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068: Byron Katie- The Work

March 24, 2015 1 Comment

Byron Katie The One You Feed

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This week we talk to Byron Katie about questioning our thoughts

Byron Kathleen Mitchell, better known as Byron Katie is an American speaker and author who teaches a method of self-inquiry known as “The Work of Byron Katie” or simply as “The Work”. She is married to the writer and translator Stephen Mitchell. She is the founder of Byron Katie International (BKI), an organization that includes The School for the Work and Turnaround House in Ojai, California.

 In This Interview Katie and I Discuss…

  • The One You Feed parable.
  • The Four Questions of The Work.
  • Interrogating our own thoughts.
  • Using turnarounds to question our thoughts.
  • How the unquestioned life isn’t worth living.
  • Believing what we think can be the cause of all suffering.
  • When we question our thought we can be left with our true nature.
  • How there is nothing wrong with grief.
  • It doesn’t matter if it’s a dream or not when we believe it it’s real.
  • We see the world as we imagine it to be.
  • The benefits of using a formal method to question our own thoughts.
  • Skepticism is useful in doing The Work.
  • Whether all guilt is suffering.
  • How suffering is suffering until it’s not.
  • That compassion replaces frustration when we are clear on our thoughts.
  • The Work is not an exercise in positive thinking.
  • That stress and guilt let us know that we are out of integrity.
  • Honoring our emotions while questioning our thoughts.
  • How suffering is optional.

Byron Katie Links

Byron Katie- The Work Homepage

The Judge Your Neighbor Worksheet

Byron Katie on Twitter

Byron Katie on Facebook

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  1. Kelvin Snaith says

    April 6, 2015 at 7:18 pm

    Hi Eric,

    Really enjoyed the interview with Byron Katie. I thought you may be interested in hearing about Hands Up Therapy as you touched upon the subject of ‘honouring emotions’ and ‘what to do if you are just too way down in emotion’ to be able to do ‘the work’.

    I’m a psychotherapist from UK and have worked with hundreds of people experiencing depression and anxiety disorders over the last few years. As a result of this work, I have developed a really simple process that I’m calling ‘Hands Up Therapy’. Hands Up Therapy helps people to ‘honour’ and diffuse their emotions so that they are then in a better position to be able to identify and question their thoughts. I’ve created a simple interactive app for iPhone/Pad/Pod to teach this process to as many people as possible. It would totally support the process of doing ‘the work’ by Byron Katie.

    I’d love if you would check out my website: http://www.handsuptherapy.com and also take a look at my cool instagram page showing people from all over the world doing Hands Up Therapy. Instagram.com/handsuptherapy

    Yours in peace

    Kelvin

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