A Continuing Series on Natural Laws
Part Four: The Laws of Creative Thought, Perception,
Illusion and Mental Attraction
by Jackie Kosednar
You honor your own process when you go with
the flow.
This is the last article in this series on Laws.
Last issue we explored the Law of Good, the Law of
Supply, the Law of Forgiveness, and the Law of Cause
and Effect. (If you missed this, you can find it online
at www.alaskwellness.com). If you have struggles and
conflicts that cause you to feel powerless in life,
see if working with the natural laws instead of against
them makes your life easier while releasing unwanted
drama.
The Law of Creative Thought
Thoughts are energetic causes that create effects.
Effects can be as wide ranged as a new theory in technology
to the happiness or unhappiness we feel inside. Thoughts
are things: energetic blueprints that are propelled
into the world to gather or organize life. Every man-made
object started as an idea. Thought is not only creative,
however; it also attracts and repels. Through thinking
we attract things to us, or repel them away. However,
we may also attract those things that we may not want
or repel the very things that would be helpful to
us. This is where the game of life gets personal and
interesting.
What it really comes down to is belief. Our beliefs
are the basis of our reality. It is natural to believe
that our beliefs are true, for we prove them to ourselves
by manifesting them in the world or getting someone
else to agree with our views. Then we feel right and
safe.
Because our actions and state of being are the result
of habitual thinking, this is also the place where
we affect our life path in creative ways. Think of
it as a personal coloring book. When we begin, all
we see are faint lines and patterns. But then we begin
to color the pages our own way, with our own unique
style. This is how we do life, with life. We color
our books and add to them as we go along.
The Law of Perception
Because our perception creates reality, reality
is always an interpretation. And, because of this,
no two people actually share the same reality. Our
point of view is a combination of mechanical universe
and the type of conditioning we have received. Thus,
our perceptions can be slightly different from another’s—or
vastly different.
Communication happens when we believe we share the
same point of view with another. Missed communication
can always happen because perceptions never, really,
totally match. Trying to convince others that your
perception is right is useless. Everyone believes
his or her perception is the ‘true’ one.
This is necessary to maintain individuality. Perception
is the window through which we see our individual
life and world. Conflict is created when two points
of view oppose.
The Law of Illusion
Truth based on perception is not really truth. Nor
is truth that is solely based on logic. Rather, truth
is the subtle energy behind the human movie. All human
perception involves shades of logic and abstract thinking.
Imagination and story are also woven into our thinking.
None of our thinking is really true—nor is it
designed to be.
Our right brain is always operating. We make things
up; this is our magic. In fact, we cannot not make
things up. We love to exaggerate and minimize and
otherwise distort reality to fit our whims. The truths
we live and die for are really only beliefs or agreed
upon theories that we have made up. We all live in
our own illusion or, as the ancients called it, in
maya. And not only do we live in our own private illusion,
we also live in collective and tribal illusions. We
love illusion so much that we create it all around
ourselves—in the movies, on television, in the
books we read, or how we gossip with each other. The
only trouble with illusion is that it can blind us
to what really is. The good news is that when you
see an illusion as an illusion it dissolves. Awake,
you can enjoy illusions or dissolve them instead of
taking them personally or mistaking them for truth.
The Law of Mental Attention/Intention
Since thought contains creative, organizing energy,
what you focus on and think about will get bigger.
When you make a decision, you send energy in a specific
direction. When you move your attention or ignore
something, it loses power. When you keep your attention
on the negative aspects, it creates more negativity.
When you move your attention to the positive, a different
energy is produced. In short, whatever you habitually
put your focus on, believe in, or have decided about
life, yourself and others, will show up in your life
somehow, someway, whether it is good for you or not.
We all have to deal with the negative or more unpleasant
aspects of life in order to maintain our balance.
To deny the negative is both unhealthy and unsafe.
If your brain feels insecure, it can obsess with the
negative. On the other hand, total denial will keep
you blind while the negative continues to brew. A
better way is to acknowledge the negative and determine
if there is anything you can do right now to solve
it. If there is nothing you can do at the moment,
withdraw your attention so it doesn’t get bigger.
The goal is to give it as little attention as possible
until it is time to solve the problem. Then give it
your full attention.
Waiting is a great skill in life. Knowing when to
move and when to wait is very valuable. The way to
work with this law is to keep your attention on the
positive. Put your life in a continuously positive
frame and train yourself to count your blessings.
Who does your life really belong to?
Much of our life actually originates behind the
scenes. My hope is that through this series you will
begin to understand your life better. Why? Because
your life doesn’t just belong to you; it belongs
to everyone and everything you touch—physically,
mentally or emotionally—in your life. There
is so much more of you than you know because there
are hidden aspects of yourself designed to come out
only in certain circumstances, sparked by certain
people or life experiences. Growth is a process that
continues from birth to death. You honor your own
process when you go with the flow.
