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    Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life
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    Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life
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    Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life

    Published by Penguin Random House Audio

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    About this audiobook

    Out of nowhere, like a breeze in a marketplace crowded with advice, comes Byron Katie and "The Work."

    In the midst of a normal life, Katie became increasingly depressed, and over a ten-year period sank further into rage, despair, and thoughts of suicide. Then one morning, she woke up in a state of absolute joy, filled with the realization of how her own suffering had ended. The freedom of that realization has never left her, and now in Loving What Is you can discover the same freedom through The Work.

    The Work is simply four questions that, when applied to a specific problem, enable you to see what is troubling you in an entirely different light. As Katie says, "It's not the problem that causes our suffering; it's our thinking about the problem." Contrary to popular belief, trying to let go of a painful thought never works; instead, once we have done The Work, the thought lets go of us. At that point, we can truly love what is, just as it is.

    Loving What Is will show you step-by-step, through clear and vivid examples, exactly how to use this revolutionary process for yourself. You'll see people do The Work with Katie on a broad range of human problems, from a wife ready to leave her husband because he wants more sex, to a Manhattan worker paralyzed by fear of terrorism, to a woman suffering over a death in her family. Many people have discovered The Work's power to solve problems; in addition, they say that through The Work they experience a sense of lasting peace and find the clarity and energy to act, even in situations that had previously seemed impossible.

    If you continue to do The Work, you may discover, as many people have, that the questioning flows into every aspect of your life, effortlessly undoing the stressful thoughts that keep you from experiencing peace. Loving What Is offers everything you need to learn and live this remarkable process, and to find happiness as what Katie calls "a lover of reality."
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJan 5, 2016
    ISBN9780451485274
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    • 5/5
      Useful! Try a worksheet - changed my thinking.
    • 5/5
      It's a great way to deal with ones thoughts. It took me some time to get it to work though, and notice change. I'm not always able to follow it, and it doesn't always work, but there is a slight improvement every time.I will definitly recommend this book to everybody.
    • 5/5
      Giving examples of "The Work" the author shows how all suffering is comprised of thought and how we can liberate ourselves from the prison of our own mind.
    • 5/5
      So accurate and life changing. Really important to anyone wanting to succeed and be truly happy.
    • 5/5
      Looking forward to putting this to use. Thank you in advance. ...
    • 5/5
      This book has been amazing! I can listen to it over and over
    • 5/5
      Just an absolutely wonderful book! Telling all of my friends
    • 1/5
      This is just... not great. I had pretty high expectations for this book after reading about it in a different book, but this was just not good. I almost could have forgiven the problematic self-help advice by saying "well she must not mean this for someone in blank situation," but then there was a scene that was so blatantly and unapologetically transphobic that I couldn't give the author the benefit of the doubt for anything.
    • 1/5
      This is just... not great. I had pretty high expectations for this book after reading about it in a different book, but this was just not good. I almost could have forgiven the problematic self-help advice by saying "well she must not mean this for someone in blank situation," but then there was a scene that was so blatantly and unapologetically transphobic that I couldn't give the author the benefit of the doubt for anything.
    • 5/5
      Excellent book! This is a must read/ listen to! I recommend it to everyone!???
    • 4/5
      ery interesting book. The author was in deep depression until she had a big 'aha' moment, and turned her life around by asking herself four basic questions about everything that hurt, saddened or angered her.

      This book shows how anyone can do the same, to get rid of frustrations, irritations and hurt from the past. It may seem simplistic or unrealistic, but it's pretty powerful stuff, albeit not really anything other than accepting what is, and looking around problems rather than being stuck in one viewpoint.

      Rather more of a Buddhist/New Age feel than I'm entirely comfortable with, but that's only a tiny part. Relevant to anyone, and definitely recommended. Four and a half stars if possible.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 1/5
      Do I dislike this entire concept? Yes.
      Is it true? Yes, its true.
      Can i be certain that its true? Yes.

      Turn it around, what does the entire concept have to do with you to begin with?

      Because I thought that the concept behind this book had to do with just 4 relevant questions you could ask yourself to put things into perspective.

      Instead it feels like tbere are 24 of them and I am just not built to analyze my dilemmas in life by giving myself a long test.

      Why do you think you have a right to an opinion?
      Because it's my truth.

      Kudos to the author for creating something that worked for her and continues to work for other people.

      Unfortunately, the entire audiobook gave me palpable anxiety. Full on chest pains, heart racing and the shakes.

      I did like the teaching a cat to bark analogy. I will totally use that in the future.

      Please don't perceive this review as judgemental. It's just my humble opinion.
      Thank you.
    • 5/5
      The subtitle is "Four Questions which can change your life." Maybe even save your life. Katie asks to think about what our lives would be like without our negative thoughts, and she encourages us to put responsibility for our lives directly where it belongs--on our selves. READ THIS BOOK!

      1 person found this helpful

    • 3/5
      Talk about life transformation...how quickly we can get carried away by our thoughts...
    • 3/5
      I was recommended this by my counsellor. I was very unsure about it because a lot of reviews suggested it includes a lot of victim blaming -- and this is, in a sense, true: Byron Katie's theory is essentially that we are always the ones causing ourselves pain. She does tell a woman to figure out what part her nine year old self had in her own rape, what she did 'wrong'.

      That sounds very discomforting, but I think I see why she does it. When you've had some kind of trauma, there's often a question of what you could've done to prevent it. Maybe you let someone do something bad to you because you were frightened. You can believe almost totally that you couldn't have escaped the situation, but you still have that lingering shard of doubt -- and that could be a way in to learn to recover from it, starting with forgiving your own perceived complicity.

      I don't think Byron Katie is 100% right. I found her attitude a little arrogant at times, and condescending. But the basic ideas can be useful and provide a way to logically see how you can better a problem by controlling your part in it. Likewise, it asks you to accept the past as it was, because that's the only way it can be -- you can't change it, only the way you relive it in your mind.

      I would say, read this with caution, if you do read it. Aspects of it were useful for me, but I'm still uncomfortable about other aspects.