The Work of Byron Katie

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The Work of Byron Katie is a way of identifying and questioning the thoughts that cause all the fear, violence, and suffering in the world. Experience the happiness of undoing those thoughts through The Work, allowing your mind to return to its true, awakened, peaceful, creative nature.

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Byron Katie Live from Spiri...

02.13.2020

This episode is a continuation from last week, recorded live from in Woodacre, California. It concludes this three-part series. To begin, a woman reads her Judge-Your-Neighbor Worksheet to Byron Katie. "I am angry with mom because she didn't love me." ...

The Work of Byron Katie episodes:

02.13.2020 Byron Katie Live from Spirit Rock Meditation Center, Episode Three This episode is a continuation from last week, recorded live from in Woodacre, California. It concludes this three-part series. To begin, a woman reads her Judge-Your-Neighbor Worksheet to Byron Katie. "I am angry with mom because she didn't love me." ...
02.04.2020 Byron Katie Live from Spirit Rock Meditation Center, Episode Two This episode of The Work of Byron Katie podcast is a continuation from last week's episode, recorded live from Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, California. To begin, participants at the event ask questions following an inquiry between Byron Katie ...
01.23.2020 Byron Katie Live from Spirit Rock Meditation Center, Episode One This episode featuring The Work was recorded at an event with Byron Katie at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, CA. In this episode, we hear Byron Katie's opening remarks and an introduction to her "I complain about" exercise. In ...
10.18.2019 He is Selfish? A woman feeling lost and alone after the break up of her ten year marriage looks at her thoughts about her ex-husband's selfishness, betrayal, and finding happiness with someone else. Watch as she discovers something quite beautiful unfold as she ...
05.08.2019 The Trauma Therapist Podcast with Byron Katie Byron Katie's level of insight, self-awareness and questioning is precisely what's required of the coaches and mentors and therapists who work with individuals who've been impacted by trauma. In 1986, at the bottom of a ten-year spiral into depression, rage, ...
02.20.2019 My Father Doesn't Remember What He Did to Me Byron Katie guides a 50 year old woman in doing The Work on a situation with her father that occurred when she was 17. This was recorded live during an At Home with Byron Katie event at the Center for ...
01.31.2019 How to Hack the Voice in Your Head: Dave Asprey and Byron Katie Dave Asprey of the Bulletproof Executive, who has used The Work, takes a deep dive with Byron Katie into the process of clearing the mind. "You experienced a 10-year spiral into depression," Dave says. "What got you to this state?" ...
01.10.2019 Luke Storey of the "Life Stylist" podcast interviews Byron Katie Luke begins: "Katie, it's clear that you don't need me to promote your work; I'm small relative to the millions of people you've reached. But something I've noticed about you over the years is that you just tirelessly, happily, and ...
12.18.2018 How to Have an Intimate Relationship A husband feels that his privacy is being violated when he finds his wife looking through his texts. During a live event with Byron Katie, his wife reads each of The Work's four questions to him and waits for his ...
10.30.2018 How to be Awake to the Dream Byron Katie discusses the innate power of The Work with Achim Fassbender of SimplYoga, Houston. "How are you doing with inquiry?" Katie asks. "I don't know what holds me back from really going in to do my Work on abandonment ...
10.16.2018 I'm Upset with Supporters of this Administration A man at the 6 September LIVE--At Home with Byron Katie event reads his stressful thought to Byron Katie and the audience. "I am angry and disgusted with those who support the current administration." This thought usually occurs to him ...
07.03.2018 The Morning Walk: An Invitation to Freedom Byron Katie invites you to this walk, here with your eyes closed, or as you walk in the world. It's a silent meditation. It's about noticing. "It's so lovely to just walk and not know," Katie says, "and let the ...
06.26.2018 How to See People for Who They Really Are Susan Piver of the Daily Dharma Gathering interviews Byron Katie and Stephen Mitchell. "As a busy Buddhist, it's a delight to feel the cohesion between my Buddhist studies and The Work," Susan says. "It feels like there's no difference. And ...
06.20.2018 How to be Safe in the Abyss Iñaki describes to Byron Katie how he becomes fearful when he understands that thoughts create his world. "Walking down the street," Iñaki says, "I understood that my thoughts create the world I experience. Then it felt like an abyss was ...
06.12.2018 Is it Crazy to be Fearful? Aaron Alexander of Align Podcast spends an hour with Byron Katie. As a result of feeling unsafe, insecure, and alone, Aaron has developed a strong social media presence to create support, network, and community for these issues. "When people are ...
06.05.2018 How to Have a Clear Mind and Healthy Body Marcela from Canada asks Byron Katie, "If a body is just a projection of mind, do we still need to take care of it?" "Absolutely," Katie says. "Cause and effect. If I don't eat, the body dies. That is the ...
05.29.2018 Forgiveness Is Not What You Think Byron Katie and Armin Rott of Germany talk about how forgiveness really happens through the meditative process of The Work. This interview was part of the first German online Forgiveness Conference in 2017. "Forgiveness," Katie says, "is knowing that what ...
05.22.2018 How to Find Peace After Another School Shooting Jo-Jo from Hercules, California asks, "What if the Santa Barbara shooter had had the chance to do inquiry, to challenge the thoughts that led him to kill people? Perhaps he wouldn't have done what he did." "If I have no ...
05.14.2018 Discussion of "A Mind at Home with Itself" with Byron Katie, Stephen Mitchell, and John Tarrant In this fascinating discussion between Byron Katie, John Tarrant, and Stephen Mitchell, the three take a deep dive into similarities between The Work and Buddhism, and how these were woven into "A Mind at Home with Itself." John begins, "In ...
05.09.2018 How to Step Out of the Dream and Into Your Life Tori from France says, "I'm upset because I'm too young to have children" and "I want to accept what's going on." She recalls a moment when she was younger, sitting alone in her studio. This is the situation she will ...
05.01.2018 How to Find a Home in Your Peace of Mind Byron Katie does The Work via Skype with a woman from Virginia who struggles with her belief that "God should help me pay the rent." "Notice what happens when you believe this thought," Katie says. "I get very angry," says ...
04.24.2018 How Do You Know When It's Time to Make Changes? A woman from Denmark asks, "How do you know when it's time to make changes? You get to love everything as it is, but still, Katie, you make changes, for instance, you left Paul, your ex-husband. So I'm confused, because ...
04.17.2018 Do You Really Need a Partner to be Happy? A young woman does The Work at the New Year's Mental Cleanse in Los Angeles. She is stuck on the belief "I need a partner to be happy." With Byron Katie's help, she questions this belief and the many thoughts ...
04.09.2018 Filling in a Worksheet as a Meditation Byron Katie guides you through meditation on the Judge-Your-Neighbor Worksheet. First she helps you recall a specific situation when you were upset with someone. "Find a situation when you were frustrated, angry, or hurt with someone. Get in touch with ...
04.03.2018 How to Meet the Ego with Understanding Byron Katie talks with a woman from Serbia who asks, "Do we all have ego?" "What is an ego to you?" Katie says. "To me, the I that believes is the ego: the you that you believe to be you, ...
03.29.2018 How to Have a Loving Relationship with Your Mom A woman from New Orleans struggles with her mother's decision to be friends with a man who has served prison time for rape and who assaulted her when she was a child. Her mother wants to spend time with him ...
03.22.2018 How to Find Unconditional Love in Your Life Byron Katie speaks with a woman over Skype whose eldest son died of AIDS 18 years ago. Now she's dealing with her daughter's mental illness. She wakes up thinking, "I'll never see her again." Katie begins by asking her, "Is ...
03.06.2018 How to Be Grateful for the Opportunity to be Honest A woman from the Netherlands asks Byron Katie, "How do I recognize manipulation?" "Just notice," Katie says. "Any time you're defensive, you're manipulating. It's an attempt to hold an identity for yourself--an identity you want us to believe you are. ...
02.27.2018 How to Listen Without Fear During an event at the Center for The Work in Ojai, CA, a woman questions what she believes about her daughter. One of her statements is "She doesn't tell me about her life." "How do you react when you believe ...
02.20.2018 Do You Need to be Proactive in Life? A man says, "I know that things are the way they are, but shouldn't I take action to change my life?" "Things are the way I believe them to be," Katie says. "Without inquiry, I'm stuck with that. So I'm ...
02.13.2018 The Solution to the Problem is You Roger Nairn of "The Solution Podcast" interviews Byron Katie. He begins by asking, "What was it that you saw in the world that needed a solution?" "My life was filled with depression, and I didn't have an answer," Katie says. ...
02.07.2018 Your Sobriety Will Make Me Happy A therapist at the Wisdom 2.0 event does The Work with Byron Katie on her belief "She won't stop drinking." "'She won't stop drinking'--can you absolutely know that it's true?" Katie asks. "The answer is a simple yes or no. ...
01.27.2018 No One Can Wrong Me At the Wisdom 2.0 conference in San Francisco, a woman from the audience says she was verbally attacked and blamed by her classroom teacher. Byron Katie guides her through The Work, beginning with the thought "My teacher is blaming me." ...
01.16.2018 No One Can Hurt Me, That's My Job Byron Katie expands on the statement "No one can hurt me; that's my job" for an audience member at the Spirit Rock Meditation Center. The man, the son of a Holocaust survivor, questions how this viewpoint could apply to victims ...
12.21.2017 Stanley Didn't Have to Die An audience member is angry at a loved one who died. She believes that "Stanley didn’t have to die." Sensing him sitting at the breakfast table with her, she wrestles with feelings of blame such as "He shouldn't be okay ...
11.25.2017 Awakening to Joy--Interview with Byron Katie and Stephen Mitchell In this in-depth conversation with Jonathan Fields of goodlifeproject.com, Byron Katie is joined by her husband, Stephen Mitchell. Together they explore her journey and dive into their newest collaboration, "A Mind at Home with Itself", which is based on one ...
11.21.2017 Podcast: Mind Body Green interview Jason Wachob, founder of mindbodygreen.com, interviews Byron Katie about her system of self-inquiry known as The Work, which helps people to tell the difference between what they believe about reality and reality itself. JASON: Katie cuts through the bullshit pretty ...
10.24.2017 I Had An Abortion When I Didn't Want To A woman resents her husband because she feels he pressured her into having an abortion. BK: Get still. "You didn't want to have an abortion"--is it true? Woman: I only have yes or no? BK: That's it. Woman: I want ...
10.17.2017 Interview—A Mind at Home with Itself—Byron Katie and Stephen Mitchell Lisa Natoli interviews Byron Katie and Stephen Mitchell about their newly released book, "A Mind at Home with Itself." The book is structured around The Diamond Sutra, a Buddhist text whose main point is generosity. "The more you realize that ...
10.03.2017 The Meat Industry is the Largest, Most Accepted Form of Violence in the World Today At the 5-day silent retreat in Engelberg, Switzerland ("Being with Byron Katie") a Dutch woman questions her beliefs about the meat industry. The situation is that she's watching an undercover video made at a slaughterhouse in Belgium. As she watches, ...
09.12.2017 How to be Successful Vanessa Jane Patrick of the "Limitless Potential" podcast interviews Byron Katie. Katie describes her experience of waking up to reality. Vanessa then asks Katie about identity. Vanessa: If we don't identify with our thoughts, then what is our identity? BK: ...
09.05.2017 How to Work with Trauma—The Work of Byron Katie in Zurich—part 2 A man does The Work onstage with Byron Katie during her 2017 Zurich event. In English with German translation. The first statement on his Judge-Your-Neighbor Worksheet is "I am saddened by my father because he beat and abused me." BK: ...
08.30.2017 How to Listen to Your Partner—The Work of Byron Katie in Zurich-part 1 A husband and wife do The Work with Byron Katie during her 2017 Zurich event. (In English with German translation.) Katie asks the husband to look his wife in the eyes and read from the Judge-Your-Neighbor Worksheet he has written ...
08.08.2017 Elise is Ignoring Me Byron Katie does The Work with a French man who believes that his girlfriend is ignoring him. His concept is "I'm angry with Elise because she's ignoring me." He explains that she's passionately interested in another man. Man: The situation ...
08.01.2017 My Sister Betrayed Me—The Work of Byron Katie in Paris English with French translation. A French woman does The Work on a situation with her sister that occurred thirty years ago. The woman had just opened her first bank account and was already in the red. Sitting at the dinner ...
07.26.2017 No Teacher is Necessary—Byron Katie Interview with Giovanna Rossi Byron Katie is interviewed on "The Well Woman Show" with Giovanna Rossi. Giovanna: I want to start with a quote from Loving What Is. "No teacher is ever necessary. You are the teacher you've been waiting for." What do you ...
07.05.2017 I'm Disappointed in Her A man whose baby has died struggles with listening to his wife complain about work. His thoughts are "Her world view is rubbish," "She needs to not care about work," and "How can she think about work when our baby ...
06.20.2017 My Mother Doesn't Want to Know Me A woman does The Work on a moment in time when she was texting with her estranged mother. Her belief at that moment is "My mother doesn't want to know me." BK: We're meditating on "She doesn't want to know ...
06.14.2017 Something Terrible is Going to Happen—Interview: Byron Katie Byron Katie speaks with Deborah Beauvais of the "Love by Intuition" show on 1510 AM WMEX Boston. Katie describes, in detail, her experience of awakening and the beginning of The Work. Then she guides Deborah in doing The Work on ...
05.23.2017 Putting the Mind on Paper Byron Katie describes in detail how to put the mind on paper by meditating on a stressful moment and filling in a Judge-Your-Neighbor Worksheet. Participants at an Ojai event write a Worksheet about a situation with someone they experienced as ...

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