Interesting Omikuji Message Ideas for Seniors

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One fun recommendation for events and recreational activities in January is drawing omikuji (fortune slips).

While the usual fortunes like “Great Blessing” or “Slight Blessing” are classics, why not try creating omikuji with amusing messages that older adults will enjoy? In this article, we’ll share “funny omikuji messages for seniors”! We’ve gathered ideas with positive wording about health and longevity, as well as messages that will make people chuckle when they open their fortune.

We’ve also included tips for intentionally incorporating exercise into daily life.

Let’s liven things up with a different kind of omikuji than you’d find at a shrine.

Use these ideas when making your own handmade omikuji!

[For Seniors] Collection of Fun Omikuji (Fortune Slip) Text Ideas (1–10)

Beware of binge eating and drinking! Be careful not to overeat.

As the old saying goes, “Eating until you’re 80% full is the secret to longevity,” so it’s important to avoid overeating and overdrinking.

This fortune, titled “Beware of Overindulgence! Be Careful Not to Overeat,” encourages you to aim for eating in moderation.

Having a good appetite is positive, but eating or drinking too much can place a heavy burden on your body.

Taking in excessive nutrients can also increase your risk of illness.

The causes of overeating and overdrinking are not limited to the effects of dementia; they can also stem from stress.

For the sake of both your physical and mental health, try to keep stress low and maintain balance.

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Walk often. Each step leads you closer to good things.

These words seem to encourage us that making a conscious effort to walk properly in our daily lives can lead to encounters with good things.

Moving your body—starting with moderate walking—benefits your health, so let’s turn that into daily vitality and a foundation for well-being.

Don’t these words also convey a positive feeling of moving forward so we can come across good happenings? Let this phrase be a prompt to think about the relationship between daily health and attracting good fortune.

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More haste, less speed. Let’s do each step carefully.

These words call for reexamining actions we routinely repeat every day—habits that may have become careless through familiarity.

By checking our daily behaviors and carrying them out carefully, we can heighten our attention in everyday life and this can lead to better outcomes.

If we consciously focus on the things we’ve been doing without much thought, we may even notice new discoveries.

It’s a call to prevent trouble by reflecting on our actions while also stimulating the brain and promoting health.

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[For Seniors] Collection of Funny Omikuji Fortune Messages (11–20)

Chew well. When you really chew over food—and life—you discover their true flavors.

These words invite us to look back on the lives we’ve built so far while also heightening our awareness of eating—something essential to living.

Just as the layering of emotions—joy, anger, sorrow, and delight—gives life depth, it tells us that chewing well adds depth to the taste of our meals.

While the passage focuses on savoring, chewing thoroughly also directly supports oral health, so let’s take this as a step toward healthier days.

It’s an interesting point that the more life experience someone has, the more likely they are to become conscious of the importance of chewing.

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A walk will bring good fortune. You’ll make a discovery in an unexpected place.

These words suggest that turning your attention outward can lead to unexpected good fortune.

To encounter something new, it’s important to take initiative rather than remain passive—an appeal for proactive action.

It also conveys the idea of combining a casual walk outside with heightened awareness to spot good luck, while getting a healthy amount of exercise at the same time.

Finding unexpected good fortune can lift your spirits, and even if you don’t, it still contributes solidly to your physical well-being.

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Let’s eat a well-balanced diet. A picky or unbalanced diet keeps you away from good health.

If you have likes and dislikes or eat extremely small portions, you won’t have much energy unless you maintain regular meals.

So, how about including messages about proper nutrition in the omikuji that seniors draw, to help them stay healthy for years to come? It could be a good prompt to encourage them to aim for three balanced meals a day.

Saying it out loud can come across as preachy, but when it’s written on an omikuji, it doesn’t feel that way—it comes across with a touch of humor, which is nice.

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A glass of water before bed and upon waking. Tuning your body’s condition leads to better fortune.

This is a message encouraging people to drink water before going to bed and right after waking up.

It helps regulate the body and is even said to bring good fortune.

We lose more fluids through sweat during sleep than we might imagine, so proper hydration before and after sleep supports daily health.

Because we often forget to hydrate when we don’t feel thirsty, linking it to good fortune helps keep hydration top of mind.

If a glass of water upon waking helps you feel balanced, it can also give you the energy to stay lively throughout the day.

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