Loving What Is Four Questions That Can Change Your Life
Loving What Is Four Questions That Can Change Your Life
Out of nowhere, like a fresh breeze in a marketplace crowded with advice on what to believe, comes Byron Katie and what she calls “The Work.” In the midst of a normal life, Katie became increasingly depressed, and over a ten-year period sank further into rage, despair, and thoughts of suicide. Then one morning, she woke up in a state of absolute joy, filled with the realization of how her own suffering had ended. The freedom of that realization has never left her, and now in Loving What Is you can discover the same freedom through The Work.
The Work is simply four questions that, when applied to a specific problem, enable you to see what is troubling you in an entirely different light. As Katie says, “It’s not the problem that causes our suffering; it’s our thinking about the problem.” Contrary to popular belief, trying to let go of a painful thought never works; instead, once we have done The Work, the thought lets go of us. At that point, we can truly love what is, just as it is.
Loving What Is will show you step-by-step, through clear and vivid examples, exactly how to use this revolutionary process for yourself. You’ll see people do The Work with Katie on a broad range of human problems, from a wife ready to leave her husband because he wants more sex, to a Manhattan worker paralyzed by fear of terrorism, to a woman suffering over a death in her family. Many people have discovered The Work’s power to solve problems; in addition, they say that through The Work they experience a sense of lasting peace and find the clarity and energy to act, even in situations that had previously seemed impossible.
If you continue to do The Work, you may discover, as many people have, that the questioning flows into every aspect of your life, effortlessly undoing the stressful thoughts that keep you from experiencing peace. Loving What Is offers everything you need to learn and live this remarkable process, and to find happiness as what Katie calls “a lover of reality.”
From the Hardcover edition.
User Ratings and Reviews
4 Stars Practical tool for life
Would you like to get to a calmer place? Would you like to completely eliminate the buttons so they can’t get pushed? Would you like to solve the real problems and not the imagined ones? This book has the straightforward tools for that purpose. If you ever have a chance to see her live, please do it. And, the videos on her website are also amazing.
2 Stars boring
This was a poor version of a self help book, written by a novice
just trying to make a buck at someone else’s expense.
3 Stars Loving What is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life
Interesting perspective on loving yourself. It makes sense, but it may be a little difficult for me to ingrain this into my personal set of beliefs.
5 Stars Simple yet highly effective
What’s great about The Work is it’s simple, yet highly effective. Eckhart Tolle talks about “watching” negative trains of thoughts, pain-body. For me, “watching” was the beginning of dis-identifying from thought; but without inquiry, I’d still get overtaken and caught up by thought. That’s when I started the doing the following inquiry questions:
*Does the “me” have any awareness in it’s own right? Separate from the awareness that you are?
*Does the “me” have any substance to it? Is there anything more to it that the content of thought?
*Does the “me” exist in any way other than as thought? Does it exist at all?
*Where does it start and where does it end?
The questions above surely helped; definitely more effective than “watching” alone. But the questions in The Work took inquiry to another level. When asked in the sequence, The Work is extremely powerful. The questions just hit the nail on the head; at the same time there’s a sense of acceptance, openness, and gentleness. You’re not trying to get rid of anything. There’s no resistance at all. The Work opens your eyes to that which is unconscious within you.
Anthony de Mello (author of a great book called “Awareness”) swears by awareness as being a powerful healing factor. And The Work does just that: it brings awareness into the picture. Through awareness, any negativity, even deep-rooted negativity, lets go of you. You don’t even have to do anything, as Eckhart Tolle says. There’s no struggle or strife involved.
I actually had the book for quite some time and brushed it off initially. What prompted me to look into this again was seeing Adyashanti live in San Diego. Some guy told Adyashanti a personal limiting belief of his. Adyashanti responded “Is that true?” The guy said, “You sound like Byron Katie.” The entire audience roared in laughter. From that, I again looked into The Work. I trip out how intitially I brushed it off… Now I feel that The Work is miraculous.
If I were totally identified with thought/mind-activity, I definitely would have brushed The Work off. After all, I still brushed it off even after “watching” thought for a while. But The Work, as I titled this review, is simple yet highly effective. You have to give it a chance. Here’s a tip for people looking into this:
Rather than intending to rid yourself of negativity, have a strong sense of curiousity instead. Become curious of how your thought patterns operate. Simply “watch” and observe thoughts. If a feeling of unease/tightness arises, “watch” that too. Become curious. Accept everything and allow it to be as it is. There is no effort involved, literally. This is the way to go. We’re all conditioned to put struggle and effort into everything. When it comes to inquiry, that is not the case.
4 Stars Important, but it’s only part of the picture.
This is good work. It is essentially a form of cognitive therapy, which makes it clear that emotion follows thought, and that by changing our thoughts, we change our emotions and the way we relate with our world and ourselves.
What’s missing — at least in the first few chapters of the book — is a way to honor the emotions we already have, a mechanism to make it safe to change what we’re feeling, and therefore who we are. Without that element, this can be a scary, even dangerous, process.
Loving What Is Four Questions That Can Change Your Life
Loving What Is Four Questions That Can Change Your Life
Out of nowhere, like a fresh breeze in a marketplace crowded with advice on what to believe, comes Byron Katie and what she calls “The Work.” In the midst of a normal life, Katie became increasingly depressed, and over a ten-year period sank further into rage, despair, and thoughts of suicide. Then one morning, she woke up in a state of absolute joy, filled with the realization of how her own suffering had ended. The freedom of that realization has never left her, and now in Loving What Is you can discover the same freedom through The Work.
The Work is simply four questions that, when applied to a specific problem, enable you to see what is troubling you in an entirely different light. As Katie says, “It’s not the problem that causes our suffering; it’s our thinking about the problem.” Contrary to popular belief, trying to let go of a painful thought never works; instead, once we have done The Work, the thought lets go of us. At that point, we can truly love what is, just as it is.
Loving What Is will show you step-by-step, through clear and vivid examples, exactly how to use this revolutionary process for yourself. You’ll see people do The Work with Katie on a broad range of human problems, from a wife ready to leave her husband because he wants more sex, to a Manhattan worker paralyzed by fear of terrorism, to a woman suffering over a death in her family. Many people have discovered The Work’s power to solve problems; in addition, they say that through The Work they experience a sense of lasting peace and find the clarity and energy to act, even in situations that had previously seemed impossible.
If you continue to do The Work, you may discover, as many people have, that the questioning flows into every aspect of your life, effortlessly undoing the stressful thoughts that keep you from experiencing peace. Loving What Is offers everything you need to learn and live this remarkable process, and to find happiness as what Katie calls “a lover of reality.”
From the Hardcover edition.
User Ratings and Reviews
4 Stars Practical tool for life
Would you like to get to a calmer place? Would you like to completely eliminate the buttons so they can’t get pushed? Would you like to solve the real problems and not the imagined ones? This book has the straightforward tools for that purpose. If you ever have a chance to see her live, please do it. And, the videos on her website are also amazing.
2 Stars boring
This was a poor version of a self help book, written by a novice
just trying to make a buck at someone else’s expense.
3 Stars Loving What is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life
Interesting perspective on loving yourself. It makes sense, but it may be a little difficult for me to ingrain this into my personal set of beliefs.
5 Stars Simple yet highly effective
What’s great about The Work is it’s simple, yet highly effective. Eckhart Tolle talks about “watching” negative trains of thoughts, pain-body. For me, “watching” was the beginning of dis-identifying from thought; but without inquiry, I’d still get overtaken and caught up by thought. That’s when I started the doing the following inquiry questions:
*Does the “me” have any awareness in it’s own right? Separate from the awareness that you are?
*Does the “me” have any substance to it? Is there anything more to it that the content of thought?
*Does the “me” exist in any way other than as thought? Does it exist at all?
*Where does it start and where does it end?
The questions above surely helped; definitely more effective than “watching” alone. But the questions in The Work took inquiry to another level. When asked in the sequence, The Work is extremely powerful. The questions just hit the nail on the head; at the same time there’s a sense of acceptance, openness, and gentleness. You’re not trying to get rid of anything. There’s no resistance at all. The Work opens your eyes to that which is unconscious within you.
Anthony de Mello (author of a great book called “Awareness”) swears by awareness as being a powerful healing factor. And The Work does just that: it brings awareness into the picture. Through awareness, any negativity, even deep-rooted negativity, lets go of you. You don’t even have to do anything, as Eckhart Tolle says. There’s no struggle or strife involved.
I actually had the book for quite some time and brushed it off initially. What prompted me to look into this again was seeing Adyashanti live in San Diego. Some guy told Adyashanti a personal limiting belief of his. Adyashanti responded “Is that true?” The guy said, “You sound like Byron Katie.” The entire audience roared in laughter. From that, I again looked into The Work. I trip out how intitially I brushed it off… Now I feel that The Work is miraculous.
If I were totally identified with thought/mind-activity, I definitely would have brushed The Work off. After all, I still brushed it off even after “watching” thought for a while. But The Work, as I titled this review, is simple yet highly effective. You have to give it a chance. Here’s a tip for people looking into this:
Rather than intending to rid yourself of negativity, have a strong sense of curiousity instead. Become curious of how your thought patterns operate. Simply “watch” and observe thoughts. If a feeling of unease/tightness arises, “watch” that too. Become curious. Accept everything and allow it to be as it is. There is no effort involved, literally. This is the way to go. We’re all conditioned to put struggle and effort into everything. When it comes to inquiry, that is not the case.
4 Stars Important, but it’s only part of the picture.
This is good work. It is essentially a form of cognitive therapy, which makes it clear that emotion follows thought, and that by changing our thoughts, we change our emotions and the way we relate with our world and ourselves.
What’s missing — at least in the first few chapters of the book — is a way to honor the emotions we already have, a mechanism to make it safe to change what we’re feeling, and therefore who we are. Without that element, this can be a scary, even dangerous, process.
A Course in Miracles
“”A Course in Miracles”" is a complete self-study spiritual thought system. As a three-volume curriculum consisting of a “”Text”", “”Workbook for Students”", and “”Manual for Teachers”", it teaches that the way to universal love and peace through forgiving others. The Course thus focuses on the healing of relationships and making them holy.
The “”Text”" presents the theory of the Course and has built into its study the development of the experience of forgiveness that is the Course’s goal for the student.
The “”Workbook for Students”" includes 365 lessons, one for each day of the year. It begins the process of changing the student’s mind and perception, though it is not intended to bring one’s learning to completion.
The “”Manual for Teachers”" is written in question-and-answer form and provides answers to some of the more likely questions a student might ask.
Also included are Supplements to the Course: “”Psychotherapy: Purpose, Process and Practice”" and “”Song of Prayer”"
Disneys The Kid
International superstar Bruce Willis (UNBREAKABLE, THE SIXTH SENSE), along with Lily Tomlin (9 TO 5, TEA WITH MUSSOLINI), Emily Mortimer (SCREAM 3, NOTTING HILL), and newcomer Spencer Breslin star in the hilarious and heartwarming comedy DISNEY’S THE KID. Successful, high-powered Russ Duritz (Willis) has spent all of his incredibly empty life forgetting the child he used to be — until one day, he meets him face-to-face! Thinking this kid is a hallucination, Russ does everything he can to make him go away. But 8-year-old Rusty (Breslin), who’s anything but happy that he grows up to be a loser without real meaning in his life, can’t leave — at least not yet. At once funny and charming, DISNEY’S THE KID is a magical comedy that’s filled with adult-sized laughs.
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars excellent
This movie is great for the whole family.. I love Lily Tomlin in this.. she is hysterical!!If I’m in a “downer” mood I put this in to watch.. brings me right back up!!
5 Stars Great movie
This is a good movie. As any one with Bruce Willis is. Buy it today!
5 Stars The Kid
I used this movie for my adult Sunday School class. It is a great movie with a great message.
5 Stars Bruce Willis and the Kid
The person playing the Kid is an excellent actor and funny. You will love this great heart warming and funny movie with Bruce Willis, guaranteed.
5 Stars I love this movie. It’s about rediscovering yourself, remembering what you really want…
Do you remember your childhood dreams? What did you want to be when you were a child?
In this movie the character meets a kid that helps him remember what he really wanted to be, remind him about human values he has long forgotten in his busy life.
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