#191: My Beautiful Moroccan Vase • The Work of Byron Katie®

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🗓️ 23 January 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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My guest on this episode, Sarina, bought an expensive Moroccan vase that she loved, until her husband said it looked like dragon skin. Now she sees the vase as ugly and longs to see it as beautiful again. Is it possible to make such a mind switch? Join Sarina and me as she finds out. Let's do The Work!

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0:00.0	Hello everyone. Oh, I am so glad that you're with us today. My guest today is Serena,
0:12.0	and she is so lovable and adorable and so us. She bought this vase. She has been just loving for so long.
0:23.0	She finally went back to the shop and bought it and brought it home and loves it.
0:29.0	And her husband said, the vase looks like dragon skin.
0:32.6	And it shifted.
0:34.7	It shifted her love for the vase.
0:40.5	With the ego, what the ego threw around, I don't want you to miss. Welcome to the work. Welcome to the work with Serena on is love what we think
0:48.4	and believe it to be? And can the ego actually shift that? So play with that and with that in mind, let's meet Serena.
0:59.1	Hello, dears, hello, oh my goodness, oh my goodness.
1:06.5	You are my treasure.
1:09.3	What do I mean by that?
1:14.1	What I'm thinking and believing about you just fills me with delight.
1:28.8	Um, those of you are new to the work today, the work is a way to identify the cause of your suffering,
1:33.0	the cause of all your suffering in any given moment in time,
1:39.5	and how to move the thoughts you're thinking from your head to paper.
1:42.9	And then we question those thoughts.
1:49.7	So there is all the, oh, so so there is oh so depressed i'm so this i'm so that i'm so that i'm so hurt i'm so angry and oh good it's like oh my goodness i can move the thoughts
1:56.8	i'm thinking from my head to paper and then i'm going to question them everything i'm thinking from my head to paper, and then I'm going to question them.
2:03.4	Everything I'm thinking and believing could be true. I don't know.
2:11.0	Obviously, I'm believing in some kind of way, or I wouldn't be feeling like this.
2:19.0	This stress, this separation, this sadness, this depression, whatever those emotions might be.
2:28.1	So I move them from my head to paper because there's the cause of my suffering there, my
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