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# Those pesky 3Ps Police
- URL: https://www.gilespcroft.com/those-pesky-3ps-police/
- Published: 2025-02-07T07:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-01-06T12:47:20.000Z
- Description: On ‘not being all-in’ on the 3 Principles. Look out, they're coming for you! 👮
- Author: Giles P Croft
- Tags: Principles, Psychology, Sydney Banks, MECHANICS, FOUNDATIONS

I have quite a lot of conversations with people about the 3Ps (The [3 Principles](https://3pgc.org/faq?ref=gilespcroft.com), as articulated by Sydney Banks in the 1970’s)

And it’s funny, because I hear people saying things like,

- *“I’m not ‘all in’ on the 3Ps,”* or
- *“I’ve been away from the 3Ps for a while, but I’m back into them now,”* or
- *“I still practice this other thing, so I’m not really living a full 3Ps Life,”* or just plain old
- *“I think I’m doing the 3Ps wrong somehow, because everything’s not awesome.”*

Now, if the 3Ps were actually an approach or a tool that we could learn, understand, remember and apply, then I’d be with you.

(To be fair, under such circumstances I’d be ‘rubbish at the 3Ps’ too 🤣)

It’s almost as if there are some 3Ps Police, ready to knock on your door and cart you away, because you’re doing it wrong.

👮‍♀️👮‍♂️

> *“No peace of mind for you, sunshine – you’re not showing the requisite amount of dedication to the 3Ps.”* 

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Thankfully, the 3Ps *aren’t* an approach, or a tool that we can learn, understand, remember and apply.

They’re [principles](https://www.gilespcroft.com/tag/principles/) (i.e. just the way something works).

Here’s a game we can play. Swap out ‘the 3Ps’ for the word ‘gravity’ (another principle) in those four statements, and see how they scan.

- *“I’m not ‘all in’ on gravity.”* **Oh, ok then!**
- *“I’ve been away from gravity for a while, but I’m back into it now.”* **Well, good for you!**
- *“I still practice this other thing, so I’m not really living a full Gravity Life.”* **Ummm, ok?**
- *“I think I’m doing gravity wrong somehow…”* **Ha ha, as if that could even be a thing!**

Hark! What’s that knock on the door? Oh criminy - it’s the Gravity Police!!!

😱

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Where people get the idea that the 3Ps are a technique, or something you have to take on as a particular ‘way of being,’ is honestly beyond me.

They’re simply a description of the way we experience life, that’s all.

So if you’re:

  1. Alive (= “Mind”)
  2. Not under general anaesthetic (= “Consciousness”)
  3. Having an experience (= “Thought”)

…then you can safely say you’re ‘all in’ on the 3Ps.

I don’t see how that’s something you could ‘get wrong.’

If it *looks* like there are 3Ps Police somewhere, telling you otherwise, there aren’t.

(Well, if there *are*, then you needn't worry about them, because they’re out on their annual shindig with the Gravity Police, who are just about as real.)

🪩

Giles

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