Hi everybody!

Just a quick eye/mind opener I had today that I really had to giggle about: I work as a music teacher in a high school and my room is up in the roof, so that out of the skylight I can mainly see the sky and clouds and raindrops. But from the bathroom that is one floor lower I can look down to the gorgeous park that is in front of our school.

Today was very hot, sunny weather and a few students were scattered, sitting around the shady trees, some talking to each other, others sitting alone. While I dried my hands I spotted a young couple that was sitting with their legs spread out very close together in a position where their faces were very close to each other, their arms hanging loosely around their elbows. It was very moving, intimate and beautiful to see them there, looking so at peace with each other. A moment later the thought was racing through my mind, “I should sit with somebody like that,” and then came all the reasons why I didn’t have such an intimate relationship with somebody…

While I was in the midst of all this I still was looking at the couple. Suddenly my eyes readjusted to the faraway situation differently and I just had to laugh out loud: there was actually just one person sitting there very relaxed holding a book and looking down on it. And the coat she sat on had just looked like a second person. I couldn’t stop chuckling about how my eyes/mind hand made all of this up given the opportunity and I had nearly fallen into a drama sequence over it. The young woman I was looking at was sitting there very much at peace and I just loved looking at her.

It’s so wonderful to have Instantaneous Transformation. It’s all around me, the beautiful life, nature, great human beings to look at, chat with! Let’s share it! I feel blessed being a part of this all and the community! Thank you Ariel and Shya and all my friends out there!

I’m going to be in NY for the Creativity & Intuition course end of July and would love to see all of you! So please come along if you can! Life is so precious!

Love,
Ursula
St. Gallen, Switzerland

10 days  ago, I thought it would be a nice idea to send my mother some flowers at Mother’s Day, May 9th.  So I went in the Internet to my online flower shop and checked Mother’s Days flower bouquets. They were beautiful, but nothing really touched my heart. So I checked the other offers, and suddenly a stunning bouquet of a dozen large red roses popped up. A beautiful heart shaped tin box with filled chocolate was attached.  It looked just gorgeous! Then my little voice in my head started: “No, this is something for lovers, not for moms.” And then I saw, they are only available tll April 30th. Ok, enough resonable reasons to forget about it. I looked for something else, and one minute later I jumped back to the roses.  They looked so incredible precious and beautiful.

Why not sending them just a week earlier, when she’s not expecting it, what a great surprise.  I just needed to order a card together with the flowers. The Mother’s Day cards were not yet availabe. They only offered: I love you, Happy Birthday, Thank you, Get well, and something without text. My first thought: nothing is fitting. Well, “Thank you” would be ok. But it didn’t feel appropriate, just very reasonable. But what else: There was this very coulourful “I love you” card, with hearts of red roses on it. It was so corny/mawkish, and in English. No one in my family would ever send such a printed emotional card. Then I thought of picking the neutral card and writing something nice on it.

And then my hand clicked on the “I love you” card. My little voice said, perhaps she will laugh about it and feel embarassed (as I did, picking it), but still she will like the flowers and the chocolate. I wrote in the card: Dear Mum, this year Mother’s Day is one week early. I don’t remember the next sentences, it was something about thank you for everything, included my dad and ended with a big hug.  I dated it as delivery on April 30th.

Yesterday my Mum called me in the afternoon. She cried so much, she couldn’t even talk. I said, “Oh my God, Mum, what has happened?!” She cried, “We got your gift, this incredible flowers and your card. Dad and I had not expected something so wonderful. We are sitting here togteher at the table looking at it and are crying, because we are so happy!” I got tears in my eyes and said: “You deserve it.” She whispered, “Thank you, thank you.”  We wished eachother a wonderful week-end.

I feel so rich, and so grateful. My life is fullfilled. I’m so happy that I sent this gift, yes it was a gift between lovers, and I love my Mum and my Dad, and they love me. Transformation turns the world into this magical place.

Thank you so much Ariel & Shya and all of you, for making this possible.

Love,
Stefanie

I just came back from a funeral that I attended with my husband Stephan (thanks for being there for me!).  This was the funeral of a former client of mine whose name is Christine and I want to tell you about her:

Christine was sitting in a wheelchair since she was 5 years old, because of amyotaxia (a kind of spasticity, that goes in “waves” through the body so that you can’t really control your movements) and could only walk with the help of other people.  If she wanted to move by herself, she used to crawl on her bottom.  I had been Christine’s physical therapist for several years, before she moved out of her home in Hamburg 5 years ago into her own apartment in the city (she got a job at the zoological institute), where we found a new therapist for her.

In all the years I worked with her, I never saw her in a bad mood, nor did she ever quarrel about her destiny or feel sorry about her life.  Her parents helped her wherever it was needed, but most of the time, she wanted to do her things by herself.  She was very disciplined, organized and courageous – sometimes she just asked strangers to push her in her wheelchair, when she got tired or overestimated herself a little bit. She rarely thought of herself as number one or about how she was doing; she thought more about how she could make other people happy and give them joy, along with her brilliant smile.

After she moved, we still had contact for quite a while and then only once in a while.  Around half a year ago, I met her mother by accident and she told me that Christine was in intensive care in the hospital with a serious case of pneumonia and I promised to visit her within the next days.

On the day we had arranged the visit, they placed Christine into an artificial coma, and her mother asked me to stay home and said she would keep me updated on Christine’s state of health.  I counted on that, much to my regret, because after that I got so busy in my life (among other things, with feeling sorry for myself, fighting with life and thinking about how I was doing), that I missed taking action myself and asking how Christine was doing.

A few weeks ago it came back to my mind and I resolved to call the family, which I again procrastinated on, because there were always “more important things” to do.

Last week Christine died at the age of 27 and I think today during the funeral, for the first time I really understood what it means to live in the moment, to take life as it is and live it directly with pleasure, joy and awe – Christine knew all of that and lived it.  I’m sooo endlessly thankful to know her and for the great time we had together.

And today I deeply admire her parents for how much gratefulness they had for all the people who had been with Christine during her lifetime.

I want to say to Christine “ Hey – show them up there who you are, like you showed me!” and somehow I have the feeling that after her long illness, not only did Christine finally find her peace, so did I!! THANK YOU, Christine – you will forever have a special place in my heart!!!

And thanks to you all, my friends, that you are there for me and that I can share with you what I learned today.

I wish all of you and your families a wonderful advent season and if there is somebody you are thinking of, or you haven’t seen/spoken to in a while – just call them!

With love deep from my heart,

Yours, Maiken

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This has been such a spiritual day.  I’ve been saying YES to everything, including many incomplete tasks in my apartment, and in my personal life and in my professional life.

This morning my father and his girlfriend Karen visited me to drop off a piece of furniture he wanted to give me.  What a blessing my father is!  Always giving!  Always caring about me.  He doesn’t owe me anything, yet he has all this patience and support for me.

We all had breakfast together in Astoria, and I felt closer with both of them than ever before.  In the past I’d had realizations about the way I would treat him like I was a kid, not being supportive to him, draining his energy, etc.  In the last two years, my relationship with my father has transformed big time, but today was actually a higher level of maturity and cooperation.

It was so nice to be there with my father today, supporting him, and sharing an experience with him.  He is such a giving, gentle being.  I so respect and look up to how brilliant and giving he is. AND how creative and original he is!

After he left, I completely transformed my entire apartment, until I was walking around in a glowing, magical, silent, colorful home.  Cleaned everything, put the air conditioner away, painted a door, washed a stucco ceiling, washed the floors, hung some artwork, changed the messy wiring and cables for my computer and TV (which required a great trip to Radio Shack!).

Just now I completed some creative writing for work that I was sure I wouldn’t be able to complete.  It was a challenging few things to write for a large website I’m working on.  I am so proud of the quality of what I just turned in.

Thank you Ariel and Shya, for that last weekend workshop, which was one of the most important events of my life. And thank you all for inspiring me so many times to re-motivate myself.

Love,
Gio

- Queens, New York

I have a short story I would like to share about awareness.

I have two small hand made quilts my step grandmother made and presented to my daughters when they were born. One of my daughters will be 15 years old next week and so will her quilt.

I keep these small quilts draped across the back of our futon in our living room. We use them almost everyday. Well, this Sunday morning I was folding one of them and felt a tiny point pricking my finger. Aha! I thought, this must be a straight pin accidentally sewn into the quilt. I got some scissors, snipped a tiny whole, fished the needle out by its pearl top, draped the quilt in its proper place and dropped the straight pin into the trash bin. Just mater of fact like that. No judgment, no story, no drama.

Then I thought—WOW! that’s just like us!! We carry stuff around that hurts us or could hurt us without knowing for years, maybe 15 years, and one day, in an instant, we see it! And that’s that. We drop that needle in the trash bin.

I love when the universe provides such crystal clear illustrations of  principles I need operating in my life. Thank you, Ariel, Shya and the Transformation Community for sharing yourselves with me.

- Dimitrea, Brooklyn, NY

I spent some lovely days of vacation in South Germany at the foothills of the Alps with my father, a 68-year-old wonderful, humorous, caring man. We did some tours, had health treatments, lovely food, I went horseback riding twice and we had lot of fun. I bought a nice pair of hiking shoes that made walking much more fun and easy. I liked them so much that one day I put them on just to walk across to the butcher’s

I have been sharing transformation with my father since my first workshop with Ariel & Shya in spring 2007. He loves what has happened for me since then and supports me very much. I always invite him to join in. In these days I spent with him, I saw a lot of my behaviors, fears and worries in him. We shared about it and he told me about the worries of the generation of his parents in general but also concerning him who fell often ill as a child. I felt so much love and compassion for him, for all of them, and could also look at myself with love, not with judgments.

When we started he was worried because it was a 5-hour drive, something he hadn’t done for a long time. I supported him and when we arrived he was so proud, very relaxed and self-assured. In fact, in the following days he drove through the small, curved roads like a “native,” as if he had never done anything else in his life. And during the day, whenever I just listened to him, communicating something that was worrying him, I was really inspired and the solution was right at hand. It was amazing. He also shared with me lovely episodes of his life with my mother (who died 8 years ago) that really touched me.

One morning we wanted to go up on a mountain by a cable railway, something he had never done before. While going up, we shared about our thoughts that we had beforehand. He was worried whether he would have the courage to take the cable railway. My thought was, “well the sky is overcast, it’s not worth going there”. We both identified our thoughts as fear. And while driving up the mountain, through a lovely landscape, feeling the fresh wind on our skin, we smiled at each other, happy that we both went for what we really wanted…

Thank you, Ariel & Shya, and everybody in our wonderful community for the gift of transformation that enables me to live these really touching, intimate moments.

With much love,
Karin

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