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I Need Your Love - Is That True?: How to Stop Seeking Love, Approval, and Appreciation and Start Finding Them Instead ( Random House Audio Dimensions )
Release Date: 2005-04-05
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In Loving What Is, bestselling author Byron Katie introduced thousands of people to her simple and profound method of finding happiness through questioning the mind. Now, I Need Your Love—Is That True? examines a universal, age-old source of anxiety: our relationships with others. In this groundbreaking book, Katie helps you question everything you have been taught to do to gain love and approval. In doing this, you discover how to find genuine love and connection.
The usual advice offered in self-help books and reinforced by our culture advocates a stressful, all-consuming quest for love and approval. We are advised to learn self-marketing and manipulative skills—how to attract, impress, seduce, and often pretend to be something we aren’t. This approach doesn’t work. It leaves millions of walking wounded—those who, having failed to find love or appreciation, blame themselves and conclude that they are unworthy of love.
I Need Your Love—Is That True? helps you illuminate every area in your life where you seem to lack what you long for most—the love of your spouse, the respect of your child, a lover’s tenderness, or the esteem of your boss. Through its penetrating inquiry, you will quickly discover the falseness of the accepted ways of seeking love and approval, and also of the mythology that equates love with need. Using the method in this book, you will inquire into painful beliefs that you’ve based your whole life on—and be delighted to see them evaporate. Katie shows you how unraveling the knots in the search for love, approval, and appreciation brings real love and puts you in charge of your own happiness.
“Everyone agrees that love is wonderful, except when it’s terrible. People spend their whole lives tantalized by love—seeking it, trying to hold on to it, or trying to get over it. Not far behind love, as major preoccupations, come approval and appreciation. From childhood on, most people spend much of their energy in a relentless pursuit of these things, trying out different methods to be noticed, to please, to impress, and to win other people’s love, thinking that’s just the way life is. This effort can become so constant and unquestioned that we barely notice it anymore.
This book takes a close look at what works and what doesn’t in the quest for love and approval. It will help you find a way to be happier in love and more effective in all your relationships. What you learn here will bring fulfillment to all kinds of relationships, including romantic love, dating, marriage, work, and friendship.” —Byron Katie
From the Hardcover edition.
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 Excellent ( pyefeld )
This, along with Byron Katie's other book, Loving What Is, have definitely changed my life forever. I also highly recommend reading A Thousand Names for Joy by Byron Katie, and The Power of Now and A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle. They are very compatible.
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Instant peace! ( vproksch )
I titled this review "Instant peace", which is quite a claim. When aching for or feeling stress about something/someone - this book, and "Making Your Thoughts Work For You" with Byron Katie and Wayne Dyer, bring me back to peace the fastest. *Highly recommend in Audio*.
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 I Used To Be A Byron Katie Fan - No More! ( mt-20103 )
I got taken in by Byron Katie's "work", used to think it was great. It seemed to "work" in the beginning. Over time I started finding holes in it. Bigger and bigger holes. Then I did some internet research and learned that people have been reporting big problems with Byron Katie and her method. I've come to agree that she's full of it.
Under NO circumstances do I recommend taking a seminar with this woman. I urge you to do a search for "Byron Katie" and "cult" and evaluate the info that's been coming out about her.
As an alternative source of self-help, I recommend "Authentic Happiness" by Martin Seligman. I've found it incredibly helpful and completely without harmful side-effects, unlike what I ended up experiencing with Byron Katie and her bogus "work".
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Astonishingly helpful and simple ( spacemoves )
This book will change the way you view just about anything, particularly the things that get under your skin. It offers a simple and powerful way to shift those hurtful perspectives into more constructive ways of thinking about things. In other words: You can uncover hidden beliefs and do something about even the most entrenched ones. An empowering approach that can be applied to anything, and offers a profound way to be honest with ourselves. Highly recommended!
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The Work That Brings Enlightenment ( john111090 )
I came to Byron Katie when her book literally flew in my face in the bookstore. After perusing it and thinking about what I read, I got on the computer and ordered a copy throught Amazon. It was a time when I needed her wisdom which looks so easy yet is incredibly hard. This is not a book or method for people who are afraid to face themselves or their situation. As Ken Wilber said, people are only willing to change 5% of their opinion or belief at any one time. So you can see how difficult it can be to assimilate her teaching. In addition to her book, I recommend going to her site and getting a first-hand look at how she relates to people via-videos. She is truly a remarkable person, so ego-free and cheerful, it makes you wonder what medication she is on. But it's not that, I assure you. Of course, if you see her in public, as I did after reading this book, you'll be doubly impressed. The amount of "stuff" she's created to help you is also overwhelming. You'll want to pry your wallet even more for these enlightenment goodies. Be prepared to have less stress in your life after reading and using her book. Are you ready to be happy?
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