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Day 3: Can you absolutely know that it’s true?
Two days ago I started this 21-day challenge of doing The Work of Byron Katie by filling out the Judge Your Neighbor worksheet. Yesterday I asked the first of the four questions. Today I’m asking the...
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Day 5: What happens when you believe that thought?
Yesterday was a very busy day. I didn’t have an opportunity to work another question, but I did notice that I was applying The Work. In case you hadn’t noticed, there’s a presidential election coming...
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Day 9 of The Work: Who would you be without the thought?
The fourth question to ask when you are doing inquiry (i.e., “The Work” of Byron Katie) about a situation that is emotionally painful is this: Who would I be without the thought? Applying this question...
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New blog milestones and best massage ever given
Sometime this weekend when I wasn’t looking, my blog passed 60,000 views! This is a labor of love, and I can’t measure my “success” in monetary terms. Blog views, likes, and comments are my currency....
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Day 10 of Byron Katie’s inquiry process: turn it around to myself
I’ve asked the four questions about my judgment “my father didn’t care about me”. I continue the inquiry process about this painful thought, which I’ve already established isn’t true, by turning it...
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Day 12 of Byron Katie’s inquiry: turning it around to the other
Today I turn my judgment “My father didn’t care about me” around to the other. This is the second turnaround, following the four questions of Byron Katie’s inquiry process called The Work. This...
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Day 13 of The Work: turning it around to the opposite
Today in The Work, I turn my statement “my father didn’t care about me” around to the opposite: My father did care about me. I need to think of three specific examples of how that could be true. He...
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Day 17 of the Work: turning around question 6
There is one last turnaround in Byron Katie’s The Work. This one is sometimes overlooked. Back on Day 1, I filled out the Judge Your Neighbor worksheet. Question 6 asks: What is it in or about this...
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Day 19 of The Work: Do you believe life should be free from pain?
This Tricycle Daily Dharma quotation reinforces Byron Katie’s work: We suffer because we marry our instinctive aversion to pain to the deep-seated belief that life should be free from pain. In...
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Lessons from the 21-day Byron Katie challenge
The challenge to focus on The Work of Byron Katie for 21 days was worthwhile. I examined a painful thought that has been a thread running through my life, that my father didn’t care about me. I...
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