Hello again , hope you've been okay since last I was in touch?
Today I'll say about more about the Three Principles understanding - even then I will have only begun to scratch the surface!
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You'll recall from last time that the Three Principles of Mind, Consciousness and Thought deal with the whole of our human experience; how it's created and what difference it makes to us to know this and to put it into practice in daily life.
One of the mainstays is to realise that our experience does not come from our circumstances. Sounds very counter-intuitive, I know - but as Michael Neill shows in his lovely book 'The Inside Out Revolution', our brains create our experience from the sense impressions we receive, that is, our experience is created from the inside out - from what our brains make of its input. We live, as 3P people say, in the feeling of our thinking, all
the time. And often, it's not helpful to believe that thinking!
So what's going on when we feel bad? This approach suggests that a bad feeling is a nudge that our thinking isn't at the optimum level, and we need to let things settle. We don't need to get
caught up in trying to feel better - like a snow globe, things can settle on their own, if we leave them alone and just let them do their thing.
Syd Banks, who started 3P, said that if we learned not to be afraid of our experience, but just to accept it as it comes, that in itself would change the world.
There's much, much more to 3P - how do you fancy the different levels of consciousness, for starters? - but for now I hope I have whetted your appetite!
You'd better have that coffee!
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Our research nugget this week suggests that if you want a coffee, well, you're better to have it rather than resist the craving and skip it till later. This article from the BPS describes a study where people who experience coffee cravings were asked to skip the coffee and then to do a memory activity.
Their responses were compared with others who had not been denied their longed-for coffee, and the first group performed significantly less well.
So if you've got an important meeting coming up or maybe a lecture, it will probably pay you not to skip your coffee. I must say that's music to my ears, as I do love my one posh morning coffee and it's nice to know it's probably doing me good!
Love and Positive Psychology
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I've noticed how the word 'love' is starting to creep into management speak in recent years, along with this idea of being your whole self at work. Seems a lot more positive to
me. And Barb Frederikson, one of the giants of Positive Psychology, has written a beautiful book about how we can get better at Love, in its widest sense, and how important it is for our mental and physical health. She describes how we can foster 'micro-moments' of connection, even with strangers. Don't we all know how an unexpected small kindness can transform our day, and how good it feels? Hope you enjoy it!
Latest goings-on at This Coaching Business
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- I'll be writing for a new local magazine 'Essential', about health and well-being, watch this space! I'll let you know when the relevant issue is out.
- Climate change is more and more urgent, and I cannot stress this enough. So I'm still doing my best to spread the word about this. Do please consider joining my free updated list, as well as checking out my climate coaching packages in my Shop.
- An update on my progress with Three Principles Training, which is partly about how our experience is created, not from our circumstances, as might seem obvious, but rather by our thoughts,
from the inside out. For example, we experience reality on different levels, and we can move up to higher ones. More above this week!
- If you're thinking of working personally with me, I always recommend that we first have a free intro call (updated link) to make sure coaching is right for you before we start. If I
don't think it is, I'll say so and try to signpost you to what else would be helpful.
- You can see all my coaching packages, including the recent career package, and e-books on this link here to my shop, and check my availability on the (updated) button below. And if you can't see a suitable time, contact me anyway and I'll do my best to find one for you.
I've updated my Linktree, about everything that I'm involved in, on the first button below. Also the three free quizzes, that help you to pinpoint where you can best make changes in your situation. You can repeat them whenever you like to see your progress over
time.
Thanks for your time, - have a good weekend, keep safe, and I'll be in touch again in a couple of weeks,
All best wishes,
Barbara
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