Byron Katie: Living in a Timeless State of Mind

Align Podcast

Aaron Alexander

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.8 • 923 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the Align Podcast, I chat with my dear friend, Byron Katie, who shares invaluable insight into living in the present moment. Through this conversation, you will have a deeper understanding of how our unhappiness, stress, and anxiety all stem from our lack of living in our now. And through simply shifting our perspective to the moment we are living in, we are able to experience our life to the fullest. We also dive into how to come to terms with our death, un-trapping ourselves from the story we are living in, and many more mindfulness nuggets you don’t want to miss. About Byron Katie: In 1986, at the bottom of a ten-year spiral into depression, rage, and self-loathing, Byron Katie woke up one morning to a state of constant joy that has never left her. She realized that when she believed her stressful thoughts, she suffered, but that when she questioned them, she didn’t suffer, and that this is true for every human being. Her simple yet powerful process of inquiry is called The Work. The Work consists of four questions and the turnarounds, which are a way of experiencing the opposite of what you believe. When you question a thought, you see around it to the choices beyond suffering. Katie has been bringing The Work to millions of people for more than thirty years. Her public events, weekend workshops, five-day intensives, nine-day School for The Work, and 28-day residential Turnaround House have brought freedom to people all over the world. Byron Katie’s books include the bestselling Loving What Is, I Need Your Love—Is That True?, A Thousand Names for Joy, and A Mind at Home with Itself. For more information, visit thework.com. What we discuss: Why we are so serious. 1:30 Duality vs. Unicity 2:30 Katie’s 10-year depression 5:00 Having a timeless state of mind 8:30 Being trapped in our story 14:00 Steps for coming to terms with our own death 25:00 Addiction 38:00 Trauma 42:45 Find more from Byron Katie: thework.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the line podcast. My name is Aaron Alexander for newcomers to this program. It is a place that we bring together the world's leading experts on all things health and wellness to help you all sort out your life.
0:12.0	Optimize your mind, your mind your body movement all
0:13.6	things today's conversation was with someone that I have been looking up to for
0:18.3	many years and someone that I think I would call the beautiful Miss Byron Katie my friend which is just such a great honor to be able to say that
0:28.6	She's a tremendous human being and she is a best-selling author. She is one of the most important people in the world around the conversation of I would say psychology, spirituality, and becoming comfortable inside of your mind,
0:46.8	inside of your thoughts. And that's exactly what we're getting to with this
0:49.8	conversation with the absolutely astounding and humble and sweet and kind
0:57.1	Byron Katie. I highly recommend checking her stuff out. Her website is
1:01.9	The Work.com if you ever heard people say doing the work all that stuff
1:06.6	that's Byron Katie doing the work so really exciting stuff I'm really grateful to get to
1:11.6	have that conversation with her and I hope you
1:13.7	guys enjoy it. We did this live before the Corona virus apocalypse situation
1:19.6	manifested itself so it's like right before that we recorded this I think this is maybe a couple months ago or so so
1:27.1	Pretty interesting I think it's a very valuable
1:30.7	conversation for this time because I'm sure we've had some
1:33.2	interesting moments with ourselves and our thoughts and our homes. I hope you guys
1:38.0	are thriving. I hope you guys are staying positive and if you are veering into any negativity of any sort which negativity is just a word you have to
1:47.7	define negative. This conversation hopefully will be helpful and supportive and if you want to go deeper check her stuff out she has some free work sheets on there so go check out the work
2:00.1	Com and also if you guys are interested in learning about how to take care of your dang self while you're at your home
2:08.4	doing self-care stuff, breath work stuff, how to integrate more effective movement into your home into your office and your travel situation
2:16.6	That is what we dig into the line method online program so if you got to be home, I figure why not make your body better than it's ever been before.
2:27.2	Really take some time and invest in the way that your knee functions and your ankle and your hip and your spine and that
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