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The Illusion Exposed

11/24/2016

There is an illusion that fools us all, consistently. When a feeling arises within us, especially when that feeling coincides simultaneously with an outside event, it is easy to mistakenly conclude that the outside event caused the feeling. For example, if every time I am late for work, I feel anxious and bothered, it seems sensible to attribute my feeling of anxiety to the fact that I am running late.

But this is an illusion. It is not true. Being late to work does not and cannot create any kind of feeling for me.

There is an invisible force that creates my feeling of anxiety. It is the power of Thought. Without my own thinking anxiously, I cannot and would not feel anxious. Thought is the power which brings me all of my feelings and experiences.

This phenomenon is operating through all of us perfectly, without exception. It cares not whether you are having beautiful thoughts or ugly thoughts. The power of Thought brings them all to life, as a feeling, indiscriminately.

Now you might be compelled, based on this truth, to manage your brain so as to only have nice thoughts. Many have tried, only to find mixed results of success and mostly failure.

You might instead, find great relief in what this truth implies. For example, it implies that every time you find yourself blaming your upset feeling on the way you are being treated, that you MUST be misunderstanding where your feelings are coming from. It implies that all blame is only possible when we lose sight of how it really works! For if you did understand, if you had insightfully asked yourself: "Where is this feeling really coming from?", it would be revealed to you that such blame is baseless and false. It simply doesn't work that way.

Realizing this implication might take off your mind the amount of time and energy you spend ruminating and contemplating blame.

This is a paradigm of subtraction. Learning how our experiences are created, automatically reveals to us how our feelings are NOT being created. We may continue to choose to ruminate in blame, but it won't last, because we already know how silly such a notion is.

It will die all on its own.

This is just one implication. There are many more to be revealed for each of us. As they reveal themselves, we will benefit from having more and more ruminative and unproductive thinking fall off our minds.

This is the ultimate path towards personal evolution and change.

Have fun!

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Self-Correction and a Reflective Question

11/10/2016

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In hindsight, I now recognize, that many of our earlier attempts to introduce Innate Health to the public, were somewhat flawed. Although our intentions were mostly pure, a limited understanding of the 3 Principles led to misleading explanations and poor advice.

For example, we would regularly say, "Look for a good feeling" or "Follow your inner wisdom" or "Seek a quiet mind" or "Underneath your Thinking is pure love & clarity" or "Be innately healthy" (ha! that's a funny one). These might be good suggestions but they are not the 3 Principles.

As we continue to gain a deeper appreciation for the 3 Principles Paradigm, I hope we can look back at this post and laugh all over again. This would mean that we are learning, evolving - changing.

So, what have we learned to date? We've learned that advice is not our strong point. Instead, we share palatable illustrations and descriptions of the 3 Principles Paradigm. We've stopped telling people they'd be better off with a positive outlook. Instead, we invite people to consider and examine how all personal reality is generated. We've stopped encouraging people to seek or find a nicer place or feeling. Instead, we encourage an honest dialogue regarding how we all understand the moment to moment flow of life.

We define Innate Health as a simple fact - you and the entire human race are constantly feeling and experiencing their own thinking. This is always true - and nothing else in the world can interrupt this indivisible connection.

It is innate - you were born with the ability to feel your thinking.

It is a healthy, vibrant system that never rests, never fails, never breaks down.

Thank G-d for that.

This is a constant, an ever present truth, regarding how the human experience is being created. What can we learn from this truth? What does it imply? What can we extrapolate from it? What does it mean for how we live our lives, how we choose to act and what we choose to dwell upon?

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One Way, and no other

11/6/2016

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So, here I am again. Trying in vain, for the umpteenth time, to write a simple, comprehensive, engaging, practical description of the 3 Principles. I refuse to give up. By now most of us know what they are called - Mind, Thought & Consciousness, but names and labels alone will never fully encapsulate their vastness, their power, their divinity. There is one "soundbite", however, that has emerged over and over as a direction or "true north" for anyone who wishes to find continuous learning and evolution through this understanding. It goes like this.

The 3 Principles are the Paradigm for all human experience. All human experience is created through this Paradigm. There is absolutely no human experience outside of 3 Principles Paradigm. Our experience in the moment, at any moment, including our emotions, feelings, sensations, attitudes, beliefs and states of mind are all, without exception, generated and made available for us via this single Paradigm of Mind, Thought & Consciousness.

Yes, this seemingly simple clue is actually a huge deal. Logic then dictates, if it only works one way, then obviously it works NO OTHER WAY. This will blow your mind when you realize it. When you realize just how much of our lives and the lives of those around us are built and predicated upon the idea that there are many, other sources which can cause us to feel this way or that.

But all along, there was and remains only one creator of all feeling. And suddenly, when you are gifted with waking up to this simple fact, you will find more psychological freedom than ever before.

So I encourage you, even if nobody can give you a 5-minute power point demonstration to answer all your questions, keep looking at these Principles. Keep asking about them. Keep learning.

Understanding them is the key to the answers we all seek.

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Just Another Reminder

8/16/2016

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Note to self:

Don't settle even for really good truths. Stay open to what is beyond what you currently know.

The 3 Principles are much deeper than showing me hope or inspiration or clarity or insight - much deeper than my momentary desire to have a quieter mind or a different, better feeling. Don't try to achieve to higher level of consciousness. Please don't. You'll drive yourself mad. For the benefits of this comprehension to impact me, I only need honestly understand that there are infinitely more levels all the way up to pure consciousness - no need to get any higher though.

My level at any moment is intelligently bestowed by God-Mind. Lovingly. Purposefully. Beyond my ability to comprehend or answer the question of "why now"? The 3 Principles are a constant Truth - devastating facts. Devastating to a way of being that has been built on the idea that human experience can be created some other way.

Each and every time, it's the same exact insight that settles me down. In those moments that I am gifted with an awareness or insightful knowing of this Truth - I am wiser. In other moments, I am not so wise. And so it goes. This is the true context of life. It's really that simple.

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Illustrating the Infinite

8/2/2016

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There exists 1 million and 1 ways to prove that circumstances or the past do not hold the power to dictate how you feel. There are an endless array of examples where identical scenarios seem to elicit a wide range of emotions even within one person. It's quite easy to see, there exists a deeper order at work - a higher organization, behind the human experience. Frequent as it is, change is clearly possible despite the particulars of our lives. We are not locked in by the outside.

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Perpetual Students

6/29/2016

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Have you ever heard a 3 Principles facilitator say, "Mind, Consciousness and Thought are a only metaphor"? This is an incredibly important clue that is easy to overlook. Metaphors are not the real thing. Metaphors or parables are attempts to guide, illustrate or symbolize something far beyond the metaphor itself. If we are arrested by the details of the metaphor, a deeper personal appreciation or realization, might never be noticed.

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The Ultimate Context

4/5/2016

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This final email before the holiday is longer and more technical than usual. I will attempt to illustrate, using these silly things called words, the unchanging and unyielding context in which all of life occurs. As always, if these statements are in contradiction with our holy tradition, please disregard what it written and let me know! Bear with me please.

I'm no longer embarrassed to admit, I was well into my twenties before I gained a working comprehension and practical understanding of certain basic English words. One such word was: context. According to Merriam-Webster, "the parts of a statement or discourse that surround a word or passage and can throw light on its meaning".

And of course, after being lobbied by the paper manufacturers, those good folks at the dictionary company added another definition: "the interrelated conditions in which something exists or occurs".

There are certain interrelated conditions which govern and dictate your ability to experience happiness. Those same interrelated conditions govern and dictate your ability to experience sadness. Remorse. Freedom. Angst. Longing. Awe. Humility. Love. Commitment. Truth. Wrath. Compassion. Boredom. Alacrity. Apathy. Devotion. It never begins with me.

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Chasing the Feeling No More

1/26/2016

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This message might seem unprofessional but in my estimation it will serve as an illustration of a different relationship with the ever-changing flow of our inner lives.

I have no message this week. I have nothing profound to write. Sure, I could "churn out" a nicely worded piece on separate realities or the Principle of Consciousness, but I prefer not to violate my number one rule for this blog - be genuine.

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Black & White

1/21/2016

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So are the Principles a cure for mental illness? Are the Principles a way to get inspired? Are the Principles a mantra towards a nicer life? Although many people find that learning about the 3 Principles has afforded them all of the above, the Principles themselves are none of those things.

The essence of the Principles are not fully knowable by anyone due to, among other qualities, their infinite nature. There is however, a truth that we are gifted to comprehend and that is the understanding that the feeling I'm experiencing, right now, is created through this singular system. There is no other system that could possibly create my feeling.

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Gaining Through Subtraction

10/19/2015

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Often, when listening to someone talk about the 3 Principles, you might hear, "The 3 Principles are not a technique" or "There is nothing to do". These statements can be easily misunderstood.

There exists a widely held misconception regarding what drives our behavior and what generates our internal emotional state. Logically speaking, if my understanding regarding how I operate as a living and experiencing human being is incomplete or completely wrong, it would easily lead to numerous problems and unnecessary confusion.