When you allow someone to steal your joy you believe it wasn't yours to begin in with; if you did, you would have secured its status, held on to its benefit and kept it within. Letting go of what keeps you focused is allowing fear to take hold in your heart and decide your direction.
Maintain your joy, which is your inner power of love keeping you focused, and let all negativity, control, domination and manipulation of others to pass through you without attaching any emotion to it whatsoever. Your joy is yours when you know it is your natural state of existence.
But how do you come to know that infinite state of joy when dealing with the finite perceived dualistic reality? You go within each and every day and allow that which is pure and divine to lead you into infinity.
Following are the eight (the infinite symbol) steps that you must take to live in peace; come to a universal understanding of life; live in Divine joy and share Divine love:
The Path of Infinity:
You are a spiritual being expressing the essence of Divine love physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually.
You come to know this by transcending the external illusion that you are other than a spiritual being.
You transcend the illusion by removing erroneous beliefs and sharing Divine love with all.
You remove erroneous beliefs by listening to Divine guidance and trusting in it completely.
You trust in Divine guidance by daily communion with the Divine and faithing your spirit into the perceived external illusion.
You become fulfilled by sharing exactly what you desire with all whom you encounter.
You give thanks to the Divine by being whom and what you were created to be; a spiritual being expressing the essence of Divine love in all you think, feel, believe, say and do.
You live in Divine love by knowing that you are blessed.
Feeling worthy to receive Divine blessings comes from accepting who and what you are and allowing it to be who and what you are; divine love in action!
Those who live in fear must defend their aberrance because they don't know that we are all connected through the Spirit of God within. Only when they stop living from their egos will they learn the truth that they are living in fear.
For example, many people assign negative beliefs to be wealthy. Are their beliefs valid? Or are they living in fear of something that they don’t understand?
When you believe you cannot be wealthy it is this belief that is limiting your abundance. Your divinity is the expression of health, wealth, prosperity and abundance. It is your ego that limits your expression because it wants you to believe it is God.
Don’t allow that which ‘appears’ to be real interfere with that which IS real. You are an infinite, living and breathing divine being that lives IN abundance each and every day!
Live in infinite abundance by being who you truly are and NOT what you believe yourself to be. You are the one damming up the river and no one else! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
We have heard this expression time and time again and it pinpoints just what we are feeling at any given time. ‘Vibe’ in this sense is slang for vibration which is a feeling one gets that is not directly sensed but ‘felt’ from another. It is not something that is easily explained but is more known than sensed.
We all pick up vibrations from others as others pick up vibrations from us. But exactly, what are those ‘vibrations’? Are they inner feelings we get about someone based on pre-conceived notions of them or are they actual reactions to their vibrational state? In reality, vibrations are both surmised and real. Our inner psychic mental sense ‘picks up’ on another’s thoughts and vibrations from their body language and the meaning of their words. We react to their vibratory state by either moving away from them or moving toward them. It’s all in how we are experiencing their energy and our energy.
Remembering what has happened in the past concentrates our energy on that remembrance. Imagining a future occurrence is concentrating our energy on that possibility. Accepting where we are right now is concentrating energy on what we are experiencing in the moment. In each concentration of our energy we are creating a vibrational ‘point of attraction’ that we are broadcasting into our environment. Each time we ponder a thought and feel its vibration, we are broadcasting our vibrations into our environments and the matching vibration will be attracted to us.
The more and more we concentrate on our thoughts and feel their vibrations, the more we send out our ‘vibe’ into our environment. By observing what is going on in our lives we can see if it is matching what it is we are focusing on and emotionalizing in our lives. If it is not, then we are NOT thinking about what we want and feeling the joy from obtaining it. If we were, we would be experiencing it right now.
If we feel unfulfilled, depressed or lonely, then we are not thinking the thoughts and feeling the feelings of joy that come from being fulfilled, happy or loved. When we match the thoughts in our minds with the feelings in our hearts and revisit them every day, no matter whether they are of benefit to us or not, they will slowly begin to manifest in our lives when we allow them to be.
Daily creating a positive ‘expectant’ vibe of fulfillment, joy and accomplishment is what we will receive when we ‘allow’ ourselves to be whom and what we were created to be. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
SITE HOSTING
NATURAL FOOD MARKET
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SERVICE IN PRAYER
Elizabeth and I would like to invite you all to our site ‘Service In Prayer’. For many months we have been led to offer a way for our online friends to have a forum to share our prayer needs with each other.
The purpose of this website is to connect with one another and share our needs for healing in whatever areas we feel we need. Please visit the website or go to the Facebook forum to post any public prayers on the Wall or PM us for private prayers.
We will pray for you or help you to find Prayer Partners to assist you in healing and realization of your Divine purpose and the unfolding of it in Divine order.
Thank you all for your support, kindness and for blessing us with your ongoing friendship. Peace and blessings to all of you and your families! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
OUR PAST ISSUES
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One of the driving principles of wealth creation is for the initiator to use what is called leverage. Leverage is “the use of a small initial investment, credit, or borrowed funds to gain a very high return in relation to one's investment, to control a much larger investment, or to reduce one's own liability for any loss” [dictionary.com]. Leverage is a financial tool where an entrepreneur uses OPM (Other Peoples’ Money) to seize an opportunity and derive a profit. Much the same way and electrical relay uses a small and safe low voltage to control a large and higher voltage. Seeing opportunities and having the foresight to act on them are two different things.
How many times have we had an idea how to do something and thought of a simple and effective way of doing it, only to see that same idea marketed six months later? The human mind requires discipline in order to seize opportunities that the heart feels are happening. Discipline comes from developing the right attitudes. Yeshua’s famous Sermon on the Mount ‘relayed’ the Beatitudes, or ‘attitudes to be’. These simple but effective aphorisms ‘sharpened the saw’ of the mind in order to channel the feelings of the heart into positive and correct action. Yeshua said that we would do what he had done and greater. Haven’t we? Look at what the ingenuity of humankind has created despite its gravitation toward more basal activities; violence, death and war.
We have excelled despite our commitment to the external appearance of separation. How do we move even further? By developing new and effective ‘attitudes to be’ in accordance with where we are currently in our lives. The creation of personal beatitudes frees us from the self-imposed constraints of OPT...Other Peoples' Thinking! When we observe, accept and believe other peoples’ assessment of whom and what we are, we are leveraging those thoughts to please their assessment and create the prophetic results of their limited thinking. In essence, we are giving away our personal power to THEIR way of thinking!
When we create our own personal set of Beatitudes that direct our personal power toward the manifestation of our Divine purpose in Divine order, we are leveraging the thoughts of others to not restrict us, but to edify us. We are stating simplistic principles of OUR existence that will train our minds to listen to what others say and learn from it, but not emotionalize their perceived outcome as the truth. Leveraging the negativity of others to be aware of the possible pitfalls and developing a set of principles or Beatitudes to keep our focus on target, opens our hearts to ‘our’ truth.
Make the time each and every day to create an individual set of Beatitudes to guide your ego when it vaults forward to assume command. Keep it in check by using your heart memory to feel the end result of manifesting your Divine purpose in Divine order. Be ye therefore perfect! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
SPIRITUALITY GUIDANCE
What is the Spirituality Guidance Channel? SGC is a video portal designed to introduce spiritually inclined individuals to be exposed to spiritual videos, radio, teachers, music, art, books, resources and links from a selected group of teachers and requests from viewers. Each featured coach/teacher will have their own page highlighting any videos, audios, websites or printed material they have produced. This portal will be regularly promoted on the Internet through social networking and targeted marketing channels. Please visit the website at the following address:http://www.spiritualityguidance.com and email me at webproducer@hotmail.com with any suggestions, links or materials. Thank you for your most courteous participation in this project. I welcome your input. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
CHANNELING DIVINE LOVE
The expression of Divine love through us can be channeled by us in many ways. Our very existence is the expression of Divine love.
How we channel that Divine love is either manifested by our mind-heartset as faith in the Divine to manifest beauty in Divine order or fear of what 'may' happen.
Our 'energy' is Divine love and since we are co-creators with the Divine we can either follow thoughts, beliefs and feelings that project Divine love (through faith) or follow thoughts, beliefs and feelings that reject Divine love (through fear). ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
RE-EVALUATION
When personal gun ownership and 'freedoms' trumps the death toll of all of our wars combined, then it is time for us to re-evaluate our laws and 'freedoms'.
These facts are hard to argue; especially when they challenge someone's perceived 'freedom' to kill anyone who breeches their property or person.
When any one person has the power of life and death over anyone else, then we all must be aware that it was we who allowed them to have that power and it is up to us to take it away. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
IT IS BETTER
It is better to be patient and allow Divine order to fulfill then to interrupt the flow of Divine love because you believe you MUST do something. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
It is better to express the truth in your heart then to resist what you perceive is aberrant and not life sustaining. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
It is better to ignore that which does not edify your life then to worry about what you believe ‘might’ happen. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
It is better to live a life of loud exuberance than one of quiet desperation. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
It is better to give what you value the most than to fear losing it because of your lack of Divine trust. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
It is better to develop a sense of inner worthiness than to desire that which you perceive and feel you cannot have. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
RIGID OPINIONS
The facts don't matter when opinions are so rigid that they won't see the light. Choices are made based on what one perceives is the truth. The deception lies in the perception of the truth and NOT the truth. Look at reality as it is but know it is a result of actuality being made manifest driven by the emotions of opinions and NOT facts. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
WHAT YOU VALUE MOST
If a person’s character is revealed during the discourse of an argument, it is because what they value most is being attacked and discredited. It is at this point that any and all arguments are no longer about what is being argued, but what the person believes is correct and aligns with their values. It has nothing to do with the facts or the content of the argument. It has become personal and anyone in the argument ultimately HAS to consider the character of the individual and their ego in the ‘investment’ it has in ‘winning’ the argument.
If one attacks that person’s character unjustifiably, then it is considered an ad-hominem attack, meaning an attack on the character of the individual. However, it the person’s character is being used to espouse their values at the cost of winning an argument, then it is no longer about the facts and content but more about the participant’s ego.
Therefore, don’t be afraid to express what is considered an ad-hominem attack if the other person’s character and values are of more import to them than the facts. Perception of the truth depends on the observation of the facts and the reflection on a person’s individual values.
If they feel threatened by ‘facts’, then they are not seeking the truth but seeking to convince others at all costs in order to justify their own perceived values and protect their own fragile ego.
Stand up for the truth and don’t back down to those who try to twist your words, malign the truth and validity of your thoughts and set out to manifest their selfish agendas at your expense. Be diligent; be focused and be pure; and most of all, be factual. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
IN BALANCE
When the feminine and masculine sides are in balanced in an individual, Divine order is not only perceived but it becomes a priority.
It is allowed to transpire without interference from one’s ego in controlling, dominating and manipulating events, situations, occurrences, circumstances and the behavior of others to the advantage of self.
It is placing yourself in the slipstream of Divine order to become whom and what you were created to be without any struggle or resistance. It is living life with the consideration and respect for all of life. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
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May Sutor and Dean A. Banks, D.D. have uploaded podcasts. Robert Yarbrough will be added soon. Just click on the podcasters placards below and click on the Podcast title. Currently there are five podcasts on Bobby Hinkle's page, one on Elizabeth Sutor's page and nine on Dean A. Banks, D.D.'s page. Stay tuned for more! Thank you for choosing us!
What is the Spirituality Guidance Channel? SGC is a video portal designed to introduce spiritually inclined individuals to be exposed to spiritual videos, radio, teachers, music, art, books, resources and links from a selected group of teachers and requests from viewers. Each featured coach/teacher will have their own page highlighting any videos, audios, websites or printed material they have produced. This portal will be regularly promoted on the Internet through social networking and targeted marketing channels. Please visit the website at the following address:
http://www.spiritualityguidance.com and email me at webproducer@hotmail.com with any suggestions, links or materials. Thank you for your most courteous participation in this project. I welcome your input. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
Welcome to our new Sunday Morning Service by Dr. Dean A. Banks, D.D.
Every week Dr. Dean will be engaging subjects that are pertinent to your growth and expansion into recognition of; respect to; and communication with your inner spirit.
Please feel free to comment or suggest topics for review. May the Divine always bless you and your families! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
When the teacher is ready the student will disappear... ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
You cannot be a part of the solution until you are a part of the problem... ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
There is nothing wrong with earning a living from your labors; however, when you earn your living from raping others financially that, in itself, is a crime against humanity. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
You are the rising sun bathing the earth everyday with light. You are the wind moving the clouds steadily across the skies. You are the rivers, mountains, valleys, streams, lakes and oceans that nurture the earth. You are the canopy of stars twinkling in the night sky. All of the sights, sounds, smells, tastes and feelings that you experience in your environment are connected with you. They are a part of your experience as you are a part of the omniversal experience. You are the awareness. You are Divine love in action. You are the enlightenment. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS
What you may never realize is that your realization of reality is from your consciousness and your consciousness only reacts to or proacts from copies of images, words and feelings that you get from your experiences and the beliefs you accept as real.
If you realize this and do nothing to remove your erroneous beliefs that are stifling you, then you are living in your comfort zone and choose not to expand your character.
If you realize this and remove your erroneous beliefs then you are expanding your inner view to create an outer expression that matches the copy you perceive in your consciousness.
What pictures, words and feelings are you experiencing? Lack and limitation or bountiful abundance? It is your choice. What are you choosing? ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
SPIRITUALITY GUIDANCE
What is the Spirituality Guidance Channel? SGC is a video portal designed to introduce spiritually inclined individuals to be exposed to spiritual videos, radio, teachers, music, art, books, resources and links from a selected group of teachers and requests from viewers. Each featured coach/teacher will have their own page highlighting any videos, audios, websites or printed material they have produced. This portal will be regularly promoted on the Internet through social networking and targeted marketing channels. Please visit the website at the following address:http://www.spiritualityguidance.com and email me at webproducer@hotmail.com with any suggestions, links or materials. Thank you for your most courteous participation in this project. I welcome your input. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
EBOOKS
HAVING A CLUE!
I have been informed by an obvious neophyte who takes what the Bible says literally that I don’t have a clue what I am talking about and that it is my ego that has ‘attacked’ her for making obvious conclusions about the ‘Word’ that are just not true by her understanding.
When anyone misses the theme of what has been said in the ‘Word’ it reveals that their understanding has fallen short of what was being said and what meaning is derived from what is said. Yeshua demonstrated what he said time and time again and if anyone misses the ‘results’ of those demonstrations in accordance with the ‘Word’ it reveals that their understanding is not taking the whole picture into account.
When anyone uses other people to take advantage of them they are not aligning themselves with the Spirit of God. They are taking what they have been freely given and using it to hurt or exploit another.
Why would anyone with half-a-brain defend the aberrance of ‘financial rape’ unless they do not have a complete understanding of this principle? Why would they attack someone who points this out and accuse them of judging another instead of seeing that what was said was in alignment with the teachings of Yeshua? Why would they attack that person and claim that their ego is out of control?
Is it because they believe it is OK to financially rape another human being? Or is it because they do not completely understand the ‘theme’ of what is being said? Whatever it may be one thing is obvious. When you defend aberrant behaviors, infirmities and ego you are not clearly seeing the truth.
Perhaps I am just as guilty as this person but I will NOT compromise on the FACT that if you use another person for your own gain without fairly compensating them you are taking advantage of them and you are NOT following divine principles; you are being selfish and self-centered. If anyone cannot see this, I sincerely hope and pray that perhaps someday you will. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
LOSING AMBITION?
The myth of "losing ambition to work to improve themselves" comes from an egotistical conclusion by those who have financially raped others and perpetrated it onto the rest of us.
Why? Because they want us to look at the poor with disdain instead of compassion. When we buy into that complete and utter bullshit we are being fooled by the unscrupulous morons who repeatedly try to manipulate what Yeshua said to their own ends.
They are vipers, liars and control freaks and we should put them in their place; a living hell! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS
What you may never realize is that your realization of reality is from your consciousness and your consciousness only reacts to or proacts from copies of images, words and feelings that you get from your experiences and the beliefs you accept as real.
If you realize this and do nothing to remove your erroneous beliefs that are stifling you, then you are living in your comfort zone and choose not to expand your character.
If you realize this and remove your erroneous beliefs then you are expanding your inner view to create an outer expression that matches the copy you perceive in your consciousness.
What pictures, words and feelings are you experiencing? Lack and limitation or bountiful abundance? It is your choice. What are you choosing? ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
LOSING AMBITION?
The myth of "losing ambition to work to improve themselves" comes from an egotistical conclusion by those who have financially raped others and perpetrated it onto the rest of us.
Why? Because they want us to look at the poor with disdain instead of compassion. When we buy into that complete and utter bullshit we are being fooled by the unscrupulous morons who repeatedly try to manipulate what Yeshua said to their own ends.
They are vipers, liars and control freaks and we should put them in their place; a living hell! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
WHEN WE...
Is it true that we are in control of everything we realize, allow and do? Do we have the power to control, dominate or manipulate others’ behaviors to our own ends? Are we so self-absorbed that we cannot see how our behaviors are manifesting our ego’s selfish agendas? Could it be that we are so programmed from birth in our societies to look out for number one more than look out for every one?
We are an aggregate of many things that we decide are either beneficial to us or detrimental to us. We move toward what makes us experience pleasure and we move away from what brings us pain. We live our lives looking for what allows us to be joyous and ultimately happy, when in fact we already are within. We don’t experience joy and happiness because we keep looking outside of ourselves instead of looking within.
It is up to us to choose exactly what we desire the most in our lives OVER the immediate and selfish yearnings of self-gratification. By allowing our greater good to flow through us instead of striving to fulfill the yearnings of our egos, we move closer to unfolding our Divine purposes in Divine order. It is in our realization of our divine purpose that we begin to become whom and what we were created to be. It is in our allowance of Divine guidance that we learn how to become whom and what we were created to be. It is in our knowing that we have to let go of how things unfold that we actualize whom and what we were created to be. Following are nine steps to losing our ego’s control and accepting and allowing Divine guidance:
When we allow our egos to retaliate, we have lost control.
When we allow our egos to judge another instead of their behavior, we have lost control.
When we allow our limited senses to misdirect us, we have lost control.
When we allow our beliefs to blind us to the truth, we have lost control.
When we realize that we have lost control, we have gained insight.
When we have gained insight, we realize that we were never in control.
When we know that we were never in control, we start to allow that which is beyond our control to control our lives.
When we allow what is beyond us to control our lives, we are becoming whom and what we were created to be.
When we live in grace, Divine love and ongoing peace we are allowing and being whom and what we were created to be; now and evermore.
Be that which you were created to be now and evermore! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
TRY SOMETHING NEW!
Break up your old dysfunctional patterns and try something new today! Get up, go out and be whom and what you were created to be by challenging yourself to rise up and seek new horizons!
You have a song in your heart that is crying to be heard and it needs to come out and affect your world. Don’t resolve yourself to complacency simply because you cannot see a way to break out of your comfort zone.
Push yourself to experience new things and you will. Trust in the Divine and believe in yourself. That’s a winning combination! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
GIVEN THE GIFTS
We are given the gifts of life and consciousness; what we do with them is OUR choice based on 'free will'.
There aren't ANY moments when the Divine has created ANYTHING that is aberrant.
It is our choices to listen to ego over the Divine that create aberrance. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
CHECKS AND BALANCES
We need checks and balances in our weapon acquisition system in order to MINIMIZE the threat of gun violence from those who are not responsible with weapons. Those who choose to arm themselves ARE living in fear.
That is their choice and I respect the fact that they can make that choice; even though I don't agree with it! When those who choose to arm themselves come to the realization that they are living in fear and conscientiously choose NOT to, then, and only then, will we begin to work together to make this world a safer and more loving place in which to cohabitate.
Until then, fear will rule from the ego because they have chosen NOT to live from the Spirit of God within each and every one of us! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
PRIORITIES
Making the priority of having access to affordable health care as opposed to the right of owning a gun is NOT arguing the content of apples vs. oranges; it is simply saying that the arguments we put weight to are really out of whack. Isn't being able to have accessible health care to remain healthy more important than owning a gun to defend yourself against an 'imaginary and fearful' perception of what 'might' happen? That is what the priority is for those who ‘support’ life; not the embracing of fear over health. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
I am a firm believer that animal abuse is a pre-cursor to human abuse. Abusers experiment with their sadism on animals until it no longer fulfills them. The natural progression is to move up the food chain. Anyone who hurts a living and breathing being needs help and punishment. They need adequate consequences for their actions. If not, their egos will continue to control, dominate and manipulate other beings to fulfill their twisted fantasies. Ultimately, it is their egos seeking recognition for their perceived power over life and death. It is sheer foolishness that needs to be addressed with a comprehensive program of treatment AND punishment.
The ego’s perceptions of the consequences must be sufficient in order to stifle aberrant action long enough for them to receive the proper treatment of the ‘learned behaviors’ that have caused this aberrance. Some might say that the only exception is sociopathy; however, since it is a just a more intense combination of internal chemistry and external triggers it is ‘treatable’ as well. No human being is ‘beyond hope’.
Giving up on the proper and effective treatment of aberrance comes from NOT finding the proper course of treatment that works. Too many throw their hands up in the air because they don’t believe that treatment is effective. Remember, the engrams that were imprinted to reflect these behaviors are programmable. De-programming and re-programming is necessary in order to effect change. Just because we haven’t discovered what ‘works’ doesn’t mean that we never will. It simply means that we haven’t found the solution to changing aberrance effectively.
Expressing aberrance comes from an internal acceptance of the ego’s powers of control, domination and manipulation. It believes that it is solely responsible for the protection of itself and continually arranges circumstances to reflect that as being the truth. However, it is NOT the truth because the ego is NOT all-seeing. It only sees what it believes is either harming it or helping it. It defends, fights and resists that which it determines is the cause of its problems. It cannot see beyond itself because it wants to be in charge.
It is very difficult for it to trust anything, even the Divine. It will go out of its way to choose, use and abuse what it believes is blocking its way from self-recognition. Always pointing to itself for your good, it will deceive you into believing it is right; even over the guidance of the Spirit of God. As long as your ego occupies center stage in your life, you will make choices that interfere with you growth, expansion and success in fulfilling your Divine purpose in Divine order. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
We all have times when we feel lower than low, helpless and totally lost. When we are feeling this way it is allowing us to see that what we have been doing in our lives is not working.
It is like experiencing physical pain; it points us in the direction we need to observe in order to effect healing. Deep within each and every one of us is the essence of Divine love and THAT is our source.
No one or nothing else is our source; even us. Letting go of the emotional distractions will allow us to feel our inner peace. When we see ourselves in our mind's eye smiling and feeling joy instead of loss is when we are allowing the Divine to guide us.
We were created to be OURSELVES and no one else. It is up to us to be the greatness that we are. As Yeshua said, “Be ye therefore perfect as your Father in Heaven is perfect!” ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
BRIDGING THE GAP?
Have you ever bridged the gap between what you are thinking, feeling and manifesting? Is it just in a crisis situation that you do or do you practice ‘bridging’ that gap every day?
In reality, there is no gap between these experiences; it is a perpetual and ongoing connection that just ‘seems’ to be a gap at times when we identify with the separation of the perceived dualistic reality.
The more we focus on separation, the more we become accustomed to operating within its parameters.
The ego thrives on separation in order to validate its own existence. Remember, the ego’s main job is your self-survival at all costs. For example, you are driving down the road and a car darts out from a side road right in front of you.
What do you do? You react! You instantaneously move the wheel of your car to go around the car in front of you. Hopefully, there wasn’t somebody else in the next lane over. A crisis infuses the connection between thinking, feeling and manifesting in a split second.
However, non-critical experiences in our lives are more subtle and we sometimes don’t bridge this perceived ‘gap’ because we become distracted from focusing on the actual connection we have between thinking, feeling and manifesting. The process of creation is first thinking about something, adding feeling to what it is we are thinking about and then actually bringing it to fruition.
If we are thinking about something and we are harboring negative feelings about it, the process has started in creating the outcome of those negative feelings. It is up to us at this point to treat those feelings as the car that darts out in front of us. We need to react to them and get out of their way first; then proact from them by co-creating positive feelings of joy by projecting the manifestation into the perceived dualistic reality.
Our feelings are our internal barometer to awaken us to what mindset and heartset we need to choose in order to manifest our deepest desires. We move in that direction by ‘expecting’ positive results without controlling, dominating or manipulating ‘how’ they will manifest.
When we begin to see the positive manifestations blossoming in our lives we move into the realm of simply ‘allowing’ them to happen. Just as we automatically sway away from the car we are attuned to the fact that harboring negativity creates more negativity; and switching the channel instantaneously to positivity redirects that emotional energy to create positivity.
We are in control by learning that we are not in control. As a novice in Spirituality we program ourselves for positive results through consistent expectation of our innermost desires. As we grow in our Spirituality we learn to bring them to fruition by accepting our worthiness and allowing them to manifest in our lives.
Before any behavior becomes automatic it requires consistent and diligent practice. Spending at least an hour a day in prayer, meditation and service of others keeps us focused on positive results; no matter what car darts out in front of us! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
CHOCOLATE
Dave Barry once said that “Your hand and your mouth agreed many years ago that, as far as chocolate is concerned, there is no need to involve your brain.” But the brain is involved! Chocolate is one of the few items that affect the medial forebrain bundle (the pleasure center). Other triggers for the bundle are any form of pharmaceutical 'speed' and sexual orgasm. Chocolate definitely fills a need!
Where it gets tricky is when you pick up a chocolate chip cookie and take a bite only to realize that it’s a raisin cookie; then you develop trust issues. Like anything in life you never truly know what it is until you taste it. You expect a certain sensation and you are surprised with another. So goes the life of living in immediate gratification.
Chocolate definitely fills the need for your pleasure center to be stimulated when it isn’t being stimulated by other forms of stimuli. So, go ahead, have some chocolate; but don’t overindulge. Remember, too much of a good thing loses its perception as a good thing. Satisfy your physical needs and it will free your brain to think about more important things; like paying the bills! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
WHAT IS AND WHAT CAN BE
What has been cannot be changed. How you look at it can. What is going on now is what you are paying attention to at the moment and what demands your attention. What will come is still forming and can be altered by what you either do or don’t do now. It is up to you to make the choices that will create beauty and order or ugliness and chaos in your life.
Choose to reframe what appears to be negative into something that is necessary for you to realize the other side. Use its appearance as a motivator to visualize and feel the joy from ‘being’ on the other side of negative ‘appearances’. Remember, most of what you worry, doubt or fear about NEVER comes to fruition unless you convince yourself that it will and you continue to feel and believe it will.
Stop being your own worst enemy and become your own best friend. Treat yourself like the divine child of the Most High God that you are and all else that edifies your being will be added unto you. It’s all in how you experience the truthfulness of beauty and order instead of the illusion of ugliness and chaos.
Give thanks for the negativity as an indicator of you making the proactive choice of proceeding in a positive direction. This way, you will not resist it and you will allow it to be exactly what it is; a reminder of where you don’t want to be. Knowing what you don’t want to be is just as advantageous to your growth and expansion as knowing what you want to be. It allows you to make proactive choices in determining what is beneficial or detrimental for individual fulfillment.
Knowing what works and doesn’t work gives you the edge on manifesting what you need, when you need it and how it will come about. Know what has worked in the past and what hasn’t and reframe any and all occurrences of what happens now to be exactly what you need to grow and expand. Be fruitful and aware and all that you need will be manifest.
It is when you emotionally energize that which you don’t need that it crops up time and time again. Realize that YOU are recreating it and put a stop to it by not resisting or fighting its occurrence. Allow it to be exactly what it is and let it pass through you without attaching any emotions to it. Be focused on a positive end result and feel the joy of living in that result! Be ye therefore perfect! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
LIVING FROM BOTH SIDES
What does it mean to develop your feminine side? It is the joy of changing your mind after you have firmly made it up because your true feelings have surfaced and you know what is best for all concerned.
What does it mean to develop your masculine side? It is the joy of making up your mind after you have changed it because you have observed what doesn’t work and embrace what does.
What does it mean to be gender balanced? It means that you not only observe what works and what doesn’t work but you allow others to discover that on their own without forcing your agenda on them; while respecting their right to make their own choices that are different from yours.
When the feminine and masculine sides are in balanced in an individual, Divine order is not only perceived but it becomes a priority. It is allowed to transpire without interference from one’s ego in controlling, dominating and manipulating events, situations, occurrences, circumstances and the behavior of others to the advantage of self. It is placing yourself in the slipstream of Divine order to become whom and what you were created to be without any struggle or resistance. It is living life with the consideration and respect for all of life.
Being balanced means that you are in harmony with nature, life and beauty. It means that you are aware of the differences and you are choosing to live for the similarities. It means that what you believe to be true is replaced by what you divinely know to be true.
The male and female expressions of life are part of the perceived dualistic reality and afford us the ability to see beyond our limited perspectives and selfish yearnings. They allow us to be one with nature and life and live in harmony instead of discordance. Balancing our ‘sides’ is integral in coming into a more spiritual understanding of life and living completely in Divine love everlasting!
Make the time each and every day to explore both sides of your being. Come to know the other side as an asset to you unfolding your Divine purpose in Divine order. Be that which you are; a complete being of Divine love that shares Divine love! You were created as a perfect being of Divine love. Stop being anything else than that! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH
It is for some an inconvenient truth that some are living in fear. At all times we have a choice to hurt, maim or kill; or conversely, support, encourage or edify. Whether we make choices instantaneously or introspectively, it is still a choice. It is never wrong to defend one's life or the lives of their family or friends. It is another to live in fear of something that is created in your mind and you believe is real and co-create that reality as a result.
Owning a weapon that can kill is a choice based on a perceived reality that one NEEDS to defend oneself from aberrance. If one focuses too much on that they will co-create events, situations, occurrences, circumstances and the onslaught of others’ aberrant behaviors that justify the use of the weapon.
Those of us who choose not to own a weapon do so for many varied reasons. Complete trust in the Divine is the best defense anyone can have and it supersedes any perception of fear and aberrance that pre-occupies one’s thoughts and feelings.
Respect for life is more important than living in fear; until we all embrace that we will be subject to the fear of the aberrances of others. Divine trust creates an environment of peace and safety more than any weapon housed as a result of fear. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
Our Daily Reading for June 14th -
"Pick A Card All Zodiac Or What Do You/They Want You/Them To Know Weekly Reading"
by Angels Whisper
When you insist that you can control things in your environment that are beyond your control it is your ego that is asserting command in your life. It is fooling you into believing that you are better than others, more capable than others and more deserved of the ‘things’ that you perceive you need in order to feel better about yourself. It is an illusion that you perceive in order to justify the existence of self. When you spend your time looking at and living from SELF, you are more inclined to ‘move with the flow’ and ‘allow’ Divine order to move through you to effect positive change in your life. Living in an ongoing state of trying to control what is not controllable by self, in effect, separates you from the blessings of SELF; that which is your Divine purpose being manifested in your life.
When self is in command it co-creates the perception of ‘struggle’ in order to convince you that it is ‘victorious’ and that everything is a battle between what is perceived as ‘good’ and ‘evil’. It is sheer foolishness because in reality, you are only separated from SELF when self convinces you that you are. It is a game designed to make you more dependent on self than SELF. All of your blessings and ‘triumphs’ in your life are not because self made then happen; it is because SELF allowed them to happen to bring you to the awareness that you are a spiritual being first and a physical being second. If you ignore the signposts on the road of life you might end up at a washed out bridge and cannot proceed any further. You cannot get to your destination until you turn around, go back the way you came and take another road. You would have not taken the wrong road to begin with if you had listened to SELF. SELF knows the correct path and you would have taken it if you had simply ignored self and listened to the correct guidance.
It is your choice to either listen to SELF or follow self’s insistence that it can control what it can’t control. Allow the current of the stream of life to gently and graciously guide you to the fulfillment of your Divine purpose in Divine order instead of trying to control that which is uncontrollable. Break the illusion that you HAVE to do SOMETHING; you don’t. What you HAVE to do in order to become fulfilled is simply ALLOW it to happen by aligning yourself with your Divine purpose in Divine order. How do you do that? By getting out of your own way through squelching your perceptions that you can control events, situations, occurrences, circumstances and the behaviors of others to your advantage. You are NOT in control; the Divine is. Allow Divine order to bring you ‘home’ to where you were created to be; now, and evermore. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
Nothing, in essence, is inanimate. Everything vibrates at some level and broadcasts its essence into the omniverse. The omniverse moves with complexity beyond our comprehension and under simple and stringent laws. If you choose to live in fear, then what you fear most will come upon you to justify your choices in living in fear. If you choose to live in faith of the Spirit of God to align you with Divine order and be safe and protected, your experience will reflect that choice. I have lived this all of my life and I am still here as a voice in the wilderness. Some hear that voice and others dispute it because their fear is so personal to them that they cannot live without it. Whatever you hold onto and identify with keeps you in a self-imposed state of mediocrity and comfort management or can free you from fear and distrust. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
FEARING FEAR
Fearing fear is still living IN fear. Trusting in the Spirit of God is living with faith. It is allowing the movement of Divine love to bathe you in protection and safety. Those who live in fear cannot, and will not do this! Why? Because their fear is more comfortable to them than their faith and this is mostly due to their inner hidden feelings of guilt that were perpetrated on them by religion, family and friends. Let go of the fear and allow the faith to manifest beauty, peace and love! This is the true path to freedom from guilt, misconceptions and erroneous beliefs! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
MEDDLING
NEVER meddle with the RIGHTS of others concerning their acceptance and perpetuation of fear! That’s what the conservative mind-heartset keeps yelling loudly! Just point them in the direction of knowing where they are using their perceptions of those RIGHTS to allow the infliction of harm on others. Their right to protect themselves because they choose to live in fear does NOT supersede YOUR right to peace and safety! There IS a difference between perceiving the ‘possibility’ of harm from another and actually experiencing it. If your perception of aberrance and the justification of using weaponry or force to stop it is known for what it truly is, resistance, then you will understand that what you resist persists until you GROW UP and deal with it. Allow the peace, beauty and love from the Divine to surround you with the white light of protection and safety from all harm. It is there for a reason and Divine love is that purpose personified in you when you simply allow it to happen. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
MIDDLE AGED
I am too old to listen to the bullshit of the young and too young to listen to the regrets of the old. I guess I am middle aged and too young to know it and too old to believe it. When you have less days in front of you than you have behind you, you begin to value the truth, validity and brevity of concise and factual thoughts, simple and uncomplicated feelings and well thought out actions. What I no longer value and accept are those who insist on living in fear, who think and feel that they are ‘the be all and end all’ and those who simply throw their hands up in their air and either lie down and play dead to mediocrity or become enslaved to the whimperings of their twisted egos. I want my life to be the expression of my Divine purpose in Divine order through the sharing of Divine love; not the be all and end all of having all of the answers. I don’t have all of the answers and most of the time I don’t even know the right questions. One thing I do know for sure, however; I will NOT live in fear and allow my ego to determine ‘how’ to manifest my Divine purpose in Divine order. I will not live in mediocrity; I will challenge myself everyday to be the best I can be in sharing Divine love with all. I KNOW I am blessed and I feel that ongoing blessing every day of my life. Why would anyone in their right mind want to live in fear and mediocrity when the very Creator of the entire omniverse has established your life to experience and grow in health, wealth, prosperity and abundance? Why? Just ask yourself; why? ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
MORE SAYINGS
Worry does nothing but waste your time, causing you to doubt your ability to change things for the better and leading you to fearing the outcome. Time would be spent much better in visualizing your future and feeling the joy from being fulfilled! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
In this moment is the joy of complete fulfillment. Savor it and know that you are a divine being capable of co-creating beauty, peace, understanding and love. Carry that inner peace with you and express it into the apparent outer chaos and you will be co-creating the Kingdom of God here on earth. Be ye therefore perfect, as your Father in Heaven is perfect; now and evermore. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
If ignorance is bliss then moronity is the road to happiness! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
I am a perfect creation of the Divine and I am always genuine (except when I'm teasing someone else because of their perception of their imperfection and their definiteness of their being genuine). ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
Who is the one with paranoia? The one who hoards weapons to defend themselves for some fictional government attack or decent reasonable people who think that guns of any kind in the hands of criminals or mentally unstable individuals needs regulation? That answer is obvious! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
Please people, let's get real! If you truly love yourself and others you will not take up a weapon against anyone; if you do, that demonstrates that you are living in fear. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
When the feminine and masculine sides are in balanced in an individual, Divine order is not only perceived but it becomes a priority. It is allowed to transpire without interference from one’s ego in controlling, dominating and manipulating events, situations, occurrences, circumstances and the behavior of others to the advantage of self. It is placing yourself in the slipstream of Divine order to become whom and what you were created to be without any struggle or resistance. It is living life with the consideration and respect for all of life. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
When one accuses another of an ad hominem attack it is because their fear of being discovered for their own projection of their prejudices, fears and character defects is more important than the facts at hand. Ultimately, it is a distraction from the truth. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
Here lies the Republicans: Died out because they could never learn how to accept change and deal with the natural progression of society into the reality of mutual respect for all of life. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
When people laugh at you for being who you are and you laugh at them for being who they are, always remember this: Every day we need laugh at each other because we are spirits having a 'human' experience and not the other way around! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
Fox News bereaves, We conceive. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
Love is the experience of being One with the Divine Infinite Spirit and knowing that you must share that experience with all by sharing the blessings you have graciously received. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
The Divine is the absolute truth and everything else is relative; and you know how we all feel about relatives! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
The Mind is useless when the heart blind. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
A change of heart is cracking the eggs of erroneous beliefs, balancing our spirit with the ego and flowing the energy of Divine love. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
When you can take out your frustration with being sick on inanimate objects you are on the path to complete recovery! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
The omniverse is an ongoing process of allowing forces to act upon one another in a celestial symphony of give and take. Align yourself with the music of the spheres and rejoice in the harmony! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
In the moment when you decide to give of yourself and lend a helping hand to another, Divine love is blessing you with peace, joy and understanding; as a result your heart imparts health, wealth, prosperity and abundance into all of life. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
WEALTH
The only redeeming characteristic of wealth is in the fact that it ultimately means nothing unless you share it. Whether financial, relationship or educational wealth they are all conditioned and predicated on circulating money, love or knowledge. Holding back and hoarding any one of these categories of wealth defeats their entire purpose. Share the wealth of your finances with others in need; help them out of a dire financial situation. Share the wealth of your relationships with others in need; help them understand and know that they are loved. Share the wealth of your knowledge, talents, skills and abilities with others in need; help them up and instill an inner confidence in them that they are worthy to co-create beauty in their lives. Sharing the wealth is what makes ‘having’ worth having. For in giving away what you ‘have’ you are acknowledging that it is not yours to possess, but yours to share the wealth. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
What does it mean to develop your feminine side? It is the joy of changing your mind after you have firmly made it up because your true feelings have surfaced and you know what is best for all concerned. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
What does it mean to develop your masculine side? It is the joy of making up your mind after you have changed it because you have observed what doesn’t work and embrace what does. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
What does it mean to be gender balanced? It means that you not only observe what works and what doesn’t work but you allow others to discover that on their own without forcing your agenda on them; while respecting their right to make their own choices that are different from yours. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
What does it mean to develop your feminine side? It is the joy of changing your mind after you have firmly made it up because your true feelings have surfaced and you know what is best for all concerned.
What does it mean to develop your masculine side? It is the joy of making up your mind after you have changed it because you have observed what doesn’t work and embrace what does.
What does it mean to be gender balanced? It means that you not only observe what works and what doesn’t work but you allow others to discover that on their own without forcing your agenda on them; while respecting their right to make their own choices that are different from yours.
CAUSING PROBLEMS
It always amazes me when someone assumes that another should know what they have done to cause problems. Perhaps the person who has ‘caused’ the ‘problem’ was unaware that they had caused a problem. Or perhaps, the person who perceives a problem is too sensitive to things as to see them as a problem.
Whatever it is, if a person does not know what they did to cause a problem, why make them wonder what it is by responding in riddles? Why not just come out and say what it is that caused them to perceive a problem in the first place?
Effective communication requires those who are communicating to understand exactly what they are communication about, or how else will they be able to come to a mutual understanding? ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
WITHOUT EXPECTATIONS
Without expectations nothing EVER happens! Appreciate everything and expect the best for yourself and others! That's better than expecting NOTHING! Don't expect others to reciprocate what you freely give; for if you do, it wasn't freely given in the first place! That’s the expectations you need to dismiss; not the ones that unfold Divine love! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
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