#28: My Father Is a Danger to Himself
AT HOME with Byron Katie • The Work of Byron Katie® Podcast
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4.9 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2021
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Xavier sees his elderly father standing on a wall, pruning a tree, and terrifies himself by imagining that his father is going to fall. But when he gets still and anchors himself in this situation, he discovers that his father was actually safe all along. He realizes that the only danger in the situation was his own mind, jumping to a conclusion in an imagined future, and that his fear resulted not in greater safety but in suppressing his father's joy and liveliness. He comes to see that his father is not a child who needs correction but is a powerful teacher, who is there to give Xavier more space and change his perceptions about all of life. Join me as this amazing man begins to wake up from the spell of seeing danger where there is none. Welcome to The Work.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone. Oh my goodness my dad is irresponsible. Oh my goodness my |
| 0:09.3 | my my time together with Chavier was just oh I loved so much I hope you do too his dad is |
| 0:17.9 | standing on a wall and Chaviair imagines that he's going to fall, |
| 0:25.0 | that he's not stable, and his dad is trimming a tree |
| 0:28.9 | as he's standing on the wall. |
| 0:31.2 | And we stay anchored there and look at what he is thinking and believing and how the ego is flipping him into the immediate future and the past and he even calls his mother out to support him to |
| 0:50.0 | get his father off that wall. |
| 0:52.5 | And as he gets really still in it, |
| 0:55.5 | I mean, right away as we begin our time together, |
| 0:58.7 | right away as he begins to notice |
| 1:01.6 | and get really still and look at his father on the wall. |
| 1:07.1 | These his father actually was stable. |
| 1:11.6 | And what unfolds from that the way he worries about his father and his mother and all in the name of love. |
| 1:19.0 | So I hope you enjoyed this and I talked a lot around it but nothing like the real thing. |
| 1:27.0 | Welcome to the work. |
| 1:30.0 | Welcome. Welcome, welcome everyone, to something beautiful. That's all, it's here. |
| 1:39.0 | Oh, Xavier. Hi, honey. Hi, honey. Hi, Hi, honey. |
| 1:43.0 | Hi, Katie. |
| 1:45.0 | Okay, precious. What did you write for number one? |
| 1:49.0 | I am angry with my dad because he's putting himself in danger. Okay and what is the situation? He's |
| 1:58.4 | standing on a wall outside and pruning a tree and he's 70 and I think he shouldn't do that anymore. |
| 2:07.0 | He does a lot of DIY around the house and I'm trying to get him to stop. |
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