The Self Inquiry Toolbox

1. Why The Work Works (1/4): Your Map of Reality

The Podcasts on The Work of Byron Katie open with the "Why The Work Works"-series. This series provides a theoretical understanding of how the mind works as a foundation for understanding why The Work is so effective. This first episode is about The Map of Reality - the subjective filter of interpretation that exists between us and the world, which is completely necessary for us to function, but which is also the true cause of all of our problems.

2. Why The Work Works (2/4): The Most Important Thing There Is To Say About Anything

The second episode of the "Why The Work Works"-series is about the most important thing there is to say about anything. What is that, you ask? Simply this: there is only now. It is seductively simple, but it is the most important thing there is to say about anything because it means, that anything that isn't now, isn't real. It's a simulation in your mind. And realizing that has enormous consequences. (Note: You are adviced to listen to the podcasts in the order they are posted)

3. Why The Work Works (3/4): Creating Meaning

The third episode of the "Why The Work Works"-series explains how we use our simulator (episode 2) and our Map of Reality (episode 1) to create meaning out of our experiences. This creation of meaning is the true cause of any problems we experience, and if we want to change our emotional responses and break out of our limiting beliefs, it is our Map of Reality we need to work on. This is what The Work helps us do.

4. Why The Work Works (4/4): How The Work Works

The fourth episode of the "Why The Work Works"-series takes the final step all the way to the work itself and explains how the process of The Work uses the aspects we have covered in episode 1-3 to impact our nervous system and change our Map of Reality.

5. How To Do The Work (1): Identifying Your Thoughts

The Podcasts on The Work of Byron Katie continues with the "How To Do The Work"-series. This series provides specific instructions on how to develop and improve your own practice of The Work. In this, first episode, we focus on the first part of any Work session: How to identify your thoughts and you are introduced to the Judge-Your-Neighbor-Worksheet.

Please note, that you are adviced to listen to the podcasts in their posting order.

6. How To Do The Work (1B): Identifying Your Thoughts - A Guided Session

This episode is a guided session, supporting you in filling out a Judge-Your-Neighbor-Worksheet. It is intended as a supplement to episode 1 in the "How To Do The Work"-series: Identifying Your Thoughts.

7. How To Do The Work (2): The Four Questions

In this second episode of the "How To Do The Work"-series, we continue to the second part of The Work - asking the four questions. In this episode I take you through the four questions and show you how to apply them to the Judge-Your-Neighbor-Worksheet, you filled out in the previous session.

Please note: You are advised to listen to the podcasts in posting order, and for this podcast, you are invited to bring a filled out Judge-Your-Neighbor-Worksheet.

8. How To Do The Work (3): The Turnarounds

In this third episode of the "How To Do The Work"-series, we continue to the third part of The Work - the turnarounds. You learn how to identify the correct turnarounds for your oneliners and how to find your examples for each of them. And I invite you to try them out on the Judge-Your-Neighbor-Worksheet, you worked with in the previous session.

Please note: You are advised to listen to the podcasts in posting order, and for this podcast, you are invited to bring a filled out Judge-Your-Neighbor-Worksheet.

9. How to do The Work (4/4): The Subquestions

In the fourth and final episode of the "How To Do The Work"-series, we follow up on the turnarounds and I present you with a collection of subquestions to help you dive deeper into question 3: "How do you react, what happens when you believe that thought?". I also offer a facilitation guide to print out and support you through the entire process and give you a few final tips and tricks to get you good to go.

Please note: You are advised to listen to the podcasts in posting order, and for this podcast, you are invited to print out and bring the Facilitation Guide that is posted on the resources page of my website: www.theartofbeinghuman.dk.

10. People Doing The Work (1): He Is Confusing Ziya

In this episode we get started on the "People Doing The Work"-series, where you get a chance to listen in as others go through the process. Since this may be the first time your hear anyone actually doing The Work - or the first time your hear anyone other than Byron Katie do it - we will start out with a straight-forward recording of a single one-liner being worked as part of the process of going through a “Judge-Your-Neighbor Worksheet”. And what I will invite you to notice, is the meditative quality of the client's work - how she is sinking into the questions and allowing the answers to arise by themselves.