Have you ever thought the world peace is nothing to do with you? Or, have you ever thought the world peace is something that somebody can work on, but not your job? I used to feel that way. i thought the world peace is the issues or concerns of politicians or other millionaire’s, but not mine. Because I used to think I am just an ordinal human and I cannot do anything radical to change the world.

However, now I have changed my mind. Achieving the world peace is my concern. I can do something radical as long as I keep on doing it. My small efforts toward the world peace might start with a tiny piece, but when it accumulates, it will get bigger and stronger enough to attract more like-minded people to support one another.    

I believe if we heal the current situation, we can heal the past at the same time. And this is the way how I can contribute to the world peace.

Let me give you one example.

Suppose if you had a bad memory toward your classmate when you were at the kindergarten. The classmate was always bullying you, saying something mean to you or doing something bad to you. After graduated the kindergarten, you and the bully classmate went to the separate school and had not seen each other for several years.

When you started working for a company, you and the bully classmate reconnected again. She was also the employee of the company. But this time, you noticed the bully classmate have changed her personality completely. She was not a bully anymore. Now she turned to be very nice and kind. You became best friends with her. From that point, she stands by you for any situations, supporting your love relationships or life dreams, and encouraging you when you need. You might remember the bad memory from her of the past, but you will value the current her as your best friend.

This example shows the current situation can heal the past situation. Her current kind attitude have healed your traumatic memory of the past. It is like the Sun gradually melts a hard ice wall.

Same things can be said to other things. Humans have made lots of mistakes in the past. One of such mistakes are wars. Because of the wars, some people still hate other people just because of their nationality or skin color.

When I was in 20s, I was visiting one of my American friends. One day my friend’s relative came by to the house. As soon as the relative saw me, he quickly said he hated Japanese. When my friend asked the relative why he hated Japanese, he answered he read the history of the Pearl Harbor. He started yelling at me, saying that I needed to apologize to him as a representative of the Japanese people for the Attack on Pearl Harbor. This was my first experience that I was treated badly because of my nationality. This person had been bounded by the past.

Most likely, we have encountered so many people saying that “I don’t like the people of certain nationality because of what their ancestors did to my ancestors.” Or, “I don’t like this colored skin people because of their history.” To me, it is sad to see the people who are bounded by the past events.

There is a solution to cut this negative link. The formula is: when we heal the current situation, we can heal the past at the same time.

The same formula can be applied to this situation as the first example of the kindergarteners. When we meet somebody whom we used to hate because of the person’s skin color or nationality, the person represents of the skin colored people and the country. And what if the representing person is very nice and kind to you, would you change your prejudice toward the bigger framed people? I think we all do. When we can heal the current situation, we can heal the past. And most importantly, these actions are up to each of us in our daily life.

When you meet a stranger and you treat the person kindly, your kind action might have changed the person’s attitude toward the group where you belong. For example, in the second example, if I could show my kindness to the relative, then the relative might have a better impression toward Japanese. He might not hate Japanese anymore.

Healing is happening everywhere at every moment.

Through our kind actions on a daily basis, we are constantly healing the encountered people in the current situation as well as their bond to the past. And I truly believe our independent actions matter to change the world.

If we don’t do anything to heal the current situation, we will continue the negative bond to the past to our future generation. I believe now is the best time to heal the current, and the past and the future. We can do it together.

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Have you ever thought about the reason why we are here? Why have you decided to come back to this lifetime? Of course there should be many different reasons for each of us to fulfil on this lifetime and that is why we have come back to the planet Earth. But in my personal perspective, one of the reasons why some of us reincarnated to this lifetime is to rewrite the mistakes in the past. We came back to change the patterns that our ancestors had been used to.

I chose to be born as a Japanese on this lifetime. It has a great meaning to me. I think Japan volunteered to be the one who went through the atomic bomb during the World War II. Please don’t get me wrong. I am not saying Japanese were the only victims of the war, but I want to focus on the process after the bomb. After the tragic event, The Constitution of Japan proclaims that the Japanese people renounce war forever.

The other day, I mentioned about my experiences on visiting the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Dome. Around that area, there are still many souls wandering around. They are sad about what happened. And I strongly feel they try to convey the messages to us not to repeat the tragedy anymore.

I feel there were so many people who wanted to change the government at that time. There were so many people who thought the war was wrong thing to do. But unfortunately, at that time, there was not enough methods for those people to spread their voices to many people. The truth was hidden or twisted for the convenience for certain selfish people.

However, on this lifetime, the situation has gotten much better than that of those days. Thanks to the development of Internet and other technologies, so many things have been revealed. The true has been revealed. And among all, on this lifetime, there are so many people who can bravely speak up their opinions. I strongly believe this lifetime should be the one that to rewrite the mistakes in the past.

When we do the right thing on this lifetime, we can heal the souls who have still been suffering from the tragic memories from their past lives.

Time is just a concept that humans created for the convenience. Therefore, when we create the better world on this lifetime, we can also heal the past at the same time. The souls of our ancestors who have been suffering can be healed.  

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I am currently working on the book proposal. The content of the book is the importance of achieving the world peace. I would like to share my story why I think achieving the world peace is critical.

On this lifetime, I was born with some memories of my previous lifetimes. I know we are supposed to delete all the past lives’ memories before we were born. However, this lifetime was exceptional for me. I didn’t delete the memories on purpose. Because the memories are key reason why I am here right now.

When I was small, I didn’t like seeing the certain types of foreigners on the television or movies. Just watching them made me puke with a very bad headache. My parents didn’t know the reason why I reacted like that. But I knew deep inside, that it came from my traumatic memories from one of the past lives. There were hardly no foreigners at the area where I grew up, so that I was confident that this was not the traumatic events on this lifetime.

In the past lives, the people massacred all of my tribal people. They killed all of us because of the fear. My tribal people had lived peacefully with well-balanced relationships with the nature. The invaders scared of us because we could communicated with natural energies.

In my personal belief, people do bad things to fellow humans from the wrong concepts. Humans repeated the history of war. Fighting one another over the resources that they wrongly thought it had a limitation. Humans killed one another because of jealousy.     

But the truth is that we can create the resources. Possibility in creativity is limitless. The Universe can provide everything we need. When we fully understand that we are all unique existences with unique gifts, we will love ourselves.

I have been meditating about the methods on how we can contribute to the world peace. I have seen a vision that it is achievable when a large number of people work on together. I would like to share the 5 easy steps on how to contribute to the world peace in my first book. The steps are simple and easy that everybody can take in our daily life.

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This year was a tough year for my husband. He went through lots of challenges. Although the tough events happened to him, my daughter and I also suffered from the toughness as his family.

I had been so frustrated with my husband in observing him. I wanted to change him so badly. I kept on thinking to myself that I would have done better if I were him. However, deep inside of me, I knew I am not allowed to force him to change his ways.

In such days, my family souls kept on sending me one vision. The vision was a story of The North Wind and the Sun. In this story, the North Wind and the Sun had a test to decide which is the stronger of the two. The test was to make a passing traveler remove his coat. Although The North Wind brew so hard, the traveler didn’t remove the coat. Instead, the traveler started clinging on to the coat even harder. On the other hand, when the Sun shone, the traveler soon took his coat off by himself.

The lesson of this story is “Kindness effects more than severity.”

Nobody has the rights to force to change others. Because everybody has their own divine timing to change themselves or learn something on their own. All the challenges happen to them for reasons. Nobody has the rights to take the opportunities away from the person to learn something precious.

We can change only ourselves. If we really want to change somebody, the only way that we can do is to show the person ourselves shining with happiness and confidence. Just like The Sun did in the story. We can keep on shining to the person, then the person eventually might decide to change.

After I have fully understood the moral lesson from The North Wind and the Sun, all the tough challenges and situations for my husband finally have started calming down.

By the way, I found a great Youtube video of this story.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrFUYAJXWLU published by Speakaboos. Very cute video and well done. Especially, you will love the kids’ voices.

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I think I have spiritual connection with a bear spirit.

My first contact with a bear spirit was in 2007. I attended the workshop conducted by the Brazilian Shaman to meet our power animal. The Shaman guided the participants to a spiritual journey with her prayer and drumming.

When I entered the deep meditation state, a big bear showed up in front of me. The bear spirit introduced himself as my power animal. When I shared my vision with the Brazilian Shaman, she told me that the bear spirit had been supporting me for my healing ability. However, in those days I had not recognized my healing ability yet. So, naturally I have almost forgotten about my bear power animal since then.

For some reasons, in this year, the bear spirit came back to me to get my attention. We had a Navajo traditional healing ceremony in June 2016. During listening the Navajo chant, I kept on having a clear vision of a bear spirit coming to me, over and over again. After the ceremony I shared my vision with the Navajo medicine man. He said the bear spirit was representing the protection for me.

Since the healing ceremony, my bear spirit started frequently visited me in my dream. However, I haven’t heard any specific messages from this bear spirit so far yet. One thing for sure is that every morning when I had the bear spirit visiting my dream, I would wake up smiling. Maybe the bear spirit is happy for me for something. Or the bear spirit has been helping me to bring happiness to me. I don’t know.

I think it is okay if we don’t receive any specific message in our dreams. We can just enjoy the visitors in our dreams.

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Yesterday we had a thanksgiving cerebration. In Japan, we don’t have a Thanksgiving Day, so this tradition is still new to me. I think it is a great opportunity to show appreciations to others. My daughter came back from school with one paper. The paper was filled up with all the appreciations she has. She wrote down lots of sentences starting from I am thankful for xxx because xxxx.

That reminds of one stranger woman whom I encountered. It was several years ago. On that day, my daughter asked me to buy her ice cream, so we entered the ice cream store. After we ordered some ice cream cones and we were about to pay it by a credit card, the store owner told us they didn’t take any credit cards. I didn’t carry any cash with me and we were disappointed for not being able to buy the ice cream. On the next second, a stranger woman standing next to us offered the store owner that she would like to pay the cost for us.

I asked her the reason why she was nice to us, just from my curiosity.

She said “just because” with a smile. And she told us she was thankful for us for providing her to be nice to somebody. She said it made her feel good to be nice to somebody.

When we are nice to somebody from the state of “just because”, the action comes from pure desire to make somebody happy and it is without any expectations from the person. I think it is the key when we do something nice to somebody.

So, my small suggestion. Let’s make somebody happy from the state of just because, at least once a day. Even a tiny small action will be good. Although we cannot see the result soon, our pure desire will be accumulated, and the pure kind energy will grow itself big enough to change the world to the better place eventually.

And, when somebody offers us a small happiness, let’s receive it without hesitation. In order to make this cycle available, we need both a giver and a receiver. When we receive something, our receiving action supports the giver, and vice versa. Let’s enjoy the happiness giving and receiving. Happy Thanksgiving to you all!

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Today we celebrated Thanksgiving dinner with my friends and their neighbors.

During the dinner, our topic was about makeup. I usually don’t put makeup on my face. My last time putting makeup on my face was when I was in my 20s. My friends, who are both Mexicans, love to put makeup. One of them wants to be a cosmetic advisor and she wanted to practice on someone to put makeup.

So, they decided to put makeup on my face. I was curious how I would change. My friends also curled my hair. The process of changing myself was fun. Two of my friends and I had a great time together.

After putting makeup on my face and curled my hair, I looked like a different person. My face in the mirror was totally stranger to me. All the people in the house told me that I looked beautiful, and they liked me in the makeup version.

I admit I look prettier with makeup. However, in my honest feeling, I don’t like myself in makeup. I didn’t like the feeling that I am not being myself. My husband and my daughter told me they like my original face without makeup.

PS. On the following morning, I woke up with several bumps in my face. My skin normally does not have rush nor acnes. I guess my face does not like makeup neither.

All in all, the experience was fun and beneficial for me. With the experience, now I know my skin does not like putting makeup, so I won’t do it anymore.

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When I was young, I was very short tempered. I used to easily get mad. While I was mad, I could not control my mouth and said something unnecessary to the other person. When I came back home, I would regret for saying that to the person.

My dad knew about my short temper. He admitted he was also short tempered in his younger days. He had same experiences as I did. He would regret after he said something to others.

He shared his secret technique with me. It goes like this.

Whenever I am about to say something from anger, I should swallow the statement before I say it out. Then, I should leave the place for a moment. I should go somewhere away from the person, and take a deep breath several times until I fully calm myself to the natural state. After coming back home, I should talk about it to somebody whom I can fully trust. I should then ask for their advice if the remark is necessary to convey or not. If the remark is necessary to convey, then on the following day, preferably in the morning, I should convey the remark to the person, in a calm voice tone, with a gentle smile on my face. I should make the remark concise and to the point.

The important thing is not to say anything in an anger state. When we say something from anger, we tend to slip the tongue. We might hurt somebody unexpectedly.

It is a good idea to marinade the angry statement for one night. The following morning, the marinated statement gets more reasonable than the previous day. But when we say something to the person in a calm state, then the statement can become an assertive statement. An assertive statement brings to a win-win situation for both parties.

From my personal experience, short temper will be improved as we age. I can say that because my short temper has been much improved than before. I am not still perfect, but I am at least trying not to say anything from anger. So, if you are still young and suffering from short temper, please rest assured it will calm down as you go through years and experiences.

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Yesterday was my 10th small business meeting. In this meeting, I updated about the small business expo that I participated two weeks ago, to my business mentor. I described about the totally stranger customers. Some of them were very skeptical. But after the session, they said they liked my session. Or, I should say they liked the messages from their angels. All in all, I enjoyed participating at the small business expo.

My business mentor was happy for me about my first step to the public. He encouraged me to stay being myself, under any kinds of circumstances. He also confirmed that people are smart. They will find out what kind of person I am. I am offering my services from my pure desire to help people. He said, as long as I stay being myself, people can feel my sincere desire.

I like his positive perspectives about people. I can tell he loves humans. It is always good to hear something positive about humans. When we always see humans from a positive perspective like he does, we can attract more nice and kind people toward us. And the positive atmosphere can be contagious, keeping expanding wider and wider.

I feel honored to get to know my business mentor. I appreciate his great idea and advice throughout the meeting.

I personally had a tendency to feel scared of people. And now, thanks to the help of my business mentor, I have been in the healing process. I have started trusting people and liking people more than before. In my image, I used to have an ice wall surrounded by me toward people. Now, thanks to my business mentor’s positive perspective to people, my ice wall has been melting down.

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For about ten years before I moved to America, I had been working as a freelance translator and interpreter. The great opportunity came to me all of a sudden. In 2005 and 2006, I was hired as an interpreter for the Lakota tour for three times.

My employer was a Japanese man who had built a friendship with a Lakota man for years. He had started a tour for Japanese customers so that they can visit Lakota land and learn their culture and traditional ways.

This Japanese man was also a friend of my dad-in-law. While I was visiting my Navajo family in 2004, he visited my dad-in-law. That was how I met my future employer. During the conversation, he mentioned about his Lakota tour and he was looking for an interpreter for the following year. I instantly raised my hand for the job title, and he hired me right away. I was at the right place at the right timing.

Up until then, I had some experiences working as an interpreter for some manufacture companies to explain their products. In these cases, I already knew about the products. I started feeling comfortable for the job title.

However, I thought, the interpreting for a tour was totally different. Although I was the one who raised my hand for this job offer, as days were getting closer to the tour, I had started feeling nervous about it. Interpreting for the Lakota tour was my very first experience, anyway.

During the tour, I had kept on feeling nervous. I didn’t have confidence in my English language ability. Especially when I encountered some words that I didn’t know the meaning, I would feel panicky. I had kept on praying and asking for help to my family souls and spirits. Over and over again.

One night during the tour, we had a sweat lodge ceremony. During the ceremony, I kept on seeing the vision of the blue happy light jumping around. They kept on sending me the messages “stop praying. Stay being yourself.”

Interesting enough, after the ceremony, the Lakota man who conducted the sweat lodge ceremony came up to me and whispered the messages from Spirits for me. It was like this.

Stop praying to us for support. We chose you for this job. You are the chosen one. Just stay being who you are. As long as you relax, it is easy for us to convey messages through you to other people. When you get nervous and keep asking for support, it gets in the way.

It was true. I was dominated by ego. My ego kept on telling me that I had to do well on this job. I felt overwhelmed and pressured. I must have had a stiff muscle all over my body. After getting this message, I finally started feeling relaxed, and let ego go. Then I started doing better than the previous days.

This can be applied to everybody, right? When we want to do something well, first, we need to release our ego. Once we release our ego, everything will finally start flowing more smoothly than before.

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