#197: He Touched Me! (Part One) • The Work of Byron Katie®

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🗓️ 6 March 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Sofia, my guest today, was at work when a customer, without her permission, touched her on her lower back. She felt disgusted, and she has continued to feel unsafe at her workplace since then. Join Sofia and me as she courageously discovers the actual cause of her suffering and how to end it. I invite you to clear your mind, take a deep breath, and together let’s do The Work. (Part 1 of 2)

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0:00.0	Hello everyone, welcome to the work with Sophia. She's in the workplace. A man is touching her back without permission. She finds a disgusting, disrespectful, awful, exploitative, a bully, and she's really frightened.
0:24.7	What is going through her mind?
0:26.7	Let's find out.
0:28.1	I love that you're here and together let's sit in the work with Sophia.
0:36.6	Hello dear dears. Welcome to self-inquiry. Welcome to the work. The work is a way to identify
0:44.0	and to question the thoughts that cause all the suffering in your life, all the suffering in your
0:51.4	life, all the suffering in the world. We can't help our thoughts.
0:56.6	There's nothing we can do to stop them.
1:00.4	Like if I say a word, I say the word banana,
1:03.5	you just saw a picture of it.
1:05.1	Stop that.
1:07.2	The egos fight for survival.
1:10.1	The egos fight to survive as object.
1:14.7	I, I am, I know, I am.
1:21.5	Without any proof whatsoever other than imagination.
1:26.9	That must sound like a lot for those of you new to the work.
1:30.3	The work is self-inquiry.
1:32.5	Way to identify and question the thoughts that cause all the suffering in your life.
1:36.2	Lisbeth, honey, you have a question?
1:39.5	Well, hello.
1:40.6	Hi, Elizabeth.
1:41.9	Hi.
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