Fear of the Future - The Work of Byron Katie

[buffedtrainer]

Katie is Brilliant! She is one of the most centered and conscious people on the planet.

What she's explaining here is the theory of time being simulataneous. You're always going to be in your NOW, it's what some refer to as the "Eternal Now". We're creating our future with every word we speak. The story that we're living, is the story you keep telling yourself. Start telling a new story and watch what happens in your NOW in the Future :-)

[oyasi222222]

What I don't get is that what is the point of all these teachings? Does it mean that there is nothing you can do about your future than not to stress about it cos u stressing about it is not going to change anything. Or is it teaching us that as far as we are ok now there is no need to worry about the future cos it doesn't exist yet. I am new to listening to this kind of messages so I am a little confused.

[philinmotion]

do you have to ponder the future so that you can handle your future? what would happen if you dropped the future? well you wouldn't be anxious about the next moment, it's gone.

reality is perception, everything you see and touch is yours. we are livin' in a world projected by mind.

I had a deep realization yesterday, as I was listening to Katie's audiobook, I saw my life without my anxious thoughts. Can seem pretty simple but what I saw was a life that is free.

You are always home.

[philinmotion]

do you have to ponder the future so that you can handle your future? what would happen if you dropped the future? well you wouldn't be anxious about the next moment, it's gone.

reality is perception, everything you see and touch is yours. we are livin' in a world projected by mind.

I had a deep realization yesterday, as I was listening to Katie's audiobook, I saw my life without my anxious thoughts. Can seem pretty simple but what I saw was a life that is free.

You are always home.

[philinmotion]

do you have to ponder the future so that you can handle your future? what would happen if you dropped the future? well you wouldn't be anxious about the next moment, it's gone.

reality is perception, everything you see and touch is yours. we are livin' in a world projected by mind.

I had a deep realization yesterday, as I was listening to Katie's audiobook, I saw my life without my anxious thoughts. Can seem pretty simple but what I saw was a life that is free.

You are always home.

[rlzzxx]

Is it true? Who the fuck knows...

[rlzzxx]

Yes. Not Katie's words but, what is. She points to it.

[sivko23]

If we believe words of Katie, neither do you or i exist, we simply dont exist now, only as a particle of focus in the space of our mind , compared to universe of all existence in the infinity of universe we could dare to say that we dont exist. But in other dimension you can also say we do exist, in dimension of selective mind, good news we can always go back to safety of oneness no matter how bad the content we are focusing on the outside is.

[rlzzxx]

@sivko23 Thank you. This is.

[sivko23]

i know what you mean, it can happen to our familly, but we all will die one day and endure pain, its just with what kind of thoughts we ll go thru it

[rlzzxx]

Thank you. This is what I am exploring, how do we accept the most horrible of our life experiences as what god wants...reality

[sivko23]

This may sound crazy if you are not prepared for what i m going to say , but , those experiences in the degree of horrible they will happen to you, will never actually happen to you. Neither to your familly, if we are all one, nothing can happen to anyone, it depends on what kind of thinking culture you choose to live with.

[sivko23]

i really saw myself in your words, we all have these terrible fears, but funny thing is they never happen.... not close to what we feared, ever...

[rlzzxx]

When I'm abducted from my home in the middle of the night and put in a steel cell and beaten and raped and drugged and then my family is brought before me and raped and beaten and their limbs sawed off and their eyes gouged out...then I want to know what is real...

[rlzzxx]

If you truly did theWORK, no post would be omitted

[rlzzxx]

I'd like a date with that woman. I have tons of money for her security...( backed by my monopoly winnings)

[bellehaup]

The work is wonderful, but how horrible would it be if I were the one standing up sharing my personal stuff with Katie so I could get clear - all the while a youtube video was being taped without my knowledge for all the world (including employers, employees, neighbors, church members, ex(es) and family members who think I'm nuts and this proves it). I'm just not that generous.

[MrCuriouslad]

What about when someone gets raped? Are they ok in that moment?

[barbarasfdavis]

I believe that you do not mean any harm. Expressing hatred of God harms no one. I think Katie is saying that God is not the one who is cruel. Our thoughts are where cruelty is born and lives. It seems to me she is trying to help us get free by not being victims of God, but to see that we are victims of cruel thoughts.

Well, that's just an idea. I have said the same about God that you say; my fight with God is not #1 in my life now. Maybe one day I'll love God! Meanwhile I want to be free, free!

[honeybagder]

i hate god he is a cruel bastard. dont mean any harm but fuck god the asshole

[benhur97209]

I have had sad, so I know what U

are going through, put it in God's

hands,He iable to restore U and

give U confidence.

[Lehmann108]

Hey, I know that person!

[AirRicky18]

Katie's so unpredictable, I love it.

Nothing she says resonates with me as having ANY ego whatsoever.

I really don't know how she does it.

[JaneyfromKorea]

ditto!

[happylifesancheti]

It was just amazing. Thank you BK, I am really grateful to you

[DoodleDozer]

I was just thinking about this today.The past and the future do exist,and yet,they don't.All we really have is the present.

[angelkny]

Do they? The past is gone, so its non-existent. And the future exists? how do you know? have you gone there. You're only always in this moment NOW, whether you ever realize it or not. We can only live in this present moment. Ever.

[deLaughing1]

I've become a new fan of The Work and even suggested it to my troubled sister! Katie is an amazing gift to humankind...I stand in awe and gratitude!

[JaneyfromKorea]

mwah!

[emma1009]

if someone will give me a CHECKED way to stop PHYSICAL BODY PAIN , than i will apllause.

[KarthikSoun]

pain is a healing process, its nothing more than that, as soon as their is physical hurt the healing process starts that's why we feel pain the moment we are hurt. although the process is real the stigma we are attached to it is what creates the actual problem not the pain itself.. its only a sensation.

[denthead58]

The work is not about stopping physical pain. It is about questioning the thought that reality should be any different than it is. What I find doing the work is that even when I cannot/could not breathe, due to asthma, I had enough air. Always.  It was my fear about not having enough air that caused the problem, not the asthma.

[emma1009]

Eventhough i question those stressfull thoughts, it doesn't change physical pain! not now and not in the future! please don't lie about it, people in pain who are doing the work feel guilty they cannot stop physical pain by only question those thoughts- because its impossible! if i suffer from respiratory disease that's just won't stop without a medical!

the work does help, but only with mental suffering, usually. the rest is the doctors job!

[Plorel]

thats true, but physical pain is physical pain.

the suffering starts when you add psychological pain to it by saying things shouldnt be they way they are and you keep telling yourself storys about your miserable life.

That will drain additional energy from you and keep your body from recovering..

actually its all about living in the now and there comes in the work

[goldsmithstudent]

practice living now!

[JUKIO01]

shit happens! cant do anything about it

[SpacyStacy32]

There are on guarantees in life. unpleasant things can and do happen. there is noone watching out for us. If We were guaranteed safety and love with on possibility of harm then We would never fear Anything! So tell me Why all the beating around the bush?

[wildeknights]

Unpleasant thoughts certainly can and do happen, and they will stay with us if we don't question them. You are not guaranteed a physical existence free of change and death. You are guaranteed unending and unconditional love and happiness, when you discover it inside of you. No event or situation can ever take it away. That's what The Work is all about.

[TadRapidly]

Now is all there is and it is a MUCH shorter duration than "the FUTURE"! That's why life is, in fact, ridiculously EASY. People are mentally "biting off" 10 years of future in one "Now-bite"! Just take a slice of now and savor it. What's so hard to understand about that? Try it, everyone!

[OneCharmedLife]

I "tried it", TadRapidly, and all is well!

Just thought that you might like to know that at least one of "everyone" just gave your advice a go and am happy with the results.

[TadRapidly]

Eckhart Tolle has a good vid where he reveals that "when you are no longer seeking your identity in past and future events, you can honor this moment". And the utter simplicity that the "now" offers. Blessings.

[bootcampforyourmind]

Byron Katie is something else. As a life coach, I see so many people who fear failure, success, life, death, and just about everything in between. This clip is so great because it tells us how pointless it is to fear the future because we don't know what's going to happen, and all we have is now.

[OrangStefan]

Huh! The future, here it is! Great!!

[2mariebl]

Very Helpful

[calixtesaint]

All I can say is "WOW"! Thank you!