Four Questions To Free You From Suffering with Byron Katie

Four Questions To Free You From Suffering | This episode is brought
to you by Primal Kitchen, BiOptimizers, and Cozy Earth Suffering is
part of the human condition. We create our own stories and believe
them, however painful and untrue they may be. But it doesn’t have
to be this way! We can find freedom from emotional, mental, and
physical pain when we take the time to be quiet and ask some simple
yet life-changing questions. I studied Buddhism for a long time and
have always been interested in self-exploration. My guest on
today’s episode, Byron Katie, has created a powerful shortcut to
the process of unpacking and slowing down the mental processes that
cause suffering, and her work has been one of my greatest tools for
personal inquisition and growth.  In 1986, at the bottom of a
ten-year spiral into depression and self-loathing, Byron Katie woke
up one morning in a state of joy. She realized that when she
believed her stressful thoughts, she suffered, but that when she
questioned them, she didn’t suffer, and that this is true for every
human being. Her simple yet powerful process of self-inquiry, which
she calls The Work, consists of four questions and the turnaround,
which is a way of experiencing the opposite of what you believe.
  Byron has been bringing The Work to millions of people for
more than thirty years. Her public events, weekend workshops,
intensives, and nine-day School for The Work have brought freedom
to people all over the world. Her books include the bestselling
Loving What Is, I Need Your Love—Is That True?, A Thousand Names
for Joy, and A Mind at Home with Itself. You can visit thework.com
for more about Byron and to access the resources we talk about in
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our interview:  Byron’s instantaneous insight into how to end
suffering (9:18) The power of questioning what we’re thinking or
believing about any given situation using Byron’s method, The Work
(14:00) Why guilt drives addiction and is born of a victim mindset
(19:12) Asking the question, “Is it true?” as the gateway to free
ourselves of suffering (28:50) How to do The Work (32:17) Creating
peace, sanity, and physical healing in our lives by questioning the
ego (41:48) Using The Work to address fear of the future (44:09)
Sourcing our own happiness by living in the present moment and
waking up to our true nature (52:30) Loving where you are frees you
of judgement and comparison (1:05:46) How we miss our lives when we
live in the past and future (1:16:36) Learn more about The Work of
Byron Katie at https://thework.com/.  Learn more about At Home
with BK at www.athomewithbk.com and check out Byron Katie’s podcast
at http://podcast.thework.com. Access the Judge Your Neighbor
Worksheet here.