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How to End Suffering with The Work!

2014-05-26

Part 1

Part 2

Interview with Byron Katie

Byron Katie is the founder of The Work where she teaches people how to end their suffering. As she guides people through the powerful process of inquiry she calls The Work, they find that their stressful beliefs—about life, other people, or themselves— radically shift and their lives are changed forever.

How The Work Began

Byron Katie became severely depressed in her early thirties. For almost a decade she spiraled down into rage, self-loathing, and constant thoughts of suicide; for the last two years she was often unable to leave her bedroom.

Then one morning in February 1986, she experienced a life-changing realization. There are various names for an experience like this. Katie calls it “waking up to reality.”

In that instant, she says,

I discovered that when I believed my thoughts, I suffered, but that when I didn’t believe them, I didn’t suffer, and that this is true for every human being. Freedom is as simple as that. I found that suffering is optional. I found a joy within me that has never disappeared, not for a single moment. That joy is in everyone, always.

She realized that what had been causing her depression was not the world around her, but the beliefs she’d had about the world. Instead of hopelessly trying to change the world to match her thoughts about how it should be, she could question these thoughts and, by meeting reality as it is, experience unimaginable freedom and joy. As a result, a bedridden, suicidal woman was instantly filled with love for everything life brings.

The Work, Katie’s process of self-inquiry, didn’t develop from this experience; she says that it woke up with her, as her, that February morning in 1986. The first people who did The Work reported that it had transformed their lives, and she soon began receiving invitations to teach the process publicly.

Since 1986, she has brought The Work to millions of people across the world, at free public events, in prisons, hospitals, churches, corporations, universities, schools, at weekend workshops, at her amazing nine-day School for The Work, and through the Institute for The Work.

Norwegian subtitles by Camilla Ysland.

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Comments

  1. Tine Våla Sand says

    2014-05-28 at 21:59

    OK, WOW!!!
    For et mot du viser her Jannecke! For en sårbarhet. Jeg respekterer deg stort og bøyer meg smilende for hvordan du åpner deg opp under dette intervjuet. Og takk for det, for dermed får vi innsikt i hvor kraftfullt the work er når man virkelig våger å “gå tilbake” er fullstendig ærlig med en selv og gjenopplever hvilke illusjoner og sannheter man har skapt sin virkelig ut ifra. Dette verktøyet ( the work sheet) skal jeg begynne å anvende selv. Dette er var så interessant. Takk!!!! I lys, Tine

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    • Jannecke says

      2014-06-11 at 19:57

      Tusen takk Tine <3

      Reply

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