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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.