I believe our true nature will be revealed at the most stressful situation.

On January 17th 1995, I experienced the big earthquake, Great Hanshin Earthquake in Kobe, Japan.

I would like to share my friend’s experience. At the time of the earthquake, he was living alone. His apartment was about 25 mile (40 km) away from his parents. The first thing that everybody thinks at the disaster is about their family, so was he. He wanted to go back to his family’s house. He didn’t have a car, and he knew none of the public transportations were available. All he could go back to his parents’ house was to walk.

The entire city was out of electricity, gas, and water. He needed to buy some water and food for his long walk, so he stopped by the closest store.

It was a small convenience store. There were around 20 people in the store. My friend first observed the other customers. He was surprised at what he saw. Even in such panicky situation, all the customers stayed being polite, never pushed each other; nothing like the scenery we watch in the panic movies. The cash register was not working. Anybody could steal whatever they wanted in such a hectic situation, but nobody did. Everybody paid for the items, leaving the appropriate amount of cash at the casher counter.

As he walked, he encountered many houses crashed and heard some people’s voice asking for help somewhere in the crashed houses. He rescued some people out from the crashed houses. It took him 10 hours to finally arrive at his parent’s house. He told me his experiences to save people’s lives would stay being his best deeds in his life. 

My family and I went through the life without running water and gas line for more than one month. During that time, we had received lots of supports and encouragements from the people from other towns and cities.

Natural disaster is not a fun experience at all, but at least I appreciate that I could experience and encounter many good hearted people offering help to one another.

This earthquake taught us lots of valuable lessons. I really hope to see people helping one another at the most stressful situation in the future. But most of all, I want to be one of them helping people.

Before we were born, we have made many spiritual agreements. Such spiritual agreements can be seen in our biological family members, life-time friends, schools, teachers, and careers. They are our key people and key events in our life. Right before we were born to this physical world, our memories are erased for our convenience. So we don’t remember the details of our life blueprint.  

This is my personal experience. I like to know the answer right away. In short, I am impatient to search out answers. In my youth years, I loved reading mystery books. But I always hoped that somebody would tell me the real criminal beforehand. So, one day, when I gave my favorite mystery books to my brother, I told him the real criminal’s name. I did so from my kindness. But my brother was so upset with me, blaming me that I took away his fun part to search out the real criminal.

Those days, I didn’t understand why my brother was upset with me, but now I do. It would be much more fun for him to read through the mystery book without knowing the real criminal beforehand.

I think this can be said about life events. Some people want to know the detailed predictions on their career, marriage, and other significant life events; when and how they will happen. But doesn’t it take away the fun parts?   

If we know everything beforehand, it won’ be fun. I think that is why our guide spirits don’t tell us everything in details. They respect our free will and reserve our fun parts on solving the issues and searching out the answers.  

When we finally search out the right one after long-term efforts, the success feeling and joy would be great. It won’t be not that fun if we find the right job, and right spouse, right friend, and right house, right way, without any efforts.

Sometimes, when we get stuck on searching out the right one, it might be a good idea to step back from the situation for a while. It is not giving up, but relax and observe. Just know that we will eventually meet the right one at the right timing. It’s going to be great when we finally find the right one after our efforts and struggling. And most of the time, the right one and the right timing come unexpectedly from unexpected directions.

So, let’s enjoy the searching process. For any kinds of searching; job hunting, spouse hunting, friend hunting, and house hunting, we will be guided to the right one at the right timing. Life is mystery. It is designed to enjoy the searching process.

I believe many people are enjoying the energy shift since September 22nd 2016. I personally feel it by skin.

Since the vibration has been uplifted, many energy sensitive people will experience detoxification processes in a various ways. For body cleanse purposes, some people might feel extremely sleepy, while others might experience itchy rash without any specific causes. Or some people might go through puking. For emotion cleanse purpose, some people might experience extreme anger or sadness, resulting in crying with shedding lots of tears.

Please don’t worry. All of them are just fine. Let it be. Let it go. At this moment, we don’t need to find out the exact causes. Please know that you are blessed with such detoxifications to adjust our mind, body, and spirit to higher vibration.

The most important message of today is that we cannot lie to ourselves anymore. Lying to ourselves and hiding our true desire are the old energy and heavier vibration. They don’t match to the current higher vibration level any more.

Our true desire and true self are stored in our Tanden (Japanese term, the energy center). I believe this is the place where our energy center is located, and also this place is connected to the Universe. The line from Tanden to our Throat should be straight. When this line is well aligned, we can manifest our desire very easily.

If we keep on saying something that does not match to our true desire, the line of Throat and Tanden are distorted, and that will interfere on manifesting our hopes and desires. And these are not available anymore, because the truth will be revealed sooner than we think. With higher vibration, we will be forced to be true to ourselves. We cannot lie to ourselves anymore.

So, let’s really talk to our inner self. Let’s realize our true desire and hope. Think about them and talk about them with somebody whom we can trust. I think it is time for us to know what we really want to do, and manifest it in the material world.

Everything is possible. Just a thought away. Because, everything starts from our thoughts.

In my last article, I mentioned about the unsolved issue between my mom and me. To make it fair, in this article, I would like to share about great virtues about my mom.

My mom is very generous person. My mom loves to give away. Whenever she goes to trip, she would buy a whole bunch of souvenirs. And after she comes back, she would give them away to her family, relatives, friends, neighbors, and coworkers. She constantly has many boxes of gift chocolates and cookies at home, and she would give it to anybody who has visited her house. She often says it is her hobby to give a gift to make people happy.

My mom is also very virtuous person. For some reasons, she often ends up taking care of the sick persons and seeing them off at the last moment. I think her life mission on this life is to see people off, for their journey back to their spirit hometown.

As far as I know, she was there at their last moment for my dad’s mom, my mom’s dad, our dog, my mom’s sister, and my dad’s sister. My mom took care of them at the hospital for their last several months, taking care of their bathroom needs, wiping them off, feeding them, or changing their diapers.

When people get very sick, they tend to forget appreciating for the care taker. When I was very small, I witnessed one of them said mean things to my mom. My mom never got mad at them back. She said it was understandable for them to be mean because they were suffering from pain. She never stopped taking care of them until the last moment.

I still remember what she told me. She said, right before people die, their body would be surrounded by a golden light and their last word is always Thank you.

Even our dog conveyed the message telepathically to my mom. My dog passed away when my mom was holding him in her arms. Right before his soul left his body, our dog shed tears in his eyes, and telepathically said Thank you to my mom.

I wanted to share this story, because this story pretty much tells how my mom has lived her life. My mom has received many Thank You from many people. These many Thank You energy has been protecting my mom. I don’t have any doubts that my mom has been well protected by both living humans and passed away souls.

Nowadays I use my running time as my meditation time. When I am running, I can completely free from any left brained thoughts.   

Three days ago during I was running, I had a strong feeling of my mother in Japan. I actually felt my mother’s energy right in front of me. I started communicating with the soul of my mom. What I received was like this.

My mom’s time is coming close. In case I cannot see her again before she goes back to the spirit world, she would completely understand. She would keep on loving me no matter what. She would keep on sending me love all the time. It does not matter where she is, either in Japan or in spirit world. She is proud of me and will be so, all the time.

I instantly knew that something happened to my mom. My mom and I seldom talk on the phone, but we communicate via email from time to time. I emailed her, asking if everything is okay with her. I haven’t received a reply from her until today.

She said in her email that she became very sick three days ago and had been staying in the hospital since then. She had been very sick that she could not reply back to me. This is her second time for hospitalization. Ironically she was hospitalized on the same day of the last year. She had stayed 2 weeks in the hospital last year. We don’t know how long it would take for this time.

After I read her email, I cried for her for several hours.

With crying, I checked the air plane tickets. I can go visit her during my daughter’s autumn vacation for 1 week. The tickets were available, and the prices were not outrageous at this time of the year. I can go see her. It is up to me. But still, I am very reluctant to go see her.

I have some unsolved issues with my mom.

My husband proposed me for marriage in Arizona in July 2007. When I reported it to my parents, my mom got so mad at me. She didn’t like my marrying to an American and moving to America. My mom loved me so much, and she could not handle on losing me from her sights. With her anger, she had stopped talking to me since then.

My husband visited me in Japan and we married in Japan in March 2008. My mom refused to meet my husband. At the last moment, with my brother’s and my dad’s persuasion, my mom finally accepted to meet my husband. My mom liked my husband very much because my husband is a good-hearted and trustworthy man. My mom’s anger was nothing to do with my husband. No matter how sincere my husband is, she would be against of our marriage anyway.

After my husband went back to America, my mom went back to her attacking mode, completely ignored me for almost 9 months until my moving day to America in December 2008.

For about 17 months since July 2007 to December 2008, my mom had ignored me. I had lived close to my parents’ house, within 15 minutes walking distance. Before, I used to visit them often. I used to talk on the phone frequently. My parents used to take me to a restaurant or a fun event regularly. But not anymore. When I visited their house, she didn’t let me in. When I called her on the phone, she hung up the phone. There was one time when we had a dinner together before I moved to America, my mom and I ended up a big argument, yelling and hurting each other.

My parents came to see us in Las Vegas in July 2011, and it ended up with the same result. My mom and I got a huge argument. I could not even see them off at the airport. Since then, I haven’t seen my mom.

There is a deep and big gap between my mom and me. I really don’t know if I will go see her in Japan or not. 

This morning right after I had breakfast, my entire body got an allergic reaction, with itchy rash all over my body. I wrote down everything what I ate. Everything was my usual food, except for a piece of rye bread. So, the cause of today’s allergic reaction was rye.

I had lived in Japan for about 40 years. During these years, I had seldom experienced a serious food allergy. I could eat animal meats such as pork, beef, and chicken.

After I moved to America, my body has started reacting to foods, more sensitively than when I was in Japan. When I ate pork, I had gotten a severe reaction including puking and head ache, so I needed to completely stop eating pork. Same goes to chicken and beef. From time to time, I can eat only organic beef and chicken, but not much amount. My body cannot accept any foods from the fast food restaurant chains. I have gotten food allergy even from fresh fruits (such strawberry and melon). I got bad food reaction to coffee powder milk as well.

This is only my personal opinion, but from my experiences, I feel the foods sold in America might contain more chemicals and pesticides than the foods sold in Japan.

My intention for writing this story is to share the truth; I don’t intend to blame the food industry.

The truth is: our body is getting more sensitive than before. It is time to do some research and examine onto our daily foods. It is time for us to listen to our body and take good care of it, by stopping eating low quality foods.

My Reiki teacher taught me “we are what we eat”. Food is simply energy. When we eat high quality foods and high energy foods, our energy can stay in a high vibration. On the other hand, when we keep on eating junk foods; cheap and convenient foods that has low vibration, we tend to get affected by the low energy, low vibration.

I feel it a blessing that my body has been becoming more sensitive to foods than before. I believe nowadays many people have same experiences as I do. Let’s appreciate for this blessing and listen to our body’s voice. We got to use our body for many years anyway. Let’s love our body and take good care of our body by eating proper foods.     

I don’t love moving, but my life forced me moving here and there. I am destined to move my residences frequently.

My family moved twice when I was small.

I started living alone when I was 22 years old. Until I moved to America, I moved my residence 10 times in the 6 years. I didn’t do it for my hobby, but something always happened for me to force me to move another place. Finally I bought my house and had lived there for 10 years.

My biggest moving was from Japan to America.

I have lived in America for 8 years. During this 8 years, we moved 5 times. We will need to move at least one more time, and hopefully the next one will be our last one. I have moved 18 times so far.

Then when I thought about all the residences that I had lived, my favorite residences were always close to the library, within the walking distance. And I always love reading books all my life.

One of my coworkers had moved more than I did. She told me once, that whenever she moved, her residences were always very close to the shrines. She never intended that. It was so obvious that she is well protected by Japanese Gods and Shinto way. For your information, in Japan, we have shrines and temples. Shrines are for Shinto whereas temples are for Buddhism.

It might be interesting when you think about your tendency on what kinds of lands or attributes that your former residences had. You might tend to live on the top of the hill. Or you might tend to live close to the mountains. The tendency seems like a coincidence. But as you know, there is no coincidence. Everything has meanings. We are naturally guided to certain attributes of the lands and the land energies.

In this morning’s dream, I was with many people at the buffet in the hotel restaurant. It was interesting to see a variety of people and foods. There were luxurious people with decorated themselves with expensive dresses and business suits. Also, there were casual people with simple and comfortable clothing. The same thing goes to the foods. There were a variety from expensive foods to economy foods, and from rare special occasion foods to common daily life foods.

This dream represents that there are a variety of people with a variety of tastes or preferences. And that is why there are many different opinions.

I felt this is a message from my family souls, telling me that not let anybody anything to scare me or let me down. There will be some people who dislike my book with whatever reasons. They dislike my book because they might have different way of thinking from my way. They might feel as if they are attacked by my words. In case they feel so, all they can do is to dig into their inner self and rediscover their hidden aspects.

My sincere intention of this book is to help many people on their spiritual journey. I never intend to attack or blame anybody anyhow. I am just expressing my feelings with people. I am a simple human. My feelings and emotions may be sometimes biased. With the process of writing, I am being healed. And I sincerely hope somebody can also be healed by reading my book.

As always, today’s message from my family souls can be applied to anybody. When you do something, please stay being yourself. Stay with your belief. Please don’t let anything anyone to let you down. We don’t need to live our lives as somebody’s expectation to us.

I strongly believe we all are here to contribute to build the better world. When we encounter a mean person who criticizes your work badly, don’t take it personally, but analyze it objectively. We might be able to learn something unexpectedly from the mean reviews or feedbacks.

Let’s always keep it in our mind. This planet Earth is the good place to experience to interact with different leveled souls. We came to this planet Earth to experience this diversity. I definitely would not like it whenever somebody criticizes my work in a mean way, but at least I need to know that will happen for sure.

Do you like getting a psychic reading? I used to, but not anymore.

It was only recently when I have completely stopped getting a psychic reading. The reason is simple. I have finally realized that nobody can tell me the true answers more clearly than I do. And I believe it is true to everybody. As a soul, we have a whole bunch of different aspects. It can be only ourselves to know where to look for an answer for a specific question or quest.

That being said, there are some occasions that a psychic reading can really help and become a life changing event for the person.

This is my experience. When I was still in my 20s, I went to see one psychic woman in Venice beach California. The psychic said all kinds of things about me. She predicted my negative future events I did not want to hear. I was surrounded by all the negative things that she mentioned. She did not give me any positive advice. After receiving the reading session from her, I felt really heavy in my gut.

Some days later, I mentioned that to my Japanese psychic friend. She asked me if the psychic told me any idea or advice on how I could avoid the negative outcomes. I told her that the only thing the psychic told me was she needed extra $200 to get rid of the negative outcomes. The psychic said all the negative events would happen due to my karma from my past lives.

My Japanese friend told me that the good psychic would not say anything negative. In case they see something negative, they would convey the message with some positive advice so that they could avoid or change the directions to their preferable ways.

I think people go see a psychic because they want to escape from their tough situation. Or, they want to reassure whether their heading direction is correct. Or simply, they want to feel uplifting after the reading session. Taking all of the analysis into accounts, nobody wants to hear negative future predictions without any advice to avoid them.

Moreover, in my personal understanding, higher leveled psychics tend to see nothing but positive and peaceful aspects, while lower leveled psychics tend to see lower density and focus on negative aspects.

All in all, we are here to create things. Everything is created from our thoughts and belief. If a psychic just say only the negative predictions without the advice on how to avoid them, the predictions would scare the clients. If the psychic implants only fear into the client, the client might believe the negative predictions so hard, and the client’s strong belief would bring the negative predictions to happen in reality.

I prefer to have somebody who offer a free consultation before I actually pay for the reading fee. It can be only 20-30 minutes. With this short talk, both side; a psychic and a client, can feel each other’s energy. Then based on the intuition, they can decide either having a reading or not having. Maybe this can be applied to a relationship between a teacher and a student. I believe any spiritual sessions and teachings are supposed be done under the spiritual agreements on both parties.

Good psychics always uplifts a client, guiding them to the right direction, bringing their motivation, and tapping into their soul to be awaken.

I often mention in my articles about having a conversation with our inner self. One of my acquaintances asked me the methods on how we can do so.

One way I do is to meditate. I have two ways of mediations; one is passive way and the other is active way. For the active meditation, I say my thoughts out loud as if I have somebody to have a conversation with me. When I talk out loud of my thoughts and questions, I get instant feedbacks and answers from my family souls. They interact with me. Through such conversation, I always get insights that I would not get when I am occupied with something material things. I believe my family souls are in a way, myself.

I belong to a big soul family, and physical me is just a tip of the iceberg. On this lifetime, I am wearing a Japanese woman’s body, covered by mostly gentle energy. But I know myself. I have many different aspects in me. I have powerful leadership attribute, furious warrior attribute, pure child attribute…all kinds.

I believe everybody is like that. Everybody has a certain attribute that comes strong, but there are many different attributes inside.

In our daily life, we encounter certain people whom we instantly dislike. The person whom we dislike has a key to know ourselves more. We should use the opportunity to find our unknown attribute. 

When we deeply dig into our inner self, the reason of dislike comes from our inner emotion. We dislike the person because the person has something we don’t have. It can be jealous. It can be sadness. It can be a desire to be acknowledged by somebody. It can be rooted from the past life experiences. When we dig into the root cause, face to it, observe it, and release it, if we can. I think it is a powerful tool to know ourselves better and more.