Hawaii Kotohira Jinsha
Hawaii Dazaifu Tenmangu
July 2016

Chinowa for People & Pets
inhumane
A procession offdogs,
Chinowa
or cats,People &treatment
Pet sof2016and her students from Kobe
birds, and a Jackson
Chameleon went through the
Chinowa ring under sunnyskies on June 5 for the annual
Chinowa for People & Pets.

animals.

Prior to the event, aceremony was held in theshrine with shrine President,
Dr. Shinken Naitoh and all the"blessers" for the event.
Special prayers were also
given for deceased pets andpets who are victims ofAs usual, all had a tailwagging good time going
through the Ring of Renewal.

Some humans and pets
hung around for some ?yappyhour ? while others slurped PetShave Ice.

A special Mahalo goes out toNiki Libarios of Hawaii Doggie
Bakery for the donation ofdoggie treats, Carole Omura

and to Karen Nishida who flew
in from Hilo - 2 years in a row to help out at the event.
A Big Mahalo also goes out
to Hanayagi Dancing Academy
Hawaii Foundation and themany volunteers for theirkokua in making this event asuccess.
Mark your calendars for thenext Chinowa for People &Pets on Sunday, June 4, 2017.

MAHALO for your generous donations
Tom & Linda Agawa
Cabansag Ohana
Bill & Keiko Doughty
Clark & Gayle Fujihara
Bob Harada
Hawaii Doggie Bakery
Seizo Imamura
Kyoko Isa
Rodney & Sharon Isa

Chinowa
Pr ep

Matthw & Chikako Jackson
Elaine Komatsu
Maya Kodi & Kia Kunishima
Tamie & Lorraine Kunishima
Mike Lee
Gerry & Audrey Mori
Roy Morioka
Shinken & Marilyn Naitoh
Karen Nishida

Bob Harada
Arthur Isa
Marilyn Naitoh

Shinken Naitoh
Craig NishidaDiane NishidaThomas & Jean Nishimura
Akiko SanaiGary & Linda Shinsato
Takakazu Maeda
Wayne Takenaka
Kasen Kunishima Takushi
Keith Tanigawa
Sharon Tanigawa
Shelley Wadahara

Karen Nishida
Gary Shinsato
Linda Shinsato

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JULY
33 pm
Tsukinam isai &Tanabat a

AUGUSTM AINTENANCE
PROJECTS

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Educat ion Blessing

The wheels of the sliding gate
on Olomea Street werereplaced on 6/3/16 by Mike
Lee and Rev. Takizawa.
The under-stage storage wascleaned out on 6/5/16.
MAHALO to Mike Lee, Bob
Harada, Brent Furuya, ArthurIsa, Jr.
Meeting room ballasts werechanged and minor re-wiring
done on 6/23 by Mike Lee.

10 am - 2 pm

9 am - 4 pm
Ot aku Sum m er
Fest ival

SEPTEMBER
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Reservations acceptedfor Shichigosan

43 pm
Tsukinam isai &Choyo no Sekku

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3 pm
Aut um nThanksgiving
Fest ival

Kit a Makura - sl eeping wit h t he head t o t he Nort h
At funerals in Japan,
corpses are positioned sotheir head is facing north.
As such, sleeping with yourhead facing north is called
Kita Makura and is said tobring calamity and negativeenergies.
Buddha is said to havedied with his head to theNorth. So for Buddhists,sleeping with the head to
the North was considered
the direction of death.
There are magnetic fields
on the planet. In many ways,
the earth is engineered
because of its magnetism.
While the evidence is all
there that getting a goodnight sleep is really
important to your healthand well being, does themagnetic direction in which
we align ourselves for sleep(i.e., North, South, East orWest) effect the kind ofsleep we receive?
Both Eastern medicine
and science agree about theimportance of a healthy
sleep pattern for continued
well being.
The Indian Ayurvedic
tradition believes that sleep
positions decide the kind ofenergy we want coming into
our life,withsleeping
facing the East and South
being the most beneficial.
Vishnu Purana, considered
one of the most important
Hindu religious texts claims
it is beneficial to lie downwith the head placed east or
south. The man who lies
down with his head placedin contrary directions
becomes diseased.
Scientists have longsuspected that humans havean innate magnetic
compass, but have been
unsure as to how this affectsus.
Recent sleep researchshows that some mammal
species always graze andsleep facing north or south
and that the earth's
magnetic field is probably
polarizing and causing this.
Further studies havesuggested that humans who
sleep in an East-Westposition have far shorter
rapid eye movement or REM
sleep cycles in whichdreams occur, comparedwith North-South sleepers
who got more REM sleep.
REM sleep is the final
phase in our deep sleep
cycle and it usually takes up
20-25% of the total sleeptime.
There are various theories
about what REM is fromneural pathway
development to memory
consolidation, but scienceagrees that it is a vitalfunction and maximizing
your REM could help
promote greater health andwell being.
We know that when we
sleep, our bodies start a

In Feng Shui, the locationof your bedroom in thehouse and the direction ofyour bedroom furniture ismore important to the freeflow of positive energy andso is critical to getting goodsleep.
healing process that is
critical to feeling our best.
Sleeping is also a way tonourish your importantorgans that are key toproducing the energy we allseek when we are awake.
Getting enough sleep isabout being in touch withthe stillness inside of you.
Most of us are rushingaround from one thing toanother. We even rush to
bed in order to get enoughsleep, but our bodies are sofull of adrenaline andcortisol that sleeping canseem impossible. Uponwaking, we startle ourbodies again with a loudalarm clock.
When the body ispositioned horizontally,
your pulse rate drops. The
body makes this adjustment
because if blood is pumped
at the same level, too much
will go into your head,causing damage.