The Work is a way to identify and question the thoughts that cause all the suffering in the world.
Anyone with an open mind can do it. The Work consists of four questions and a turnaround, which is a way to experience the opposite of what you believe.
When we do The Work, we free ourselves from the effects of believing thoughts such as "He doesn't love me," "I'm a failure," "No one understands me," "My mother doesn't listen to me," "My children are out of control," "I'm too fat," "I need more money," "Something terrible is going to happen."
For thousands of years we've been told not to judge, but we still do it all the time. Through The Work, rather than suppress these judgments, we use them as starting points for self-realization.
By allowing the judging mind to live on paper, we can discover through the mirror of those around us what we haven't yet realized about ourselves, and turn our stress, frustration, and anger into a freedom that we never dreamed possible.
You can experience The Work using two different worksheets by going to www.thework.com : or directly to the Judge-Your-Neighbor Worksheet or the One-Belief-At-A-Time Worksheet.
(You will need to use Adobe Acrobat Reader to read the PDF files on this site.)
To see how our tendency to judge can serve us, read through the example of how to write a Judge-Your-Neighbor Worksheet here.