MIND: How to Embrace True Joy

Have you heard of The Work? It’s a method for self-inquiry developed by author and speaker Byron Katie. She experienced a cascade of huge life challenges which led her to a kind of epiphany — and then she created a new way to identify the thoughts that are causing suffering. Katie says she discovered that “when I believed my thoughts, I suffered…but when I didn’t believe them, I didn’t suffer.” That is true freedom: the freedom from believing that everything you think is real. With that deep understanding of the unreliability and conditioning of your own thought patterns you can come to embrace true joy. Comment below and tell us one thought you have that you hope isn’t true. You might find that when you write it down it loses its power.