Peace Talk: The Work of Byron Katie with Grace: Recent Episodes
Grace Bell
Peace Talk is dedicated to self-inquiry especially using The Work of Byron Katie and inquiry based stress reduction...and the life of freedom and heart-break that can be led by having an open mind, and looking.
Grace Bell, facilitator of The Work, assists people to identify and question their stressful ways of looking at life.
She offers Year of Inquiry, a vibrant membership community of inquirers Sept-June each year. Learn more about Year of Inquiry at https://workwithgrace.com/year-of-inquiry
Grace also has a special love for those suffering from eating issues including disordered eating (disordered thinking) of all kinds--having suffered from this behavior and thought/feeling process herself and finding an unshakable peace within around eating, food, health and behaviors with eating.
Grace works with all kinds of compulsions, habits and addictions as they are all the same thing: a pull to some behavior, substance or activity in order to help us with our stressful feelings and thoughts.
As Byron Katie offers us (founder of The Work); when we believe what we think, it creates unnecessary suffering. When we question what we think, we feel lighter and less serious about what is. We even begin to laugh. We notice who we really are is peaceful already, a human being living life as best we can--learning, growing, loving.
In the public sessions on this youtube channel, we have all-group inquiry sessions called First Friday Inquiry, we have interviews with practitioners of The Work, we have Eating Peace videos (on the eating peace playlist) and we have individual sessions in The Work by courageous people willing to be recorded for Peace Talk podcast and this channel. Thanks to everyone involved in what is shared here on this channel, as it is great service to others in the world who find their way here and who are curious about life without "believing" thought all the time.
In all-group sessions and solo sessions, we begin with a judgment...and move into the four questions and turnarounds. Willingness to be real and honest with your thinking is the first powerful step in The Work.
No one ever has to share when attending Friday Inquiry, and thank you when you do.
For the Work With Grace programs and more information, and to get on the Grace Notes mailing list for updates and sharing of all kinds around The Work, please visit www.workwithgrace.com
To receive notice of Eating Peace programs, videos and vlog posts, visit www.workwithgrace.com/eating-peace and join the mailing list.
To join the Grace Notes family of readers right now, Grace's popular blog on using The Work of Byron Katie to grow a peaceful life, get the thorough START HERE guide to letting The Work, work right here: https://workwithgrace.leadpages.co/start-here-guidebook/
Where to find me: workwithgrace.com grace notes from the past at workingwithgrace.com https://www.facebook.com/WorkWithGrace/ https://twitter.com/ByronKatieCoach https://www.linkedin.com/in/workwithgrace/ https://www.instagram.com/byronkatiecoach/
Grace Bell, facilitator of The Work, assists people to identify and question their stressful ways of looking at life.
She offers Year of Inquiry, a vibrant membership community of inquirers Sept-June each year. Learn more about Year of Inquiry at https://workwithgrace.com/year-of-inquiry
Grace also has a special love for those suffering from eating issues including disordered eating (disordered thinking) of all kinds--having suffered from this behavior and thought/feeling process herself and finding an unshakable peace within around eating, food, health and behaviors with eating.
Grace works with all kinds of compulsions, habits and addictions as they are all the same thing: a pull to some behavior, substance or activity in order to help us with our stressful feelings and thoughts.
As Byron Katie offers us (founder of The Work); when we believe what we think, it creates unnecessary suffering. When we question what we think, we feel lighter and less serious about what is. We even begin to laugh. We notice who we really are is peaceful already, a human being living life as best we can--learning, growing, loving.
In the public sessions on this youtube channel, we have all-group inquiry sessions called First Friday Inquiry, we have interviews with practitioners of The Work, we have Eating Peace videos (on the eating peace playlist) and we have individual sessions in The Work by courageous people willing to be recorded for Peace Talk podcast and this channel. Thanks to everyone involved in what is shared here on this channel, as it is great service to others in the world who find their way here and who are curious about life without "believing" thought all the time.
In all-group sessions and solo sessions, we begin with a judgment...and move into the four questions and turnarounds. Willingness to be real and honest with your thinking is the first powerful step in The Work.
No one ever has to share when attending Friday Inquiry, and thank you when you do.
For the Work With Grace programs and more information, and to get on the Grace Notes mailing list for updates and sharing of all kinds around The Work, please visit www.workwithgrace.com
To receive notice of Eating Peace programs, videos and vlog posts, visit www.workwithgrace.com/eating-peace and join the mailing list.
To join the Grace Notes family of readers right now, Grace's popular blog on using The Work of Byron Katie to grow a peaceful life, get the thorough START HERE guide to letting The Work, work right here: https://workwithgrace.leadpages.co/start-here-guidebook/
Where to find me: workwithgrace.com grace notes from the past at workingwithgrace.com https://www.facebook.com/WorkWithGrace/ https://twitter.com/ByronKatieCoach https://www.linkedin.com/in/workwithgrace/ https://www.instagram.com/byronkatiecoach/
Grace Bell, facilitator of The Work, assists people to identify and question their stressful ways of looking at life.
She offers Year of Inquiry, a vibrant membership community of inquirers Sept-June each year. Learn more about Year of Inquiry at https://workwithgrace.com/year-of-inquiry
Grace also has a special love for those suffering from eating issues including disordered eating (disordered thinking) of all kinds--having suffered from this behavior and thought/feeling process herself and finding an unshakable peace within around eating, food, health and behaviors with eating.
Grace works with all kinds of compulsions, habits and addictions as they are all the same thing: a pull to some behavior, substance or activity in order to help us with our stressful feelings and thoughts.
As Byron Katie offers us (founder of The Work); when we believe what we think, it creates unnecessary suffering. When we question what we think, we feel lighter and less serious about what is. We even begin to laugh. We notice who we really are is peaceful already, a human being living life as best we can--learning, growing, loving.
In the public sessions on this youtube channel, we have all-group inquiry sessions called First Friday Inquiry, we have interviews with practitioners of The Work, we have Eating Peace videos (on the eating peace playlist) and we have individual sessions in The Work by courageous people willing to be recorded for Peace Talk podcast and this channel. Thanks to everyone involved in what is shared here on this channel, as it is great service to others in the world who find their way here and who are curious about life without "believing" thought all the time.
In all-group sessions and solo sessions, we begin with a judgment...and move into the four questions and turnarounds. Willingness to be real and honest with your thinking is the first powerful step in The Work.
No one ever has to share when attending Friday Inquiry, and thank you when you do.
For the Work With Grace programs and more information, and to get on the Grace Notes mailing list for updates and sharing of all kinds around The Work, please visit www.workwithgrace.com
To receive notice of Eating Peace programs, videos and vlog posts, visit www.workwithgrace.com/eating-peace and join the mailing list.
To join the Grace Notes family of readers right now, Grace's popular blog on using The Work of Byron Katie to grow a peaceful life, get the thorough START HERE guide to letting The Work, work right here: https://workwithgrace.leadpages.co/start-here-guidebook/
Where to find me: workwithgrace.com grace notes from the past at workingwithgrace.com https://www.facebook.com/WorkWithGrace/ https://twitter.com/ByronKatieCoach https://www.linkedin.com/in/workwithgrace/ https://www.instagram.com/byronkatiecoach/
Grace Bell, facilitator of The Work, assists people to identify and question their stressful ways of looking at life.
She offers Year of Inquiry, a vibrant membership community of inquirers Sept-June each year. Learn more about Year of Inquiry at https://workwithgrace.com/year-of-inquiry
Grace also has a special love for those suffering from eating issues including disordered eating (disordered thinking) of all kinds--having suffered from this behavior and thought/feeling process herself and finding an unshakable peace within around eating, food, health and behaviors with eating.
Grace works with all kinds of compulsions, habits and addictions as they are all the same thing: a pull to some behavior, substance or activity in order to help us with our stressful feelings and thoughts.
As Byron Katie offers us (founder of The Work); when we believe what we think, it creates unnecessary suffering. When we question what we think, we feel lighter and less serious about what is. We even begin to laugh. We notice who we really are is peaceful already, a human being living life as best we can--learning, growing, loving.
In the public sessions on this youtube channel, we have all-group inquiry sessions called First Friday Inquiry, we have interviews with practitioners of The Work, we have Eating Peace videos (on the eating peace playlist) and we have individual sessions in The Work by courageous people willing to be recorded for Peace Talk podcast and this channel. Thanks to everyone involved in what is shared here on this channel, as it is great service to others in the world who find their way here and who are curious about life without "believing" thought all the time.
In all-group sessions and solo sessions, we begin with a judgment...and move into the four questions and turnarounds. Willingness to be real and honest with your thinking is the first powerful step in The Work.
No one ever has to share when attending Friday Inquiry, and thank you when you do.
For the Work With Grace programs and more information, and to get on the Grace Notes mailing list for updates and sharing of all kinds around The Work, please visit www.workwithgrace.com
To receive notice of Eating Peace programs, videos and vlog posts, visit www.workwithgrace.com/eating-peace and join the mailing list.
To join the Grace Notes family of readers right now, Grace's popular blog on using The Work of Byron Katie to grow a peaceful life, get the thorough START HERE guide to letting The Work, work right here: https://workwithgrace.leadpages.co/start-here-guidebook/
Where to find me: workwithgrace.com grace notes from the past at workingwithgrace.com https://www.facebook.com/WorkWithGrace/ https://twitter.com/ByronKatieCoach https://www.linkedin.com/in/workwithgrace/ https://www.instagram.com/byronkatiecoach/
What's it like when we judge anxiety, fear, rage, sadness, grief, heartbreak, worry...or any other troubling emotion?
It hurts. We turn our attention to self-attack, for having feelings.
Who are we without our story of "feelings"?!
Grace Bell, facilitator of The Work, assists people to identify and question their stressful ways of looking at life.
She offers Year of Inquiry, a vibrant membership community of inquirers Sept-June each year. Learn more about Year of Inquiry at https://workwithgrace.com/year-of-inquiry
Grace also has a special love for those suffering from eating issues including disordered eating (disordered thinking) of all kinds--having suffered from this behavior and thought/feeling process herself and finding an unshakable peace within around eating, food, health and behaviors with eating.
Grace works with all kinds of compulsions, habits and addictions as they are all the same thing: a pull to some behavior, substance or activity in order to help us with our stressful feelings and thoughts.
As Byron Katie offers us (founder of The Work); when we believe what we think, it creates unnecessary suffering. When we question what we think, we feel lighter and less serious about what is. We even begin to laugh. We notice who we really are is peaceful already, a human being living life as best we can--learning, growing, loving.
In the public sessions on this youtube channel, we have all-group inquiry sessions called First Friday Inquiry, we have interviews with practitioners of The Work, we have Eating Peace videos (on the eating peace playlist) and we have individual sessions in The Work by courageous people willing to be recorded for Peace Talk podcast and this channel. Thanks to everyone involved in what is shared here on this channel, as it is great service to others in the world who find their way here and who are curious about life without "believing" thought all the time.
In all-group sessions and solo sessions, we begin with a judgment...and move into the four questions and turnarounds. Willingness to be real and honest with your thinking is the first powerful step in The Work.
No one ever has to share when attending Friday Inquiry, and thank you when you do.
For the Work With Grace programs and more information, and to get on the Grace Notes mailing list for updates and sharing of all kinds around The Work, please visit www.workwithgrace.com
To receive notice of Eating Peace programs, videos and vlog posts, visit www.workwithgrace.com/eating-peace and join the mailing list.
To join the Grace Notes family of readers right now, Grace's popular blog on using The Work of Byron Katie to grow a peaceful life, get the thorough START HERE guide to letting The Work, work right here: https://workwithgrace.leadpages.co/start-here-guidebook/
Where to find me: workwithgrace.com grace notes from the past at workingwithgrace.com https://www.facebook.com/WorkWithGrace/ https://twitter.com/ByronKatieCoach https://www.linkedin.com/in/workwithgrace/ https://www.instagram.com/byronkatiecoach/
A lovely woman questions the thought that this event, experience, future needs to go "well" and go her way. This includes the podcast episode.
Who are we without our story?
Grace Bell, facilitator of The Work, assists people to identify and question their stressful ways of looking at life.
She offers Year of Inquiry, a vibrant membership community of inquirers Sept-June each year. Learn more about Year of Inquiry at https://workwithgrace.com/year-of-inquiry
Grace also has a special love for those suffering from eating issues including disordered eating (disordered thinking) of all kinds--having suffered from this behavior and thought/feeling process herself and finding an unshakable peace within around eating, food, health and behaviors with eating.
Grace works with all kinds of compulsions, habits and addictions as they are all the same thing: a pull to some behavior, substance or activity in order to help us with our stressful feelings and thoughts.
As Byron Katie offers us (founder of The Work); when we believe what we think, it creates unnecessary suffering. When we question what we think, we feel lighter and less serious about what is. We even begin to laugh. We notice who we really are is peaceful already, a human being living life as best we can--learning, growing, loving.
In the public sessions on this youtube channel, we have all-group inquiry sessions called First Friday Inquiry, we have interviews with practitioners of The Work, we have Eating Peace videos (on the eating peace playlist) and we have individual sessions in The Work by courageous people willing to be recorded for Peace Talk podcast and this channel. Thanks to everyone involved in what is shared here on this channel, as it is great service to others in the world who find their way here and who are curious about life without "believing" thought all the time.
In all-group sessions and solo sessions, we begin with a judgment...and move into the four questions and turnarounds. Willingness to be real and honest with your thinking is the first powerful step in The Work.
No one ever has to share when attending Friday Inquiry, and thank you when you do.
For the Work With Grace programs and more information, and to get on the Grace Notes mailing list for updates and sharing of all kinds around The Work, please visit www.workwithgrace.com
To receive notice of Eating Peace programs, videos and vlog posts, visit www.workwithgrace.com/eating-peace and join the mailing list.
To join the Grace Notes family of readers right now, Grace's popular blog on using The Work of Byron Katie to grow a peaceful life, get the thorough START HERE guide to letting The Work, work right here: https://workwithgrace.leadpages.co/start-here-guidebook/
Where to find me: workwithgrace.com grace notes from the past at workingwithgrace.com https://www.facebook.com/WorkWithGrace/ https://twitter.com/ByronKatieCoach https://www.linkedin.com/in/workwithgrace/ https://www.instagram.com/byronkatiecoach/
When our life changes (which is inevitable) there may be pros and cons to the change.
Follow along as a woman notices her painful thought that is very familiar: I am missing my connection with other people.
She has a new job, her day to day schedule has changed, and she's imagining unhappiness when it comes to others who she's close to.
Who are we without our story?
Grace Bell, facilitator of The Work, assists people to identify and question their stressful ways of looking at life.
She offers Year of Inquiry, a vibrant membership community of inquirers Sept-June each year. Learn more about Year of Inquiry at https://workwithgrace.com/year-of-inquiry
Grace also has a special love for those suffering from eating issues including disordered eating (disordered thinking) of all kinds--having suffered from this behavior and thought/feeling process herself and finding an unshakable peace within around eating, food, health and behaviors with eating.
Grace works with all kinds of compulsions, habits and addictions as they are all the same thing: a pull to some behavior, substance or activity in order to help us with our stressful feelings and thoughts.
As Byron Katie offers us (founder of The Work); when we believe what we think, it creates unnecessary suffering. When we question what we think, we feel lighter and less serious about what is. We even begin to laugh. We notice who we really are is peaceful already, a human being living life as best we can--learning, growing, loving.
In the public sessions on this youtube channel, we have all-group inquiry sessions called First Friday Inquiry, we have interviews with practitioners of The Work, we have Eating Peace videos (on the eating peace playlist) and we have individual sessions in The Work by courageous people willing to be recorded for Peace Talk podcast and this channel. Thanks to everyone involved in what is shared here on this channel, as it is great service to others in the world who find their way here and who are curious about life without "believing" thought all the time.
In all-group sessions and solo sessions, we begin with a judgment...and move into the four questions and turnarounds. Willingness to be real and honest with your thinking is the first powerful step in The Work.
No one ever has to share when attending Friday Inquiry, and thank you when you do.
For the Work With Grace programs and more information, and to get on the Grace Notes mailing list for updates and sharing of all kinds around The Work, please visit www.workwithgrace.com
To receive notice of Eating Peace programs, videos and vlog posts, visit www.workwithgrace.com/eating-peace and join the mailing list.
To join the Grace Notes family of readers right now, Grace's popular blog on using The Work of Byron Katie to grow a peaceful life, get the thorough START HERE guide to letting The Work, work right here: https://workwithgrace.leadpages.co/start-here-guidebook/
Where to find me: workwithgrace.com grace notes from the past at workingwithgrace.com https://www.facebook.com/WorkWithGrace/ https://twitter.com/ByronKatieCoach https://www.linkedin.com/in/workwithgrace/ https://www.instagram.com/byronkatiecoach/
What happens when a friend doesn't pay enough attention to you? What do you notice goes on within?
Listen as this inquirer tells a long story about the problem with her friend, and then does The Work.
Grace Bell, facilitator of The Work, assists people to identify and question their stressful ways of looking at life.
She offers Year of Inquiry, a vibrant membership community of inquirers Sept-June each year. Learn more about Year of Inquiry at https://workwithgrace.com/year-of-inquiry
Grace also has a special love for those suffering from eating issues including disordered eating (disordered thinking) of all kinds--having suffered from this behavior and thought/feeling process herself and finding an unshakable peace within around eating, food, health and behaviors with eating.
Grace works with all kinds of compulsions, habits and addictions as they are all the same thing: a pull to some behavior, substance or activity in order to help us with our stressful feelings and thoughts.
As Byron Katie offers us (founder of The Work); when we believe what we think, it creates unnecessary suffering. When we question what we think, we feel lighter and less serious about what is. We even begin to laugh. We notice who we really are is peaceful already, a human being living life as best we can--learning, growing, loving.
In the public sessions on this youtube channel, we have all-group inquiry sessions called First Friday Inquiry, we have interviews with practitioners of The Work, we have Eating Peace videos (on the eating peace playlist) and we have individual sessions in The Work by courageous people willing to be recorded for Peace Talk podcast and this channel. Thanks to everyone involved in what is shared here on this channel, as it is great service to others in the world who find their way here and who are curious about life without "believing" thought all the time.
In all-group sessions and solo sessions, we begin with a judgment...and move into the four questions and turnarounds. Willingness to be real and honest with your thinking is the first powerful step in The Work.
No one ever has to share when attending Friday Inquiry, and thank you when you do.
For the Work With Grace programs and more information, and to get on the Grace Notes mailing list for updates and sharing of all kinds around The Work, please visit www.workwithgrace.com
To receive notice of Eating Peace programs, videos and vlog posts, visit www.workwithgrace.com/eating-peace and join the mailing list.
To join the Grace Notes family of readers right now, Grace's popular blog on using The Work of Byron Katie to grow a peaceful life, get the thorough START HERE guide to letting The Work, work right here: https://workwithgrace.leadpages.co/start-here-guidebook/
Where to find me: workwithgrace.com grace notes from the past at workingwithgrace.com https://www.facebook.com/WorkWithGrace/ https://twitter.com/ByronKatieCoach https://www.linkedin.com/in/workwithgrace/ https://www.instagram.com/byronkatiecoach/
A woman anticipates a huge party potentially with destruction, noise, trespassing and damage based on past experience.
Who are we without our stories, and what can we do that works with action, empowerment and clarity?
Listen and find out.
Grace Bell, facilitator of The Work, assists people to identify and question their stressful ways of looking at life.
She offers Year of Inquiry, a vibrant membership community of inquirers Sept-June each year. Learn more about Year of Inquiry at https://workwithgrace.com/year-of-inquiry
Grace also has a special love for those suffering from eating issues including disordered eating (disordered thinking) of all kinds--having suffered from this behavior and thought/feeling process herself and finding an unshakable peace within around eating, food, health and behaviors with eating.
Grace works with all kinds of compulsions, habits and addictions as they are all the same thing: a pull to some behavior, substance or activity in order to help us with our stressful feelings and thoughts.
As Byron Katie offers us (founder of The Work); when we believe what we think, it creates unnecessary suffering. When we question what we think, we feel lighter and less serious about what is. We even begin to laugh. We notice who we really are is peaceful already, a human being living life as best we can--learning, growing, loving.
In the public sessions on this youtube channel, we have all-group inquiry sessions called First Friday Inquiry, we have interviews with practitioners of The Work, we have Eating Peace videos (on the eating peace playlist) and we have individual sessions in The Work by courageous people willing to be recorded for Peace Talk podcast and this channel. Thanks to everyone involved in what is shared here on this channel, as it is great service to others in the world who find their way here and who are curious about life without "believing" thought all the time.
In all-group sessions and solo sessions, we begin with a judgment...and move into the four questions and turnarounds. Willingness to be real and honest with your thinking is the first powerful step in The Work.
No one ever has to share when attending Friday Inquiry, and thank you when you do.
For the Work With Grace programs and more information, and to get on the Grace Notes mailing list for updates and sharing of all kinds around The Work, please visit www.workwithgrace.com
To receive notice of Eating Peace programs, videos and vlog posts, visit www.workwithgrace.com/eating-peace and join the mailing list.
To join the Grace Notes family of readers right now, Grace's popular blog on using The Work of Byron Katie to grow a peaceful life, get the thorough START HERE guide to letting The Work, work right here: https://workwithgrace.leadpages.co/start-here-guidebook/
Where to find me: workwithgrace.com grace notes from the past at workingwithgrace.com https://www.facebook.com/WorkWithGrace/ https://twitter.com/ByronKatieCoach https://www.linkedin.com/in/workwithgrace/ https://www.instagram.com/byronkatiecoach/
When we're out of work or want more money to thrive more expansively in our lives, it can be very stressful. Job hunts look daunting.
We also may have some troubling thoughts about jobs themselves. In the inquirer who did The Work today, she thought of her past jobs as requiring her to control chaos and worry about others emotional lives, or the job was boring and urgent.
Who are we without our beliefs about jobs? How can we live our turnarounds about working.
Turning these thoughts about jobs around:
Jobs are interesting, relaxed, and unfolding as needed. The inquirer found how she could approach her former job as someone "allowing order" instead of "controlling chaos". Her prescription for happiness.
Grace Bell, facilitator of The Work, assists people to identify and question their stressful ways of looking at life.
She offers Year of Inquiry, a vibrant membership community of inquirers Sept-June each year. Learn more about Year of Inquiry at https://workwithgrace.com/year-of-inquiry
Grace also has a special love for those suffering from eating issues including disordered eating (disordered thinking) of all kinds--having suffered from this behavior and thought/feeling process herself and finding an unshakable peace within around eating, food, health and behaviors with eating.
Grace works with all kinds of compulsions, habits and addictions as they are all the same thing: a pull to some behavior, substance or activity in order to help us with our stressful feelings and thoughts.
As Byron Katie offers us (founder of The Work); when we believe what we think, it creates unnecessary suffering. When we question what we think, we feel lighter and less serious about what is. We even begin to laugh. We notice who we really are is peaceful already, a human being living life as best we can--learning, growing, loving.
In the public sessions on this youtube channel, we have all-group inquiry sessions called First Friday Inquiry, we have interviews with practitioners of The Work, we have Eating Peace videos (on the eating peace playlist) and we have individual sessions in The Work by courageous people willing to be recorded for Peace Talk podcast and this channel. Thanks to everyone involved in what is shared here on this channel, as it is great service to others in the world who find their way here and who are curious about life without "believing" thought all the time.
In all-group sessions and solo sessions, we begin with a judgment...and move into the four questions and turnarounds. Willingness to be real and honest with your thinking is the first powerful step in The Work.
No one ever has to share when attending Friday Inquiry, and thank you when you do.
For the Work With Grace programs and more information, and to get on the Grace Notes mailing list for updates and sharing of all kinds around The Work, please visit www.workwithgrace.com
To receive notice of Eating Peace programs, videos and vlog posts, visit www.workwithgrace.com/eating-peace and join the mailing list.
To join the Grace Notes family of readers right now, Grace's popular blog on using The Work of Byron Katie to grow a peaceful life, get the thorough START HERE guide to letting The Work, work right here: https://workwithgrace.leadpages.co/start-here-guidebook/
Where to find me: workwithgrace.com grace notes from the past at workingwithgrace.com https://www.facebook.com/WorkWithGrace/ https://twitter.com/ByronKatieCoach https://www.linkedin.com/in/workwithgrace/ https://www.instagram.com/byronkatiecoach/
Who are we without our stories?
We gathered and looked together at the concept "death is coming".
November 8-10, 2024 Retreat in Seattle at Grace's office. See workwithgrace.com for information
December 6-13, 2024 The Work and Yoga at Mount Madonna in California. workwithgrace.com for information
Grace Bell, facilitator of The Work, assists people to identify and question their stressful ways of looking at life.
She offers Year of Inquiry, a vibrant membership community of inquirers Sept-June each year. Learn more about Year of Inquiry at https://workwithgrace.com/year-of-inquiry
Grace also has a special love for those suffering from eating issues including disordered eating (disordered thinking) of all kinds--having suffered from this behavior and thought/feeling process herself and finding an unshakable peace within around eating, food, health and behaviors with eating.
Grace works with all kinds of compulsions, habits and addictions as they are all the same thing: a pull to some behavior, substance or activity in order to help us with our stressful feelings and thoughts.
As Byron Katie offers us (founder of The Work); when we believe what we think, it creates unnecessary suffering. When we question what we think, we feel lighter and less serious about what is. We even begin to laugh. We notice who we really are is peaceful already, a human being living life as best we can--learning, growing, loving.
In the public sessions on this youtube channel, we have all-group inquiry sessions called First Friday Inquiry, we have interviews with practitioners of The Work, we have Eating Peace videos (on the eating peace playlist) and we have individual sessions in The Work by courageous people willing to be recorded for Peace Talk podcast and this channel. Thanks to everyone involved in what is shared here on this channel, as it is great service to others in the world who find their way here and who are curious about life without "believing" thought all the time.
In all-group sessions and solo sessions, we begin with a judgment...and move into the four questions and turnarounds. Willingness to be real and honest with your thinking is the first powerful step in The Work.
No one ever has to share when attending Friday Inquiry, and thank you when you do.
For the Work With Grace programs and more information, and to get on the Grace Notes mailing list for updates and sharing of all kinds around The Work, please visit www.workwithgrace.com
To receive notice of Eating Peace programs, videos and vlog posts, visit www.workwithgrace.com/eating-peace and join the mailing list.
To join the Grace Notes family of readers right now, Grace's popular blog on using The Work of Byron Katie to grow a peaceful life, get the thorough START HERE guide to letting The Work, work right here: https://workwithgrace.leadpages.co/start-here-guidebook/
Where to find me: workwithgrace.com grace notes from the past at workingwithgrace.com https://www.facebook.com/WorkWithGrace/ https://twitter.com/ByronKatieCoach https://www.linkedin.com/in/workwithgrace/ https://www.instagram.com/byronkatiecoach/
Who are we without our stories?
An inquirer does The Work on the belief "there is something wrong with me" and finds freedom in this moment, now.
Pain, Sickness, Death Retreat Oct 28-Nov 2 ONLINE daily 8-10am PT (except Saturday 11/2 only 1 final hour).
November 8-10, 2024 Retreat in Seattle at Grace's office. See workwithgrace.com for information
December 6-13, 2024 The Work and Yoga at Mount Madonna in California. workwithgrace.com for information
Grace Bell, facilitator of The Work, assists people to identify and question their stressful ways of looking at life.
She offers Year of Inquiry, a vibrant membership community of inquirers Sept-June each year. Learn more about Year of Inquiry at https://workwithgrace.com/year-of-inquiry
Grace also has a special love for those suffering from eating issues including disordered eating (disordered thinking) of all kinds--having suffered from this behavior and thought/feeling process herself and finding an unshakable peace within around eating, food, health and behaviors with eating.
Grace works with all kinds of compulsions, habits and addictions as they are all the same thing: a pull to some behavior, substance or activity in order to help us with our stressful feelings and thoughts.
As Byron Katie offers us (founder of The Work); when we believe what we think, it creates unnecessary suffering. When we question what we think, we feel lighter and less serious about what is. We even begin to laugh. We notice who we really are is peaceful already, a human being living life as best we can--learning, growing, loving.
In the public sessions on this youtube channel, we have all-group inquiry sessions called First Friday Inquiry, we have interviews with practitioners of The Work, we have Eating Peace videos (on the eating peace playlist) and we have individual sessions in The Work by courageous people willing to be recorded for Peace Talk podcast and this channel. Thanks to everyone involved in what is shared here on this channel, as it is great service to others in the world who find their way here and who are curious about life without "believing" thought all the time.
In all-group sessions and solo sessions, we begin with a judgment...and move into the four questions and turnarounds. Willingness to be real and honest with your thinking is the first powerful step in The Work.
No one ever has to share when attending Friday Inquiry, and thank you when you do.
For the Work With Grace programs and more information, and to get on the Grace Notes mailing list for updates and sharing of all kinds around The Work, please visit www.workwithgrace.com
To receive notice of Eating Peace programs, videos and vlog posts, visit www.workwithgrace.com/eating-peace and join the mailing list.
To join the Grace Notes family of readers right now, Grace's popular blog on using The Work of Byron Katie to grow a peaceful life, get the thorough START HERE guide to letting The Work, work right here: https://workwithgrace.leadpages.co/start-here-guidebook/
Where to find me: workwithgrace.com grace notes from the past at workingwithgrace.com https://www.facebook.com/WorkWithGrace/ https://twitter.com/ByronKatieCoach https://www.linkedin.com/in/workwithgrace/ https://www.instagram.com/byronkatiecoach/
Who are we without our stories?
November 8-10, 2024 Retreat in Seattle at Grace's office. See workwithgrace.com for information
December 6-13, 2024 The Work and Yoga at Mount Madonna in California. workwithgrace.com for information
Grace Bell, facilitator of The Work, assists people to identify and question their stressful ways of looking at life.
She offers Year of Inquiry, a vibrant membership community of inquirers Sept-June each year. Learn more about Year of Inquiry at https://workwithgrace.com/year-of-inquiry
Grace also has a special love for those suffering from eating issues including disordered eating (disordered thinking) of all kinds--having suffered from this behavior and thought/feeling process herself and finding an unshakable peace within around eating, food, health and behaviors with eating.
Grace works with all kinds of compulsions, habits and addictions as they are all the same thing: a pull to some behavior, substance or activity in order to help us with our stressful feelings and thoughts.
As Byron Katie offers us (founder of The Work); when we believe what we think, it creates unnecessary suffering. When we question what we think, we feel lighter and less serious about what is. We even begin to laugh. We notice who we really are is peaceful already, a human being living life as best we can--learning, growing, loving.
In the public sessions on this youtube channel, we have all-group inquiry sessions called First Friday Inquiry, we have interviews with practitioners of The Work, we have Eating Peace videos (on the eating peace playlist) and we have individual sessions in The Work by courageous people willing to be recorded for Peace Talk podcast and this channel. Thanks to everyone involved in what is shared here on this channel, as it is great service to others in the world who find their way here and who are curious about life without "believing" thought all the time.
In all-group sessions and solo sessions, we begin with a judgment...and move into the four questions and turnarounds. Willingness to be real and honest with your thinking is the first powerful step in The Work.
No one ever has to share when attending Friday Inquiry, and thank you when you do.
For the Work With Grace programs and more information, and to get on the Grace Notes mailing list for updates and sharing of all kinds around The Work, please visit www.workwithgrace.com
To receive notice of Eating Peace programs, videos and vlog posts, visit www.workwithgrace.com/eating-peace and join the mailing list.
To join the Grace Notes family of readers right now, Grace's popular blog on using The Work of Byron Katie to grow a peaceful life, get the thorough START HERE guide to letting The Work, work right here: https://workwithgrace.leadpages.co/start-here-guidebook/
Where to find me: workwithgrace.com grace notes from the past at workingwithgrace.com https://www.facebook.com/WorkWithGrace/ https://twitter.com/ByronKatieCoach https://www.linkedin.com/in/workwithgrace/ https://www.instagram.com/byronkatiecoach/
Who are we without our stories?
Grace Bell, facilitator of The Work, assists people to identify and question their stressful ways of looking at life.
She offers Year of Inquiry, a vibrant membership community of inquirers Sept-June each year. Learn more about Year of Inquiry at https://workwithgrace.com/year-of-inquiry
Grace also has a special love for those suffering from eating issues including disordered eating (disordered thinking) of all kinds--having suffered from this behavior and thought/feeling process herself and finding an unshakable peace within around eating, food, health and behaviors with eating.
Grace works with all kinds of compulsions, habits and addictions as they are all the same thing: a pull to some behavior, substance or activity in order to help us with our stressful feelings and thoughts.
As Byron Katie offers us (founder of The Work); when we believe what we think, it creates unnecessary suffering. When we question what we think, we feel lighter and less serious about what is. We even begin to laugh. We notice who we really are is peaceful already, a human being living life as best we can--learning, growing, loving.
In the public sessions on this youtube channel, we have all-group inquiry sessions called First Friday Inquiry, we have interviews with practitioners of The Work, we have Eating Peace videos (on the eating peace playlist) and we have individual sessions in The Work by courageous people willing to be recorded for Peace Talk podcast and this channel. Thanks to everyone involved in what is shared here on this channel, as it is great service to others in the world who find their way here and who are curious about life without "believing" thought all the time.
In all-group sessions and solo sessions, we begin with a judgment...and move into the four questions and turnarounds. Willingness to be real and honest with your thinking is the first powerful step in The Work.
No one ever has to share when attending Friday Inquiry, and thank you when you do.
For the Work With Grace programs and more information, and to get on the Grace Notes mailing list for updates and sharing of all kinds around The Work, please visit www.workwithgrace.com
To receive notice of Eating Peace programs, videos and vlog posts, visit www.workwithgrace.com/eating-peace and join the mailing list.
To join the Grace Notes family of readers right now, Grace's popular blog on using The Work of Byron Katie to grow a peaceful life, get the thorough START HERE guide to letting The Work, work right here: https://workwithgrace.leadpages.co/start-here-guidebook/
Where to find me: workwithgrace.com grace notes from the past at workingwithgrace.com https://www.facebook.com/WorkWithGrace/ https://twitter.com/ByronKatieCoach https://www.linkedin.com/in/workwithgrace/ https://www.instagram.com/byronkatiecoach/
A woman with a disease diagnosis is frightened and volunteers to do The Work. Her belief is "this should go away".
We can do this with just about anything. Who are we without our panicked story about an ailment showing up in our bodies?
In person retreat in Seattle is coming! August 20-24, 2024. Learn more here: https://www.workwithgrace.com/summer-retreat/
Grace Bell, facilitator of The Work, assists people to identify and question their stressful ways of looking at life.
She offers Year of Inquiry, a vibrant membership community of inquirers Sept-June each year.
Grace also has a special love for those suffering from eating issues including disordered eating (disordered thinking) of all kinds--having suffered from this behavior and thought/feeling process herself and finding an unshakable peace within around eating, food, health and behaviors with eating.
Grace works with all kinds of compulsions, habits and addictions as they are all the same thing: a pull to some behavior, substance or activity in order to help us with our stressful feelings and thoughts.
As Byron Katie offers us (founder of The Work); when we believe what we think, it creates unnecessary suffering. When we question what we think, we feel lighter and less serious about what is. We even begin to laugh. We notice who we really are is peaceful already, a human being living life as best we can--learning, growing, loving.
In the public sessions on this youtube channel, we have all-group inquiry sessions called First Friday Inquiry, we have interviews with practitioners of The Work, we have Eating Peace videos (on the eating peace playlist) and we have individual sessions in The Work by courageous people willing to be recorded for Peace Talk podcast and this channel. Thanks to everyone involved in what is shared here on this channel, as it is great service to others in the world who find their way here and who are curious about life without "believing" thought all the time.
In all-group sessions and solo sessions, we begin with a judgment...and move into the four questions and turnarounds. Willingness to be real and honest with your thinking is the first powerful step in The Work.
No one ever has to share when attending Friday Inquiry, and thank you when you do.
For the Work With Grace programs and more information, and to get on the Grace Notes mailing list for updates and sharing of all kinds around The Work, please visit www.workwithgrace.com
To receive notice of Eating Peace programs, videos and vlog posts, visit www.workwithgrace.com/eating-peace and join the mailing list.
To join the Grace Notes family of readers right now, Grace's popular blog on using The Work of Byron Katie to grow a peaceful life, get the thorough START HERE guide to letting The Work, work right here: https://workwithgrace.leadpages.co/start-here-guidebook/
Where to find me: workwithgrace.com grace notes from the past at workingwithgrace.com https://www.facebook.com/WorkWithGrace/ https://twitter.com/ByronKatieCoach https://www.linkedin.com/in/workwithgrace/ https://www.instagram.com/byronkatiecoach/
It's very common in being human to be against situations in life that look threatening.
What happens when we question our thoughts that something happening, like death, decline, disease, hardship....is absolutely true? That is really is TERRIBLE? (And it doesn't mean that it is not).
Who are we without our stories?
In person retreat in Seattle is coming! August 20-24, 2024. Learn more here: https://www.workwithgrace.com/summer-retreat/
Grace Bell, facilitator of The Work, assists people to identify and question their stressful ways of looking at life.
She offers Year of Inquiry, a vibrant membership community of inquirers Sept-June each year.
Grace also has a special love for those suffering from eating issues including disordered eating (disordered thinking) of all kinds--having suffered from this behavior and thought/feeling process herself and finding an unshakable peace within around eating, food, health and behaviors with eating.
Grace works with all kinds of compulsions, habits and addictions as they are all the same thing: a pull to some behavior, substance or activity in order to help us with our stressful feelings and thoughts.
As Byron Katie offers us (founder of The Work); when we believe what we think, it creates unnecessary suffering. When we question what we think, we feel lighter and less serious about what is. We even begin to laugh. We notice who we really are is peaceful already, a human being living life as best we can--learning, growing, loving.
In the public sessions on this youtube channel, we have all-group inquiry sessions called First Friday Inquiry, we have interviews with practitioners of The Work, we have Eating Peace videos (on the eating peace playlist) and we have individual sessions in The Work by courageous people willing to be recorded for Peace Talk podcast and this channel. Thanks to everyone involved in what is shared here on this channel, as it is great service to others in the world who find their way here and who are curious about life without "believing" thought all the time.
In all-group sessions and solo sessions, we begin with a judgment...and move into the four questions and turnarounds. Willingness to be real and honest with your thinking is the first powerful step in The Work.
No one ever has to share when attending Friday Inquiry, and thank you when you do.
For the Work With Grace programs and more information, and to get on the Grace Notes mailing list for updates and sharing of all kinds around The Work, please visit www.workwithgrace.com
To receive notice of Eating Peace programs, videos and vlog posts, visit www.workwithgrace.com/eating-peace and join the mailing list.
To join the Grace Notes family of readers right now, Grace's popular blog on using The Work of Byron Katie to grow a peaceful life, get the thorough START HERE guide to letting The Work, work right here: https://workwithgrace.leadpages.co/start-here-guidebook/
Where to find me: workwithgrace.com grace notes from the past at workingwithgrace.com https://www.facebook.com/WorkWithGrace/ https://twitter.com/ByronKatieCoach https://www.linkedin.com/in/workwithgrace/ https://www.instagram.com/byronkatiecoach/
In person retreat in Seattle is coming! August 20-24, 2024. Learn more here: https://www.workwithgrace.com/summer-retreat/
Grace Bell, facilitator of The Work, assists people to identify and question their stressful ways of looking at life.
She offers Year of Inquiry, a vibrant membership community of inquirers Sept-June each year.
Grace also has a special love for those suffering from eating issues including disordered eating (disordered thinking) of all kinds--having suffered from this behavior and thought/feeling process herself and finding an unshakable peace within around eating, food, health and behaviors with eating.
Grace works with all kinds of compulsions, habits and addictions as they are all the same thing: a pull to some behavior, substance or activity in order to help us with our stressful feelings and thoughts.
As Byron Katie offers us (founder of The Work); when we believe what we think, it creates unnecessary suffering. When we question what we think, we feel lighter and less serious about what is. We even begin to laugh. We notice who we really are is peaceful already, a human being living life as best we can--learning, growing, loving.
In the public sessions on this youtube channel, we have all-group inquiry sessions called First Friday Inquiry, we have interviews with practitioners of The Work, we have Eating Peace videos (on the eating peace playlist) and we have individual sessions in The Work by courageous people willing to be recorded for Peace Talk podcast and this channel. Thanks to everyone involved in what is shared here on this channel, as it is great service to others in the world who find their way here and who are curious about life without "believing" thought all the time.
In all-group sessions and solo sessions, we begin with a judgment...and move into the four questions and turnarounds. Willingness to be real and honest with your thinking is the first powerful step in The Work.
No one ever has to share when attending Friday Inquiry, and thank you when you do.
For the Work With Grace programs and more information, and to get on the Grace Notes mailing list for updates and sharing of all kinds around The Work, please visit www.workwithgrace.com
To receive notice of Eating Peace programs, videos and vlog posts, visit www.workwithgrace.com/eating-peace and join the mailing list.
To join the Grace Notes family of readers right now, Grace's popular blog on using The Work of Byron Katie to grow a peaceful life, get the thorough START HERE guide to letting The Work, work right here: https://workwithgrace.leadpages.co/start-here-guidebook/
Where to find me: workwithgrace.com grace notes from the past at workingwithgrace.com https://www.facebook.com/WorkWithGrace/ https://twitter.com/ByronKatieCoach https://www.linkedin.com/in/workwithgrace/ https://www.instagram.com/byronkatiecoach/
When we believe we are right, and we MUST be right, it is stressful...and also can be difficult to let go of.
If I let go of this, I might be too passive, I might lose motivation, I might find myself lost, I might never change (gasp), says the mind.
Who would we be without thoughts about whatever is happening at all? It doesn't mean we'd be passive. We might be more active than we ever imagined.
In person retreat in Seattle is coming! August 20-24, 2024. Learn more here: https://www.workwithgrace.com/summer-retreat/
Grace Bell, facilitator of The Work, assists people to identify and question their stressful ways of looking at life.
She offers Year of Inquiry, a vibrant membership community of inquirers Sept-June each year.
Grace also has a special love for those suffering from eating issues including disordered eating (disordered thinking) of all kinds--having suffered from this behavior and thought/feeling process herself and finding an unshakable peace within around eating, food, health and behaviors with eating.
Grace works with all kinds of compulsions, habits and addictions as they are all the same thing: a pull to some behavior, substance or activity in order to help us with our stressful feelings and thoughts.
As Byron Katie offers us (founder of The Work); when we believe what we think, it creates unnecessary suffering. When we question what we think, we feel lighter and less serious about what is. We even begin to laugh. We notice who we really are is peaceful already, a human being living life as best we can--learning, growing, loving.
In the public sessions on this youtube channel, we have all-group inquiry sessions called First Friday Inquiry, we have interviews with practitioners of The Work, we have Eating Peace videos (on the eating peace playlist) and we have individual sessions in The Work by courageous people willing to be recorded for Peace Talk podcast and this channel. Thanks to everyone involved in what is shared here on this channel, as it is great service to others in the world who find their way here and who are curious about life without "believing" thought all the time.
In all-group sessions and solo sessions, we begin with a judgment...and move into the four questions and turnarounds. Willingness to be real and honest with your thinking is the first powerful step in The Work.
No one ever has to share when attending Friday Inquiry, and thank you when you do.
For the Work With Grace programs and more information, and to get on the Grace Notes mailing list for updates and sharing of all kinds around The Work, please visit www.workwithgrace.com
To receive notice of Eating Peace programs, videos and vlog posts, visit www.workwithgrace.com/eating-peace and join the mailing list.
To join the Grace Notes family of readers right now, Grace's popular blog on using The Work of Byron Katie to grow a peaceful life, get the thorough START HERE guide to letting The Work, work right here: https://workwithgrace.leadpages.co/start-here-guidebook/
Where to find me: workwithgrace.com grace notes from the past at workingwithgrace.com https://www.facebook.com/WorkWithGrace/ https://twitter.com/ByronKatieCoach https://www.linkedin.com/in/workwithgrace/ https://www.instagram.com/byronkatiecoach/
When we believe anything should stay with us, including money, we can often experience fear.
But who would we be without the story of staying, or leaving, as we notice even we ourselves move and flow all through life.
In person retreat in Seattle is coming! April 30-May 5, 2024. Learn more here: https://www.workwithgrace.com/in-person-spring-retreat/
Grace Bell, facilitator of The Work, assists people to identify and question their stressful ways of looking at life.
She offers Year of Inquiry, a vibrant membership community of inquirers Sept-June each year.
Grace also has a special love for those suffering from eating issues including disordered eating (disordered thinking) of all kinds--having suffered from this behavior and thought/feeling process herself and finding an unshakable peace within around eating, food, health and behaviors with eating.
Grace works with all kinds of compulsions, habits and addictions as they are all the same thing: a pull to some behavior, substance or activity in order to help us with our stressful feelings and thoughts.
As Byron Katie offers us (founder of The Work); when we believe what we think, it creates unnecessary suffering. When we question what we think, we feel lighter and less serious about what is. We even begin to laugh. We notice who we really are is peaceful already, a human being living life as best we can--learning, growing, loving.
In the public sessions on this youtube channel, we have all-group inquiry sessions called First Friday Inquiry, we have interviews with practitioners of The Work, we have Eating Peace videos (on the eating peace playlist) and we have individual sessions in The Work by courageous people willing to be recorded for Peace Talk podcast and this channel. Thanks to everyone involved in what is shared here on this channel, as it is great service to others in the world who find their way here and who are curious about life without "believing" thought all the time.
In all-group sessions and solo sessions, we begin with a judgment...and move into the four questions and turnarounds. Willingness to be real and honest with your thinking is the first powerful step in The Work.
No one ever has to share when attending Friday Inquiry, and thank you when you do.
For the Work With Grace programs and more information, and to get on the Grace Notes mailing list for updates and sharing of all kinds around The Work, please visit www.workwithgrace.com
To receive notice of Eating Peace programs, videos and vlog posts, visit www.workwithgrace.com/eating-peace and join the mailing list.
To join the Grace Notes family of readers right now, Grace's popular blog on using The Work of Byron Katie to grow a peaceful life, get the thorough START HERE guide to letting The Work, work right here: https://workwithgrace.leadpages.co/start-here-guidebook/
Where to find me: workwithgrace.com grace notes from the past at workingwithgrace.com https://www.facebook.com/WorkWithGrace/ https://twitter.com/ByronKatieCoach https://www.linkedin.com/in/workwithgrace/ https://www.instagram.com/byronkatiecoach/
When we believe we need to get rid of thoughts, especially very repetitive thoughts that return again and again and are painful, it can be even more stressful.
It's possible to question any thought at all. When "fat thoughts" appear, as they do for so many of us who have been plagued by concerns about acceptance and rejection of the shape of the body, it hurts.
It's possible to relax our beliefs about those thoughts themselves, while also questioning the belief "I need to stop thinking these fat thoughts".
Is it true? Can I absolutely know it's true I am fat? Can I know it's true I shouldn't keep thinking I'm fat?
Who would I be without my story?
In person retreat in Seattle is coming! April 30-May 5, 2024. Learn more here: https://www.workwithgrace.com/in-person-spring-retreat/
Grace Bell, facilitator of The Work, assists people to identify and question their stressful ways of looking at life.
She offers Year of Inquiry, a vibrant membership community of inquirers Sept-June each year.
Grace also has a special love for those suffering from eating issues including disordered eating (disordered thinking) of all kinds--having suffered from this behavior and thought/feeling process herself and finding an unshakable peace within around eating, food, health and behaviors with eating.
Grace works with all kinds of compulsions, habits and addictions as they are all the same thing: a pull to some behavior, substance or activity in order to help us with our stressful feelings and thoughts.
As Byron Katie offers us (founder of The Work); when we believe what we think, it creates unnecessary suffering. When we question what we think, we feel lighter and less serious about what is. We even begin to laugh. We notice who we really are is peaceful already, a human being living life as best we can--learning, growing, loving.
In the public sessions on this youtube channel, we have all-group inquiry sessions called First Friday Inquiry, we have interviews with practitioners of The Work, we have Eating Peace videos (on the eating peace playlist) and we have individual sessions in The Work by courageous people willing to be recorded for Peace Talk podcast and this channel. Thanks to everyone involved in what is shared here on this channel, as it is great service to others in the world who find their way here and who are curious about life without "believing" thought all the time.
In all-group sessions and solo sessions, we begin with a judgment...and move into the four questions and turnarounds. Willingness to be real and honest with your thinking is the first powerful step in The Work.
No one ever has to share when attending Friday Inquiry, and thank you when you do.
For the Work With Grace programs and more information, and to get on the Grace Notes mailing list for updates and sharing of all kinds around The Work, please visit www.workwithgrace.com
To receive notice of Eating Peace programs, videos and vlog posts, visit www.workwithgrace.com/eating-peace and join the mailing list.
To join the Grace Notes family of readers right now, Grace's popular blog on using The Work of Byron Katie to grow a peaceful life, get the thorough START HERE guide to letting The Work, work right here: https://workwithgrace.leadpages.co/start-here-guidebook/
Where to find me: workwithgrace.com grace notes from the past at workingwithgrace.com https://www.facebook.com/WorkWithGrace/ https://twitter.com/ByronKatieCoach https://www.linkedin.com/in/workwithgrace/ https://www.instagram.com/byronkatiecoach/
When we believe something in our lives that doesn't change is keeping us from the center of life itself, that this condition keeps us on the sidelines....it hurts.
We want that condition gone.
We believe we're doing something wrong, that this condition is present in our lives.
Whether it's a health condition like a disease, weight, pain or another ailment, OR this condition is a troubled primary relationship or job title....we can question our beliefs about the presence of this state of affairs in our lives, and see what possibilities can arise when we drop the story of being against What Is.
Acceptance and compassion emerges. We can trust life. We can find an open window when a door has closed.
In person retreat in Seattle is coming! April 30-May 5, 2024. Learn more here: https://www.workwithgrace.com/in-person-spring-retreat/
Grace Bell, facilitator of The Work, assists people to identify and question their stressful ways of looking at life.
She offers Year of Inquiry, a vibrant membership community of inquirers Sept-June each year.
Grace also has a special love for those suffering from eating issues including disordered eating (disordered thinking) of all kinds--having suffered from this behavior and thought/feeling process herself and finding an unshakable peace within around eating, food, health and behaviors with eating.
Grace works with all kinds of compulsions, habits and addictions as they are all the same thing: a pull to some behavior, substance or activity in order to help us with our stressful feelings and thoughts.
As Byron Katie offers us (founder of The Work); when we believe what we think, it creates unnecessary suffering. When we question what we think, we feel lighter and less serious about what is. We even begin to laugh. We notice who we really are is peaceful already, a human being living life as best we can--learning, growing, loving.
In the public sessions on this youtube channel, we have all-group inquiry sessions called First Friday Inquiry, we have interviews with practitioners of The Work, we have Eating Peace videos (on the eating peace playlist) and we have individual sessions in The Work by courageous people willing to be recorded for Peace Talk podcast and this channel. Thanks to everyone involved in what is shared here on this channel, as it is great service to others in the world who find their way here and who are curious about life without "believing" thought all the time.
In all-group sessions and solo sessions, we begin with a judgment...and move into the four questions and turnarounds. Willingness to be real and honest with your thinking is the first powerful step in The Work.
No one ever has to share when attending Friday Inquiry, and thank you when you do.
For the Work With Grace programs and more information, and to get on the Grace Notes mailing list for updates and sharing of all kinds around The Work, please visit www.workwithgrace.com
To receive notice of Eating Peace programs, videos and vlog posts, visit www.workwithgrace.com/eating-peace and join the mailing list.
To join the Grace Notes family of readers right now, Grace's popular blog on using The Work of Byron Katie to grow a peaceful life, get the thorough START HERE guide to letting The Work, work right here: https://workwithgrace.leadpages.co/start-here-guidebook/
Where to find me: workwithgrace.com grace notes from the past at workingwithgrace.com https://www.facebook.com/WorkWithGrace/ https://twitter.com/ByronKatieCoach https://www.linkedin.com/in/workwithgrace/ https://www.instagram.com/byronkatiecoach/
So many of us are familiar with the thoughts that direct attention to who we are as a person in the world, and how it's coming up short.
Then, to add to this list of shortcomings, we say we shouldn't be so self-critical, we should love ourselves.
Who would we be without this story?
Listen today as a woman finds this thought stressful, and has a motive to not be critical in order to receive the acceptance from another. So innocent the way our minds work with this story.
To join a 5 hour online retreat in The Work on February 14th, 2024 for Valentine's Day, visit here: https://www.workwithgrace.com/one-day-valentine/
Grace Bell, facilitator of The Work, assists people to identify and question their stressful ways of looking at life.
She offers Year of Inquiry, a vibrant membership community of inquirers Sept-June each year.
Grace also has a special love for those suffering from eating issues including disordered eating (disordered thinking) of all kinds--having suffered from this behavior and thought/feeling process herself and finding an unshakable peace within around eating, food, health and behaviors with eating.
Grace works with all kinds of compulsions, habits and addictions as they are all the same thing: a pull to some behavior, substance or activity in order to help us with our stressful feelings and thoughts.
As Byron Katie offers us (founder of The Work); when we believe what we think, it creates unnecessary suffering. When we question what we think, we feel lighter and less serious about what is. We even begin to laugh. We notice who we really are is peaceful already, a human being living life as best we can--learning, growing, loving.
In the public sessions on this youtube channel, we have all-group inquiry sessions called First Friday Inquiry, we have interviews with practitioners of The Work, we have Eating Peace videos (on the eating peace playlist) and we have individual sessions in The Work by courageous people willing to be recorded for Peace Talk podcast and this channel. Thanks to everyone involved in what is shared here on this channel, as it is great service to others in the world who find their way here and who are curious about life without "believing" thought all the time.
In all-group sessions and solo sessions, we begin with a judgment...and move into the four questions and turnarounds. Willingness to be real and honest with your thinking is the first powerful step in The Work.
No one ever has to share when attending Friday Inquiry, and thank you when you do.
For the Work With Grace programs and more information, and to get on the Grace Notes mailing list for updates and sharing of all kinds around The Work, please visit www.workwithgrace.com
To receive notice of Eating Peace programs, videos and vlog posts, visit www.workwithgrace.com/eating-peace and join the mailing list.
To join the Grace Notes family of readers right now, Grace's popular blog on using The Work of Byron Katie to grow a peaceful life, get the thorough START HERE guide to letting The Work, work right here: https://workwithgrace.leadpages.co/start-here-guidebook/
Where to find me: workwithgrace.com grace notes from the past at workingwithgrace.com https://www.facebook.com/WorkWithGrace/ https://twitter.com/ByronKatieCoach https://www.linkedin.com/in/workwithgrace/ https://www.instagram.com/byronkatiecoach/
Helen Amery is a coach from the UK who has created the Enlightenment Summit, along with a program following the summit where participants will explore this wonderful topic.
As one of the speakers in the summit, I enjoyed interviewing Helen on her journey and how she came to be doing what she does.
Her scientific background in chemistry at university, followed by years in the corporate world, is a fascinating backdrop to the study of enlightenment and eventually a great expansion of ways humans can meet themselves.
You can find Helen and her enlightenment summit at: https://wildfigsolutions.co.uk/2023/12/15/enlightenment-summit/
Her book is here: https://thoughtfulraven.co.uk/the-complete-book-of-awakening/
Grace Bell, facilitator of The Work, assists people to identify and question their stressful ways of looking at life.
She offers Year of Inquiry, a vibrant membership community of inquirers Sept-June each year.
Grace also has a special love for those suffering from eating issues including disordered eating (disordered thinking) of all kinds--having suffered from this behavior and thought/feeling process herself and finding an unshakable peace within around eating, food, health and behaviors with eating.
Grace works with all kinds of compulsions, habits and addictions as they are all the same thing: a pull to some behavior, substance or activity in order to help us with our stressful feelings and thoughts.
As Byron Katie offers us (founder of The Work); when we believe what we think, it creates unnecessary suffering. When we question what we think, we feel lighter and less serious about what is. We even begin to laugh. We notice who we really are is peaceful already, a human being living life as best we can--learning, growing, loving.
In the public sessions on this youtube channel, we have all-group inquiry sessions called First Friday Inquiry, we have interviews with practitioners of The Work, we have Eating Peace videos (on the eating peace playlist) and we have individual sessions in The Work by courageous people willing to be recorded for Peace Talk podcast and this channel. Thanks to everyone involved in what is shared here on this channel, as it is great service to others in the world who find their way here and who are curious about life without "believing" thought all the time.
In all-group sessions and solo sessions, we begin with a judgment...and move into the four questions and turnarounds. Willingness to be real and honest with your thinking is the first powerful step in The Work.
No one ever has to share when attending Friday Inquiry, and thank you when you do.
For the Work With Grace programs and more information, and to get on the Grace Notes mailing list for updates and sharing of all kinds around The Work, please visit www.workwithgrace.com
To receive notice of Eating Peace programs, videos and vlog posts, visit www.workwithgrace.com/eating-peace and join the mailing list.
To join the Grace Notes family of readers right now, Grace's popular blog on using The Work of Byron Katie to grow a peaceful life, get the thorough START HERE guide to letting The Work, work right here: https://workwithgrace.leadpages.co/start-here-guidebook/
Where to find me: workwithgrace.com grace notes from the past at workingwithgrace.com https://www.facebook.com/WorkWithGrace/ https://twitter.com/ByronKatieCoach https://www.linkedin.com/in/workwithgrace/ https://www.instagram.com/byronkatiecoach/
When we have a new year, we often reflect on what this new year will contain, offer, and what we'll experience.
If you have problems...we often want them solved. We want them gone.
Who would you be without the story "something is blocking my peace, happiness, dream"?
The Work of Byron Katie is a practice of self-inquiry allowing us to work with stresses appearing in the mind, and to relax with our experience of life.
Grace Bell, facilitator of The Work, assists people to identify and question their stressful ways of looking at life.
She offers Year of Inquiry, a vibrant membership community of inquirers Sept-June each year.
Grace also has a special love for those suffering from eating issues including disordered eating (disordered thinking) of all kinds--having suffered from this behavior and thought/feeling process herself and finding an unshakable peace within around eating, food, health and behaviors with eating.
Grace works with all kinds of compulsions, habits and addictions as they are all the same thing: a pull to some behavior, substance or activity in order to help us with our stressful feelings and thoughts.
As Byron Katie offers us (founder of The Work); when we believe what we think, it creates unnecessary suffering. When we question what we think, we feel lighter and less serious about what is. We even begin to laugh. We notice who we really are is peaceful already, a human being living life as best we can--learning, growing, loving.
In the public sessions on this youtube channel, we have all-group inquiry sessions called First Friday Inquiry, we have interviews with practitioners of The Work, we have Eating Peace videos (on the eating peace playlist) and we have individual sessions in The Work by courageous people willing to be recorded for Peace Talk podcast and this channel. Thanks to everyone involved in what is shared here on this channel, as it is great service to others in the world who find their way here and who are curious about life without "believing" thought all the time.
In all-group sessions and solo sessions, we begin with a judgment...and move into the four questions and turnarounds. Willingness to be real and honest with your thinking is the first powerful step in The Work.
No one ever has to share when attending Friday Inquiry, and thank you when you do.
For the Work With Grace programs and more information, and to get on the Grace Notes mailing list for updates and sharing of all kinds around The Work, please visit www.workwithgrace.com
To receive notice of Eating Peace programs, videos and vlog posts, visit www.workwithgrace.com/eating-peace and join the mailing list.
To join the Grace Notes family of readers right now, Grace's popular blog on using The Work of Byron Katie to grow a peaceful life, get the thorough START HERE guide to letting The Work, work right here: https://workwithgrace.leadpages.co/start-here-guidebook/
Where to find me: workwithgrace.com grace notes from the past at workingwithgrace.com https://www.facebook.com/WorkWithGrace/ https://twitter.com/ByronKatieCoach https://www.linkedin.com/in/workwithgrace/ https://www.instagram.com/byronkatiecoach/
We look at willpower, discipline, structure, laws, rules and resolutions....and notice how often they have failed and don't appear to work.
Yet, someone asks "does this mean I should never try to stop my behavior, I should just DO it whenever the urge arises to do it?"
This is swinging in the complete opposite direction and using the thought "willpower doesn't work" to give the excuse to just fall into a behavior that isn't ultimately what I want.
What we truly want, is for the behavior that seems to be "required" to become unnecessary and irrelevant. What we truly want is to no longer be interested in the behavior.
The only way I have found to do this is to see what I'm thinking, believing and feeling it does for me--and to investigate this.
In this video I share an exercise where you can begin.
The Work of Byron Katie is a practice of self-inquiry allowing us to work with stresses appearing in the mind, and to relax with our experience of life.
Grace Bell, facilitator of The Work, assists people to identify and question their stressful ways of looking at life.
She offers Year of Inquiry, a vibrant membership community of inquirers Sept-June each year.
Grace also has a special love for those suffering from eating issues including disordered eating (disordered thinking) of all kinds--having suffered from this behavior and thought/feeling process herself and finding an unshakable peace within around eating, food, health and behaviors with eating.
Grace works with all kinds of compulsions, habits and addictions as they are all the same thing: a pull to some behavior, substance or activity in order to help us with our stressful feelings and thoughts.
As Byron Katie offers us (founder of The Work); when we believe what we think, it creates unnecessary suffering. When we question what we think, we feel lighter and less serious about what is. We even begin to laugh. We notice who we really are is peaceful already, a human being living life as best we can--learning, growing, loving.
In the public sessions on this youtube channel, we have all-group inquiry sessions called First Friday Inquiry, we have interviews with practitioners of The Work, we have Eating Peace videos (on the eating peace playlist) and we have individual sessions in The Work by courageous people willing to be recorded for Peace Talk podcast and this channel. Thanks to everyone involved in what is shared here on this channel, as it is great service to others in the world who find their way here and who are curious about life without "believing" thought all the time.
In all-group sessions and solo sessions, we begin with a judgment...and move into the four questions and turnarounds. Willingness to be real and honest with your thinking is the first powerful step in The Work.
No one ever has to share when attending Friday Inquiry, and thank you when you do.
For the Work With Grace programs and more information, and to get on the Grace Notes mailing list for updates and sharing of all kinds around The Work, please visit www.workwithgrace.com
To receive notice of Eating Peace programs, videos and vlog posts, visit www.workwithgrace.com/eating-peace and join the mailing list.
To join the Grace Notes family of readers right now, Grace's popular blog on using The Work of Byron Katie to grow a peaceful life, get the thorough START HERE guide to letting The Work, work right here: https://workwithgrace.leadpages.co/start-here-guidebook/
Where to find me: workwithgrace.com grace notes from the past at workingwithgrace.com https://www.facebook.com/WorkWithGrace/ https://twitter.com/ByronKatieCoach https://www.linkedin.com/in/workwithgrace/ https://www.instagram.com/byronkatiecoach/
We when believe we should do, think, say, feel, act differently than we do, the internal dialogue can be very painful and vicious.
Who would we be without those thoughts?
Listen today as people share the kinds of thinking they have when they're believing they should be different than they actually are in the moment....and what it's like without the story.
The Work of Byron Katie is a practice of self-inquiry allowing us to work with stresses appearing in the mind, and to relax with our experience of life.
Grace Bell, facilitator of The Work, assists people to identify and question their stressful ways of looking at life.
She offers Year of Inquiry, a vibrant membership community of inquirers Sept-June each year.
Grace also has a special love for those suffering from eating issues including disordered eating (disordered thinking) of all kinds--having suffered from this behavior and thought/feeling process herself and finding an unshakable peace within around eating, food, health and behaviors with eating.
Grace works with all kinds of compulsions, habits and addictions as they are all the same thing: a pull to some behavior, substance or activity in order to help us with our stressful feelings and thoughts.
As Byron Katie offers us (founder of The Work); when we believe what we think, it creates unnecessary suffering. When we question what we think, we feel lighter and less serious about what is. We even begin to laugh. We notice who we really are is peaceful already, a human being living life as best we can--learning, growing, loving.
In the public sessions on this youtube channel, we have all-group inquiry sessions called First Friday Inquiry, we have interviews with practitioners of The Work, we have Eating Peace videos (on the eating peace playlist) and we have individual sessions in The Work by courageous people willing to be recorded for Peace Talk podcast and this channel. Thanks to everyone involved in what is shared here on this channel, as it is great service to others in the world who find their way here and who are curious about life without "believing" thought all the time.
In all-group sessions and solo sessions, we begin with a judgment...and move into the four questions and turnarounds. Willingness to be real and honest with your thinking is the first powerful step in The Work.
No one ever has to share when attending Friday Inquiry, and thank you when you do.
For the Work With Grace programs and more information, and to get on the Grace Notes mailing list for updates and sharing of all kinds around The Work, please visit www.workwithgrace.com
To receive notice of Eating Peace programs, videos and vlog posts, visit www.workwithgrace.com/eating-peace and join the mailing list.
To join the Grace Notes family of readers right now, Grace's popular blog on using The Work of Byron Katie to grow a peaceful life, get the thorough START HERE guide to letting The Work, work right here: https://workwithgrace.leadpages.co/start-here-guidebook/
Where to find me: workwithgrace.com grace notes from the past at workingwithgrace.com https://www.facebook.com/WorkWithGrace/ https://twitter.com/ByronKatieCoach https://www.linkedin.com/in/workwithgrace/ https://www.instagram.com/byronkatiecoach/
When we believe someone sees us as unimportant, of no consequence, and they brush us aside....how does it feel?
Listen today as a woman does The Work on a co-worker and discovers that the seeing was happening in her own mind, not his.
The Work of Byron Katie is a practice of self-inquiry allowing us to work with stresses appearing in the mind, and to relax with our experience of life.
Grace Bell, facilitator of The Work, assists people to identify and question their stressful ways of looking at life.
She offers Year of Inquiry, a vibrant membership community of inquirers Sept-June each year.
Grace also has a special love for those suffering from eating issues including disordered eating (disordered thinking) of all kinds--having suffered from this behavior and thought/feeling process herself and finding an unshakable peace within around eating, food, health and behaviors with eating.
Grace works with all kinds of compulsions, habits and addictions as they are all the same thing: a pull to some behavior, substance or activity in order to help us with our stressful feelings and thoughts.
As Byron Katie offers us (founder of The Work); when we believe what we think, it creates unnecessary suffering. When we question what we think, we feel lighter and less serious about what is. We even begin to laugh. We notice who we really are is peaceful already, a human being living life as best we can--learning, growing, loving.
In the public sessions on this youtube channel, we have all-group inquiry sessions called First Friday Inquiry, we have interviews with practitioners of The Work, we have Eating Peace videos (on the eating peace playlist) and we have individual sessions in The Work by courageous people willing to be recorded for Peace Talk podcast and this channel. Thanks to everyone involved in what is shared here on this channel, as it is great service to others in the world who find their way here and who are curious about life without "believing" thought all the time.
In all-group sessions and solo sessions, we begin with a judgment...and move into the four questions and turnarounds. Willingness to be real and honest with your thinking is the first powerful step in The Work.
No one ever has to share when attending Friday Inquiry, and thank you when you do.
For the Work With Grace programs and more information, and to get on the Grace Notes mailing list for updates and sharing of all kinds around The Work, please visit www.workwithgrace.com
To receive notice of Eating Peace programs, videos and vlog posts, visit www.workwithgrace.com/eating-peace and join the mailing list.
To join the Grace Notes family of readers right now, Grace's popular blog on using The Work of Byron Katie to grow a peaceful life, get the thorough START HERE guide to letting The Work, work right here: https://workwithgrace.leadpages.co/start-here-guidebook/
Where to find me: workwithgrace.com grace notes from the past at workingwithgrace.com https://www.facebook.com/WorkWithGrace/ https://twitter.com/ByronKatieCoach https://www.linkedin.com/in/workwithgrace/ https://www.instagram.com/byronkatiecoach/
I don't know about you, but when I've had troubling, frightening or pessimistic thoughts, my whole body has tensed and fought against them. Why am I thinking this? What's wrong with me? The mind grinds away churning out, it seems, unwanted ideas repetitively. But what if we explored that more deeply, and wondered about this "thinking" that appears so troubling? We can question the thinking specifically, but also the very idea that thoughts appear that we can't handle....that they mean something is wrong with me. Is that really true? The Work of Byron Katie is a practice of self-inquiry allowing us to work with stresses appearing in the mind, and to relax with our experience of life.
Grace Bell, facilitator of The Work, assists people to identify and question their stressful ways of looking at life.
She offers Year of Inquiry, a vibrant membership community of inquirers Sept-June each year.
Grace also has a special love for those suffering from eating issues including disordered eating (disordered thinking) of all kinds--having suffered from this behavior and thought/feeling process herself and finding an unshakable peace within around eating, food, health and behaviors with eating.
Grace works with all kinds of compulsions, habits and addictions as they are all the same thing: a pull to some behavior, substance or activity in order to help us with our stressful feelings and thoughts.
As Byron Katie offers us (founder of The Work); when we believe what we think, it creates unnecessary suffering. When we question what we think, we feel lighter and less serious about what is. We even begin to laugh. We notice who we really are is peaceful already, a human being living life as best we can--learning, growing, loving.
In the public sessions on this youtube channel, we have all-group inquiry sessions called First Friday Inquiry, we have interviews with practitioners of The Work, we have Eating Peace videos (on the eating peace playlist) and we have individual sessions in The Work by courageous people willing to be recorded for Peace Talk podcast and this channel. Thanks to everyone involved in what is shared here on this channel, as it is great service to others in the world who find their way here and who are curious about life without "believing" thought all the time.
In all-group sessions and solo sessions, we begin with a judgment...and move into the four questions and turnarounds. Willingness to be real and honest with your thinking is the first powerful step in The Work.
No one ever has to share when attending Friday Inquiry, and thank you when you do.
For the Work With Grace programs and more information, and to get on the Grace Notes mailing list for updates and sharing of all kinds around The Work, please visit www.workwithgrace.com
To receive notice of Eating Peace programs, videos and vlog posts, visit www.workwithgrace.com/eating-peace and join the mailing list.
To join the Grace Notes family of readers right now, Grace's popular blog on using The Work of Byron Katie to grow a peaceful life, get the thorough START HERE guide to letting The Work, work right here: https://workwithgrace.leadpages.co/start-here-guidebook/
Where to find me: workwithgrace.com grace notes from the past at workingwithgrace.com https://www.facebook.com/WorkWithGrace/ https://twitter.com/ByronKatieCoach https://www.linkedin.com/in/workwithgrace/ https://www.instagram.com/byronkatiecoach/
Thousands of people have encountered and practiced The Work since it was first offered as a simple self-inquiry method by Byron Katie in the late 1980s/early 1990s.
While the questions are similar to a deep exploration of life, being human, and personal thought....the process called The Work has made it very simple in a step-by-step format, especially good for when the mind is spinning.
But what happens with many of us when we just do NOT keep engaging in the practice? We know meditation is good for us, but we drop it and get busy, and drift away from being with ourselves in silence more and more.
This is very normal, and very common in a busy thinking mind. When we're identified with whatever the mind is saying, we get caught in its sweetness and terribleness. Oh the drama!
Who would we be without our stories? Just coming back, into inquiry, noticing how much we like to notice, and how curious we really are.
The Work of Byron Katie is a practice of self-inquiry allowing us to work with stresses appearing in the mind, and to relax with our experience of life.
Grace Bell, facilitator of The Work, assists people to identify and question their stressful ways of looking at life.
She offers Year of Inquiry, a vibrant membership community of inquirers Sept-June each year.
Grace also has a special love for those suffering from eating issues including disordered eating (disordered thinking) of all kinds--having suffered from this behavior and thought/feeling process herself and finding an unshakable peace within around eating, food, health and behaviors with eating.
Grace works with all kinds of compulsions, habits and addictions as they are all the same thing: a pull to some behavior, substance or activity in order to help us with our stressful feelings and thoughts.
As Byron Katie offers us (founder of The Work); when we believe what we think, it creates unnecessary suffering. When we question what we think, we feel lighter and less serious about what is. We even begin to laugh. We notice who we really are is peaceful already, a human being living life as best we can--learning, growing, loving.
In the public sessions on this youtube channel, we have all-group inquiry sessions called First Friday Inquiry, we have interviews with practitioners of The Work, we have Eating Peace videos (on the eating peace playlist) and we have individual sessions in The Work by courageous people willing to be recorded for Peace Talk podcast and this channel. Thanks to everyone involved in what is shared here on this channel, as it is great service to others in the world who find their way here and who are curious about life without "believing" thought all the time.
In all-group sessions and solo sessions, we begin with a judgment...and move into the four questions and turnarounds.
Willingness to be real and honest with your thinking is the first powerful step in The Work.
No one ever has to share when attending Friday Inquiry, and thank you when you do.
For the Work With Grace programs and more information, and to get on the Grace Notes mailing list for updates and sharing of all kinds around The Work, please visit www.workwithgrace.com
To receive notice of Eating Peace programs, videos and vlog posts, visit www.workwithgrace.com/eating-peace and join the mailing list.
To join the Grace Notes family of readers right now, Grace's popular blog on using The Work of Byron Katie to grow a peaceful life, get the thorough START HERE guide to letting The Work, work right here: https://workwithgrace.leadpages.co/start-here-guidebook/
Where to find me:
workwithgrace.com
grace notes from the past at workingwithgrace.com
https://www.facebook.com/WorkWithGrace/
https://twitter.com/ByronKatieCoach
https://www.linkedin.com/in/workwithgrace/
https://www.instagram.com/byronkatiecoach/
When we have some kind of behavior, feeling or stressful story we don't like, and it keeps reappearing as a form of self-sabotage or suffering, we can get really, really frustrated.
What if we tried inquiring instead? And how would I do this?
Here's one inquiry that may help most of all, and it will seem very strange since it might be the opposite approach to how you've been thinking about this issue.
The Work of Byron Katie is a practice of self-inquiry allowing us to work with stresses appearing in the mind, and to relax with our experience of life.
Grace Bell, facilitator of The Work, assists people to identify and question their stressful ways of looking at life.
She offers Year of Inquiry, a vibrant membership community of inquirers Sept-June each year.
Grace also has a special love for those suffering from eating issues including disordered eating (disordered thinking) of all kinds--having suffered from this behavior and thought/feeling process herself and finding an unshakable peace within around eating, food, health and behaviors with eating.
Grace works with all kinds of compulsions, habits and addictions as they are all the same thing: a pull to some behavior, substance or activity in order to help us with our stressful feelings and thoughts.
As Byron Katie offers us (founder of The Work); when we believe what we think, it creates unnecessary suffering. When we question what we think, we feel lighter and less serious about what is. We even begin to laugh. We notice who we really are is peaceful already, a human being living life as best we can--learning, growing, loving.
In the public sessions on this youtube channel, we have all-group inquiry sessions called First Friday Inquiry, we have interviews with practitioners of The Work, we have Eating Peace videos (on the eating peace playlist) and we have individual sessions in The Work by courageous people willing to be recorded for Peace Talk podcast and this channel. Thanks to everyone involved in what is shared here on this channel, as it is great service to others in the world who find their way here and who are curious about life without "believing" thought all the time.
In all-group sessions and solo sessions, we begin with a judgment...and move into the four questions and turnarounds. Willingness to be real and honest with your thinking is the first powerful step in The Work.
No one ever has to share when attending Friday Inquiry, and thank you when you do.
For the Work With Grace programs and more information, and to get on the Grace Notes mailing list for updates and sharing of all kinds around The Work, please visit www.workwithgrace.com
To receive notice of Eating Peace programs, videos and vlog posts, visit www.workwithgrace.com/eating-peace and join the mailing list.
To join the Grace Notes family of readers right now, Grace's popular blog on using The Work of Byron Katie to grow a peaceful life, get the thorough START HERE guide to letting The Work, work right here: https://workwithgrace.leadpages.co/start-here-guidebook/
Where to find me: workwithgrace.com grace notes from the past at workingwithgrace.com https://www.facebook.com/WorkWithGrace/ https://twitter.com/ByronKatieCoach https://www.linkedin.com/in/workwithgrace/ https://www.instagram.com/byronkatiecoach/
First Friday is an open interactive experiential session offered to the general public, using The Work of Byron Katie as the primary modality of investigation and self-realization.
In this session, a man whose wife has been diagnosed with breast cancer shares his fear and despair and his thoughts about cancer--and how it causes long-term suffering. Other people also shared their own experiences of targeting a cause of suffering (divorce, anxiety, compulsive eating, abandonment, child, husband, spouse).
Is it the event, thing or person over there who is causing suffering long term? Or is it my thoughts about that event, condition, thing or person that causes long-term suffering?
Amazing to see what happens.
The Work of Byron Katie is a practice of self-inquiry allowing us to work with stresses appearing in the mind, and to relax with our experience of life.
Grace Bell, facilitator of The Work, assists people to identify and question their stressful ways of looking at life.
She offers Year of Inquiry, a vibrant membership community of inquirers Sept-June each year.
Grace also has a special love for those suffering from eating issues including disordered eating (disordered thinking) of all kinds--having suffered from this behavior and thought/feeling process herself and finding an unshakable peace within around eating, food, health and behaviors with eating.
Grace works with all kinds of compulsions, habits and addictions as they are all the same thing: a pull to some behavior, substance or activity in order to help us with our stressful feelings and thoughts.
As Byron Katie offers us (founder of The Work); when we believe what we think, it creates unnecessary suffering. When we question what we think, we feel lighter and less serious about what is. We even begin to laugh. We notice who we really are is peaceful already, a human being living life as best we can--learning, growing, loving.
In the public sessions on this youtube channel, we have all-group inquiry sessions called First Friday Inquiry, we have interviews with practitioners of The Work, we have Eating Peace videos (on the eating peace playlist) and we have individual sessions in The Work by courageous people willing to be recorded for Peace Talk podcast and this channel. Thanks to everyone involved in what is shared here on this channel, as it is great service to others in the world who find their way here and who are curious about life without "believing" thought all the time.
In all-group sessions and solo sessions, we begin with a judgment...and move into the four questions and turnarounds. Willingness to be real and honest with your thinking is the first powerful step in The Work.
No one ever has to share when attending Friday Inquiry, and thank you when you do.
For the Work With Grace programs and more information, and to get on the Grace Notes mailing list for updates and sharing of all kinds around The Work, please visit www.workwithgrace.com
To receive notice of Eating Peace programs, videos and vlog posts, visit www.workwithgrace.com/eating-peace and join the mailing list.
To join the Grace Notes family of readers right now, Grace's popular blog on using The Work of Byron Katie to grow a peaceful life, get the thorough START HERE guide to letting The Work, work right here: https://workwithgrace.leadpages.co/start-here-guidebook/
Where to find me: workwithgrace.com grace notes from the past at workingwithgrace.com https://www.facebook.com/WorkWithGrace/ https://twitter.com/ByronKatieCoach https://www.linkedin.com/in/workwithgrace/ https://www.instagram.com/byronkatiecoach/
A reader asked a profound question about The Work of Byron Katie: What is Katie speaking of when she says the universe is friendly? It sure doesn't seem like it is. Have you noticed all the death, cancer, hardship, suffering? Listen to my answer here. The Work of Byron Katie is a practice of self-inquiry allowing us to work with stresses appearing in the mind, and to relax with our experience of life.
Grace Bell, facilitator of The Work, assists people to identify and question their stressful ways of looking at life.
She offers Year of Inquiry, a vibrant membership community of inquirers Sept-June each year.
Grace also has a special love for those suffering from self-sabotage and eating issues including disordered eating (disordered thinking) of all kinds--having suffered from this behavior and thought/feeling process herself and finding an unshakable peace within around eating, food, health and behaviors with eating.
Grace works with all kinds of compulsions, habits and addictions as they are all the same thing: a pull to some behavior, substance or activity in order to help us with our stressful feelings and thoughts.
To watch a mini-workshop about healing self-sabotage with self-inquiry, visit this link here: https://try.workwithgrace.com/mini-workshop-live
As Byron Katie offers us (founder of The Work); when we believe what we think, it creates unnecessary suffering. When we question what we think, we feel lighter and less serious about what is. We even begin to laugh. We notice who we really are is peaceful already, a human being living life as best we can--learning, growing, loving.
In the public sessions on this youtube channel, we have all-group inquiry sessions called First Friday Inquiry, we have interviews with practitioners of The Work, we have Eating Peace videos (on the eating peace playlist) and we have individual sessions in The Work by courageous people willing to be recorded for Peace Talk podcast and this channel. Thanks to everyone involved in what is shared here on this channel, as it is great service to others in the world who find their way here and who are curious about life without "believing" thought all the time.
In all-group sessions and solo sessions, we begin with a judgment...and move into the four questions and turnarounds.
Willingness to be real and honest with your thinking is the first powerful step in The Work.
No one ever has to share when attending Friday Inquiry, and thank you when you do.
For the Work With Grace programs and more information, and to get on the Grace Notes mailing list for updates and sharing of all kinds around The Work, please visit www.workwithgrace.com
To receive notice of Eating Peace programs, videos and vlog posts, visit www.workwithgrace.com/eating-peace and join the mailing list.
To join the Grace Notes family of readers right now, Grace's popular blog on using The Work of Byron Katie to grow a peaceful life, get the thorough START HERE guide to letting The Work, work right here: https://workwithgrace.leadpages.co/start-here-guidebook/
Where to find me:
workwithgrace.com
grace notes from the past at workingwithgrace.com
https://www.facebook.com/WorkWithGrace/
https://twitter.com/ByronKatieCoach
https://www.linkedin.com/in/workwithgrace/
https://www.instagram.com/byronkatiecoach/
When we overeat, over-drink, over-spend, over-screen, over-porn, over-think....we're certainly noticing a struggle with ourselves.
There can be great wisdom in seeing this, and wondering about it all relates to the body, our nervous systems, a sense of the physical aspect of being.
People refer often to "somatic" experiences in the process of healing and therapy.
This means to make full contact with the body and its communication. To experience emotions in the body, feelings, sensations, tiny movements.
But do we need to actively regulate our nervous system?
It can really help to know how to calm ourselves down, and we can also question anything stressful about our approach to this process; in this case, "I" have to regulate my nervous system. Or I "have to" regulate my nervous system.
I love seeing that while I want to be a great co-partner in allowing the body and mind to calm down, it is also actively calming down without having to do anything really.
The, the "over-doing" might be a way we've gotten used to helping things calm down, but I love questioning the belief that the activated or calming down experiences are who we are.
The Work of Byron Katie is a practice of self-inquiry allowing us to work with stresses appearing in the mind, and to relax with our experience of life.
Grace Bell, facilitator of The Work, assists people to identify and question their stressful ways of looking at life.
She offers Year of Inquiry, a vibrant membership community of inquirers Sept-June each year.
Grace also has a special love for those suffering from self-sabotage and eating issues including disordered eating (disordered thinking) of all kinds--having suffered from this behavior and thought/feeling process herself and finding an unshakable peace within around eating, food, health and behaviors with eating.
Grace works with all kinds of compulsions, habits and addictions as they are all the same thing: a pull to some behavior, substance or activity in order to help us with our stressful feelings and thoughts.
To watch a mini-workshop about healing self-sabotage with self-inquiry, visit this link here: https://try.workwithgrace.com/mini-workshop
As Byron Katie offers us (founder of The Work); when we believe what we think, it creates unnecessary suffering. When we question what we think, we feel lighter and less serious about what is. We even begin to laugh. We notice who we really are is peaceful already, a human being living life as best we can--learning, growing, loving.
In the public sessions on this youtube channel, we have all-group inquiry sessions called First Friday Inquiry, we have interviews with practitioners of The Work, we have Eating Peace videos (on the eating peace playlist) and we have individual sessions in The Work by courageous people willing to be recorded for Peace Talk podcast and this channel. Thanks to everyone involved in what is shared here on this channel, as it is great service to others in the world who find their way here and who are curious about life without "believing" thought all the time.
In all-group sessions and solo sessions, we begin with a judgment...and move into the four questions and turnarounds.
Willingness to be real and honest with your thinking is the first powerful step in The Work.
No one ever has to share when attending Friday Inquiry, and thank you when you do.
For the Work With Grace programs and more information, and to get on the Grace Notes mailing list for updates and sharing of all kinds around The Work, please visit www.workwithgrace.com
To receive notice of Eating Peace programs, videos and vlog posts, visit www.workwithgrace.com/eating-peace and join the mailing list.
To join the Grace Notes family of readers right now, Grace's popular blog on using The Work of Byron Katie to grow a peaceful life, get the thorough START HERE guide to letting The Work, work right here: https://workwithgrace.leadpages.co/start-here-guidebook/
Where to find me:
workwithgrace.com
grace notes from the past at workingwithgrace.com
https://www.facebook.com/WorkWithGrace/
https://twitter.com/ByronKatieCoach
https://www.linkedin.com/in/workwithgrace/
https://www.instagram.com/byronkatiecoach/
A great question from a listener: Does doing The Work really matter, or make a difference?
Listen here.
The Work of Byron Katie is a practice of self-inquiry allowing us to work with stresses appearing in the mind, and to relax with our experience of life.
Grace Bell, facilitator of The Work, assists people to identify and question their stressful ways of looking at life.
She offers Year of Inquiry, a vibrant membership community of inquirers Sept-June each year.
Grace also has a special love for those suffering from self-sabotage and eating issues including disordered eating (disordered thinking) of all kinds--having suffered from this behavior and thought/feeling process herself and finding an unshakable peace within around eating, food, health and behaviors with eating.
Grace works with all kinds of compulsions, habits and addictions as they are all the same thing: a pull to some behavior, substance or activity in order to help us with our stressful feelings and thoughts.
To watch a mini-workshop about healing self-sabotage with self-inquiry, visit this link here: https://try.workwithgrace.com/mini-workshop
As Byron Katie offers us (founder of The Work); when we believe what we think, it creates unnecessary suffering. When we question what we think, we feel lighter and less serious about what is. We even begin to laugh. We notice who we really are is peaceful already, a human being living life as best we can--learning, growing, loving.
In the public sessions on this youtube channel, we have all-group inquiry sessions called First Friday Inquiry, we have interviews with practitioners of The Work, we have Eating Peace videos (on the eating peace playlist) and we have individual sessions in The Work by courageous people willing to be recorded for Peace Talk podcast and this channel. Thanks to everyone involved in what is shared here on this channel, as it is great service to others in the world who find their way here and who are curious about life without "believing" thought all the time.
In all-group sessions and solo sessions, we begin with a judgment...and move into the four questions and turnarounds.
Willingness to be real and honest with your thinking is the first powerful step in The Work.
No one ever has to share when attending Friday Inquiry, and thank you when you do.
For the Work With Grace programs and more information, and to get on the Grace Notes mailing list for updates and sharing of all kinds around The Work, please visit www.workwithgrace.com
To receive notice of Eating Peace programs, videos and vlog posts, visit www.workwithgrace.com/eating-peace and join the mailing list.
To join the Grace Notes family of readers right now, Grace's popular blog on using The Work of Byron Katie to grow a peaceful life, get the thorough START HERE guide to letting The Work, work right here: https://workwithgrace.leadpages.co/start-here-guidebook/
Where to find me:
workwithgrace.com
grace notes from the past at workingwithgrace.com
https://www.facebook.com/WorkWithGrace/
https://twitter.com/ByronKatieCoach
https://www.linkedin.com/in/workwithgrace/
https://www.instagram.com/byronkatiecoach/
Once a month, anyone can join a live open interactive session in The Work of Byron Katie with long-time Facilitator Grace Bell. Open to anyone interested in questioning their stressful thinking, we always have an amazing time for the hour we're together.
Today, a lovely inquirer brings his perspective on seeing his partner of 50 years ailing and weakening. His thought? "She is sick".
Incredible to watch what happens, and how afraid or angry we become, when someone we love so much may die.
Want to join First Friday? Get on Grace's mailing to list to receive the zoom link every month when we meet. It's entirely free.
The Work of Byron Katie is a practice of self-inquiry allowing us to work with stresses appearing in the mind, and to relax with our experience of life.
Grace Bell, facilitator of The Work, assists people to identify and question their stressful ways of looking at life.
She offers Year of Inquiry, a vibrant membership community of inquirers Sept-June each year.
Grace also has a special love for those suffering from eating issues including disordered eating (disordered thinking) of all kinds--having suffered from this behavior and thought/feeling process herself and finding an unshakable peace within around eating, food, health and behaviors with eating.
Grace works with all kinds of compulsions, habits and addictions as they are all the same thing: a pull to some behavior, substance or activity in order to help us with our stressful feelings and thoughts.
As Byron Katie offers us (founder of The Work); when we believe what we think, it creates unnecessary suffering. When we question what we think, we feel lighter and less serious about what is. We even begin to laugh. We notice who we really are is peaceful already, a human being living life as best we can--learning, growing, loving.
In the public sessions on this youtube channel, we have all-group inquiry sessions called First Friday Inquiry, we have interviews with practitioners of The Work, we have Eating Peace videos (on the eating peace playlist) and we have individual sessions in The Work by courageous people willing to be recorded for Peace Talk podcast and this channel. Thanks to everyone involved in what is shared here on this channel, as it is great service to others in the world who find their way here and who are curious about life without "believing" thought all the time.
In all-group sessions and solo sessions, we begin with a judgment...and move into the four questions and turnarounds.
Willingness to be real and honest with your thinking is the first powerful step in The Work.
No one ever has to share when attending Friday Inquiry, and thank you when you do.
For the Work With Grace programs and more information, and to get on the Grace Notes mailing list for updates and sharing of all kinds around The Work, please visit www.workwithgrace.com
To receive notice of Eating Peace programs, videos and vlog posts, visit www.workwithgrace.com/eating-peace and join the mailing list.
To join the Grace Notes family of readers right now, Grace's popular blog on using The Work of Byron Katie to grow a peaceful life, get the thorough START HERE guide to letting The Work, work right here: https://workwithgrace.leadpages.co/start-here-guidebook/
Where to find me:
workwithgrace.com
grace notes from the past at workingwithgrace.com
https://www.facebook.com/WorkWithGrace/
https://twitter.com/ByronKatieCoach
https://www.linkedin.com/in/workwithgrace/
https://www.instagram.com/byronkatiecoach/
What if nothing out there in the world needed to change, in order for me to feel love, peace or happiness?
I love Carl Jung's quote: "In every disorder, is a secret order." It almost seems automatic to look at most things with the idea in mind that it shouldn't be the way it is: circumstances, people, our behaviors and troubling habits, our body shape and size, our past...difficult events that have happened. What if just for a moment we questioned that thought? When we question underlying beliefs like this one, it helps point us in the direction of freedom and peace. We are not dependent on life or the world--or even ourselves--changing, in order to be at peace, to be comfortable. The Work of Byron Katie is a practice of self-inquiry allowing us to work with stresses appearing in the mind, and to relax with our experience of life.
Grace Bell, facilitator of The Work, assists people to identify and question their stressful ways of looking at life.
She offers Year of Inquiry, a vibrant membership community of inquirers Sept-June each year.
Grace also has a special love for those suffering from self-sabotage and eating issues including disordered eating (disordered thinking) of all kinds--having suffered from this behavior and thought/feeling process herself and finding an unshakable peace within around eating, food, health and behaviors with eating.
Grace works with all kinds of compulsions, habits and addictions as they are all the same thing: a pull to some behavior, substance or activity in order to help us with our stressful feelings and thoughts.
To watch a mini-workshop about healing self-sabotage with self-inquiry, visit this link here: https://try.workwithgrace.com/mini-workshop
As Byron Katie offers us (founder of The Work); when we believe what we think, it creates unnecessary suffering. When we question what we think, we feel lighter and less serious about what is. We even begin to laugh. We notice who we really are is peaceful already, a human being living life as best we can--learning, growing, loving.
In the public sessions on this youtube channel, we have all-group inquiry sessions called First Friday Inquiry, we have interviews with practitioners of The Work, we have Eating Peace videos (on the eating peace playlist) and we have individual sessions in The Work by courageous people willing to be recorded for Peace Talk podcast and this channel. Thanks to everyone involved in what is shared here on this channel, as it is great service to others in the world who find their way here and who are curious about life without "believing" thought all the time.
In all-group sessions and solo sessions, we begin with a judgment...and move into the four questions and turnarounds.
Willingness to be real and honest with your thinking is the first powerful step in The Work.
No one ever has to share when attending Friday Inquiry, and thank you when you do.
For the Work With Grace programs and more information, and to get on the Grace Notes mailing list for updates and sharing of all kinds around The Work, please visit www.workwithgrace.com
To receive notice of Eating Peace programs, videos and vlog posts, visit www.workwithgrace.com/eating-peace and join the mailing list.
To join the Grace Notes family of readers right now, Grace's popular blog on using The Work of Byron Katie to grow a peaceful life, get the thorough START HERE guide to letting The Work, work right here: https://workwithgrace.leadpages.co/start-here-guidebook/
Where to find me:
workwithgrace.com
grace notes from the past at workingwithgrace.com
https://www.facebook.com/WorkWithGrace/
https://twitter.com/ByronKatieCoach
https://www.linkedin.com/in/workwithgrace/
https://www.instagram.com/byronkatiecoach/
When we're going to get something that we need, there's a movement towards it that's very natural. We need water, we make our way towards the source of water (the kitchen sink, the water cooler). It's natural. What's happening when we move towards something that doesn't wind up feeling good, that actually hurts us in some way, where discouragement is the consequence even though we've done or taken or gotten the thing? A great question: how do I stop when satisfied? Is there a method, a series of steps, a way we can work with this "something" we want so we can have the feeling of satisfaction? The good news is, something is already at peace right here within, in every moment. Something is already OK with not hunting for satisfaction out there, elsewhere. Can we be with the one who is not satisfied? Yes, like a compassionate parent with a little child. Nothing is guaranteed to be a "good" outcome, and still, the mother/father can be with the one who is disappointed, afraid, upset. The Work of Byron Katie is a practice of self-inquiry allowing us to work with stresses appearing in the mind, and to relax with our experience of life.
Grace Bell, facilitator of The Work, assists people to identify and question their stressful ways of looking at life.
She offers Year of Inquiry, a vibrant membership community of inquirers Sept-June each year.
Grace also has a special love for those suffering from self-sabotage and eating issues including disordered eating (disordered thinking) of all kinds--having suffered from this behavior and thought/feeling process herself and finding an unshakable peace within around eating, food, health and behaviors with eating.
Grace works with all kinds of compulsions, habits and addictions as they are all the same thing: a pull to some behavior, substance or activity in order to help us with our stressful feelings and thoughts.
To watch a mini-workshop about healing self-sabotage with self-inquiry, visit this link here: https://workwithgrace.lpages.co/self-sabotage-mini-workshop/
As Byron Katie offers us (founder of The Work); when we believe what we think, it creates unnecessary suffering. When we question what we think, we feel lighter and less serious about what is. We even begin to laugh. We notice who we really are is peaceful already, a human being living life as best we can--learning, growing, loving.
In the public sessions on this youtube channel, we have all-group inquiry sessions called First Friday Inquiry, we have interviews with practitioners of The Work, we have Eating Peace videos (on the eating peace playlist) and we have individual sessions in The Work by courageous people willing to be recorded for Peace Talk podcast and this channel. Thanks to everyone involved in what is shared here on this channel, as it is great service to others in the world who find their way here and who are curious about life without "believing" thought all the time.
In all-group sessions and solo sessions, we begin with a judgment...and move into the four questions and turnarounds.
Willingness to be real and honest with your thinking is the first powerful step in The Work.
No one ever has to share when attending Friday Inquiry, and thank you when you do.
For the Work With Grace programs and more information, and to get on the Grace Notes mailing list for updates and sharing of all kinds around The Work, please visit www.workwithgrace.com
To receive notice of Eating Peace programs, videos and vlog posts, visit www.workwithgrace.com/eating-peace and join the mailing list.
To join the Grace Notes family of readers right now, Grace's popular blog on using The Work of Byron Katie to grow a peaceful life, get the thorough START HERE guide to letting The Work, work right here: https://workwithgrace.leadpages.co/start-here-guidebook/
Where to find me:
workwithgrace.com
grace notes from the past at workingwithgrace.com
https://www.facebook.com/WorkWithGrace/
https://twitter.com/ByronKatieCoach
https://www.linkedin.com/in/workwithgrace/
https://www.instagram.com/byronkatiecoach/
If you've heard of A Course in Miracles, you might have noticed a lot of what is shared in the course texts is very similar to what is seen when we question our thinking.
Perhaps this is true about many spiritual texts and teachings over the lifetime of the human race. They are pointing to something intangible yet peaceful, something beyond thought or the stream of thinking we get so involved in.
Anything you find in life that works for you is so wonderful.
One quote from the course very similar to The Work is "what you think you are, is a belief to be undone."
In many ways, both the Course and The Work are about relaxing the experience of thought itself--allowing it to be the way it is, and being open to the great and miraculous Don't Know space we all have access to.
When we ask "who am I without my thought?" I have the opportunity to feel and be with what's here when I don't have a thought about it.
The Work of Byron Katie is a practice of self-inquiry allowing us to work with stresses appearing in the mind, and to relax with our experience of life.
Grace Bell, facilitator of The Work, assists people to identify and question their stressful ways of looking at life.
She offers Year of Inquiry, a vibrant membership community of inquirers Sept-June each year.
Grace also has a special love for those suffering from self-sabotage and eating issues including disordered eating (disordered thinking) of all kinds--having suffered from this behavior and thought/feeling process herself and finding an unshakable peace within around eating, food, health and behaviors with eating.
Grace works with all kinds of compulsions, habits and addictions as they are all the same thing: a pull to some behavior, substance or activity in order to help us with our stressful feelings and thoughts.
To watch a mini-workshop about healing self-sabotage with self-inquiry, visit this link here: https://workwithgrace.lpages.co/self-sabotage-mini-workshop/
As Byron Katie offers us (founder of The Work); when we believe what we think, it creates unnecessary suffering. When we question what we think, we feel lighter and less serious about what is. We even begin to laugh. We notice who we really are is peaceful already, a human being living life as best we can--learning, growing, loving.
In the public sessions on this youtube channel, we have all-group inquiry sessions called First Friday Inquiry, we have interviews with practitioners of The Work, we have Eating Peace videos (on the eating peace playlist) and we have individual sessions in The Work by courageous people willing to be recorded for Peace Talk podcast and this channel. Thanks to everyone involved in what is shared here on this channel, as it is great service to others in the world who find their way here and who are curious about life without "believing" thought all the time.
In all-group sessions and solo sessions, we begin with a judgment...and move into the four questions and turnarounds.
Willingness to be real and honest with your thinking is the first powerful step in The Work.
No one ever has to share when attending Friday Inquiry, and thank you when you do.
For the Work With Grace programs and more information, and to get on the Grace Notes mailing list for updates and sharing of all kinds around The Work, please visit www.workwithgrace.com
To receive notice of Eating Peace programs, videos and vlog posts, visit www.workwithgrace.com/eating-peace and join the mailing list.
To join the Grace Notes family of readers right now, Grace's popular blog on using The Work of Byron Katie to grow a peaceful life, get the thorough START HERE guide to letting The Work, work right here: https://workwithgrace.leadpages.co/start-here-guidebook/
Where to find me:
workwithgrace.com
grace notes from the past at workingwithgrace.com
https://www.facebook.com/WorkWithGrace/
https://twitter.com/ByronKatieCoach
https://www.linkedin.com/in/workwithgrace/
https://www.instagram.com/byronkatiecoach/
When we interact with groups, family members, friends, neighbors, whole cities, religious organizations, political clubs....
....we often judge.
What happens when we believe the thought "we do NOT have much in common"?
Listen as someone leads the way through this belief, and the group assembled joins in and offers their own perspective, which is so very useful.
Who we are without our stories is so kind, compassionate, and even interested in "those other people". Or not. All of it is OK.
July 9, 2023: Self-Sabotage Mini Workshop (FREE). Sign up for it here: https://workwithgrace.lpages.co/eating-peace-mini-workshop/
Get on the Grace Notes newsletter mailing list to learn about Grace's work and upcoming events, and other support for questioning our thinking patterns when we feel stuck. https://workwithgrace.lpages.co/sign-up-for-grace-notes-in-your-inbox/
Upcoming fall in-person retreat October 26-31, 2023 Washington state near Bremerton in the woods with a lake-front dock. Join me!
If you'd like help with emotional eating or compulsive eating, see the map I created I call the Nine Step Eating Peace Framework here:
https://workwithgrace.lpages.co/eating-peace-framework/
For more information about the Eating Peace Method, visit here:
https://www.workwithgrace.com/eating-peace-process/
Grace Bell, Certified Facilitator of The Work since 2007, has a private practice both online and in person, assisting people from all walks of life to identify and question their interpretations around their experience. She has a special love and specific programs for those suffering from eating issues including disordered eating (disordered thinking) of all kinds--having suffered from this behavior and thought/feeling process herself and finding an unshakable peace within around eating, food, health and behaviors with eating.
As Byron Katie offers us (founder of The Work); when we believe what we think, it creates unnecessary suffering. When we question what we think, we feel lighter and less serious about what is. We even begin to laugh. We notice who we really are is peaceful already, a human being living life as best we can--learning, growing, loving.
To receive notice of Eating Peace programs, videos and vlog posts, visit www.workwithgrace.com/eating-peace and join the mailing list.
To join the Grace Notes family of readers right now, Grace's popular blog on using The Work of Byron Katie to grow a peaceful life, get the thorough START HERE guide to letting The Work, work right here: https://workwithgrace.leadpages.co/start-here-guidebook/
Where to find me:
workwithgrace.com
grace notes from the past at workingwithgrace.com
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/WorkWithGrace/
Twitter https://twitter.com/ByronKatieCoach
Linked In https://www.linkedin.com/in/workwithgrace/
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/byronkatiecoach/
Peace Talk Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/4lXVzolTYOfDHztrNPCWVM?si=760a1d7b588a4344
An inquirer asks: "I'm at a stage where I've questioned a lot and had some real insights, but I still find it hard in the moment sometimes not to be seduced by the ego into believing images of past/future. I don't feel that I have the strength/energy/bandwidth to make that leap into living the turn arounds. Honestly it might take a change in priorities which also feels scary and stressful in its own way."
I see a few wonderful things in this question that may help, if you've had some of the same kinds of thoughts appear:
- My relationship with thought itself
- What I believe is necessary to overcome this (strength/bandwidth)
- The change will ask me to do something scary
So much beautiful information here, so helpful for us to find the clues into insight and awareness. It can be like a hidden treasure, buried somewhere...and making the discovery that life wants to reveal for us.
Who would you be without the story that you don't have what it takes...and what it takes, furthermore, is too frightening?
July 9, 2023: Self-Sabotage Mini Workshop (FREE). Sign up for it here: https://workwithgrace.lpages.co/eating-peace-mini-workshop/
Get on the Grace Notes newsletter mailing list to learn about Grace's work and upcoming events, and other support for questioning our thinking patterns when we feel stuck. https://workwithgrace.lpages.co/sign-up-for-grace-notes-in-your-inbox/
Upcoming fall in-person retreat October 26-31, 2023 Washington state near Bremerton in the woods with a lake-front dock. Join me!
If you'd like help with emotional eating or compulsive eating, see the map I created I call the Nine Step Eating Peace Framework here:
https://workwithgrace.lpages.co/eating-peace-framework/
For more information about the Eating Peace Method, visit here:
https://www.workwithgrace.com/eating-peace-process/
Grace Bell, Certified Facilitator of The Work since 2007, has a private practice both online and in person, assisting people from all walks of life to identify and question their interpretations around their experience. She has a special love and specific programs for those suffering from eating issues including disordered eating (disordered thinking) of all kinds--having suffered from this behavior and thought/feeling process herself and finding an unshakable peace within around eating, food, health and behaviors with eating.
As Byron Katie offers us (founder of The Work); when we believe what we think, it creates unnecessary suffering. When we question what we think, we feel lighter and less serious about what is. We even begin to laugh. We notice who we really are is peaceful already, a human being living life as best we can--learning, growing, loving.
To receive notice of Eating Peace programs, videos and vlog posts, visit www.workwithgrace.com/eating-peace and join the mailing list.
To join the Grace Notes family of readers right now, Grace's popular blog on using The Work of Byron Katie to grow a peaceful life, get the thorough START HERE guide to letting The Work, work right here: https://workwithgrace.leadpages.co/start-here-guidebook/
Where to find me:
workwithgrace.com
grace notes from the past at workingwithgrace.com
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/WorkWithGrace/
Twitter https://twitter.com/ByronKatieCoach
Linked In https://www.linkedin.com/in/workwithgrace/
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/byronkatiecoach/
Peace Talk Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/4lXVzolTYOfDHztrNPCWVM?si=760a1d7b588a4344
Q&A Tuesday: A listener asks "How do I accept my body with my heart (and not just intellectually)?
In some ways, the invitation here is to go all the way, at least it has been for me. Notice those harsh criticisms, and allow them to live. Spend time with the body, and the judgment, and question, question, question.
Who are we without our thoughts?
When we notice judgment of something, someone, anything...the tone is harsh, cutting, edgy, boundary-setting.
To question our thoughts becomes a fascinating investigation. We're curious. We see how the tone has fear contained in it, or anger, or worry. It's being protective, expressing concern.
When we notice this clearly with our thoughts and minds, and yet don't feel it in our bodies and hearts, what's happening there?
I love this inquirers question "How do I get there?" How do I really love what I'm seeing?
I love seeing we are the heart itself. Gentle, willing, able--already fully accepting, just like nature, which we are.
Get on the Grace Notes newsletter mailing list to learn about Grace's work and upcoming events, and other support for questioning our thinking patterns when we feel stuck. https://workwithgrace.lpages.co/sign-up-for-grace-notes-in-your-inbox/
Upcoming fall in-person retreat October 26-31, 2023 Washington state near Bremerton in the woods. Join me!
If you'd like help with emotional eating or compulsive eating, see the map I created I call the Nine Step Eating Peace Framework here:
https://workwithgrace.lpages.co/eating-peace-framework/
For more information about the Eating Peace Method, visit here:
https://www.workwithgrace.com/eating-peace-process/
Grace Bell, Certified Facilitator of The Work since 2007, has a private practice both online and in person, assisting people from all walks of life to identify and question their interpretations around their experience. She has a special love and specific programs for those suffering from eating issues including disordered eating (disordered thinking) of all kinds--having suffered from this behavior and thought/feeling process herself and finding an unshakable peace within around eating, food, health and behaviors with eating.
As Byron Katie offers us (founder of The Work); when we believe what we think, it creates unnecessary suffering. When we question what we think, we feel lighter and less serious about what is. We even begin to laugh. We notice who we really are is peaceful already, a human being living life as best we can--learning, growing, loving.
To receive notice of Eating Peace programs, videos and vlog posts, visit www.workwithgrace.com/eating-peace and join the mailing list.
To join the Grace Notes family of readers right now, Grace's popular blog on using The Work of Byron Katie to grow a peaceful life, get the thorough START HERE guide to letting The Work, work right here: https://workwithgrace.leadpages.co/start-here-guidebook/
Where to find me:
workwithgrace.com
grace notes from the past at workingwithgrace.com
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/WorkWithGrace/
Twitter https://twitter.com/ByronKatieCoach
Linked In https://www.linkedin.com/in/workwithgrace/
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/byronkatiecoach/
Peace Talk Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/4lXVzolTYOfDHztrNPCWVM?si=760a1d7b588a4344
I was asked by Dr. Harlan Kilstein recently for an interview so he could share with the women he works with for weight loss. He was very interested in mindset and wanted to ask me questions about self-inquiry.
The Work of Byron Katie is a practice of self-inquiry allowing us to work with stresses appearing in the mind, and to relax with our experience of life.
Grace Bell, facilitator of The Work, assists people to identify and question their stressful ways of looking at life.
She offers Year of Inquiry, a vibrant membership community of inquirers Sept-June each year.
Grace also has a special love for those suffering from eating issues including disordered eating (disordered thinking) of all kinds--having suffered from this behavior and thought/feeling process herself and finding an unshakable peace within around eating, food, health and behaviors with eating.
Grace works with all kinds of compulsions, habits and addictions as they are all the same thing: a pull to some behavior, substance or activity in order to help us with our stressful feelings and thoughts.
As Byron Katie offers us (founder of The Work); when we believe what we think, it creates unnecessary suffering. When we question what we think, we feel lighter and less serious about what is. We even begin to laugh. We notice who we really are is peaceful already, a human being living life as best we can--learning, growing, loving.
In the public sessions on this youtube channel, we have all-group inquiry sessions called First Friday Inquiry, we have interviews with practitioners of The Work, we have Eating Peace videos (on the eating peace playlist) and we have individual sessions in The Work by courageous people willing to be recorded for Peace Talk podcast and this channel. Thanks to everyone involved in what is shared here on this channel, as it is great service to others in the world who find their way here and who are curious about life without "believing" thought all the time.
In all-group sessions and solo sessions, we begin with a judgment...and move into the four questions and turnarounds.
Willingness to be real and honest with your thinking is the first powerful step in The Work.
No one ever has to share when attending Friday Inquiry, and thank you when you do.
For the Work With Grace programs and more information, and to get on the Grace Notes mailing list for updates and sharing of all kinds around The Work, please visit www.workwithgrace.com
To receive notice of Eating Peace programs, videos and vlog posts, visit www.workwithgrace.com/eating-peace and join the mailing list.
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I received the question: How do I get to the point of truly wanting eating peace?
The one asking has to believe they must not want peace, based on the evidence of off-balance eating. They're believing, as we all do sometimes, that peace is not present or available right now. It's coming sometime in the future, I just have to hunt it down.
"I need to make my wanting be directed to wanting peace....TRULY" (says the mind).
But what if right in the middle of intense wanting is something important, a natural movement--just like the body needs water, or needs to get up and go to the bathroom? What if our vision of "not wanting" is also a little skewed?
What if we can be OK with the way we are, right now, and also in the moment of reaching take a close look at what's going on right there when we're looking back at ourselves and deciding "that person wasn't wanting the 'right' thing".
Is that true?
Get on the Grace Notes newsletter mailing list to learn about Grace's work and upcoming events, and other support for questioning our thinking patterns when we feel stuck. https://workwithgrace.lpages.co/sign-up-for-grace-notes-in-your-inbox/
Upcoming fall in-person retreat October 26-31, 2023 Washington state near Bremerton in the woods. Join me!
If you'd like help with emotional eating or compulsive eating, see the map I created I call the Nine Step Eating Peace Framework here:
https://workwithgrace.lpages.co/eating-peace-framework/
For more information about the Eating Peace Method, visit here:
https://www.workwithgrace.com/eating-peace-process/
Grace Bell, Certified Facilitator of The Work since 2007, has a private practice both online and in person, assisting people from all walks of life to identify and question their interpretations around their experience. She has a special love and specific programs for those suffering from eating issues including disordered eating (disordered thinking) of all kinds--having suffered from this behavior and thought/feeling process herself and finding an unshakable peace within around eating, food, health and behaviors with eating.
As Byron Katie offers us (founder of The Work); when we believe what we think, it creates unnecessary suffering. When we question what we think, we feel lighter and less serious about what is. We even begin to laugh. We notice who we really are is peaceful already, a human being living life as best we can--learning, growing, loving.
To receive notice of Eating Peace programs, videos and vlog posts, visit www.workwithgrace.com/eating-peace and join the mailing list.
To join the Grace Notes family of readers right now, Grace's popular blog on using The Work of Byron Katie to grow a peaceful life, get the thorough START HERE guide to letting The Work, work right here: https://workwithgrace.leadpages.co/start-here-guidebook/
Where to find me:
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grace notes from the past at workingwithgrace.com
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When we observe our own behavior and see there's a war going on with it--it causes harm, or self-sabotage, or frustration--then our minds get very stuck in a habit loop.
Listen to this inquirer open up to what's actually happening when she wants to buy sweets from her childhood at the store, and eat them all, and then tells herself "I should stop, and I can't stop".
Who are we without the story? What else is here that's going on, that creates that impulse to move, sometimes urgently, to the compulsive activity or way of thinking?
Slowing it all down can offer beautiful insight, just like this inquirer found, along with others sharing the journey in this one-hour session.
Everyone is welcome to attend any open Friday monthly inquiry session. We normally meet the First Friday of the month at 7:45am Pacific Time/ 4:45pm Europe. Get on the Grace Notes mailing list to be alerted and get the zoom link.
Get on the Grace Notes newsletter mailing list to learn about Grace's work and upcoming events, and other support for questioning our thinking patterns when we feel stuck. https://workwithgrace.lpages.co/sign-up-for-grace-notes-in-your-inbox/
Upcoming fall in-person retreat October 26-31, 2023 Washington state near Bremerton in the woods. Join me!
If you'd like help with emotional eating or compulsive eating, see the map I created I call the Nine Step Eating Peace Framework here:
https://workwithgrace.lpages.co/eating-peace-framework/
For more information about the Eating Peace Method, visit here:
https://www.workwithgrace.com/eating-peace-process/
Grace Bell, Certified Facilitator of The Work since 2007, has a private practice both online and in person, assisting people from all walks of life to identify and question their interpretations around their experience. She has a special love and specific programs for those suffering from eating issues including disordered eating (disordered thinking) of all kinds--having suffered from this behavior and thought/feeling process herself and finding an unshakable peace within around eating, food, health and behaviors with eating.
As Byron Katie offers us (founder of The Work); when we believe what we think, it creates unnecessary suffering. When we question what we think, we feel lighter and less serious about what is. We even begin to laugh. We notice who we really are is peaceful already, a human being living life as best we can--learning, growing, loving.
To receive notice of Eating Peace programs, videos and vlog posts, visit www.workwithgrace.com/eating-peace and join the mailing list.
To join the Grace Notes family of readers right now, Grace's popular blog on using The Work of Byron Katie to grow a peaceful life, get the thorough START HERE guide to letting The Work, work right here: https://workwithgrace.leadpages.co/start-here-guidebook/
Where to find me:
workwithgrace.com
grace notes from the past at workingwithgrace.com
https://www.facebook.com/WorkWithGrace/
https://twitter.com/ByronKatieCoach
https://www.linkedin.com/in/workwithgrace/
https://www.instagram.com/byronkatiecoach/
We all have inner voice(s) that talk away, sometimes in clear distinct sentences, sometimes with gut feelings and emotions, sometimes in one word pronouncements.
Often, we feel like that voice that's telling us to do the thing--eat, drink, smoke, buy, plan, worry, get busy--is an enemy.
What to do? Don't we want it to stop talking?
Let's do The Work.
Get on the Grace Notes newsletter mailing list to learn about Grace's work and upcoming events, and other support for questioning our thinking patterns when we feel stuck. https://workwithgrace.lpages.co/sign-up-for-grace-notes-in-your-inbox/
Upcoming fall in-person retreat October 26-31, 2023 Washington state near Bremerton in the woods. Join me!
If you'd like help with emotional eating or compulsive eating, see the map I created I call the Nine Step Eating Peace Framework here: https://workwithgrace.lpages.co/eating-peace-framework/
For more information about the Eating Peace Method, visit here: https://www.workwithgrace.com/eating-peace-process/
Grace Bell, Certified Facilitator of The Work since 2007, has a private practice both online and in person, assisting people from all walks of life to identify and question their interpretations around their experience. She has a special love and specific programs for those suffering from eating issues including disordered eating (disordered thinking) of all kinds--having suffered from this behavior and thought/feeling process herself and finding an unshakable peace within around eating, food, health and behaviors with eating.
As Byron Katie offers us (founder of The Work); when we believe what we think, it creates unnecessary suffering. When we question what we think, we feel lighter and less serious about what is. We even begin to laugh. We notice who we really are is peaceful already, a human being living life as best we can--learning, growing, loving.
To receive notice of Eating Peace programs, videos and vlog posts, visit www.workwithgrace.com/eating-peace and join the mailing list.
To join the Grace Notes family of readers right now, Grace's popular blog on using The Work of Byron Katie to grow a peaceful life, get the thorough START HERE guide to letting The Work, work right here: https://workwithgrace.leadpages.co/start-here-guidebook/
Where to find me: workwithgrace.com grace notes from the past at workingwithgrace.com https://www.facebook.com/WorkWithGrace/ https://twitter.com/ByronKatieCoach https://www.linkedin.com/in/workwithgrace/ https://www.instagram.com/byronkatiecoach/
A long list of people have submitted questions that begin with "how do I?"
It's so normal and understandable. My mind does exactly the same thing. Of course it would love to know, what a fabulous question.
But there's a baseline assumption in the question itself, that must be questioned, for a true relaxation to occur: the belief that I am an individual person who is missing something. I don't have the answer. I don't know how. I really have to find out how, it's imperative.
What if you didn't have to know how, and the thing you're seeking is not actually missing? And this doesn't mean not studying, not enjoying learning, or never gathering information...strangely enough. This is about not being identified as "the person who doesn't know how."
Or worse, the person who is broken, damaged, messed up, missing something. The person who is wrong.
Who would you be without that troubling story? Even when it comes to addiction/compulsion?
Get on the Grace Notes newsletter mailing list to learn about Grace's work and upcoming events, and other support for questioning our thinking patterns when we feel stuck. https://workwithgrace.lpages.co/sign-up-for-grace-notes-in-your-inbox/
Upcoming fall in-person retreat October 26-31, 2023 Washington state near Bremerton in the woods. Join me!
IN PERSON Seattle, Washington Eat, Inquire, Love Retreat June 25-July 2, 2023 https://www.workwithgrace.com/summer-retreat/
If you'd like help with emotional eating or compulsive eating, see the map I created I call the Nine Step Eating Peace Framework here: https://workwithgrace.lpages.co/eating-peace-framework/
For more information about the Eating Peace Method, visit here: https://www.workwithgrace.com/eating-peace-process/
Grace Bell, Certified Facilitator of The Work since 2007, has a private practice both online and in person, assisting people from all walks of life to identify and question their interpretations around their experience. She has a special love and specific programs for those suffering from eating issues including disordered eating (disordered thinking) of all kinds--having suffered from this behavior and thought/feeling process herself and finding an unshakable peace within around eating, food, health and behaviors with eating.
As Byron Katie offers us (founder of The Work); when we believe what we think, it creates unnecessary suffering. When we question what we think, we feel lighter and less serious about what is. We even begin to laugh. We notice who we really are is peaceful already, a human being living life as best we can--learning, growing, loving.
To receive notice of Eating Peace programs, videos and vlog posts, visit www.workwithgrace.com/eating-peace and join the mailing list.
To join the Grace Notes family of readers right now, Grace's popular blog on using The Work of Byron Katie to grow a peaceful life, get the thorough START HERE guide to letting The Work, work right here: https://workwithgrace.leadpages.co/start-here-guidebook/
Where to find me: workwithgrace.com grace notes from the past at workingwithgrace.com https://www.facebook.com/WorkWithGrace/ https://twitter.com/ByronKatieCoach https://www.linkedin.com/in/workwithgrace/ https://www.instagram.com/byronkatiecoach/
Many people suffering from compulsive behaviors wish desperately they could stop. They HAVE stopped sometimes, for even fairly long periods, only to "go back" to what they once did--all over again.
It seems like mental drudgery to be on the cycle over and over again, thinking about the same things over and over again.
Like returning to the same area in the wilderness if you were lost--thinking you're finding your way out, and here you are at a familiar old point again where you were two days ago. So discouraging.
What part of you is not affected by this merry-go-round?
Get on the Grace Notes newsletter mailing list to learn about Grace's work and upcoming events, and other support for questioning our thinking patterns when we feel stuck. https://workwithgrace.lpages.co/sign-up-for-grace-notes-in-your-inbox/
Upcoming fall in-person retreat October 26-31, 2023 Washington state near Bremerton in the woods. Join me!
IN PERSON Seattle, Washington Eat, Inquire, Love Retreat June 25-July 2, 2023 https://www.workwithgrace.com/summer-retreat/
If you'd like help with emotional eating or compulsive eating, see the map I created I call the Nine Step Eating Peace Framework here: https://workwithgrace.lpages.co/eating-peace-framework/
For more information about the Eating Peace Method, visit here: https://www.workwithgrace.com/eating-peace-process/
Grace Bell, Certified Facilitator of The Work since 2007, has a private practice both online and in person, assisting people from all walks of life to identify and question their interpretations around their experience. She has a special love and specific programs for those suffering from eating issues including disordered eating (disordered thinking) of all kinds--having suffered from this behavior and thought/feeling process herself and finding an unshakable peace within around eating, food, health and behaviors with eating.
As Byron Katie offers us (founder of The Work); when we believe what we think, it creates unnecessary suffering. When we question what we think, we feel lighter and less serious about what is. We even begin to laugh. We notice who we really are is peaceful already, a human being living life as best we can--learning, growing, loving.
To receive notice of Eating Peace programs, videos and vlog posts, visit www.workwithgrace.com/eating-peace and join the mailing list.
To join the Grace Notes family of readers right now, Grace's popular blog on using The Work of Byron Katie to grow a peaceful life, get the thorough START HERE guide to letting The Work, work right here: https://workwithgrace.leadpages.co/start-here-guidebook/
Where to find me: workwithgrace.com grace notes from the past at workingwithgrace.com https://www.facebook.com/WorkWithGrace/ https://twitter.com/ByronKatieCoach https://www.linkedin.com/in/workwithgrace/ https://www.instagram.com/byronkatiecoach/
When we believe we have to be productive, we envision our projects, work, tasks, time as needing to be filled in order to be successful.
The thing is, having this thought can produce a lot of anxiety, and then rebellion and sometimes the opposite of being "productive". We eat, watch, do all kinds of things, and keep moving. It's stressful.
But what about doing nothing at all? Can we allow ourselves the pleasure of simply being, like we may have done when we were kids?
Get on the Grace Notes newsletter mailing list to learn about Grace's work and upcoming events, and other support for questioning our thinking patterns when we feel stuck. https://workwithgrace.lpages.co/sign-up-for-grace-notes-in-your-inbox/
Upcoming online spring retreat in The Work of Byron Katie April 27-30, 2023 7:30am-10:00am daily on zoom. https://www.workwithgrace.com/spring-retreat/
IN PERSON Seattle, Washington Eat, Inquire, Love Retreat June 25-July 2, 2023 https://www.workwithgrace.com/summer-retreat/
If you'd like help with emotional eating or compulsive eating, see the map I created I call the Nine Step Eating Peace Framework here: https://workwithgrace.lpages.co/eating-peace-framework/
For more information about the Eating Peace Method, visit here: https://www.workwithgrace.com/eating-peace-process/
Grace Bell, Certified Facilitator of The Work since 2007, has a private practice both online and in person, assisting people from all walks of life to identify and question their interpretations around their experience. She has a special love and specific programs for those suffering from eating issues including disordered eating (disordered thinking) of all kinds--having suffered from this behavior and thought/feeling process herself and finding an unshakable peace within around eating, food, health and behaviors with eating.
As Byron Katie offers us (founder of The Work); when we believe what we think, it creates unnecessary suffering. When we question what we think, we feel lighter and less serious about what is. We even begin to laugh. We notice who we really are is peaceful already, a human being living life as best we can--learning, growing, loving.
To receive notice of Eating Peace programs, videos and vlog posts, visit www.workwithgrace.com/eating-peace and join the mailing list.
To join the Grace Notes family of readers right now, Grace's popular blog on using The Work of Byron Katie to grow a peaceful life, get the thorough START HERE guide to letting The Work, work right here: https://workwithgrace.leadpages.co/start-here-guidebook/
Where to find me: workwithgrace.com grace notes from the past at workingwithgrace.com https://www.facebook.com/WorkWithGrace/ https://twitter.com/ByronKatieCoach https://www.linkedin.com/in/workwithgrace/ https://www.instagram.com/byronkatiecoach/
The first Friday of the month (and sometimes the second--make sure you're on the Grace Notes mailing list to get alerted about First Friday) happens every month: an hour of meditation in The Work of Byron Katie and self-inquiry.
In this session, we looked at the belief "this physical condition blocks me from happiness, relaxation, freedom". Hot flashes, thin hair, light sensitivity...and other ailments in the body.
Who would we be without the story "this blocks me from peace" or even the thought "I am my body"?
The Work of Byron Katie is a practice of self-inquiry allowing us to work with stresses appearing in the mind, and to relax with our experience of life.
Grace Bell, facilitator of The Work, assists people to identify and question their stressful ways of looking at life.
She offers Year of Inquiry, a vibrant membership community of inquirers Sept-June each year.
Grace also has a special love for those suffering from eating issues including disordered eating (disordered thinking) of all kinds--having suffered from this behavior and thought/feeling process herself and finding an unshakable peace within around eating, food, health and behaviors with eating.
Grace works with all kinds of compulsions, habits and addictions as they are all the same thing: a pull to some behavior, substance or activity in order to help us with our stressful feelings and thoughts.
As Byron Katie offers us (founder of The Work); when we believe what we think, it creates unnecessary suffering. When we question what we think, we feel lighter and less serious about what is. We even begin to laugh. We notice who we really are is peaceful already, a human being living life as best we can--learning, growing, loving.
In the public sessions on this youtube channel, we have all-group inquiry sessions called First Friday Inquiry, we have interviews with practitioners of The Work, we have Eating Peace videos (on the eating peace playlist) and we have individual sessions in The Work by courageous people willing to be recorded for Peace Talk podcast and this channel. Thanks to everyone involved in what is shared here on this channel, as it is great service to others in the world who find their way here and who are curious about life without "believing" thought all the time.
In all-group sessions and solo sessions, we begin with a judgment...and move into the four questions and turnarounds. Willingness to be real and honest with your thinking is the first powerful step in The Work.
No one ever has to share when attending Friday Inquiry, and thank you when you do.
For the Work With Grace programs and more information, and to get on the Grace Notes mailing list for updates and sharing of all kinds around The Work, please visit www.workwithgrace.com
To receive notice of Eating Peace programs, videos and vlog posts, visit www.workwithgrace.com/eating-peace and join the mailing list.
To join the Grace Notes family of readers right now, Grace's popular blog on using The Work of Byron Katie to grow a peaceful life, get the thorough START HERE guide to letting The Work, work right here: https://workwithgrace.leadpages.co/start-here-guidebook/
Where to find me: workwithgrace.com grace notes from the past at workingwithgrace.com https://www.facebook.com/WorkWithGrace/ https://twitter.com/ByronKatieCoach https://www.linkedin.com/in/workwithgrace/ https://www.instagram.com/byronkatiecoach/
When we see our behaviors, like over-eating, or over-thinking, or over-worrying, or over-scrolling, we often have many thoughts about ourselves and focus on what's wrong, and how to fix it.
What if we could find a way to see ourselves without looking through the pair of glasses that says "I am damaged"?
It can be tricky when you really feel off. But here may be a way to sit with this and feel the peace of what you are, without that thought.
Get on the Grace Notes newsletter mailing list to learn about Grace's work and upcoming events, and other support for questioning our thinking patterns when we feel stuck. https://workwithgrace.lpages.co/sign-up-for-grace-notes-in-your-inbox/
IN PERSON Seattle, Washington Eat, Inquire, Love Retreat June 25-July 2, 2023 https://www.workwithgrace.com/summer-retreat/
If you'd like help with emotional eating or compulsive eating, see the map I created I call the Nine Step Eating Peace Framework here: https://workwithgrace.lpages.co/eating-peace-framework/
For more information about the Eating Peace Method, visit here: https://www.workwithgrace.com/eating-peace-process/
Grace Bell, Certified Facilitator of The Work since 2007, has a private practice both online and in person, assisting people from all walks of life to identify and question their interpretations around their experience. She has a special love and specific programs for those suffering from eating issues including disordered eating (disordered thinking) of all kinds--having suffered from this behavior and thought/feeling process herself and finding an unshakable peace within around eating, food, health and behaviors with eating.
As Byron Katie offers us (founder of The Work); when we believe what we think, it creates unnecessary suffering. When we question what we think, we feel lighter and less serious about what is. We even begin to laugh. We notice who we really are is peaceful already, a human being living life as best we can--learning, growing, loving.
To receive notice of Eating Peace programs, videos and vlog posts, visit www.workwithgrace.com/eating-peace and join the mailing list.
To join the Grace Notes family of readers right now, Grace's popular blog on using The Work of Byron Katie to grow a peaceful life, get the thorough START HERE guide to letting The Work, work right here: https://workwithgrace.leadpages.co/start-here-guidebook/
Where to find me: workwithgrace.com grace notes from the past at workingwithgrace.com https://www.facebook.com/WorkWithGrace/ https://twitter.com/ByronKatieCoach https://www.linkedin.com/in/workwithgrace/ https://www.instagram.com/byronkatiecoach/
When we ask "will I ever stop this obsessive compulsive behavior?" or "will this EVER stop?" (about almost anything difficult) we feel hopelessness and despair.
We're looking closely at what doesn't work. We're seeing so much proof that this thing or condition or situation is incredibly persistent and relentless, and never-ending. Notice how you feel when you see it this way. Notice where the mind travels.
Then, be sure to ask the question: Who are you without this story? What if you turned towards noticing that "stopping" happens constantly? That peace is available to you, for you, inside of you? What if you didn't believe what you're thinking?
It seems hard to focus on what works instead of what does not. But it may be easier than our apparent one-track minds are making it out to be.
Upcoming events: *Eating Peace Basics 8 week intensive Saturdays May 6-June 24, 2023 with lots of support in between https://www.workwithgrace.com/eating-peace-basics/ Eating Peace Inquiry Circle: stand alone ongoing inquiry group through June 2023 https://www.workwithgrace.com/ep-membership/
When we believe we've eaten too much, spent too much money, said too much and we feel upset about it, it often hurts or frightens us. How could "I" let this happen? This is wrong. This is going in the "wrong" direction. What if we paused and approached this moment with self-inquiry, especially using The Work of Byron Katie? No need to understand any philosophy, "get" any special theories, know anything new...simply working with What Is, or what appears to be true about reality, and noticing. Who would you be without your story about what's happened? And this doesn't mean deciding you don't care about what's happened at all, you sink into resignation, you give up, or you're fake positive about what's happened. Could thought itself be supportive? Let's do The Work of Byron Katie: four questions and turnarounds, and see what happens in this moment when we believe we've done, eaten, said, spent too much.
When someone dies, it is commonly a time of great transition and grief. What happens when we question our stories of death, needing someone to be present in their body, wanting things to be the way they used to be?
Listen as a lovely woman, whose mother died only 2 months before this group inquiry call, shares her thoughts with us, and inquirers into her story. Who are we without our stories about the future, or the past, when someone dies?
The Work of Byron Katie is a practice of self-inquiry allowing us to work with stresses appearing in the mind, and to relax with our experience of life.
Grace Bell, facilitator of The Work, assists people to identify and question their stressful ways of looking at life. She offers Year of Inquiry, a vibrant membership community of inquirers Sept-June each year.
Grace also has a special love for those suffering from eating issues including disordered eating (disordered thinking) of all kinds--having suffered from this behavior and thought/feeling process herself and finding an unshakable peace within around eating, food, health and behaviors with eating.
Grace works with all kinds of compulsions, habits and addictions as they are all the same thing: a pull to some behavior, substance or activity in order to help us with our stressful feelings and thoughts. As Byron Katie offers us (founder of The Work); when we believe what we think, it creates unnecessary suffering.
When we question what we think, we feel lighter and less serious about what is. We even begin to laugh. We notice who we really are is peaceful already, a human being living life as best we can--learning, growing, loving. In the public sessions on this youtube channel, we have all-group inquiry sessions called First Friday Inquiry, we have interviews with practitioners of The Work, we have Eating Peace videos (on the eating peace playlist) and we have individual sessions in The Work by courageous people willing to be recorded for Peace Talk podcast and this channel.
Thanks to everyone involved in what is shared here on this channel, as it is great service to others in the world who find their way here and who are curious about life without "believing" thought all the time.
Where to find Grace:
workwithgrace.com grace notes from the past at workingwithgrace.com https://www.facebook.com/WorkWithGrace/ https://twitter.com/ByronKatieCoach https://www.linkedin.com/in/workwithgrace/ https://www.instagram.com/byronkatiecoach/
When we dislike whatever is happening in our bodies, we feel fear, worry, angst, suffering. We make plans to change it.
What if we questioned our story, when it's painful? How strange to question the story of pain, disease, or physical appearance. But what does it look like to do this? Who are we without a story?
The Work of Byron Katie is a practice of self-inquiry allowing us to work with stresses appearing in the mind, and to relax with our experience of life.
Grace Bell, facilitator of The Work, assists people to identify and question their stressful ways of looking at life. She offers Year of Inquiry, a vibrant membership community of inquirers Sept-June each year.
Grace also has a special love for those suffering from eating issues including disordered eating (disordered thinking) of all kinds--having suffered from this behavior and thought/feeling process herself and finding an unshakable peace within around eating, food, health and behaviors with eating.
Grace works with all kinds of compulsions, habits and addictions as they are all the same thing: a pull to some behavior, substance or activity in order to help us with our stressful feelings and thoughts. As Byron Katie offers us (founder of The Work); when we believe what we think, it creates unnecessary suffering.
When we question what we think, we feel lighter and less serious about what is. We even begin to laugh. We notice who we really are is peaceful already, a human being living life as best we can--learning, growing, loving. In the public sessions on this youtube channel, we have all-group inquiry sessions called First Friday Inquiry, we have interviews with practitioners of The Work, we have Q&A Tuesday live videos (on the eating peace playlist) and we have individual sessions in The Work by courageous people willing to be recorded for Peace Talk podcast and this channel.
Thanks to everyone involved in what is shared here on this channel, as it is great service to others in the world who find their way here and who are curious about life without "believing" or identifying with thought all the time. Self-inquiry and The Work of Byron Katie supports us to ride the wave of thought into the mystery of No Thought, or the space of being who we are, already, without our troubling stories. All is well.
Where to find Grace:
workwithgrace.com grace notes from the past at workingwithgrace.com https://www.facebook.com/WorkWithGrace/ https://twitter.com/ByronKatieCoach https://www.linkedin.com/in/workwithgrace/ https://www.instagram.com/byronkatiecoach/
In today's episode, a wonderful group of inquirers gathers online to do The Work on the concept one person beautifully brought to the table: "he hurt me" (and the belief he will hurt me again).
To investigate being hurt and feeling the effects of pain when it comes to other peoples' words, behaviors, conduct, facial movements....can bring amazing insights.
The Work of Byron Katie is a practice of self-inquiry allowing us to work with stresses appearing in the mind, and to relax with our experience of life.
Grace Bell, facilitator of The Work, assists people to identify and question their stressful ways of looking at life. She offers Year of Inquiry, a vibrant membership community of inquirers Sept-June each year.
Grace also has a special love for those suffering from eating issues including disordered eating (disordered thinking) of all kinds--having suffered from this behavior and thought/feeling process herself and finding an unshakable peace within around eating, food, health and behaviors with eating.
Grace works with all kinds of compulsions, habits and addictions as they are all the same thing: a pull to some behavior, substance or activity in order to help us with our stressful feelings and thoughts. As Byron Katie offers us (founder of The Work); when we believe what we think, it creates unnecessary suffering.
When we question what we think, we feel lighter and less serious about what is. We even begin to laugh. We notice who we really are is peaceful already, a human being living life as best we can--learning, growing, loving. In the public sessions on this youtube channel, we have all-group inquiry sessions called First Friday Inquiry, we have interviews with practitioners of The Work, we have Eating Peace videos (on the eating peace playlist) and we have individual sessions in The Work by courageous people willing to be recorded for Peace Talk podcast and this channel.
Thanks to everyone involved in what is shared here on this channel, as it is great service to others in the world who find their way here and who are curious about life without "believing" thought all the time.
Where to find Grace:
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In today's episode, a wonderful group of inquirers gathers online to do The Work on the concept that someone really needs to change, for us to be happen. "If only they were different" we say.
It's profound to do The Work on this, and find our freedom from needing someone else to change. We are no longer dependent on the world to be different, for us to be happy.
The Work of Byron Katie is a practice of self-inquiry allowing us to work with stresses appearing in the mind, and to relax with our experience of life.
Grace Bell, facilitator of The Work, assists people to identify and question their stressful ways of looking at life. She offers Year of Inquiry, a vibrant membership community of inquirers Sept-June each year.
Grace also has a special love for those suffering from eating issues including disordered eating (disordered thinking) of all kinds--having suffered from this behavior and thought/feeling process herself and finding an unshakable peace within around eating, food, health and behaviors with eating.
Grace works with all kinds of compulsions, habits and addictions as they are all the same thing: a pull to some behavior, substance or activity in order to help us with our stressful feelings and thoughts. As Byron Katie offers us (founder of The Work); when we believe what we think, it creates unnecessary suffering.
When we question what we think, we feel lighter and less serious about what is. We even begin to laugh. We notice who we really are is peaceful already, a human being living life as best we can--learning, growing, loving. In the public sessions on this youtube channel, we have all-group inquiry sessions called First Friday Inquiry, we have interviews with practitioners of The Work, we have Eating Peace videos (on the eating peace playlist) and we have individual sessions in The Work by courageous people willing to be recorded for Peace Talk podcast and this channel.
Thanks to everyone involved in what is shared here on this channel, as it is great service to others in the world who find their way here and who are curious about life without "believing" thought all the time.
For the Work With Grace programs and more information, and to get on the Grace Notes mailing list for updates and sharing of all kinds around The Work, please visit www.workwithgrace.com
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Dr. Amy Johnson is author of several books including "The Little Book of Big Change". Her work focuses on the nature of thought, and making friends with it. Just like we do when we practice The Work of Byron Katie (especially question four; who are you without your story?).
Amy offers a 6 week school twice a year called the Little School of Big Change where people can gain understanding and insight into their thinking, behaviors, and emotions--especially when it comes to unwanted habits.
You can find more information at www.dramyjohnson.com
Peace Talk is a podcast dedicated to exploring change and what dissolves or shifts human suffering....where we investigate misery, unhappiness, negativity, mental illness, addiction and other internal battles people experience that make life not-so-fun....and turn these experiences around for a life of peace, joy and acceptance. Who are we without our stressful thinking?
For more information about Grace Bell, host of Peace Talk, please visit www.workwithgrace.com
We've all anticipated something and noticed change, and thought--depending on the situation--that what's happening is dangerous. We dread the future, we're so worried.
Listen as a woman questions her story about what caring is supposed to look like, what love means, and what she's really responsible for, as she navigates change observed in her husband of many years.
Peace Talk is a podcast dedicated to exploring change and dissolving human suffering....where we investigate misery, unhappiness, negativity, mental illness, addiction and other internal battles people experience that make life not-so-fun....and turn these experiences around for a life of peace, joy and acceptance. Who are we without our stressful thinking?
We all have stories about needs. What if they were fun, joyful stories...instead of the never-ending story called "not enough"?
Who would we be without the stress of the belief "I need....."?
Find Grace at www.workwithgrace.com.
Today's episode is a gathering of people together on zoom. One inquirer brings to the session her thoughts about eating when not hungry last night. When we have images in our minds of ways life could be better, even in the moment of reaching for food, just like this inquirer notices....we have all kinds of other thoughts about needing to understand what's underway, to stop that behavior, to fix this situation.
Who would we be without our stories of improvement, even self-improvement, at all? Who are we, even when we have images of pleasure to move towards?
So many of us experience shame around our behaviors (compulsions come to mind) but before the behaviors, we often believe we need to hide our thoughts and feelings.
A listener sent a comment and question about this experience of shame, and what to do about it.
When we believe we've been hurt and rejected by someone in the past, it can stay with us as a reminder of lack of safety for years. In this episode an inquire recalls a moment where she felt rejected because of her body. The Work of Byron Katie: four questions and turnarounds, leads the way to freedom from this belief. This can be done with any quality we believe is reject-worthy within ourselves.
When we're reacting to what happens in reality, it's a moment to learn from the experience, even if we'd rather not. The first place to begin is to welcome the feelings instead of resist them. And this welcoming can make all the difference in the world. Who would we be without our stories about how we're supposed to feel, or not feel?
Peace Talk is a podcast dedicated to the freedom of self-inquiry using tools we have freely available for questioning and understanding the mind, feelings, and the end of suffering.
Today, a woman does The Work on the belief "I am not good enough" and dives deeply into her thoughts about life itself, and suffering. Who are we without our stories about suffering and reality? Wow.
Peace Talk is a podcast dedicated to the freedom of self-inquiry using tools we have freely available for questioning and understanding the mind, feelings, and the end of suffering. Today Grace has a great conversation with Judith Pfeiffer, Certified Facilitator of The Work of Byron Katie, who shares her own experience of finding The Work and also about her facilitation with couples doing The Work on and about eachother!
Today we gather and question the thought: "this is not going to work!" that inquirers see about their children, parters, parents. There they are, being themselves, not working the 12 steps "right" or wearing the wrong shoes, or having weird hair....can we inquire? YES. Would are we without the story?
Peace Talk is a podcast dedicated self-inquiry through The Work of Byron Katie: four questions and finding turnarounds. Today, a woman worried about her physical ailments questions the thoughts "the world hurt me" and others also join in this inquiry. Who are we without our fears about the future?
A Q&A episode: an inquirer asks how to do The Work on her belief "I can only be happy if I am thin".
Peace Talk is a podcast dedicated to self-inquiry for regular folk. Your host, Grace Bell, facilitator of The Work of Byron Katie, has been supporting people to question their thinking since 1997.
Listen to Peace Talk today where a man questions his belief that having a relationship would bring happiness. People joined in inquiring what is needed for happiness: money, clean house, good friends, reliable clients.
Peace Talk is a podcast dedicated to the freedom and joy of being human. Learn and listen as groups, solo inquirers and other Q&A sessions with Grace are shared here, for the benefit of those wanting to find peace with their thinking. Your host, Grace Bell is an educator who has been helping people change their minds and find peace for over 20 years.
Peace Talk is a podcast dedicated to spiritual enlightment for the rest of us. Learn practical tips and tools for questioning and ending suffering. Your host, Grace Bell is an educator who has been helping people change their minds and find peace for over 20 years.
Peace Talk is a podcast dedicated questioning and ending suffering. Your host, Grace Bell, is a facilitator supporting people to question their stress and change their minds since the late 1990s.
Peace Talk is a podcast dedicated to spirited self-inquiry. Learn by questioning your thoughts, and ending suffering. Your host, Grace Bell is an educator who has been joining with others to question, and notice.
Peace Talk is a podcast dedicated to spiritual enlightment for the rest of us. Learn practical tips and tools for questioning and ending suffering. Your host, Grace Bell is an educator who has been helping people change their minds and find peace for over 20 years.
Peace Talk is a podcast dedicated to self-inquiry and The Work of Byron Katie and the kindness we truly are when we see who we are without stressful thoughts. Today we questioned "he should not have broken up with me".
Peace Talk is a podcast dedicated to spiritual enlightment for the rest of us. Learn practical tips and tools for questioning and ending suffering. Your host, Grace Bell is an educator who has been helping people change their minds and find peace for over 20 years.
Peace Talk is a podcast dedicated to spiritual enlightment for the rest of us. Learn practical tips and tools for questioning and ending suffering. Your host, Grace Bell is an educator who has been helping people change their minds and find peace for over 20 years.
Peace Talk is a podcast dedicated to spiritual enlightment for the rest of us. Learn practical tips and tools for questioning and ending suffering. Your host, Grace Bell is an educator who has been helping people change their minds and find peace for over 20 years.
Peace Talk is a podcast dedicated to The Work of Byron Katie, self-inquiry, the nature of thought, and ending suffering. Your host, Grace Bell, is a Certified Facilitator of The Work of Byron Katie offering programs in The Work including Year of Inquiry, Relationship Hell to Heaven and Eating Peace.
Peace Talk is a podcast dedicated to spiritual enlightment for the rest of us. Learn practical tips and tools for questioning and ending suffering. Your host, Grace Bell is an educator who has been helping people change their minds and find peace for over 20 years.
A group gathering on zoom, we begin with the very first step of The Work of Byron Katie: identifying the stressful thinking running within.
Then, a woman volunteers and questions her fearful belief "I don't want parkinson's disease". Others share this thought about a physical condition of the body.
Peace Talk is a podcast dedicated to spiritual enlightment for the rest of us. Learn practical tips and tools for questioning and ending suffering. Your host, Grace Bell is an educator who has been helping people change their minds and find peace for over 20 years.
Peace Talk is a podcast dedicated to spiritual enlightment for the rest of us. Learn practical tips and tools for questioning and ending suffering. Your host, Grace Bell is an educator who has been helping people change their minds and find peace for over 20 years.
Peace Talk is a podcast dedicated to spiritual enlightment for the rest of us. Learn practical tips and tools for questioning and ending suffering. Your host, Grace Bell is an educator who has been helping people change their minds and find peace for over 20 years.
Peace Talk is a podcast dedicated to spiritual enlightment for the rest of us. Learn practical tips and tools for questioning and ending suffering. Your host, Grace Bell is an educator who has been helping people change their minds and find peace for over 20 years.
Peace Talk is a podcast dedicated to spiritual enlightment for the rest of us. Learn practical tips and tools for questioning and ending suffering. Your host, Grace Bell is an educator who has been helping people change their minds and find peace for over 20 years.
Peace Talk is a podcast dedicated to spiritual enlightment for the rest of us. Learn practical tips and tools for questioning and ending suffering. Your host, Grace Bell is an educator who has been helping people change their minds and find peace for over 20 years.
Peace Talk is a podcast dedicated to spiritual enlightment for the rest of us. Learn practical tips and tools for questioning and ending suffering. Your host, Grace Bell is an educator who has been helping people change their minds and find peace for over 20 years.
Peace Talk is a podcast dedicated to spiritual enlightment for the rest of us. Learn practical tips and tools for questioning and ending suffering. Your host, Grace Bell is an educator who has been helping people change their minds and find peace for over 20 years.
Peace Talk is a podcast dedicated to spiritual enlightment for the rest of us. Learn practical tips and tools for questioning and ending suffering. Your host, Grace Bell is an educator who has been helping people change their minds and find peace for over 20 years.
Peace Talk is a podcast dedicated to spiritual enlightment for the rest of us. Learn practical tips and tools for questioning and ending suffering. Your host, Grace Bell is an educator who has been helping people change their minds and find peace for over 20 years.
Peace Talk is a podcast dedicated to spiritual enlightment for the rest of us. Learn practical tips and tools for questioning and ending suffering. Your host, Grace Bell is an educator who has been helping people change their minds and find peace for over 20 years.
Peace Talk is a podcast dedicated to spiritual enlightment for the rest of us. Learn practical tips and tools for questioning and ending suffering. Your host, Grace Bell is an educator who has been helping people change their minds and find peace for over 20 years.
Peace Talk is a podcast dedicated to spiritual enlightment for the rest of us. Learn practical tips and tools for questioning and ending suffering. Your host, Grace Bell is an educator who has been helping people change their minds and find peace for over 20 years.
Peace Talk is a podcast dedicated to spiritual enlightment for the rest of us. Learn practical tips and tools for questioning and ending suffering. Your host, Grace Bell is an educator who has been helping people change their minds and find peace for over 20 years.
Peace Talk is a podcast dedicated to spiritual enlightment for the rest of us. Learn practical tips and tools for questioning and ending suffering. Your host, Grace Bell is an educator who has been helping people change their minds and find peace for over 20 years.
Peace Talk is a podcast dedicated to spiritual enlightment for the rest of us. Learn practical tips and tools for questioning and ending suffering. Your host, Grace Bell is an educator who has been helping people change their minds and find peace for over 20 years.
Peace Talk is a podcast dedicated to spiritual enlightment for the rest of us. Learn practical tips and tools for questioning and ending suffering. Your host, Grace Bell is an educator who has been helping people change their minds and find peace for over 20 years.
Peace Talk is a podcast dedicated to spiritual enlightment for the rest of us. Learn practical tips and tools for questioning and ending suffering. Your host, Grace Bell is an educator who has been helping people change their minds and find peace for over 20 years.
Peace Talk is a podcast dedicated to spiritual enlightment for the rest of us. Learn practical tips and tools for questioning and ending suffering. Your host, Grace Bell is an educator who has been helping people change their minds and find peace for over 20 years.
Peace Talk is a podcast dedicated to spiritual enlightment for the rest of us. Learn practical tips and tools for questioning and ending suffering. Your host, Grace Bell is an educator who has been helping people change their minds and find peace for over 20 years.
Peace Talk is a podcast dedicated to spiritual enlightment for the rest of us. Learn practical tips and tools for questioning and ending suffering. Your host, Grace Bell is an educator who has been helping people change their minds and find peace for over 20 years.
Peace Talk is a podcast dedicated to spiritual enlightment for the rest of us. Learn practical tips and tools for questioning and ending suffering. Your host, Grace Bell is an educator who has been helping people change their minds and find peace for over 20 years.
Peace Talk is a podcast dedicated to spiritual enlightment for the rest of us. Learn practical tips and tools for questioning and ending suffering. Your host, Grace Bell is an educator who has been helping people change their minds and find peace for over 20 years.
Peace Talk is a podcast dedicated to spiritual enlightment for the rest of us. Learn practical tips and tools for questioning and ending suffering. Your host, Grace Bell is an educator who has been helping people change their minds and find peace for over 20 years.
Peace Talk is a podcast dedicated to spiritual enlightment for the rest of us. Learn practical tips and tools for questioning and ending suffering. Your host, Grace Bell is an educator who has been helping people change their minds and find peace for over 20 years.
Peace Talk is a podcast dedicated to spiritual enlightment for the rest of us. Learn practical tips and tools for questioning and ending suffering. Your host, Grace Bell is an educator who has been helping people change their minds and find peace for over 20 years.
Peace Talk is a podcast dedicated to spiritual enlightment for the rest of us. Learn practical tips and tools for questioning and ending suffering. Your host, Grace Bell is an educator who has been helping people change their minds and find peace for over 20 years.
Peace Talk is a podcast dedicated to spiritual enlightment for the rest of us. Learn practical tips and tools for questioning and ending suffering. Your host, Grace Bell is an educator who has been helping people change their minds and find peace for over 20 years.
Peace Talk is a podcast dedicated to spiritual enlightment for the rest of us. Learn practical tips and tools for questioning and ending suffering. Your host, Grace Bell is an educator who has been helping people change their minds and find peace for over 20 years.
Peace Talk is a podcast dedicated to spiritual enlightment for the rest of us. Learn practical tips and tools for questioning and ending suffering. Your host, Grace Bell is an educator who has been helping people change their minds and find peace for over 20 years.
Today Grace does a session using The Work with a lovely woman Marlyna who has been afraid of physical ailments and conditions including vertigo and tinnitus.
Sign up for the free 7-day course: The Work for Dingalings at http://bit.ly/WWG7Days
Peace Talk is a podcast dedicated to spiritual enlightenment for the rest of us. Learn practical tips and tools for questioning and ending suffering. Your host, Grace Bell is an educator who has been helping people change their minds and find peace for over 20 years.
Peace Talk is a podcast dedicated to spiritual enlightment for the rest of us. Learn practical tips and tools for questioning and ending suffering. Your host, Grace Bell is an educator who has been helping people change their minds and find peace for over 20 years.
Peace Talk is a podcast dedicated to spiritual enlightment for the rest of us. Learn practical tips and tools for questioning and ending suffering. Your host, Grace Bell is an educator who has been helping people question their minds and find peace for over 20 years.
Ernest's website: www.theartofbeinghuman.com
Ernest's podcasts on The Work: www.theartofbeinghuman.com/podcasts
The “how to” section with materials, videos and tips: www.theartofbeinghuman.com/how-to
Ernest's book on Amazon (available as a paperback, audiobook and kindle): https://www.amazon.com/Stories-that-Screw-Step-Step-ebook/dp/B07H45561J/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2KJB81372PM8Q&keywords=how+to+end+the+stories+that+screw+up+your+life&qid=1565808802&s=books&sprefix=how+to+end+the+stories%2Cstripbooks-intl-ship%2C220&sr=1-1
Where to find Grace: https://www.eatingpeaceprocess.com Special Facebook group for Eating Peace focus (free closed group, ask to join here): https://www.facebook.com/groups/eatingpeace/ Grace Notes weekly inquiry blog https://workwithgrace.com/blog https://www.facebook.com/WorkWithGrace/ https://twitter.com/ByronKatieCoach https://www.linkedin.com/in/workwithgrace/ https://www.instagram.com/byronkatiecoach/
Peace Talk is a podcast dedicated to spiritual enlightment for the rest of us. Learn practical tips and tools for questioning and ending suffering. Your host, Grace Bell is an educator who has been helping people change their minds and find peace for over 20 years.
For information about Year of Inquiry, visit:
https://workwithgrace.com/year-of-inquiry/
Peace Talk is a podcast dedicated to spiritual enlightment for the rest of us. Learn practical tips and tools for questioning and ending suffering. Your host, Grace Bell is an educator who has been helping people change their minds and find peace for over 20 years.
Peace Talk is a podcast dedicated to spiritual enlightment for the rest of us. Learn practical tips and tools for questioning and ending suffering. Your host, Grace Bell is an educator who has been helping people change their minds and find peace for over 20 years.
Peace Talk is a podcast dedicated to spiritual enlightment for the rest of us. Learn practical tips and tools for questioning and ending suffering. Your host, Grace Bell is an educator who has been helping people change their minds and find peace for over 20 years.
To contact Jerry Mac for solo sessions or with questions, please email jerrymacmail@protonmail.com
When Tamami first was introduced to The Work of Byron Katie, she said to herself "this is NOT for me!"
But depression led her into a bookstore, where she found Katie's book Loving What Is. Reading it, her mind changed.
Today's guest: Tamami offers private sessions over Skype or phone. Please feel free to visit her website www.bestfriendofmind.com or contact her at tamami.fujiwara@gmail.com
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Peace Talk is a podcast dedicated to spiritual enlightment for the rest of us. Learn practical tips and tools for questioning and ending suffering. Your host, Grace Bell is an educator who has been helping people change their minds and find peace for over 20 years.
Peace Talk is a podcast dedicated to spiritual enlightment for the rest of us. Learn practical tips and tools for questioning and ending suffering. Your host, Grace Bell is an educator who has been helping people change their minds and find peace for over 20 years.
Have you ever had the thought that someone's taken advantage of you?
Of course you have--so have we all.
But here's how to look deeper instead of holding resentment endlessly. The Work!
Peace Talk is a podcast dedicated to spiritual enlightment for the rest of us. Learn practical tips and tools for questioning and ending suffering. Your host, Grace Bell is an educator who has been helping people change their minds and find peace for over 20 years.
Peace Talk is a podcast dedicated to spiritual enlightment for the rest of us. Learn practical tips and tools for questioning and ending suffering. Your host, Grace Bell is an educator who has been helping people change their minds and find peace for over 20 years.
Other people's feelings affect those around them, but if we have the power to inquire, it doesn't have to be stressful or difficult.
Who would we be without our stories that it our our job to help make them happy?
Ahhhh.
The Work of Byron Katie points us always to our memories, experiences, situations where we've felt bad, troubled, uncomfortable, sad, or deeply disturbed.
Who would we be, without these stories? we ask. We use our imagination to discover new options.
But the most difficult feelings in the first place? We're often very against them.
Who might you be without the belief that it's horrible to feel in a big way?
It's very normal for us as humans to compare ourselves to others--sometimes daily.
At least I noticed I did it since I was a child, and I notice children still doing it.
But we can question what meaning we place on the comparison, and find freedom, ease and peace in the presence of others--not suffering or fear.
The doctor didn't even have to tell me it was cancer. When she said simply "get dressed, and THEN we'll talk about the biopsy results" I immediately had adrenaline run through my veins. I could tell it was something "bad". But who was I without my story? Ahhhhhh.
It seems things go wrong when it comes to some topics in the world, Money and Eating for example.
What's happening isn't just right. More is always wanted. Or less. Depending on the moment.
Who would we be without the thoughts of lack or overwhelm? What would it be like to not believe them?
The direction we have from a voice somewhere inside our heads to change, change completely and change fast can be exceedingly stressful.
What if you questioned this thought? Are you sure you're right?
People will think "but I have to have this stressful thought because otherwise, I WILL NOT change (and remember, I have to, right?)"
This is entering an entirely different paradigm. A place where change is not required and you are truly OK. It's restful, relaxing and open-minded. It's non-resistant.
Wondering about death and dying, gaps, empty space, endings, beginnings...these are some of the most brilliant questions to consider and ponder. After a time of hiatus, it appears Peace Talk has returned...along with continued investigation of thinking. Thanks for joining me on this magical, fabulous and very difficult at times journey.
When we experience boredom, or other more mild forms of stress (and often when we experience super high level stress too) we want to distract, end it, change it, move away from it, fix it. But who would you be without the belief you can't stand this moment, even a "bored" moment? And who would you be if you stayed with whatever you're feeling in the moment, and studied it? Here's how. It might not be as hard as you think.
When we feel ashamed or guilty or embarrassed, it's a horrible feeling although not uncommon. However, the feeling often leads to the next step which is to keep it a secret and lock it away forever, and never talk about it. We try to escape, by eating or drinking or going into some kind of addictive process (I sure did). What if instead of escaping shame, you went into it and got to know it's point of view, the feeling it brings, very well indeed? I found, this made all the difference. I found, I knew how to then identify the lie of shame.
We all are accustomed to having surprises happen, and perhaps they affect our lives deeply, or our day. But is our capacity for peace entirely destroyed? You can question this thought, if you have it.
I have found, there's a space within that's peaceful and alive, no matter what happens. You've got this. It's who you are without thought.
Not long ago someone wrote to me and said The Work might not work on a fact like "the earth is dying" or "the lake is polluted" or "the country is at war".
But it doesn't matter if both your answers to the first two questions are YES (is it true? Can you absolutely know it's true?)
You can still find incredible emotional freedom or awareness of yourself through this inquiry process.
Question your thinking, find peace!
Everyone's had sleepless nights, or times you awaken. What's the best way to handle it? Definitely not fighting against your thoughts! Doing The Work is one of the best ways to see what's really true for you, and rest.
Thoughts about ourselves are often the most painful, and many people want to start self-inquiry by fixing thoughts about themselves. But who would you be without your improvement story?
When we believe thoughts like "I have to go to work" or "I need to say yes to my partner" and we're resentful, this is really like living in slavery. You can find freedom by questioning your thinking. You don't even have to DO anything, the natural and loving way will be revealed. Who would you be without your story of "I have to"?
When we believe "I screwed up" it's not always the best approach to resolving or correcting a situation. Here's why.
Ten years ago, I thought I needed more money so badly...there would be terrible consequences if I didn't get more. The worst that could happen, i thought, was having to go live with my mother. I did The Work on that future, terrible imagined situation and found, maybe if it went that way, it would be the best that could ever happen. I felt lightness and joy about the future, after I did that work. And I never moved in with my mother.
Those people who say "no" well seem to be confident, sure of themselves, great leaders, clear! But maybe you can say no, in your own less-perfect way. Here are some sentences you can practice for saying "no" and getting more comfortable. You didn't know how before, and with rehearsing, you get better and better.
Byron Katie mentions when we believe our thoughts, we suffer, and when we question them, we don't. Who would you be without your story of making a mistake, or that other person making one? How strange (but interesting, and a relief) to find something good coming out of these so-called "mistakes" and the freedom from guilt. It's kinder.
Everyone has voices in their head, sometimes that oppose each other, or don't even feel natural. One of my favorite exercises while doing The Work is to feel and be with each question, very thoroughly, very physically. How would it feel, with this thought....and without it?
We are told and invited over and over again to do The Work on OTHER people, not ourselves. But here's a little confession about me. My first public worksheet? Yup. It was on myself. Something I felt horribly ashamed of, and guilty, and thought I'd never get over.
Everyone wants to do The Work of Byron Katie on themselves. Even though we're told not to. How can we imagine who we'd be without our stories? Here's how.
I work with many people, including myself, who think "self-inquiry, or The Work of Byron Katie doesn't work for me!"
I love finding out why. Over time, working with others, the little bumps and barriers along the way fall apart, or dissolve (that's the good news).
There is nothing and no one who can't benefit from inquiring to the truth about their mind, if they want to.
I constantly criticized myself for an interesting moment from my past---trying to get my grandpa's approval, as well as be just as good as my sister, when I was ten years old.
Who would you be without the belief you did it WRONG, because you sought approval? What if that was just YOU at the time?
I often notice I've thought being kind, nice, saying "yes" and being connected = best result. But what if you could be loving and connected, without physical contact? Who says you have to hang out with people forever? Or that it's success if you do? Listen here to how I handled a "no" and moved on, still appreciating the teacher who I learned to say "no" from!
I often want the nice comfy way. Can't we skip the hard parts of life? A little story about a moment I was, literally, hanging on the edge of a cliff face and couldn't get off.
When I was 8 my family moved far away from my home town and the home I had mostly known since I was a baby. It felt devastating, and like it's true you can never, ever go back and that it's painful to get rooted somewhere. I spent many years in my late teens and 20s having home of my own, thinking "home" was my parents house. You can question these kinds of beliefs, even if they don't seem devastating anymore. What beliefs do you have running, that you got from some old memory? Question it!
Money and the absence of it is often a terrible worse-case scenario in our experience. We've lost everything, we think about the stuff we once had, or the house, and how terrible we don't anymore. Or, about the horrible scenario we see in our future, if things keep going the way they do. Yikes. Fear and panic set in. Listen to my story about what I did, when I thought the worse case scenario was about to happen.
Death and dying is so painful, it can break our hearts into a million pieces. Listen as I share today my own experience of death, and a poem that both mends, and acknowledges, the dark and beautiful sadness of death.
The turnaround to #6 in The Work of Byron Katie is often somewhat jolting. The way we're turning around our thoughts is to consider being willing to experience something terrible, and even looking forward to what we think is terrible. But this doesn't mean you have to like it. Here's how.
Sometimes that mind is so tricky, it will make even a great principle like "Be Here Now" into a project. "GET INTO THE PRESENT MOMENT!!" it will scream. So how do you work with that dictator mind? Let's explore how.
Debra Wilkinson shares with us in this beautiful interview about how she made friends with the past, and learned to truly take care of herself with acceptance and joy....and no longer feels anxiety in the present.
In Year of Inquiry (a course I run for an entire year) we're looking at the body for an entire month, and all we object to around what happens to the body. How astonishing to wonder if it's possible to be happy, no matter what's happening in this body, or anyone else's body!
Kathleen Gage runs a business out of Eugene, Oregon and enjoys a sweet daily life of peace. We "accidentally" connected by phone....and agree, there are no mistakes.
I was introduced to Debra Ruh recently, and decided to invite her to Peace Talk because of her remarkable experience. She had a down syndrome baby girl in her 20s, and went on to start a very successful company that helped major employers hire people with disabilities. Listen to her story here, and be inspired by her challenges becoming blessings.
Death is maybe the most frightening thing for many humans to contemplate. Loss, separation, fear. It's like death means....something horrible, and we haven't questioned if this is even true. Is there life beyond death? Who wants to know?
Anyone can question their thinking that a situation is not providing enough "x" whatever it is: money, food, time, security, love, happiness. Wow, what a difficult and common thought....but you can question it. I share how I did it today, with my thought "there aren't enough participants coming to my retreat!" LOL. There are, it turns out.
There's a voice of addiction you may be listening to that's ultimately got nothing to do with being addicted to a substance or activity. It's the compulsion to have the story "there is something wrong with this moment". You've got the voice that is NOT addicted, too. Can you hear it, even in the midst of total discouragement?
When you feel fear...what does your mind have to say about it? Sometimes, the threat is simply that you do not know what will happen, or you're concerned that there's a threat (but you don't know exactly what). Listen here to contemplate and wonder, what would it be like to not be afraid of experiencing fear?
Often we think we'll go to silent retreat, or meditate and quiet down, and THAT'S what we'll believe will bring us peace. But what if you could find peace in daily life? Isn't that the only place you'll really ultimately find it?
The poet Machado said that we all have four things that can bring us down when out at sea: rudder, anchor, oars, and fear. I notice my own tools often take me into striving and exhaustion, and fear....terrible. Who would I, or you, BE, without these fearful things? At peace.
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The other day I noticed the urge to suddenly get rid of an old computer taking up space. I felt anger at the very presence of this clunky thing. then I stopped, and caught myself. I realized, I was covering grief and sadness. The computer was bought when I was happily married, with cute small children, and a big beautiful house. It used to sit in an incredible spot near a window with a bamboo forest outside. Who would I be without the anger? Whole hearted. Grateful.
So many thoughts in the mind about what we should be, and aren't yet, and what we shouldn't be that we are. What if you're not the one in charge? Wow, what a fun and strange (and lighter) idea to consider!
I have spent years trying to be a better person. Good lord! Recently I was reminded of how much I felt this way when I was a teenager, and trying to understand my Christian upbringing. Everyone can question the thought that there is something wrong with you, and you need improvement. You can practice imagining being OK with who you are right now, no need for anything different.
A very powerful place to inquire into your beliefs is around someone else's lack of response to your requests, or your communication. Listen to find out what you might be thinking that really hurts, when someone is silent.
The moment you have someone disturbing in your experience (even in memories) you may notice the urge to fly or fight. What if you connected more closely to them, without fighting, without running away? What would that be like?
Many people think: I can't handle being in the presence of someone who is dying, hurting, suffering, or who has had terrible trauma or experienced a horrible life event.
But what if you didn't need to know anything, or do anything? Are you sure you aren't enough? Do you really have to know what to say, or how to be?
Try staying, without expectations. I noticed I could handle it....and you can too.
If you didn't believe your stories about not being enough, about sadness, anger, fear or loneliness...who would you be? What would that feel like? Try this exercise. It may seem small, but it can change your life.
It's very common when someone says no that one feels pain. Whether the "no" is to a marriage, or a group, or a workshop (my situation here) or even a birthday party...when you hear "no, I can't make it" or "no, I don't want to" what do you feel? What if you questioned that thought? What if it was OK to hear a no or a yes, equally? Who would you be without the story of NO?
It can be mean to try to make yourself different than you are. I've had a lot of people come to me to be facilitated through self-inquiry in order to change themselves (not other people). But who would you be without the belief you need to be different in order to be more successful, or happier?
If you notice stress about money, you might consider if you're receiving well, or not. Who would you be without the story of guilt, shame, or hiding the truth?
The thought is very debilitating: I did something wrong. Even if you have it, can you imagine not believing this thought? Here's how.
Stephen Jenkinson speaks of money as a place that brings forth all your innermost secrets and pain. Grace shares a quote by Stephen, and talks about questioning beliefs about money.
Working with people on traumatic situations is tough. But you can. if you're still here, you're still needed.
Often the people we dislike the most, or judge, have some quality we actually dislike in ourselves. What if you let yourself judge that person viciously, and then took those beliefs about that person through inquiry? It may change the way you feel about YOU (it will).
When you think your thoughts are "bad" or the way you think is "wrong" or that your ego needs to be destroyed....maybe you're still running the exact same energy of anti. I am the one against "x". Who would you be without that project?
Listen to Martha Creek and her powerful thoughts about not expecting yourself to "work" or arrive at peace, if you're a human being. You don't need to love what is, or even like what is.
Friendships can be full of opportunity to be clear, be real, be loving and return to peace. Here's what I disocovered in one friendship-gone-sour.
In the 1980s I read the work of Scott Peck of The Road Less Traveled. Who would you be wtihout the story that something difficult happening in your life, is automatically a bad thing?
Grace talks with the delightful Barbara Winters about inner peace, especially for those who are self-employed.
It's a natural human reaction to want to push away or cut off everyone and anyone who scares you. But who would you be without the thought?
I keep noticing how everything is bearable, even when they hurt like hell. Who would I be without the belief I have to avoid pain, because it might not be bearable?
When you think money should move from over there to over here, you might want to question that painful thought.
The feeling of not being enough or receiving enough is very painful sometimes. It can make people feel sick. Who would you be without your thought?
The end of a relationship can feel so devastating. But if you ask yourself a powerful question about your stressful thoughts...you may be surprised: Is it true? Are you sure? Answer the question, you might discover you aren't the bad person you think.
Anthony DeMello, one of my favorite authors, speaks of three things that are possibly concerning us, every single time we're afraid or stressed out.
Chuck C, a famous AA member whose talks are compiled in a book called "A New Pair of Glasses" defined sobriety as peace, comfort and joy on the inside.
When I was in my early 20s, I had a great challenge thrown down. By my little sister, who wasn't supposed to dent my pride like that. I used competition to change my life for the better. You can do this, too.
What criticism really gets down to is a big sense of self, and needing to protect yourself, build yourself up, or maintain an ego. When this dissolves, criticism has less pain.
If you try to get people to like you, then one way that comes crashing down is for the one whose adoration you want to criticize you. It hurts, but then...you're far more free.
People say what they say....and sometimes we really lose our peace. How to get it back? Listen to a couple of suggestions here.
Here's what its like to be in someone's presence without believing your story about them. Use your imagination!
When you do your work, you clearly identify the difficult situations from childhood. You only need one situation. Start there. Look closely. You may be surprised at the results.
If you can change your mindset about your parental units (mom and dad) you can find greater peace in your current everyday life!
When you have a pet peeve emotion you don't like, such as "hysterical" or "controlling" then you may want to look more deeply at why you don't like it.
Do you worry about money? Do you believe more money is better than less money? Who would you be without that thought? You might be HAPPY.
When you go beyond assuming you're unhappy because (x,y,z) and find out why you believe that's true....you may find incredible freedom.
If you really capture what you're thinking about others, when you converse or interact with them, and take it through inquiry, you can find peace in any conversation.
Do you have judgments about interruption? What about noticing when YOU interrupt other people, even in your own thoughts?
You can find easy, simple ways to relax with other people, even if you're giving a speech. Bring peace anywhere, and if you can't....question your thinking (I'll talk about this more next episode 62 as well).
You've probably noticed that we joke about death and dying at times, but what if you could really allow the humor of our temporary status here in life?
What else would you be in this moment, besides the definition of your body, besides your thoughts? Everyone can do this, not just gurus and sages.
We usually tell the story of the memory of someone we loved, or a past situation, job, house or time of life as better than the one we're in now. Who would you be without that story? What if NOW were joyful?
I used to think I was an outcast. You'll see what I mean, in my neighborhood story I tell! I had the tiniest little house, by comparison to everyone else! Here's how I stopped the war about money.
If you're curious about money, talk with people who have it. Read about money. Open up, instead of hiding.
The belief that you need more money can be very stressful. Can you question this belief, and find peace instead?
It may be strange to give up the fight to heal or stop your resistance, but perhaps if you relax and simply be resistant, and accept yourself right there without attacking yourself, you may get the rest you really need.
How do you know you're being resitant? You're thinking things like "I can't" or "I won't" or "You can't make me".
This week we're talking about Resistance, and how it takes away our inner peace. First thing to do? Talk with the part of you in resistance. Be curious. Give it a voice.
The thought of death, and what it means for you, is one other way to quit believing your thoughts in stressful situations. Consider death. Turn the thought you're thinking around to the opposite. Everything slows down.
When you notice your mind filled with thoughts you kinda want to believe....but you pause and stop, even just a wee bit...what can you do to keep the space opening up and find some balance and peace? Ask this question.
What's the first thing to do when your mind races off in various directions, depending on what you encounter? Stop. Relax. Take a deep breath. Don't "act" immediately. This is possible for everyone.
Anthony DeMello wrote if you love the smell of a flower, you'll love the smell of 1000 flowers.....and have multitudes to choose from. Detachment to specialness can be handled many ways, and lead to a peaceful life.
Sustaining the effort to be in the present moment and not prefer something to be different is all you need to do. You can do this.
The Tao Te Ching says not to try to be clever or rich. What does ordinary look like? You may be surprised if you let yourself be exactly as you are.
Extreme desire can feel totally overwhelming. But what if you notice what you desire is never truly satisfying? Can you also see the thoughts before you ever had the craving? What were those thoughts? They may be painful, but sticking with them to see what they mean, what they say, leads to peace.
The mind will have stragies to obliterate "wanting" OR control myself. OR the mind will flip into truly no longer wanting...with a depressive quality. How do you want, and not have (yet) and have fun in every position? Some wanting is good!!
Peace is being connected to others, not focused on the content or the "things" that might be missing or out of order.
When you reconsider how you've been conditioned to hate disease, injury or death....you may find more freedom than you ever imagined.
In the end, being gentle overcomes the rigid....like in the Tao when you read that water, even when its soft and yielding, can dissolve the hard and inflexible. Letting your mind be soft is an amazing feeling when it comes to thinking about injury, sickness, pain and being trapped in a body.
This may seem odd...but suffering over injury, sickness and traumatic experience may be softened if you can spend some time finding benefits, advantages or interesting things coming out of your hard times. Here's one example.
How do we work with thoughts that create deep unhappiness or upset? First, you might consider the greatest fears....that you might experience unhappiness!
When thoughts come quickly it's difficult when you have the additional thought "this is too much, I can't take all these thoughts, there are too many!" What if you just started with the one on top? One step at a time--it'll be OK.
When we have stressful thoughts running...is it possible to actually NOT REACT? This week, we're exploring HOW.
Hilarious one day when I discovered the very thought of self-improvement has a funny flavor of ego-centeredness, in other words--I need to change, fix, alter or adjust myself. Are you the one in charge?
That self-centered self-focused thinking comments about everything, have you noticed? Noticing is the first step.
The strange paradox about uncertainty is that there are many things we behave pretty certainly about: there will be a tomorrow, if I get on this airplane flying to Seattle, it's probably going to Seattle. We can use this certainly to enjoy what is ordinary.
I've sure felt a lot of anxiety in my life! When you feel anxious about what could happen, here's a way you might question your thinking, and relax.
Strangely, trying to keep positive thoughts can sometimes become a source of stress. Can you relax, even with your negative thinking? Let's see how.
The practice of being against suffering is strong--but what if we were open to suffering and took it in...opened up to it, even breathed it in? Notice what can happen if you consider this.
Hard things happening in life can be so unexpected, shocking, or traumatic and painful. One simple place to begin is here. Listen to find out what I notice, now.
Could you notice your desire is something that serves you, something to aim at, something that brings you present joy right now!
The three most difficult energies that can prevent us from enjoying or understanding our desires are guilt, shame and clinging. Can you see why, or where you learned your guilty, shameful or clinging beliefs? When you become aware, you have the power to become free.
Self-doubt can be questioned. Begin with noticing that you attack yourself, or say critical things...or maybe even reasons why you can't do something or get to what you envision. Is it true? Who would you be without that thought?
Now that you can question the suffering of death...or at least begin to look...can you find freedom in seeing that you are completely alone, and it's OK? This does not mean lonely!
I love the simple awareness that even with people I love and adore, they are not with me 24/7. Thank goodness! Could this be the normal way of it? If I can find that being alone is OK, maybe I can find this in death, as well.
Death is perhaps the greatest difficulty of all experiences, it seems, in the human life. We're worried about it, it seems terrible when others die. Start with the first most painful belief: death is terrible. Is that true?
Your self-hate may never go away. Who would you be if you gave up the idea that you will be secure later, and there's a way to eliinate pain? You might be surprised at the freedom.
Self-inquiry around ending self-hate is something you can notice and do in many subtle versions of self-hate.
When you're uncertain about what will happen tomorrow, or unsupported, you might think "there is something wrong with me". All it takes is some awareness, first seeing that you are not alone.
When you kid is yelling or they say something mean--it appears they don't care about you--this can be from anyone! What if you turned that around, and concentrated only on yourself? I should love myself. It's easier, and in the end, they love you more when you do it.
Could not knowing actually be the way of it? The way that might work best? It doesn't mean being lazy or lacadaisical, it means relaxing and being OK with not knowing.
When you bump up against demands you think you need to make of your kids, or anyone for that matter, it can be very stressful. Here's where you can start to unravel that stress.
Notice your anxiety, and relax. Allow your body to go limp. Stop dictating to yourself that you need to find a way to become less anxious, and watch this thing called anxiety--study it! It could be your friend.
When you think you don't have enough time, you can get super anxious! Have you noticed? Or what about too much time on your hands? Boredom is anxiety-producing, too. What if life has it's own pace, and it's not up to you?
Feeling anxiety is very difficult for so many (myself included). There's ONE basic premise, however, that must be in place in order to feel fearful and get anxious....that it's possible to NOT BE HAPPY in certain situations. Strangely simple, but we begin looking at this belief this week.
Start with your most stressful thought about love, then explore on paper with journaling. You can do an exercise to dialogue with yourself about your painful thoughts about love.
Exploring the inner you is so exciting! Use your imagination to explore what it would be like to not have a thought!
Rumi's beautiful poetry "Community of Spirit" tells us to throw away our stories and let silence tell us all, end our suffering, join the community of spirit!
When we apply this to romantic love, our complaints "he left me" or "she left me" become irrelevant.
How exciting!
Most people find discomfort in one of three areas around love: being single, breaking up, dating or being in a long-term relationship that's difficult.
Who would you be without your story about love?
Now we're getting into the best stuff possible when it comes to uncomfortable feelings--letting them run through you. They point to some lie you're thinking and believing anyway, so why not let them point it out big and proud, so you can adjust and see it more easily? Relax, and it always passes.
What continues to happen if you don't resist feeling bad? If you don't damn up your feelings like swelling up a stream, you might find they go in direction that surprise you.
When you feel horrible, it's really common to think "I need to get rid of this!!!" and start every strategy you've ever imagined since childhood to get yourself to stop feeling "x" (insert uncomfortable feeling here).
What if you let the feeling be there, as it is?
See what happens next.
When you're caretaking someone, and you feel victimized and resentful...and the people you're taking care of are demanding (children, elderly parents) then questioning your stressful thoughts can be awesome. This is how to quit arguing with reality.
Having a full range of emotions and feelings is very normal. You may still feel like you get stabbed in the gut because of what someone says. But this is temporary, of course. What's happening if you allow your own reactions....and then see what you're thinking about those other people, where they need to change in order for you to be peaceful.
Dropping the intensity towards self-criticism, or attack of the self, is difficult. If you find yourself locked into anger towards yourself, move your attention over to thoughts about others, so you can really look deeply at your judgments towards other people instead. Then, when you can question your thoughts, you might find even greater insight. Violence towards the self doesn't work.
In this episode I share weekly resources to help you find peace. You'll discover teachings from authors and thought leaders and I'll share with you the best of what's out there to help you find and live with peace.
In this episode you'll learn how to deal with self-criticism. Learn how to clear out your worst beliefs so that you can find peace in any situation.
In this first episode I talk about how to create inner peace, especially when you don't feel peaceful inside. Learn how to transform your perspective and reduce your stress.