How to Listen Without Fear

The Work of Byron Katie

During an event at the Center for The Work in Ojai, CA, a woman questions what she believes about her daughter. One of her statements is "She doesn't tell me about her life." "How do you react when you believe that thought?" Katie asks. "I'm devastated," says the woman. "Did you come at her with an attitude?" Katie asks. "I did," the woman says. Katie: "A daughter tells her mother that she's moving. That's reality. And then there is her mother, the dreamer, living in the dream of past and future and missing the chance to interact with her daughter in the present moment." In the turnaround "She does tell me about her life," the woman chuckles in recognition of her daughter's efforts to communicate with her. She continues reading from her Worksheet, and when she gets to "I want Courtney to text and call me often, before I call or text her," she laughs along with the audience. This statement, which once felt so charged, now seems ridiculous. "We're only on the third statement," says Katie, "and the way you saw the original situation has already flipped, because you're more awake to yourself than you were when you wrote it." Hurt is a tantrum. --Byron Katie Website: http://www.thework.com Webcasts: http://www.livewithbyronkatie.com Subscribe: http://www.youtube.com/theworkofbk Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/theworkofbyronkatie Twitter: https://twitter.com/ByronKatie © 2017 Byron Katie International. Inc. All rights reserved.