Issue #115, November 30 2022 Welcome to Insights and Implications! It’s funny how knowledge of a simple fact can make navigating life as a human being easier sometimes. This month, Nikki Platte reminds us what’s behind our feelings. Sending warm holiday wishes, All of us at Insight Principles Riding the Emotional Rollercoaster I tore my ACL last week. For the third time. And I thought it’d be helpful to share my subsequent mood storm with everyone as an example of how our thoughts can take us all over the place sometimes! ACL stands for Anterior Cruciate Ligament. It’s an important stabilizing ligament

Issue #104, December 30 2021 Welcome to Insights and Implications! This is our final newsletter of 2021. We could think of no better way to end the year than to share a vital and hopeful message from our friends and colleagues at One Solution Global. There are thousands of people all over the globe who are sharing an understanding of the mind with a wide variety of audiences. One of our favorites is the Chicago-based but globally-focussed non-profit organization, One Solution Global. Please check out their work here, https://onesolutionglobal.org/. They’re having a fundraiser between now and Jan 31st with matching donations and

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 “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 Programs with a colleague. I shared something

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 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 and he said, “Sounds great!” I told

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 We have the capacity to think a multitude of things about ourselves, and we do a lot of it over our lifetimes! Thinking things

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 another person’s mind?

Issue #90, October 30 2020 Welcome to Insights and Implications! For many months, the pandemic has been front and center in our newsletter. This month we visit a topic that is not pandemic related, but rather a more common problem. What to do when you have a boss who watches over your shoulder and tries to manage your every move? Read on for Cheryl Bond’s story and insights. Please stay well. All of us at Insight Principles Working for a Micro-Manager Nearly everyone has had the experience of working for a micromanager. Micromanagement can range from asking for very detailed weekly status

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 pay attention to

Issue #75, November 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 (https://theinsightalliance.org/ ). Anna runs programs in both men’s and women’s prisons sharing how the mind works to inmates. She also

Issue #74, October 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 our circumstances, and it

Issue #73, September 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 reason we travel to

Issue #68, April 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 under-performing team and he

Issue #67, March 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 stress such as

Issue #62, October 2018 Welcome to Insights and Implications! This month’s newsletter is about passion. How can such a positive feeling create unproductive noise in the human mind? Read on to find out.   Let's Get Passionate Recently, we worked with a leadership team brimming with passionate people. These people love their company (most have been there a decade or more), are experts in their fields, and are very dedicated to the people they serve. In other words, they are passionate. The team was facing a business challenge that, if not remedied, could severely hurt the business. They needed insights and they

Issue #42, February 2017 Welcome to Insights and Implications! From time to time we like to share insights from the participants in our programs. While this month’s guest author describes a trip over the winter holidays, her insights are relevant year-round. We love hearing from you so please keep those insights coming. All the best, All of us at Insight Principles Travel Delays: Always A Chance for Insight Over the holidays I traveled to Orlando to visit my family. I was excited to see my mom, brother and baby niece. I booked a red-eye flight on December 23rd with a 2.5 hour