Issue #108, April 29, 2022 Welcome to Insights and Implications! Happiness seems so simple -  babies experience it. Yet happiness often eludes us. We seem to have more important things to do. Read on as Sandy Krot describes what else comes with happiness and why we might want to just be happy. All of us at Insight Principles Be Happy The purpose of life is to live and be happy. Sydney Banks A mentor and friend to us all at Insight Principles is a man named Sydney Banks. I often listen to his recordings and read (re-read) his books. I

Issue #107, March 31, 2022 Welcome to Insights and Implications! It’s Spring here in the northern hemisphere. It’s a time for planting seeds and watching new growth. This month’s newsletter hopefully plants some thought seeds that help you continue to evolve on your journey toward a life of more joy and less stress. All of us at Insight Principles Now You See It - Now You Don’t Life has been very busy this month. My work life was extra full of projects and programs, plus I hosted a house guest and a few social gatherings. This left little time to

Issue #106, February 28, 2022 Welcome to Insights and Implications! We call our company, Insight Principles because a huge part of our work spotlights the innate human capacity for insight. In this month’s newsletter Nikki Platte Nieves shares more about the mind’s extraordinary design to bring us new thinking and sometimes a whole new world. All of us at Insight Principles A Whole New World Insight comes in many shapes and sizes. Sometimes it’s mundane, as simple as remembering where you put your misplaced keys. And sometimes insight irrevocably changes your perspective forever. After 18 years, one of my dear friends recently

Issue #102, October 30, 2021 Welcome to Insights and Implications! “R-E-S-P-E-C-T. Find out what it means to me.” We are all likely familiar with this song by Aretha Franklin. You might know what respect means to you, but do you know what it means to others? This month’s newsletter explains how insights about your mind can help even though everyone will have a unique perspective.All the best,All of us at Insight Principles R-E-S-P-E-C-T Over the past couple of years, I have had conversations with leaders that would go something like this: Leader: The workforce is changing significantly and leaders are

Issue #96 - April 30, 2021 Welcome to Insights and Implications! Even though thinking is invisible most of the time, knowing that it's always working to bring us our experience is helpful. Read on to learn more about what results when we reflect on this amazing creative process. All of us at Insight Principles Our Thinking is Invisible My husband claims my instructions are sometimes missing steps. Here’s an example. It was around 5:00pm and I was in the kitchen getting an early start on dinner. When Peter came in I told him what I planned for the dinner menu

Issue #94 - February 26, 2021 Welcome to Insights and Implications! The human mind has the miraculous capacity to turn whatever we think into a reality complete with sight, sound, and feeling. Without this capacity we would not experience life. In the newsletter this month, Julia Rebholz from our UK team shares some insight about the mind’s reality-creating capacity and how it can create mental havoc when we forget how the system works. All of us at Insight Principles A Universal Human Dilemma We have the capacity to think a multitude of things about ourselves, and we do a lot

Issue #91 - November 30, 2020 Welcome to Insights and Implications! We hope you and your family are staying safe and healthy during this resurgence of the virus. Here in the US we just came through a very contentious presidential election. The US is not the only place on the globe where disagreements arise. Read on to learn about how the brilliance of the mind can help you transcend disagreements and discover something new. All of us at Insight Principles Disagreement to Discovery Have you ever had to ponder another person’s radically different idea?? Have you ever tried to change

Issue #89 - September 30, 2020 Welcome to Insights and Implications! September can feel like the first month of the new year. Fall has arrived. The kids have returned to school (at least virtually). This new year we find ourselves still in the middle of a pandemic and much uncertainty. It’s a challenging time to be a leader. Luckily, as you’ll see below, the mind can weather the uncertainty storm. Be well, All of us at Insight Principles Leading in Uncertain Times Do you remember playing Follow the Leader when you were young? When it was your turn to lead,

Issue #86 - June 30, 2020 Welcome to Insights and Implications! Happy Summer to you all. The pandemic has brought much change to our lives. Parenting, job responsibilities, our daily commutes, worship practices, and now vacation plans have had to be altered. In this newsletter, Cheryl Bond reminds us that in the face of all this change, certain mental habits may persist. Read on as she shares what she’s learned about one of her habits. Stay well. All of us at Insight Principles Calming the Should Storm We have an endless stream of thoughts running through our minds. Some we

Issue #84 - May 29, 2020 Welcome to Insights and Implications! We hope you and your families are staying healthy and settled as you face the unique challenges of this pandemic. This newsletter was written by a member of the Insight Principes team from São Paulo, Brazil. Robin shares what he has discovered about acceptance - where it comes from and how it can help us through this crisis. All of us at Insight Principles Acceptance: It's Not Something We Do You’ve probably heard the old saying, “You’ve got to see it to believe it.” I want to twist the

Issue #83 - May 15, 2020 Welcome to Insights and Implications! We hope this newsletter finds you and your family healthy and in mostly good spirits. Today, Sandy Krot shares her hobby of bird watching and explains what this hobby has taught her. Maybe it will inspire you to watch birds, or maybe it will inspire you to simply slow down. All of us at Insight Principles Why I Love Bird Watching When I met my husband 20+ years ago, he was an avid bird watcher. I loved nature and all of her creatures, but frankly, I didn’t often notice

Issue #76 - December 31, 2019 Welcome to Insights and Implications! This is our final newsletter of 2019. The end of the year is a good time to reflect and look back at life. With the help of Confucius, we will explore how easy it is to let the doing of life overtake the living of life. Wishing Everyone a Very Happy New Year! All of us at Insight Principles Confucius Says... We have two lives. The second one begins when we realize we only have one.                           

Issue #75 - November 30, 2019 Welcome to Insights and Implications! We have colleagues all over the world sharing an understanding of the mind to diverse populations. There are groups in the UK working with school children and educators, and others working in prisons and with the chronically mentally ill. There are people in Chicago working with gang youth. The list is impressive. One of our favorite colleagues is Anna Debenham, a transplanted Brit who lives in Portland, OR and founded, The Insight Alliance . Anna runs programs in both men’s and women’s prisons sharing how the mind works to inmates. She

Issue #73 - September 30, 2019 Welcome to Insights and Implications! In this month’s newsletter, Sandy takes you on a safari - not to see wildlife but to appreciate separate realities. All of us at Insight Principles A Separate Reality Safari I am writing this newsletter on a plane returning home from an unforgettable safari in Tanzania. Travel opens our eyes and hearts to new cultures. We are full of questions, inquiring as to the meaning and purpose of the behaviors we observe. We are curious and open. After all, isn’t learning about lives different from our own a main

Issue #72 - August 31, 2019 Welcome to Insights and Implications! We love getting stories from our readers. Here’s a story about the power of thought and the complete reality that thought creates for us. No doubt you will relate to this story. You probably have experienced a similar one (or two). All of us at Insight Principles The Amazing Power of Thought My niece Emma, who lives in England was due to have her first child on the 16th of July. The baby clearly wasn’t aware of this date, or chose to ignore it! On the 28th of July