by Robin Charbit
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Issue #154, February 28, 2026
Welcome to Insights and Implications!
This month’s newsletter completes the three explorations of identity, and focuses on how we can know ourselves deeply beyond our egos and find a rich world of soul and inspiration within.
All the best,
All of us at Insight Principles
Who Are You? Part 3 – The Deep Intelligence Within
Our previous two newsletters delved into our sense of identity – the commanding role of thought in creating our moment-to-moment reality and how invisible and sticky our thoughts about ourselves can be. We also explained that simple self-awareness and the realization of how powerful thought actually is, can begin to get us out from under our limiting mental ego habits.
Now, let’s take a look at how simple and beautiful our minds are designed.
Do you ever notice that when your mind is calm, you relax and feel OK? Do you ever notice that after you have been stressed or worried, and then you have a period of mental quiet, you get an insight that adds needed perspective to your situation or offers a solution you hadn’t thought of? Do you ever notice that your body is functioning – keeping you alive? Do you ever notice that when you are ill, your body heals itself with rest and the right conditions? Do you ever consider that your memory is working, helping you remember what you need all day long?
We take these things for granted, mostly because the deep intelligence running our body and mind is invisible and intangible. We rarely stop and think of this life force within. We rarely stop to appreciate and be grateful for the grace it affords us to use our minds and bodies for all the things that interest us.
What would happen if, in the corner of your awareness, you kept an eye on this living intelligence within you? What would it do for your experience of yourself and your sense of identity?
Most of us think of ourselves as our bodies and minds. Someone asks, “How are you?” What do we say? “I am tired today,” or “I’m good,” or “I am stressed about ….” As this is happening, our ego thoughts are rallying around our physical condition or the circumstances our minds are dwelling on.
What if, when asked, “How are you?” you answered, “I am alive, conscious and blessed with the brilliance of life flowing within me?”
It is so simple, yet so invisible. It only takes a moment of thought to look to the invisible workings of life and be amazed and awed at the miracle of it all.
If you make just a little effort to remember the ocean of intelligence that keeps you alive and conscious, your ego, with all its stress, will start to have more faith that life is designed to work well, and that you are more than your body and your thoughts.
Once you begin to identify yourself with the brilliant design of your own being, you can experience a much more happy, contented and graceful inner life no matter what is going on around you.
Wishing you an inner life of appreciation, gratitude and ease.
Ken Manning