Issue #140, December 31, 2024 Welcome to Insights and Implications! A short note from us to wrap up the year and reflect on all that has been. All the best, All of us at Insight Principles Taking A Breather This can be a strange time of year. At work, year-end tasks and deliverables abound, usually pulling in lockstep with holiday-related responsibilities at home. At the same time, most of us have at least a few days, if not more, to disconnect from the fray and spend time with our families and/or friends. This combination of Go and

Issue #139, November 30, 2024 Welcome to Insights and Implications! This week marks the Thanksgiving holiday in the United States, a time for reflection and food and family and friends. Regardless of where you live, we hope the following helps you remember the beauty of what’s true for all of us as we enter the holiday season. All the best, All of us at Insight Principles The Field “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there.” -RumiThe holidays can be interesting as a human! Different personalities and generations gather with

Issue #137, September 30, 2024 Welcome to Insights and Implications! This month, Ken Manning reminds us that a calm and balanced state is one of deep feeling, but free of emotion. Read on to learn more about this distinction. Hoping your fall is off to a good start, All of us at Insight Principles Feelings or Emotions: Which would you rather have? (Disclaimer: I am sharing just my way of using these two words, you may have them switched around. It doesn’t matter, the essence of the message is the point.) A consistent message we

Issue #131, March 31, 2024 Welcome to Insights and Implications! As a follow-on to Robin Charbit’s reflections from last month’s newsletter, Ken Manning shares a bit more about meditation and how it plays nicely with an understanding of Insight Principles. We hope it’s helpful. Happy Spring! All of us at Insight Principles Insight Principles and Meditation A deep realization of the truth of insight principles leads to a quiet, stable state of mind. That state is imbued with clarity, ease, presence, feeling connected within and with others, and the lovely experience of psychological freedom, where one feels inwardly intelligent,

Issue #130, February 29, 2024 Welcome to Insights and Implications! This month, Robin Charbit explores why taking care of your mind is easier once you know what’s happening behind the scenes. We hope it helps you find ways to land in that clear, settled state that is natural in all of us. All the best, All of us at Insight Principles Stretch Do you ever stretch your body? Does it feel good? Mostly yes, right? So why do we do it? To be more comfortable? To allow the body to operate the way it was designed (bend over, rotate,

Issue #120, April 27, 2023 Welcome to Insights and Implications! In our two previous newsletters, Ken Manning shared the value and joy of being even-minded as an output of the power of understanding how the mind works. In this month’s newsletter, we look a little deeper at wisdom and how it can lead us to more stable even-mindedness. All of us at Insight Principles Even-mindedness Part 3: The Power of Wisdom With a little self-awareness, most of us realize, at some point, that we want to live with more calm and clarity. And yet, despite our good intentions, many

Issue #119, March 28, 2023 Welcome to Insights and Implications! In last month’s newsletter, Ken Manning shared a story about an insight that helped him be more even-minded. In this month’s newsletter, we look a little deeper at what can help us live a more even-minded life. Wishing you well, All of us at Insight Principles Even-Mindedness: Part 2 - The Power of Understanding   Even-mindedness defined: A state of mind in which one is calm, unruffled, present, engaged, and able to think clearly with perspective and intelligence. Sounds good, right? Do you want a bit more even-mindedness

Issue #118, February 28, 2023 Welcome to Insights and Implications! We’ve all had the experience of feeling balanced, or even-minded. This month, in the first of a two-part series, Ken Manning reminds us of the source of this feeling and how it unlocks insight. Read on and stay tuned for next month’s follow-up to this important piece. Wishing you well, All of us at Insight Principles Even-Mindedness: Part 1   My friend Ari and I have been playing ping pong together for over 30 years. We play hard and have a great time and work up quite a

Issue #117, January 31, 2023 Welcome to Insights and Implications! Over the years, we’ve noticed a common refrain after folks leave our programs. Below, Robin reminds us that simply orienting toward our potential for insight is the first step toward having even more. All of us at Insight Principles Don’t Forget To Pay Attention To The “Transport System”   When we follow-up with clients, they often describe their challenges with remembering and using what they learned in our programs. As we explore, we often find the pace of their life is an underlying issue. It is not uncommon for our

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 #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 #60 - August 31, 2018 Welcome to Insights and Implications! Do you use your smartphone during meetings? Chances are you do more often than you realize, even if you disapprove of smartphone use during meetings. Read on for more about this interesting paradox. And don’t forget to check out the Tedx talk by Insight Principles’ Ken Manning. Watch it here. Smartphones and Meetings Don't Mix The USC Marshall School Of Business recently released a surprising study. Turns out that most people in the corporate world think smartphones don’t belong in business meetings. Here’s what the data showed: 86% think