Pioneered by Byron Katie, Author of ‘Loving What Is, I Need your Love and A Thousand Names for Joy’, ‘The Work’ has been described as one of the most powerful methods ever devised to end human suffering. It is simple, radical and life changing.
The Work of Byron Katie is a revolutionary process of self enquiry that is helping hundreds of thousands of people around the world solve their problems, from everyday conflicts and stressful thoughts to lifelong traumas.
After 10 year of suffering depression, Byron realised that what had been causing her depression was not the world around her, but the beliefs she had about it. Only when we give up our story of ‘What should be’ can we experience the perfection of ‘What is’. The Work offers us four simple questions to enquire into the mind and free ourselves from stressful thoughts.
The four Questions and turn it around:
1. Is it true?
2. Can you absolutely know that it’s true?
3. How do you react when you think that thought?
4. Who would you be without the thought?
5. Turn the belief around
Once you question the thought, you don’t let go of it, it lets go of you and wisdom replaces it.
Until there is peace within you , there is no peace in the world
Through the simple process of enquiry you loose your entire world,
the world as we understood it. Each time we enquire reality becomes kinder.Who would you be without your story?
Sadness is always a sign that you are believing a stressful thought that isn’t true for you. Sadness is the war with what is. It’s a tantrum. You are invited through the Work to step out of the suffering and into the sunlight of reality. When you don’t believe your thoughts sadness can’t exist. Byron says, “I love what I believe and I am never tempted to believe it”, it’s simply a projection of our own thinking.
Byron said that if she could make a sticker that represented her life, it would be CTRL-ALT-DELETE, She invites you to delete you own beautiful self and believes it’s the only place where we can meet and she calls it LOVE.
“When you become a lover of what is, the war is over. Since I don’t believe my thoughts, I have no hopes, no fears no expectations. I am a woman without a future. I live in the open spacewhere everything comes to me. Reality is a very fine place to be. And guess what any time you question your mind, you discover that’s where you are, too.”
Byron Kayie
Judge your neighbour
write it down ask four questions
and turn it
around.
