Thank you for your sweet pray to Japan, my dear folks. When the earthquake came, I did suffer big quakes here, in Sapporo.
But you do not need to worry! Now, I am safe and Lindenbaum sessions are regularly available.

About the earthquake and the tunami…

I was afraid to lose many precious lives, and that many people were getting to be victims of the disaster .
However, one of my guide spirits looked so calm.(Oh, he is like the Japanese!?)

I asked him: Why do you stay kind of cool? Incredible. Many people would pass away, you know? I can’t keep myself calm like you!
He said: Um, because they are already in peace by our side.
I: What do you mean?
He: Exactly as stated. They, who passed away in the disaster, have been purified, and stayed peaceful. Because they accomplished their live spans, and just made their souls apart from their bodies. We accepted them and appreciated the pains which they had taken. So don’t worry, sweetie.
I: Oh…I assumed that everything was going to be too merciless. But now I see. I’m getting relieved, thank you for good information.

He: I think everything isn’t so bad on the disaster.
I: Do you think there is significance?
He: Definitely. I know many persons get awaken on time like now. Many people get started to doubt their lives so far like this: I thought they must be great matters getting much money, being rich, and kicking out the others for making headway in life…But actually, they have no worth, are hardly important in my life!!
And they can let egoistic view go. This moment must be worthy of praise, don’t you think?
I: I suppose so. Sounds great.

When it comes to relationships with others, what matters most is balance: it isn’t good to be either too kind or too severe.

At times, some degree of severity is necessary for a relationship to work.

One might find, for example, that the most beneficial attitude when helping a person in despair may not be one of commiseration and compassion (“I can understand how you feel—it must be very tough”), but rather a more harsh call for action (“This energy spent on crying could be used instead in working to resolve the problem”). While this may appear cruel at first glance, it is actually tough love, an important element in the balance of relationships.

One should bear in mind also the importance of caring for oneself; there are in every person aspects perpetually unreachable to others, that even those closest and most intimate could not quite understand. One must therefore learn to nurture and care for this part of oneself, and accept it with tenderness and love.

A balance of severity and love is therefore important both with others and with oneself.

The following is a letter received from a customer in Tokyo, Japan.

Hello there, this is O, a customer at your recent counseling session. I’m writing to tell you about my trip to .Kagoshima following your advice to me about going there. Before all else, I’d like to note I feel this trip has made for a profound turning point in my life.

Throughout my life, I’ve been afflicted by a panic disorder, and have found myself perpetually preoccupied with war and peace, such as thoughts about kamikaze fighters. During my session with you, I inquired whether something had happened to me in a past life that might explain these thoughts.

You told me I died in a fighter aircraft in my previous life, and that my spirit guide feels I should go to Kagoshima. You said my fear and anxiety from those days have followed me to my present life, and that visiting this location would allow me to put these feelings to rest.

In addition, you told me there is an archive there I should visit about kamikaze fighters, and that I should search through the list of names there—and that I should visit Kurashiki on my way, because I had lived there.

You remained very calm when you spoke of these things, and I felt no doubt in your words; I felt very much compelled to go, so I went on a trip to visit Kagoshima. I did, in fact, find the archive you spoke of, as well as the list of names. Because you told me I had lived in Kurashiki, Okayama, I specifically looked through that particular list—and I found him there. His name was the same as mine! This is probably why you had told me to look through that particular list.
I visited Kurashiki after that, a beautiful place with cherry trees in bloom, and finally concluded my mystical trip after that, feeling all the while that I was in better and better health. Ultimately, I have overcome my panic disorder.

I personally do not have a good grasp of the unknown; but the fact still stands that I was able to gain the resolution you spoke of by making this trip. You helped me reach a very significant turning point in my life, and for this I owe you my thanks.
At the time, you had said there is a theme to my present life, which is one about peace. From now onward, I intend to devote myself to understanding this, as well, and pursue my true path.

“I feel lonely now that I’m all on my own. Maybe I could run away from it all if I found a lover or some new friends…”
“I thought I’d find happiness now that at last I’ve gotten married, but my husband is always so busy and never has time for me. I feel so lonely, what has gone wrong?”
“My children used to share things with me about their day all the time, but lately it seems they don’t tell me things at all…”

It’s quite common to experience moments of loneliness like these. We commonly make the mistake of assuming that loneliness stems from being alone, and that, likewise, we’d feel less lonely if only we were together with somebody else. But this is an erroneous way of thinking, as can be readily seen by those accustomed to living on their own. If you’re someone who’d never felt lonely while living with somebody else, you might never understand how someone who is married might fall in love with someone other than their spouse.

Regardless of whether you live alone or with somebody else, essentially human beings are always on their own—each one of us, we are each born alone and die alone—it’s part of our nature as humans.

Even with good friends, an intimate lover, or a doting spouse, attempting to escape the loneliness intrinsic to us as human beings is futile. One might delude oneself into thinking s/he isn’t lonely due to being with a husband—or friend, or lover, or family, or anyone else—but sooner or later we all must accept the ultimate truth that we are essentially alone. Because even the person living close at your side will always have a part of themselves beyond your reach, and trying uselessly to reach it will only make your feeling of loneliness worse. Attempting to escape one’s intrinsic loneliness and depending instead on somebody else will only bring a great deal of pain.

But why is it that escaping from loneliness is impossible? Truth is, we shouldn’t attempt to escape it. Instead, we should embrace and accept this intrinsic part of ourselves.
Until we accept our loneliness, it’s impossible to achieve true personal reward.

Attempting to escape it may ultimately lead to far greater despair, and you’d only be making things harder on yourself. Someone who attempts to resolve loneliness by entering a relationship may later find that, despite being in love, there still remains a distance between them and their partner, owing to differences between them, and this could feel quite painful. It is therefore important to realize first and foremost that each person is ultimately on their own, and will therefore experience solitude even in the most loving relationship.
It’s essentially true that, to find the deepest love, one must first accept their intrinsic loneliness. Once we’ve reached this point, we can truly experience reward: that even living in solitude does not render us entirely alone.

This issue is a bit difficult to explain, because it’s a bit like a Zen question: it certainly is an interesting contradiction we all must face in life. However, I can say with certainty that accepting one’s solitude makes for a therapeutic release from pain, and I recommend to overcome the challenge of loneliness by accepting it, first and foremost.

The following is a letter from a customer in Hokkaido, Japan.

Dear NOZOMI.

This is K, I’m writing to express my gratitude after our session together. It’s been some time since we last spoken, and I thought I would write to give thanks again, and to tell you about how things have been for me following our session.
Since the time I’d quit my job, many things have happened in my life which have made me feel both happy and fortunate. I have a good friend who takes care of me as though I were her own daughter, and also, I’m delighted to say I’m finally pregnant! I’m presently in the third month of my pregnancy and expect to have my baby this upcoming August.
I believe deep down that my baby had waited for the right time, ten years after my marriage to my husband, until I had grown and matured enough inwardly for her to arrive.
I think I’d gone through a process allowing me to gain the awareness I needed to truly love and accept myself. I’d like to thank you for your advice, Nozomi.
It’s such a delightful way to live, loving oneself in life. I feel that our session had granted me significant change and that the quality of my life had vastly improved. Thank you so much!
I look forward to the day when someday I visit Sapporo and meet you in person, so that I could take your session again.
I’d like to wish you a great year and I look forward to reading your your newsletters – my session with you was invaluable.

*Adding a postscript*
Ms.K gave me a mail after this, and she’d had safely given birth to a baby girl. Congratulation! I’m happy for you.

The following letter is from a customer in Sapporo, Japan.

This is S, who had taken your session the other day. I’m not sure how to begin – in a sense, I still feel like the whole thing had been a fantasy.

There have been many challenges I’d taken on throughout life, but each time I’d eventually given up, feeling like I’d been out of luck—I’d felt so unsure of myself…
I used to think to myself, “I’m just an ordinary person without a great deal of worth, it’s arrogant of me to think I’m somebody special.” But when I met with you, you told me that I am someone special after all, and I felt confused by your words at first.

While deep down I knew that my life had only kept getting worse when I tried living uneventfully as an ordinary person, I nevertheless refused to accept this. But after our meeting, I thought that, worst case scenario, I would wind up miserable by changing my path, which would be no different than being miserable by living uneventfully. I’d therefore decided to be so bold as to stop living uneventfully.

It’s true, what you said in our session, that my weakness is having too much time on my hands to think. Seems I have my own intuitive power, don’t I? At any rate, I feel that now is the time for me to act! I’m presently starting to look for property to rent, I’m thinking of renting a place at the brand new opening over at the M area.
I get excited when I think about this, but then it’s like I get a sign from the heavens telling me not to rush things.

I’ll do what I can to keep cool during the rest of my summer vacation; I intend to quit my present job, but I’ll try to do my best in life. At first I felt afraid that I might make mistakes again, but then I got this feeling that everything’s going to be okay—because I wouldn’t have taken your session if I hadn’t worked at my present job.
I used to feel as though it would be best if my life had been over and done with, because it’d been so hard for me during those five years—I felt I had no hope for the future at all.

It feels a bit weird now; my past problems resulted not from hardship in life, but because I used to think I had to lead an ordinary life.
….that is…if that’s the case, then it’s a bit of a silly way to think, isn’t it?
I’d like to thank you again. My one-hour session with you had gone by so fast; you appear very feminine and soft, but your words were powerful and direct.

I think perhaps I’d like to come in for another session sometime in the near future.

The following letter comes from a customer in New York, USA.

Dear Nozomi,
This is U, writing to you from New York. Things haven’t been quite normal around here, so I decided to write you.

I received your newsletter on 11:11, on 1.11, Eastern Standard Time. For the past several months, I’ve been seeing the number 11:11 quite a lot. Some people say this is a kind of sign, a good sign; I’ve read about 11:11 on Google, and I’m led to believe these figures might have some sort of significance in numerology.

Furthermore, here is another recurring numerical pattern in my life: the number of my apartment is 29L, where I pay $2900/month. My birthday is on February 9 (02.09). These numbers must mean something, don’t you think?

Also, I feel that I didn’t wind up in this particular apartment by chance; before I finally found this place, other places I’d tried to rent never seemed to work out for me. I’d had problems in one form or other at every apartment I tried to rent, even after I would put down my deposit. But the apartment where I live now, I seem to have found it conveniently at exactly the right point in my life, and I feel like I really enjoy living here, like it’s just the right place for me!

I feel like there must be some sort of message here, something like things are looking up for you, even if it feels like you’re in a slump. I think this message just may apply to me in terms of relationships.

Take care and thank you for your newsletter.

The following is a letter from a customer in Bangkok, Thailand.

Dear Nozomi

I’m writing to thank you for our session today; I feel much better now. I think my time with you has allowed me to move on and progress beyond issues that have troubled me for quite some time; before that, it was like I’d come to a point in my life where I’d hit a brick wall.

I used to have a narrow view of life, deliberately dismissing my feelings instead of addressing them. While undoubtedly there were hints within me here and there to pay attention to my inner self, I nevertheless chose stubbornly to ignore them, seeing them as a sort of obstacle for me to overcome. I now have come to see however that I should pay attention to the feelings inside me, instead—that I’d been mistaken up till now, certain as I were that I must attain control of my emotions with my mind.

How fascinating this seems now that I think of it after the fact, now with my emotions at last out in the open: you’ve stifled yourself enough.

Truth be told, I think I’d been aware of this to some extent for some time, but deliberately dismissed it as an attempt at escape.

You had raised my awareness to a message from my guide spirit: “You should escape when you feel compelled to escape.” Having come to understand this, I felt a load lifted off my chest, and I think now I can finally let myself go.

Furthermore, for quite some time I felt unable to summon the courage to step forth in a new direction in life. Would I really be able to do this? I’d asked myself time and again, stifled by my own insecurity and self-doubt. I no longer feel fear about this, however, and my session with you has helped me find my way.

My eyesight is weaker in my right eye than my left—I believe this is a sign that I should be more honest with myself in regard to my intuition.

It’s been three years now since my first session with you, and still to this day I continue devotedly to read the Lindenbaum Newsletters as soon as I see them in my inbox, even at work! I feel they’re much-needed coffee breaks for me.

I think anyone who can take your sessions should do so—I was quite impressed, myself. Thank you again, a million times. I look forward to reading your future newsletters and will definitely take another session should I feel a need to do so.

Take care!

Sometimes messages through the session are out of common sense, like you feel wired or have never thought anything like that.

However, I would tell you such things if your soul totally needs that. I hope you could get rid of your prejudice when you take my session.

There is nothing which is more important than to be honest when you try to listen to your inner voice through guide spirit. You should trust and accept your feelings.

If you get messages on the session in this way, and it’ll work out well. You can finally make sense.

I’m a Buddhist, or rather closely an atheist. Most Japanese are similar to me about the religion faith. I know it sounds so wired except Japanese ourselves. But I respect all kinds of religions, no doubt I mean, your religion as well.

If you are a Hindu, I never tell you “you should eat beef because it’s very well‐fed!!”
If you are a Jewish, I never tell you to work on the Sabbath. No offense, I work on Saturday and Sunday. I’m a bad spiritual Sabbath!? No no no, I’m just kidding, Buddhists have no Sabbath. We take a holiday adaptable for certain reasons.

You can tell me your religion before my session if you have religious precepts to keep. I will take care. I never want to put you on spiritual massage. Your life is worthy of true pride.
I never want to change your life and the faith unjustly. I just hope you could find your life path how blessed!
Your life gets fabulous when you accept yourself as who you are!