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

#107: My Doctors Are Too Pessimistic • 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

🗓️ 6 June 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

My guest this week is Jusleen. For six months, her doctors have been telling her that her baby has only a 2% chance of being born healthy. She is so depressed and upset with her doctors that she finds herself physically ill herself. Join Jusleen and me as she questions her debilitating thoughts. I invite you to relax and open your mind to self inquiry–Welcome to The Work.
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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome to the podcast my guest today is Justline and for six

0:10.8

months Justleen's doctors have been telling her that her baby has only 2 to 50% chance of being born healthy.

0:19.0

She is so depressed and upset with her doctors that she finds herself physically ill

0:25.1

herself basically she's absolutely exhausted sleeping 20 hours a day and

0:30.1

living you know 2% of her life as she worries about this, this pregnancy, this babies,

0:38.0

and not trusting her doctors and I could go on and on, but you know, as we sit together with Juslene and sit an inquiry with us and

0:48.1

welcome to the work, welcome to the podcast.

0:50.8

Hello dears,, dears, Tom, you have a question.

0:57.0

Hi, Katie.

0:58.0

Hi, hi, Tom.

1:00.0

I have actually two questions and it would be okay for me if you would just say yes or no.

1:06.4

So you don't have to say much. It's like my mind just want to hear that I'm right. I don't know.

1:14.4

As though you're not the ultimate authority.

1:18.8

So the first question, why would you prefer prefer to turn a thought around before asking the four questions?

1:30.0

Is it because is it to calm the mind at first and to show him how destructive the original

1:37.4

statement is?

1:38.4

Yeah, it shows all the downside of believing. It shows how ego takes control and how that affects your life, your physical body, other people's lives, and how guilt is born.

1:58.0

And this is the opposite to just positive thinking, right?

2:05.0

I'm not into positive thinking.

2:07.0

I'm not against it either.

2:12.0

I think for some of us that's all we've got. And I say hang on to it for dear life, but the ego will have away with it without self inquiry. It can just steal that what we're so sure about

2:27.8

the eagle can just way override it and offer up all the proof.

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