How to Have a Clear Mind and Healthy Body-The Work of Byron Katie®

Marcela from Canada asks Byron Katie, "If a body is just a projection of mind, do we still need to take care of it?"
"Absolutely," Katie says. "Cause and effect. If I don't eat, the body dies. That is the apparent material world. Then there's another world. There's a world the enlightened mind sees. Not in time, but now, as we sit in the answers that these questions can take us to.
"It's impossible to be a physical body because the body is a projection of your mind. So take care of the mind when you're stressed out, and clarity and love will take care of your projected body.
"Any time you feel stress, this unnatural feeling of being out of harmony, look to what you're thinking and believing in the moment, and clear it up with The Work. Inquiry is like a constant state of meditation that happens without my help. I'm just letting it run.
"Now, get really still, and notice the times when you don't take care of the body. Look to see the story running in your mind just before you binged, had the cigarette or drug, or got angry. The trigger is hidden in the time just prior to that. Whether something is good for me or not, if I feel guilt, I take care of it. I don't do The Work on the thing I ate or did, I go back and do The Work on mother, father, sister, brother, roommate, or whoever the story is about."
"Actually, I was the opposite," Marcela says. "I was always exercising, taking vitamins, and trying to do what the latest study told me to do."
"Yes, rather than the chocolate cake, that's your addiction."
"I notice that I did it for fear of being sick. It wasn't because it was what I really wanted to do; it was done in fear of the future if I did not take care of my body."
"Yes. It's the ego's fear of death," Katie says. "The ego tells you: 'You have to take care of this body; you can't be too careful. Take those vitamins, run, eat right.' Without the ego identified as the body, this material object, then who am I? As an ego, who am I?"
"After doing The Work, I actually started to notice myself stressing about these things," Marcela says.
"Health is about right here, right now, isn't it?" Katie says. "People may be telling me I'm sick and dying, and I could be in pain, but I'm fine in my mind. 100%. I am healthy because I'm not at war with what I'm witnessing. I'm not at war with death. I'm not at war with life. I'm well."
It's a beautiful thing to love what we think in this moment. -Byron Katie
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[@tatianagirard3425]

"Notice you're losing the fear of death? - Oh my gosh!" so beautiful ❤️❤️❤️

[@Eveletify]

Absolute freedom with THE WORK

[@noelcannon4459]

What a beautiful piece! I saw it as a mirror to my own process. I've discovered that it's an unraveling process to undo what has been a pattern, a conditioned behavior, a belief or even a truth. It's all an unraveling and for some, it's instantaneous and for others, it's a realization that reappears at other places in our experience. We can simply become Observers, free from any attachment to what we are observing ... releasing the story ... the judgments and just being in awe at what we are witness to. After all, we can read a book, a novel, a biography, a 'How to' or fiction and understand that it is all just a story. If we believe it, then we can bask in the pleasure of validation to a belief that will play out time and time again in all chapters of our lives. If we chose not to believe, then each moment offers magic and opportunities to just observe and be in wonder. ♥

[@jxg151]

Magical! Thanks for that profound insight and revelation. I am now going to question more of my motives for being healthy; whether, in the moment, they are to avoid being unhealthy (fear), or to become a happier version of myself (positive).

[@roselaura-gracesing4968]

Thank-you for this! I just so appreciate it!

[@gabbygryphon]

Oooooh Katie, How I love you so! xo

[@chessdude67]

WOW!! Thank you both!

[@parichehrmanuchehrkhodayaa9529]

Excellent advice thank you very much👍👏

[@kellystorm6760]

Love you so much ,you are so good ,so awsome thank you,

[@jeanlinhares8530]

So what I understand from this is that being healthy should be the result of loving yourself your body, nature and everything that is good to you, because it makes you fell good and not just because you wanna still young, pretty, or strong....like running out of your natural destiny (death)?Sorry I'm not sure cause I don't fully understand English

[@tashilhamu4510]

Jean Linhares yes exactly

[@ParissHardy]

For me it appears to be boredom that causes me to use.

[@andreamartins9230]

I can not take this. Every time same response. Supposedly spontaniously. Isnt it nice we think. Isnt it nice we breathe. Isnt it nice I am "enlightened"

[@andreamartins9230]

Congratulations 😂 call ghandi.

[@Gauthinours]

I don't really get something in this video. If anybody can help me understand you are welcome. Thanks in advance! @5:56 Katie says "I’m upset, I do the drug that the mind would say « that is not good for your body ». And it doesn’t matter if it is good for my body or not. I’m going against myself (by not taking the drug), therefore guilt …" However, from my experience I don't have guilt when I don't take the "drug", but I definitely do experience guilt while I'm taking my "drug" and afterwards. Also, later on in this video Katie says something like "do a worksheet on the stressful thought and then take the cake or not." which doesn't seem coherent to what she says earlier in the video (take the cake and then do a worksheet on the trigger).

[@dannypygall2942]

Byron katie worksheet images