Pipo☝️🚪♪

Hello 🍀 This is Mai 😃

This week, there was a long-awaited
very happy day 😊

It was that I was able to meet Spica-san,
who writes "To the Night on the Galactic Railroad"
whom I connected with on note 😍

She is a wonderful creator
who draws stories and illustrations of cats
and writes fantastic essays.

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Spica-san is
both on note and in person,
a very lovely person
whose kindness shines through her words 💕

Today, I would like to write about
the color therapy session by the sea
that I spent with Spica-san 🏖️

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Color therapy is also known as
"chromotherapy" in Japanese.

Through the colors you are drawn to
or the colors that catch your eye at that moment,

it is a time to gently touch
your current feelings and state of mind,
and
thoughts you hadn't even realized yourself yet.

Sometimes people ask me,
"Is it something where you guess things using colors?"
but since it is not fortune-telling, it is not about guessing.

By listening to the messages of the color combinations,
and putting into words how the person themselves felt about them, they realize, "Oh, that's how I was feeling," and I value this time of self-discovery above all else.
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On this day, for the first time in a while,

I did color therapy at the beach.

The sound of the color bottles
being set into the sand with a soft thud.
The sound of the color bottles clicking against each other.

Blending with the blue of the sky and the color of the sea,
the scenery itself felt like therapy.

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While listening to the sound of the waves,
I had her choose color bottles based on intuition.

And when I convey the messages of the colors,

the color therapist supports the process by listening
to "how it feels"

and "what words come to mind"
as the person slowly puts them into words.

The feel of the sand,
the scent of the sea breeze,
the rhythm of the waves.

When your five senses relax,
mysteriously, the words of your heart
that you haven't put into words before come out more naturally.

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I value
not forcing questions,
not leading,
not giving advice,
and most importantly,
not trying to save anyone.

I believe that realization is not something given by the therapist,
but something that is already within the person themselves.
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We talked a lot,

laughed a lot,
and sometimes cried.
It was a precious time

where we touched upon our "life themes"—
what we need in life
and what we want to cherish most.

Before we knew it,
over an hour had passed in the blink of an eye.

By the end, both of our
noses were slightly stinging from the sun 🤭

But it was such a gentle and peaceful time
that even that felt endearing.

The second part
will be our "tea tour" with Spica-san 🍵

Look forward to it 🤭🍀