Educational consultants who observe and evaluate teachers’ work and the intensity of their jobs but never live it are the cause of the misguided educational administrators acting in areas they know nothing about.

They get paid big bucks for their 'opinions' which are nothing but pinched loaves while teachers are relegated to meeting federal ‘standards’ that have set the bar so low it’s no wonder we are educating children who have practically no desire to learn and achieve!

Participate in the education of our children and DEMAND higher standards. The lives of our children and grandchildren are at stake! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.

LIVING FROM DIVINE LOVE

How do you know when you are living from Divine love? When you give and share peace, understanding, joy and love with others even though you are going through the perception of personal hell.

Operating from Divine love means you forgive yourself and others for aberrant behaviors, you apologize to yourself for your reactions to those behaviors, you give thanks for your awareness in understanding you are Divine love and you share your blessings of Divine love with the entire omniverse.

Living in Divine love is our natural state of existence; if we perceive that we aren’t living in Divine love it is because our egos are very good at convincing us that we aren’t. Listen to the Divine emanating Divine love from your heart.

That is the true guidance we all need to be perfect in our expression of the truth into reality. Be ye therefore perfect! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.

ASSESSING BLAME

Assessing blame is the reaction to the obvious results obtained from the actions or inactions of individuals manifesting personal agendas.

If I see and understand a behavior to be aberrant it doesn't mean that I am guilty of that aberrance; it simply means that I understand it for what it is and I assign 'blame' to the individuals who have created that aberrance.

If the shoe fits, then wear it. If it doesn't, then discard it or preferably give it to someone whom it fits! Identifying the source of aberrance challenges the perpetrators of aberrance to either react to or proact from the identification.

How can anyone of us get any better until we own up to our individual or collective aberrances? ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.

THE POOR HUDDLED MASSES

When the CEO’s and management keep calling the proletariat ‘the poor huddled masses’, it’s no wonder they start to believe it! Oh yeah, that's right, they do it because they are afraid that the 'huddled' masses might displace their 'position' in life; that's why!

Living in fear generates more fear. What you give, you receive. Waging war and expecting peace is like hammering a nail over and over to create silence. True peace NEVER comes from those who wage war! True peace comes from those who live in peace!

When you look to outside forces as the determining factors of political change, you are missing the fact that humans have agendas that they will emotionalize to get what they want. The ego’s tools of control, domination and manipulation will always be exercised to attract attention to the messenger instead of the message.

When ‘me’ evolves into ‘we’ will be the time of true peace on Earth and respect for all living beings. Until the complete unfolding of collective peace, each one of us has to learn how to live in personal peace. If we don’t, then how can we align ourselves with those who seek the same manifestation? ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.

NEED FOR CLARIFICATION

The more we don't understand ourselves the less explanation is required. That's why we have the need for clarification. When someone has a mindset and heartset that it is OK to brandish a gun and that it doesn't reveal that their ego is out of control, no matter what you say will not change their mind and heart because they have turned their pre-conceived notion into a hard core belief.

Perhaps a new saying: Happiness is a warm hard core belief? If you feel secure in brandishing a weapon for your protection stop and think for a moment:

If you truly and completely trusted in the Divine for your safety and protection, how would having that weapon reveal anything else except the fact that you didn’t completely trust and that your ego doubted enough to even brandish that weapon? ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.

DUTY TO SPEAK THE TRUTH

We all have a duty to speak the truth as revealed by our inner spirit. When we do some will attack and some will support. Some will listen and some will not. Some will say they understand when they don’t and some will not when they do.

All of that ultimately doesn’t matter. What does matter is that you were true to the spirit within and did not let anyone put a bushel over your light. The world is full of ego driven nay sayers who fear living from the spirit because their egos can’t stand not being in control.

Allow them to be and move on being guided by the spirit. Your blessings all come from the source of the spirit within and not from yours’, or their egos.

Proclaim the truth that has been revealed to you and sing it from the mountaintop. Be a light unto this world and keep the egos in the bushel. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.

 

SCRIPTING YOUR LIFE

We act out our lives based on our thoughts and our programmed scripts of emotional reactions to our environment. By scientifically analyzing our behaviors we can obtain the data necessary to implement a plan of reprogramming our responses. Utilizing the clarity obtained through conscious relaxation, we can clearly observe the data about our emotional reactions and change our life scripts.

Much of what occurs to us every day is a result of automatic emotional responses known as fight or flight. New thoughts are compared with past experience in microseconds and our bodies react from emotional signals that move us towards or away from stimuli. We are programmed with internal scripts that command our actions. But where do these scripts come from? Are they just accepted reactions that we prefer or do we have the power to reprogram these responses? Much debate has ensued over whether we have control over our emotions or not.

The basic plan for a play is the script. It is a series of directions and dialogue for actors, stage hands, musicians and the lighting crew to use to coordinate the observed action onstage. Without a script there would be many miscues, or the worst, chaos. The playwright decides what action and dialogue takes place at the appropriate time. It is a coordinated effort between the implementers of the play to follow the directions of the playwright. When all actions and dialogue are executed on cue, the play’s performance is seamless. The audience gets involved in the action and doesn’t even realize that they are witnessing a play. It is automatic. Our emotional responses are so scripted that we follow their cues automatically without challenge in crisis situations. By employing scientific analysis of emotional scripts and employing conscious relaxation techniques, we can reprogram our automatic emotional responses to be more effective in actualizing our goals and desires.

In order to understand our emotional responses, we must dig down deep into the core of the basic emotions. Many theorists have identified what they deem as basic emotions. These basic (primary) emotions are combined, or layered to produce secondary emotions. In order to identify the root emotion, we must peel off the layers through the process of conscious relaxation. What is conscious relaxation? It is a state where we are completely conscious of our breath and bodily functions while releasing our conscious control of our thoughts; or what is commonly referred to as meditation. It is a state where we do not generate commands, but listen to the echoes in our minds and bodies. It is the time where we make ourselves a priority in order to relax our system enough to release any built up stress that is caused by our thoughts and emotional reactions to these thoughts. Recognizing and observing facts concerning our lives can only be accurate in a less stressful state. Stress masks our ability to discern between fact and opinion.

After meditation our minds are clearer. It is the time when we can reflect on our behaviors and jot them down. Making a list throughout the day of our emotional reactions is the beginning of changing the automatic script of our behaviors. List all of the emotions and emotional reactions that you experience during the course of your day. Don’t analyze them; just list them. Analysis will take place later. Build this list over the course of weeks and months until you have a good sample of your behaviors. Make sure that you take note to similar behaviors in different situations. This data will help you get a clearer picture of your root emotions. Why is this important? Because an understanding of what motivates you will help you get a clearer picture of your deepest desires. What YOU feel you were created to accomplish in life.

A good scientific analysis of your listed behaviors requires that you identify key questions to be answered by your data. If you are going to solve the problem of reprogramming your emotional reactions, the questions you ask yourself must yield the correct answers from the data you have collected. Be thorough in your observations and leave no stone unturned. Your ego is quite clever in protecting your sore spots. Don’t let it fool you into believing that certain observations of your behaviors are not relevant. Every reaction you display is relevant. It will help you pinpoint what emotions trigger these reactions.
Research what others have done in identifying their emotional reactions. See what methods they have employed to identify and isolate deep seated emotions.

Ask yourself what is it you really need to know about yourself. Make sure that you use reliable sources that employ scientific methods that observe the facts and don’t espouse opinions. Determine the sources of the data that others have used in obtaining their conclusions. Ask how the data was obtained, was the experiment conducted scientifically and it has been duplicated by others with the same results. Ask yourself if you would have obtained the same conclusions if you had conducted the experiment. In order for you to feel comfortable or even confident with others’ data and conclusions you must believe it to be accurate. If there are any trepidations concerning their accuracy, then discard them immediately. It will not serve your ultimate purpose of obtaining accurate conclusions about your behaviors.

Correct scientific analysis requires that we identify the questions that reveal the answers we are seeking, as well as pinpointing the problems we are seeking to solve. Gathering and organizing information about our behaviors requires effective research and focused evaluation of the data that we gather. By utilizing methods that replicate the way our brains function, we can map out the processes that take place in our minds. Illustrating and interpreting these processes through mapping, tabling and modeling can reveal the source emotions that trigger our emotional reactions. The next article will discuss these various techniques for the reader to use in determining their emotional scripts. By rewriting your life script you can change the daily outcome of your life to proceed toward the actualization of your individual potential. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.

DO YOU REALLY WANT PEACE?

Do you really want peace? Do you think, speak and act in a manner that creates peace? Or do you only think that peace is an abstract that we can never realize? If you do you have become so desensitized to your own spiritual reality that being at peace is totally unknown to you. You were created from peace and you will return there.

What underlies reality is the scaffolding of nature that holds you up and keeps you alive. Energy exchanging to matter and back; all on the skeletons of dark matter pulling you in and dark energy pushing you away. There is more dark energy (72%) and dark matter (23%) in the omniverse than matter and energy. in fact, matter and energy are only 5% of the ‘reality’ that we observe with our senses. It is called dark because we cannot sense it or measure it.

There are more things going on in the omniverse than you are ever capable of sensing, perceiving and experiencing. Yet, you know it all and live your life as if what is sensed is all that there is. Deep within you is your center of peace and it is where you experience total peace when you make the time every day to commune with the Divine in deep meditation.

Make the time to stop the sensory bombardment and visit the Kingdom of Heaven within you each and every day. It is where you are from, it is where you are and it is where you are going. Peace, be still. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.

BEING TRUE TO YOURSELF

When you decide to be true to yourself is the moment that you are purged of what you think and feel is happening and you are led to what you know you need to do to allow the love of God to exude from your heart of hearts.

Capture this moment and remember that you are loved by the Divine. Keep this experience forefront in your consciousness and allow the Divine to work through you to fulfill your Divine purpose in Divine order.

Choose to live the life that you were created to live and the blessings of Divine love will pour through your spirit and into your world. Be ye therefore perfect! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.

CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE

You are the center of your universe. You project what you think with how you feel and you come to know your being from the reflections you observe.

You are dynamic, not static. You are blessed, not cursed. You are a co-creator, not just an observer. Take what you have been given in grace and give it to others with love.

There is no greater mission in the shared omniverse than you living this mission in your universe. Unfold Divine love from your heart and be perfect. That’s why you are here. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.

NOT PRACTICING
WHAT YOU PREACH

I have been accused of not practicing what I preach. First, I am not a preacher. I used to be years ago, but am no longer. I consider myself a Change Agent. I will turn over rocks and expose B.S., stupidity and sheer emotionalism. I 'practice' calling it as I see it. If some take offense to it, I am sorry you are offended by what I say. If others don't, I am not sorry.

Too many people create walls of protocol that block the truth. I choose not to. Being acerbic and nailing the truth on the head makes me happy. Being a little humorous about it is always a challenge.

I take all of you as you are and value your friendship. If you have a problem with my tone and language, then do what you must. If not, then keep sharing with me.

May you all be blessed and may God continue to turn over the rocks, lift up the veil and reveal the truth to you. After all, you are worth it! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.

PSYCH TESTS

I am familiar with the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) and have taken ALL of the psych tests. I just love it when they ask you more than four times, "Do you hear voices in your head telling you to hurt someone?"

I choose different answers every time to screw with them. Most of these tests and their criteria are subjective at best. I was ADHD before they even knew what it was and invented the term. I learned to channel it into researching and studying and then commenting on obvious bullshit.

I don't multitask, I multifunction. I have the three computers on at the same time; one on FB, one designing a website and the other editing a video commercial. I have found my solution to my hyperactive brain and have given it what it needs to feel fulfilled.

If Psychologists were around for Robin Williams and gave him drugs, we would have never experienced his quick wit and humor. Stop allowing others to put you into a box so that they can attempt to control you.

Cast off their obvious attempts at control, domination and manipulation and find your own solutions to your personality traits and character expressions.

After all, if you listen to what ‘they’ tell you, you are giving them the power to determine YOUR future. No one has the power to do that unless you freely give it away! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.

DAILY 5 MINUTE
MEDITATION

I am the individualized expression of the Divine Infinite Spirit of all Creation.

I am the eyes, ears, arms and legs of the Divine in the omniverse.

I am the omniverse experiencing itself through me.

I am ever present through my inner divinity.

I am all-knowing from my inner divinity.

I am all-powerful knowing my inner divinity.

I am eternally creative as a result of my inner divinity.

I am that, I am.

I am perfect health.

With each inward breath my consciousness impresses divinity and divinity responds through each outward breath with perfect healing throughout my body.

I am perfect wealth.

With each inward breath my consciousness impresses divinity and divinity responds through each outward breath with everything I need, want, desire and expect to happen in my life.

I am prosperity.

With each inward breath my consciousness impresses divinity and divinity responds through each outward breath with ongoing opportunities to grow and expand into my Divine purpose.

I am abundance.

With each inward breath my consciousness impresses divinity and divinity responds through each outward breath with being at the right place, at the right time, with the right people and in the right circumstances to actualize my Divine purpose in Divine order.

As a result, I am at peace.

With each inward breath my consciousness impresses divinity and divinity responds through each outward breath, centering me and bathing me in complete peace.

As a result, I understand my Divine purpose unfolding in Divine order.

With each inward breath my consciousness impresses divinity and divinity responds through each outward breath with the complete awareness of my part in the grand scheme of the omniverse.

As a result, I am living in joy.

With each inward breath my consciousness impresses divinity and divinity responds through each outward breath with smiles of contentment, relaxation and happiness.

As a result, I am living in Divine love.

With each inward breath my consciousness impresses divinity and divinity responds through each outward breath with the ongoing experience of living in Divine love.

I am not separate from the Divine.

I am eternally ONE with the Divine.

I am connected to all of life and all of life is inextricably tied to me.

I am living in gratitude with each and every breath I take and give.

I am living in forgiveness with each and every breath I take and give.

I am accepting responsibility for all of life with each and every breath I take and give.

I am living in Divine love with each and every breath I take and give.

I am the omniverse experiencing itself through me.

I am the eyes, ears, arms and legs of the Divine in the omniverse.

I am the individualized expression of the Divine Infinite Spirit of all Creation.

I am that, I am.

DEFENDING ABERRANCE

When you argue in defense of your aberrant behavior your ego cannot accept that it has done something wrong.

It is protecting itself from seeing the truth that reveals that it isn’t all that. Why listen to an aspect of your being that has limited knowledge and overwhelming feelings that drive you to make hasty decisions, bad choices and repeated mistakes

? Why not listen to the still small voice of the Divine within that gently nurtures, guides and leads you to unfold your best into your life? Put the ego child in its place by completely trusting in the Divine to create complete and utter fulfillment! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.