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202: Diamond Mind—"Inside Out" Coaching with Bev Willcocks

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Universal Mind, Universal Consciousness and Universal Thought.

From the Three Principles Foundation website: “In 1973, Sydney Banks, an ordinary working man, experienced a spontaneous and profound spiritual enlightenment. His experience uncovered three foundational Principles; elemental principles that create and govern the human experience: Universal Mind, Universal Consciousness and Universal Thought.”

These are the three principles that guide Inside Out coaching, which I first heard about from today’s guest, Bev Willcocks. Bev is a Cape Town based adventurer, artist, and coach who “finds freedom in coming alive to the joy and raw energy of life” and helping her clients do the same.

Bev first reached out in July 2018 to share more about the practice, and after this conversation I’m sure you’ll be interested to learn more too, with powerful tools to find your footing during times of immense uncertainty.

Check out full show notes from this episode with links to resources mentioned at http://pivotmethod.com/202

Topics Covered

  • Bev’s experience of lockdown so far in Cape Town

  • Inside-out coaching and the Three Principles

  • Founder Sydney Banks’ realization in 1973: We have a creative gift to navigate our world; we project our reality, every circumstance. 

  • David Boehm: “Thought created the world and then said I didn’t do it.”

  • Underneath our thoughts there is a deeper constancy of our true nature of who we really are

  • Bev: "The problem is a misunderstanding of where our feelings are coming from and a misunderstanding of the mechanics of the mind. We don’t realise that our feelings are generated from within our minds and so we try to fix them out there in the world. The source is not outside so trying to fix our lives in the external world makes no sense.”

  • Any human being can learn:

    • What I am feeling is internally generated

    • We are not a victim of the external circumstances of our lives

    • to understand the mechanics of the mind to explain why we feel and experience what we feel

  • People get their best ideas in the shower, driving, exercising, on holiday — that’s when our minds traditionally settle

  • Capacity of consciousness; we can be aware of the capacity of thought, we can observe it, power by universal mind

  • Why do we forget? Bev: it’s the way we are conditioned — that the outside world will make it better

  • Self-soothing: Teddy bear becomes the cell phone, house, car, handbag

  • The gift of thought is so real

  • “Objective reality” is on shifting sand, everybody has changed their mind about something at some point

  • Beliefs are made of energy

  • The diamond is the truth, not the tissue paper surrounding it

  • The power of inquiry: is it true? 

  • Most of the time there isn’t a logic

  • Looking for a place to stand

  • We’re all looking for some peace of mind, a deeper connection to life

  • We have much more capacity for certainty and knowing what’s uniquely right for ourselves in the moment

  • “I’m perfectly designed to work it out” - huge reservoir and connection to the intelligence of the universe

  • Our true nature is beyond the fore, our true nature is to wake up

  • Move beyond the content of our problems; settle your mind, get quiet, find peace — then next step will arise

  • Psychology: the logic of our essence, of our soul

  • Hospice: sitting in presence with people, even in a coma

  • Acceptance: I don’t need to resist this. 

  • The fear isn’t necessarily real: our physiology responds to perceived threats; butterflies don’t tell us about our true capacity to do what we need to do.

  • Inquiry: Where am I outsourcing my well-being? Where can I dip into the source that is always there?

Additional Resources

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