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    The Work is a technique developed by Byron Katie to investigate and question the thoughts and beliefs that cause suffering. It involves identifying a troubling thought, asking four questions about its validity, and turning the thought around to its opposite to gain new perspectives. Katie has used this process to help people overcome painful beliefs and find peace. The four questions are: 1) Is it true? 2) Can you absolutely know that it's true? 3) How do you react when you believe that thought? 4) Who would you be without the thought?

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    The Work is a technique developed by Byron Katie to investigate and question the thoughts and beliefs that cause suffering. It involves identifying a troubling thought, asking four questions about its validity, and turning the thought around to its opposite to gain new perspectives. Katie has used this process to help people overcome painful beliefs and find peace. The four questions are: 1) Is it true? 2) Can you absolutely know that it's true? 3) How do you react when you believe that thought? 4) Who would you be without the thought?

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    The Work is a technique developed by Byron Katie to investigate and question the thoughts and beliefs that cause suffering. It involves identifying a troubling thought, asking four questions about its validity, and turning the thought around to its opposite to gain new perspectives. Katie has used this process to help people overcome painful beliefs and find peace. The four questions are: 1) Is it true? 2) Can you absolutely know that it's true? 3) How do you react when you believe that thought? 4) Who would you be without the thought?

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    The Work Byron Katie

    This summary is adapted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron_Katie.


    The Work can be done on our own or
    with another person.
    First identify a belief or thought
    about something or someone that
    causes anxiety or unhappiness.
    Initially choose something which feels
    important, which annoys or troubles
    you that someone else does or did:
    for example "She never loved me," or
    "He shouldn't expect me to solve his problems."
    Start with other people rather than yourself
    (Use the prompt Judge Your Neighbour
    worksheet). One by one, you then ask, or are
    asked, to reflect in turn on each of the four
    questions listed above. If you are doing the
    Work by yourself, write down your response, and if doing it with another
    person you speak the answers aloud.
    After the four questions, the thought is subject to a turnaround to its opposite, to the self, or to the other.
    For example: "My mother never loved me" turns around to "My mother always loved me," Then the person
    doing The Work sees if they can find ways that
    this new thought is equally true, or more true,
    then the original thought. The turnaround can
    also turn the statement around to yourself: "I
    never loved my mother," or "I never loved me."
    Or add before the original sentence my
    thoughts about eg My thoughts about the
    state of the planet are making me depressed.
    Katie has applied this technique to exploring
    painful beliefs across many topics including
    relationships, parenting, illness, death and trauma; and facilitated the work with audiences in widely varying
    situations, from ordinary people dealing with financial worries to prison inmates and survivors of armed
    conflict. You can see video clips of Katie working with a number of people on www.thework.com and
    download copies of the Judge Your Neighbour Worksheet.
    The Work is based on four questions and a process called a
    "turnaround".
    The four questions are:
    1. Is it true?
    2. Can you absolutely know that it's true?
    3. How do you react when you believe that thought?
    4. Who would you be without the thought?

    . www.thework.com
    Katies summary: "Judge your
    neighbor, write it down. Ask four
    questions, turn it around."

    Quotes from Byron Katie
    "When I argue with reality, I lose. But only 100% of the
    time."
    "I am a lover of what is, not because I am a spiritual
    person, but because it hurts when I argue with reality."
    "Every story is a variation on a single theme: This
    shouldn't be happening. I shouldn't have to experience
    this. God is unjust. Life is unfair."

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