Issue #103, November 30, 2021 Welcome to Insights and Implications! Here in the US, we just celebrated the holiday of Thanksgiving. This holiday involves hanging out with family and friends and eating good food. But this day is also when we take a moment to appreciate the riches in our life. Read on as Sandy Krot shares her thoughts on Gratitude. Gratitude “You aren’t grateful because you’re happy. You are happy because you’re grateful.” This declaration struck me when I heard a colleague share it on her podcast. We are accustomed to feeling grateful for specifics - sunny days, good

Issue #97 - May 28 2021 Welcome to Insights and Implications! Has anything ever gotten under your skin? For most of us the answer is yes. This human phenomenon can feel inevitable and unstoppable. This month’s newsletter shares some insights for you to consider. Read on. All of us at Insight Principles What’s Under Your Skin “Get under your skin” is an American idiom that means something or someone has strongly affected you - usually in a negative way. This has likely happened to you countless times. It’s certainly happened to me. I remember teaching one of our Insight Synergy

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 #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 #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 #74 - October, 31 2019 Welcome to Insights and Implications! This month’s newsletter comes from Cheryl Bond. She writes that we are bombarded with inaccurate messages. We are told over and over that circumstances have the power to make us feel a certain way. Read Cheryl’s humorous but profound take on this. All of us at Insight Principles When Your Morning Is Hell, Just Go to Taco Bell! The world operates from the misunderstanding that life comes at us from the outside-in. This misunderstanding makes it seem like our only choice is to find a way to cope with

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 #68 - April 30, 2019 Welcome to Insights and Implications! This month’s newsletter addresses a common but unproductive dynamic between people who tend to be critical and those who tend to be sensitive to criticism. An understanding of the mind can soothe the tension and help us learn from one another. All of us at Insight Principles Which Camp Are You In? The son of a good friend of mine was promoted to be a people leader. Adam sought this opportunity because he liked people and predicted he would be good at helping others succeed. Adam inherited an

Issue #67 - March 31, 2019 Welcome to Insights and Implications! Feeling stressed lately? Or worried, resentful, frustrated? Your body can’t tell the difference between these feelings and real danger. And your health suffers if this perceived danger happens repeatedly. Read on to see how an understanding of the mind can help. All of us at Insight Principles The Emergency Stress Response A friend and colleague, Dr. Bill Pettit wrote something that caught my attention. Bill is a psychiatrist who shares an understanding of the principles behind how the mind works with his patients. Here’s what Bill wrote: Chronic mental

Issue #65 - January 30, 2019 Welcome to Insights and Implications! Are you busy? Chances are, your answer is yes. But are you busy doing what‘s important to you? Or do you feel that someone else is dictating how you use your time? Read on to learn how an understanding of the mind can help you regain control. Wishing you insights, All of us at Insight Principles Are You Busy? I love greeting cards. I recently came across a card with this humorous message: If I’m so busy, How come I’m not rich? It does seem that everyone you ask

Issue #61 - September 30, 2018 Welcome to Insights and Implications! This month Ken Manning shares his experience giving a TEDx Talk and explains how his understanding of insight principles helped him. If you want to see Ken’s TEDx Talk, click here. Ken would love to get feedback so please email your comments. My TEDx Talk Experience I recently had the honor and privilege of delivering a TEDx Talk last April. My intent was to explain the essence of insight principles and motivate people to want to learn more, all condensed into a 17 minute talk. It was a challenge. In

Issue #59 - July 29, 2018 Welcome to Insights and Implications! Last month we wrote about the limitations of listening for agreement. Our newsletter inspired one of our readers to share his insights on listening. We love getting these contributions - please keep them coming. And if you have suggestions for newsletter topics, please send them along. We also are pleased to pass along a link to a recent TEDx Talk presented by our own Ken Manning. We will write more about this in following newsletters but we wanted to get it out to all of you right away. Take a look. Happy Listening!

Issue #56 - April 31, 2018 Welcome to Insights and Implications! Welcome to Insights and Implications. This month we cover some very intriguing psychological research that adds additional perspective to the principles behind how the mind works. Happy Spring! All of us at Insight Principles The "Happiness Advantage" Can being happy actually boost your performance? The answer is a resounding yes, according to the latest psychological research. Here are just some of the findings: 75% of job success is predicted by optimism level, while IQ level predicts job success only 25% of the time. People who are in a positive

Issue #48 - August 31, 2017 Welcome to Insights and Implications! Ever want to get away from it all? Read this month’s newsletter and learn how to do just that without even leaving home. All the best, All of us at Insight Principles Silent Retreat, Anyone? I recently read an interesting article written by Sally Blount, the Dean at Kellogg School of Management. Her advice was: The next time you feel stuck at work with a hard problem to solve, a complicated team dynamic, or are just feeling burnt out -- instead of hiring a consultant, going to a seminar,