A Continuing Series on Natural Laws
Part Three: The Laws of Good, Supply, Forgiveness,
Cause and Effect
by Jackie Kosednar
Life expects us to make mistakes. Mistakes are
the learning
devices that life turns into wisdom and experience.
Last issue we explored four natural laws of life:
the Law of Alignment or Bonding, the Law of Change,
the Law of Entropy, and the Law of Choice and Opportunity.
(If you missed this article, 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 Good: More and Better
Life is naturally good. The nature of life is to
create and recreate, to build and perfect. Life itself
is a perfecting process never designed to actually
be perfect. In the natural order, everything is getting
better and better. There is something within us that
strives for something better no matter how good we
have it. Desire keeps us alive and developing.
Some call this evolution. As things evolve they
become better or more. From mud huts to mansions,
it is easy to see how much nicer indoor toilets are
for everyone. Life is getting easier, more interesting
and more entertaining all the time. If you look back
through history you can see the secret laws of life
at work. When really bad things happened, really good
things came out of it. Progress was accelerated. Life
makes lemonade out of lemons all the time. You can
see how this natural law is exploited in the media
with promises of more and better. But one thing you
can always count on is that things will improve. They
always do. Everything is always trying to get better,
including you.
The reason why we sometimes can’t see that
life is naturally good is because we pay so much attention
to the bad and very little to the good. We take the
good for granted. The mind picks out anything that
might threaten it and magnifies it. It will often
keep the undesirable on the forefront of our consciousness
until it is no longer a threat. Good is so normal
and natural that some people actually need to be taught
to count their blessings, for they can’t see
them. If life were naturally bad, it would destroy
itself. If life were naturally bad, the good would
stick out like a sore thumb. Everyone has a storm
now and then, but balance is the norm; the sun is
always shining up there somewhere.
The Law of Supply (Giving or Contribution)
Life automatically supplies us with what we need
to live our design and complete our mission or purpose
in life. We all have a job to do: talents to perfect,
skills to develop. Life will propel us toward the
best place to fulfill our potential and receive our
supply. There is no set pay for any job. Each is paid
what they believe they are worth.
That doesn’t mean we are all supposed to be
rich. That would upset the balance. We are designed
to have more than enough. Everyone contributes in
some way. Everyone flows energy through themselves.
Everyone works for, builds, perfects, or maintains
life—the whole. If there were no sick people,
there would be a lot of people who wouldn’t
have jobs or anything to study. Some people are here
to give other people jobs. Others are here to manage
the wealth of the community. They need to be paid
more so they can spread it around.
We all serve each other—from the food on our
table, to the entertainment we watch on television.
Maybe watching TV is a valuable contribution because
it allows talented people to keep contributing their
talent. So, relax: do your job. Notice that life wants
you provided for, entertained, and educated. The only
one that withholds anything from you is usually you.
The Law of Forgiveness
Life forgives everyone for everything all the time.
Justice is blind because life is a perfecting process
that doesn’t hold grudges.
Hey, that’s not very fair, is it? Well, life
is not fair. If we expect life to be fair we will
always be disappointed. Life doesn’t place conditions
on us. Life doesn’t punish us either. It grants
permission to everyone to go forth and make as many
mistakes as needed. Remember, life is a perfecting
process. If you don’t get wisdom and experience
to make you better, you get to repeat the mistake.
Mistakes are a part of the natural order. Life expects
us to make mistakes. Mistakes are the learning devices
that life turns into wisdom and experience. After
all, practice makes perfect. But perfect is not something
that lasts. Why? Because you can always make it better
or transform it into something else.
We hold our mistakes against ourselves from the
mistaken idea that we are supposed to be perfect,
instead of merely perfecting. Then we get into a downward
spiral of punishing others and ourselves constantly
for ‘not being’ something we are not designed
to be: perfect. So, let yourself off the hook. Admit
that everyone is imperfect. Drop the shame and guilt.
Work to forgive yourself—and others. Only then
do you get the wisdom. Since energy never dies (it
only transforms), sooner or later you have to get
on with the journey. You have forever to get it right.
Law of Cause and Effect
Every cause has an equal and corresponding effect.
If you throw a rock into a pond, ripples flow outward.
If the ripples hit a rock, they bounce off and more
ripples are created. If the ripples hit a wall of
rock, their reverberating waves will come back at
you.
This is also the law of karma. In short, what you
give out is what you get back in some way, shape or
form. Or, “It is done unto us as we do unto
others.” This is true unless we learned a lesson
and were forgiven. And this is the place where the
Laws of Motion/Action join with the Laws of Mind…
To be continued: The last article of this series will
address the much loved Laws of Mind. We will explore
how your mind can be your greatest curse or your greatest
blessing.
