Ingrid's Testimonal

Dear don Luis,

Since 2003 when I met you for the first time, I have been on a journey of re-discovering the “real me”. It has not always been easy. However, being confronted with my own judgments, projections, fears, old processes and other limited patterns, has brought me to a new place. A place of authenticity, internal freedom and, most importantly, it is teaching me what unconditional love is.

I am now learning to love myself unconditionally, and as a consequence, I'm more and more capable of loving the beloved's around me in an unconditional way.

I am so grateful (to myself) that I took the challenge and jumped on the boat of this teaching, even when I was scared to death about what I would discover. I'm also very grateful that I choose you to be the teacher on this path. It has never been important which workshop of you I attended. More significant for my learning and growing was the openness with which I came. Because the teaching and the teacher will always reveal the right insights at the right moment. I always got what I was ready to deal with at that time.

I also experienced that the dynamics of the group are quite important. You, as the teacher, have supported me and pushed or challenged me in an unconditional way. You loved me as I was at any time. The same is true for the other participants. Each time I am astonished by the support, the tender care, the shared experiences of those who attend these workshops. It helped me a lot in going through the biggest fears, the deepest sadness and the most painful processes.

 Don Luis, you have helped me - as a woman having lived most of her life from her masculine side (Mind, doing, thinking, talking, judging) – to discover and welcome my female side (Heart, feeling, expressing emotions, loving) and bring it into my conscious experience every day.

 Two weeks ago I was in Ireland with you and there was one sentence that really got to me: “Nothing exists outside of you”.

I had heard this probably a hundred times before but only grasped the true meaning of it during my last stay in Ireland . I suddenly realized that everything – EVERYTHING – outside of me is only a reflection, a projection of what is INSIDE of me. Wow! This means that not only the people I attract around me, but also the circumstances, the challenges, the problems and the successes, the pain and the happiness, are all a projection of what is going on inside of me.

With this insight, I now stalk myself all the time: what do I see or perceive out there and what does that tell me about me? How does it reflect something going on inside of me?

 My journey is far from finished, I know. And it's not the ending point of it that interests or motivates me most – it's the journey itself! Thank you, don Luis, for being there beside me on my life path. I love you, and therefore love me…

 Ingrid Merckx
      Life Coach, facilitator, teacher, and therapist
      Brussels , Belgium
      June 8, 2008