Along our life course, we encounter some fateful people. All of them might not stay as our lifelong friends, but they do impact our life direction, and they will stay in our mind all our lives.

To me, all of such huge impact people are my soul mates. In my belief, soul mates are not necessary only applied to our romantic relationship as boyfriends, girlfriends, or spouses. Rather, our soul mates can appear as our family members; like mom or dad, sibling, grandfather. Or in some cases, your business partner. They could be your friends or school teachers. In another cases, they could be even our enemies or competitors whom we hate just because.

So, in my belief, we encounter our different types of soul mates as we live our lives. We cannot predict exact date, situation, or place to meet our soul mates. It happens in a miraculous way.

One day when I was at 5th grade at the elementary school, I was drawn to a poster attached at the wall of the teachers’ room. It was an announcement of a camp sponsored by the Prefecture. The campground was located 3 hours away from my house. The fee was around $300. I thought I was supposed to participate in this camp. I don’t know why, but I remember I felt strong urge to be at the camp.

When I went back home, I mentioned about the camp to my parents. For some reasons, my parents allowed me to participate the camp and paid for the fee, without asking me any questions. Thinking back those days, I still wonder why my parents casually let me go. Because I was the only one student of the school who participated in the camp.

In order to go to the campground, I needed to take the public transportations; trains and buses. I went there all by myself. And of course it was my very first time to go there. I needed to transfer trains and buses here and there. It was a real adventure for me. I still don’t understand why my parents let me go such an adventure. Strange… I would not let my daughter take such a dangerous adventure all by herself.

Anyway, I appreciate my parents to allow me to participate in the camp. I encountered my lifelong friend there. My friend and I never lived very close in physical distance, but we have been always close in our minds. She is an essential part of my life. She has stood by me, cried with me, prayed for me, and laughed with me.

I think the encounter with my lifelong friend happened like a miracle. But deep inside, it might be just reconnecting each other. We might already have promised to reconnect each other in a certain time frame in a certain situation. I think it is a wonderful surprise.

So, let’s cherish every encounter. We run into our soul mates in an unexpected time as a surprise. Life is full of fun.

I don’t know that if this is common or not common, but I have been contacting with my family souls all my life. Once in a while, I even can feel somebody hugs me from behind or sits right beside me. Or, I feel somebody taps my right shoulder with something like a stick. The other day I felt somebody poked me in the forehead in a joking way. I know my family souls are funny.

One thing for sure is that my family souls always respect my free will, so that they don’t tell me exactly what I should do next. I appreciate that, because I want to take the responsivities on all my actions and statements. I don’t want to blame anything anybody. I believe I am responsible on steering my life direction.

I have gone through many tough situations. I have done many silly mistakes in the past, and the mistakes had caused putting me into uncomfortable situations. But still, I want to keep on saying that everything happened for reasons including my silly mistakes.

I don’t want to go back in the past and repeat those tough and painful experiences all over again. The past is past. All I can do is to share the lessons that I have learned from my mistakes. By sharing, I might be able to save some people so that they don’t need to go through the same way as I did. It would be time saving and energy saving for them.

I believe that is the main reason why we should not commit suicide. When we end our life before our contract term by committing suicide, we have to come back and take the tough and painful situations all over again, but next time, the things might appear in more harsh ways than the previous ones.

I want to share my personal experience. One time when I was still single, living in Japan, I was so disappointed with my tough situations. I felt so lonely. At that time, I was seriously praying to all the Spirits and Angels to let me go back to my spirit homeland right away. I put a knife onto my throat and said that out loud to my family souls. Okay, I am going to end my life right now.

I knew my family souls were with me. I felt silence from them. They knew that I was not going to do it. After some time of silence, they gave me a block of thoughts. The thoughts were reminding me the promises that I made before I came to this lifetime.

Then I remembered that I am the one who volunteered to reincarnate this lifetime on the planet Earth. I made my life plan with my family souls, like this. Everything is going as we had planned. I chose to have a tough life. Because with these tough experiences, I would be able to help people in my latter life.

Then, my family souls asked me this question.

Consider your old self has died at this moment, and you are free to do anything from now on. What would you like to do?

I thought about it. If I can let my old self die, I would like to take the opposite options from what my old self would choose, for everything.

Old me, old self, always thought about others. I could not speak up. I could not take a risk. Because I felt scared of what others would think of me. Old me was not real me, because I had lived my life as somebody’s expectations. It was not true me.

I thought, NO, this is my life. This is my opportunity to make things happen. I am not alone. I always have my family souls with me.   

So, I consider that day as my funeral of my old self.

I think everybody can use this technique. Kill your old self in your imagination and reborn as “new you”. When you are born as new, bring back your memory about who you really are. And live your life as you like.

As some people already know, the planet Earth is not the only one place where souls can reincarnate. There are many other options in the Universe. One of my old friends once told me that the planet Earth was the second heaviest vibrational planet. I never had an opportunity to ask him about the heaviest planet in the Universe. The friend has already passed away.

Anyway, among us, there are some souls who are incarnated in the planet Earth on this lifetime, but their original homeland is not the planet Earth. They are originally from other stars where the vibrations are much higher and the dimensions are higher than that of the planet Earth.

So, today, I would like to convey some messages to Star People.

Thank you for your contribution to the planet Earth. We know that you sometimes feel overwhelmed by the different type of vibrations. Because you are extra sensitive for the energy. Because you are originally in high vibration. Because you are not used to witness / experience any kinds of negative feelings.

Please stay being strong. We always stand by you. We always encourage you.

Please know you are not alone. You might have not reconnected with your family souls who are incarnated to the Earth, but eventually you will reconnect with them. We set the right timing for you to reconnect with your right supporters. Please trust and stay being positive. We are invisible, but we exist. We are connected with you all the time. That is why you will never be alone.

Whatever you do, when you do it from your pure good-will intention, you are contributing to make the better world. You will soon witness and feel your great contributions accumulated for years.

Tonight, I went outside and enjoyed watching moon. It was Waxing Crescent moon, Moon Day 3.

I always love to watch new moon. I was born on new moon day, Moon Day 1. Probably that is why I like new moon. During new moon, I feel like I can breathe deeply and calmly. Everything looks better.

One friend of mine who was born on the full moon day says she likes full moon the best. She says she feels energized on the full moon. Another friend of mine told me she used to love to watch Half-moon on Last quarter. Recently, she found out she was born on the moon phase, moon day 22nd. In her case, she was unconsciously attracted by her birth moon phase.

I thought it interesting. Moon is neutral. Moon does not do anything to us, but we get influenced by moon differently. As far as I know, people naturally get influenced by their birthday’s moon phase.

I’ve read an interesting article. It says most births happen on the full moon day in the natural world. Women who live harmony with the rhythm of the nature tend to have a monthly period cycle on the new moon day, an ovulation on the full moon day, and a baby delivery on the full moon day. That is why the OB-GYN delivery room gets the busiest on the full moon. They match to the cycle and rhythm of the natural world.

When I was young, I used to hate my period cycle. I felt it inconvenient, especially in school days. I needed to go to bathroom frequently, taking care of myself. It usually comes with dull feeling, dull pain, and irritation sometimes. I used to feel being a woman is having an extra burden by going through monthly period every month.

But now I get older, I have started appreciating the mystery of woman’s body. I feel blessed to be born as a woman on this lifetime. Because women are blessed to have the same rhythm with the natural world. And we are born to have the monthly self-cleansing system in our body. It is definitely blessing. We should enjoy feeling the same rhythm with the natural world.

I am not a materialistic person. I value spiritual abundance rather than material abundance. Simply because material things won’t last forever, but spiritual abundance will stay in the soul forever.

I have two extreme events that forced me to give up my material things.

The first experience was at the time of the big earthquake in 1995. At that time, I was living alone. The big shake broke most of my belongings such as electric appliances, furniture, and houseware. From my experience, I noticed that at the time of catastrophe, we don’t concern about material things. I think most of the people’s concerns are about their family’s safety. I was the same as most people. I went back to my parents’ house and gathered up with my parents and my brother. Everybody was safe. That was all my concerns.

The second experience was at the time of moving from Japan to America. Those days I was living in my own house so that I had lots of belongings. I sorted out the minimum requirements for me. I was surprised that all my belongings could be stored in only two suitcases. That made me realized that most of my belongings were unnecessary for me.

I think it is important for us to practice on not being attached to material things too much. It is especially important at the time of departure to our spiritual homeland. When the time has come, we all will get rid of our physical body and go back to our spiritual homeland. When we change our form from a physical body into a spirit, we cannot bring any material things. All we can bring back are wisdoms that we have learned from our experiences. And our memories and love from our loved ones.

If we tightly cling on certain material things such as houses, cars, and cash, the deep attachment to things can pull our spirit down, making too heavy to float back to the Universe.

Let’s practice for being lightly equipped in a daily life basis, by trying not to have deep attachment to material things that much. The forms will break in the course of time. But all the wisdoms will stay with us in our soul.   

When I was a first grader, my teacher taught us a useful technique in the class. I still clearly remember that. She said there were two essential words that we have to use frequently to establish a harmonious human relationship.

The two words were Thank you and Sorry. In Japanese, 「ありがとう」。「ごめんね」。

I think this teaching was pretty common in Japan, taught by many elders to younger children at school and home. I love this teaching.

However, in our daily life, we tend to forget saying these words, especially to our loved ones; our spouses, children, and parents. It is because we tend to take everything for granted. It would make the energy uplifted when we say “thank you for cooking” “thank you for supporting us”.

This teaching can be applied to not only to humans but also to every other things. We should say thank you for our good health when our body functions properly. We should say sorry to our body when we forgot to take good care of it. Same things can be said to our house, car, computer, coffee maker, land, water… Even to our family souls, angels, and ancestors, as well… To everything.

It is easy for everybody to say Thank you, but not easy for some people to say Sorry.

I’ve encountered many business owners or directors who stubbornly avoid saying “sorry”.  Somebody told me they don’t apologize because they don’t want to take it as their fault. But I believe it is not a win or lose. When it comes to building a good relationship with customers in the business, we want to establish a win-win situation. Apologizing for inconvenience to a customer can bring a winning situation, because the customer would feel comfortable for the business owner’s kind consideration.

I believe, these two words function as lubricating oil to prevent any possible causes. Let’s use this helpful words frequently. I believe these two words have great power to make our environment much better than we think.

We all were born with the abilities to read external aspects such as energy, air, and atmosphere. Babies are good examples. They don’t understand any spoken language but they do understand what other people are trying to communicate by reading external aspects.

Before I moved to America, I was lucky enough to visit many different foreign countries. I visited Australia, Indonesia, Singapore, China, America, Mexico, Germany, and England. I am originally outgoing and friendly so that I never felt scared of meeting and talking to the local people in foreign countries. I did pretty well on communicating with people in foreign countries. Since my favorite country was America, I had visited America more than 20 times when I was single. Before I moved to America, I never concerned about living in America. I had thought I could communicate and mingle well with the local people.

However, visiting and living are totally different. It was not easy for me to live in America at all. It is so hard for me to adjust myself to a different culture and way of thinking. I feel the difficulty even now, after living here for eight years.

My first year in America was terrible. I could not understand or mingle with local people at all. Naturally, I started avoiding seeing anybody as much as I could. I had agoraphobia and social phobia very badly. I used to go to the grocery store at 6 am because there were hardly nobody in the store. And I used to pay through a self-checkout so that I didn’t need to talk with a casher.

It is this year 2016 when I finally have started coming out to the public. I am still in a rehabilitation process. I still feel scared of the local people from time to time.

However, living in a foreign country has provided me with great opportunities to read external aspects. In these 8 years, I have developed the abilities to observe other people’s energy. Just like new born babies do. I have been covering my understanding ability by reading other people’s face expressions, voice tones, and body languages.

Have you ever seen a butterfly frying around you out of season? I was told that Spirits can send insects to their loved one as their messengers. I believe most Japanese people are told the same way as I was.

I have two experiences to share with you.

The first experience is a message to my father. My family used to go see my paternal ancestors in the graveyard twice a year; spring and autumnal equinox day. The graveyard was in my dad’s hometown, where is located at three hours drives away from our current house.

Every time when we gathered up in front of the grave, one butterfly would come to my dad and rested at his shoulder. There were some days we had a snow or a rain, but regardless of the weather, almost all the time, one butterfly would come and hung around with my dad. I was not only one witness. My mom and my brother witnessed it. Sometimes, my dad’s bother and his family witnessed it. To me, it was a simple message from my dad’s ancestors that they love my dad.

The second experience is a message to my brother and me. When I was 11 years old, my grandfather had hospitalized for some months for sickness. My mom had gone to the hospital every day to take care of her dad, so my brother and I used to stay at home alone. One evening, my brother and I found a big spider (approx. 8 inch; 20 cm) at the wall of staircase. We didn’t feel scared of it. On the next morning, my mom told me my grandfather passed away. So, the spider came to my brother and me to let us know of his departure in advance.

As far as my personal experiences, insects are sent to us to convey a message, but the message tends to be a pretty simple. Something like “you are loved” or “we are watching over you”. I believe this simple message can be very powerful when you need some type of confirmation.

Today my husband casually asked me one question. “So, when are you going to make money from your small business?”

This was really tough, biting question for me. I could not answer it.

I instantly felt anger to my husband. But deep inside, I knew I was angry at myself. I have not made any money so far from my small business.

Why?

Because I haven’t advertised my services well. And deep inside, I still feel scared of coming out to the public. I am still hiding myself in the closet, in my comfort zone.

One of my friend shared her story with me. When she started her own business, she spent her first several months by offering her services to many people for free of charge. During that time her husband never asked her the biting question. She said she appreciate her husband for not asking the question or not pushing her for her business. I heard this story long time ago, but I still remember that.

Interestingly enough, today I had my 5th business counseling with my business mentor. He had worked as a web designer. With his knowledge, he offered me many feasible advice on advertising myself and my services to public. Lots of great information and technique. I appreciate his support in marketing, where I am not strong at. But to be honest, I feel overwhelmed by the idea on showing myself in public.

I established my small business because I have passions to help people, but when it comes to marketing, advertising myself, I know I am not good at it.

I know everything happens for reasons. I appreciate for my husband and my mentor to encourage me to go forward. I need to work on myself to overcome my weakness and fear….