Seeing Life through Fear-Colored Glasses

Do you ever stop to think just how often you are viewing life through "fear-colored" glasses?

And, how sometimes we even forget that we have them on? If you stop and think about it, have you ever taken them off? And, a few more questions...who put them on in the first place? And why? And when?

And do we still need them to SEE?

Today I'm going to try and notice when I'm seeing through my "fear-colored" glasses. I'm going to notice when my "vision" is cloudy by noticing how I feel inside (anxiety, fear, projection).
I'm going to pause and remind myself that this particular prescription is no longer needed and I can SEE clearly without them.

Your cloak

We put on a fake cloak
because we think that's what's needed.
What we really want
is you.
Take off your emotional clothes
and be naked.
It's scary.
But this is where
safety lies.
The core place.
If we can sing, dance, paint
(live)
from that place,
we cannot go wrong.
Got that?

-Barbara Cook, Broadway vocalist

Thoughts on The Work of Byron Katie

You know, I just don't think there's anything that happens that can't be effectively managed if you apply The Work of Byron Katie. I wish I would have known about this a lot earlier in my life. And, then again, as Katie says, "nothing happens before it's time."

So what is The Work of Bryon Katie? Nothing more (or less) than four simple questions and a turnaround. You take any stressful thought that you might have (you know what they are) and apply these four questions to them.

1. Is it true?
2. Can you absolutely know that it's true?
3. How do you react when you think the thought?
4. Who would you be without the thought?

On the surface, these questions appear quite benign and they are. It's up to you to take them to a deeper level (if you want peace and freedom, that is). To effectively do The Work you need to sit with each question and let it go deep and really find your true answers. You might just be amazed at what you'll discover.

Then after you go through those you take the initial stressful thought and turn it around. For example, if the thought is something like, "Tom shouldn't be such a pushy, know-it-all." That would turn around to "Tom should be a pushy, know-it-all." (Katie would say...what's the reality? He is until he isn't and actually it's his business...your business is how you react to his pushiness and know-it-all-ish).

Another turnaround would be: I shouldn't be such a pushy, know-it-all. And, then you look for at least three specific ways that it's true that you are indeed a pushy, know-it-all.

Finally you can turn it around to your thinking, such as: My thinking is a pushy, know-it-all.
Whoa! I can really find where that one is true (probably way more than three times...just thinking of all those times I "should" myself!)

That it's in a nutshell. Give it a try...go in for the love of truth and the resulting peace and freedom that comes with that.

If you get hung up (which can happen when we'd rather be right than be happy), check out my website www.theworkwithkim.com for information or go to Katie's website at www.thework.com where you can watch Katie do The Work with people.

Here's to your freedom!

We are all one...

I've just started reading an interesting book..."Extraordinary knowing : science, skepticism, and the inexplicable powers of the human mind" by Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer. This book (and I'm only at the very beginning) lines up with what I think I know...that we are all connected and as such, we are able to pick up on information from others that isn't necessarily shared directly.

This lines up with what happens when I do a Reiki session with someone. I pick up things that they don't share with me. Some people would say I'm psychic and who knows? It's a label. Others call it creepy and it just doesn't feel that way to me, it feels natural and loving to be able to lay my hands on someone and know what's going on with them. It reinforces what Byron Katie says about "no new stressful thoughts" they are the same the world over.

It's like where do I end and you begin? Are there really any boundaries or do they only come from the ego mind?