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SAMPLE NEWLETTER - May 2010"He Got Me Fired!" (Part 1)A woman believes her boss fired her and is having difficulty finding a new job. Using the four questions and turnaround of The Work, Byron Katie offers the woman a way to shift her thinking, position her career and put an end to her suffering. The Work in KenyaSpecial thanks to our friends in Kenya. Watch »Letters from PrisonJoan Denson, a volunteer, takes The Work of Byron Katie to prison in Texas. She shares her experience and a few letters »
Attached are copies of handwritten letters and one piece of art done by inmates who were in my last class this week. An inmate named Sam did the art on an envelope using colored pencils and someone's fine felt-tip pen. Neither that pen nor the colored pencils would have been allowed in his cell so he had to have done this in art class. He chose to do this on a commissar-purchased envelope which actually has a stamp imprinted on it ("Seabiscuit) probably to get a better quality of paper. Sam did this for another inmate, an older man named Cecil (also a classmate), who gave Sam the saying he wanted on it (from the quotations in the little book), so it is rather a special ordered piece of art. Cecil then gave it to me as a gift. Cecil loved your quotations and said that he often meditated on them. I also gave him others which were not in the little book. By only viewing these notes and reading my email here you have missed hearing from these men what they each had to say to me, and also to each other. Apparently they had given it some thought, even the ones I met with individually. In the last room, in front of this other woman, a stranger to the inmates, they took turns telling me how some of their toughest stuff had worked out after I had individually facilitated The Work with them. Three of these experiences were within the last two classes. I often do not hear about results of their Work so these stories were quite touching and rather choked me up. These men who are farther along in the classes really get serious about doing The Work on the tough stuff and on current hard places. One "thank you" was for my volunteering and the inmate was so very sincere in his saying this, stating that so many folks these days did nothing they did not get paid for. He is from Nigeria. I thought of you Katie, and how many people the Foundation has helped, the free little books, the scholarships which I benefited from and all the Work you did in the beginning for free and no doubt much more. My payoff is that I get to keep The Work in front of me all the time and I get to see first hand the ah-hahs and sometimes the tears of some very "tough" guys, who are really very much like me. These men will have moved on when I return to Del Valley and the classes will begin again with a brand new batch of men. I have not stopped to count the number of men who have been exposed to The Work at Del Valley Jail in the over two years I've been doing this, and there is no way to know what happens outside class, and it does happen because I often hear brief accounts from the inmates. They tell their families about your website, and sometimes even facilitate them over the phone after asking permission to try what they have learned. They facilitate other inmates in their units and have been able to stop distress and even bring on laughter. I write to one man who is in the State prison system now. He says he recently submitted an article about how your Work has changed his life. He tells me that he will send me a copy if it is printed in the statewide "Echo," which is the prison newsletter. As I left these tattooed, muscled and pierced men today I know that they will be different having this Work as a tool, whether they are on the outside if released, or on the inside if sent on to do more time in a prison. Most are felons, awaiting adjudication. I encourage lifetime continuation with The Work. The Work has meant more to me personally than anything I have encountered in my entire life of 65 years, and I was only introduced to it in 2003. It is so nice that my kids have embraced The Work, each of them in varying degrees. It is also good to have done some really hard Work myself, and much of that at the two nine-day Schools. I know firsthand what power is in this Work and what a great gift it is to the world. Thank you once again for it bringing it to us, Katie. With great love, gratitude and admiration,
From the Blog: "I shouldn't have married this man"Here is a letter from a woman in Europe kind enough to write to Katie even though her first language isn’t English. For twenty years i've been married with my husband and you know, I had for twenty years resentment in this and I couldn’t get through it. I did The Work on it last August, I sent a letter, and still my resentment didn't resolve till now. I couldn’t find what i wasfighting.....was it my illusion to fight.......I don't love him or was it my heart telling me it wasn't the right man. I did the work on it and I couldn't come to a point and then............ I spoke about it with my coach and went home, still not knowing what to do, bit of crying in the car........ a friend of mine came by and I told her where it stops for me, where I couldn't get through the problem so she said................. “YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE MARRIED THIS MAN..is that true????????.........................”. as soon i heard this question, I burst into a big laugh.....the reality was and is I AM MARRIED WITH THIS MAN and then she asked........”who are you do when you don’t think this thought............” Then the curtain went up and I started for the first time to see what this marriage has brought me ........4 beautiful kids, home, a handsome man who stayed next to me durint all those bad times........I started to see the good things.. for the first time in a long, long, long time And I was so used to seeing all the negative things. I distracted me from him, so I lost myself, and my husband lost me, and we were both looking where i was .My mind wanted to see all the proofes of not having a good marriage...........oh what a bad time i had with this way of looking. really shocking. My mind was my prison. Questions 1 and 2 made me really laugh and question 3 ....I
started to see how i created my own misery, and finding all
the proofs and i could only see the bad times as proof. But the big question now is ...................I did the School in 2006....and after that, I still did........but why didn’t i come to this simple point earlier this year?..... it is so really easy, why did I miss it all the time?........... So now I have to get used to a life with nice points of views in my marriage and this feels rather funny. Thank you for writing, dearest, and I don’t call it The Work for nothing! Daily maintenance can give a life of joy and understanding to all situations, in my experience and freedom to love is your birthright. I invite you to check into possibilities of enrolling in the Institute for The Work. I developed this ongoing life school for those people who have been to the School for The Work and choose to do The Work as a daily practice. I like to say, “Do the work for breakfast and have a great life.” I am so very happy that you know how to find the way to your heart, husband, family, world, and peace. Thank you, angel. In love and gratitude for your humor, love, and light. xoxo
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