In my last blog and the previous one to that, I talked about a point of view. This time I’m going to introduce you to another point of view in a short story called “This Guy Just Changed the Way We Think About God and the Universe.” “This Guy Just
In my previous blog I talked about “death,” and this week a patient told me about their fear of death, so this blog topic is about the “future after death.” As I said in my previous blog, I prefer to believe we are beings of energy, and we come to
I got asked this question a couple days ago, and it kept spinning in my mind. It’s a very simple question. The definition of “spirituality” in the dictionary is: “the quality of being concerned with the human spirit or soul as opposed to material or physical things.” I don’t think
“Wow!” When I try to take a picture of something, and my smartphone shows my face instead. Somehow I am surprised each time it happens! We all use smartphones everyday and look at it so many times. In Mahayana Buddhism, especially in the Yogachara, the doctrine of consciousness, and Saint
This week, I went to my friend’s cottage and had dinner. We are all in our late 40’s and early 50’s. The topic was ‘Young people these days’ and ‘why do they act the way they do?’. It’s a typical topic. One friend starts by saying, “A friend of mine,
“What do you want to be when you grow up?”Maybe this was a typical question when you were a child, but I didn’t like that question. I think I know why I didn’t like it and wasn’t too fond of that question. Adults who ask those questions expect certain answers,
Patient Stories: Edwin After a terrible accident 8 years ago, I felt like I was 92 years old all the time. I had no power or energy, and felt my body as if it was 300lbs! Then I had one Tao Shiatsu treatment and I felt motivated for the first
Working on My Heart and Emotions Ms. M.M. (from Tokyo) One day I came across Ryokyu sensei’s book Tao Shiatsu: Life Medicine for the 21st Century. The book shows how Tao Shiatsu was structured through Ryokyu sensei’s realizations from his training and experience based on Oriental medical philosophy. Its contents
From Despair to Seeing the Light Y.Y. (female in her forties, lives in Yokohama) Many years ago, I was diagnosed with atrophic rhinitis, otherwise known as ozena. My symptoms included bad headaches, pain in my face, an oppressive pain in my nose, dullness, colored mucus, and a very bad-smelling nose
M.U. (female in her forties, lives in Tokyo) I fell down the steps at a station at the end of November. I took it lightly and just put poultices on my legs, but the dull pain didn’t disappear even after the new year. At a New Year’s gathering I was
In my last blog and the previous one to that, I talked about a point of view. This time I’m going to introduce you to another point of view in a short story called “This Guy Just Changed the Way We Think About God and the Universe.” “This Guy Just
In my previous blog I talked about “death,” and this week a patient told me about their fear of death, so this blog topic is about the “future after death.” As I said in my previous blog, I prefer to believe we are beings of energy, and we come to
I got asked this question a couple days ago, and it kept spinning in my mind. It’s a very simple question. The definition of “spirituality” in the dictionary is: “the quality of being concerned with the human spirit or soul as opposed to material or physical things.” I don’t think
“Wow!” When I try to take a picture of something, and my smartphone shows my face instead. Somehow I am surprised each time it happens! We all use smartphones everyday and look at it so many times. In Mahayana Buddhism, especially in the Yogachara, the doctrine of consciousness, and Saint
This week, I went to my friend’s cottage and had dinner. We are all in our late 40’s and early 50’s. The topic was ‘Young people these days’ and ‘why do they act the way they do?’. It’s a typical topic. One friend starts by saying, “A friend of mine,
“What do you want to be when you grow up?”Maybe this was a typical question when you were a child, but I didn’t like that question. I think I know why I didn’t like it and wasn’t too fond of that question. Adults who ask those questions expect certain answers,
Patient Stories: Edwin After a terrible accident 8 years ago, I felt like I was 92 years old all the time. I had no power or energy, and felt my body as if it was 300lbs! Then I had one Tao Shiatsu treatment and I felt motivated for the first
Working on My Heart and Emotions Ms. M.M. (from Tokyo) One day I came across Ryokyu sensei’s book Tao Shiatsu: Life Medicine for the 21st Century. The book shows how Tao Shiatsu was structured through Ryokyu sensei’s realizations from his training and experience based on Oriental medical philosophy. Its contents
From Despair to Seeing the Light Y.Y. (female in her forties, lives in Yokohama) Many years ago, I was diagnosed with atrophic rhinitis, otherwise known as ozena. My symptoms included bad headaches, pain in my face, an oppressive pain in my nose, dullness, colored mucus, and a very bad-smelling nose
M.U. (female in her forties, lives in Tokyo) I fell down the steps at a station at the end of November. I took it lightly and just put poultices on my legs, but the dull pain didn’t disappear even after the new year. At a New Year’s gathering I was
