Byron Katie on Opening Your Heart and Mind Part 1

Part 1 of Byron Katie's talk at Watkins Books on July 4, 2014.
Byron Katie is an American speaker and author who teaches a method of self-inquiry known as "The Work of Byron Katie" or simply as "The Work".
The Work is a way of identifying and questioning any stressful thought. It consists of four questions and a turnaround. This is a way of experiencing the opposite of what you believe. The four questions are: 1) Is it true? 2) Can you absolutely know that it's true? 3) How do you react, what happens, when you believe that thought? and 4) Who would you be without that thought?

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  • @SobrietyBestie
    @SobrietyBestie9 жыл бұрын

    "Reality is much kinder than what I believed about it" Love this!

  • @ElijahArtist1

    @ElijahArtist1

    8 жыл бұрын

    Amen!

  • @walaaosman6048
    @walaaosman6048 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much byron kaite you are gift to us ❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @samanthamariah7625

    @samanthamariah7625

    7 ай бұрын

    And we are a gift to ourselves and to the world.

  • @EchelonUnderground
    @EchelonUnderground6 жыл бұрын

    The unexamined life is not worth living however, the unlived life is not worth examining.

  • @TheSolsonia2003
    @TheSolsonia20038 жыл бұрын

    I just adore your shinning clarity 🌟💫✨☀️💛🙏

  • @madhavi108
    @madhavi1087 жыл бұрын

    The goal is to be free from suffering by loosening our identification with the small "I" (ego) false self and becoming grounded in pure Awareness, or witness consciousness , or consciousness or whatever one wants to call it. Once, when someone asked Bk if she was enlightened, she replied: "I only know the difference between what hurts and what doesn't hurt." So, if you want to become permanently free of suffering, you can follow her path: do "the work". One path...there are many more--pick one that you feel an affinity with.

  • @FelipeGarcia-bx2tf
    @FelipeGarcia-bx2tf9 жыл бұрын

    I love you and your WORK Katie!

  • @TempleofInnocence-AlohaKeAkua
    @TempleofInnocence-AlohaKeAkua10 жыл бұрын

    thank you so much for taping and sharing this meeting!

  • @cereal_qilla
    @cereal_qilla7 жыл бұрын

    She reminds me of the fairy godmother in Cinderella

  • @SobrietyBestie
    @SobrietyBestie9 жыл бұрын

    "Ask, Listen, Wait. Be enlightened." Amazing. Xx

  • @ElijahArtist1

    @ElijahArtist1

    8 жыл бұрын

    Yes!

  • @rebeccafromherz
    @rebeccafromherz10 жыл бұрын

    Thank you soooo much for this new footage...! I LOVE IT.

  • @lovelala6861
    @lovelala68619 жыл бұрын

    Wonderful

  • @toth1982
    @toth19826 жыл бұрын

    Its about stillness, about getting quiet, and listening.

  • @marilynhaverly570
    @marilynhaverly5707 жыл бұрын

    Life is a dream , do you love it yet--beautiful.

  • @LaRoSaJoLie
    @LaRoSaJoLie9 жыл бұрын

    "life is a dream, do you love it yet?" .....

  • @sheldonvern

    @sheldonvern

    8 жыл бұрын

    +La Rosa Jolie then its a good idea to wake up or make it lucid

  • @elizabethfarrell9650
    @elizabethfarrell96505 жыл бұрын

    Very great video. I really love Byron Katie. 🙌💓 With my spiritual journey I have also really loved watching a lot of Master Sri Avinash Do myself at the moment. #SriAvinash 💛 Sri Avinash's talks have helped me immensely.

  • @janakissacredradiochannel8840
    @janakissacredradiochannel88408 жыл бұрын

    There is a great tale called The Emperor's Clothes. Somehow I was reminded of it watching this.

  • @intoxicatedmooneyes

    @intoxicatedmooneyes

    Жыл бұрын

    Why were u reminded of that tale?

  • @natsyoutube
    @natsyoutube10 жыл бұрын

    Hello and thank you for posting this talk and is it possible to get the full talk / video? I noticed that there was a lot of narration and i would really like to hear everything that byron katie said. Lots of greetings.

  • @Hen-jm8zj
    @Hen-jm8zj8 жыл бұрын

    Please can you record and upload the upcoming BK talk, this weekend. So sad that I can't make it- but like everyone, would love to hear it. Thanks:)

  • @cynthiaennis3107
    @cynthiaennis31075 жыл бұрын

    Neville Goddard = “Imagination Creates Reality” “Everyone is you pushed out!” “There’s only you in the world.” I Am = Unconditioned Consciousness! Pretty close to some of the New Thought teachings...

  • @jillrusso3418
    @jillrusso341810 жыл бұрын

    F A N T A B U L O U S. I've been doing the work for a month now. This is such great stuff the deeper you go. During a meditation, I received the .message: Turn off the ego, it's hurting my ears. This was very useful.".:)

  • @highvibefreqzshow5967

    @highvibefreqzshow5967

    5 жыл бұрын

    jill russo That’s the ego perpetuating itself. Who iz the “I” that wants the ego to be turned off because “my” ears are hurting?

  • @HY34HU
    @HY34HU9 жыл бұрын

    Believing thoughts has the elements of attachment, clearly displayed by corresponding actions of those beliefs. But on who's behalf are these ideas defended?

  • @nochniyederevya751
    @nochniyederevya7519 жыл бұрын

    In fact human gets enough task to feel for his whole life, usually all life is spent for understanding simple feelings and, hm, to "live" thos feelings and to think those thoughts. I cant fly away to space matters and leave all what were in my heart -whish is responsible no only for love... Human cannot leave his world just because he likes something high or he think his environment is primitive. This so called "individual" inner world is so much built by many ages of human history and I just cannot imagine (abstract and easy) light orbes and rays and "powers" inside or outside - when billions hate billlions and I was born from them and growth on their culture. I use roads, cars, electric gadgets, planes, food and water. Which are not created only by happyness... And this world is more part of me then chacras and chi flows.

  • @samanthamariah7625

    @samanthamariah7625

    7 ай бұрын

    I hope you are doing well and have found peace in your life ✨💫🌟

  • @AXharoth
    @AXharoth10 жыл бұрын

    why all the cuts???????

  • @mundiib.6370
    @mundiib.63709 жыл бұрын

    I am a bit confused by her response to the blind man, because he seems to want relief from obsessively checking the door and she seems to suggest "it's ok, go check the door, you dont necessarily need to sleep". I was somewhat surprised by this response but I understand that she is trying to "loosen" his beliefs, so to speak, and his attachment to them.

  • @ElijahArtist1

    @ElijahArtist1

    8 жыл бұрын

    In my opinion, she is saying that, "what you resist will persist", so if your obsessed with checking to see if the door is locked, then trying to resist this addiction will only make it stronger, so instead of resisting your addictions, question them, not with a secret motive of letting them go, but to simply be Present with them. Addictions are a gift from the deepest part of the mind - they say, "please listen to me." The more you practice the art of inquire the more you begin to see the under world of stressful thoughts that produced the addiction, and that's where the healing can truly begin.

  • @carmenl163

    @carmenl163

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Elijah Jared Garcia In my expierence, Katie is always literal saying what she means. So "what you resist will persist", that is just another believe to her. She is genuine excited about going to the door and never knowing if it is locked.

  • @gregswanepoel1806

    @gregswanepoel1806

    7 жыл бұрын

    Mundii B. you thinking too much.. just feel what she's saying

  • @cynthiaennis3107

    @cynthiaennis3107

    5 жыл бұрын

    Mundii B. She didn’t say he didn’t need sleep...listen again...she actually said...when we don’t sleep for long enough we crash!

  • @pixieseyz

    @pixieseyz

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yes, I interpreted it as welcome insomnia to your bedroom and it will leave. Resist or hate it and it will stay with you aaaaallll night.

  • @melissa7777
    @melissa77772 жыл бұрын

    Sounds like Katie soul travel/had a dissociated soul part come out of her body from reliving trauma. Kinda like a near death experience but she wasn't dead per say just experiencing trauma and made her aware of her soul parts causing her pain from unresolved childhood problems/wounds.

  • @confetticraft
    @confetticraft6 жыл бұрын

    I'd love to hear this talk by Byron Katie, but there doesn't seem to be any audio, just a faint hissing noise. I haven't had that problem with other videos. I hope it can be fixed, or uploaded again.

  • @highvibefreqzshow5967

    @highvibefreqzshow5967

    5 жыл бұрын

    Christina Mendoza Apparently your device is playing only on the right audio channel. The audio iz on left, the hissing on the right likely due to the to device used to record this video. Try some headphones or change the headphones or device you used before and you’ll hear it.

  • @MortenTolboll
    @MortenTolboll8 жыл бұрын

    The quote is Socrates, which has nothing to do with Byron Katie´s distorted and one-sided version of cognitive therapy...

  • @Degjoy

    @Degjoy

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Morten Tolboll Is it true?

  • @stephenmtichell5004

    @stephenmtichell5004

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Degjoy It is true that I let my wife get away with shenanigans when I was busy translating another manuscript...it's difficult to keep her in control

  • @MortenTolboll

    @MortenTolboll

    8 жыл бұрын

    Degjoy Oh dont begin with your bullshit, where you use the work as an idiotical weapon! May I ask you: Is the work true???? Are you sure it is true?Then turn it around. Read my article on Byron Katie: A critique of Byron Katie and her therapeutic technique The Work: mortentolboll.weebly.com/a-critique-of-byron-katie-and-her-therapeutic-technique-the-work.html

  • @Degjoy

    @Degjoy

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Morten Tolboll I don't know if anything is true. That's the point. Your critique is just as valid as Byron Katie's The Work itself. However, Katie comes at me with a suggestion, rather than an answer, which I personally prefer.

  • @MortenTolboll

    @MortenTolboll

    8 жыл бұрын

    Degjoy She is precisely not coming with a suggestion, but with an answer to everything. You can say in advance what her conclusions will be. The Work is so-called rethorical question where the conclusion is given in advance. Lets say you have a problem with an abuser. You can with 100% know that she will come to the conclusion that the abuser is your guru, and that your problem is your own faulty projections. And that she will go so far as saying that if you have a problem with Hitler, she wil with 100% come to the conclusion that Hitler is your guru, and that your problem is based on your own faulty projections., etc., etc. (see my article about that this she actually have done).

  • @Kotobukicho
    @Kotobukicho8 жыл бұрын

    Boo!

  • @c0rnsocks
    @c0rnsocks9 жыл бұрын

    MINDLESS BABBLING

  • @Simon-pl2zi

    @Simon-pl2zi

    9 жыл бұрын

    JAMMIN it's only because you are not grasping the eternal truths about the ego and beliefs she is sharing. These are not new ideas, but presented in her own way. "The unexamined life is not worth living" is profoundly true! The search inward "who am I?" is a magical journey that surpasses anything else in this physical life. You start to realize many things that are truly beneficial, such as, you realize that you are not defined by anything unless you say it is true. We are ALL that powerful. I have never heard this woman speak before, but it is very clear that she has a knowing that we are all ONE. I like her!

  • @penkatadrums

    @penkatadrums

    9 жыл бұрын

    JAMMIN Well, on a very deep and fundamental level, you are actually correct, sir :D Isn't she wonderful? :)

  • @corrinaamato8805

    @corrinaamato8805

    3 жыл бұрын

    im new to byron katie... and sometimes she feels very profound, sometimes yes it feels like mindless

  • @longdec2
    @longdec28 жыл бұрын

    Your husband is the one who sued Dr. Wayne Dyer! Maybe you should lecture to your husband for a while and see if he can get it! If he can't then maybe it is bull.

  • @ElijahArtist1

    @ElijahArtist1

    8 жыл бұрын

    It sounds like you have some anger. Maybe you should consider doing The Work. Namaste.

  • @longdec2

    @longdec2

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Elijah Jared Garcia - why, do I need to learn how to sue people? Why would I listen to someone who does not follow their own teachings?

  • @carmenl163

    @carmenl163

    8 жыл бұрын

    +longdec2 You are talking about her husband, not her! He is an adult person who makes his own decisions. She is following her own teachings, because she teaches to stay out of other peoples business.

  • @irinabanjac-zdanova1757

    @irinabanjac-zdanova1757

    8 жыл бұрын

    Hey common inform me on what happened there?

  • @stephenmtichell5004

    @stephenmtichell5004

    8 жыл бұрын

    +longdec2 I like to sue people...more fun than translating ancient greek...gimme a break