Ernest’s Podcasts on The Work of Byron Katie

In this episode of Questions and Answers on The Work, Atul and follow-up on our conversation from the last episode. Among other things, we discuss The Work as a practice, the desire for taking The Work into actions, the concept of the Friendly Universe, and the challenge of how to know that you are still “in the Work” when you are using a more explorative style.

In this episode of Questions and Answers on The Work, I’m in a conversation with Atul about a number of foundational aspects of The Work, including the very meaning and purpose of the process. We talk about how The Work helps us navigate our life journey, about letting go of control, shadow-work, and spiritual bypassing.

In this first episode of Questions and Answers on The Work, I talk to Keitheley and together, we cover a lot of specific and technical ground around doing The Work. We discuss the difference between holding The Work as a procedure or as a space of exploration, what it means to have an agenda as facilitator, living turnarounds, underlying beliefs and the importance of taking our time when we do The Work.

The Podcasts on The Work of Byron Katie have grown into a book! It's called "How to End the Stories that Screw Up Your Life - A Step-By-Step Guide to the Amazing Process of Self-Inquiry" and is available as an audiobook on Audible and a paperback and an eBook on Amazon. These are the first couple of chapters of the audiobook version. Read more on www.theartofbeinghuman.com/endthestories

In this episode we get started on the "People Doing The Work"-series, where you get a chance to listen in as others go through the process. Since this may be the first time your hear anyone actually doing The Work - or the first time your hear anyone other than Byron Katie do it - we will start out with a straight-forward recording of a single one-liner being worked as part of the process of going through a “Judge-Your-Neighbor Worksheet”. And what I will invite you to notice, is the meditative quality of the client's work - how she is sinking into the questions and allowing the answers to arise by themselves.

In the fourth and final episode of the "How To Do The Work"-series, we follow up on the turnarounds and I present you with a collection of subquestions to help you dive deeper into question 3: "How do you react, what happens when you believe that thought?". I also offer a facilitation guide to print out and support you through the entire process and give you a few final tips and tricks to get you good to go. Please note: You are advised to listen to the podcasts in posting order, and for this podcast, you are invited to print out and bring the Facilitation Guide that is posted on the resources page of my website: www.theartofbeinghuman.dk.

In this third episode of the "How To Do The Work"-series, we continue to the third part of The Work - the turnarounds. You learn how to identify the correct turnarounds for your oneliners and how to find your examples for each of them. And I invite you to try them out on the Judge-Your-Neighbor-Worksheet, you worked with in the previous session. Please note: You are advised to listen to the podcasts in posting order, and for this podcast, you are invited to bring a filled out Judge-Your-Neighbor-Worksheet.

In this second episode of the "How To Do The Work"-series, we continue to the second part of The Work - asking the four questions. In this episode I take you through the four questions and show you how to apply them to the Judge-Your-Neighbor-Worksheet, you filled out in the previous session. Please note: You are advised to listen to the podcasts in posting order, and for this podcast, you are invited to bring a filled out Judge-Your-Neighbor-Worksheet.

In this episode of the "People Doing The Work"-series, we look at a facilitation where the client hasn't filled in a worksheet in advance. Instead, the client and the facilitatior simply dive in, searching for the underlying beliefs that are causing the client's distress and working them as they show up.

This episode is a guided session, supporting you in filling out a Judge-Your-Neighbor-Worksheet. It is intended as a supplement to episode 1 in the "How To Do The Work"-series: Identifying Your Thoughts.

The Podcasts on The Work of Byron Katie continues with the "How To Do The Work"-series. This series provides specific instructions on how to develop and improve your own practice of The Work. In this, first episode, we focus on the first part of any Work session: How to identify your thoughts and you are introduced to the Judge-Your-Neighbor-Worksheet. Please note, that you are adviced to listen to the podcasts in their posting order.

The fourth episode of the "Why The Work Works"-series takes the final step all the way to the work itself and explains how the process of The Work uses the aspects we have covered in episode 1-3 to impact our nervous system and change our Map of Reality.

The third episode of the "Why The Work Works"-series explains how we use our simulator (episode 2) and our Map of Reality (episode 1) to create meaning out of our experiences. This creation of meaning is the true cause of any problems we experience, and if we want to change our emotional responses and break out of our limiting beliefs, it is our Map of Reality we need to work on. This is what The Work helps us do.

The second episode of the "Why The Work Works"-series is about the most important thing there is to say about anything. What is that, you ask? Simply this: there is only now. It is seductively simple, but it is the most important thing there is to say about anything because it means, that anything that isn't now, isn't real. It's a simulation in your mind. And realizing that has enormous consequences. (Note: You are adviced to listen to the podcasts in the order they are posted)

The Podcasts on The Work of Byron Katie open with the "Why The Work Works"-series. This series provides a theoretical understanding of how the mind works as a foundation for understanding why The Work is so effective. This first episode is about The Map of Reality - the subjective filter of interpretation that exists between us and the world, which is completely necessary for us to function, but which is also the true cause of all of our problems.