, the other person mentioned that it would be much simpler and easier if we all can take care of ourselves, not leaning over to other person.

So, I consider this is the message common for everybody in 2017.

Let’s focus on honoring ourselves. Let’s try not lean over to your loved one (especially your family members). Why don’t we make a routine time and make sure to do so every day?  

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I have been suffering from pain in my both wrists and arms nowadays. This morning when I tried to support my body to cross the bed using my both palms down, I felt sharp pain. I thought I need to go to ER right now. That kind of sharp pain.

I mentioned that to my husband. He is gifted of hearing voices from Spirits (Clairaudience). He instantly told me that is because of my weight. He asked me if I pushed myself to do some exercise or something recently. I thought about it, and instantly one memory rang the bell. Yes I did. I bought an exercise DVD and followed the instruction. One of the instructions was to do the push up, so I did. Right after doing 20 push-ups, I got dizzy and felt sick. It was one month ago.

My husband was right. The pain in my wrists and arms started about one month ago. It was nobody’s fault but mine. My body got heavier so that my wrists and arms could not support my body.

My weight of this month has been 16lb (8kg) heavier than last year. I should do something.

In my younger days, I always kept my good muscle. As long as I remember, at least 6 years during junior high and high school days (age of 13 to 18), I used to push-ups and sit-ups 200 times a day. I am not lying. I was obsessed to keep my good muscle. My coach told me if I take only 1 day off, it will take me 3 days to recover. He often told me that in order to keep good muscle, I need to have a training every single day. Consistency is the key. So, I did my best to keep doing my training routine every day.  

Compared with that, current version of I got sick with only 20 times of push-ups, and the injury stayed for one month now.

I need help to shape up my body, at least back to “the one year ago version of me”. And I know one thing for sure. Nobody can help me with this. I am the only person who can keep motivating me and doing good exercise every day.

It is based on a simple logic. I like myself in a good shape. And I like my current life with my family. In order to live longer in a good health condition, I need to take care of my body. Let’s do it. I can do it!!!

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