A Seminarian Reflects

I received this from Janet, one of the participants in the Restoring Fun seminar I gave at Esalen a couple weeks ago. I was touched, strengthened in my resolve to continue this work, and found myself compelled to wave it in your virtual face.

Fun has definitely been restored! It has been a little over a week since I have returned from Esalen and I have found that fun, just as we suspected in class, is contagious, infectious and unlike a virus a spontaneous utterance of the joyful heart. When I finally returned to work last Tues, my boss said that I looked radiant, like a school girl were his words. On Wed he said that it was good to have me back, where upon I assured him that even though I would be showing up to work on time and doing my job, my head and my heart were still at Esalen. On Thursday he said that my laughter and fun were infectious and that everyone around me was happy. On Friday when I left work he said whatever Esalen was, I could have time off to go there as often as I wanted, because he was so happy to have the old Janet with her smiles and laughter back. (In all honesty my life for the last year had been very tough and I cried more than I laughed.) I assured him that Esalen was here pointing to my heart, but that I would take him up on the offer and assured him that the Janet he remembered was back to stay.