He Gave Up on Me

A young woman is heartbroken because she believes that her boyfriend gave up on her. She describes being on a plane and hearing a song that she once sang to him. In that moment, she feels hopeless and angry at the world. Byron Katie guides her to drop into stillness, question the thought, and meditate on the turnaround "I gave up on him." "This is intimacy-mind understanding itself," Katie says. Other concepts she questions are: "I want him to see me," "I want him to give me another chance," "I want him to open his heart to me," "I want only him," "I want him to understand me," "He should see where I was coming from," "He shouldn't be so stubborn," "He should see how much I've changed," "He should see how good we could be now," "I need him to take me back," and "I need him to trust me." Katie invites her to turn each of these thoughts around and wake herself up. © 2016 Byron Katie International, Inc. All rights reserved. For more information, visit thework.com

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Byron Katie, founder of The Work, has one job: to teach people how to end their own suffering. As she guides people through the powerful process of inquiry she calls The Work, they find that their stressful beliefs—about life, other people, or themselves—radically shift and their lives are changed forever. Based on Byron Katie's direct experience of how suffering is created and ended, The Work is an astonishingly simple process, accessible to people of all ages and backgrounds, and requires nothing more than a pen, paper, and an open mind. Through this process, anyone can learn to trace unhappiness to its source and deal with it there. Katie (as everyone calls her) not only shows us that all the problems in the world originate in our thinking: she gives us the tool to open our minds and set ourselves free.