Insight Principles

As a system for self-improvement, they started in the USA around 40 years ago.

In 1973, Sydney Banks, a Scottish welder, had an epiphany, a spiritual awakening, whereby he clearly saw how the human experience is formed through the formless, through the interaction of three key factors. Sydney Banks named these factors the 3 Principles, which are “Mind”, “Consciousness”, and “Thought”. Sydney Banks started spreading the word, until his teachings reached out to a few top psychologists in the USA, namely George Pransky and Roger Mills. These psychologists first saw the effect the understanding of the 3 Principles had in their own personal lives and then when put into practice as a therapy approach for their clients, they found that they had much better results. As George Pransky explains, the 3 Principles connect the fields of psychology and spirituality, and therefore offer a basis for a deeper understanding and a heightened conscious state that is bound to lead to transformation. So, in the past 30-40 years, these psychologists dedicated their lives to the 3 Principles and their dissemination. They were consequently followed by many more, like Dicken Bettinger, Bill Pettit and Ken Manning.

The 3 Principles were then adopted by life coaches, as they saw that they brought the best results both for themselves and for their clients. One of the top life coaches in the world today, Michael Neill, has developed his life coaching exclusively around the 3 Principles; essentially what we now call ‘transformative coaching’. Michael Neill found that in order to achieve transformation, true change and lasting mental health, you need to change at the level of ‘being’ rather than just at the level of ‘doing’. The formless invisible world, the spiritual laws Sydney Banks referred to, is where our true power is, where life is really happening, although our attention goes to the world of form, the visible material world. Einstein has shown us that there are many invisible laws in our existence and that things are relevant.

Furthermore, the 3 Principles serve as an excellent basis to understand the teachings of some leading spiritual figures globally, such as Byron Katie, Marianne Williamson and Eckhart Tolle.

The 3 Principles have helped people around the world unfold their true potential, find their personal happiness, as well as achieve optimum performance at work, in the fields of business, sports, negotiations, leadership, and others. They have also helped people with addictions, PTSD, and in rehabilitation.