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Judith A. Sedgeman, EdD

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Why teach the innate?

Why teach the innate?

Posted on February 3, 2015


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If every living person, no exceptions, has innate health, why would


we feel the need to share or teach the Principles that point people
in that direction? Doesn’t “innate” imply you already know it?

To be honest, that  nagged at me for a while when I rst started in


this work. I saw how much all of us were helping people out of
psychological distress by describing the Principles of Mind,
Consciousness and Thought at work, but I had di culty reconciling
that with the idea of innate health. Oh, yes, we told people that
we’re not imparting intellectual knowledge, we’re pointing you to
your own wisdom, eliciting the “realization” of something you’ve
always, deep-down, known. But if someone asked, “Why would I go
b h l d k f l l l
to a course about something I already know?”, I felt a little
ummoxed.

I had an “Aha!” moment when a client said to me, “I always thought


that times I stayed calm and somehow came up with good answers
were just dumb luck. Until I talked to you, I didn’t realize the
spiritual nature of life, or that it was intrinsic to me to do that. I
didn’t know where it was coming from until you explained the inner
workings of Mind, Thought and Consciousness.”

We enter this world with a lot of things


we simply take for granted. Our whole
system is functioning, without any
notice or e ort from us. Our ability to
think and see our thinking as reality is From New York Times

part of all of that. We just “see” and


“feel” and never wonder how.  Our
various moods, reactions, negative or positive thinking all seem
pretty random, and it appears to us that they are at least in uenced
by externals.

A lot of people spend their whole lives simply “knowing” that they
don’t have to be worried about what they were thinking because all
thinking passes. It’s the source of volumes of  advice we all received
from elders in our lives:

“Just sleep on it, honey, it will look di erent in the morning.”

“Don’t take yourself so seriously; you’ll change your mind before you
know it.”

“You don’t need to talk about every little thing that comes to mind. Let
some of it go if it makes you feel bad.” 

“Don’t think about it any more right now; you’re too worked up. It will
all make sense when you calm down.” 

We could all add to this list from our own growing up. Those
aphorisms made common sense and resonated with us, but we
never knew why. As time went by, many of us concluded that they
were all easier said than done.  But we were always glad that
sometimes we felt great and things seemed easier.

The Principles explain everything. Innate mental well-being is our


natural state, a spiritual gift that comes with life. We also have the
gift of free will, the ability to direct our thinking any way we want. We
can override common sense ideas. We can dwell on the negative.
We can celebrate the positive. We can allow thoughts to come and
go. We can overthink thoughts and add layers of complexity. We
can re ect and evolve our ideas. We’re the navigators as we think
our way through life. And our built-in GPS is the feeling state we’re
experiencing. When we start feeling tense and our mood plummets,
that’s the warning sign that we’re misusing our gift of thought. We’re
at the controls. We can turn away; we can stop; or we can
accelerate.

If we understand the whole system and know how to use the GPS,
we know better than to accelerate into danger and misery. It’s just
that simple. Once people truly “see” the Principles behind our life
experience, it’s not problematic any more when we hit rough
patches. We understand that it is in our nature to get a fresh start,
take a new look, quiet down and think again.

“Have some faith in yourselves and know that somewhere deep inside,
beyond your ego, beyond the personal self, lies a beautiful ower waiting to
unfold. And it is the light of true knowledge that will make it blossom.”        
                       Sydney Banks, The Enlightened Gardener Revisited.

Ta gs: Fresh Ideas Innate Health Inner Stillness Insight

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