The whole exercise was an internal preparation for Mother’s Day. We all wrote Judge-Your-Neighbor Worksheets on our mothers, and then we questioned what we wrote using The Work of Byron Katie.
One of the stressful concepts we came up with was, “Mom is controlling.” Let’s slow this one down and take a look in Slow-Cook Inquiry this week.
Slow-Cook Inquiry Is Like Blog Popcorn, But Not Quite So Popcorny
It’s more like slow cooked potato chips. Slow-Cook Inquiry is a place where everyone can see the threads, respond to them on their own time, and do The Work at a slow, methodical pace. We just answer one or two questions per day.
This has the big advantage of letting you show up on your own time every day to contribute. You don’t have to worry about making time for a regular Blog Popcorn session. Slow-Cook Inquiry fits easily in your schedule (about five minutes per day).
Once per day, we take the work session to the next step. Each day, you will get an email with the directions for the next step of the group session. Registration is required.
Just like Blog Popcorn, these sessions are free and open to anyone.
Here’s How It Works
1. Inquiry Circle.
2. You will get an email with the next step of inquiry every day (five days a week).
3. You click on the link in the email to come back here to the blog.
4. You post your answers to the question on the blog.
5. You read and get inspiration from what others have posted.
6. This will continue until we have thoroughly worked the stressful concept. Then we’ll start with a new concept for the next week.
This Week’s Concept
This week we will be questioning the stressful thought, “Mom is controlling.”
We’ll all do The Work on this concept together in the comment section below.
Here Is This Week’s Schedule
Wednesday, May 2, 2012: Describe a situation in one sentence, where you thought you mother was controlling. And answer 1. “Is it true?” and 2. “Can you absolutely know it’s true?”
Thursday, May 3, 2012: “How do you react when you believe that she is controlling in that situation?”
Friday, May 4, 2012: “Who would you be without that thought that she is controlling?”
Monday, May 7, 2012: First Turnaround: “I am controlling myself.”
Tuesday, May 8, 2012: Second Turnaround: “I am controlling Mom.”
Wednesday, May 9, 2012: Third Turnaround: “Mom is not controlling.”
Start Inquiry Circle here.
