Podcasts by Psychology Has It Backwards
We're offering mental health professionals a fresh look at the fundamental cause of stress and distress, and the fundamental source of cure. It's simpler than it has seemed, and the result is sustained mental well-being. Psychology has had it backwards.
Further podcasts by Christine Heath and Judy Sedgeman
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Episode 144: [Rerun] Episode 107: Our Innate Nature Is Pure Love from 2023-12-02T11:00
(We are re-sharing a podcast from last year during the holiday season because it feels timely to us to remind ourselves and all of us that love and understanding are the answer to to human suffe...
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Episode 143: Shame from 2023-11-25T11:00
Episode 142: It's Not a Profession; It's a Personal Experience from 2023-11-18T11:00
People tend to define themselves according to the outside world. We try to "be" something or someone, pursuing the ideas we and others have made up about ourselves, and react to event...
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Episode 141: Why Don't I Have Better Friends? from 2023-11-04T11:00
We are often asked, "Why is my child hanging out with 'bad' friends?" Or "Why do I keep falling for abusive men?" Or "Why do I keep doing business with people ...
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Episode 140: Guilt from 2023-10-28T11:00
Everyone has guilty thoughts. Some people get stuck in guilt and never lose the feeling. Others experience guilt and make amends if possible, or learn from the experience it's related to an...
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Episode 139: Psychology Is Spiritual from 2023-10-14T11:00
Psychology is a product of early 20th century interest in studying the soul and the mind. The word psychology has its origins in Greek words meaning "the study of the soul." As scien...
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Episode 138: Acting Spiritual vs. Understanding the Spiritual Nature of Life from 2023-10-07T11:00
The essence of The Three Principles is that everything in the world originates from Spiritual Energy formed into thought. The Principles belong to the Spiritual realm; they describe how the ene...
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Episode 137: Humility from 2023-09-16T11:00
Most of us grew up being told that humility was recognition that we were "mere mortals," or that humility was a set of behaviors -- modesty, consideration for others' feelings and...
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Episode 136: How Do We Know What the Words Mean? from 2023-09-09T11:00
People are always asking us to "define" Mind, Thought, and Consciousness again, or put them in different words. If you're trying to "figure out" the Principles by looki...
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Episode 135: Searching or SEEING? from 2023-09-02T11:00
We've all done it -- looked for an expert, or a highly recommended source, or a certain book, or a guru, or a technique, to find the answers to our deepest questions. No matter how hard we...
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Episode 134: It's ALL Thought from 2023-08-19T11:00
The Principle of Thought describes the absolute power every individual has to create their own experience of life. We do not experience anything we have not thought, whether it's a memory,...
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Episode 133: Feeling Your Feelings? from 2023-08-12T11:00
A misunderstanding that arises from talk about the Principles is the idea of "listening for a feeling" or "following your feelings." When we create thoughts, images in our m...
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Episode 132: What If the Principles"Aren't Working"for You? from 2023-08-05T11:00
Episode 131: The Invisible Power of Memory from 2023-07-22T11:00
Memories are stored thoughts, like all information we have accumulated. They have no "power" until we focus on them. Otherwise, they are like books we've already read on the she...
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Episode 130: The Power of Quiet from 2023-07-15T11:00
We often encourage our clients to "reflect" rather than "think about" or "figure out" life situations. Reflection is a quiet mind in a peaceful feeling; it is when...
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Episode 129: What Is a Happy Life? from 2023-07-08T11:00
When we talk about living a happy life, we are not talking about living in denial of the facts of life events, we are not describing a life miraculously free of trouble, we are not suggesting a ...
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Episode 128: Happiness Is the Goal of Therapy from 2023-06-30T11:00
Unlike other therapy approaches, The Three Principles has one primary goal for therapy: Happiness. While that seems counterintuitive to people who seek therapy to address problems or resolve is...
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Episode 127: What DO We Do With Clients, if Not Working On Their Problems from 2023-06-18T11:00
Episode 126: If We Don't Fix"Issues,"What Do We Do? from 2023-06-09T11:00
Traditional psychologies diagnose what's wrong with clients and help them "fix" issues. To us, that does not lead clients to a deeper understanding from which they can access the...
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Episode 125: Good Feelings Don't Come From"Learning"the Three Principles from 2023-06-03T11:00
Episode 124: Why Do People Think We're a Cult? from 2023-05-27T11:00
For 50 years, since Sydney Banks first shared his profound insight into how the intelligent energy of creation manifests in human beings as the power to think, to create our unique experience of...
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Episode 123: The"Process"of Change from 2023-05-13T11:00
"What do you mean by 'change is one thought away'?" people often ask us. "Isn't change a hard, long process of working through stuff?" As we come to understa...
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Episode 122: Getting Lost in the Memory Library from 2023-05-06T11:00
Those who have spent their lives accumulating knowledge and working hard to figure things out have, without realizing it, gotten lost in the Memory Library. Our personal thinking, a product of ...
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Episode 121:"Positive"Feelings vs."Finding the Feeling" from 2023-04-22T11:00
Many people mistake excitement, high-energy, cheerfulness as "the positive feelings" we talk about in the Three Principles. They assume that having a good time, being temporarily happ...
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Episode 120: Trauma-Focused vs. Wisdom-Focused Approach from 2023-04-15T11:00
Psychology is traditionally focused on solving problems. Right now, there is a focus on working through past traumas. We say that when you dredge up the past, you get trapped in something that...
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Episode 119: Getting To Know Yourself from 2023-04-08T11:00
We all have in common that we emerge into life from the power of Divine Mind, Thought, and Consciousness and we use that power to create our experience. Every single one of us uses it different...
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Episode 118: Seeing Hopelessness for What It Is from 2023-04-01T11:00
In traditional psychology, practitioners often see "resistance" in clients. Resistance, from the standpoint of the Principles, is really hopelessness. People lose hope that they have...
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Episode 117: Addicted to Thought from 2023-03-18T11:00
It's easy to get addicted to troubled thinking because our worst moments, or our most negative thoughts look and feel more significant to us than ordinary everyday thoughts. We get frighte...
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Episode 116: Insights Lead Us to Growth and Change from 2023-03-04T11:00
Once we begin to notice how the power of thinking works and how we change as our understanding deepens, it becomes a thrilling lifetime learning experience to experience new insights and keep gr...
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Episode 115: Nurturing the Well-Being in Your Children from 2023-02-25T11:00
Parenting becomes challenging as children grow and develop their own thinking and start experiencing their own moods and reactions. It helps to remember that children are all individuals, with t...
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Episode 114: Can Sexual Trauma Break You? from 2023-02-17T11:00
Sexual abuse is a horrible experience for people of any age or gender, and often generates feelings of shame, fear of being damaged, unwillingness to seek help, hesitancy about any relationships...
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Episode 113: Understanding"Disorders"of the Brain, Part 2 from 2023-02-10T11:00
This is part two of our discussion of brain disorders, focused on the common issue of ADHD. Many people struggle with ADHD, and how to "manage" life tasks with it. First, there are g...
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Episode 112: Understanding"Disorders"of the Brain, Part 1 from 2023-02-04T11:00
What people call "disorders of the brain" are a major source of distress for many people, handling their own different ways of thinking or trying to help their family members handle th...
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Episode 111: What Do We Mean by"Impersonal?" from 2023-01-20T11:00
When people hear the word "impersonal," they often think "indifferent," "unconcerned." As we use the word, it means "not personal" -- not taking things p...
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Episode 110: Listen for the Feeling from 2023-01-14T11:00
It often confuses people to hear the expression "Listen for a Feeling." Listening is deeper than simply hearing sounds with our ears; when we truly listen, our minds are free of perso...
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Episode 109: Does Your Body Have a Mind of Its Own? from 2023-01-07T11:00
Many people think their body is independent of their Mind and is providing new information, beyond Thought. The Principles describe the universal, formless, creative energy behind everything. ...
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Episode 108: Overthinking? Or Enjoying the Feeling? from 2023-01-01T11:00
Overthinking is our memories running the show to keep us going in circles around everything we already know, hoping we'll find new answers or resolution to a perceived problem. We are the ...
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Episode 107: Love, Part 3: Our Innate Nature Is Pure Love from 2022-12-23T11:00
The universal energy of creation finds expression in human beings through our ability to think and experience our thinking. It moves from perfect formlessness into the forms we create via thoug...
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Episode 106: Love, Part 2: How State of Mind Affects Our Relationships from 2022-12-17T11:00
People who innocently spend most of their time in negative thinking, feeling unworthy and anxious about relationships, often dwell in wishful thinking that someone will love them and "fix&q...
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Episode 105: Love, Part 1: Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places from 2022-12-03T11:00
If we expect love to "happen to us," or to "come from" someone else to make us whole, we are setting ourselves up for a lifetime of disappointment. Love comes from within, f...
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Episode 104: Gratitude from 2022-11-12T11:00
Gratitude is a deep and beautiful feeling filled with love and appreciation for life itself. We all learn as we grow up to be grateful for people and things, to say thank you for presents, to e...
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Episode 103: Nobody Else Knows What You Should Do from 2022-11-05T11:00
We are all vulnerable to "experts" promoting their advice, whether it be lifestyle coaching, investing, parenting, stress management, breaking habits -- and on and on. We tend to thin...
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Episode 102: What Is Free Will? from 2022-10-29T11:00
People get confused by the term "free will." Things happen that are out of our control! How could we have free will? We can't make the world conform to our desires. But we can...
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Episode 101: The Addiction We Have To Figuring Things Out from 2022-10-23T00:00
It's a challenge for people living in a world where people keep saying "Think about it," "Keep working on it, you'll figure it out;" "You just need to give it ...
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Episode 100: What Is Ego? from 2022-10-09T11:00
Ego, as we use the term, refers to beliefs and ideas we have about ourselves and life. They define who we think we are and how we describe our individual preferences and opinions. We would not...
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Episode 99: Wisdom vs. The Intellect in Therapy from 2022-10-01T11:00
The theories and techniques in traditional therapy tend to focus on details of people's problems, and how to find resolutions for various aspects of problems. Because people focus on the d...
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Episode 98: Psychological Innocence from 2022-09-24T11:00
When we speak of psychological innocence, we are not excusing bad deeds. We are explaining that the world looks very different to us in different states of mind/levels of consciousness. So in ...
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Episode 97: Separate Realities from 2022-09-17T11:00
Realizing the Principles allow each of us to create our own experience of life moment-to-moment has a further implication. Each of us, looking at the same situation, creates our own entirely se...
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Episode 96: The Past, Part 3: How the Past Tricks and Serves Us from 2022-09-10T11:00
Anything that pulls us out of the present moment, when we are creating our life, is memory. Memories can be powerful, beautiful, touching, or horrifying, upsetting, sad. No matter what, the pa...
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Episode 95: The Past, Part 2: Psychology and the Past from 2022-09-03T11:00
The field of Psychology, with the intention to end suffering, has fostered suffering inadvertently by focusing on people's past. Because people suffering mentally in the present tend to be...
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Episode 94: The Past, Part 1: What Is the Past, Really? from 2022-08-27T11:00
We think about the past as "real" and important, the personal story of our life that has power over us. Or as memories that haunt us, or delight us. Or as the history we learn about ...
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Episode 93: Explaining the DSM-5 from 2022-08-20T11:00
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is a huge volume of symptoms of mental illnesses organized into many hundreds of Diagnoses. We see it more as a collection of observati...
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Episode 92: Why Does Doing Horrendous Things Look Like a Good Idea to Some People? from 2022-08-14T11:00
While there is no excuse for doing harm to others, an understanding of why it makes sense to the people who do it would improve treatment and rehabilitation for them. We all live on a sine curv...
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Episode 91: Is Violence Really a Mental Health Issue? from 2022-08-06T11:00
When violent events occur, the quick response often is, "Society has a mental health issue." In truth, people experiencing mental well-being do not harm other people. But most people...
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Episode 90: Discovery of Spiritual Nature vs. Creation of Beliefs from 2022-07-30T11:00
Principles are discoveries of eternal truths that allow us to understand life more deeply. Principles are at work behind life whether we know them or not. In the case of Mind, Consciousness an...
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Episode 89: A"Thing"or a"Thought?" from 2022-07-23T11:00
We tend to see ideas we have often as "things," -- baked into a reality. We do that with our life stories, our training, our political or religious convictions, our personalities. In...
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Episode 88: FEELING vs. feelings from 2022-07-16T11:00
It's easy to confuse "FEELING" with what people commonly understand as their "feelings" -- what we would call emotions. When Three Principles practitioners talk about l...
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Episode 87: Don't Get Distracted by Details from 2022-07-09T11:00
Most of current psychology focuses on the details of people's thinking -- paying attention to negative thought content, encouraging positive thought content; suggesting journaling "imp...
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Episode 86: Finding Common Ground: The Illusion of Separate Realities from 2022-07-02T11:00
The "information age" has pulled society into the intellect and the pace of life has lessened our respect for quiet, for reflection. As a result, we are divided by beliefs into rigid ...
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Episode 85: It Can't Be That Simple! from 2022-06-25T11:00
Because we have become accustomed to mental illness being difficult and complicated to diagnose and treat, the idea that all diagnoses arise from a common problem, the innocent misuse of our pow...
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Episode 84: Flight Into Health from 2022-06-18T11:00
There's an expression in the Mental Health field: "Flight Into Health." It describes a sense that dramatic improvement in a person's level of mental well-being can't la...
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Episode 83: The Illusion of Moods from 2022-06-11T11:00
As we understand more how our thoughts create our moods, and how our moods are a barometer to the quality of our thinking, we are less and less frightened by our low moods. Although it appears ...
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Episode 82: Traditional Therapy Inadvertently Creates Dependency in Clients and Burnout in Therapists from 2022-06-04T11:00
Therapists working from the assumption that external events create our anxiety and suffering take it upon themselves to help clients solve problems, change their lives, or figure out new ways to...
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Episode 81: What if"Being Happy"Was the True Goal of Therapy? from 2022-05-28T11:00
The common view of therapy is that people with problems seek therapy to get help solving their problems. Three Principles practitioners are unique in that the goal of our work is not solving pa...
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Episode 80: Decision-Making: Knowing When It's Right from 2022-05-21T11:00
Most of us got the message growing up that success is an outcome of making and adhering to careful plans. A deeper understanding of how our minds work, of the Principles, leads us to realize th...
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Episode 79: Just Be You from 2022-05-14T11:00
Sydney Banks always told people, "Just be you. Just be ordinary." Many people thought he was advising mediocrity. But he was not. He was advising understanding that each one of us i...
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Episode 78: The Principles Point to Prevention, as Well as Cure from 2022-05-07T11:00
Understanding the Three Principles leads to mental well-being and allows for it to be sustained and strengthened throughout our lifetime. The Principles explain a universal fact: we all use the...
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Episode 77: What About Personality Disorders? from 2022-04-30T11:00
Much is written about personality disorders. With an understanding of the Principles, we can see that what we call personality disorders are the best efforts of extremely insecure people to def...
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Episode 76: Recovering From Relationships from 2022-04-23T11:00
Some people get upset with life or disappointed in themselves if relationships don't turn out the way they hoped or planned. People get locked into bad feelings and find they have trouble &...
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Episode 75: Life: Taking It as It Comes from 2022-04-17T23:00
Planning and goal-setting are highly recommended techniques for life success. We offer a different view. The ability to have a successful experience of life is intrinsic to all human beings; it ...
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Episode 74: Why"The Program" from 2022-04-09T11:00
We started "Psychology Has It Backwards: The Program" to give people who follow our podcasts an opportunity to meet with us and explore their questions and ideas more deeply. We wanted...
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Episode 73: How This Shift in Psychology Could Help the World from 2022-04-02T23:00
Disagreements are a head-on collision of thoughts. When two people (or groups, organizations, nations) who see the world differently confront each other's ideas, the result is often misunde...
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Episode 72: Addiction to the Intellect from 2022-03-11T11:00
Think of the intellect, our personal mind, as our individual library, collections of everything we've learned or thought about, representing all we know so far. It is what allows us to stud...
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Episode 71: Innate Health Is the Heart of Well-Being from 2022-03-06T11:00
We talk about Innate Health as fundamental to the effect of the Principles. It's good to stop to appreciate what a gift it is to mankind. Innate Health is the spiritual core of well-being t...
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Episode 70: Living in Love vs. Self-Love from 2022-02-27T11:00
Many people think it is important to love yourself to understand love. We would say trying to love yourself involves a lot of thinking about yourself, and dealing with judgments. When we connect...
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Episode 69: Do You Really Need a Toolbox? from 2022-02-20T11:00
Mental Health approaches often contain "toolboxes," collections of tips and techniques to help you get through various psychological situations. From the standpoint of the 3P, we are ...
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Episode 68: Trauma-Focused Treatment vs. Health-Focused Treatment, Part 2 from 2022-02-14T11:00
Some treatments for those who have experienced trauma assume that past trauma manifests in people's bodies, and creates chronic pain or discomfort. From a 3P perspective, trauma is not a &q...
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Episode 67: My Diagnosis Is Not Who I Am from 2022-02-05T11:00
Mental illness diagnoses are actually snapshots of times when someone is caught up in dysfunctional thinking, not descriptions of their character or being. People can become frightened by a diag...
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Episode 66: Trauma-Focused Treatment vs. Health-Focused Treatment from 2022-01-28T11:00
Many therapy approaches are focused on trauma, based on the assumption that people who have experienced trauma must come to peace and move on in life. Three Principles practitioners assume peopl...
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Episode 65: Insight vs. Belief from 2022-01-21T11:00
We talk a lot about Insight; it is a truly remarkable gift, always available to all of us. We can't say enough about the freedom and depth we gain from living from insight, rather than chas...
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Episode 64: Understanding Principles vs. Theories from 2022-01-15T11:00
People have asked us whether it's arrogant to talk about the Principles as spiritual truths, rather than as someone's theory. Principles, in every field of endeavor, once discovered, e...
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Episode 63: Toxic Positivity? from 2022-01-08T11:00
A term used in Psychology for people who have an optimistic outlook is "toxic positivity." The idea is that people who embrace life in good spirits regardless of external events are b...
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Episode 62: New Year's Inspirations vs. Resolutions from 2021-12-28T11:00
This is the time of year when most of us come up with a list of things we must commit to do in the New Year. It has become a source of wry humor that most of us compare notes in February and re...
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Episode 61: Quiet Is Not the Same as Slowing Down from 2021-12-17T11:00
Most of us take for granted that quiet arises from shutting off the outside noise in our lives, turning off the music or the TV, going to a quiet, peaceful space free from traffic noise or busy ...
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Episode 60: Evolving Nature of Our Work from 2021-12-10T11:00
The most fulfilling aspect of living and working from an understanding of the Principles is that it offers infinite deepening of our understanding, and thus our mental well-being. Sydney Banks s...
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Episode 59: [Rerun] Episode 2: Why Psychology Has It Backwards from 2021-12-03T11:00
(This is a rerun of Episode 2.) Psychology has been treating all the outcomes of insecure, misunderstood thinking as though they were the problems. The one underlying problem is what creates ins...
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Episode 58: Focusing on Fixing What's Wrong from 2021-11-19T11:00
The usual reason people seek therapy is to solve their problems, or try to fix what's wrong with them. In this regard, particularly, Principles practitioners are entirely different. We see...
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Episode 57: Stress Is Not a Thing, Part 2 from 2021-11-12T11:00
Recognizing stress in ourselves is a matter of awareness of the feeling state we are in and which way we are going. If we are feeling more and more tense, that is a signal that we are taking neg...
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Episode 56: Stress Is Not a Thing from 2021-11-05T11:00
Most of us are taught that modern life is full of "stressors" and we are bound to get stressed out by things that happen in life — from traffic to trauma. We are told to develop coping...
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Episode 55:"Intelligent"vs."Intelligence" from 2021-10-29T11:00
The intellect is our personal library, the collection of all the thoughts, experiences and knowledge we have had. It represents everything we already know. "Intelligence," on the other...
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Episode 54: What About Boundaries? from 2021-10-22T11:00
We've all been advised to "set boundaries" with others, or around our own behaviors. But does that mean that others will follow our "rules," or that we'll remember ...
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Episode 53: How We Talk Ourselves Out of Doing Things from 2021-10-15T11:00
We frequently talk ourselves out of inspiration by trusting our insecure thinking. Then we can get caught up in analyzing an infinite number of reasons WHY we're doing what we're doin...
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Episode 52: The Key To Letting Go of Hurt Feelings and a Broken Heart Is Not Analysis from 2021-10-10T11:00
Most of us have gone through a time in our life when we've had our heart broken or feelings hurt in relationships with friends and lovers. Misunderstanding of why things are happening comes...
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Episode 51: Trying Is Backwards from 2021-10-02T11:00
Episode 50: Thought-Body Connection from 2021-09-24T11:00
We've all had the experience of variable feelings of our own pain — for example, forgetting about an aching back in the presence of a laughing baby or a playful puppy. The way we experience...
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Episode 49: Searching vs. SEEING from 2021-09-17T11:00
Everyone has stories to tell about "searching" for experts, wise people, gurus, geniuses... anyone perceived as having special, deep understanding of life. Many people search for years...
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Episode 48: Dealing With"Problems" from 2021-09-07T11:00
Most people come to psychologists or counselors with the hope that they can get help dealing with their problems. In traditional psychology, problems are real, and various approaches help people...
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Episode 47: Focusing on the Feeling, Part 2: Spirituality from 2021-08-27T11:00
When people hear "spiritual," they often think "oh, religion..." But spirituality, in the context of the Three Principles, refers to the formless energy of creation, the powe...
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Episode 46: Focusing on the Feeling of Innate Health from 2021-08-20T11:00
Traditional mental health approaches deal with the outcomes of our thinking, and put attention on what we think, why our thinking is making us feel bad, why we think it, etc. Three Principles ...
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Episode 45: Mental Health Is Do-It-Yourself from 2021-08-13T11:00
No one can fix anyone else. Yet we have come to believe that if we just find the right advisor, or the right therapist, or the right self-help technique, or the right program, they or it will fi...
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Episode 44: We Don't Have To Live up to Expectations Psychology Creates About How To React to Our Experiences from 2021-08-06T11:00
Because traditional psychology is focused on the contents of our thinking and the behaviors that result, there are many, many well-meaning books and articles offering advice about how we should ...
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Episode 43: The Magic of Insight from 2021-07-30T11:00
The magic of working in the Principles is seeing how people transform via their own insights into life. The experience of insight awakened all of us to the power of change from within, and when ...
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Episode 42: State of Mind from 2021-07-23T11:00
A crucial element of the Three Principles understanding is the recognition that things look different to people as their states of mind change. People in a low state of mind experience a lot of...
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Episode 41: Mindfulness: Getting Closer from 2021-07-16T11:00
Mindfulness is increasingly recognized as a valuable mental health strategy. It moves the field closer to the Principles with a focus on awareness of the present moment, and acceptance of one&ap...
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Episode 40: Cognitive Therapies: Better But Still Backwards from 2021-07-09T11:00
Episode 39: The Diagnosis Trap, Part 2 from 2021-07-02T11:00
Increasingly, we've noticed people feeling defined by their diagnosis, even in some cases seeing it as a "reason" for issues that arise in their life. Comments like, "It&apos...
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Episode 38: The Diagnosis Trap from 2021-06-25T11:00
When we see diagnoses as conditions caused by events or people in our lives doing us psychological harm, both therapists and clients get trapped in diagnoses because we can't change the pas...
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Episode 37: The Simplicity of Happiness from 2021-06-18T11:00
Happiness is a natural state for all human beings; when our minds are at peace, we fall into a state of happiness with no effort. When we have innocently used our own thinking to create turmoil ...
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Episode 36: Why People Do Things They Don't Want to Do from 2021-06-11T11:00
Everyone, looking back on their life, can think of times they said or did things they regret, from hurtful remarks to physical violence. For some people, acting on their worst thoughts seems lik...
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Episode 35: The Myth of Problem-Solving from 2021-06-04T11:00
We're in the habit of turning to "experts" to help us solve our "problems," yet we often find we can't act on others' "good advice." The Principles ...
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Episode 34: Wisdom from 2021-05-28T11:00
Wisdom is universal intelligence, what we call "common sense." Everyone in the world is born into wisdom, the guidance and fresh ideas that flow through a quiet mind. It is natural to ...
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Episode 33: The Ripple Effect of Our Personal Change from 2021-05-21T11:00
When we begin to explore and discover the power of Mind, Thought, and Consciousness, we naturally change, sometimes to the amazement of our friends and colleagues. Old relationship habits and p...
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Episode 32: Changing Gracefully from 2021-05-14T11:00
All of us face changes, large or small, throughout our lives. Change means getting comfortable with the unknown as our new realities unfold. If we overthink everything, and try to anticipate the...
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Episode 31: How Consciousness Works from 2021-05-07T11:00
Consciousness, the power to bring our thoughts to life through our sensory system, is what allows us to know the experience of life we are creating. As we think, we feel, see, touch, hear, smell...
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Episode 30: Thought Content Is Individual from 2021-04-30T11:00
Personal thought is the use we make, individually, of the Power to think. It is the content we create for ourselves, then experience as our separate realities. It is unique to each person, and h...
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Episode 29: The Power of Thought Is Universal from 2021-04-23T11:00
Thought as a Principle refers to the universal power all beings have to create forms from the formless energy of life. It offers us unlimited potential to think, create, imagine, envision anythi...
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Episode 28: How Understanding Helps to Regain Balance After Loss from 2021-04-16T11:00
Grief is a natural immediate response to loss or tragedy. But grief is really more about us than about the loss we grieve. When someone or something dear or important to us is suddenly gone from...
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Episode 27: It's More Than Just a Catchy Title, Part 2 from 2021-04-09T11:00
The more time we spend thinking about our problems, the more our spirits drop and the more "alive" our problems seem to us. With an understanding of how thought works, we recognize tha...
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Episode 26: It's More Than Just a Catchy Title, Part 1 from 2021-04-02T11:00
People like the title of our podcast, but we want you to know we really mean it. The Principles represent a radical turnaround in the way we look at the assumptions underlying mental health trea...
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Episode 25: Moods and Relationships from 2021-03-26T11:00
Moods are like our personal, ever-changing weather. When we're gray and cloudy, others can feel the gloom. When we're stormy, people avoid us, or react defensively. When we're sun...
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Episode 24: Moods: Having Them Without Them Having You from 2021-03-19T11:00
Often, we feel like we are prisoners of our moods. We think our moods control our thinking, so we use a bad mood as an excuse for what we're doing or saying: "Don't mind me, I&apo...
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Episode 23: Self, Ego, and Other Illusions from 2021-03-12T11:00
We use terms like self-image, self-esteem, ego easily when we are thinking about ourselves. With an understanding of the power of our own thinking, we can see that none of them has any reality o...
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Episode 22: The Power of Slowing Down from 2021-03-05T11:00
There's a "harder, harder, faster, faster" mentality that keeps people stressed and preoccupied trying to "figure out" everything in life. The faster our thinking goes, ...
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Episode 21: Burnout from 2021-02-26T11:00
Many people in the mental health profession (and others, too) complain about "burnout" -- the feeling of exhaustion, frustration and hopelessness in the face of their work. As people c...
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Episode 20: Levels of Consciousness from 2021-02-19T11:00
This is an expression that describes where we are in our recognition that our experience of life events is created by our own thinking about them. As our level of consciousness rises, circumstan...
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Episode 19: Security and Insecurity from 2021-02-12T11:00
Insecurity is a thought-created state of mind that creates feelings of self-doubt, suspicion, anxiety, alienation from others, discomfort... all kinds of negative feelings. It dissipates and res...
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Episode 18: Is the Tail Wagging the Dog? from 2021-02-05T11:00
Looking at "fixing" the past, or behaviors, or outcomes to help people find happiness is really like suggesting to a sad dog that he just wag his tail and he'll feel much better. ...
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Episode 17: Reflection vs. Analysis from 2021-01-29T11:00
Analysis is an overuse of personal thinking, and keeps us stuck with what we already think and know. Reflection is the opening for wisdom and insight, and allows us to rise above our past think...
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Episode 16: Forgive Yourself; Forgive Others from 2021-01-22T11:00
With an understanding of the Principles, we can find forgiveness for ourself and others, and still maintain accountability. When we see psychological innocence, we see how people get trapped in ...
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Episode 15: Psychological Innocence: The Foundation of Forgiving from 2021-01-15T11:00
Our thoughts always appear real and right to us, even when they are contaminated by an insecure state of mind. If we act on thoughts we have without any understanding of our state of mind or how...
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Episode 14: Transcending Addictions from 2021-01-08T11:00
As we see the way we hold and use our own thoughts more and more clearly, we recognize addicted thinking sooner and sooner in the process. We find we have the power to let thoughts pass and the ...
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Episode 13: Explaining Addictions from 2021-01-01T11:00
Addictions are a symptom of unrecognized, habitual, insecure thinking. When we think a lot about troubling things, we seek relief from the pressure and negativity of our own thinking. We become ...
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Episode 12: Don't Let Anyone Tell You You Can't Get Better from 2020-12-25T11:00
There are many diagnoses that are treated like inescapable conditions. Depression and Anxiety, for example. Once we understand Innate Health, we realize that nothing can break the human spirit. ...
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Episode 11: Surviving the Holidays, the Pandemic, and Everything Else from 2020-12-18T11:00
It's easy to get worked up, or bummed out at times when life isn't going the way we want it to. It's tempting to listen to bad news and predictions of suffering and take them to h...
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Episode 10: Depression: You're Not Stuck With It from 2020-12-11T11:00
Many people consider a diagnosis of depression a sort of "character trait," a lifelong problem. But depression is a product of negative thinking taken seriously over time, and it passe...
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Episode 9: Isn't Everyone Anxious? from 2020-12-04T11:00
Anxiety is a frequent mental health complaint that escalates in difficult times. It always looks like something "out there" is causing it and anxiety is the only and inevitable respons...
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Episode 8: Can We Get Beyond Trauma? from 2020-11-27T11:00
Many people think experiencing trauma dooms us to long-standing psychological pain. No doubt, trauma results in horrible memories that are distressing when they come to mind. But with an underst...
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Episode 7: What Is a Diagnosis? from 2020-11-20T11:00
When we feel mental distress, we seek help, just as we do when we feel physical distress. We get a diagnosis of our presenting problem. Is that diagnosis a long-term label, or just an observatio...
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Episode 6: What Are the Principles? from 2020-11-13T11:00
We've been referring to Principles underlying our work. Here's a deeper description of the three Universal Principles of Mind, Consciousness and Thought.
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Episode 5: What Is Innate Health? from 2020-11-06T11:00
When people understand their power to think, and their capacity to allow thoughts to come and go, they get in touch with the Innate Health that is their essence, and they discover the wisdom tha...
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Episode 4: Listening and Insight from 2020-10-30T11:00
The essential capacities of mental health practitioners are the ability to listen, not for our checklist of symptoms but for the heart of our clients, and then to have no fear of speaking from o...
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Episode 3: How Do We See Psychology Differently? from 2020-10-23T11:00
We see resiliency and mental health as our "starter kit," the essence of our being that cannot be lost, only obscured. We see our misunderstood use of thought as the way we obscure it....
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Episode 2: Why Psychology Has It Backwards from 2020-10-16T11:00
Psychology has been treating all the outcomes of insecure, misunderstood thinking as though they were the problems. The one underlying problem is what creates insecurity.
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Episode 1: Introduction from 2020-10-09T11:00
Who are we, and why are we so passionate about our work? We are mental health professionals and we have seen results for more than 30 years.
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