The power and freedom of staying in your own business.

Have you ever found yourself tripping up in other people’s business? And by “someone else’s business” I mean, have you ever had thoughts like:

“She shouldn’t treat her friends like that.”
“He should be there for the kids more.”
“She needs to stop lying to everyone and hiding behind her bullshit excuses and just tell the truth!”
“He should just stand up to her.”
“She shouldn’t be getting married so soon.”
“She should be there for me! I’m always there for her but she’s never there for me.”
“He shouldn’t shut down like. He should express how he’s feeling.”
“She needs to launch already! She should of launched months ago!”
“She shouldn’t have gone behind my back like that.”
“He shouldn’t react like this. He’s so angry”
“She should be investing her money into her business and her dreams, not on tattoos and clothes and partying.”

If so, then you’re going to enjoy this audio I recorded for you.

Today, I read a page from LOVING WHAT IS by Byron Katie. If you have not read this book yet, I highly recommend it. Byron Katie shows you how a simple yet transformative inquiry technique can free you in ways you only ever imagined.  This inquiry technique uses the following four powerful questions and a turnaround:

1. Is it true?
2. Can you absolutely know that it’s true?
3. How do you react when you think that thought?
4. Who would you be without that thought?
and
Turn it around.

This practice takes a little warming up to. But when applied to the thoughts behind your suffering, and having a direct experience of what is, you are in for some serious liberation.

For now, lets simply soak in the wisdom embedded in this single page together with the intent of empowering and inspiring us to stay in our own business so we can live own own life instead of wasting away living someone else’s.

Click play.

 

Did this resonate? Did this spark something in you? Where have you been stuck in someone else’s business? How do you stay in YOUR business?

Tell me in the comments below.

One Comment to “The power and freedom of staying in your own business.”

  1. Thank you for this great reminder, it’s a great book. The challenge, for me right now, is staying in my business when a loved one is not well and is not practising self care. It’s so easy to think ‘If you took vitamins, slept more, drank less…you would feel better etc’. This podcast excerpt is a reminder to allow others the free will to walk their own journey. Loving someone is not enforcing your will on them. Sometimes the lesson is to lovingly step away.

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