Every time I visit family in Hawaii, I always marvel at the vegetation. There are just so many beautiful trees. I don’t know if it’s because of the climate, blue skies or ocean, but why do the trees there look better than the ones where I live? Or is it just my personal biases. While …
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The Chinese have a wonderfully rich culture that I love to learn about and I’ve always dreamed about visiting the country. My only concern about going there is the pollution. Growing up in Tokyo, I remember we had really bad days of pollution. I don’t know how they cleaned it up, but it got better …
In continuation of my New Year’s Resolution of “Increase Energy” – here is step 4: Connect Inward with Nature and step 5: See Beauty in All Things Let me review my Five Steps To Increase Energy. Meditate Spend time with people Help others Connect Inward with Nature See Beauty in All things Connect Inward with Nature …
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Happy New Year! May 2014 be blessed in health, happiness and harmony for you and your family. 明けましておめでとうございます。今年も どうぞ よろしく おねがえします。 This year, of all the resolutions I was thinking about making, I decided it should be the year for just one resolution, instead of the usual ten. Here is the one: Increase Energy! That’s it! The …
I was talking with a friend about how often we hear people say, “I don’t like being around people with negative energy. They don’t make me feel good.” And that is truly understandable. But sometimes we can be confused on what “negative” energy really is. What gives you “positive” energy or life energy? Life is …
Do you know if your food is organic? Do you know if it is genetically modified (GMO)? As a consumer, is there an easy way to find this information? The other day, thanks to a young nutritionist student, we learned of a valuable little tip. In our supermarkets here in the U.S., you often find little stickers …
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This week I have been most fortunate to have met and heard stories of amazing people. I thank them for their inspiration! Interesting how the universe connects us with people from all walks of life. Dancing next to me in my Jazzercise class was a middle aged Japanese women that I had never met before. I later found that …
Summer time is when we have the opportunity to work on our homes and paint is one of the easiest ways to give any room a facelift. Going to the big box home improvement store is often the most convenient and cheapest place to get paint. But, before you go, please think about the toxic …
Crimea, Ukraine is an hour and a half plane ride from Kiev, a peninsula in southern Ukraine, located on the northern coast of the Black Sea. As I’m geographically challenged, which often frustrates my extended family, which includes geography professors, I have included a map. You can see it protrudes into the Black Sea. My …
The other day I was over at my girlfriend’s home for dinner and she had a new gadget in her kitchen that made fresh soy milk from soaked raw soy beans. New gadgets get me excited and I was so fascinated with the device. But, even more interesting was that to increase the nutrients in …
In Asian cuisine, sesame seeds and sesame oil are very important condiments. In fact, today, Japan and China are the two largest importers of sesame products. The nutty, slightly sweet seed is not only savored for its flavor but is a very good source of minerals that include copper, manganese, magnesium, calcium, iron, phosphorus, vitamin B1, selenium, and …
Happy New Year! As Taoist teachings always say, with every ending there is a beginning. Goodbye 2012 and Hello 2013! Beginnings bring hope, change, and possibilities. These are all positive and optimistic views of life. It’s all about that feel good energy. That’s why many of us feel the need to make a New Year’s …
Many in the West may know the 80/20 Rule, also known as the Pareto Principle. It states that “80 percent of the results are achieved by 20 percent of the group or 20 percent of your effort will generate 80 percent of your results.” According to the Wikipedia ” Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto, observed in 1906 that 80% …
As a student of feng shui and Taoism, we learn that our health is a part of our holistic well-being. Feng shui is about “living in harmony with nature”. This means not only living in harmony with our living environment, it also includes how to take care of our bodies as well as our mind …
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We live in this digital age where everything is just a finger tip away. Questions on anything and everything can be answered instantaneously. Want to know a meaning of a word? A good restaurant? directions? title of a song? artist? history? Immediate answers have become the norm. From an Asian philosophical perspective, as a society, we …
To maintain our health , it’s important for all of us to consume lots of liquids when the weather heats up. Yes, summer time means lots of ice cold drinks. I’m not much of a fan of soda pop. I prefer iced black tea, iced green tea and iced coffee. But here in the states, many …
