Do you know what is your likes and dislikes? What kind of activity that you are good at? Do you have anything that you want to do in your free time? Do you wish to share your hobby with others? Have you already rediscovered your gifts?

The second step to contribute to the world peace is to rediscover your gifts. I used the term “rediscover” because everybody already has their own unique gifts. I believe everybody was born with the memory of their gifts. Then, as we live our daily live, many people gradually forget about their gifts. Or in some cases, the environmental people and factors, such as parents, school teachers, and the society, force us to ignore our gifts.

Here are the reasons why I think rediscovering our gifts is essential for the world peace. When we completely satisfy with ourselves, we are free from jealousy. We realize we don’t need to compensate anything missing in us by stealing from somebody else. We are perfect as we are. Everything we need will be provided from our inner self. We can create everything we need.

Then, how we can rediscover our gifts?

Fortunately we can do this process by ourselves. First of all, let’s think back our child days. As I mentioned earlier, we were born with the memory of our gifts. Therefore, in our younger days, there are lots of hints about our gifts. You can ask yourself what kind of a child you were when you were small. What was your life dream? What was your dream career? What was your favorite things to do? What was your dislike things to do?

Another way is to ask your family; Parents, siblings, or relatives. Usually aunts and uncles are the best shot, because most likely they are not too close to you so that they should have watched you more objectively than your parents and grandparents. Ask them what kind of things you often engaged with? Or, you can ask your friends who used to go to the same elementary school. You can ask your school teachers who know you when you were small.

With all the information, let’s analyze the patterns and the tendencies. You will find some key words that are relates to your gifts.

Your gifts are something like your treasures. The treasures are within you, imprinted in your soul, so that nobody can steal from you. You can enjoy your gifts by sharing with others. The more you share your gifts with others, the stronger and your gifts will become. Before you share your gifts with others, you will need to develop your gifts. In the next article, I will mention about the helpful ways on how to develop your gifts.

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Do you love yourself? Do you know yourself well? Do you know your gifts? Do you know how you can serve other people?

The first step to contribute to the world peace is to love yourself. Before you save others, first of all, you need to save yourself. You probably have heard the flight attendance’s announcement in the airplane. They ask you to secure your oxygen mask on first, and then assist the other person. So, before doing anything, we first need to take good care of ourselves.

Everybody is unique and divine. There is nobody who is useless. Everybody is a unique shaped piece of a puzzle. Nobody cannot be missing in order to complete a perfect vision. If you don’t like yourself, it means you haven’t reconnected with true yourself. Once you remember who you truly are, you start loving yourself and respecting yourself. Then you won’t hurt yourself anymore. You will start taking good care of yourself.

I believe the first step to love ourselves is to know ourselves.

Knowing yourself is similar to knowing your address. You know your physical address; where you currently live. Thanks to knowing your home address, after you go somewhere such as to the school, the work place, or trip, you are able to come back home without getting lost. Same thing can be true to our mental home address.

As we live in our daily life, we encounter lots of outside events. The outside events easily move your mental location here and there. You will be away from your mental home address.

Let me give you one example. Right after you wake up, you feel refreshed and happy. You don’t have any concerns nor angers. You are at your mental home base. Then, when you get in the car to commute, you might hear the radio news announcing the horrifying shooting at the university. On next second you might tune into the sadness from the victims and their family. At the same time, you might feel anger toward the criminal who took several innocent people’s precious lives. Another example can be at the time of dealing with the coworker whom you don’t get along with. Thus, all the outside events can cause you to get lost in your mental location.

In such cases, only solution for you to regain peace within you is come back to your original mental home base. Your original mental home base is the place where you feel calm and happiness.

I personally feel it is totally fine with us to get influenced by the outside events. Through the outside events, we can experience feeling a variety of emotions. However, after we experience the different emotions, we need to come back to our original mental home base as soon as possible.

Then, how can we know about our home base? I believe our home base is located at our true self. We need to remember who we truly are. In the next article, I will mention about the helpful ways to remember who we truly are. 

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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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