Blame leaves you powerless
Thoughts that deprive happiness by Byron KatieByron Katie has one job: to show people how to stop suffering. When Katie appears, lives change. As she guides people through her simple yet powerful process of inquiry, called The Work, they find that their stressful beliefs — about life, other people, or themselves — radically shift. Through this process, Katie gives people the tool to set themselves free.
Thoughts that deprive happiness by Byron KatieByron Katie has one job: to show people how to stop suffering. When Katie appears, lives change. As she guides people through her simple yet powerful process of inquiry, called The Work, they find that their stressful beliefs — about life, other people, or themselves — radically shift. Through this process, Katie gives people the tool to set themselves free.
In 1986, at the bottom of a ten-year spiral into depression, rage, and self-loathing, Katie woke up one morning to a state of constant joy that has never left her. 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.
The Work consists of four questions and the turnarounds, which are a way of experiencing the opposite of what you believe. When you question a thought, you see around it to the choices beyond suffering. One thought at a time, you transform the way yo…
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Blame leaves you powerless
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