The Work and Mental Illness

The truth is almost always hidden behind thoughts that your brain has about the world you live in and yourself. Many of the times truth will only come to you if you question those thoughts. I have posted about The Work by Byron Katie before. It is a process of writing down your thoughts so that you can capture them and question them by asking yourself. What would I be without this thought? Then you find the turnaround of the thought, there are many for every thought. For instance, a thought I have had about my self for as long as I can remember is my friends and family don't enjoy my company. I think that a turnaround for this is my friends and family enjoy my company. I think a more truthful turnaround could be that I enjoy my friends and family's company because I cannot control if they are enjoying my company or not. Then when you have found the turn around. Meditate in the turn around for as long as you are suffering. You will be suffering when meditating on the turnaround because when love replaces fear its scary and it hurts. You want to meditate in that suffering for as long as it takes to get the suffering to go away. I have tried this technique on many thoughts and you will always receive the answer of what is truthful. It just takes the time and work. :D