How is Innate Health different than Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)?
First, Cognitive therapy is interested in the belief systems that are behind the client's problem. The idea is to identify dysfunctional or distorted beliefs and challenge them. A principle-based approach isn't interested in challenging belief systems. A principle-based approach would look at how those belief systems are created. The understanding of this human phenomena would be the point and would in itself give the person mental well being.
Second, when people understand that their thoughts drive their experience (not the other way around), they naturally question their perceptions. "Is it the bad weather that is giving me this bad feeling, or is it my thinking about the gray day?" Just the action of questioning one's experience often changes it, and over time looking inward becomes habitual and people start to see more clearly how thought creates their reality from within.
Third, cognitive therapy tries to help people change their thoughts: a) after they are created, and b) from the same level of consciousness at which they are currently operating. Understanding how thought works helps people to see that their current level of consciousness, mood or state of mind is generated by the quality of their thought. A principles-based teacher helps people to see they have a "self-righting" mechanism that can be engaged and the quality of thought will change without effort. Understanding how thought works at different levels of consciousness to create our experience, recognizing that each person is the thinker, and recognizing the innate (default) ability to live in a healthy state of mind all come together to create the new paradigm we teach in The Three Principles community. (From Three Principles Global Community, www.3pgc.org) Back to About/FAQ
Second, when people understand that their thoughts drive their experience (not the other way around), they naturally question their perceptions. "Is it the bad weather that is giving me this bad feeling, or is it my thinking about the gray day?" Just the action of questioning one's experience often changes it, and over time looking inward becomes habitual and people start to see more clearly how thought creates their reality from within.
Third, cognitive therapy tries to help people change their thoughts: a) after they are created, and b) from the same level of consciousness at which they are currently operating. Understanding how thought works helps people to see that their current level of consciousness, mood or state of mind is generated by the quality of their thought. A principles-based teacher helps people to see they have a "self-righting" mechanism that can be engaged and the quality of thought will change without effort. Understanding how thought works at different levels of consciousness to create our experience, recognizing that each person is the thinker, and recognizing the innate (default) ability to live in a healthy state of mind all come together to create the new paradigm we teach in The Three Principles community. (From Three Principles Global Community, www.3pgc.org) Back to About/FAQ