The Principles Behind Life
When I work with people as a transformative coach, we look at and explore the impact in our lives of three universal principles: Mind, Thought, and Consciousness.
I'm finding that when a person is familiar with how they construct perceived or experienced reality for themselves, things like stress, tension, indecision, insecurity, anxiety, chronic pain, and suffering just don't exist. This is a BIG statement. Our society today is filled with messaging about how "stress" is the cause of 95% of disease (Mayo Clinic), and how everybody has "anxiety", and how young people have incurable depression, and how our veterans are being offered medical assistance in dying due to intractable PTSD. I'm not making light of any of these experiences as I know they make life a living hell. The experience of these feelings doesn't exist outside of a person's thinking. This is empowering as all get out. Here's why...
First described by Canadian mystic and philosopher, Sydney Banks, the three principles are an understanding of how humans construct their lived experience.
"The Universal Mind or impersonal mind is constant and unchangeable. The personal mind is in a perpetual state of change. All humans have the inner ability to synchronize their personal mind with their impersonal mind to bring harmony into their lives."
The founder of chiropractic, Daniel David Palmer, said that the purpose of chiropractic is to synchronize universal intelligence with the body's innate intelligence. Connecting the wisdom of all there is (Nature, Universal energy, God, the force out there that grows a tulip...) to the inborn intelligence in us (the energy that beats our hearts and breathes our lungs).
Mind can be described as our spark within, our inner light. It is the source behind all things in life: everything seen, felt, and experienced. Everyone has access to this innate wisdom. The spark inside that guides us naturally, sometimes called intuition or common sense.
"Thought is the creative agent we use to direct us through life. Thought is the master key that opens the world of reality to all living creatures. Thought is not reality; yet it is through Thought that our realities are created."
Thought is our creative power in the world to evaluate, imagine, and remember. Habitual thinking and planning, deciding what to have for lunch, and worrying are all examples of our use of Thought. Unlike many teachings around thinking and our thoughts, the focus is not on positive or negative thinking, but rather on the fact that we, as human beings, were created with the free will to create our reality through our thinking.
"Consciousness is the gift of awareness. Consciousness allows the recognition of form, form being the expression of Thought. Mental health lies within the consciousness of all human beings, but it is shrouded and held prisoner by our own erroneous thoughts. This is why we must look past our contaminated thoughts to find the purity and wisdom that lies inside our own consciousness."
Consciousness is the awareness and experience of life around us, our personal life, personal thoughts and our access to our spark inside, our inner wisdom.
"No one, but no one, can ever explain intellectually what Universal Consciousness really is. Yet, as thinking human beings, we use this magnificent gift every day of our lives. It's a gift that enables us to experience the existence of creation." Sydney Banks, The Enlightened Gardner.
All of us, as human beings, use these three fundamental principles to create our moment-to-moment experience of life. Misuse or misunderstanding of how they work creates problems. This innocent misuse shows up as dysfunction in the body, stiffness in the spine, physical symptoms, tiredness, exhaustion, stress, anxiety, mental health dysfunction, and many other manifestations.
Stay tuned for "Stress is Not a Thing"
Love, Dr. Sara