Diet

"I'm on a diet..."
I hope you don't say it this way. People who are already skinny but on a diet for their whole life have problems in their health,  both mentally and physically. 
I am sure our brain won't work properly when we are not physically healthy. There are so many reasons for some mental illness related to physical health, or physical health related to mental illness, from medical and scientific perspective. 
I talk about the details in my class, so if you are seriously interested in this topic, please feel free to join us. 
To make a long story short, it's better to eat healthy meals everyday without the thought of loosing weight. Instead, I recommend for you to think about what your body needs. 
What you should feed your physical structure can be very different food than what you may think you need. 
Life style has changed with the times. Sometimes, you live under huge stress, or sometimes, you are just too busy. Also, the nutrition in any food is less than the old times because of the huge environmental shift. It could be because of today's modified food growth methods.  
Every second, your body's cells are reborn. When they don't get enough nutrition, they start to protect themselves, which means they will take nutrition from somewhere else...YOUR BODY. You may loose weight... however, you will definitely loose health, as well. Your body will suffer starvation. 
I see many people who don't eat proper meals but have potato chips, chocolates, or cakes, etc.
For the weight watchers, please consider to change the habit, (if you have a "snacking habit"), to a healthy breakfast, lunch and dinner. 
Why don't you say, " I don't need to have sweet because I want to eat a healthy dinner"? Then, you wouldn't gain extra calories to worry about and keep the nutrition you need. 

ダイエット中なの。。。って口癖の方多いですよね。痩せてるのに。特に日本は、痩せてる＝綺麗と勘違いしてる人が多い気がします。
人それぞれ、綺麗な体型の理想は違うから、痩せたい願望が悪いとは言いません。でも、健康であることの方が大事だと、私は思います。だいたい、異常に体重に固執してしまい、摂食障害になったりして、身体と心の健康を失う人多いです。健康でなければ、気持ちも落ち込みやすかったり、ストレスが大きすぎて健康じゃなくなる人もいる。医学的に、身体の健康と精神の状態の関連は証明されてますよね。
身体が必要としてるものは、私たちが食べなければいけないと思っているものとは違う事もあります。野菜だけとか、リンゴだけとか、偏った食事は、偏った健康状態です。
食べなければ、身体は飢餓の状態を覚えて、与えられるもの全部吸収しなきゃ、という危険信号をだします。太りやすくなるから、もっと食べなくなる。悪循環ですね。
お菓子とか、化学調味料づけの食事ばかりの習慣がある人は、まずは、そこをリセットして、ヘルシーな食事で健康的な体型維持しませんか？次回は、何を食べたらいいかなんてお話もいいですね。

Gratitude

How often do you feel gratitude? 

I was filled with appreciation, recently, but that feeling sometimes wanes and I'd love to feel more gratitude. One should be able to be grateful for everything, every single moment in their life, not only when something good happens.

I became annoyed by something recently...I couldn't appreciate anything at the time. Holding those emotions are totally unhealthy, and I regretted right away. So, I was trying to find anything I could be grateful for, even in that irritating situation. It wan't easy to find peace of mind, however, I finally found serenity and felt better. What I did was that I kept saying "thank you" with my each step every morning.
"Thank you" is the magic word. It changes our emotions immediately. It is very important to count one's blessing. 

Have you ever experienced when something good happened to you in sequence? If so, do you remember that you felt happy and grateful all the time? 

You may think that you were happy because of the good things happening, but the truth is how you were feeling at that time and that brought on the moments you'd appreciate more.  

The reason I talk about this today is that a lot of people can't think of many great things in usual life.
You really can be happy all the time, and for that, it is very important to truly feel appreciation without any other negative feeling in your life. Then, your life can be filled with joy!
It may, at first, seems difficult to control your mind, but you can do it! Please just remember that you have to change your thoughts to the positive side when you are sad, mad, or depressed, and try to thank everything. 

今日は感謝の気持ちについて。
どんな時に、感謝の気持ちでいっぱいになりますか？何か良い事あったとき？
”感謝”する気持ち、実はとっても大事で、何か良い事があったからではなく、感謝の気持ちでいっぱいだと、もっと感謝したいことがが増えるんです。
”ありがとう”って言う場面、最近どのくらいありましたか？
幸せや成功、楽しい時間を手に入れるためには、感謝の気持ちが不可欠。そういう気持ちが増えれば増える程、ポジティブな流れにのることができる。どんなことがあっても、その全てに、”ありがとう”といえる、幸せな人には、本当に豊かな、充実した時間がくる。
自分がここに存在していること、それを支えているもの全てに、ありがとうの言葉を心から、かけてあげて欲しい。それが、幸せへの第一歩。

Do You Wash Your Hands?

I'm not your parent, but I assume someone has to teach what to do before you leave the washroom because I've seen so many people not washing their hands after using the toilet. 

Haven't you ever thought about what will happen? 

Ok, if you don't wash your hands after using the washroom, please stay away from other people. Especially, now that's flu season. 

Air is dry, the temperature is low, and daylight is short. The body's metabolism is slower and immune system is weaker under these conditions, so the virus will be happy to spread everywhere. It will be an epidemic as you can imagine. 

You cannot see any virus with the naked eye, can you? How do you avoid becoming sick? 

You're not the only one who uses the washroom, and it's not ok to leave there without washing your hands. 

If there's one person not washing their hands and they leave a virus there, the next person there will get the virus which can proliferate and leave the virus somewhere else again for someone. It's a chain of contagion. 

You have to understand that it doesn't matter what you do in the washroom, the truth is there are already many viruses everywhere in that small room. You don't want to take them with you, but if you do, the happy virus will appear on your desk, in your kitchen, or in your coffee mug. 

It's true, you can contact viruses in other rooms, but since the washroom is likely the only place in public for washing hands, it's the most important place to wash up. 

To sum up, I beg/suggest you to wash your hands frequently, no matter what, but especially, after the washroom.

Thank you for not passing your virus to others!

風邪、インフルエンザ、ノロウイルスの季節です。
日本へ帰国してから、公衆トイレで、手を洗わない人を沢山見かけます。
マスクして歩いてるけれども、そもそも、菌を洗い流すこと、忘れてませんか？
トイレの後、大でも小でも関係なく、何らかの菌が付着している、その手、石けんで洗わないとどんどん、いたるところで繁殖します。トイレで用を足したからだけではないんですが、いたるところからの菌がいつの間にか着いてしまっているので、手を洗える所（きっと公衆の場ではお手洗いだと思いますが）では、是非洗ってください。何かに触らない事ないですよね、ばい菌の繁殖力は強いです、そして、冬の身体は受け入れやすい状態です。
他人へばい菌ばらまくだけでなく、自分のした事は自分に戻ってきますから、手は洗ってくださいね。
風邪引かないように、皆さん気をつけましょう！！！