Welcome to Commune, a global wellness community and online course platform, featuring some of the world's greatest teachers.

We are on a mission to inspire, heal, pass down wisdom, and bring the world closer together. My name is Jeff Krasno,

and this is the Commune podcast, where each week we explore the ideas and practices that help us

live healthy, connected, and purpose-filled lives. You can learn more about our courses, our community, and our

All-access membership at Onecommun.com. In 1986, Byron Katie had an epiphany. She was in a

counseling facility dealing with addiction to alcohol and codeine. She was agoraphobic. Her self-esteem was

so low that she didn't think she deserved to even sleep in a bed. One morning, she was in slumber on the

floor when a cockroach climbed over her ankle.

She awoke, and in that brief moment, she saw how the universe was created, the source of all suffering, and the way out.

She codified this vision into a method of inquiry called The Work, which has helped hundreds of thousands of people overcome trauma and pain.

The work is centered around four essential questions.

The questions are facilitated by a mentor or Katie herself upon a willing student. The questions are, one, is it true? Two, can you absolutely

know that it's true? Three, how do you react what happens when you believe that thought? And four,

who would you be without the thought? These four questions

are followed by turning around the thought to experience the opposite of the thought. We were so

fortunate to have Katie come to commune and lead a workshop on the work here in Topanga, California.

Today, you'll be hearing an excerpt from that workshop in which Katie works with Lina

around a particularly difficult memory of her mother.

You can watch this full workshop for free, including access to the worksheets with a 14-day free trial of commune membership.

Just go to onecommun.com slash trial. I hope you enjoyed this sample of the work of Byron

Katie. The work has impacted me deeply, and I hope you can see how it is a powerful tool

for liberating you from painful thinking. So Lena, you've worked, you've written a worksheet on your mother.

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