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AN INSIDE- the time, usually without realizing it). moment-by-moment through Thought
OUT WORLD and has nothing to do with the outside
A Different Way of Understanding world.
by Betty Cherniak and A revolutionary approach to mental
Tzvi Werther, well-being and resilience is spreading In other words, we see and feel the
Twerski Wellness Institute in the Jewish world through such thinking we have about our circum-
groups as Rabbi Michel Twerski’s stances. This generates a personal real-
Have you ever noticed your emo- Twerski Wellness Institute (nationwide), ity so perfectly rich and vivid with sen-
tions changing from day to day Rabbi Henry Harris’s Jewish Center for sation that it doesn’t seem to have any-
– from hour to hour? How what Wellbeing (in New Jersey), and Terry thing to do with Thought. But,
may be unbearably frustrating Rubenstein and Rabbi Shaul whether we know it or not, this con-
one day is no big deal the next? Rosenblatt’s Innate Health Centre (in stant process has been operating all
How your spouse’s behavior London). Indeed, mental health profes- along, creating human experience from
may be aggravating in the sionals all over the globe are finding the inside-out.
extreme at night and harmless, success with this approach in prisons,
even charming, in the morning? The schools, marriages and businesses. What If...?
outside world has not changed. What We encourage you to consider the fol-
has changed is your mood, and your The Three Principles, as they are lowing:
mood is a product of the power of the called, are the basis for a psychological
Principle of Thought. In fact, human model that posits that our feelings What if disturbing memories of the
beings can experience the outside come not from our circumstances, past past can only be experienced in the
world only through thought, not direct- or present, but rather from the Power of present moment through the Power of
ly. This means that our experience is Thought. Thought can be described as Thought and do not require “fixing,” for
always subjective and a result of inter- a continuous, creative force which gen- all thought is transitory: merely a
pretation, and can be re-interpreted erates our internal experience of what momentary manifestation among a
through re-thinking (which we do all is otherwise a completely neutral constant flow of ever-changing
world. This means that we do not feel Thought-generated experiences?
our circumstances directly. Rather, our
psychological experience is created What if the essence of every human
being is whole, happy, resilient, loving,
forgiving, and peaceful, even when we
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OUT WORLD and has nothing to do with the outside
A Different Way of Understanding world.
by Betty Cherniak and A revolutionary approach to mental
Tzvi Werther, well-being and resilience is spreading In other words, we see and feel the
Twerski Wellness Institute in the Jewish world through such thinking we have about our circum-
groups as Rabbi Michel Twerski’s stances. This generates a personal real-
Have you ever noticed your emo- Twerski Wellness Institute (nationwide), ity so perfectly rich and vivid with sen-
tions changing from day to day Rabbi Henry Harris’s Jewish Center for sation that it doesn’t seem to have any-
– from hour to hour? How what Wellbeing (in New Jersey), and Terry thing to do with Thought. But,
may be unbearably frustrating Rubenstein and Rabbi Shaul whether we know it or not, this con-
one day is no big deal the next? Rosenblatt’s Innate Health Centre (in stant process has been operating all
How your spouse’s behavior London). Indeed, mental health profes- along, creating human experience from
may be aggravating in the sionals all over the globe are finding the inside-out.
extreme at night and harmless, success with this approach in prisons,
even charming, in the morning? The schools, marriages and businesses. What If...?
outside world has not changed. What We encourage you to consider the fol-
has changed is your mood, and your The Three Principles, as they are lowing:
mood is a product of the power of the called, are the basis for a psychological
Principle of Thought. In fact, human model that posits that our feelings What if disturbing memories of the
beings can experience the outside come not from our circumstances, past past can only be experienced in the
world only through thought, not direct- or present, but rather from the Power of present moment through the Power of
ly. This means that our experience is Thought. Thought can be described as Thought and do not require “fixing,” for
always subjective and a result of inter- a continuous, creative force which gen- all thought is transitory: merely a
pretation, and can be re-interpreted erates our internal experience of what momentary manifestation among a
through re-thinking (which we do all is otherwise a completely neutral constant flow of ever-changing
world. This means that we do not feel Thought-generated experiences?
our circumstances directly. Rather, our
psychological experience is created What if the essence of every human
being is whole, happy, resilient, loving,
forgiving, and peaceful, even when we
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