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Three Principles Living

Judith A. Sedgeman, EdD

innate health

Feeling Our Way through Life

Posted on February 25, 2016
in Depression, innate health, Mind and Consciousness and Thought, resiliency, State of Mind
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People seek help from counselors when they feel bad. No one has ever come into a session with me to complain about their thinking. They come in to say, “I’m really depressed.” “I’m sad and I can’t seem to get over it.” “I am so anxious that I can’t concentrate.” “I get so angry I feel like hitting my children.” That kind of statement. So, intuitively, we know that bad feelings are a sign that we need help. But we believe the bad feelings are coming from the events, people and...

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Do you ever get upset?

Posted on February 16, 2016
in innate health, Mental Health, resiliency, Thought
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"I never see you upset. Do you ever get upset?" At least once or twice a week, someone asks me that question, as if they are expecting that someone who truly understood how the mind works must never be anything but calm and happy. So sorry, that's not how it works. There is no way to anticipate what might come into our minds, and sometimes, the thoughts we bring to our minds carry with them upset, angry, frustrated, negative feelings. Of course, I get upset, just like every other human being...

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Cure Seriousness! Lighten Up!

Posted on January 14, 2016
in innate health, Insecurity, Mental Health, Mental Health Education, Mind and Consciousness and Thought, Spiritual
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Avoid being afflicted with Seriousness. It's debilitating. It brings people down. It hurts. It takes all the fun out of life as long as you have it. It can linger a long time. It can lead to health complications. It's much worse than the flu. I talked to a client recently who clearly manifested that he had suffered from Seriousness for more than 40 years. He had the medical and life history to prove it. He cried a lot in the beginning of our session. His story included abusive parents, painful childhood, two abusive marriages;...

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True Change: Beyond the Illusion

Posted on July 6, 2015
in Consciousness, innate health, Mental Health, Mind, Mind and Consciousness and Thought, Spiritual, Thought, Three Principles
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We all change a lot over time. We grow from babyhood through childhood and adulthood to old age, with all the physical and mental changes that accompany life stages. We gain and lose weight. We get in shape; we get out of shape. We change our hair. We adopt new styles. We change locations. We change relationships. We change professions. We change financial status. We change our preferences. We change our politics. We change our reading habits. We change our minds in the face of new information. Those "changes" are all illusions...

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Is It Easy to Be Happy?

Posted on April 15, 2015
in innate health, Insecurity, Memory, Mental Health Education, Mind and Consciousness and Thought, Peace of Mind, Spiritual, State of Mind, Sydney Banks, Three Principles
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Recently I saw a new client who sobbed at the outset, "I don't see how I will ever be happy again!" An hour later, as she left, she was laughing. "I've sure been a big drama queen with all that serious thinking, haven't I?" she said. How does a shift like that happen? In the simplest terms, it is the natural outcome of what Principles practitioners do that is new to treatment. We don't take unhappiness seriously. We point people to the true, constant, unfailing, spiritual source of human happiness that nothing can touch....

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Listen for a feeling

Posted on March 24, 2015
in innate health, Mental Health Education, Mind and Consciousness and Thought, Peace of Mind, Thought, Three Principles
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I will never forget the first time I sat in a big conference where Sydney Banks was speaking and heard him say, "Don't listen to my words; listen for a feeling." It was very early on in my exposure to the Principles, and I came close to fleeing the room.  As a hard-working, hard-charging business person in a service business, who had been a tough-minded newspaper reporter, I was highly educated and well-trained to listen to and pay close attention to words. Every word mattered. Getting people's words "right" mattered.  I had a Master's...

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