Basic 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.

What do our feelings and thoughts have to do with discernment? Listen to connect the dots!

Sometimes we ask people how they’re doing without expecting an honest or complete answer. “How are you?”, we might say. Or: “How’s it going?” This type of inquiry is usually more of a greeting than a true question. In this month’s episode Robin Charbit explains why sincerely asking someone how they are feeling can reveal […]

Have you been perplexed by another person’s behavior? Have you wondered what to do or how to intervene? Have you been at a loss in certain situations? In this month’s newsletter, Robin Charbit explains why you get stuck and shares a helpful yet simple strategy.

Are you one of those people who can’t say no? Do you overcommit? Do you make promises you know you can’t keep? Are you afraid of disappointing others? You’re not alone. Listen to what Sandy Krot has learned about saying no.

Happiness seems so simple –  babies experience it. Yet happiness often eludes us. We seem to have more important things to do. Listen as Sandy Krot describes what else comes with happiness and why we might want to just be happy.

“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.

Even though thinking is invisible most of the time, knowing that it’s always working to bring us our experience is helpful. Listen to learn more about what results when we reflect on this amazing creative process.

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 […]

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. Listen to learn about how the brilliance of the mind can help […]

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 […]

We hope you and your families are staying healthy and settled as you face the unique challenges of this pandemic. This episode is from 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 […]

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.

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!

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 […]