Reality is kinder than my story

Byron Katie repeatedly says that reality is kinder than your story.

Each time I've completed the Judge-Your-Neighbor Worksheet, I've found that to be true!

Filling in the worksheet has demonstrated to me that I've exaggerated the impact that a person and/or a situation has had on me, and I've focused on the negative ramifications to the exclusion of everything else.

That's not even counting the fact that I've gone on to find myself guilty of the same fault as the other person!

So, by the end of the exercise, my story has fizzled out.

Loving What Is

I recently stumbled on a booklet entitled An excerpt from Loving What Is : Four questions that can change your life by Byron Katie with Stephen Mitchell.

I have done the questionnaire, and have found it enormously supportive.

I was so inspired that I placed an Amazon order for two of Katie's books:

• Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life
• A Thousand Names for Joy: Living in Harmony with the Way Things Are

The books still are in the mail, so I can't comment on them in more detail, but am looking forward to receiving them.

If you want to try Katie's questionnaire yourself, here's a PDF version of The Little Book.

As Katie says, everything you need in order to do what she calls "The Work" is available for free on her website.

With that having been said, I wanted to delve into "The Work" in more depth, so I ordered the books mentioned above.