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.
