Hello you lovely People all over the world!

I must say, I’m speechless!!!  Amazing things happened this week.  I just follow them and everything turns out fantastic!!

My good friend Christian and I were listening to Ariel & Shya’s radio show Being Here today. We were sitting in my kitchen and had a lot of fun!!  I absolutely loved the title (Tell It Like It Is: The Power Of Being Clear And Direct) and thought, “Cool let’s try that”.  After the radio show I had a rehearsal with my lovely violin player. It was that kind of rehearsal in which you think, “Why the hell can’t we concentrate on what we’re playing?” come on, let’s stop.  The cool thing about it was this: Usually when I don’t feel good or I’m not concentrating I judge myself and think it has to do with me.  But today I suddenly realized that sometimes its just NOT about me. Silvana (the violin player) was in a very bad mood, I almost saw the fog in her apartment.  She was fighting with her boyfriend that day, who was also in the apartment and it just didn’t feel good to be there.  I also saw that I absolutely don’t play as good as I can when we’re at her place. Sometimes we play at my place and it feels much more free.  She said she feels the same way with her playing.
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Dear Friends,

Hello! I’m in New York, about to attend the Art of Relating this weekend, which I’m very, very excited about!! Meanwhile, I have a little magical moment to share…

When I arrived in New York, I queued up to go through Customs. After taking my fingerprints the guy at the desk started asking me questions: “what is the purpose of your visit?” “how long do you plan to stay in the United States?”…

Now, I must admit, this is a situation (official, stranger, etc..) at when my shyness/holding back would usually kick in and I might lie and say something like: “I’m on vacation.” Because it would just seem easier that way. He would stamp my form, I would take it and no real interaction would be necessary.

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I went to my first Costa Rican Adventure in January 2009 with the Kanes. What a week! It was emotional, cathartic and overall just a great week of my life that I will not soon forget. I must admit, I have an “automatic no” which comes from the “don’t tell me what to do” part of my brain. So, when Costa Rica was first suggested as an option I made the excuse that it was too much money to spend and it was too long of a trip to take, blah blah blah. In the back of my mind I knew I was going to sign up anyway. My beautiful and talented girlfriend Grasie took the initiative and put a Costa Rica 2009 form in my hand and I just filled it out without “thinking” too much about it. It actually felt REALLY GOOD to take the plunge. I had a few moments of “what am I getting myself into?” along the way before the big trip, but those feelings vanished once the wheels were in motion. Read the rest of this entry »

Dear Transformers from all over the world,

Not only did the Costa Rica workshop with Ariel and Shya rock and inspired me to keep going for my life with excellence but also just after a few days of coming back, still glowing, I am now celebrating that as of today I am an American citizen.

And you know what?  I could have not done it alone.

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Hi Friends-

Ariel and Shya often call Transformation the “slack-jawed approach to enlightenment” (where you simply see a mechanical behavior, let your jaw hang and say “huh.”) I had such a great slack-jawed moment the other day and I just have to share it with you all. I had been in a fight with my brother off and on for the last two weeks. It was around the subject of money and not paying bills on time, which historically we have both been very tense and defensive about. We had had a phone call about a particular money situation where I thought I had been very direct and straight forward, but I realized afterwards (with the help of the Kanes and my boyfriend Andy) that I had been condescending and unkind, and was really holding onto being right about my point of view. I apologized to my brother, and things got better between us, but it was still a little shaky and I think there was really a part of me that was not ready to let go of being right.
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Hello to you all!

I got a lovely e-mail from my brother after we had been fighting for quite a few months and I’m so happy about it!

The story went like this:

We work together and in recent months we really fought a lot.  I didn’t see my part in it, I just thought that he was so negative and every meeting we had I wished it would be postponed.

But then while I was walking in a beautiful spring meadow, I realized how much I resented him and the situation and how much I fought with him. The next Day we had a meeting and in the first minute, my resentful pattern was still operating, but I saw it and could let go of it.  We had a smooth meeting and got lots of things done. I was very happy and relieved and a day later we had a really lovely talk about business and personal things. It was really wonderful and even better because after the talk he sent me a lovely email!

I’m still so astonished how much transformation affects my surroundings simply by the way I behave.

Thank you Ariel & Shya & all of you for spreading this gift to the world and me.

I wish you a Wonderful Week and Lots of Love,
Corinne Gabriel
Switzerland

Dear Friends,

Yesterday, I had such an incredible experience sharing Transformation with my son, Milan. I invited him to listen to a podcast with Ariel & Shya, and it was amazing. It had never occurred to me to do so before since the content is primarily for an adult audience, but I was just curious.

I chose the podcast with Stephanie H. called “How to Have It All.” The Kanes presented the possibility that “no two things can occupy the same space at the same time,” that in order to fully have a sense of well being, she could only do one thing at a time. They then went on to discuss different areas of her life. I could really relate.

After it was over, I asked Milan what he thought. I certainly did not expect his answer. He said, “You can’t do two things at the same time, so if I’m playing with Lincoln Logs and I want to go to the museum to see the knights, then I won’t really be playing with my Lincoln Logs because I’ll be thinking about the knights.” (We were about to go the museum shortly after.) It was amazing how he seemed to relate it to his life at 5 years old. He seemed to be able to grasp that when he was doing one thing and thinking about another, it took away from the experience in front of him.

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I had just opened my computer to read some emails I had downloaded. One subject line said: ‘A Toast to Demitra.’  I was so excited – this was a woman who I knew in London, a set designer, who was super vivacious, effervescent – so excited about life!  I immediately thought she was coming to New York, maybe she was getting married or opening a show.  Last October, she took me to a beautiful lounge in London to celebrate my upcoming wedding - we drank wine, talked about friends from school, about the Kane’s workshops on living in the moment – she had planned to come to Hamburg for the next workshop…In astonishment, I read that she had passed away.  As tears splashed down on my keyboard, I wished…I wished it wasn’t true, I wished I had stayed in better touch, I wished I had been a better friend, that I had invited her one more time, wished I could tell her that her smile brightened my life every single solitary time I saw her, wished I had told my husband Rod I loved him before he left today…

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The Kanes often often often talk about ‘letting the universe support you,’  instead of driving ahead toward reaching something that is yet unattained, but known -
as opposed to letting the universe support you into something great that you may not yet know about!!!

So I am walking down the street and run into a pack of literally 40 or so Labrador Retriever puppies, all wearing vests that say Guide Dog Puppy-in-Training.
Now - I have just written a book that involves laboradors, Guide Dogs, and Search and Rescue Dogs - I am very aware of how astonishingly important these dogs are as service dogs both to the blind and to police and fire departments. They are here today looking for volunteers to raise puppies.

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