You Are the Universe in Action and You Have Everything You Need Within
What a week! Barb Patterson’s amazing Business Salon on Wednesday and the 3PGC Practitioner Conference that started on Thursday evening. It has been a full-on 3P immersion week! It was wonderful to meet with practitioners from all over the world and to listen to the original teachers share their understanding of the Principles! I am still in the conference afterglow and feeling a bit wooly-headed. Angus and I are looking forward to a relaxing evening at home with the pets. Very ordinary and perfect!
I’ve heard the story numerous times that Sydney Banks would say this is the best cup of tea I’ve ever had whenever he had a cup of tea. I am struck by how delicious the ordinariness of life is with a quiet mind. The simple things in life feel so satisfying like cuddling on the couch. With my ego settled my need for grandiosity has receded to the background, and life feels good. The mundane feels satisfying. The simplicity is enjoyable. Contentment is natural. There is nothing to strive for. At least that is the feeling at this moment. I don’t know if it is a passing moment or a new level of seeing. More will be revealed.
Sydney Banks discovered the secret to a happy life. He saw through the game of life to the intelligence behind it, and this opened up a new world for him. He was compelled to share what he saw with all who would listen so others could live in a new reality with a deeper experience of their true nature and more inner freedom. He saw the profound impact of what he uncovered for reducing human suffering.
I am struck by the depth of impact he had on all of the original teachers’ lives and by their gratitude. In turn, I am grateful to them for sharing his legacy, each in their authentic way. All of the teachers at the conference pointed to truth using their personal stories about the impact of the understanding on their lives. Each one of them reminded us to look within to our own wisdom. And Dicken Bettinger reminded us that that wisdom is love. We can simply fall into love, not with anything in particular. We can simply fall into our true nature of love.
This is true for all of us. No one is exempt, and no one has more than anyone else. We are all created equal and all connected to this one source of love and inspiration.
During the conference, we were encouraged to share from our grounding and to not share from outside of our personal experience so as to avoid b.s. detectors going off. I know I am guilty of going into ideas about love and wellbeing that are above my pay grade, but what I know to be true at this moment is that we are all equal. No one is better than or less than. Nothing we can do or feel takes that away from us. We are innocent. All doing the best we can with what we know. Our humanity is not a weakness or an impediment to spiritual awakening. It is the vehicle. Our personal nature gives us the perfect experience for us to wake up. As Elsie Spittle would say, it is the perfect continuing education curriculum for us.
It is such relief for me to know I can’t get it wrong. I am enough. No more is needed.
Hopefully, you feel this too — Your innate okay-ness. You do not need to feel it in every moment to know it is true. You can have the full range of our human experience and know you are okay in it all. There is no need to understand or change it. You can simply be with it.
The more I am able to be with my humanity, the bigger my heart expands, and the more compassion I feel for myself and others. The perfection I thought I needed to be happy and to feel worthy no longer looks important. All of my negative qualities and behaviors that I used to judge so harshly now look normal and are no longer an impediment to my experience of wellbeing. It is so powerful to see them neutrally without judgment. I see the learning available, but my self-worth is not diminished.
I am pointing you to your innate wellbeing and okay-ness, exactly as you are. I am pointing you to your essence of love and wisdom that is your ultimate resource. I am pointing you to your capacity to ignore your personal thinking or at least to relate to it more lightly so you can feel the deeper feelings that bubble up from behind the content of thought. Some might call it the space in which thought occurs, the Principles in action, God, or something else. Whatever label you use, allow yourself to feel the truth of it. Feel into your knowing. Allow yourself to receive all of who you are. This is ordinary and normal. There is nothing special about your magnificence because we are all magnificent. And the world lights up when we own it and claim it.
You are the authority. You have innate wisdom. You are the universe in action and you have everything you need within.
Rohini Ross is passionate about helping people wake up to their full potential. She is a transformative coach, leadership consultant, a regular blogger for Thrive Global, and author of the short-read Marriage (The Soul-Centered Series Book 1) available on Amazon. You can get her free ebook Relationships here. Rohini currently has an international coaching and consulting practice based in Los Angeles helping individuals, couples, and professionals embrace all of who they are so they can experience greater levels of well-being, resiliency, and success. She is also the founder of The Soul-Centered Series: Psychology, Spirituality, and the Teachings of Sydney Banks. You can follow Rohini on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, and watch her Vlogs with her husband. To learn more about her work go to her website, rohiniross.com.

Christine Heath & Judy Sedgeman – Spirituality and Resilience
When you no longer give authority to the fear-based thoughts in your consciousness, all you are left with is happiness. Through the teachings of Sydney Banks, you can see how your psychological functioning works, which makes you less compelled to follow those thoughts that do not serve you. Becoming more aware of the wholeness and integration of both your human and spiritual natures helps to ground you in the unchanging essence of who you are, and ride out the ups and downs of your emotional experience more gracefully. Accepting the normalcy of your humanness will naturally reduce your anxiety and fear and enhance your joy and happiness in each moment. By placing less pressure on yourself to feel a certain way or be hung up on self-improvement, you may find that low moods do not derail or debilitate you; instead, you will become much more attuned to your innate wellbeing and peace of mind and experience more happiness as a result.
Greater psychological freedom is the gift that keeps on giving. How grateful would you feel if you no longer had to listen to your negative, self-punishing and painful inner narrative, day in and day out? Understanding the role of thought and recognizing how it creates your feelings of insecurity and self-doubt is truly liberating! You will be better able to hear and heed your inner wisdom and become less driven by the noisy thoughts of fear and constriction. As an ongoing practice, this allows you to more fully experience your resilience and reach a greater sense of clarity about how you want to move forward in your life. As a result, you can live in a way that feels authentic and true in every area, including your career, family, home, creative expression, play, relationships and overall well-being.
Your ability to enjoy life comes from being present in the moment rather than caught up in habitual, negative thoughts that take you out of the Now. Sydney Banks’ wisdom supports you in becoming aware of how you get seduced by your limited personal thinking and thus, create a painful reality of misunderstanding, fear and restriction. When you recognize how and why this happens, you can step free of the pattern. This understanding assists you to dismiss unhelpful thoughts and not take them seriously. Unlike traditional self-help or therapy, experiencing more psychological freedom and enjoyment does not rely on techniques. There are no magic bullets on the path of well-being. All you need to do is follow an internal compass that points to the truth of who you really are—beyond transient thoughts to your unchanging, formless essence.
In our culture, success is often associated with hard work and narrowly defined as material gain. However, authentic success, as shared by Sydney Banks, includes such intangibles as happiness, well-being, love, joy, compassion, and peace of mind that are innate in each one of us, along with outward goals and achievements. It honors the whole person in all walks of life, whether you are a professional, leader, executive, solopreneur, employee, mother, teacher or student. From this knowing and experience, you can access the infinite wellspring of love that is your essence, then share your gifts with the world from a place of fulfillment and meaning, through a profound understanding of the interaction between your psychological and spiritual natures. While conventional success can deplete you, authentic success only fills you up.
Are you self-critical, hard on yourself, and constantly trying to “fix” whatever you think is wrong with you? Perhaps you have tried all kinds of different personal growth techniques and spiritual practices in the hope of solving all your problems. This cycle can be exhausting and never-ending, because there will always be something to improve about yourself, from that mindset. Sydney Banks’ teachings can help you to see how your humanness is normal and not something that needs fixing: as a spiritual person, you don’t need to change or eradicate your humanness! Seeing yourself as normal allows you to love and accept yourself exactly as you are—warts and all. Adopting this perspective naturally brings out the best in you and helps to find peace with your personality. Self-love and self-acceptance is your natural state, and any disconnection from your true nature is only temporary. What a relief!
One of the first areas people often experience profound transformation from the teachings of Sydney Banks is in their relationships, both personal and professional. While it often seems like another person’s irritation, anger, indifference, insensitivity, rudeness, etc., directly affects your experience, in reality your disturbance is a product of your own individual thinking. By making someone else responsible for how you feel, that person automatically becomes the cause of your suffering. Once you understand that you always have a place of well-being inside, independent of another’s behavior, it is easier to maintain equanimity through their changing moods and behaviors. Romantically, you may experience deeper love and intimacy with your partner, but the teachings benefit all relationships. This awareness supports more authentic connection and expression, while facilitating greater understanding, improved communication, reduced reactivity, more acceptance of self and others, and improved ability to work out differences and find common ground. Best of all, just one person shifting in a relationship is enough to transform it.
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Mary Anne Casey
08.04.2019 at 05:25Rohini, what a magnificent Monday morning read! It touched me deeply and profoundly. I found you late December and therefore found the 3 Principles. It has been life changing! Thank you!
Rohini
08.04.2019 at 09:09Hi Mary Anne, Thank you so much for letting me know. How wonderful that you have come across the understanding and are feeling the impact in your life!
Laura Jones
08.04.2019 at 09:57Beautiful reminder for me on a Monday morning. Thanks Rohini!
Rohini
09.04.2019 at 13:44Thanks for letting me know Laura!
Martin Brown
09.04.2019 at 12:42I love how you said it’s all ordinary and normal, nothing special about our magnificence. The moment I realized this, it became extraordinary and normal. I loved reading this, so simple and comforting. Thank you.
Rohini
09.04.2019 at 13:46Hi Martin,
Thank you so much for your comment. Wonderful to hear from you! So glad you felt the comfort in the simplicity! Best wishes, Rohini