Evelyn in Switzerland       (About the telephone conference groups)

Each week I am impressed anew with the magic of coming together via telephone: it would seem to be a minimal sort of contact but my personal experience tells me something else. What I find is the presence of others on the phone does really create a space for me to experience my world more deeply.

Being mostly in silence on the phone might seem strange but there's actually a lot that gets transmitted. I feel the other group members very near and because most of them are half a world away from me, it's touchingly close.

I know that alone it's really difficult to let myself fully be in my sadness or fear or anger, but in shared witnessing, my nervous system knows exactly how and where to go into the experience and transform these states into pure energy, presence and gratitude. From a troubled and resistant inner state at the start, I often move quickly into a grounded experience of whatever is there in the moment, then into the silence that holds all states, which is so much bigger than the personal that emotions seem very minor and unimportant by comparison.

Week after week, my experience ends in deep peace and gratitude for this world wide community.