A Liber student writes

Hello Thomas,

You don't know me, but I have been doing the Liber exercises from your site for a few months now. Since I am having positive results with them, I wanted to give you a heads up about this.

My name is Elke and I live in Groningen. I have been practicing Zen meditations for several years and attend a weekly yoga group. From a good friend I heard about Liber. I was not very interested. I responded with: "I already do enough, I don't need anything else. And actually it is quite crazy and contrary to make so much effort to become calmer.

But...my interest was piqued and so I started looking on the Liber Coaching site. At first with resistance and occasionally, trying wise so to speak, I started. I sit relaxed on the couch. No difficult mandatory sitting postures. No searching for rest (often far to be found), but just 10 minutes of writing down everything, words, sentences, feelings, thoughts, sounds, in short whatever arises in me during my writing. This focuses my tense attention. Gives focus so to speak.

In the beginning I listened to your text on the site. Now I use the alarm clock that I also use in Zen. What strikes me so much since I started doing this is that I actually disconnect myself from the grinding thoughts. Okay, Zen and yoga do that too, but these exercises give me an extra dimension. Namely, the Nothingness. Not knowing, just realizing every time, that I don't know. And that gives me a lot of peace.

That I don't coincide with my thoughts. It has been said to me so many times in all kinds of trainings but thanks to Liber I now understand it. Because now I also feel it . I am learning that I can choose. That I am more than those grinding thoughts. Daily "sitting" is much easier for me because of this.

I said to Jan, "Thank you for pointing me to Liber. I don't need anything but to be very close to myself. Writing relaxed on my bench and reading that to myself. No need, no compulsion'. And then I thought 'well, I can thank Jan, but then I'll thank Thomas too, it seems logical to me'.

So hereby: thank you very much!

EVERY