Bill discovers that he has stopped treating his job as a tenured professor at one of the world’s largest art schools as his “day job” and his 48-year-old marriage is the best it’s ever been.
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The Kanes suggest that Ellen give herself a break rather than pick on herself for things she has or hasn’t done.
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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.
Dear friends,
I would like to share with you part of my Holidays. My boyfriend and I traveled by train five hours to my parents’ to celebrate Christmas with them. I was very excited to see my parents and my brothers with their families and to celebrate the Holidays with them. During our journey I listened to an episode of Ariel and Shya’s radio show titled: Transforming the Holidays. Days before as I downloaded the radio show on to my ipod I was already very curious what I was going to experience while listening to the show. During the show I often got a smile on my face and was very inspired by what Ariel and Shya said in response to the brilliant questions that were asked. There was one sentence that especially caught my attention: the suggestion to speak and interact with our parents not in their function as parents but as people.
