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AT HOME with Byron Katie • The Work of Byron Katie® Podcast

#102: He Left Me on “Read” • The Work of Byron Katie®

AT HOME with Byron Katie • The Work of Byron Katie® Podcast

Byron Katie International, Inc.

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture

4.9870 Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Mike thinks that his boyfriend is self-centered because he didn’t respond right away to Mike’s text. Is this experience familiar to you? Let's do The Work!
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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome to the podcast. My guest today is Mike. His boyfriend is self-centered and

0:16.0

taking care only of his own personal needs and he's selfish and he wants a

0:22.0

quick return to his texts.

0:24.4

How do you respond when you send out a text

0:26.4

and you see the response then read, but no more?

0:31.6

And let's see how Mike does with it.

0:34.7

Hang in with us, get still, open your minds and let's do the work.

0:52.2

Hello dears and all of you new to this community today? What we do here is we identify the cause of all of our suffering, we identify it, move it from our

0:56.6

head to paper, and question it.

1:00.2

And how do we identify the cause of suffering? There are six questions on a work sheet on the work.com,

1:06.8

and you just anchor in a situation, get in touch with what you were thinking and believing and answer the question.

1:16.7

In other words, write down what you were thinking and believing.

1:20.3

And if it were not simple, I never could have found it, understood it, it's experiential.

1:27.6

It's about waking up to the most loving caring human being you'll ever meet in your life and that's yourself

1:36.3

Without all the fog and smog that the ego offers up to keep you from realizing it.

1:43.7

So with all the love in our hearts,

1:46.6

we identify what the ego has to say about you,

1:50.5

about them, about the world.

1:54.0

write it down and sit with the ego and with all the love in our heart.

1:58.0

We question those thoughts.

2:02.0

We're questioning the construct of ego, the construct of self, and coming to see that it's

2:09.8

false self, that that immovable kindness that you are shines without competition.

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