Your Wish is My Command...

You have written down your ideas and have examined the many possibilities of implementing your ideas. The next step is to place those ideas in various situations in your mind that will actualize those ideas. When you concentrate you hold and idea in a fixed position and examine just the idea. When you contemplate that idea, you plug it into various scenarios where the idea is being implemented. This exercise allows you to accept the idea as valid, observe any potential flaws in operating the idea and see the most obvious and effective situation in which the idea will flourish. Once you have examined several different scenarios you will instinctively know what scenario will effectively work in implementing your idea. It is now time for you to visualize the end result of your idea successfully working in that scenario. Visualization is a thought process that initiates your point of attraction.

In my first article for the Examiner I quoted Carl Jung when he said, “Whatever you resist, persists.” Conversely, whatever you visualize, manifests. God has given us the power to create in this universe. Jesus said in John 14:12, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater [works] than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.” Do we truly believe what Christ has told us? If we do we will heal the sick, correct injustice and move mountains. In the movie “The Secret”, Aladdin and his lamp were discussed. The genie represents the universe and its laws and the genie says, “Your wish is my command.” When you focus on what you want through visualization, the universe doesn’t know whether you are living your dreams or imagining your dreams. It simply follows the act of believing in the fact that your dreams are manifesting with your visualizations and creates what you are visualizing. This elevates your point of attraction to where you broadcast and receive the manifestations of those dreams.

How many people go about their day fretting and worrying about bills, what the government will do or whether they will lose their job. What are they doing to their point of attraction? Allowing it to create what they are focusing on and then experiencing what they have created. Your thoughts are the trigger of the Law of Attraction but the gas that propels the bullet is your emotions. If you worry, have doubt or fear things happening to you, and you feel dreadful if those things will happen, you are creating scenarios where those things will happen. Change the channel of your thoughts to create a point of attraction where you are creating positive situations and growth in your life. Be true to yourself and stop blaming others, the government or the world for your circumstances. Own up to the fact that you have created what is occurring in your life and be responsible for what you have created. Only then can you begin to make a positive change.

Visualization is the tool that allows all of us to create the world we truly desire. When we pray we ask for things, events or people to bless our lives. When we meditate we listen to God telling us what to do to make these things come about. When we visualize the revelations God has given us, He blesses us with situations, people or occurrences that help us manifest those desires. When we experience how this process works time and time again, we expect everything that is good in our lives. Our channel has been changed from woe is me to foe is me. Sometimes we are our own worst enemies. Our egos are our major contributor to us NOT manifesting our desires. Ego is also known as Edging God Out. Allow God in and allow His Laws of the Universe to work in everyone’s favor. It is our choice to create health and beauty or death and destruction. See the BEST occurring in your life and believe you can make it!

For more info: Download my free Wilmington Spirituality Examiner toolbar. “Life is a gift. Be thankful for it and it will be replete with abundance. Encourage others to express creativity, release negativity and embrace pro-activity." Dean A. Banks, MCIWD, DD can be reached at webproducer@hotmail.com or banksnet.com. Download my free eBook on Articles 1-10 here.

Needs, Wants, Desires and Expectations

Once you analyze what your values are, you need to accept where you are right now to make an effective change for the better in your life. I have mentioned many times how the practice of prayer meditation and service gives you a way of exercising the Law of Attraction. Prayer is an exercise in focusing upon what you want. Wants are issues, events, situations, people or things you feel you require to feel better about yourself in your current environment. They are not needs. Needs are necessities that you require in order to continue to survive. You need air, water and food to survive.

The chain of emotional requirements is as follows: Needs, Wants, Desires and Expectations. Needs are fixed requirements while wants are somewhat transitory. They arise from an emotional state of not being satisfied. When your wants are focused and reoccur almost every day they move into the realm of desires. A desire is a craving or longing for something you consistently want. Desire literally means, “Of the Father.” It is the uniqueness that God has given you as His creation. If you ignore your deep down desires of expression, then you are in effect proclaiming to the universe that you don’t trust what God has given you. I for one don’t want to tell the creator of this vast universe He didn’t know what He was doing when He created me. When we seek our desires and accomplish them consistently, we then move into the realm of expectation.

When your prayers reach the level of expectation and faith that God will bless you with what you seek, you need to let go of how you will get it. The universe is God’s big clock that operates beyond the timing and control that you have in your environment. Be concerned about focusing on what you expect and not on how you will get it. You must let go of the processes of how it will arrive and allow it to arrive. Meditation helps you with this by giving you and environment of relaxation where you can hear God’s still small voice guiding you as to how issues, events, situations, people and things will come to you.

In order to receive, you must first give. Giving of your talents and abilities in a positive way aligns yourself with the universe in such a way that blessings and bounty will be geared toward you. Your service to the universe primes the pump for blessings to abound. But you must be willing to receive. Are you a Giver? Are you a Receiver? In order for blessings to flow you must know when to be both. Have a good positive self image and be willing to receive what others give you. Don’t block the blessings they will receive from the act of giving. Let go of any foolish pride about receiving blessings and you unclog the drain of the flow of blessings to you from the universe. Always expect the best results for everyone and everything in the universe. Don’t settle for mediocrity!

Prayer is giving an expectation to the universe. Meditation is allowing the universe to guide you to make the correct steps. Service is receiving the blessings from the universe by acting in an appropriate way to bring about the blessings you seek. This is a process by which you can attain your deepest goals and desires of your heart. Quit complaining about what you don’t’ have and give thanks for what you do have. You have the ability, the awareness, the knowledge and the wisdom to make your life all that you expect it to be. Release all of the limitations that family, friends, school, business and government has told you that you have to embrace. Embrace how the universe works and it will work for you and not against you.

For more info: Download my free Wilmington Spirituality Examiner toolbar. “Life is a gift. Be thankful for it and it will be replete with abundance. Encourage others to express creativity, release negativity and embrace pro-activity." Dean A. Banks, MCIWD, DD can be reached at webproducer@hotmail.com or banksnet.com.