Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life

Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life

Out of nowhere, like a breeze in a marketplace crowded with advice, comes Byron Katie and “The Work.” In the midst of a normallife, Katie became increasingly depressed, and over a ten-year period sank furtherinto rage, despair, and thoughts of suicide. Then one morning, she woke up in a stateof absolute joy, filled with the realization of how her own suffering had ended.The freedom of that realization has never left her, and now in Loving What Is youcan discover the same freedom through The Work.

The Work is simply four questionsthat, when applied to a specific problem, enable you to see what is troubling youin an entirely different light. As Katie says, “It’s not the problem that causesour suffering; it’s our thinking about the problem.” Contrary to popular belief,trying to let go of a painful thought never works; instead, once we have done TheWork, the thought lets go of us. At that point, we can truly love what is, just asit is.

Loving What Is will show you step-by-step, through clear and vivid examples,exactly how to use this revolutionary process for yourself. You’ll see people doThe Work with Katie on a broad range of human problems, from a wife ready to leaveher husband because he wants more sex, to a Manhattan worker paralyzed by fear ofterrorism, to a woman suffering over a death in her family. Many people have discoveredThe Work’s power to solve problems; in addition, they say that through The Work theyexperience a sense of lasting peace and find the clarity and energy to act, evenin situations that had previously seemed impossible.

If you continue to do The Work,you may discover, as many people have, that the questioning flows into every aspectof your life, effortlessly undoing the stressful thoughts that keep you from experiencingpeace. Loving What Is offers everything you need to learn and live this remarkableprocess, and to find happiness as what Katie calls “a lover of reality.”