There are some brilliant free resources available for those interested in learning about the three principles understanding of how human beings work. A practitioner I particularly enjoy is Judy Sedgeman. Her website http://www.three-principles.com includes the METV Series: Innate Health, consisting of training videos with contributions from esteemed practitioners such as George Pransky, Linda Pransky, Aaron Turner, Christine Heath, Bill Pettit and Rudi Kennard. Last week I watched the first video several times and was struck by a deeper appreciation of how insights change us. It inspired the creation of the visual below.

In the moment of experiencing an insight, everything changes. Prior to that moment, thinking arises out of formed thought, it already exists, and depending on what is being lived in the moment can be accompanied by a feeling state we may perceive as normal, even if it feels tense, tight or anxious. But when an insight occurs, unlimited pure potential is opened up and our thinking is free to take a different form. It enters with a completely different feeling.

Recently I have experienced 3 insights which in the moment created a significant shift in my awareness and feeling state, leading to significant change. The first occurred when I noticed how I was starting each day – usually with a feeling of overwhelm, even after a solid night’s sleep. From my experiences and awareness of the three principles that explain how human psychology works I knew that my feeling was not due to the demands of my working life. Instead, it was being created from within my own mind. It was then that I got curious about what it was that I was thinking that was creating my reality. Bam! Insight entered and I could see the underlying template I had innocently imposing on my beautiful life. At an unconscious level I entered each day seeing it as a series of problems to solve. This was a personal reality I was creating – but that didn’t make it true. Life could be anything! This insight was huge. Immediately my mood elevated and my body loosened.

In the second example, I once again became conscious of a ‘restrictive/limited’ feeling I was experiencing in regards to work that I considered I was ‘qualified’ to pursue. I was limiting my options. Again, I got curious about the nature of feeling and was blessed with the insight that the limitations I had imposed was simply due to thought I was entertaining within and that I could give myself permission to flourish as I chose. In the video mentioned earlier, George Pransky comments that no problem is a problem if we can see it as thought. Become aware of the feelings that accompany them and you open up a space for insight.

In my final example, I again had cause to pause and reflect on the feelings I was carrying around about my life. Once again, an insight enabled me to see that because I had categorized some activities as work and others as leisure, (the marketing industry is very good at promoting this dichotomy) it was no wonder that given my daily schedule, I was feeling like a worn out camel. But we’ve made this whole picture around work and leisure up. Activity is activity, life is life. It moves and flows and is filled with activities. My job is simply to follow the life that flows through me. Nothing I do need be a category to weigh me down – I am simply making that up.

Immediately following each of these insights I felt my body loosen and my feelings rise. Whilst those feelings will again change (thought is dynamic) I notice an increasing ability to notice and live from a truer state of being – wisdom.