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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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Seriously?

Posted on March 17, 2014
in Consciousness, innate health, Insecurity, Mind and Consciousness and Thought, Peace of Mind
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Consider this story: Not long ago, I was meeting with a person who started our conversation in tears, feeling hopeless because of a family situation that was outside of her control, but involved her children in a way that she could not think about without more tears and more pain. As she tried to explain it to me in gasps between the sobs, she grasped her head in her hands and said, "This is so serious. Sometimes I just want to kill myself. I can't do anything about it." Before I...

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Wisdom is not an opinion

Posted on October 6, 2013
in innate health, Insecurity, Mind and Consciousness and Thought, Peace of Mind, resiliency, Security, State of Mind, Sydney Banks, Three Principles
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How soon we abandon the lessons of fairy tales, scripture, children's books! How readily we disregard the common sense of life experience! How innocently we fall into the maelstrom of insecurity, then panic as we start to drown in our own fear! As quickly as we fall, however, we can arise from the nightmare and find the innate resiliency we need to restore balance, wisdom and hope. This is the promise of a true understanding of how our minds work: we live in the experience of the reality we create with...

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Squandering Our Power

Posted on August 24, 2013
in Consciousness, innate health, Insecurity, Mind, Mind and Consciousness and Thought, Peace of Mind, psychobiospiritual, resiliency, State of Mind, Sydney Banks, Three Principles
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Across the developed world, environmentalists have gotten our attention about power. We use energy efficient light bulbs, appliances and devices. We turn things off. We adjust our home thermometers not to waste power when and where no one needs to be warm or cool. We care about gas mileage. We recycle. We are increasingly committed to conserve  and use the power we have wisely in every aspect of our lives...

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How I met Leon

Posted on July 16, 2013
in Peace of Mind, Security, State of Mind, Sydney Banks, Uncategorized
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I don't tell this story often because, for people who aren't used to trusting the power of a calm state of mind, it is at best weird and at worst frightening. But it's true, and it happened to me in New York City in the early '90's, when my daughter was a student at New York University, living in a tiny apartment not large enough for me to stay with her. When I visited, I stayed at the Washington Square Park Hotel, several blocks from her. One night, while I was...

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