Three Principles for Realizing Mental Health: A New Psychospiritual View

Abstract

We offer a new psychospiritual understanding of mental health grounded in the three principles of Universal Mind, Consciousness, and Thought. This understanding proposes that all people have innate mental health they can access and sustain regardless of past or present circumstances. We first describe the three principles, explain how they appear to work within people to create their psychological lives, and present evidence in support of their spiritual basis. We then distinguish the intervention based on these principles from cognitive and other psychotherapies and describe several guideposts followed by practitioners grounded in this understanding. Finally, we offer empirical evidence of the effectiveness of the three-principles intervention.

• the three principles
• Mind
• Consciousness
• Thought
• innate mental health
• spirituality
• health realization
• creativity in counseling

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Notes on contributors

Jack Pransky

Jack Pransky is Director of the Center for Inside-Out Understanding, Moretown, Vermont.

Thomas M. Kelley

Thomas M. Kelley is a Licensed Psychologist and Associate Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan.