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Natural Laws:
Part One: Finding Flow

by Jackie Kosednar

When we are aware of the way Natural Laws operate,
we can work with life instead of against it.

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.