» Byron Katie http://juliecusmariu.com/blog Mon, 05 Mar 2012 12:31:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Open Your Mind to Open your Heart. Loving What Is with Byron Katie on Heart Beat this week http://juliecusmariu.com/blog/2009/08/open-your-mind-to-open-your-heart-loving-what-is-with-byron-katie-katie-joins-julie-cusmariu-in-conversation-on-heart-beat-this-week/ http://juliecusmariu.com/blog/2009/08/open-your-mind-to-open-your-heart-loving-what-is-with-byron-katie-katie-joins-julie-cusmariu-in-conversation-on-heart-beat-this-week/#comments Sat, 08 Aug 2009 17:53:33 +0000 Julie http://juliecusmariu.com/blog/?p=684

Byron Katie has one job: to teach people how to end their own suffering.

Join me, host of Heart Beat and graduate of The School for The Work, as I speak intimately with 4 time international best-selling author  Byron Katie about the extremely powerful process of inquiry called The Work, Wednesday August 12 at 4pm ET here.  The Work, based on four simple questions and a turnaround is a self-realization process for anyone willing to open their mind and experience internal peace.

In this hour you’ll hear Katie (as everyone calls her) talk with us about The Work and guide one listener live through this transformative process. By the end of the hour you will you will be amazed at the simplicity and power of The Work to create lasting change and peace of mind. I will also speak about my experience as a participant of  The School for The Work in L.A., having attended the program in April 2008.

The next nine day School for The Work is August 14-23 in L.A.

For my past blog entries on Byron Katie and The Work and how it relates to your inner knowing and intuition click on the titles below.

Loving What IS: A path to inner peace (and your intuition).

Loving What is, Byron Katie’s The Work asks us ” Whose business are you in?”. Inquire into your own business and notice how naturally you will connect with your intuition.

For more information about Byron Katie and The Work  visit www.thework.com.

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Quote from Byron Katie’s newest book Who Would You Be Without Your Story?

“  My name is “Yes”. I love living that way. I say yes to everything. For example, if you ask me to something for you, and I want to, I say yes. If you ask me to do something and I don’t want to, I say no. And that no is a yes to me. I live an internal yes, because I am honoring something inside me that has nothing to do with you. It’s so exciting to see what the answer is to that questions that he’s asking you! I don’t think, ” Will it hurt his feelings? What will he give me? Will he think I’m nice? Will he be disappointed?” Instead I think, what is my answer to that question? It’s very exciting. You never know what answer’s going to be there! So you just walk through life waiting for people to ask for anything, so that you can hear the language of your own heart, your own intelligence.”  Byron Katie



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After watching author and teacher Byron Katie’s interview on Oprah’s SoulSeries webcast the other night (see link below), I was reminded of some important and powerful questions Katie uses in the process she calls The Work. These questions help individuals bring peace to their stressful thoughts and are simple and easy to use by everyone.

In my personal life and also professionally as a Life Coach and Intuitive Consultant, I benefit from asking these questions to inquire into my own thoughts. As I do this, I am naturally guided back to myself, back to my own wisdom and my own self-responsibilities.

I attended The 9 day school for The Work in April of this year and benefited profoundly from the experience. Because it is such a powerful process, I am always eager to be reminded of the tools that make it so meaningful. Watching Katie the other night reminded me of those tools: Simple yet profound questions used to inquire into our stressful thoughts to bring us greater peace and freedom.

One of the questions Katie invites us to ask through the process of The Work is :

Whose business am I in?

According to Bryon Katie’s The Work, there are 3 different types of business.

There is:

Your business

Other people’s business

God’s (reality) business

If you are experiencing stressful thoughts, it is likely you are in everyone else’s business other than your own. In Loving What Is (pg.4) Katie writes, ” If you are living your life and I am mentally living your life, who is here living mine? We’re both over there. Being mentally in your business keeps me from being present in my own”. The Work invites us to give the advice we’ve been giving out to others back to ourselves. When we do this, we can create our own happiness, our own peace and our own fulfillment from within.

The beautiful thing about The Work is that it takes you back to yourself and keeps you responsible for your thoughts, your choices and your actions. Only we can truly know what is best for us and only ‘they’ can truly know what is best for ‘them. Any time we offer others unsolicited advice we are in their business telling them how to live their lives when we would serve them and ourselves more by being in our own business.

On May 1st I wrote a blog post after having just returned from The Work. I wrote

There is no greater answer out there than the one we find within ourselves.

When we are in our own business, tending to our own lives, we become more self-aware and connected to the present moment. When we focus less on how other people should be living their lives we free up time and energy to be mindful and responsible for our own lives. The more present we are to ourselves, the more connected we are to our intuition. And when we listen to our intuition we connect to our inner teacher, for what lies within us is essential for our fulfillment.

May you enjoy the present moment and notice whose business you are in when you are not feeling at peace or at ease. Remember that being in your business serves to sharpen your intuitive connection and opens the doorway to your inner wisdom. When we do this, not only do we benefit, but everyone around us does as well.

Please feel encouraged to share your experiences below.

All the best!

Watch Byron Katie on Oprah’s Soulseries

Learn more about The Work here

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Katie so gracefully and succinctly says ” When the mind is perfectly clear, what is is what we want”.

How about that? That statement comes a place of unconditional love. What a beautiful space to live from. A space that Byron Katie lives from and invites others to do as well. From my experience, that is no easy task, but a deeply honourable task and commitment, and one that feels very close to my heart.

As luck would have it, only a few weeks ago I found myself sitting on a plane en route to L.A. to begin Byron Katie’s 9 day School for The Work! To my amazement, the universe’s magical and beautiful ways showed up yet again.

Wow. What a trip.

It was an unbelievably profound experience for me. I participated in The Work and inquired into my stressful thoughts. I took the time to meet my thoughts with understanding and what I found was humility, love and compassion for myself and others. Getting to know the 350 other participants present from all over the world, enabled me to not only meet myself more intimately but it felt like I was connecting with humanity more intimately.

Throughout the 9 days together we all met the sacred place inside ourselves that holds our wisdom and personal truth. The answers that someone else had were perfect and right for them and the answers and truth that I found for myself were perfect and right for me. When we know our own truth and honour it as sacred, we move closer to peace within. We all shared in this experience with deep gratitude.

Perhaps you are wondering what happened to my stressful thoughts after the 9 days? Well, some have fallen away, but sure, I continue to have stressful thoughts. Now I have different tools to work with (if you’re interested visit TheWork.com). Through this experience I touched upon many deep personal truths. Most importantly this process confirmed what I know and believe to be true:
There is no greater answer out there than the one we find within ourselves.

We each have the answers we are looking for. Knowing this allows us to listen to our intuition and use it as our own personal navigation system to guides us and enable us to move through all of life with deeper trust, ease and grace.

How are you enabling your intuition to guide you? How are you honouring the answers that you have within your own self?

May you inquire into your own being and find what you are looking for.

With love for what is,
Julie

In this video below, you can get a taste of what The Work is about. You can find more on You Tube and at TheWork.com. Enjoy.

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