Welcome Jenni!

Everyone is a mirror image of yourself---your own thinking coming back at you! Thank you Jenni for posting and you captured it exactly when you said you can't change others actions just your thinking about it. I am still working through Chapter 5, and in the comment section under this post I will show how I too used the paper work provided by BK on her website. (Baring my soul)!! This is slow work because we have to wait for some of the lifes circumstances to come up before we can use these tools and then it takes so much emotional work to get through it. So keep up the good work everyone and thanks for all the sharing and encouragement!

A Few Basic Principles.

I love these principles:1. NOTICING WHEN YOUR THOUGHTS ARGUE WITH REALITY. 2. STAYING IN YOUR OWN BUSINESS. 3. MEETING YOUR THOUGHTS WITH UNDERSTANDING.
 4. BECOMING AWARE OF YOUR STORIES. 5. LOOKING FOR THE THOUGHT BEHIND THE SUFFERING. 6. INQUIRY.
What stood out for me is under the "Looking for the thought behind the Suffering", is   We have a thought that argues with reality, then we have a stressful feeling, and then we act on that feeling, creating more stress for ourselves.

On Your Mark.......

Let's start as Deb said! This will be a safe and trustworthy place to ask questions and post thoughts and feelings and meander through this Work~~~We will start with the introduction and move on when everyone is ready. "The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is." Baruch Spinoza
What do you girls think about this statement and then go from there!  HAVE FUN!

Doing the Work!

We are on the journey, in process of exploring our lives in our 50's and I am excited to be reading Byron Katies book, Loving What Is! I am especially excited to be doing this work with you two gals, Deb and Joni. Let's post our thoughts and questions and help each other with this journey!