Here's how you can get off the self-help merry-go-round once
and for all...and truly help yourself, for life.
Are you stressed, depressed, confused, dissatisfied...and still looking outside yourself to make it all okay? Do you buy armloads of self-help books and recordings, attend personal development seminars, work with coaches, counselors and gurus, hoping to attain balance, inner peace, "right livelihood," more money, better health, the perfect partner, or enlightenment?
Do you have "Aha!" moments, get temporarily jazzed up or blissed out…and then plummet when the boss criticizes, the employee slacks off, the kids misbehave, the body ages or sickens, the stock market dips, the spouse leaves, the car gets totaled, the dream dies?
Are you tired of the search yet? After 20 years and thousands of dollars spent trying to change myself and manipulate the universe, I was exhausted! If that's your experience too, welcome to Clear Life Solutions.
I'm Carol Skolnick. In the winter of 2001, I made a remarkable friend, Byron Katie, who shared with me her self-inquiry process, The Work. The technique was so simple, I nearly rejected it out of hand...but The Work began to effect my life undeniably, radically, and immediately. It continues to, every single day.
With The Work, I experienced firsthand what the Stoic philosopher Epictetus pointed to more than 2000 years ago: it was not my life that made me unhappy; it was my attachment to long-held beliefs about how life “should” be. The Work's four questions and turnaround gave me a way to address the beliefs that give rise to suffering from a position of open-mindedness and equanimity. I discovered that there is always available to us what I call a parallel universe of peace. When we are willing not to be right and righteous, that peace is waiting for you to find it and fully experience it.
I invite you to step into this easy-to-learn, self-directed process of targeted questions and eye-opening reversals. Since 2002, I have facilitated hundreds of people in Transformational Inquiry with The Work of Byron Katie. This remarkably effective way of examining your stressful thoughts can help you to stop “fighting with reality" as you approach your stressors from a place of deepening clarity and inner peace.
With regular practice, The Work of Byron Katie enables awareness to expand and deepen, making it easier to deal with the stickiest of problems:
- Difficult relationships
- Frustrating family issues
- Addictions and compulsions
- Crippling self-judgments or self-hatred
- Health and body-related limitations
- Work situations that aren't working
- Blocked creativity
- Fear of—and resistance to—change
- Energy-zapping stress, anger or depression
Click here to determine if The Work is right for you. And make sure you get our Free Report on inquiry in the workplace when you subscribe, at no charge, to the Transformational Inquiry newsletter.
"I was hesitant; I rarely engage with the self-help/spiritual awareness community because of rampant egos-run-amok. However, Carol was very spacious and gentle; she created a safe environment for me to look at parts of myself that aren't so comfortable to see, and she did it with kindness, laughter and a real sense of equality. I found integrity, honesty and humility as well. Rare gems."—M.W., Eugene, OR
