Key to WORLD PEACE for All Creatures

1. For world peace for all creatures: The more citizens of Mother Earth are aware of what Universe and Mother Earth gave us, the more world smile peacefully with all creatures through

a. our appreciating everything around us including the sustainable nature system the other creatures has been making, (I hope every person feels like “my soul is being perfectly in the process of this life thanks to Universe.” at every moment.)
b. and our caring about the other creatures with right actions without hurting them in unconsciousness.

2. For the awareness of oneself and the others: The more the individual is able to be aware of within oneself through connecting with trueself, the more each of us is able to

a. be aware of bigger/different beings than oneself,
b. and envision the future generations in the right perspective.

3. For living for more than me in fulfilling life: The more each of entire human races is able to connect with trueself, the more

a. each of us feels fulfilled/empathize with one’s needs and maintains a peaceful state of mind,
b. each of us becomes simple through letting go of a lot of EGOs and materialistic things,
c. right ideas of IKIGAI come to the person like falling star (Universe perfectly give us right ideas on the right timing),
d. each of us becomes open to live for more than oneself through basing one’s action on IKIGAI,
e. and the (human) world would be more peaceful and cheerful heartful through the harmony of peace each of us creates vibrating to the others little by little.

4. For connecting with trueself (soul, heart, body): The more each of us really feel liberated from blockages within oneself (EGO) spiritually mentally physically, the more he/she is able to connect/empathize with trueself.

5. Key to maintaining the connection with trueself (in anicca): making improvements in equanimity, relationship with empathy.

GIVE through my IKIGAI

I am one of the people who is a process of world peace for future generations. Toward my sincere hope/vision “truly peace in worldwide in a few hundred years,” my IKIGAI in this life is

a. to lead people (including myself) to the way of connecting with trueself (soul, heart, body) through helping them liberate from blockages within oneself (EGO) spiritually mentally physically,
b. (advanced) and to help them keep feeling empathized with one’s needs and maintaining a peaceful state of mind through sharing the practical process of Non Violent Communication as an enabler for better relationships with family/partner/friends/colleagues/people who they don’t know. 

IKIGAI- a reason for being

The concept of this word “IKIGAI” seems to be getting popular in Europe (much more than Japan) from a few years ago. It means “a reason for being (in this life)”- a true vocation which an individual soul has spiritually. I would love to figure out your own IKIGAI together.

Why is this my IKIGAI?

- Passion- what I love: world peace for all creatures, to give love, encouragement and a peaceful state of mind to the others (my ex-vision was “empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more.” I feel I am on a beautiful journey of never-ending learning others.)
- Strengths- what you are great at: to reach one’s heart and build/strengthen one's bonds of trust with people in a little time from kids to the elderly, and to manage relationship conflict with diverse perspective without doubt, judgement, expectation
- Opportunity for service as a profession- what earns you money: to heal people physically mentally spiritually through opening one’s heart and listening to the person by NVC and Yoga
- Contribution to society- what the world needs: to take actions for world peace for all creatures

How do I base my actions on IKIGAI?

Everyone and every relationship including family relationships naturally have conflict within oneself, in my view. In most cases, we don’t realize oneself, the conflict itself, and where it came from the conflict. A situation of feeling conflict prohibits them from keeping feeling empathized with one’s needs and maintaining a peaceful state of mind. I would love to focus on relationships, especially family relationships.

What, specifically, did I do my best to take action on trial during two months in Japan after India as a practitioner of NVC and Yoga? I visited six families including my family- a married couple, four two-generation households, a three-generation household in Tokyo, Hiroshima, Osaka, Gifu, so on.

1. For understanding: First of all, listening to their thoughts/feelings gently patiently carefully through NVC with empathy one by one. Putting in a lot of time, energy and love to help them be aware of feelings within oneself takes a long process. It leads them to open their heart slowly. The more I empathize with what they were telling me, the more they can realize themselves (such as what their soul wants/needs/loves, what is important for them) step by step. Through keeping doing this process simply, they will start to be able to feel connected with trueself sometime in the near future. 

2. For physical and mental blockages:
a. Cooking Healthy Vegetarian Food: Having the right food for men and Nature is very important for keeping oneself in good health mentally physically and spiritually. Feel Right and Light. After one week, the person definitely can feel oneself more sensitively. (and giving them time- Actually many many wives feel cooking is too much work and they sometimes hope to eat food someone made for her instead of her. For this reason, it’s helpful to do even a short period. Most husbands don’t know this hope and appreciate much for her hard work.)

b. Yoga: the person can realize blockages and then feel connected within oneself literally after my sharing the wisdom of Yoga. (Yoga, especially Pranayama, is the best way of connecting with oneself.

c. Massage: giving love through communicating their body. (I learned the basics of full body Marma Massage in India.)

3. For mental blockages: gently help them realize oneself through overcoming tough things such as
a. giving them the opportunity to express their feelings through creation like drawing, making something from scratch

b. giving them the experiences to see a (totally) different perspective and world/community from their lives. (They can meet AHA moments and it helps them realize something about oneself.) 

c. organizing what they have with asking “are you still in love or attracted by the memory/stuff or not?” It's a very personal thing and it tends to take time and much effort but is very effective for being simple.

d. cleaning everywhere in detail with only Nature stuff.

4. For empathy with oneself and relationship: sharing the knowledge of NVC with a book.

5. For realizing how much Nature helps us: sharing/taking actions for sustainable stuff for our Mother Earth such as (We have never known the reality of environment challenges until starting small thing. My hope is they can realize what is important for us step by step. “First step to solve problems of World is to look at Our Plate.”)
a. realizing how we are doing (hurting) to Nature
b. planting vegetables and herbs
c. making cardboard compost
d. using the Nature stuff (not chemical ones), etc. 

6. For love and encouragement: sending love letters to all kids who want someone to show love and whom I met with encouragement. 

7. Important point of my actions: they can keep maintaining the connection with trueself by themselves without me. (After my leaving, some of them informed me about big decisions in their life, and all family told me about their family relationship’s becoming much better.) 

8. For long mental supporting: being openly and keeping in touch whenever they need to help

9. For the chains of love harmony in the future: some people, who I have communicated with from heart for a few years, need just a few voice messages a day for peaceful relaxation. Because they got to understand how they connect/empathize with trueself as wisdom, not just information or knowledge from someone, books or news. My hope is each of these people who I have helped would help the others around her/him liberate blockages from oneself. The chains of love harmony each of people and I have been building could become naturally widespread in world harmony.

I would love to share an example of the family discussion. In many family relationships, members gave up discussion with the other members because of judgement, doubt, expectation from the memories of the past. Taking the first step is the biggest step of next awareness. After my starting communication with the people, some of them started to open their feelings to the other family members without giving up. Actually the first few days, the sons didn’t speak anything except yes or no. He speaks only a few single words, not sentences since he was at an elementary school. Now he texts me about his feelings/thoughts joyfully. The parents/grand parents started to listen to their kids or partner carefully patiently without judgement, doubt, expectations. I am very proud of each of their diligent efforts. Myself was glad to see their change because this is what I am doing for world peace! 

Path to my future

I felt confident in my actions through the experience. I feel this is the right way of mine- living for more than me in fulfilling life. I would love to keep taking action by this IKIGAI everywhere I am. Observing and construing words, expressions and behaviors of people who grow up with different culture including language must be one of the biggest challenges for me. I feel my path outside Japan started in 2013 and I have been constantly waiting for the better/best ideas for the broader reach of who I can help. I truly feel grateful that my personality to my IKIGAI has built through all of my past experiences and relationships including deep relationship with Indian + American family- spiritual reason why the Universe gave me the opportunity to be born to Japanese parents between Kunihiko and Midori. I will keep learning NVC and the heartwarming way of communication which I learned at Schumacher College to be a NVC official trainer (only speaking English is available to be) near the future. For mental & physical health, I would love to learn Yoga RYT500 in Rishikesh, learn Ayurveda in Kerala, India. (next year???) 

Background- Who I am

Basically I would love to build independent relationships with people/friends/family around me. (Independent relationship for me means to help each other by IKIGAI.) For this reason, I would love to give (back) something (not just money) to people through my IKIGAI. The world would be peaceful and cheerful if each of us can give to each other through IKIGAI. Happily I realized myself through my actions- where came from myself? and through my document “Process of Journey to Consciousness” about catalyst and realization (why, who, what, when, where, how) in detail in my 30 years. I have humbly been observing and learning the others from 7 years ago, especially through the experiences from 3 years ago. Through staying/living with different kinds of people coming from around the world from kids to the elderly at some places like India, the Philippines, the U.K., the U.S., many places in Japan as a family member, a partner, a friend, a backpacker, or a student. In my experience, an effective way of meeting IKIGAI is being SIMPLE. My life has been absolutely transforming since I let go of a lot of EGOs+materialistic things of my favorites including a cool apartment in Tokyo, beautiful shoes, etc.. and becoming (will Yogini+) minimalist. 

Metamorphose- Cherish my Soul

How have I been keeping becoming naturally unconscious at all times as well as breathing? Here are the ideas about how to be becoming in your right way if you want to go to a higher stage of trueself. Actually everything is related to Yoga.

- Observe as in meditation with deep breath & body scan from head to sole of foot
- Realization through taking actions for myself/others
- Open/ Borderless / Flexible to myself/the others without judgement, doubt, expectation
- Be/do only with Heartfulness, not mindfulness
- Feel myself/the others with thoughtlessness
- Empathize through learning Non Violent Communication (NVC)
- Appreciate what Universe and Mother Earth are giving us
- Depend on intuition (believe myself)
- Simple & low consumption -What you are/have/eat (Let go of the materialistic things you have unnecessary, be Vegan & Organic & Homemade)
- Follow my heart / Focus on present, not past+future (thanks god for giving yourself the opportunity to do respect what you feel right now.)
- Express my feelings like kid pure soul
- Start day with purifying & activating all of cells- Jala Neti & Massage all of body with organic oil & Treat myself with only vegan solid soap & coldest water
- Give me/others Pardon

Background- Nature

I have been getting to know deeply how we hurt the other creatures and Mother Earth in unconsciousness since three years ago. The fact is very very sad as a citizen of Mother Earth... Immediately, I changed my dietary habits to Vegetarian in Autumn 2016 and then Vegan in Spring 2019. Last summer in 2018, I started to stop buying plastic stuff. Wow. You have never known how difficult to do that until you try it. In this world, surprisingly most stuff is packed with plastic. I start to make soap, shampoo, tooth paste, plant vegetables smaller, etc.. by myself and to buy unpacked vegetables in farmers markets (or Whole Foods). I make most things from scratch like jam, ghee, peanut butter, grain bar, etc whatever we have as energy. Through continuing these actions, I have gotten to know Schumacher College (Satish Kumar- Deep Ecology not Shadow Ecology), Localization (Helena Norberg-Hodge), Permaculture, Forest Garden, Zero Waste, and Earthbag House, etc. And then, I felt I would love to make everything I can even House. I have never imagined we could build a house by myself by that time. Participating in the class at Schumacher College in the U.K. in this February, 2019 was amazing to learn and meet beautiful people who have the same passion. And then I joined the project to build Earthbag House in Japan in March, 2019. Through the process, my view of the world totally changed and I became much healthier. If you are interested in something about that, I recommend the below documentary movies and books. I would love to have friends who have the same passion on Mother Earth. 

- COWSPIRACY: The Sustainability Secret (why Vegan) 

- Earthlings (why Vegan)

- The Economics of Happiness by Helena Norberg-Hodge Local Futures / Economics of Happiness (globalization problem about people's happiness, How important localization is for next our future) 

- The True Cost (globalization problem about working situations in developing countries) 

- Black Gold (fair trade about coffee)
- We Feed the World (food problem)
- Food, Inc. (food problem- what we eat)

- GMO OMG (food problem- why organic) 

- That Sugar Film (sugar problem in food) 

- The Dark Side of Chocolate (fair trade)
- Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered by E. F. Schumacher (ecology)
- Silent Spring by Rachel Carson (ecology)
- Local Future by Helena Norberg-Hodge (localization)
- The Revenge of Gaia: Earth's Climate Crisis & The Fate of Humanity by James Lovelock (Gaia Theory)
- Soil ? Soul ? Society: A New Trinity for Our Time by Satish Kumar (ecology)

- Brilliant Green: The Surprising History and Science of Plant Intelligence (respect to plant)

updated on Dec 27 from Nov 10, 2019
Aika Kumamoto