Loving What Is -A book finds me!

A few months Byron Katie’s The Work found me. It found me in the Self-Help area of Barnes and Noble, cruising for answers to the constant whole in my heart. Am not sure what I was looking for that day, guess I was hoping something would just pop out at me. In hindsight, that is more of a life approach than an issue of that wandering day.  When I am open to new ideas, I wander with a general big picture in my head, I let the details/signs find me.

I was walking down the isle and there at eye level, stood a black book with an incredibly inviting smile calling me in. As I got closer I read the title, “Loving What is: Four questions that can change your life”.  As a lover of questions, the power they invoke, and the precision in which they can cut though static…I found myself buying this book instantly.

The book promises nothing, except to change of everything! Through these four questions and a turnaround (called The Work), we can begin to change our relationship with our thoughts.  As I started to read, I was struck by the utter simplicity of this method/thing/concept/mindset/approach (book’s self proclaimed identity issue).  Four questions and a turnaround that’s all I needed, that’s all I ever needed to end my suffering and change? Yes! that is what The Work promised and delivered time after time.

80% of Loving What Is, are transcribed recordings of people doing The Work with Katie. Issue after universal (but so profoundly individual) issue is put against these four questions.  In every single session, you see the light bulb of new understanding start to shine…not only for the person in the book, but for me as well. Outwardly verbal, I said Yes! That’s it, OMG that hurts me too and Wow, how did I not see?

The four questions:

Is it true?

Can you absolutely know that is true?

How does it feel when you think that thought?

Who would you be with out that thought?

The turnarounds are very individual based on the person’s answers, but for the most part they are simply a 180 degree turn to your initial issue/judgment or belief.

These questions have changed the way I see things, how I approach thoughts and feel the power to end my own suffering. They even have helped me motivate my teenage son to really participating and grabbing what he wants.  Professionally, The Work has become an integral part of my coaching and speaking career.

This book found me when I was ready, and I am blessed for it.

~ by jodimathieu on May 14, 2009.