The Surprising Simplicity of Life with Dicken Bettinger

Coach and author Dicken Bettinger has spent most of his adult life sharing the simple, yet not generally understood, simplicity of human psychology that he first learned from Sydney Banks. Dicken’s message is simple: at any given moment, we are all either caught up in our thinking, or we are connected to the well-being and peace that is within every one of us.Dicken Bettinger, Ed.D., received his undergraduate degree from St. Lawrence University and began his career teaching high school students. He received his Master’s degree from Pennsylvania State University and his Doctoral degree in counseling psychology from Boston University. Thirty-three years ago he met Sydney Banks who had an enlightenment experience where he realized the Three Principles that underlie all human experience. Dicken had finally found universal principles that he could teach anyone. You can find Dicken Bettinger at 3PriniciplesMentoring.com and on YouTube @dickenbettinger.You can listen above, on your favorite podcast app, or watch on YouTube. Notes, links, resources and a full transcript are below. Show Notes* On the early quest to help people ease their suffering * How when our thoughts clear we experience the well-being that we are made of * How we feel what we think * How our state of mind affects things like productivity and success * On the quiet that is always available when you’re not listening to the noise * How parenting is positively affected when we see our thinking for what it is * What meaning do our dreams have? * How we all have access to universal wisdomResources Mentioned in this Episode* Dicken’s book with Natasha Swerdloff is Coming Home: Uncovering the Foundations of Psychological Well-being * Sydney Banks * Dr. Roger MillsTranscript of Interview with Dicken BettingerAlexandra: Dicken Bettinger, welcome to Unbroken.Dicken: It’s great to be here with you, Alexandra. Thanks for inviting me.Alexandra: My pleasure.So why don’t you give us a little bit of your background and tell us how you came to discover the three principles?Dicken: I’d be glad to. I started my career as a high school English teacher. And I was very young and I looked younger than the high school students I was teaching. Pretty soon I had more kids coming to me to talk about their problems than the guidance counselor’s. The guidance counselors came and talked to me. What are you doing? And so it started my passion and curiosity about what can I learn that I can share with people that would help them have an easier time in life and began many, many year long year quest to explore what people are teaching about well-being.I taught for six years, and then I left to get my doctorate in counseling psychology and I became a licensed psychologist. And I had been working for 10 years, focusing my whole career on well-being, rather than the medical model which proclaimed people as having illnesses. And in education, that’s my degrees were in education, even my doctorate, counseling psychology and education department.The philosophy is very kind, any human being is struggling and having difficulty:* Number one, it’s not their fault. * Number two, they just haven’t learned what they need to learn to have an easier time of things.So it put us all – everybody in the world – in the category of being students. And there’s no end to what we can learn. And there’s no end to what we can learn about bei...