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

#142: Life Is Devastating • 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

🗓️ 13 February 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

My guest this week is Fatma, who as child felt that she was losing everyone she loved. Now, as an adult, she still feels that the people in her life are constantly being taken away from her. Join Fatma and me as we question the thoughts that are causing her suffering. Let’s all take a deep breath, get still, and do The Work.
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0:17.5

Hello everyone. My guest today is the amazing open-minded Fatma and her work. She is in Afghanistan at five years old, standing alone in the street. She doesn't know where her dad is and everyone is leaving her and people are

0:26.7

leaving Afghanistan leaving where she lives and Fatima doesn't want life to change. She wants everyone to stay together.

0:35.8

And she is experiencing that life is unfair and unpredictable and cruel and devastating and you know what to do here let's put it to the

0:47.0

test and altogether you know let's just get really still really quiet and sit with Fatma as she shows us that even in a state of trauma,

0:59.0

we can do this work, we can open our minds.

1:02.0

She's such a great teacher of that. So altogether, let's do the work.

1:09.8

Okay. Okay. So, Vadma, you have a worksheet, honey? Those if you're new to the work, the worksheet that I'm speaking of,

1:19.6

it's always free on the work.com or there's a 99 cent app and there are six questions on that

1:25.0

judge a neighbor worksheet and to fill that in you anchor in a situation and you

1:32.2

be there now in your mind's eye and you answer the six questions.

1:37.0

So, but, Fudma, what are your, what did you write for number one?

1:42.0

I wrote,

1:44.0

I'm sad with life because people are leaving me.

1:49.0

Honey, so what is the situation? I am maybe five or six years old. I'm in Afghanistan.

2:00.5

My I don't know where my dad is and there are family members that are leaving the country and I don't know like it's all secret.

2:16.1

Okay. So people are leaving you precious little little five-year-old,

2:24.0

and you're watching them leave

2:26.0

and you don't know where your dad is.

2:30.0

People are leaving you, so be there now, be there present with that little girl.

2:37.0

Is it true, sweetheart, that people are leaving you.

2:44.0

Can you really know that it's true

2:47.0

that people are leaving you,

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