First week over

So this is the end of my first week with the business creation program I started on Monday.
Wow.
I am exhausted. I can really feel that I haven't had a regular working rhythm with getting up early and being busy all day in over a year. My body is adjusting.
It is actually going rather well. I already feel less exhausted and like I could fall asleep in the tramway on my way back home in the evening. I feel more excited about what I am doing.
And I feel on purpose. Aligned with what I am here for.
What a feeling.

This week I have met a lot of people, starting with the trainers/teachers, and members of the program. I feel already like I integrated the group really well. I could feel the skepticism in the room when I first presented my project on Monday.
I am going to start a healing business, I said.
Healing? What the hell is that... I could feel the unsaid questions and doubts.
A girl summarized at some stage: so you are giving massages, but without touching the people? And then she made a face.
Uh-oh... This was not going too well.
I tried to explain more. No it is not quite like massages. It is energy work.
Oh they are not getting it. How do I explain what I do to people who don't believe in any of it by principle, and don't know what it is about at all. Sounds like a challenge I might have to face if I want to start that kind of activity in intellectual, philosophical, sensible France.

Yet within the week everything changed.
I had an opportunity to really listen and share with the one person I felt as a bit of a bully. Little by little I felt like I "earned" my space in the group. By the end of the week everything had turned around. People are more open, ask more questions about what I do and are more positive about it.
I noticed throughout the experience how I have changed around and in groups. I used to hate them and feel very ill at ease. I always preferred one-on-one contact and events. Just easier to deal with the energy flow. And this time being in a group, what's more where I didn't choose the members, is working really well. Hey I changed! I grew! Woohoo!

Ok I think I'll go to bed now, will write more about the week's experiences tomorrow or so.