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  • Yuxing [Arigato Leader]

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    November 30, 2021 at 5:28 pm

    Good morning peeps!! It is December here already! ❤ I GOT SO MANY HAPPY THINGS TO TALK ABOUT!!

    First up! From the awesome ZOOM meeting with Michael Sandler, here are the information

    1. Automatic Writing (Website), there is a book of the same name.
    2. By typing in “Inspired Nation Michael Sandler podcast” on Google, you will many sites containing Michael’s podcasts. Apple music, Audible, Spotify…
    3. Michael Sandler’s Youtube page —> here.

    BOOK! ❤

    1. The Automatic Writing Experience (AWE): How to Turn Your Journaling into Channeling to Get Unstuck, Find Direction, and Live Your Greatest Life!
    2. Barefoot Running: How to Run Light and Free by Getting in Touch with the Earth
    3. Barefoot Walking: Free Your Feet to Minimize Impact, Maximize Efficiency, and Discover the Pleasure of Getting in Touch with the Earth

    And it appears that there are other author/s with the same first and last name as Michael, here are some that are by the Inspired Nation Michael.

    Btw I sent in a suggestion to my local library to get Automatic Writing and I was surprised to see it has already been suggested! I hope the library get it soonest!

  • Yuxing [Arigato Leader]

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    November 26, 2021 at 5:10 pm

    🍀🍀 “Rich People’s Problem” 🍀🍀

    In the previous session with Ken (the one on healing money wounds), he mentioned that sometimes as we talk, we remember an old wound. This wound can be something we carried around but never realise.

    In that meeting, Ken had said that as a young child, he had unintentionally blurted out to his friend living in a small house that “WHERE ARE THE OTHER ROOMS? YOUR FAMILY OF 5 LIVES HERE??” And as Ken lives on a large house on the hillside with 5, 6 televisions, he had felt so embarrassed he had asked other friends who knows about his house to not tell other kids about it.

    There were also another time where Ken had delibrately dirtied his new sneakers as a child so as to not appear having new stuff.

    As a grown person now, I can understand all these, however as a child, I always thought having more money was the one thing that solves everything!

    Rightfully I came from a “poor” family. Perhaps to help me cope with life, my parents helped me adopt the “I am too cool to care” model. So that makes me quite Monk/Hippie in my Money Type. My pretend somehow got me to rub shoulders with the “richer” kids and weird enough, they were always complaining about being SO POOR that their lives are pretty much ruined.

    I remember this nice older guy friend. He lives in a condominium (a luxury in Singapore!!) in a lovely neighbourhood and his mother drives (also a luxury in Singapore). We been to his apartment once and was so impressed with it!

    However, dude was even crying about the price of PUBLIC transport bleeding his wallet dry. He would also spend his days in misery all bcoz he is too poor to pay $100-$200 for his favourite concert. Like, how is heaven so cruel to set him in such poverty that he is barely living.

    🌹 Turning Point

    My first turning point was overhearing the senior cleaners talking about their overseas trip during my part time work during my school days.

    Since my parents were Worrier/Saver, wanting vacations was out of the question. I also thought that I would need a lot of money to travel.

    So you can imagine my surprise when I heard all these older ladies with average paying jobs talking about their vacations!

    Eventually I learned that these folks saved up, use money wisely and was willing to let themselves experience life and live happily.

  • Yuxing [Arigato Leader]

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    November 25, 2021 at 6:33 pm

    Hello Everybody~~!!

    I found this book while looking up Janet Attwood again. This book is about a collection of successful stories. I really love such compilations, they just open my world view larger and I can see what I can do more.

    I especially love this story by Gina where she was asking for a piece of lemon in her water in a restaurant.

    For some reason the staff kept her waiting and she could see everyone in the restaurant having their lemon. Gina started feeling off, even to the point of starting to pity herself. And of coz she snapped out of it.

    Gina see it that, since lemon is all around her, it is just a matter of time and method that it will come to her too. Who knows what other went through to get their lemons, and why are we always bent on having things go a certain method?

    I thought I can use this on how I deal with money!

    This book also has inspiring stories on how people got over illness, sending empowering message to others and how an ex-call-girl decided to use her experience to help women better communicate with their husbandds.

    AWESOME READ. I am so thankful that all these great people are just sending out their vibe to benefit others. ARIGATO!! ❤❤❤❤❤

  • Yuxing [Arigato Leader]

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    November 17, 2021 at 7:24 pm

    I was just thinking about affirmations a few nights back!

    For me adding NOW to the end of my affirmations really help me get into the vibe.

    Money is coming to me NOW. ❤

  • Yuxing [Arigato Leader]

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    November 27, 2021 at 7:13 pm

    WOW~! I look forward to this replay! Q&As always help me understand more things.

  • Yuxing [Arigato Leader]

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    November 26, 2021 at 4:40 pm

    OMG YES! I soooooo look forward to his books being translated into English!

    The book that got me to sign for Ken Honda’s bookstore was Volume 17: 出会う人すべてに応援される生き方 (How to Live Being Supported by Everyone You Meet). While I thought that, that will be really nice, I still asked in my heart, REALLY? KEN SAN? HOW CAN THAT BE POSSIBLE?

    I had thought that maybe Ken has some magic formula??

    The best thing I remember from the book was this example. He talked about a scenario among ママ友 (mothers’ group, usually where their kids attend the same school and politics happens 🤣). And this particular mother would just keep talking about herself. When we face such a thing, are we just gonna stay unhappy? Or we see it as a way to find a way to let ourselves have a chance to talk too and/or find a better way to deal with it?

    In this way, even a “terrible” person gave us support to leap into a better version of ourselves.

    I find the whole teaching so peaceful and wonderful!!! ❤

  • Yuxing [Arigato Leader]

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    November 24, 2021 at 6:55 pm

    WOw! Amazing piece you have posted here Ghary!

    I have read the part transcript of this talk and found those quotes so interesting. Frankly, back then as a 20+ and still carrying around some taboo about death, I didn’t put myself in the fact that I will one day die. And when I did, I talked myself out that, well, yes I will die but not so soon.

    Now I see the power in it. A “problem” I struggle/d with is still getting caught up with little things. At times even I myself find it insane, but remembering that one day I am going to die, all the gigantic problems just seem so much smaller. The process of living is more valuable.

    I also learned that at Steve’s funeral, he gave out copies of The Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahasa Yogananda. It was also a book that Steve re-reads every year. I read the book and it adds sO much to my understanding.

    AND since we are on a happy money forum, let me share another story! (I love that on forums, many other can read replies too! This is why I try to put in details such as books titles in case anyone wants to know more. ❤)

    When the smart phones first came out, people would jump into the Apple vs Android (mainly Samsung) camps. Nothing wrong it it all, in fact, my friends and I have a grand time happily dissing each other. And then come the “problem”. Of coz, this doesn’t apply to everyone, little to no one wants to say so, many who choose an Android phone over an Apple often had to do with the price. And equally, some people didn’t appreciate the specs of an Apple and got it for the coolness and association.

    While people like me would openly say I got a Samsung all bcoz it cost so much lesser, there are people who would kept defending their choice of a Samsung even when NO ONE is implying they are “poor”. I know of someone who even went a step further to hate on Steve Jobs. Calling his company “black” and Steve lacks integrity all bcoz he doesn’t do large scale charity.

    Isn’t it crazy, the baggage people carry around money can block them off from learning more about what might benefit them. And cost them to lose friends. My friend above basically just talk bad and insult anyone around him with an Apple, even if they won it, bcoz using it is dumb to him. 🤣

  • Yuxing [Arigato Leader]

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    November 24, 2021 at 6:14 pm

    Cool! My local library actually has an e-copy of this book!!

    Wow!!! It is so amazing that you visit Wayne’s Dad’s grave!

    Oh yes! The books! And the publisher’s reaction was funny. At first telling Wayne not to think that his books will sell out, and then, ohhhh, they did sold out. 🤣

    Btw, I love how Wayne said about giving, in this video, Wayne said he would give a book to everyone who wrote to him. And when on to say since we cannot be taking in this life/realm, we can instead give. However, if someone ask him for things, he won’t, as that would be taking up a debt.

    That is such a lighting up moment for me! At times whether intentionally or not, people dealt out this kind of debt to others.

    Ohhh~~~ btw, a really cool thing! SO! For a while I had thought my local library wouldn’t have any spiritual books as that might upset religious bodies. Personally I have been to some organised religion places and that was what I was told! AND I BELIEVED IT and I extended it out into my adult life!

    UNTIL! One day this April I found a link to Gabby Bernstein’s book, it was my local library’s link. Now Ghary, I looked for many books, by luck I would have chanced upon links from my local library, and I never until Gabby’s.

    ANDDDDDDDDDDD!!! Gabby talked about how she loved Dr. Wayne Dyer. Eventually I learn more from you and again, I start finding all the “right” books in my local library.

    I am so happy and grateful to receive all these help!

    ANDD!!!!!!! Talking about being grateful~~ I SIGNED UP FOR A NEALE DONALD WALSCH E-TREAT!! Like OMG. This is happening!!!

    Okok~~~ have a great day Ghary! Notification from this forum isn’t coming in via mails and pop up from this site, I shall go look around at new posts and replies.

  • Yuxing [Arigato Leader]

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    November 22, 2021 at 6:10 pm

    ❤ Thank you for this again!

    I really love all that you posted so far and communicating with me. They are really helping me a lot with my journey.

  • Yuxing [Arigato Leader]

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    November 22, 2021 at 6:08 pm

    Wayne Dyer’s story about visiting his father’s grave and how he felt about his father before that fascinated me too! I had read that the presence of bad parenting can affect a child, but in this case Wayne’s Dad was never in his growing up days. And yet there was something going on.

    Btw the book that was wrote in 18 days is “Your Erroneous Zone”? If not please let me know the title! I would really want to read it.

    Next, I really love how Wayne said that he never felt sad when he was in the foster home, like no child wake up sulking oh I have no parents I am pitiful, they only start to feel so after someone tell them to. That really, really hit me!

    I remember as a child I took part in talent time, danced and acted. I was the first among my peers to meet online friends in the early 2000s and people all found that shocking. I travelled alone in my 20s. I didn’t think I was exceptionally cool or rich and I enjoy going out and all. Despite all these I get people telling me that I am too soft-spoken, I am not authoritative and all. It made me unhappy and tried to put on another front which didn’t work. Now that I am older, I get that these were just other people’s ideas. Perhaps it is a thing to be “competitive” over here, and sometimes it leads to really silly competition. For example someone can be saying that all their friends are married and they have to follow up soon in order not to be the “loser”. Cool if they work out something that suits them, tragic if they simply find a spouse and and can’t live out a life they want.

    One of the best example I read is from one of my favourite brain coach and author, Jim Kwik. ❤ Jim felt and hit his head in Kindergarten when a classmate pulled a chair under his feet. Till his 20s he had issue with learning and his mother even became a teacher to better help him. What really got me was, Jim and his family never go into blaming others and lamenting about what happened. Growing up there were so many “cause assigning” attribute to the achievers around. This kid is rich, he can afford tuition and thus the good results. He/she has a modern mother at home coaching him/her and etc.

  • Yuxing [Arigato Leader]

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    November 20, 2021 at 9:40 pm

    Wow! Thank you for the background story Ghary! I would have thought that Davida was a big fan of the main violinist or a special guest musician herself. Her daughter watching her is so touching. I remember this other thing, many years back I got to know a blogger from Xanga, a blogging platform. This guy loves to draw, had entered and won competition, had to gave up his late teens due to muscle dystrophy.

    I don’t really think about him often, and I have to say, knowing him and his story did play a part to me picking up drawing.

    And I thought of this quote in Paulo Coelho’s Alchemist:

    “No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn’t know it.”

    I am curious, what is the music that you wish to bring to the world? Maybe you are already on the path of doing that.

  • Yuxing [Arigato Leader]

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    November 20, 2021 at 9:30 pm

    Reminds me of SHOSHIN! 初心: literally first heart, often translated as Beginner’s Mind. Recently I read a post by a Malaysia blogger living in Japan with her family. People had asked, how do she keep liking Japan so much after all these years when there are obvious “bad” stuff going around.

    Her answer is SHOSHIN.

    And I remember my own, during my first trip to Japan, I sat in JetStar with no entertainment and I kept even receipts from McDonalds. I was just so happy.

    Btw, Shoshin by Shunryu Suzuki is such a great book. One of the Okinawan Uncles told me that this is the philosophy that kept him curious everyday in Okinawa for 20 years. He hardly speaks Japanese and live each day so happily. ❤

  • Yuxing [Arigato Leader]

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    November 20, 2021 at 3:51 pm

    Hello Ghary!! Good morning from here!

    Wow, I kept thinking about this post and video after I first saw it. At first I thought about my childhood days with rain. I remember waiting for the school bus with other kids and their mother and most of the time everyone just dreaded the rain.

    I was the only “idiot” who find each rain drop as pretty as a diamond bead. I would keep telling my mum to “look, look!” My mum find that kinda cute but still wonder why I have all the joy when rainy days are troublesome.

    And this morning I woke up to remembering seeing snow for the first time. It was late January of 2013, Japan experience the oddest cold weather in 30 years, and so it snowed.

    Since I was going to the airport, I put on regular jeans and a t-shirt before putting a down jacket on. I would had skipped that if not for having no space in my luggage and backpack. Good that I did! It got sO cold later.

    It was breaking dawn and I was in a heated train, but it felt oddly cold. As the day broke, I wonder why is every roof a uniform reflection of purple and then orange, turned out, snow covered these roofs and so the uniform colour!

    I can still remember being in awe, it was so beautiful I actually didn’t want to take a photo because I want to savor every moment of it with my eyes.

    Came a short wait at an open air platform and coldness bit into my bones, and there I was, thanking heavens for showing me little snow flakes.

    I might get to see snow again someday, and maybe I would not feel as magical as then. Haha!!!

    And yup! People can see the same thing and yet have very different reaction.

    I remember this one time I was in Osaka during the summer with a friend. And never did I knew that summer in Japan was hotter than Singapore’s. I felt as if the heat was just picking at every pore of my body. Nasty.

    Came evening and… STILL HOT as an oven.

    And then!!!!!!!! I still don’t know how that happened but in a city, the whole sky was dyed PINK and PURPLE by the setting sun. I kinda just started dancing on the street, snapping pictures crazily. I still see many gorgeous sunsets after this, and~~~ never as PINK and PURPLE as that in Osaka. ❤

    I was so blown away, back in the hotel I told my friend how blessed am I to see and experience all these and she cut me off saying well, I am in a shitty hotel (which she agree to stay in) and still a commoner. I chuckled at “commoner” in my heart but said nothing.

    My friend went on to sulk for an entire 2 weeks while we experienced the same things. I also came back to Singapore never finding fault with our weather again. And when people ask why, I remember in my heart, I been to a hotter summer.

    AND GHARY!!!! SUPER AWESOME ENERGY YOU ARE PUTTING OUT TO EVERYONE!!!

    This got me to remember what Ken said in the most recent ZOOM call, when we talk about things, we remember our dramas, and don’t let drama turn into traumas. Not in any conceited ways, I remember feeling quite proud with how I deal with things, and over time, I just tone down to what was around me. Not that one is better than the others, I am sure my friend will only choose cold places that makes her happy from then on. It is wonderful to be shown “what I am not,” to remember who I am.

    THANK YOU AGAIN!

  • Yuxing [Arigato Leader]

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    November 18, 2021 at 6:53 pm

    I LOVE THIS!!! ❤

  • Yuxing [Arigato Leader]

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    November 17, 2021 at 7:20 pm

    Gorgeous music! Wow, the last line you wrote really got me thinking!

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