The 3 Principles: Discover Your Inner Guidance With the Power of Three

Real wisdom is not gained through age or experience. Knowledge for our own journey exists within our consciousness and is available to us at all times. But we’ve come to rely too much on our own brains and have forgotten to go beyond what we know.

If you’ve ever had the sensation that something isn’t right for you but disregarded it, you’ll understand the feeling of wishing you’d followed your intuition.

Similarly, if you’ve ever had a ‘knowing’ that something is suitable for you and followed it, you’ll have had a ‘flow’ or perhaps noted a serendipity.

I’ve definitely done both. And in my 10 years as a Wellness Mentor, I’ve met thousands of others who have done the same thing.

I ‘knew’ I should leave my violent spouse, but couldn’t summon the confidence to do so until I was pregnant with my son and wanted to protect him.

Fats, a guy I worked with in prison, ‘knew’ he shouldn’t sell his’stash’ to the guy in chinos with a nasty moustache because he resembled a copper (police). He was proved correct. Fats was arrested and imprisoned.

When I ‘knew’ I needed to leave my work where I was bullied by my supervisor, I put in my notice before I could think about it too much. Despite the fact that there is nowhere to go. It turned out to be one of the best decisions I’ve ever made.

Similarly, Fats awoke one morning ‘knowing’ he needed to check on a young man on his prison wing but had no idea why. He insisted the officer look, and they discovered him attempting suicide. Fats’ ‘knowledge’ was vital in saving that boy.

The trouble is, whenever I ever thought about that ‘knowing,’ I tended to focus on how it turned out rather than where the knowledge came from. And with it, blame: “I should have…”, “If only I’d…”, “I wish I’d…”

Where is the ‘Knowing’ Coming From?

My ‘knowing’ seemed random, unpredictable, and untrustworthy.
I felt like I had to fight my way through life.
I had the impression that life was designed to be difficult.
If we are all born with a ‘knowing’ or an Inner Guide, mine was constantly on vacation.

After a long career in Technology, I retrained as a life coach in 2010. I obtained certifications in a variety of modalities, including NLP, EFT, Counselling, and Life Coaching.

While everything I learned had an impact on various elements of my own life and the individuals I worked with, none of them were as comprehensive as I desired. For example, a fear of spiders could be overcome, but a fear of public speaking would persist.

They didn’t explain the inside guide or how to use it.

Throughout my investigation, I came upon The Three Principles, a psychospiritual framework. Finally, there was an explanation of “why” we experience life the way we do and “how” the inner guide actually operates.

What Are the Three Principles?

At this point in my seminars, I invite students to suspend their intellect and listen for what they don’t know. We have a propensity of listening via our frame of reference, gathering knowledge, or comparing, analyzing, and contrasting. This sort of listening is based on our personal experience and does not allow for intuitive discoveries.

We can be more open-minded and introspective when we listen for what we don’t already know.

This leads to revelations that transcend beyond intellectual comprehension.

It all started with Sydney Banks:

A Scottish welder who had immigrated to Salt Spring Island in Canada in the 1970s had a remarkable insight into the fundamental nature of the mind. This ordinary man with an ordinary life recognized the truth of the human experience – he recognized the source of all misery.

Sydney Banks realized that our feelings are created by the power of thought. His understanding shifted over the next few days until he had an epiphany and his entire life transformed. As did the lives of everyone around him.

Please be patient with me. I know it seems dramatic and woo-woo, and when I first heard about it, I thought it was a cult! Yet, Sydney Banks had intuitively recognized the missing link in our understanding of psychological functioning:

Instead of focusing on what is wrong with someone, we should focus on what is great with them.

The Three Principles of Mind, Consciousness and Thought

When psychology first gained popularity about 1890, it was as much about the ‘psyche’ as it was about cognitive processes. To summarize, following evolutions of comprehending the mind abandoned the spiritual as the domain of the church and focused on the psychological (mental and behavioural processes).

Dr. George Pransky, a psychiatrist who has studied the Three Principles, has recorded the precise advances made by Sidney Banks and why they are important in the field of psychology.

Principle 1 — Universal Mind

This refers to the intelligence that underpins life. The entire thing. The vital force found in all living things. The same energy that causes flowers to face the sun flows through humans.

In the Missing Link, Sydney Banks states:

“Mind is the creative power, the essence, and the intelligence behind all life.”

Principle 2 — Universal Consciousness

Our awareness is made possible through consciousness. It enables us to see what is going on. It influences our filters. It shifts, grows, and contracts during the day. It gives us the ability to think. It’s the name of our special effects system.

Principle 3 — Universal Thought

Thinking provides us with the ability to navigate through life. It is the instrument we use to make decisions, create feelings, and experience life. Recognizing that we think enhances psychological well-being independent of the content of our ideas.

The Life Changing Potential of the Three Principles

Deep psychological change occurs when persons awaken to their intrinsic wellness, regardless of their circumstances, in my experience of spreading this paradigm within English jails for over five years. Simply said, “when we feel better, we do better.”

According to one study based on my work, men who received the Insight to Wellbeing classes had higher levels of self-control, well-being, and pro-social behavior, as well as lower levels of aggression, when compared to the control group (people who were in the same prison but did not receive our classes).

Children waking up to their innate health in Tampa, Florida schools shown improved emotional regulation, decision-making, and problem-solving abilities. Additionally, you’ll have more inner resilience and compassion for others!

The Three Principles, according to Dr. Anthony Kessel, are a Superpower that can make work-related stress appear significantly different and make relating to others more natural:

In my personal life, I’ve been able to overcome marital challenges while also thriving in career and artistic endeavors. I stopped seeing life as a struggle to be overcome and began to perceive joy and beauty (most days!).

I stopped blaming things outside of myself and began to examine how I shape my own reality. Life became easier after I stopped striving so hard.

How to Connect to Your Inner Guide

You may be asking how the Three Principles and their life-changing potential are connected to the inner guide, and how you might listen to your inner guide more often.

In the end, the Three Principles testify to our innate well-being. Which leads us through life, through knowledge, in every circumstance. It’s always there, but we don’t always hear it. It’s the violin in our mental ensemble.

When you have a shift in your world view, the world appears to change:

  • the inbox may be as full, but you no longer feel overwhelmed,
  • your partner may be as grumpy, but you don’t take it personally,
  • the economy may be in dire straights, but you see opportunity

You may not have words for what is happening, but it is happening. We are experiencing life at a whole new level of consciousness without knowing why.

The change is energetic. We are unable to make it happen. We can’t think about it. We can’t “alter our minds.” It occurs all the time and is available at all times.

And it’s easy. You are not required to take a class or study for years. Because it is already a part of you. That is your natural state of well-being; you were born with it. The Three Principles are a metaphor for how life works, not a mental health technique.

Try noticing

“But how do I find my inner guide?” you may wonder.

‘Notice’ is the greatest technique I know.

Consider the best decisions you’ve ever made in your life. Take note of any ‘knowledge’ that you followed. The more you notice your inner guide, the more you will trust it, and the more it will appear.

Consider the sticky situations you’ve been in. Take note of any ‘knowings’ that you did not follow. This is not a chance to’should’ yourself, but rather a call to learn. Be gentle with yourself and enable yourself to grow to trust your intuition more.

Observe when you are in flow or ‘the zone,’ and when you are caught up in a tangle of thoughts. The idea is to become intrigued about these two distinct states and see if you can gain insight into them.

‘Noticing,’ in my experience, is the key to unlocking the life-changing potential of your own inner guidance.