Category: Blog
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The Busy Mind
Currently I have a couple of clients who are plagued by racing minds. Both are intellectuals and grasp the truth of the concept that our feelings come from thought. In other words they get that their experience is being created from within, rather than from external circumstances. For each of them this just adds another…
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Being Less Toxic
Recently a dear friend paid me a lovely compliment. It was along the lines of, ‘You are so lacking in bitterness.’ We had been talking about the struggles, ‘injustices’ and loneliness I had experienced as a single parent in the early years post separation. I observed that, because I didn’t know then what I know…
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The Bearable Lightness of Being
Each of us has a natural lightness of being which is sufficiently buoyant to balance the things which come our way. What can tip our experience into unbearable is our own Thinking about these events. Sometimes consciously, but more often innocently, unconsciously and automatically, we entertain habits of thinking which turn our experience of events…
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Can Commiseration Kill People?
Occasionally I write quotes and ideas which appeal to me in my journal. Today I came across an old entry, ‘Commiseration can kill people.’ It took me a moment to remember the source. I’d heard a story about Sydney Banks, whose epiphany spawned the Three Principles. Syd was giving a talk to a group, which…
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Spirituality for Skeptics?
Last week I was visiting Balliol College, Oxford. As I unpacked I discovered that the guest room had a copy of The Origin of the Species, rather than the traditional bible in the bedside drawer. This made me smile. And also reflect. The publication of Darwin’s work and its wide acceptance as a solid explanation of…
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The Epidemic of Misunderstanding
After more than 2 decades of trainings and working with clients, I have come to see that is a single, yet important misunderstanding at the root of many of today’s chronic problems. These include addiction, obesity, stress, anxiety relationship breakdown and even depression. That misunderstanding is the false belief that our circumstances – other people, our…
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Subtracting Overwhelm from your experience
The first thing that struck me when I came across the Three Principles Paradigm some years ago, was the consistency of very positive outcomes. From community prevention to business success to recovery from burnout, statistics of 75% improvement or more were the norm not the exception. I’d spent 30 years working as a lawyer…
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The Transformative Power of Insight
One of my ongoing challenges is being able to answer the question, ‘What do you do?’ with any clarity. For 30 year or so I was a lawyer. Even if person asking had a different concept of what lawyers do from my actual role, they got a sense of it. Now, when I say something…
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So What Is It?
My take is that Innate Health is a description of how all human beings work psychologically. Each of us will have a different experience of life, even of the same circumstances. And the main reason for that difference is our own thinking. (Thinking includes all sorts of thought – conscious, subconscious, fleeting thoughts etc). So…
Christian McNeill 