My son, who will soon be two years old, has recently been carrying a picture book about vegetables with him wherever he goes. The book features a variety of vegetables, including radishes and cabbages, but he always has it open to the page featuring sweet potatoes. His favorite parts are the three pages that say, “Sweet potatoes grown in the fields,” “Now lined up at the greengrocer’s. They’re sweet potatoes,” and “Let’s roast them and enjoy them,” and he seems to particularly like the first page, where they are about to harvest in the fields.
Because he opens it every day, the pages have become tattered, and I have reinforced them with tape in several places, so it has become quite thick. The picture book is so small that he can barely hold it in one hand, but he even takes it with him when he goes for walks, and I always hold it open to the page showing the sweet potatoes growing in the fields, which makes me feel a little embarrassed in front of the people around me.
Why does he like it so much? He likes roasted sweet potatoes, but he could have opened it to page 3, where a girl is eating them with relish. But what he likes most is the picture of a field full of sweet potatoes hanging from vines being harvested.
There is no logic to liking something. This must be related to the Ki from this picture. It is truly because of Ki. I say that there is positive Ki and negative Ki, and both are related to “liking” something. We want to like things with as good Ki as possible, but if we are influenced by strong negative Ki, we will naturally end up liking things with bad Ki.
Since you are always on the same wavelength as negative Ki, you need to be careful and think logically about whether this is the influence of negative Ki. Even if you can’t tell for yourself, you may be able to tell through others. If you think something is wrong, I would like you to recharge with the energy of Shinkiko. If you take in Ki from outside and raise your own Ki, you will naturally lose contact with things that emit negative Ki.
It may be that the things that small children innocently like hide something important that we adults have forgotten. Seeing my son’s pure sense of “liking” something makes me want to cherish the things that make me feel truly comfortable. With the support of Shinkiko’s energy, I would like to hone my sense of naturally choosing things that give off positive Ki.