Today I attended the Facebook Page class at the local community college. The target audience was self-employment owners like me. The instructor gave us the information about Facebook Page and the technique how we can efficiently advertise our products and services by using several apps.

I am personally not good at advertising myself and my services. And I am reluctant on showing myself in public, especially in SNS. During I was listening her explanations on helpful app and tools, I thought to myself…, maybe I will try these some other time… I felt overwhelmed with the idea on advertising myself and exposing myself in Internet world.

Probably, I was not the only one who thought so, but also other students were having the same thoughts as I did. Then the instructor started laughing. She said she understand many people would feel overwhelmed with all the advertising parts. She said she had a work around for those people. Then she clicked the next page in her PowerPoint document. There was 2-3 seconds until the work around method showed up. The message slowly appeared…. And it says….

Suck it up!

We all bursted to laugh. She was absolutely right. We are the self-employed owners. If we want to make our business successful, we’ve gotta do. I too would like many people to know what I offer, so I guess I’ve got to advertise myself….

Today I had my fourth small business meeting. My business plan is almost done. My next meeting is 3 weeks from now.

Establishing a company is similar to giving a baby birth. So far, I went through the exciting parts, similar to starting from water breaking, followed by contractions, then, push, push, push. After the baby came out, I didn’t have enough rest for myself. I needed to take care of the new born, changing a diaper, feeding milk, talking to the baby, calming the baby, etc, etc. Everything was new to me. My August 2016 went by like that.

After we give a baby birth, a mother needs to rest up and charge energy up for herself. Same thing can be applied to the situation after giving a birth to a business. Now, I need to cherish my own peaceful resting time. I will spend this 3 weeks for meditating, grounding myself, and charging energy for myself.

After giving a birth to something, either a baby or a business, it is a living creature now. Everything is born with God’s will. A birth cannot be happened by mistake. Every birth has significant meanings. Once it is born, the living creature has its own strength to survive and its own mission to fulfil. There will be some times that the baby and the business go through something beyond the mother’s expectation…. All we can do is to enjoy every moment and to grow together.

When I thought back my life up to this day, I realized how much I was guided and protected by many Spirits and Angels. My wishes came true so naturally that I even have not realized how lucky I was.

One example is tutoring. When I was a university student, I casually mentioned to my classmates that I wanted to teach students as a tutor. Next day one of my classmates who were not my close friend approached me and asked me if I want to work as a tutor. She introduced me 2 students; one is a junior high school student and the other was her brother, a high school student. Very naturally and smoothly, their parents hired me as their tutor and I had taught them English and math for 4 years. After they graduated high school, I was naturally introduced to another student to tutor.

Another example is to teach at a private school. This was the same way as tutoring. I mentioned one of acquaintances that I wanted to be a teacher at a private school. Some months later, the job opportunity naturally came to me and I accepted the job offer. I did not even look for a job or apply for a job. They found me and called me with the job offer.

In 2004, when I was staying at my Navajo family, one of my dad-in-law’s friends visited him, where I was naturally hired as an interpreter for Lakota tour.

Around the same time when I was staying at my Navajo family, one Japanese Television company came for a program shooting. I was naturally hired as an interpreter and a local guide.

I almost forgot these experiences. Now I am working on the business plan document, and these experiences came back to me. I realized how much I was loved by Spirits and Angels, how much support I had received so far. And now, I am fully aware that these events happed for reasons. I can utilize these experiences for my small business; writing, speaking, and teaching. I am so thankful for all the events and experiences in my life.

It might be a good idea to write down some memorable events in your life. Then analyze what you have learned from the events. You might find the deep and true meaning why that happened to you, why you have brought to the specific events. Everything happens for reasons. During Mercury retrograde, it works really well to think back old memories. By doing so, you might realize some new findings. 

Have you ever received any kinds of chain letters? Probably most people have the experiences. Recently I received one chain letter from my acquaintance. It says something like this.

This is a letter from God. I want you to forward this letter to 18 people within next 10 minutes. Then, you will hear a good news…

It is also written additional comment such as….

If you want to delete your karma, you’d better do this.

When I received this chain letter, I felt uncomfortable. I even felt anger to the sender. To me, this additional comment sounds like a threat.

I ignored this chain mail. Then the next day, I received another comment from the same sender, asking to take an action right away.

I politely replied back to the sender, asking not to send any chain letters to me anymore. Quickly, the sender replied back to me, saying that (1) the person also does not like chain letters neither, (2) that the person forwarded the chain letter because her friend asked to do so, and (3) that the person also hopes not to receive any chain letters from anybody anymore.

Please don’t get me wrong. I am sharing this story not to blame the sender. My intention of sharing this story is to encourage people not to participate in any actions to make your friends feel uncomfortable.

Spirits, Angels, Gods never put any conditions to humans such as saying “do this, then I will love you”. They never ask humans to do such things like forwarding chain letters in order to delete karma or in order to receive something good news. Their love is always unconditional.

Karma is not something to be deleted or added by God. Karma does not necessary mean only bad deeds. Karma can be good deeds too. We can work on it in our daily life.  

When you receive a chain letter, please focus on your emotion. If you feel uncomfortable on receiving it, just like I felt, please follow your inner gut feeling. You can be brave and say “NO” to the chain letter, and stop the chain at your place. If you forward the chain letter to your friends, you will make your dear friends to feel uncomfortable and put them in a tough situation. Now they have to choose certain number of their dear friends to forward the chain letter. Somebody has to cut the chain, and each of us can be brave to protect your dear friends and family.

I set my crazy wild goal for this small business as “To make a better world; no crimes”. I want to make the better world where everyone is nice and kind to one another. This is my sincere hope from my heart.

On this May 2016, my family and I visited to another city in another State. We were seriously thinking about moving to the city at that time. It was the time when the summer vacation had just started. We visited the aquarium and zoo. When we came back to the parking lot, we found our car was broken into. Somebody smashed our car window and stole our personal items.

When I saw this crime scenery, I could not believe what happened. My thoughts got frozen and kept on asking some questions to myself that nobody answered for me; Why our car? Why during our fun vacation time? Why? Why? Why?

It was weird. It happened during the middle of day time; specifically from 9 am to 11 am. The parking lot was full of family customers with kids. We parked our car in the center of the parking lot, where there was no trees or walls, completely open area. There were some other cars, which were nice rich looking cars surrounding our car. But the criminal attacked only our car.

It was really shocking. We had waited there for 2 hours for the police to report. My daughter and I were crying beside our car. During we were waiting for the police, there were some other annoying things happened. When some other visitors arrived at the parking lot, they saw the crime scenery where my daughter and I were crying beside the crashed car window, they asked us “did somebody break into your car?” And I nodded crying. Then they told us “well, we had better park somewhere else” and left us. I could not believe it. Why these people could not say something nice to us, such as “sorry to hear that…” or “are you guys okay?”

Negative energy is contagious. This event was a good example. When somebody broke into my car and stole my stuff, I got sad and mad. I was surrounded by negative energy. This negative energy made me blind for a while. During I was crying from sadness, surrounded by anger, every people whom I encountered looked like a criminal to me.

I think the criminal stole our stuff because they were suffering poverty and they thought it was okay for them to steal from others. Such thinking is all selfish. It came from negative thinking.

But!!! It is not okay. It is not okay to steal somebody’s things or to hurt somebody else. I think stealing and hurting come from fear. When people fear for lacking something, they try to win over others.

This event really made me to realize my life goal. I don’t agree with any kinds of crimes. I really want to contribute to make a better world without any crimes.

I have a solid belief. When people fully understand the Universal rule, the true spiritualism, nobody can commit any kinds of crimes, such as stealing, hurting, raping, killing somebody. The Universe does not have limitation. Everything is possible. Everything comes from our thoughts. Abundance truly comes from our inner self. We don’t need to steal from others. We don’t need to make others to feel miserable just to make ourselves to feel better or winners over others. All of us can be a winner.

I believe, when each of us remembers who we truly are, we can stay being positive. When we are fully satisfied with true ourselves, we will never feel jealous to others. When we are positive and happy, we can share the positive and happy energy to other people.

I truly believe that all of us can contribute to the world peace. We don’t need to take a huge step. Small baby steps will do. Such small first steps are, for example, to know ourselves, to know our true gifts, to be satisfied with who we truly are, and to take good care of ourselves physically and mentally. These are the example to make ourselves happy. Then, next step. When we are happy, we can share the happiness with others. Positive energy is also contagious.

When we greet to somebody with a smile, we can make the person feel happy. When the person goes back to his/her house with the happy feeling, the person can be nice and kind to the family. Then, the family members can bring their happy energy to their school and workplace, where they can spread the positive energy even further area. In such ways, happiness and positive energy can be passed it down to many people in a wide area. Just like making a ripple in the water surface. Gentle movement, but sturdy and powerful, getting bigger and bigger. A small ripple can eventually reach to the enormous huge area. And the small ripple might be your smile!

Happy positive people treat other people in nice and kind ways. There is no competition, jealousy, nor crimes. And that is why I am focusing on helping others to reconnect with who they really are.

When we need some advice on choosing one option out of two or more options, there are some ways for us to take. Some people can use their gut feeling. How do you feel in your gut when you think about an individual option? Do you feel light, or do you feel dull in your gut? How is your heart beat rate? Does it get faster or stay calm? Feel your body temperature. Do you feel hotter, colder, or stay calm? Do you get goosebumps? How does it feel by goosebumps; comfortable or uneasy?

You can also use a pendulum. When I use my pendulum, I write down some options in a paper, by putting my left pointing figure on each option, and hold my pendulum on my right hand, and ask one by one. In case when I am outside of the house, I can use a key chain or anything I have handy as a pendulum.

Many years ago, I was invited by my acquaintance for a gathering. When I got the gathering, there were several more guests whom I never met before. I felt something uncomfortable energy from those group. The host suggested to do a healing exchange session with one another. When I heard this suggestion, I felt something heavy in my gut. But sill, even though I did not feel comfortable about it, I thought I should stay and do a healing exchange session anyway.

Then I started feeling my gut getting heavier and heavier. Finally I told the host that I needed to go to the bathroom. When I went inside the bathroom, I had a strong urge to do a body dowsing on whether I should stay and do a healing session with them, or I should go back home right away. I asked my body to show me YES by pushing my body forward, and NO by pulling my body backward.

I was about to ask my question “should I go back home right now?” Even before I finished asking my question, my body reacted to bend forward. It was very weird. I felt as if somebody was standing right behind me and used his/her both hands to push my body forward. Actually, my body was pushed forward to the extent where I almost hit my forehead smash into the mirror.

I could not stop laughing, but of course, I covered my mouth not to laugh out loud. And…., needless to say…. I followed the strong advise from my body and went back home right away. This is one of my funniest experiences that body eloquently talks.

We have entered in Mercury Retrograde from August 30 to September 21 2016. I can feel everything is slowing down.

Mercury supports communication ability. So, for these 23 days, I would like to spend my time to review my communication skills. My horoscope teacher sets the age group of Mercury as age 8 to 15. When I was in this age range, I had focused on expressing myself in writing. This age range, I won the first prize in creating a story in the elementary school.

Also in this age range, I met my lifelong friend. It was when I was 11 years old. These days we didn’t have emails or cell phones, so we had communicated with a written letter until we grew up enough to visit each other.

During today’s meditation, my family souls conveyed messages to me as…

Slow down. Not to worry about small, detailed things. Keep on seeing and focusing on a bigger picture. Relax and enjoy a play time with kids and animals. Calm myself. Enjoy alone time at least once a day. Don’t need to run at this moment. Take one step and stop, and take a deep breathe in and out. Enjoy observing the surrounding environment. And, the most important advice is to sleep a lot.

I believe these messages can be applied to many people too.

I would like to share my personal experience about Angel card reading. I am currently taking the Certified Angel Card Readers class, and we have a Facebook community page where we, fellow students, can exchange our readings to practice.

First, I did my card reading by myself, asking about my romance situation. My husband and I have been talking about getting divorce or living separately. This issue is still here with us, mainly due to financial issue, and I needed some advice from Angels.

I drew 3 Angel cards. I pulled New Love card at the center position. The center position usually shows the current situation. When I took a look of this card, I instantly thought “no way”. This is my honest feeling. I am not looking for a new love. I am satisfied with my husband. I love my husband from my heart, and I know he is my right partner on this life. We are meant to be together and we have known one another from past lifetimes. Although we often talk about divorce in these months, I actually don’t mean getting divorce seriously. My honest feeling is that I want to stay being as a family with him throughout this lifetime. No matter what. I feel unconditional love to him. Same thing can be said to my daughter. Nothing can change my unconditional love to my family. I love them, no matter what. I didn’t understand what the center card means to me.

Then, I asked my fellow classmate to do a romance reading for me. I didn’t tell any details about our current situation.

She did a great job in reading. Interestingly, she pulled the same card “New Love” in the center position. However, she followed her first inspiration on her interpretation. Her intuition told her that this card was not telling her that I would meet a new person for a romance partner. Instead, she was drawn to the man is wearing a metal armor. So, she interpreted this card as my current mental situation; I shut my heart to my husband, just like wearing a metal armor. And it was very true. I am mad at him for our current financial crisis.

Doreen encourages the students to focus on the drawing itself and trust our intuition, and not to read the card texts. This is a good example to do so. I appreciate my fellow student to naturally show me how to read Angel cards.  

One of my business mentor asked me “what made me to start my own business”? The simple and direct answer is “because my family souls strongly urged me to do so. I don’t know why, but from the beginning of this year 2016, I had kept on seeing and hearing my family souls’ urges “come out!! Come out!!” The urges had come every day, literally 24/7, during both the daytime visions and night time dreams.

Let me share my personal experience. This year 2016 is my 9th year living in America. I had spent these past 8 years hiding myself inside the house. I had seldom gone out in public. I used to go to the grocery store at 6 am so that I didn’t run into many people. I used to ask my husband to drop off and pick up my daughter at preschool whenever he could. Why? Because I was scared of people.

I am originally outgoing and friendly. When I was single, I often traveled alone both in Japan and in foreign countries. I never hesitated to meeting new people. I was easy going and made friends with people from other countries. I didn’t have any boundary to people. As for America, I had visited America more than 20 times before I got married. I had a strong confidence that I could communicate well with American people.

Then, when I moved to America, the first 3 months was so tough. I was totally fine on everything while I was traveling and visiting America. However, when I started actually living here in America, it was hard for me to adjust myself to the difference of way of thinking, cultures, and habits. All the things that I used to take it for granted in Japan were not applied here in America. As a result of cultural gap and shocking experiences, I reached to the extent where I really scared of the local people. That is why I had hide myself in the house these past of years. I became extremely shy.

If I had not received the strong calls every day from my family souls, I would have still stayed home, doing nothing, scaring of people. I appreciate my family souls for helping me to come out to the society.

Once I have come out to the society, I was surprised. There are many nice supportive people out there. I just didn’t know that all these years.  

I believe everything, everybody has the right timing to do the right things. For me, right now is the right time for me to come out to the society. I need lots of help to do my dream job. I would like to say thank you to all who have come to my life, as a supporter, as a teacher, and as a friend.

Today I attended at my third Small Business Meeting. Today’s focus was on the market strategy. I am definitely weak in this area. During the meeting, I felt the strong needs in meeting a lot of new people, getting many acquaintances. That requires me to come out to the society more often than now.

This third meeting made me realize the core part of self-employment. At this moment in my self-employed business, I am the only one person. I need to lead all my necessary actions. I am the leader of this business. When I become lazy, nothing is progressed. Then I thought… I wish I had a business partner who can cover my weak area.

My thoughts went back to my younger days. When I was 30 years old, I supported my German director on establishing a Japanese branch in Japan. The German director was 37 years old at that time. I really enjoyed this process on establishing a new company. This job required nothing but creative thoughts.

We started from nothing. We sat down with pencils and papers. We spent many hours on brainstorming. Some days later, the papers and pencils were upgraded to a big white board and dry erase markers, but still, our focus was on brainstorming. This is the solid evidence that everything starts from our thoughts. For us, brainstorming was really helpful.

My German director was different type from I was. He is Caucasian and I am Japanese. He is male and I am female. We have different background and culture. Sometimes we didn’t agree with one another, and other times we strongly agreed. There were some areas where I was strong at, and there were other areas where my German director was strong at. He was excellent in marketing strategies, and he had so many ideas to meet new people and advertise our company.

At least now that I know my weak point lays in marketing, I should ask for help/advice to people to cover this area.