Byron Katie

Byron Katies series of questions have been helpful in my own path because she has a simple method for delving into our negative emotions. She hasn't reinvented the wheel here, but it is a practical and simple way to begin exploring where your thoughts and emotions come from. Here is what her site has to say:

"About Byron Katie

Byron Katie, founder of "The Work", has one job: to teach people how to end their own suffering. As she guides people through the powerful process of inquiry called The Work, they find that their stressful beliefs—about life, other people, or themselves— radically shift and their lives are changed forever.

Based on Byron Katie's direct experience of how suffering is created and ended, The Work is an astonishingly simple process, accessible to people of all ages and backgrounds, and requires nothing more than a pen and paper and an open mind.

Through this process, anyone can learn to trace unhappiness to its source and eliminate it there. Katie (as everyone calls her) not only shows us that all the problems in the world originate in our thinking: she gives us the tool to open our minds and set ourselves free."