PRAISE FOR SOMEBODY SHOULD HAVE TOLD US!
This book is worth more than a million self-help books. It contains wisdom for a lifetime. It can save a person (and those who know us) from hours of therapy later in life. Jack Pransky gets at the very essence of what drives our happiness. Somebody Should Have Told Us! provides inspiring instruction on how to access the power of thought to transform our lives. I am witness to the wisdom released through the Health Realization [the three principles] approach. This book is a must read for anyone wishing to create a healthy and fulfilling life.
Cheryl Santacatarina
St. Johnsbury, VT
I’ve been around this understanding for nearly 10 years and it has been helpful personally and professionally; but since working with Jack, my understanding has deepened significantly. Jack’s warmth, understanding, deep-seeing, and unwavering faith in my own innate health and wisdom has helped me to really see the principles of Mind, Consciousness, and Thought creating my moment-to-moment experience. Most importantly, he lives what he teaches. Thanks, Jack!
Vince Flammini
Springfield, IL
You know, the only one who helped my thinking shift from a heap of habits to something that is a lot healthier, less habitual and more in tune with who I am is you, and you are on the other side of the world! You pointed me in a different direction, you stayed pretty consistent in not colluding with my habits and you stayed firm in the truth of wisdom within. Everyone needs this.
Georgina Mavor, Psychologist
Western Australia
Health Realization [the three principles] has given me the opportunity to experience relief from trauma due to years of abuse. I have begun to see myself and others in a new way. This new way is now filled with compassion and gratitude for what life has given me the opportunity to experience. Being exposed to Health Realization has caused a shift in the way I see my role in life.
Monica
Plainfield, VT
Health Realization has been an amazing journey! By accessing my own health and wisdom I experienced true inner healing. I was then able to (begin to) move forward with my life in peace and joy, with confidence, and with a strength and knowing that was never before present in my life. There is no better way to teach Health Realization than to live it, and Jack Pransky does just that. Through deep listening and accessing his own health and wisdom, Jack is able to cut to the heart of a matter and assist others in the process of healing and self-discovery through the realization of their own inner health and wisdom. Jack’s commitment to this inside-out approach to prevention, and to helping others, is impressive and awe-inspiring!
Shelly
Norwich, VT
Through his gifted way of communicating, Jack helps people tap into their own wisdom, even if you think you don’t have any. If what you seek is a better, more joyous way of being, the[se] principles for living …will change your life. Just as Jack Pransky has helped me tap the truth within myself, you too will see how to transform your life. I now have a different realization about myself, my relationships, and my work. Instead of carrying around sadness and hopelessness, I now know that every moment holds the possibility for joy…. if I so choose.
Paula Francis
Montpelier, VT
I am able to hang onto good feelings, calm, a peaceful state of mind knowing what I know about my thinking. Jack has helped me to see the connection between my thinking and my consciousness not just through his words, but how he lives his life.
Kellie Joyner
Montpelier, VT
Jack has a way with words that go beyond my intellectual mind and straight into my heart. This feeling comes through in talking and listening with Jack, and in reading his books. It is a refreshing breath that reconnects me to my core...a universal knowing. Life’s questions (the BIG ones) do not phase me anymore-for I know these answers already exist within us all.
Amy Dalsimer, Thatcher Brook Primary School
Waterbury, VT
Somebody Should Have Told Us!
(Simple Truths for Living Well)
The Mind-Spirit Connection
Third Edition
Jack Pransky, Ph.D.
CCB Publishing British Columbia, Canada
Somebody Should Have Told Us!: Simple Truths for Living Well
Copyright © 2011; 2007; 2005 by Jack Pransky
ISBN-13 978-1-926918-27-3
Third Edition
Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Pransky, Jack, 1946-
Somebody should have told us! [electronic resource] : simple truths for living well :
the mind-spirit connection / written by Jack Pransky – 3rd ed.
ISBN 978-1-926918-27-3
Includes bibliographical references.
Electronic monograph in PDF format.
Also available in print format.
1. Self-actualization (Psychology). I. Title.
BF637.S4P73 2011a 158.1 C2011-900387-2
Book production and design by Burrell Center, Springfield, MO.
Editing by Pam Parrish, Paul Thomlinson, and Amanda Frankel.
Cover design by Trent Schaible.
Cover artwork by Jonas Gerard www.jonasgerard.com
Extreme care has been taken to ensure that all information presented in this book is accurate and up to date at the time of publishing. Neither the author nor the publisher can be held responsible for any errors or omissions. Additionally, neither is any liability assumed for damages resulting from the use of the information contained herein.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without written permission from the author, except for brief, credited quotations. For permission or information address Jack Pransky, Center for Inside-Out Understanding: www.healthrealize.com
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This book’s third edition is dedicated to the memory
of spiritual philosopher Sydney Banks, 1931-2009,
who initially uncovered this understanding
and who personally blew my mind apart with the truth of it.
Words cannot express the gratitude I feel
for this remarkable yet ordinary man
for bringing this inside-out understanding into the world
and being the source and catalyst for touching
and changing so many lives.
The world is a far better place because of his existence.
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