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Judith A. Sedgeman, EdD

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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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Why teach the innate?

Posted on February 3, 2015
in innate health, Mental Health, Mind and Consciousness and Thought, Spiritual, Three Principles
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If every living person, no exceptions, has innate health, why would we feel the need to share or teach the Principles that point people in that direction? Doesn't "innate" imply you already know it? To be honest, that  nagged at me for a while when I first started in this work. I saw how much all of us were helping people out of psychological distress by describing the Principles of Mind, Consciousness and Thought at work, but I had difficulty reconciling that with the idea of innate health. Oh, yes, we told people that we're...

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Common Sense or Fear? Our choice.

Posted on October 16, 2014
in Consciousness, innate health, Insecurity, Mental Health, Mind, Mind and Consciousness and Thought, Peace of Mind, resiliency, Security, State of Mind, Sydney Banks, Thought, Three Principles
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Every time we get new information, we have a choice what to make of it. That choice has nothing to do with the information. It has to do with whether we understand how we bring our own thinking to life as reality. We don't choose the first thought that comes to mind. But every subsequent related thought and what we make of it is strictly up to us. The more deeply we understand our own spiritual nature, that we are generating our life experience by bringing thoughts to mind and then taking them more...

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“What’s wrong with me?”

Posted on September 5, 2014
in Depression, innate health, Insecurity, Mental Health, Mind and Consciousness and Thought, Peace of Mind, Three Principles
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Since I have begun seeing clients one-on-one as a Mental Health Mentor, the most frequent questions they ask in the first session are: "What's wrong with me? How did  this happen? Why can't  anyone explain to me what happened to my mind?" For the most part, they've had a lot of therapy. And they've been given diagnoses. But  diagnoses do not explain. Diagnoses describe and label symptom sets. What's eating at people are the WHY? questions. Why can't I just be OK again? How did I go wrong? How do people get chemical...

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What ever happened to peace and love?

Posted on August 1, 2014
in innate health, Mind and Consciousness and Thought, Peace of Mind, Security, Three Principles
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What ever happened to peace and love? The answer is nothing has ever happened to peace and love. Peace and love are constants of the nature of all mankind.  Peace and love are the spiritual essence of humanity. Then how do we explain the murderous rage, the boiling resentment, the hatred of "others" spreading across the world? Those things have nothing to do with our spiritual nature. They are the products of insecure thinking unrestrained, misleading multitudes into vortices of fear. It looks hopeless to many that mankind will ever live at peace, that...

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