Welcome to a weekly podcast where I’ll take physicians’ commonly held stressful beliefs and go through an inquiry process on each. I have recorded the questions so that you can listen and follow along, providing your own answers to the questions. It’s important to find YOUR OWN answers that feel true and genuine in your life. I’ve provided the recordings as a tool for slowing yourself down and taking the time to allow these questions to sit inside.
Episode 2 - I am surrounded by illness and suffering [ 0:01 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (14)*This process is based on The Work by Byron Katie. For more information, visit www.thework.com.
Today’s belief is “I am surrounded by illness and suffering.”
The questions:
- Is it true?
- Can you know that it is absolutely, 100% true?
- How do you react, and how do you behave, when you believe the thought, “I am surrounded by illness and suffering”?
- What is the payoff you get for believing the thought, “I am surrounded by illness and suffering”?
- What are you afraid might happen if you didn’t believe the thought, “I am surrounded by illness and suffering”?
- Who would you be, and how would you behave, if you didn’t believe the thought, “I am surrounded by illness and suffering”?
Now turn the thought around, as I have done below. Find three genuine examples in your life for how each of these new thoughts is as true as the original thought.
I am not surrounded by illness and suffering.
My patients are surrounded by illness and suffering.
My thoughts surround me with illness and suffering.
Fixed the typo and broken link on the podcast…sorry about the glitch!