Dear Transformers,

Amazing stuff happened last weekend

My aunt Anne from Hamburg, Germany threw a birthday brunch party on Sunday. So my parents, who live 2 hours away, took the opportunity to arrange a weekend in Hamburg. On Saturday they visited my boyfriend Jürgen & me, in the evening they watched a Musical in Hamburg and on Sunday we met all together at Anne’s place.

We had a very nice time together. We ate Jürgen’s brilliant homemade plum cake…mmmh, and everything went very smoothly. We talked about our experience of Instantaneous Transformation and my father was especially interested. During our chat Jürgen and I also discovered that we had a different opinion about how to understand one issue of Transformation and had a discussion about it.

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Hi People!

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.

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Dear friends,

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.

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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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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 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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Dear Transformers all over the world,

I want to wish you a transformational New Year and share a little story. In the last conversation I had with Ariel and Shya they asked if I am still sober.  I suddenly realized that I am sober now for more than two years (I had been drinking since I was 16 am now 40) and that I have my driver’s license back for more than a year now (I lost it, guess why?). But the most amazing thing is that it has become so normal to me (not drinking), that in the moment of the question I thought in my head, “why do they ask?”. You can get used to the good things as well as to the “bad” things. Before my sobriety it would have been unimaginable to live a life without alcohol, now I can’t imagine drinking every day, as I did.

Being pulled over by the police, being arrested for the night and loosing my license (as a caterer) for 11 months had a very strong impact. Combined with a great partner (my wife Maiken), great coaching (guess who that was) and a great community (that’s you guys!) it was possible for me to start a new life.

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Dear friends,

I just came back from an amazing Costa Rica workshop with Ariel and Shya and 52 other wonderful folks.

What happened?

I went for it, beyond my story, I spoke up, I went  through my fears and self-doubts,  and I really, really participated.

What did I discover?

My greatness and my power. And that I can either play small or use this immense gift of being me.  And you know, my picture of me was that I am just an ordinary guy, no miracle man.  But I got the nick-name “Mr. Incredible” in the workshop, which really blew me away.  First I saw it as a kind of joke or a little bit ironic.  But then I realized that I could try this suit on.  And as I went for it, I realized that this gift was always in me and that after Ariel and Shya dug it free, I now have the responsibility to use  this treasure:

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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.

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