Fractalcally speaking, the building blocks of nature grow and expand in natural order. What is natural order? It is the physical universe considered as an orderly system subject to natural (not human or supernatural) laws (dictionary.com). Natural order is an extension and projection of Divine order.
What is Divine order? According to truthkeepers.com “Divine order is simply the way God orders or arranges things. It is God's ordained arrangement according to His Divine logic and comprehension. It His methodical or prescribed arrangement of all things so that they function properly according to His Divine will. It is His determination of how things ought to be, which is the only way anything can work correctly. His Divine Order never changes because it is perfect and based on His perfection and unchangeableness.”
Out of the impressed singularity of the Divine comes the expression of the perceived dualistic reality (PDR) which operates under the laws of natural order. Planets move about their stars in gravity wells because it is natural for them to do so. People move about this earth because it is natural for them to do so.
Nature expresses itself fractal manner. A fractal is “a geometrical or physical structure having an irregular or fragmented shape at all scales of measurement between a greatest and smallest scale such that certain mathematical or physical properties of the structure, as the perimeter of a curve or the flow rate in a porous medium, behave as if the dimensions of the structure (fractal dimensions) are greater than the spatial dimensions” [dictionary.com]. Nature grows and expands in fractal patterns like the limbs of a tree. But why does it do this? Could it be the spirit of Divine order?
Our spirits create our lives because it is divinity in action. Our free will comes from the emotional belief systems we maintain to ensure our self-survival. These same belief systems that protect us can also hinder our progress by embracing mediocrity instead of fulfillment. Move everyday from surviving to thriving into the realm of actualizing the purpose that God planted in your heart. Jump out of your accepted ‘gravity well’ and traverse the heavens at the speed of light. It is your choice. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
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.
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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.
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.
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THE YEARNINGS OF SELF
The ego is a construct of our self-survival mechanism. It needs to feel secure and justifies that need by seeking to control the actions of its environment and others. In reality it can influence them but not ultimately control them.
Egotistic people need flexible people to exercise what they feel they must have in order to survive; to control, dominate and manipulate the actions of others. Flexible people need egotistic people to provide direction and focus in moving forward. Both need each other to balance the yearnings of self with the desires of SELF.
If someone flexible is overly controlled and emotionally abused by someone egotistical, they can choose to understand the insecurities of the egotistical person and love them as they are. This doesn’t mean that they become a punching bag for that person. It means that they recognize the strength that they have to offer and temper that strength with their flexibility.
If they genuinely love the abuser and they have made inroads to help them to grow in their understanding, then there exists a possibility of positive expansion. If they are attached to the abuser because they believe their behavior towards them is love, then they are fooling themselves.
Abusive behavior is NOT love. Love is kind, gentle and understanding. Abuse is control, domination and manipulation toward a self-serving end. Abused children identify with the abusive parent because they want attention and they come to learn mistakenly that attention, no matter in what form, is love.
Love makes you feel good about whom you are and abuse doesn’t. A controlled person lives in a shadow of insecurity because it is safe and comfortable for them. It is the only place where they can justify the attention from an abuser. Stretching oneself to the point of reality will reveal that no one deserves any form of abuse.
If that is all an egotistical person can demonstrate is abuse, then remove yourself from them as soon as possible. Their growth is NOT dependent on your participation as being abused by them.
Respect whom and what you are and never allow anyone to abuse you, misuse you or take advantage of you. Being flexible doesn’t mean that you are a punching bag for those who only care about themselves. It means that you understand that they don’t understand and that you need to remove yourself from their negative and self-serving influence. You cannot truly love anyone else unless you love yourself first. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
EXPERIENCING THE
PRESENCE OF GOD
How do you truly know that when you are in deep meditation that you are experiencing the presence of the Spirit of God? Could it be that your brain chemistry is altered by your deliberate breathing and that in deep relaxation your euphoric feelings are just electro-chemical effects that you ‘believe’ are the result of experiencing the Spirit of God? Is your assumption that you are in the presence of the Divine your ego placating your inquisitiveness just to give you hope that there is something more than what you sense and experience?
Those who are too clinical to experience the depths of their own soul rationalize the non-existence of an ‘entity’ that has created all of existence. Perhaps they are right; and perhaps they are missing the point of the Creator completely? In order for a Creator to exist it must underlie all of existence and be ‘beyond’ the system completely (transcendent). One cannot understand the entirety of a system (our perceived dualistic reality) while existing within that system (Gödel).
In order for the omniverse to exist it is assumed that there must be a beginning and an ending; from the Big Bang Theory to the Big Bounce Theory we have many theories of its life and death cycle. All of these theories are important in understanding how the omniverse unfolded but don’t amount to a hill of beans when it comes to feeling the inner presence of the Divine. Until you ‘feel’ that presence and experience the bounty from it, you will continue to live with ‘egoic myopia’ and base all of life on your selfimposed tunnel vision.
You are subjecting yourself to ‘believing’ more than ‘knowing’. You can rationalize them as being the same all you want and it will NEVER change the fact that they are completely different. Beliefs are repeated thoughts that you accept as true without completely testing and verifying their validity and knowing is listening to your intuition and inner guidance and TRUSTING its revelation. This is why atheists, agnostics and religious denominations have such diametrically opposed viewpoints! Not because of Divine knowing; but because of their acceptance and utilization of their crutches of beliefs.
Beliefs come from your acceptance of others’ experience and ‘knowing’ comes from your individual experience of the Spirit of God within. No one else can experience this for you; your blessings are designed to come through your vessel for you and you ALONE! True spirituality is when the mind engages the feelings of the heart and makes decision by a committee of ‘both’ and not by one or the other.
Those who only see the external reality as all that is will never be able to experience true spirituality until they literally take their self-imposed blinders off; this means believers, non-believers and those who do not know.
Knowing the Divine requires you to go ‘beyond’ the apparent system and enter into a realm of Divine trust. When you live by doubt, worry and fear how can anyone EVER go beyond that which ‘might’ happen and live by that which WILL happen? Live by Divine knowing and immerse yourself in the presence of Divine love everlasting. It matters not what others think, feel, believe, say, act or behave in regard to your inner spirituality. Be firm on what you know by Divine revelation despite what others believe. Be a light unto yourself and all whom you know. Be ye therefore living in blessed divinity! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
YOUR DAILY PATH
TO FULFILLMENT
Is there a daily path to fulfillment? Are there certain behaviors, when practiced daily, which can ensure your individual fulfillment? Are these behaviors, when properly mastered, able to remove you from feelings of being a victim of uncontrollable circumstances to embracing feelings of being victorious? It turns out that we need to have a certain mindset, coupled with a certain heartset, in order to create the canvas of co-creativity where we can paint the unfolding of our Divine purpose in Divine order. The first four; acceptance, allowance, rejection and resistance, focus on your mindset. The second four; abundance, prosperity, wealth and health, focus on your heartset. The last four; prayer, meditation, service and fulfillment, focus on aligning your ego with the Spirit of God in order to ‘ride the crest of the wave’ in Divine order.
Establishing a Proactive Mental Mindset:
Acceptance: Acceptance is the act of taking or receiving something offered; favorable reception; approval; favor; the act of assenting or believing; the fact or state of being accepted or acceptable [dictionary.com]. It is approving of something that has happened and believing that it is true and valid; even though its validity has yet to be proven. When we accept things ‘as they are’ we have two choices of emotional reaction; we are either critical and thankless or relieved and thankful. A reaction of thanklessness means that we have accepted what has happened and that our ego has ‘tolerated’ its existence. Tolerance is the ability to endure or ‘resist’ that which has happened and give the appearance that one is understanding; when in fact, they are only understanding to be accepted by others and not necessarily because they agree with how things unfolded. Tolerance gives the ‘appearance’ that one is ‘understanding’ without knowing whether they truly are or not. The move of our acceptance from our heartset to our mindset remains ‘reactive’. However, if we react with an attitude of being thankful, we set the process of being ‘proactive’ into motion. We understand that what has happened to us does NOT require us to ‘attach’ any negative emotions to it (e.g. being tolerant). In this way, the movement of our reaction from our heartset to our mindset IS proactive and genuine. Acceptance opens the inner door between our mind and heart; however, we must still ‘choose’ to either react with emotions guided by beliefs or proact with thoughts guided by Divine knowing.
Daily Acceptance Affirmation: I accept all events, occurrences, situations, circumstances and the behaviors of myself and others as being true. I repeatedly test their validity by observing how they occurred and why they came about. I choose to proact by listening to the ‘knowing’ of Divine guidance instead of reacting by attaching erroneous beliefs to my experiences. I accept things as they are and NOT how I want them to be. I enjoy where I am now in my life and value my experiences. I use my power to choose by creating an effortless flow of energy that keeps me comfortable and happy.
Allowance: Allowance is the complete opposite of resistance. It is a state of mind and heart where you accept everything just as it is and you don’t attach any emotional baggage to it. It then peacefully and surreptitiously passes through you without affecting your knowing of Divine truth. Allowing is NOT tolerating! It is accepting ‘what is’, aligning yourself with it and living in a state of joy regardless of what is occurring around you. It gives you an awareness to look for the good in everything no matter how bad it appears to be. It brings you into a state of appreciation of all that unfolds in Divine order. It is making a state of ‘feeling good’ a priority in your life and being consistent in maintaining that state. It is removing the mindset of resisting and fighting and replacing it with understanding and compromise for us all to live in peace and mutual respect. The Law of Allowance is very simple and straightforward; what you allow, you fulfill! Allowance - To understand that well-being is within you and that all you have to do is replace ‘need’ with ‘receive’ in order to have it unfold from within you.
Rejection: Rejection and acceptance are ‘mental constructs’ that occur ‘without’ significant emotional drive where resistance and allowance are ‘emotional constructs’ that occur ‘with’ significant emotional expression. Resistance is the emotional drive of ‘fight/flight’ and allowance is the emotional drive of ‘letting go’.
Resistance: Resistance is a state of mind and heart where you reject things based on what you ‘believe’ they are and actively fight their perceived influence on you. It is beneficial to reject things that are counterproductive to your being; it is NOT beneficial for you to add energy to them by fighting or resisting their apparent existence. Resistance truly is futile because it keeps us trapped in ‘reacting’ to facts instead of dealing with them ‘as they are’. We either observe the facts through direct experience or we believe what someone else has observed with direct experience. In other words, we trust what we sense or we trust what someone else senses.
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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 you make inaction concerning critical issues a result of your erroneous beliefs, you have shot yourself in your foot. Why? Because you have fooled yourself into believing instead of truly knowing. When you operate from belief it is your ego, a construct of certain reptilian processes in your brain, that ‘chooses’ to act or inact based on the reflections of reality it observes and perceives as being real.
All perceptions in your brain, in actuality, are ‘copies’ of reality and NOT reality itself. These perceptions are the result of observations being filtered through your belief system and then judged as being true and valid; for YOU and you alone! If observation is filtered through any erroneous beliefs it becomes a tainted perception and not a valid one. Remember, beliefs are nothing more than repeated thoughts that you accept as true and get programmed into your subconscious mind.
Truth can be established by one, yet validity requires shared truth. If what you believe does not align with the understanding and experiences of others then it is truth without validity. When 67% of the American electorate consciously chooses to not vote because they either believe that their vote doesn’t count or that both sides are the same, they are making excuses to defend ‘their’ truth and dismissing its validity with others. It is a selfish act of the ego; no more, no less.
Stop allowing erroneous beliefs to determine your individual state of affairs or that of others. Get off of your ever-widening ass and go the library to investigate the truth and test its validity. Stop going from one site to another looking for evidence to back up your skewed perceptions of reality in order to fulfill a selfish agenda. Your inaction is undermining your individual divinity; whether you realize it or not.
Lift yourself above the din of chatter and chaos and seek out the truth for yourself. Be accountable and responsible for that which edifies your spiritual desires and NOT that which satisfies your ego’s yearnings. Be that which you truly are more than that which you ‘believe’ you are! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
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LIVING IN AWE
Knowledge of the Divine begins by living in awe of the omniverse. The majesty, wonder and precision of the perceived dualistic reality is on display for us to learn and co-create our Divine purposes in Divine order. Those who refuse the instruction of the celestial stage are foolish and despise the wisdom it relays.
The Spirit of God within guides us to a deeper understanding of the world around us. As the play of life unfolds on the celestial stage we learn from our interactions with others. The lessons we learn from life adorn us with the pearls of wisdom and bind us to the realization of our entire beings.
When others try to convince us of their reality we must hold fast to what the Divine has revealed to us within our hearts. Do not listen to those who say they are following ‘the way’ for it is their egos that are fooling them and leading them to the death of their awareness of the spirit within.
When the ego exalts itself it has to convince others that it has the way to becoming great. It strives for safety in numbers and leads others astray in order to glorify itself. Stay off of the ego’s path to destruction and open your heart to the Spirit of God within you. The more the ego succeeds and feels that it ‘gets away with’ the greedier it becomes until it consumes our lives completely.
Every day we can put our egos in their place by allowing Divine guidance to unfold our Divine purposes in Divine order. Observe the cosmic play and see how the Divine unfolds the majesty of life. Learn its lessons and listen to the still small voice of God. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
LIVING IN DIVINE ABUNDANCE
Many of us do whatever we can to maintain and fulfill our lives each and every day. We work to support our families; we learn to better ourselves; and we participate in our communities to help others. But what does it really take to live in abundance? Is it a mystery that we will never solve or is the answer so simple and obvious that we continually overlook it and dismiss it as being too easy?
Could it be that our own conditioning of living in fear of what we don’t know has caused us to shut off the flow of our inner well-being? Or could it be that we are so smart that we are stupid to the simplicity of how energy flows through us and affords what ‘appears’ to be advantages to some and disadvantages to others?
There are four sequential steps to releasing and living in Divine abundance in our lives:
First, we must be thankful for who we are and what blessings we have already received. By recognizing that our inner spirit has already blessed us with life and the ability to maintain our life we have opened the inner door to our bountiful inner well-being. When our prayer to the Divine is one of ongoing thankfulness, we are acknowledging that the Divine ‘can’ and ‘will’ provide who we are with what we need to survive, strive and thrive. This requires a mind/heartset of the acceptance of abundance.
Second, we must be grateful for where and how our blessings have unfolded to bring us to where we are right now; an opening inward with the awareness of abundance. Meditation is the practice that allows ‘where’ we are to receive Divine guidance as to ‘how’ we should proceed. This requires a mind/heartset of the allowance of prosperity.
Third, we come to understand that contributing to others with our talents, skills and abilities (our blessings) must occur ‘when’ they need it the most. No matter what else we are doing we realize and know that we need to make others’ needs a priority when they are in dire need. Our Divine service to others focuses our blessings into sharing Divine love and NOT hoarding it just for ourselves. This requires a mind/heartset of the rejection of negative beliefs about wealth.
Finally, we must be bountiful with ‘why’ our blessings have benefitted others; to fulfill ourselves AND everyone! This requires a mind/heartset of the non-resistance to negative beliefs about your health and the active participation in the healing and maintenance of it.
Some may say, “But how do I move these imperceptible energies that have created this enormous omniverse? I am insignificant in this massive display of creation!” It turns out that we have an electro-chemical device within us called a brain that acts like a relay. Our brains use lower energy to affect and harness higher energy expressions.
An electrical relay is an electro-mechanical device that uses lower and safe voltages to flip a mechanical arm that connects higher voltages safely. Our brains are the lower voltage devices that ‘flip the switch’ of dynamic omniversal ‘higher’ energies. But how do they do this? By being thankful for who you are and what you have received; by being grateful for where and how your blessings have unfolded; by contributing to others with your blessings when they need it; and by being bountiful with why your blessings have benefitted everyone in your life. As below, so above; and as above, so below. As within, so without; and as without, so within.
By being thankful, grateful, contributing and bountiful with our blessings we set the Divine order from our inner well-being into motion to ‘affect’ natural order with the fulfillment of the innermost desires of our hearts. We need to move from accepting where we are to allowing where we need to be. We need to reject what does not contribute to our growth and expansion and not resist what appears to be holding us back. We need to allow Divine abundance to become our ongoing prosperity by supplying our needs of wealth (that provides for our loved ones) and maintain our individual health to fulfill the purpose of our existence.
Prayers of thankfulness, meditations of gratefulness, service of Divine contribution and fulfillment of Divine desires open the floodgates of Divine abundance. You now have the key to open the door. Will you use it, hide it away or dismiss the revelation that is now your blessing?
Please click the following link to purchase the eBook, “Your Daily Path to Fulfillment.” In this eBook you will learn exactly who you are, what you need to do, where you need to do it, how you can do it, when you should do it and why you should do it. Without the key to living a fulfilled life you will continue to live in mediocrity.
Why not become whom and what you were created to be by allowing that which has given you life to bless you more and more each and every day. Be ye therefore a relay of Divine love! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
The last question is more apropos to what Yeshua actually said. He said to cast out what you don’t see and feel before you down others for what they see and feel. If you have done this, and see and feel clearly, then you can help others. How do you do this? You actively look and see if what someone else is doing is CONTRIBUTING to the growth and expansion of ALL. If it isn’t, it is your JUDGMENT that allows you to see this. This means that you don’t condemn the other person but you help them to understand what they are doing is selfish and ego-centered. If they are not receptive, then you USE that judgment to navigate away from their negative influence.
In more of a modern day analogy we could ask, “What do you do first in an airplane and the oxygen masks drop down?” Do you help the uncoordinated person next to you to get their mask on while you black out from lack of oxygen or do you first put your mask on, remain breathing and then help them? The answer is obvious.
Before you can help others you must first help yourself. If you go about judging others without FIRST judging and correcting yourself, then you WILL be judged by others for you pomposity and piety. Don’t allow the misinterpretation of this statement by others who haven’t truly discerned its meaning. Their judgment of this statement actually proves what it says. I wonder if they have ever thought about that? ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
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CONSULTATION
SPIRITUAL BOOKS
12 RULES FOR LIVING
Rule #1: What you fight against will keep reoccurring until you stop fighting it.
Rule #2: What you allow in the now will come to you when you expect it to happen.
Rule #3: What you believe to be true has nothing to do with what you know is true.
Rule #4: What you share with others will help you find what you are looking for now.
Rule #5: What you know inside is more accurate than what you feel inside.
Rule #6: What you do with what you have increases your blessings.
Rule #7: What you are grateful for helps you to know what you need to do.
Rule #8: What you move toward moves toward you when you allow it to be what it is.
Rule #9: What you move away from moves away from you when you allow it to leave.
Rule #10: What you do to survive teaches you what you need to strive for in order to thrive.
Rule #11: What you seek in private is created for everyone to see.
Rule #12: What you do for others reveals just how much you care for yourself.
Religion is a specific fundamental set of beliefs and practices generally agreed upon by a number of persons or sects [Wikipedia.com]. It comes from the Latin root ‘religio’ which means a binding together of people with common beliefs. But what if those beliefs have been changed from their original meanings? What if those beliefs are completely erroneous? Do you still follow that religion? Can you believe it?
Word of mouth and writing of dead sheepherders, fishermen and monks from over 2000 years ago are influencing life today! Mind boggling! Practicing religion is ‘believing’ other people’s experiences as being true and valid without being able to actively test whether or not the beliefs are valid! Spirituality is characterized by or suggesting predominance of the spirit; ethereal or delicately refined; of or pertaining to the spirit as the seat of the moral or religious nature [Wikipedia.com].
The Spirit of God IS the seat of our moral nature and fills us with well-being when we allow that Spirit to guide us. It is a ‘personal’ experience between YOU and GOD!!! What others say about it makes no difference whatsoever. You have center in your being that is Divine love. It IS your inner well-being.
People who are negative or evil follow their selfish ego more than allowing Divine love to guide them. Trying to be righteous and moral with your ego in control is like driving without lights on a darkened road. If there is no Moon shining, you might eventually run off the road and hit a tree. Opening a channel of Divine love between your heart and your head is like turning on the headlights. You will see what unfolds before you enough to stay on YOUR path!
Spirituality is being open-minded enough to allow that which you don’t understand to be presented to you in ways that you do understand. Listen to the still small voice of the Divine Infinite Spirit of God within you; it is your best friend, your guide and the provider of all the answers you seek. Live your OWN spiritual experience and NOT someone else’s interpretation by following ANY religion.
Yeshua was NOT a Christian. Buddha was NOT a Buddhist. Mohammad was NOT a Muslim. Hinduism had no founder at all! All of these great teachers and followers always pointed to the Spirit of God as the Source of all of life. Why live someone else’s beliefs when you can have a one-on-one knowing relationship with the Source of all life. Cut out the middleperson! Go to the SOURCE!!! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
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WHAT IS RESPONSIBILITY?
What is responsibility? It is the state or fact of being responsible, answerable, or accountable for something within one's power, control, or management [dictionary.com]. It means that you have the capacity and ability to respond proactively based on rational thought and your inherent morality formed against moral turpitude.
But where does the act of being responsible come from? Is it a whimsical choice or does it require an underlying layer of an accepted value? Responsibility comes from the value of accountability. Being ‘accountable’ means that you are answerable for the choices and actions that you make OR don’t make! It means that you can explain or justify your thoughts, feelings, beliefs, words, actions and behaviors as being morally sound and/or rational. Accountability means that you understand and accept that your interactions in your environment have CONSEQUENCES!
If you are truly responsible for your interactions in your environment, then you know that you have a find a way to co-create that which edifies you AND others! If you are truly accountable within then you come to a knowing that you must give of yourself to others by sharing your talents, skills and abilities with them in order to positively affect their lives AND yours!
Responsibility comes from you acceptance of accountability to your inner well-being. Accountability comes from your inner knowing that we are all connected in Divine love and that we are here to share that which has created us! You have the divine authority to act on your inner values that shape your reality and the reality of others.
Don’t shirk being responsible and accountable for your expressions in your environment. If you do, you are playing games with yourself and denying the truth that there are consequences for your actions AND inactions.
Be ye therefore focused on that which edifies more than that which debilitates! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
WHAT MAKES YOU HAPPY?
What makes you happy? Is it the feeling that everything is OK despite negative appearances? Is it the joy you feel by winning out over someone else? Or is it an inner joy that bathes you with peace? Some people define happiness in misery. The more people they can bring into their pity party, the happier they feel. They recite a ‘Diary of Agony’ and a ‘Litany of Grief’ in order to suck you into their vortex of ‘woe is me’ and don’t you feel sorry for me. They keep singing the song, “I’m a real pain in the ass, I’m negative, I’m needy.”
How do you deal with these kinds of people? You throw them off of their game. When I answer the phone and they say, “How are you?” I respond with, “I can’t complain; nobody will listen. They have enough problems of their own. But, come to think of it, now that I got you on the phone...” Inevitably, a dead silence occurs. At this point I laugh out loud because I have offset their obvious agenda of roping me into their pity party.
I have no time for those who rehash negatives and ask for advice that they have no intention of taking. Most of them have already made up their minds of what they are going to do; they just want validation from me that they should do what they are intending to do.
Happiness is a state where you perceive you are living in good fortune; your experience of pleasure creates inner peace; your contentment is awe inspiring; your joy is real because it comes from within. It is not basking in your perception of your misery and gaining allies to reinforce your warped sense of happiness.
Be forthright in your observations, perceptions and beliefs in life. Be wise enough to know that some of your most profound beliefs can be completely erroneous. Be committed to living in true happiness and not some sense of happiness predicated on personal challenges and negative perceptions.
Recite your ‘Diary of Comfort’ and your ‘Litany of Blessings’ instead of sharing your woes and disadvantages. If you don’t, you are recreating negativities because you are resisting their experiences and adding energy to their existences. Be ye therefore living in true happiness and not masked over misery! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
WHO'S WATCHING
YOUR THOUGHTS?
Who’s watching your thoughts? Your ego or your spirit? Is there a supreme being listening to your every thought, taking notes on how you express your emotions and rewarding or punishing you for your behaviors?
Our spirit communicates as our conscience and guides us into an understanding of our positive or negative thoughts, attitudes, beliefs and behaviors. Our ego protects us as our built in survival mechanism. When the spirit discerns our experiences it affords us a glimpse into the greater picture. When the ego judges another’s actions and behaviors and imposes those beliefs on someone else that person will naturally react in judgment, unless they allow their spirit to discern what the accuser is saying.
The spirit exists in Oneness with the Divine and our egos live in a dualistic world of polar opposites and shades of grey. When your ego believes it has done something wrong it tries to protect itself. Guilt arises and beliefs of punishment crop up to create what the ego feels is atonement for its ‘sins’. This is a dualistic illusion that can only be seen in the light of reality by communicating with the Spirit of God within you.
No one is ‘watching’ you except yourself. You inherently know whether your actions are forthright or aberrant. The Spirit of God knows your thoughts, attitudes, beliefs and behaviors and is patiently waiting for you to wake up from the dualistic illusion and become the being you were created to be. It is all up to you to make the correct choices.
The reality is that when you ignore the Spirit of God your ego will go about creating what it believes it needs to purge itself of guilt. It can’t be wrong or not feel good about itself so atonement must be found at all costs.
Communicate with the Spirit of God simply by loving who you are and who others are. The roadblocks of consciousness will break down and the truth will be revealed to you one day at a time. Peace on your journey. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
Establishing a Proactive Emotional Heartset:
Feel the presence of Abundance
Recognize the joy of Prosperity
See the availability of Wealth
Feel the essence of Health
Establishing a Proactive Alignment with Spirit:
Prayer: Pray for understanding
Meditation: Listen within for guidance
Service: Share your gifts with others
Fulfillment: Be thankful for your blessings
The Path to Abundance – I know that everything in the omniverse is at my disposal to fulfill my Divine purpose in Divine order.
The Path to Prosperity – I daily allow my thoughts to recognize that the power of love is from the Higher SELF within me and completely trust the guidance that it imparts.
The Path to Wealth – I daily allow my feelings to not react by observing my environment and discerning my evaluations based on the facts and not the opinions of others.
The Path to Health – I daily allow the sensing of my surroundings to derive a meaning and passion about fulfilling my Divine purpose in Divine order by making the time each and every day to commune with my Higher SELF.
THE 4 PROBABILITIES
The Fulfillment of Abundance – I know that when I move toward fulfilling my Divine purpose in Divine order my Higher SELF reveals more and more opportunities that were always there but were beyond my perceived limited perspective.
The Fulfillment of Prosperity – I direct my thoughts towards the fact that when I express and share Divine love it blesses me with the awareness and guidance to manifest experiences that benefit all.
The Fulfillment of Wealth – I direct my feelings to allow that when I live the truth that I experience from observing the facts and not relying on others’ opinions, I align myself with Divine order.
The Fulfillment of Health – I direct my observation from sensing my environment to allow me to discipline myself in communing daily with the Divine. As a result, the Divine unfolds more and more into my world creating joy, understanding and peace.
THE 4 ASPECTS OF LIVING
Physical - Every day my body seeks its own level of physical health. I support and encourage this by eating healthy foods, exercising to maintain balance and order and resting to provide the reduction of stress.
Emotional - Every day my feelings move toward emotional wealth. I discharge any and all erroneous beliefs that don’t serve my greater purpose of sharing love with all in Divine order.
Mental - Every day the thoughts in my mind move toward prosperity in ideas, implementation of ideas and clear and distinct pictures of the ideas that contribute to my growth and expansion into living my Divine purpose.
Spiritual - Every day the blessings of the Divine make me more aware of my spiritual abundance. Through the responsible choices of my free will, Divine grace and unconditional love I make steps to get out of my own way to actualize and manifest whom and what I was created to be.
THE 4 OPPORTUNITIES
Prayer - Each and every day I ask the Divine through prayer to provide a clear path for all to health, wealth, prosperity and abundance. Through extending my thoughts, feelings, actions and deeds toward others I daily remain in a state of ongoing blessings.
Meditation - Each and every day I meditate to listen to the still small voice of the Divine guiding and directing me toward the fulfillment of my Divine purpose in Divine order. Through minimizing my thoughts, emotions, actions and deeds I daily enter a state where I can remove the veil of illusion that fosters separation from the Divine.
Service - Each and every day I serve others by giving forth my talents, skills and abilities toward the growth and expansion of all. Through focusing my thoughts, emotions, actions and deeds toward the betterment of everyone I share Divine love into the world and awaken all to the Oneness of the Divine.
Fulfillment - Each and every day I educate myself more and more how to fulfill my Divine purpose in a perfect manner that stimulates and inspires me toward complete fulfillment. Through inputting the thoughts, feelings, actions and deeds of others into my plan of manifestation I benefit from the lessons learned as a result of their interactions.
THE 4 ESSENTIALS
I Am Health - Every day I ingest the necessary chemical nutrients to sustain the healthy balance of my cells’ ingestion, digestion and excretion. I optimize my physical body by exercising, meditating and getting the proper amount of sleep every day. I remind myself everyday that my health comes from my source, the Divine, and not from anyone or anything else. I express complete and perfect physical health every day by praying for guidance and well-being.
I Am Wealth - Every day I allow only the positive feelings of love to sustain my emotional center’s realization, acceptance and allowance of ongoing wealth. I optimize my inner heart by relaxing, listening to the Divine within and discharging erroneous beliefs each and every day. I remind myself everyday that my wealth comes from my source, the Divine, and not from anyone or anything else. I express complete and perfect emotional wealth every day by meditating and listening for guidance from the Divine.
I Am Prosperity – Every day I use my mind to observe, evaluate and discern events, circumstances, situations, occurrences and the behaviors of people for the experiences only, without judging those who have committed any aberrant behaviors. I optimize my mental experiences by understanding that my thoughts are electro-chemically based copies of reality colored by my emotional beliefs and in reality I am prosperous in everything I do. I remind myself everyday that my prosperity comes from my source, the Divine, and not from anyone or anything else. I express complete and perfect mental prosperity every day by serving others in helping them to balance their physical, emotional, mental and spiritual aspects of their being.
I Am Abundance – Every day I feel the presence of the Spirit of God within to sustain my allowance of Divine order to manifest my Divine purpose perfectly. I optimize my spiritual awareness and experience by making the time each and every day to meditate on the presence of the Divine within. I remind myself everyday that my recognition, acceptance and allowance of abundance come from my source, the Divine, and not from anyone or anything else. I express complete and perfect spiritual abundance every day by allowing the fulfillment of my Divine purpose in Divine order.
I am health. I am wealth. I am prosperity. I am abundance. I am peace. I am joy. I am complete understanding. I am the fulfillment of my Divine purpose in Divine order. I am THAT, I am. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.
12 STEPS TO FREEDOM
1. I am humbled by the presence of God in my life, the magnificence of creation and my ability to co-create in this vast universe.
2. I am never separated from the divine. Any appearance of separation is an illusion of a perceived dualistic reality. All of creation is an extension of God.
3. I daily express my love to the divine for creating me, my family, my friends and the entire universe in which I move and create.
4. Since all of what has been expressed by humankind is a part of me, I accept responsibility for being human and apologize to God for all reactions of fear and for an attitude of acceptance of separation from the divine.
5. I daily release all judgments of others and their actions realizing that they are as much a part of me as I am a part of them. I formulate my opinions based on facts and the simplest explanations of those facts.
6. I daily appreciate all people, places and things in my life. I appreciate and respect my body, my mind and my connection to the divine.
7. I daily seek forgiveness for being distracted from the fact that I am a child of the Most High God and that through me, love, creativity and progress are expressed into all of life.
8. I daily release fear and reacting to situations with an ongoing perception and awareness of the whole picture. I embrace faith in my ability to pro-act with expressions of love, kindness and peace.
9. I am happy where I am right now because I choose to live in the present. I learn from the past, embrace the present and move peacefully into my future.
10. I daily give thanks for the blessing of life that God has bestowed on me. I live and breathe in an ongoing state of gratitude for my health, wealth, prosperity and abundance.
11. I daily seek a state of peace, because this is a state where all of my needs have been met, all of my wants are understood, all of my desires are completely clear and all of my expectations have been realized.
12. I make time everyday to relax, go within and listen to the still small voice of God guiding and directing me to the joy, peace, beauty and fulfillment I seek.
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