me and The Work

I have loved questions all my life. I love to ask them and to answer them.
I have been questioning authority and the world around me. I have been trying to find meaning and purpose.

In The Work, with the four questions and the turnaround, I found a way back home to me, to Source, to awareness, to consciousness.
With The Work I have a tool to question myself, my dearly held beliefs, who I think I am and my identity.
My pain and suffering, my concepts, strategies, evaluations of experiences, nothing escapes  inquiry.
I ask myself who am I if I am not believing my thoughts. Who am I really when I know that thoughts are like clouds simply coming and going? I can observe them and not do anything about them.
Through this process I came to learn the difference between thinking a thought and believing a thought. When I believe a thought, I feel stress or pain. When I inquire to find my truth, I experience freedom and peace. And who is the thinker anyway?    
Whatever I see or judge in the other is a mirror of myself.

Albert Einstein has been credited with saying:
"I think the most important question facing humanity is, 'Is the universe a friendly place?' This is the first and most basic question all people must answer for themselves.”

Through The Work I have found, that yes, more often than not, the universe is friendly. I noticed that situations I perceived and judged as negative turned out to be blessings.
My experiences with The Work are subtle. I perceive steady changes. It has become a constant companion in my life. Inquiry is like breathing, happening automatically, involuntarily.
I can hardly find fault outside of me anymore. I am left with self judgement, and being hard on myself is slowly vanishing, too.
The “I” steps back to become more and more the observer of life unfolding. At the end questions even dissolve. I do not need to know or understand. The universe just is.
I have become more open, lighter, joyful, more loving of what is. Laughter is with me.

My life has included teaching astrology, past life regression, shamanic work, meditation, body work, expressive art therapy. In the academic world I got a MA in Sociology and a PhD in Philosophy.
Since questions have been my passion, no wonder that I have been loving The Work and using it exclusively since 1999.

What I had been looking for all along I found in The Work, sitting with the simple yet powerful 4 questions and the turnaround - the direct route home.

one friendly universe
lava mechthild ewersmeyer, facilitator and mentor    
505.820.0914      santa fe, new mexico    lavaew@gmail.com