Before you begin your spiritual journey, I must have a word about the causes of anxiety. I was the subject of a pre-toddler episode that haunted me my entire adult life. This was PTSD though I did not know that. My father also suffered from the same thing after World War Two. My dad was a stretcher bearer on the June 6th 1944, D-Day landings. I leave it to your imagination what that poor guy witnessed. If you have any severe disorder, seek professional help first. The Three Principles are very much a “Find your own Salvation” pathway. NO MATTER HOW WELL YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT SYDNEY IS TELLING YOU, your past anxious behaviour, workarounds, plan B’s, and contingency plans are learned over the years (for you to be able to survive the dread, dire, alone feeling ‘of not being quite right’). You know, such as rushing to the pub and buying the first round, so you don’t have to ferry pint pots to distant places. Yeah, I know; been there. I saw a psychiatrist at age 17 I was not coping with the world of work at all well. I was bullied and harassed by adults (especially Mark Scott.) for having what they thought was fun. The Therapist didn’t help me at all. He just said I was young and that I would toughen up as I got older. I was discharged as the expert found nothing wrong with me. I have seen one other shrink since then, and he did help me. I have a piece of paper at home that says I am 100 per cent sane BUT severely emotionally disturbed. The Three Principles has helped me greatly with my emotional instability, but if you feel that The Three Principles are NOT helping you, seek professional help. I know I have just repeated myself, but it is vital you take the correct path. Please do try some TALK THERAPY it really does help a great deal. I am a good listener, and you will not be telling me anything out of my first-hand experience zone. If you feel you want to try The Three Principles, then go for it. Sydney Banks is the best mental health practitioner I have had a lasting, meaningful experience with.
Introducing Sydney Banks to you.
Sydney Banks discovered and developed what he eventually called The Three Principles. Using them he discovered how the human mind ‘saw’ the world. Much of the world that we think we know is of our own creation. It is not real. It is a curious illusion. Using Syd’s teachings it is possible to understand and challenge a lot of our beliefs and so-called knowledge. What we end up with is clarity of thought, Mind and Consciousness.
Sydney Banks died in 2009 having made radical changes to the way that Psychotherapists treat their patients. I hope you enjoy reading and listening to Sydney on this website.
The Three Principles is a ‘life long study’ because even once you ‘Get It”, there is always more, and more, to learn. It is infinite, as one of the three principles “CONSCIOUSNESS” has an infinite number of layers to it. At first you just get the awareness of “basic” stuff but as time goes by more and more ‘insights’ occur and your spirituality spirals upwards to new heights.
AKA awareness, mindfulness ad infinitum
The Scottish Welder, whose “INSIGHT” sparked a revelation/revolution in the world of mental health.
ONE of my many personal releases from the darkness that plagued my soul.
“I have two main body scars. One is 29″ long on my left leg, and the other is about 8” long where my chest cavity was entered. Over fourteen years, they have faded, barely visible now. I used to think about those events a lot. Now not at all. It’s, but ‘a thought’ brought forward by me of a long-ago event. Better to drop it, leave it, walk away. Outside my window, the sun is shining, the birds are singing, The Minster is chiming four bells for the quarter, and I can hear the wife showering. How lucky am I? How great is life? How “so perfect” everything is. We live in paradise if we only look and see it.”
This set of pages is devoted to Sydney Banks, the man who cared about me even though we never met.
Note:- Do Not Rush This Page. Take a lot of ‘time out’ to reflect on what you think you have read. One of Sydney’s Mantras was, “Do not listen to me. Look beyond the words.” Words are just metaphors. A word is a trigger to make YOU visualise something in your mind. A word might trigger a feeling. What you are looking for is NOT a set of words BUT a feeling. Spend as much time looking for the feeling as you do reading these words.
This site has been created with a mission “to be clear”.
CLARITY is something that can be very elusive at times. People can ‘live’ lives where they feel “overloaded’, “burdened’, enslaved to “something” that denies them access to peace, calm, and happiness. We are here to demonstrate “Clarity” and help you on the road to achieving it.
Here to help YOU find YOU.
That uncomplicated little person you used to be in your youth (or the one that you should have been). YOUR starter for ten is to read the pages relating to the three principles of,
Devine MIND
THOUGHT
CONSCIOUSNESS
A lot of people have very busy minds. They are constantly processing old information. Old Learning, Old experience, old beliefs (certainties – a jokey myth, NOTHING is certain in life apart from death. Everything else is semi organised chaos.)
So what did Syd mean by Divine Mind? What is the nature of THOUGHT? To keep things simple there are only 2 levels of Consciousness. 1. TRANCE and 2. PRESENT.
Task: – Find out what you can about the terms found in this small section. Then forget it. We are not learning a list of items. We are finding out what PRESENT is and how to recognise it. Do not read any further until you find out what TRANCE is and state that you have this many times per day.
The next stage when you have a good grasp of the three principles is to find out about (MIS) UNDERSTANDING.
Many of our subconscious thoughts are contaminated thoughts, sometimes containing a lot more fiction than fact.
Syd Banks refers to this as “WHAT IS” and “WHAT IS NOT”
What we are seeking to do is raise our consciousness {dwell much more at the moment, to realise fully what is happening NOW! The Intellect is a re-caller of facts (history, things all in the past) and a fortune-teller who tries to predict what will happen in the future. (EGO). EGO is right sometimes, and he is never reticent about patting himself on the back and reminding YOU how clever he is!! HOWEVER, ALL the data that Intellect works with is dependent on how you see, hear, touch, taste & smell it. All our senses depend on our life experience of meeting with these things before. A simple example you might hate the colour orange. (Long ago, you had a very noisy Orange mechanical toy which frightened you. You associate Orange with fear, and so you avoid it. Does this make Orange the wrong colour?? There is no way to millions of other people it is their favourite colour for a million different reasons!
Our convictions of what we believe is TRUTH may have some very poor foundations! We must learn to not just believe an old thought is a true thought. We need to investigate what we believe and find out where the bits of quagmire are. EGO does not like ever being wrong. He will not give in easily when some of his pet subjects are exposed for the out and out lies that they are.
Take Time out now to reflect on this section. Tip find the short movies on this site called WonderlanX. See what Alice learned about who she was!
The Big Mind (insideOUT), who sub-consciously has great [now buried & forgotten] intuitive wisdom, which once was readily used in the NOW (the moment by moment by moment being) and was totally trusted and relied upon, becomes rekindled and brings the source of faith, hope & Charity out in ALL.
None of this is New Information – you knew all of this anyway, it’s just along life’s way you forgot to remember it.
What you have done is that you have raised your level of consciousness so that you could see “what is” (REALITY) – YOU LOOKED WITHIN.
THE MORE YOU INCREASE YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS THEN THE MORE CLEARLY THAT YOU WILL SEE.
‘This wisdom’ is evident.
When you are THINKING less, you are more PRESENT and you will be OBSERVING more.
This is obvious BUT you may may have never considered this before. Reflect on it now
TELLING SOMEONE TO STOP THINKING IS NONSENSE ˜, AS IS TELLING SOMEONE TO BE MORE POSITIVE.
Consider someone trying to do either. It requires thinking to stop thinking. It requires thinking to change their outlook from negative to positive.
SYD is telling you: –
→ To THINK DIFFERENTLY,
→ although MIND. CONSCIOUSNESS AND THOUGHT create the world we live in. They are formless, spiritual, non-material
→ YOU have the power to dismiss or accept them.
→ Thoughts are neutral. They are neither good nor bad. ACCEPT if we choose to ACT upon them. The Thought I could kill you, you bitch! It has no consequence unless we pick up a gun and fire it.
→ You are not your thoughts. This leads us to the need for identity.
→ If I am not my thoughts, then who the hell am I?
This question is unanswerable UNTIL you grasp The 3 Principles rudimentarily.
YOU change, moment, by moment, by moment, by moment. So THE QUESTION THAT NEEDS TO BE ASKED IS…
“WHAT AM I?”
One more thing towards discovering your true identity that needs considering is CHOICE. Some thoughts have good INTENT and those that have bad INTENT. OUR natural choice is to choose GOOD.
Once you have a clear un-muddled mind, you will feel more positive and less confused than you have done for many a long year. It is almost a re-birth of the young person that you used to be before LIFE twisted and bent all your beautiful intentions.
There are thousands of people worldwide who have witnessed the Three Principles that Sydney Bank’s formulated as a significant breakthrough toward dispelling anxiety and depression, thus making this world a much happier place for everyone.
If you have not seen it yet: YOU ARE CONSCIOUSNESS
The 3P’s are not easy for everyone to grasp as they are devoid of complexity and the modern world has the impression that for something to be effective, it just has to be super tricky.
Whether consciousness is high or low.
Consciousness is YOU.
YOU MUST BE THINKING IF YOU BELIEVE THAT YOU HAVE STOPPED THINKING.
The people that are not thinking and have zero consciousness we call corpses.
THE WORLD believes that to practice any kind of Psychotherapy, you need at least 3 degrees, 13 years of experience in Med School, and an OBE from the Queen. NONE OF THIS COULD BE FURTHER FROM Sydney’s TRUTH.
Sydney Banks had NO QUALIFICATIONS WHATEVER in the world of psychotherapy and was a welding engineer born in Scotland. He was unhappy in his life until he had a sudden revelation of a great truth. He knew this knowledge for himself, but no matter how hard he tried to communicate it to other people, After 23 years of giving lectures and constant repetitiously saying the same things over and over again, there were still some people who DID NOT. GET IT! AND THAT is the purpose of this group.
The 3Principles (as it has come to be known) are very much something you have to learn to “feel” for yourself. However, there are people out there (a bit like us) promising if you give them £1000, they will teach you how to master the 3P’s.
YOU DO NOT NEED TO SPEND ANY MONEY WHATSOEVER!
Because this group is FREE, with only one proviso, and that is this “if you follow the advice and instructions on this site and you just fail to ‘get it (and we will do our level best to ensure that everything is as clear as we can make it). IF you need 1-2-1 video conferencing to help clear up your confusion, then our consultant must charge you for this. This is how she puts food on the table. Emma Mallock’s motivation is not to make herself surrounded by money but by people she has helped gain a much better quality of life. So what are you waiting for?
CLEAR & UPFRONT – Emma Mallock charges £60 for an instruction session. (before you go, “Oh Heck!”) please consider Emma has been 12 years in the making for this role, and some of the training she received, has been very, very expensive. AND in any case, You may need only one or two sessions. £120 is not a lot to pay for a better life. We just wanted to make all this “clear as crystal” right from the “get-go” as we don’t like organizations that are “STRANGE & STARTLING”. I repeat: – This is an option, the majority of you who seriously contemplate the materials on this website (after about three months or so) will say, “I know what they mean, and I get it.” and that dear friend will not cost you a bean.
We aim to evangelize the 3 Principles (make them turn into a non-secret) and ensure that you get exactly what you see on the tin. (an authentic experience of them) The three principles define the human LIFE experience. No more & no less.
OUR experience tells us that only people with NEED have the motivation to learn 3P. This is usually that the person suffers from anxiety (in any of its far too numerous forms), and they want to be free of it. INDEED THIS need CAN BECOME SO OVERWHELMING THAT it becomes the sole object of their desire. This makes them vulnerable, and we are not here to exploit the desperation of others.
Anxiety at its worst can prevent you from doing anything, (it can literally paralyse the mind, the body, OR both), and so two of the group are trained counsellors, Teresa & Paul, and will help you with general anxiety coping mechanisms.
HOWEVER, we believe that once you grasp the 3P’s, you will be more than capable of advising us.
OUR CONSCIOUSNESS varies second by second in real-time. Whilst this is all going on, our mind (see the example above of misunderstandings) adds stories to the observations of CONSCIOUSNESS.
Our awareness can conclude a thing is RIGHT sometimes and NOT Right at others.
We can simplify the above by thinking of things as being;
WHAT IS
WHAT IS NOT
JUST IS (More about this one later).
There, that is all there is to it. Simple, isn’t it? (rhetorical question) No, it is not. It’s just a jumble of words. It makes sense to NO ONE.
Essentially, all life experience comes from Thought, Mind & Consciousness acting together to interpret data, and from this data, we construct OUR understanding of the world (and all by the age of 7) and how it works. This program runs in the Sub-Conscious mind (yes, we have two minds – hence the word doubt – from the same Latin source as double) – one is the conscious mind (we call it ME) and the other one, we don’t know, who runs this <7 programs. So what we are saying is the PROGRAM, due to life experiences, is full of BUGS. Therefore, it needs a re-program, and that is what the 3P’s enables you to do. Notice carefully: – enable you to do, not me. No one gets indoctrinated or brainwashed!
These 3 Principles are things you find out for yourself. In fact, every one of us had a miraculous ‘light bulb moment’ where all the above suddenly made sense. But, unfortunately, we do NOT know how we got to that point, so none of us can tell you how to find your ENLIGHTENMENT.
A new re-programmed you. One that is calmer, happier, accessible, and delights in the gift of life!
ALL THIS EXPLANATION IS VERY COMPLICATED, and Syd spent 23 years of his life explaining something that was in essence very, very, very, very, simple. So simple, NO ONE Believed him.
UNTIL Psychiatrists looked at his work and used the 3 Principles in their work with patients and found that they RESPONDED very quickly and soon even people they thought would never be cured showed 100 per cent improvements in their mental health.
SO HERE IT IS
The reality of life is that we experience it moment by moment by moment using THOUGHT, MIND & CONSCIOUSNESS.
The 3 Principles of THOUGHT, MIND & CONSCIOUSNESS are inseparable. They co-exist.
If you just sat quietly and trusted your INNER most thoughts (the ones that you have in the moment), you would come to the logical conclusion that this IS ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW. As Syd says over and over again, “LOOK INSIDE” [this is the insideOUT theory that Syd’s devotee’s waffle on about]
BUT we have another mode of thinking (the one you use at work and school) which is deeply analytical, pompous, selfish, greedy, malevolent (at times), calculating. This is the mind that convinces you that it is you and it knows best. We call him the EGO. He is a control freak of the highest magnitude. He convinces you that you are him, and he is you. He will convince you that you have an identity. You are you because… and out the crap trots, you have a Mercedes, best house in the street, Saville-row suits. He is a con man. YOU ARE NONE OF THOSE THINGS. “Who are you?” is the wrong question! You should be asking, “What am I?” and the answer to that one is simple, and it will astound you and blow your socks off!
SO HERE IT IS – For The Last Time!
The reality of life is that we experience it moment by moment by moment using THOUGHT, MIND & CONSCIOUSNESS.
Watch the other Sydney Banks Videos (bearing all this waffle in mind), and the penny will drop.
Do not analyze over much. Thinking breeds thinking and Ego re-writing… and soon you will not be GROUNDED in the 3 Principles. You will have left reality and gone back into your Intellectually created misconception of what life really is. YOU ARE CONSCIOUSNESS. When consciousness is high, you see it and when consciousness is low? You see what is not!!
A really important THOUGHT here. You remember when you were a child, and people used to say, “That little tot lives in a world of its own it does!” There were you, happy as a sandboy, daydreaming about all sorts of magical, wonderful things!
WELL! Here is the shocker
Every single one of us creates our own little world and because we created it, big surprise “we understand it completely” because it’s our little world!
Our world is formed on beliefs, opinions, myths, lies, magic, and some truth (This is known in Syd’s world as WHAT IS or JUST IS – interchangeable as they mean the same thing, more or less) and EGO rewrites (WHAT IS NOT).
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SO HERE IT IS – For The Last Time!
The reality of life is that we experience it moment by moment by moment using THOUGHT, MIND & CONSCIOUSNESS.
An idea that Sydney voiced many times. Whenever you speak from thinking, the voice speaking is the Ego. All his info is memory, things that happened in the past. He also thinks he can conjecture what will happen in the future. EGO may be right, and he may be wrong. That is not the problem. The PROBLEM is when MIND believes absolutely that EGO is right and the future will be exactly the way EGO described it. Ask yourself, is this possible? OR is EGO Wrong as many times as he is right? Liars can be very, very, very convincing. That voice is NOT in touch with reality. Memory is the past, and it is no longer real, or faithfully recorded, for the Ego is a liar, full of deceit, greedy, selfish, arrogant, jealous, possessive… Any’ fact’ he doesn’t like, he distorts in memory. As it’ feels’ so “real”, you believe it as being “the truth”. Syd used to remark that people who spoke from memory were “not present”. Followed by “the light in their eyes goes out”.
When consciousness is high, “the lights in your eyes are on”. You’re living life moment by moment, seeing everything, hearing everything, smelling everything, touching everything, tasting everything, entirely in the present. The voice is now in the moment. A different kind of thought is entirely in the moment. Thought is dealing with 100% reality. It’s crystal clear, un-muddled, no lies, no chaos, no confusion.
Other People WILL detect your authenticity and recognize a person (themselves) that they used to know BUT have lost contact with. Listening to you will be like listening to themselves as they would rather be. When you are 3P grounded, (100% present), you will get 100% attention from those that resonate with it. They recognize wisdom (NO, NOT YOURS 😉 They recognize their own wisdom that lies within themselves!
ZERO ANXIETY
(well, no imagined terrors, a Bengal Tiger in the room with you would cause “normal anxiety, NOT fake “misunderstanding” anxiety)
