You need the following three items for your first session:
-A Worksheet : Please come to every session with a Worksheet filled out.
Other great resources for The Work:
Read examples of The Work in my own life on my blog
Download and read Byron Katie’s Little Book (Excerpts from “Loving What Is”) here.
Learn more about The Work of Byron Katie by visiting her website: www.thework.com
or reading her blog: www.byronkatie.com
Learn more about Clarity Coaching Institute here:
www.claritycoachinginstitute.com
Here is a “Self-Facilitation” Worksheet – when you are ready to do The Work on your own!
My Favorite Byron Katie Quotes:
- When you argue with reality, you lose – but only 100% of the time.
- There are only three kinds of business – mine, others’, and God’s. When you leave your own business, you suffer.
- No one can hurt me – that’s my job.
- Would you rather be right or free?
- Who cares if you’re enlightened forever? Can you just get it in this moment, now?
- If you want something to be different than it is, you might as well teach a cat to bark. You can try and try, and in the end the cat will look up at you and say, “Meow.” Wanting something to be different than it is (in this moment) is hopeless.
- Thoughts are just ‘what is’. They appear. They’re innocent. They’re not personal. They’re like the breeze or the leaves on the trees or the raindrops falling. Thoughts arise like that, and we can make friends with them. Would you argue with a raindrop?
Some basic principles of The Work of Byron Katie:
-Mental and emotional suffering (hurt and pain that persist in life) is the result of attaching to thoughts or concepts that oppose reality. (The Work is a way to inquire gently into those thoughts and see things as they actually are.)
-When you argue with reality, you lose. But only 100% of the time.
-There are three types of business in the universe – yours, mine, and God’s. When you are in someone else’s business, you suffer.