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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.