Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life | Byron Katie, Stephen Mitchell

Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life | Byron Katie, Stephen Mitchell | This book is a wonderful companion to Eckhart Tolle's

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	Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life Byron Katie, Stephen Mitchell Three Rivers Press, 2003 - 352 pages average customer review:based on 172 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

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.?

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Byron Katie is one of my favorite people

This book helped to change my life in such a positive direction, I've bought it on CD (something I don't normally do because I can't stand audio books) and now, in paperback form. I've checked it out from the library many, many times. It really is *that* good.

I can't say I've actually done The Work on paper. I do it in my head (not something she recommends, I don't think), but it's just as effective for me. You don't have to read this book from cover-to-cover to reap benefits. You don't have to devote hours to doing the introspection. If you want to leave your past in the Past, but practice thinking in ways that improve the Present and Future, this book is just as useful.

I am truly grateful for this book's existence. It's one of the three books I'd take with me if I had to escape my burning house, simply because I sometimes need gentle reminders and it is very good at being just that. I have recommended this book to several friends (and burned copies for them) and they've all felt it helped them.

I hope it benefits you, as well.

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This book is a wonderful companion to Eckhart Tolle's

I have been working to become more present in my life for the last six years, ever since reading "The Power of Now" by Eckhart Tolle. His books, "The Power of Now" and "The New Earth", have led me to powerful insights into how I create pain in my life, but it wasn't until being introduced to Byron Katie's book, "Loving What Is", that the pieces really began to fall into place.

I began doing "the work" three weeks ago, shortly before my daughter went off to college, leaving my husband and me with an empty nest. From the first day on, I was able to challenge my thoughts of grieving and loss and see where I could go from this point on. I have been greatly energized by the process.

I also found it helpful to listen to the audio book in conjunction with the written format. I learned more from hearing Katie do the work than by reading it. [...]

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Helplful~

For me, I found this book helpful. Her 4 step process has stuck with me, and I hear her voice asking those questions in my head.
I feel the book has helped to bring me peace. Hope it may do the same for you.

Loving What IS

Great book, very insightful and a down to earth empty chair aproach to self talk and inner projecting. Makes one accountable for ever more. A tough pill to swallow at first, after proceesing the method and aproach I can see how it will work for anyone that will give it a whirl. I highly recomend this book to all who find themselves looking into this because I believe we are led to what we need and are ready for. Meaning there are reasons for coming in cotact with this work. It must be your time.

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Great Real Life Examples

I get so much more from a self-help book when they have lots of real life examples. You'll find your faulty thoughts in the stories of some of the people interviewed in this book and she'll walk them/you through the way out of those thoughts. How cool.

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