When Our Energy Flow Shifts

Do you realize that all traditional ceremony dates are set when our energy flow shifts?

In Japan, we have a custom to celebrate or experience ceremonies with red bean dishes such as red bean rice, cakes with bean paste fillings, red bean soup with rice cakes, etc.

For example, we traditioanally prepare red bean rice to celebrate menstruation. It helps us to recognize that we need to change and learn about our new energy system. For example, in traditonal merchant houses, they eat red bean rice on the first day of every month, regardless of whether they had strong or weak sales in the previous month. They want to have a fresh start with a new state of mind. For example, big white and red cakes with bean paste fillings are distributed to each of us during our high school graduation ceremony day. It’s like taking off a school uniform to jump into freedom.

I had lots of red bean dishes in my life. And I noticed that red beans help reset our energy flow. For example, if you feel stuck in your relationship or you cannot confront something which is important to you, please eat red bean dishes.

March and April are full of beginnings in Japan. School finishes in March and starts in April. In between, we usually experience the cherry blossom season. Red bean food can be your partner to have a fresh start and to clean up before you move on.

初出:2015年3月17日

【開催報告】オンラインWS「質の変容」

気温や湿度がうねるようで、時間の感覚がぐねぐねしている方も多いかもしれません。身体の冷えに気付けない方も、ますます増えてきました。

こちらでは、ツバメが渡ってきてくれたものの、例年の1/4以下しか見かけません。蛙の鳴き声も例年の1/4以下で、全体として命が細々としてきている感じがします。

そんな新年度を目前とした三月下旬、清い一年をつくっていくための〆となるオンラインWS「質の変容」を開催しました。以下、シェアOKを頂いたご感想です。


「(今の身体は)
〇首の周辺の引き連れがなくなった
〇身体全体の関節がやわらかく、のびやかになった
〇首が長くなった感じがする

(今の心は)
〇WSの内容がすごくて衝撃をうけた
〇自分のここの部分がハードルになっていると具体的にわかって非常に納得した
〇自分で自分を信頼できる

(人生にとって一番大切なことは)
〇すでにある自分を十分に生かすために何をするか常に問い続け、自分の望む未来と現在の自分の行動に反映させる。

〇すごいとしか言いようのないWSでした。自分の人生にとってハードルとなっているところが具体的にわかり、今後どうしたら人生がより進むか、進むべき方向と道しるべが明確になったことで、これからよくなる方向にしか行かないなと自分で感じられ、うれしくなりました。
〇行動や選択が変わらないことで「自分はダメだ―」と思うのではなく、その中にある自分を守っていたものにも目を向けられ、結果として自分に対して信頼が増しました。
〇とても濃く、自分を大切にする時間を過ごせました。ありがとうございました。」

(女性、環境教育、46歳)

「(今の身体は)
背中が楽
お尻が温かい
足裏が床にきちんとついていて、ゆったり落ち着いている感じ

(今の心は)
落ち着いている
次にやることに意識が向いている

(人生にとって一番大切なことは)
自分で視野を狭くしているので、広げていくこと。
反省じゃなくて内省すること。

おせっかいのつもりが自分もhomeが増えて嬉しいことに繋がったので、こだわり、思い込み、囚われといった心の中の縛りをなくそうと思いました。
普段の生活の中ではトラウマを意識することがないくらいですが、トラウマがあるから考え方に偏りが出来たり、決めつけてうまくいかなかったりするので、自分を縛っているものは、どんどん手放そうと思いました。
ありがとうございました。」

(女性、48歳、ピラティスインストラクター)

オンラインWS「質の変容」の開催概要は、こちらです。

 

Like Tofu Makers

My sense of discipline has helped me.  For example, it has helped me to walk every other day.  Discipline has helped me maintain my health for a long time.  However, I have wanted to change such fixed everyday rituals to more appropriate adapted ones for my body based on my needs for the day. 

In Japan, tofu makers change the amount of water to soy beans to make tofu every day, because every day we have different weather. I think that that is a more natural method than doing the same thing regardless of weather.

I wanted to be like the tofu maker for my body. They feel the conditions of both soy beans and the weather.  I also wanted to sense the condition of my body and the weather more.

I have believed that repeating the same thing changes the quality itself. And it happened like a thunderclap.  Suddenly I became like a tofu maker. Now I can prepare the most appropriate exercise routine like yoga, walking and stretching for the day. I can stop at the comfortable level of the day.

This is a new dimension for me. It is very fun!

初出:2019年10月25日

Professionals Transcend Love for Their Job

I saw a documentary about Seymour Bernstein who was a pianist. And his impactful words and his lace-like piano sound touched my heart. I was especially impressed by these following words: “I remember I became aware when practice went well, everything in life seemed harmonized. When it didn’t, I was out of sorts. The real essence of who we are resides in our talent, whatever that talent is.”

When he felt that he was satisfied with being a pianist, he decided to quit and started to live as a piano teacher. I thought that such a way of living was something I should pursue.

I could feel the love he had for discipline was his way of living. Sometimes amateurs start something which they love. But professionals try to transcend love for their job, so they think that discipline is important and pushes them. Discipline is essentially different from punishment. Because discipline comes from inside of us.

And also I think that we don’t have love in us. Love is like the air. When we love something, it is like being wrapped in air which is called love by us. It is mostly the same as wrapping a gift. So we cannot rely on that. But discipline holds us like the arms of a father. It is more reliable and realistic.

Do you have any ideal vision which you want to pursue as a human?

初出:2019年9月29日