It's so exciting to be teaching for VOICE again, this time with the publication of my first book in Japanese, "Empowered by Empathy."  The techniques in this book help solve many problems in everyday life, including ones where you might not expect an American teacher to have much to offer.

I'm thinking especially of Retired Husband Syndrome.

Sure you've heard of it, but did you ever consider what a difference an empath's skills might make?  My local newspaper, The Washington Post, carried an article that quoted Dr. Nobuo Korokawa, who coined the term Retired Husband Syndrome and is one of Japan's leading experts on how to cope with it: "Come to therapy," the doctor was quoted as saying. "Then spend as much time as possible away from your husband."

Wise though this advice is, it won't keep a wife from suffering like crazy if she is an empath.  I can help in two ways.  The FIRST is by helping her to become a skilled empath.

But what is an empath? Either a person is born that way or he or she is not.

Empaths have at least one significant, trainable gift for directly experiencing what it is like to be other people.  A gift can be physical, emotional, intellectual or spiritual.  One example: If you're with someone who feels upset, can it be contagious?  Does the other person's distress stay with you for a long time, even after you have left the room?

If you are merely talented, not skilled, you constantly pick up pain from other people and it becomes stuck in your aura.  There it will remain, whether or not you spend time away from a husband or wife.  Although a skilled therapist can help a patient handle feelings better, it will not solve the core problem.

But learning to become a skilled empath might help significantly.  Certainly, once you learn this set of skills, it will help you for the rest of your life.  Many stubborn problems in relationships and career are healed by becoming skilled as an empath.  In my four sessions, July 1,2,7 and 8, I can help you to understand special sensitivities you may have, then how to turn them off or on at will.

These techniques, not taught elsewhere (yet), bring spiritual healing to strengthen the core self.  You'll learn a lot about who you really are in many aspects of life, what you like and dislike, plus you'll learn how you can strive for your own happiness... without being selfish, without feeling guilty.

This unique training is completely different from trying to put up a wall against other people.  In my experience, walls don't keep out other people's pain; even worse, walls actually can make a person feel dead inside.

As part of the workshops being offered, I'll also teach techniques for turning empathic gifts on extra strong-which can help to increase intimacy.

(Techniques in my aura reading workshops also can be useful for developing intimacy.  Everyone can learn to read auras in depth and detail, which makes it easy to become extra perceptive about others, a way to go past formal manners to find a unique person within.)

Being closer to others when you wish, having greater distance when you choose--all this is your birthright as a human being.  Becoming a skilled empath can help enormously.

Okay, now what about the SECOND way I hinted at earlier, for helping with relationship problems like Retired Husband Syndrome? (Here's how I can tell you've got that awesome Japanese attention span.  Never, in my country, would I wait so long to get to Point #2!)  You may know that I'm doing personal sessions as well as workshops while in Japan.

A personal session can transform your aura, including removal of a cord of attachment to a spouse or other person who has caused difficulties in your past.  This is a kind of psychic level surgery.  When a toxic cord of attachment is gone, the healing is permanent.  Sometimes the results can be quite dramatic.

Or you could request a face reading session, where I point out gifts of your soul that show in your nose, cheeks, ears, etc.  Not everyone can be a movie star but everyone has an extraordinary face, full of talents.  Problems in life also show in a face, and a session like this is a great way to gain a healing perspective.

Another part of the fun is that I will probably point out physical things about your face that you never noticed before, like whether you have a "Macho Knob" [for translation, knob is like doorknob] or "Powerline Dimples."

Now I know there are traditional ways of reading faces that you may be familiar with, but this is my trademarked system, Face Reading Secrets®, that is more uplifting than some of the older ways and involves no fortune-telling.  Humanity has evolved a lot over the past 5,000 years, and this is a system for the New Age.

Whether I help you in session, through my new book, or by teaching you skills of aura reading and skilled empathy, I look forward to being of service to you when I return to Japan this summer.  Please bring friends along with you to the introduction I'll be giving on Friday, June 23. I'd love to meet you... your face and your aura.