So what is it…..?
My take is that Innate Health is a description of how all human beings work psychologically.
Each of us will have a different experience of life, even of the same circumstances. And the main reason for that difference is our own thinking. (Thinking includes all sorts of thought – conscious, subconscious, fleeting thoughts etc). So a day of snow means fun to the child who thinks about playing in it, stress to the employee who worries about getting home form work and real anxiety to the pensioner who fears falling.
We are all thinking all the time and we can’t control our thought for more than very brief periods. Even that is only with great effort. However as we realise that our thinking comes not from the circumstance but from how we are thinking about that circumstance, the possibility of new ideas coming in opens up.
So while the snow bound employee is stressed about the journey he isn’t open to creative solutions to the problem. Stay with a friend. Share a hotel room, etc. When he can drop the worried thinking, new possibilities come to mind. Each of us has the ability to access a higher state of mind, where our own solutions to the situation we are in can be found. This Innate Health is something we have all experienced many times. We have all had times when we suddenly saw a new approach to a problem. It’s a faculty that can’t be lost irrespective of what has happened in the past.
Many psychological treatments spend a lot of time focussing on the content of our thought: where it came from, whether it’s true and so on…In IH the problem is not so much what we think as the fact that we think too much of the wrong kind of thought.
Other approaches such as meditation recognise that quieting the mind is highly beneficial. These however usually require a technique and for regular time and practice.
The Innate Health approach Involves no technique. As we grasp the idea that it’s not the circumstance that’s causing my unpleasant feelings so much as my thinking about that circumstance my mind begins to quiet a bit. So this morning my grumpy daughter (who’s normally delightful) interrupted me and accused me of something I hadn’t done. As I was about to get irritable and defensive, I had the insight that she was just in a low state of mind and I didn’t need to lower mine too, by engaging in a futile argument. So I didn’t. Her state came up later, as it always does for all of us. Because higher levels of consciousness where insight and inspiration are the norm is our default state!