New York: Three Rivers 2002. 321 pp. $15.95 Byron Katie came into her healing wisdom through a path of personal challenges with paranoia, uncontrollable rages, and severe depression over many years. Transcending these problems, she awoke one day utterly transformed, having found a connection with a higher power. She went on to create a healing system called, The Work.
Therapeutic dialogues with a spectrum of people, some of whom have quite severe problems, illustrate how The Work can rapidly bring about transformations. Katie has a lovely, direct, simple style of doing therapy (and writing) that cuts right to the core of issues.
I can find only three kinds of business in the universe: mind, yours, and God’s. (For me, the word, God means ‘Reality.’ Reality is God, because it rules. Anything that’s our of my control, your control, and everyone else’s control – I call that God’s business.
While it appears simplistic, the way
The Work is applied is elegantly simple. The therapist asks a series of questions regarding each problem raised by a client:
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?
By carefully tracking the statements and feelings expressed by clients, and then shining the light of these questions on what they are struggling with, clarity is rapidly achieved.
This book is warmly recommended as a straightforward method for helping to deal with many of life’s problems. Sadly, Byron Katie passed away in December of 2006.
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