{"id":1347,"date":"2014-05-02T21:43:02","date_gmt":"2014-05-02T20:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lornemitchell.com\/?p=1347"},"modified":"2020-01-04T10:50:31","modified_gmt":"2020-01-04T09:50:31","slug":"remember-and-this-is-very-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lornemitchell.com\/?p=1347","title":{"rendered":"At the end of the break: Remember &#8211; and this is very important &#8230;&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It is over six months since my last post. \u00a0Much has happened in my life &#8211; as I presume it has to those who are reading this. \u00a0I had not intended to have such a long break. \u00a0I had not intended to have a break at all. \u00a0The end of the last break was, in fact, the start of the longest break in my writing this blog. \u00a0However, this is the end of that particular break. \u00a0I am renewed with energy after the long break.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">During the break, I have been doing a lot of research on various projects. \u00a0I have also gone back to studying. \u00a0Studying some of the great thinkers that have created ideas and concepts that have helped shift consciousness. \u00a0And so it was, I came across the concept of &#8220;The Three Principles&#8221; by Syd Banks.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe  id=\"_ytid_93928\"  width=\"525\" height=\"295\"  data-origwidth=\"525\" data-origheight=\"295\"  data-relstop=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9yINbY98_80?enablejsapi=1&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&modestbranding=1&rel=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Here are some thoughts from Syd Banks on Wisdom:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">No one can give away wisdom.<br \/>\nA teacher can only lead you to it<br \/>\nvia words, hoping you will have<br \/>\nthe courage to look\u00a0<em>within yourself<\/em><br \/>\nand find it inside your own<br \/>\n<em>consciousness<\/em>\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Beyond the word<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The wisdom humanity seeks lies<br \/>\n<em>within the consciousness<\/em>\u00a0of all<br \/>\nhuman beings, trapped and held<br \/>\nprisoner by their own person<br \/>\nminds.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Wisdom<\/em>\u00a0is not found in the world<br \/>\nof form, nor in remote corners of<br \/>\nthe globe. Wisdom lies\u00a0<em>within our<\/em><br \/>\n<em>own consciousness.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Only\u00a0<em>you<\/em>\u00a0have the golden key to<br \/>\nyour soul and the wisdom that<br \/>\nlies within.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lornemitchell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sydney_banks.png\"><img data-attachment-id=\"1357\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.lornemitchell.com\/?attachment_id=1357\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lornemitchell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sydney_banks.png?fit=377%2C500\" data-orig-size=\"377,500\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"sydney_banks\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lornemitchell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sydney_banks.png?fit=226%2C300\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lornemitchell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sydney_banks.png?fit=377%2C500\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1357\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lornemitchell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sydney_banks.png?resize=226%2C300\" alt=\"sydney_banks\" width=\"226\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lornemitchell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sydney_banks.png?resize=226%2C300 226w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lornemitchell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sydney_banks.png?w=377 377w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Syd was born in Edinburgh in 1931 where he grew up in a working class family in Edinburgh\u2019s Old Town. He left school at 15 without formal qualification and in due course trained as a welder. In 1957, aged 26 he emigrated to the West coast of Canada and his association with Salt Spring Island, later to become his permanent home, began. He worked as a welder, married and had 2 children and experienced many of life\u2019s normal challenges.<\/p>\n<p>In 1973 he attended an encounter weekend with his wife. Unimpressed by the encouragement to experience and express anger he went for a walk with another delegate. Syd described to his companion the insecurity he often felt. The companion retorted, <span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u2018<em><strong>You\u2019re not insecure Syd, you just think you are.\u2019<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This throwaway remark sparked a remarkable insight in Syd, enabling him to grasp at a profound level that his emotional experience was always created by his own thinking, rather than by external circumstances. Over the next few days he experienced what has been described as an enlightenment experience which completely changed his personality.<\/p>\n<p>Of course some people around him thought he had had a sort of breakdown. But his clarity and inner certainty prevailed, along with his awareness that he could help others. Some of the people he shared his insights with experienced very profound improvements in mental or physical health. Even those whose initial problems were less serious, experienced an exponential improvement in wellbeing. Just by listening to Syd talk in an apparently unstructured way they got in touch with their own innate health and wisdom.<br \/>\nIn his thinly disguised novels that he wrote as a series called &#8220;The Enlightened Gardener&#8221;., an unlettered British groundskeeper named Andy serves as Banks\u2019s fictional stand-in \u2014 teaching a group of amazed American psychologists about the true nature of the universe. \u00a0For\u00a0Banks, space, matter and time were an illusion, a dream. The only three things that are real are what he calls\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Mind<\/b>\u00a0(\u201cthe source of all intelligence\u201d),\u00a0<b>Consciousness<\/b>(\u201cwhich allows us to be aware\u201d) and\u00a0<b>Thought<\/b>\u00a0(\u201cwhich guide us through the world as free-thinking agents\u201d).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>As word of Syd\u2019s work spread people came to the island to experience for themselves the wellbeing he was able to point them to. In time these included psychologists and social workers who began working with their clients and achieving similar extraordinary results. Work began in communities such as Modello and Coliseum Gardens, both in the USA, where incomparable turnarounds were achieved. In the decades that followed what became know as the 3Principles, was utilised in schools, prisons, therapy, relationship counselling and business. In each arena the outcomes far exceeded any other approach.<\/p>\n<p>Syd died on 25th May 2009. \u00a0His official website is here:\u00a0<a title=\"Sydney Banks Dot Org\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sydneybanks.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.sydneybanks.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>[To read more of Syd\u2019s life and work the books of his colleague,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.3phd.net\/\">Elsie Spittle<\/a>\u00a0are recommended. Perfect Misfortune by Allan Flood is an account of how one man tapped into the power behind the principles in living with MS. Jack Pransky has written a number of books on the success of this approach with both communities and individuals. All authors can be found on Amazon.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Text of Syd&#8217;s story was from: <a style=\"color: #000000;\" title=\"3Principles Scotland\" href=\"http:\/\/www.threeprinciplesscotland.org.uk\/sydney-banks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.threeprinciplesscotland.org.uk\/sydney-banks\/<\/a>\u00a0 &#8211; which has now stopped working.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">(Until 2 or 3 years ago there was almost nothing known of this approach in Syd\u2019s native Scotland.\u00a0<em><strong>Three Principles Scotland<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0is committed to changing that and bringing the benefits of Syd\u2019s work home to his home country.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Initial quote from Syd reproduced in: \u00a0Neill, Michael (2013-05-06). The Inside-Out Revolution: The Only Thing You Need to Know to Change Your Life Forever (p. 23). Hay House UK Ltd. Kindle Edition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Photo and more videos at:\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000;\" title=\"3Principles Blogspot\" href=\"http:\/\/thethreeprinciples.blogspot.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/thethreeprinciples.blogspot.co.uk<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is over six months since my last post. \u00a0Much has happened in my life &#8211; as I presume it has to those who are reading this. \u00a0I had not intended to have such a long break. \u00a0I had not intended to have a break at all. \u00a0The end of the last break was, in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lornemitchell.com\/?p=1347\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;At the end of the break: Remember &#8211; and this is very important &#8230;&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[42,40,50,102,90,65,60,57],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6DQGK-lJ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1335,"url":"http:\/\/www.lornemitchell.com\/?p=1335","url_meta":{"origin":1347,"position":0},"title":"The End of the Break","author":"Lorne Mitchell","date":"05\/09\/2013","format":false,"excerpt":"As we come to the end of the summer break, for most of us, school, university or work starts afresh. \u00a0I say, for most because, like with all generalisations, there are always those who break the rule. \u00a0An increasing number of friends seem to be moving into \"retirement\" or \"semi-retirement\"\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Attention&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Attention","link":"http:\/\/www.lornemitchell.com\/?cat=78"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lornemitchell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/break-glass-in-fire-sign.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":930,"url":"http:\/\/www.lornemitchell.com\/?p=930","url_meta":{"origin":1347,"position":1},"title":"The Universal Relaton Field","author":"Lorne Mitchell","date":"19\/04\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Whilst away at Easter I started to read Joe Griffin and Ivan Tyrrell's book \"Godhead: The Brain's Big Bang\" which was published last year.\u00a0 It is the latest accumulation of Griffin and Tyrell's ideas on the Human Givens, and the importance of the REM state in sleep and the Universal\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Big Ideas&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Big Ideas","link":"http:\/\/www.lornemitchell.com\/?cat=42"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lornemitchell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/iStock_000011708354Medium.gif?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":587,"url":"http:\/\/www.lornemitchell.com\/?p=587","url_meta":{"origin":1347,"position":2},"title":"Reasons for Encouragement: Keeping the World View","author":"Lorne Mitchell","date":"27\/07\/2011","format":false,"excerpt":"In the week that the US space shuttle programme came to an end, the BBC put a cut-down and edited version of the film \"Round the world in 90 minutes. 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