Last spring we published two reviews of the movie The
Secret. The movie was about the mind’s ability to create its
reality. What became apparent to me then is that there are numerous
spiritual laws—not just one. When you put all the laws together you
get a better understanding of life. I began to collect and write about
these laws, as drawn from my life-long studies. The more I collected
and wrote, the more grateful I felt to see them as a whole. To share
with you, this begins a series of four articles about these laws.
Non-Physical
Reality
Even though we
live in physical bodies, in a physical world, everyone knows that
there is also a non-physical reality. The exploration of this reveals
a web of forces that govern and/or flavor the flow of life. You
can’t feel thoughts, yet they exist and invisibly travel from one
mind to another.
For centuries,
science and religion have both studied natural forces in the world
around us. Science creates a theory based on observation and
agreement. The agreed upon theory is then accepted as true—until a
better one comes along. This is how we have structured the
understanding of our world. As we gather more knowledge and awareness,
theories changes—and so do we. Humans are becoming smarter and more
capable of understanding the mysteries of life. In addition, we have
centuries of observation not only by scientists but by many mystics,
philosophers and holy people who study non-physical reality.
Science
confirms that we live in a universe of energy that forms patterns,
which manifest as physical reality (matter). This energy and its
subtle forces move through us, just like the mysterious force that
makes our hearts beat, moving blood through our bodies. So this same
force moves us through life. Some forces can be so subtle that we
don’t even notice them, or so much bigger than we are that we feel
like pawns on a chessboard. Just think about how much natural force is
released during an earthquake! Even though we are propelled through
life by physical forces that we cannot see, we know them by sense
perception and awareness.
There are
numerous natural forces or tendencies managed by natural laws that
maintain the divine order of life. In simple terms, they keep the
movie of our lives rolling, creating the human drama. We know that
life works in certain ways and there is always a correlation between
the physical world, the emotional world and the spiritual world. What
is happening on one level is happening on the others as well.
When we are
aware of the way this operates, we can work with life instead of
against it. Truly happy, successful people have learned (consciously
or unconsciously) to work with life instead of against it. The easiest
thing to succeed at is being yourself, walking the path chosen for you
by life, making a contribution with the skills that are uniquely
yours. The hard part is getting rid of all the conditioning that tries
to make you something you are not, or makes you want more than you are
designed to have. The pursuit of what you are not designed for is what pulls you off your life course; thus you
end up with the wrong people, in the wrong place, sick and unhappy.
Take any
situation in your life that troubles you.
Look to see where resistance is being created and what you are
resisting. Sometimes just a little correction or alignment can have
monumental results. To begin, consider the following laws. As you
read, notice that these laws are woven together and often overlap.
Laws
of Motion, Unity and Exchange
No man is an
island. We are all part of a whole. We live within an energy matrix of
life force. Like cells in the human body, we appear independent with
different jobs; still, we are a part of—and dependent upon—the
body at large for our existence.
Energy is
always flowing to us, through us, and from us, as well as pulling us
forward. We are joined on the energetic level and interdependent. We
don’t make energy; we use it. That is, we exchange energy with
people, places and things. Through dynamic exchange, everyone and
everything affects everyone and everything else. Have you noticed that
you are comfortable with some people and highly uncomfortable with
others?
This is
because we are reactive beings. A body that is in physical or
emotional range of another body is affected by that body—for good or
for bad. Just as the moon pulling on our bodies has an effect on us,
so does every other body that comes close to our aura. Everything we
do and think has an effect, reaction or a result, somewhere or on
someone, as well as everywhere and on everyone.
Can you see,
then, how blame is a false perception? How guilt is a humanly created
emotion? For beneath our
conscious awareness, everyone is reacting to and exchanging energy
with everyone else to make human drama happen. At the same time,
natural forces (or a higher power) are also influencing us. It is
never really a matter of ‘you did this’. Rather, it is always
‘we are doing this’.
Law
of Balance
We live in a
universe that starts as energy, is then organized into pattern, and
becomes matter. Matter then breaks down or is made into something
else. This is how life is in continual motion—in constant change,
ebb and flow.
You could say
that life is a pulse that creates a wave. These waves move up and down
as they flow and move forward. All energies have such wave patterns.
Our body contains many pulses that send out wave frequencies that come
together as patterns. Why? Because energy has an organizing ability
and this energy—this life force—is the electricity the body
operates on.
When our
energies are in a state of balance, the body is healthy—the waves
are calm. The more stable the balance, the greater the health. And
yet, balance is never permanently stable, for some other force will
inevitably come along and upset it. This happens because energy is
always changing and organizing.
All life seeks
balance. Natural forces are always exerting pressure to help us find
or direct us toward balance. Balance is obtained by finding center.
There are energetic balancing centers everywhere. One spiritual text
notes that “God is Spirit whose center is everywhere and whose
circumference is nowhere.” When it feels like your life is out of
balance, one thing you can count on is that “this too shall pass.”
Even tidal waves do.
Life will try
to get you back into balance and on course. And you will find center
again. You can help yourself by noticing where or how your life is out
of balance or off course, then go within and seek center. Sometimes
the tidal wave is nature’s way of destroying an old, shaky balance
to bring in a better, more stable one. No matter how you look at it,
health is a question of balance.
Next issue:
the Law of Alignment or Bonding, the Law of Change, the Law of
Entropy, and the Law of Choice and Opportunity.
Jackie
Kosednar is a hypnotherapist, energy medicine practitioner, human
design analyst, and publisher of Alaska Wellness Magazine. She is the
author of ‘One Miracle After Another”and teaches workshops on
weight loss, mastering depression and Human Design. Contact: 272-2469
or jackie@alaskawellness.com
