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    In this article, we explore the transformative insights of Sydney Banks and the Three Principles of Mind, Consciousness, and Thought, and examine their impact on modern psychological practices and therapeutic approaches.

    The Evolution of Psychology

    The world of psychology is changing and it began with an enlightening experience of one man in the 1970s, Sydney Banks, who discovered that the key to our spiritual well-being and maintaining our innate mental health, is the understanding of the Three Principles of all human experience – Mind, Consciousness and Thought.

    For over a decade in the UK and overseas, I applied cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) principles and advanced motivational interviewing skills when I worked in the specialism of Dual Diagnosis – the co-existence of mental health problems and substance misuse. Dual-diagnosis patients are the ‘hot potatoes’ that are regrettably passed from pillar to post and are often left with limited access to care.

    There are over 400 approaches to working with someone who has a problem in their life – you may have heard of some of them, such as psychotherapy, family therapy, counselling, music therapy, social cognition training and many more. They are all models, theories and interventions, which have been extremely useful and continue to have a key role in the sector of counselling, psychology and therapy. Highly trained therapists across the world have spent years researching their complex approaches, in their fields of speciality as they look to improve their practices.

    The Complexity of Therapeutic Approaches

    Some of my considerations are:

    • What if the improvements that they can make as therapists are limited to the efficacy of the models and interventions that they adopt?
    • What if the interventions themselves hold the constraints to helping people with challenges in their life, to overcome them and move on?
    • Is it the client-therapist relationship that impacts change?

    This blog is absolutely not concerned with rubbishing the role that any therapeutic approach has in helping people overcome their problems, with the expert guidance of a highly trained counsellor or therapist.

    I’ve often wondered how one person could respond and make huge positive steps and changes in their life; yet the next person would remain ‘stuck’. Yet, I had adopted the same intervention.

    The Significance of Sydney Banks

    This leads me back to Sydney Banks. For now, I’ll call him the ‘Founder’ of the Three Principles of the human experience – Mind, Consciousness and Thought. Even though I was never fortunate enough to meet him, with my understanding of what drives our self-created reality through his education in interviews and lectures – as well as other expertly delivered content, I highly suspect that ‘Syd’ would be too humble to accept the tag of ‘Founder’ of the Three Principles. Rather, those principles ‘found him’.

    As a way of explaining what the Three Principles are, think of your Mind as your mobile phone, being the intelligence of all things. Consider the apps running on your phone, as being your Thoughts. Simply put, if there are too many apps running in the background, there is no capacity left. Now Consciousness is your finger or your thumb making everything work on your phone.

    The Three Principles that create our own experience of life are in every one of us; Sydney Banks had an experience, which changed his life forever. Having an understanding of the Three Principles or just simply being open to considering them and how they influence our experience, is enough to change somebody’s life, through an insight.

    The Influence of Ego and Intellect

    Now, a large part of our day-to-day life is guided by our egos and intellect as a way of making sense of our experiences. Our egos might tell us that ‘it’s the other person’s fault’ when you’ve argued with someone; that something ‘is too simplistic or doesn’t make sense at all’; or that ‘your boss is rubbish’ at their job. It is also true that a danger of being misled by our ego is the escalation of arguments, or no new learning taking place.

    It is important not to intellectualise your experience – that is not where learning happens.

    By placing our experiences in a ‘box’ or ‘category’ that fits with everything we’ve learnt previously, we are intellectualising, just to make sense of the information. This fits within models and frameworks that we’ve created in our heads throughout our lives from the day we were born. It is based on things such as other people’s feedback to us, our relationships and the things we might read.

    Embracing New Perspectives

    However, if we reduce or can stop intellectualising and, alternatively listen or read, for example, without any ‘framework’, but rather with a clean slate, there is the opportunity for new learning, new understandings and new perspectives to emerge. A new level of consciousness.

    Three titles by Sydney Banks

    Find out more – https://threeprinciplesfoundation.org

    Sydney Banks’ Legacy

    What is more impressive about Sydney’s work and the impact that he had on so many people, is that it was achieved from the 1970s onwards, he was an ordinary man, with no education in the field of psychology or psychiatry. Until later on in his work, there wasn’t the powerhouse of social media at the time and the on-tap channels of communication with thousands or millions of people through the click of a button. Yet, so many people from many different industries have taken on his discoveries and work across the world too.

    They can be applied to any area of our lives – managing stress, goal setting, forgiveness, maintaining mental health, relationships, phobias, and self-confidence to name a few.

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