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, insightful, and

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 #129, January 31 2024 Welcome to Insights and Implications! All humans are hard-wired for connection and closeness, yet the quality and depth of our conversations can vary. This month, Nikki Platte explores what’s happening behind the scenes. Wishing you all the best, All of us at Insight Principles What Accounts For Connection I’m a native English speaker who dabbles in very basic Spanish with the help of frequent travel, Spanish novelas on the tele, and lots of motivation to make the most of a Super DuoLingo subscription. Last week, during a flight to Oaxaca, I sat next to an elderly

Issue #128, December 29 2023 Welcome to Insights and Implications! As we approach the end of 2023, it seems like a good time for reflection. Read on as Sandy Krot shares her reflections about love. We hope that, as you read, you will find ways to bring more love into the world. We can definitely use it. All of us at Insight Principles What’s Love Got To Do With It? Every once in a while I read a quote or hear something that stops me. I’ll read and reread the quote or listen to the statement again and again. This quote

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 sweat. We’re

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 recently heard

Issue #105, January 31 2022 Welcome to Insights and Implications! We hope that 2022 has begun well for you. This month’s newsletter is about happiness. Remember that feeling? Happiness seemed nearly ever-present when we were very young and now can be all too fleeting. Read on as Cheryl Bond shares how we innocently limit our experience of happiness. All of us at Insight Principles Conditional Happiness We’re all familiar with the conditions we set for happiness: I’ll be happy when I lose weight I’ll be happy when I get married -- or divorced I’ll be happy when I have a better job,

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. “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 meals, promotions, etc.

Issue #100, August 31 2021 Welcome to Insights and Implications! In last month’s newsletter we asked the question, “Why Are We So Hard on Ourselves?” and made the distinction between accountability and feeling badly about ourselves. This month we are borrowing words of wisdom from a colleague who comes at the question from another angle. Enjoy! We have colleagues all over the globe who share an understanding of how the mind works with just about every population you can think of. One of our favorite colleagues is Mavis Karn who has spent a good part of her long career working with incarcerated

Issue #70, June 2019 Welcome to Insights and Implications! Seems like many of the leaders we have been working with recently are extremely busy and mentally tired. Common sense would dictate taking a break but for whatever reason, leaders often don’t do it. Perhaps this month’s newsletter will encourage listening to that common sense. All of us at Insight Principles   Take a Break You’ve probably been physically tired. Perhaps you spent the entire day working in the garden or split a cord of wood or rode your bicycle 30 miles. We call this the “good” kind of tired. It’s the kind

Issue #56, April 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 state compared to those

Issue #36, August 2016 Welcome to Insights and Implications! As summer winds down, we share this story from Sandy about how fear doesn't always get the best of us. Sometimes we just keep paddling. All the best, All of us at Insight Principles From Fear To Flow My husband is an avid sea kayaker. For the past 25 years, he has taken a yearly extended trip into a remote wilderness area. Last month he kayaked solo along the northern coast of British Columbia (Canada). Something unusual happened on this year’s trip. Peter - a skilled kayaker with decades of experience - woke

Issue #35, July 2016 Welcome to Insights and Implications! It's vacation season! Below, Robin shows us how the intelligence inside helps us relax...regardless of where we are. All the best, All of us at Insight Principles It Isn't The Beach This time of year, many of us head to the beach or to some other place to relax, change the scenery, reconnect with family, and generally recharge our batteries. When we return home, hopefully refreshed, we typically tell our friends and colleagues how good it was to get away, how the mountain air is really reviving, or how restful it was to

Issue #33, May 2016 Welcome to Insights and Implications! When life hands you lemons, make lemonade. Or just see it as thought. All the best, All of us at Insight Principles Suffering or Growth? There is a saying here in the US - when life gives you lemons, make lemonade. This proverbial phrase suggests finding something good or positive in something difficult (making sweet lemonade out of sour lemons). Nice saying, but let’s consider a deeper point. Sometimes, life happens. You have your preferences and desires, and then - there is life. When confronted with something you don’t want, didn’t expect, or

Issue #8, April 2014 Welcome to Insights and Implications! Hello Everyone, If this is your first time receiving our newseltter, welcome! Sent just once per month, each contains a short, practical story that illustrates insight principles. We hope these newsletters help to keep your learning fresh and insights flowing. This month's newsletter features a topic that might be familiar to many of you- feeling burdened by a huge workload. We hope it helps bring perspective and clarity. All the best as we close out April, All of us at Insight Principles Overwhelm- Optional? Miriam sat back at her desk and sighed. "This