The Universal Law of Balance – Part 2/3

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In Part 1 I discussed how the Law of Balance affects us on a cosmic level, here I continue by discussing how it affects us on the human level. 

See here for Part 1   here for Part 3

(This Law of Balance is the 6th in a series of 8 articles on Universal Laws. Links to other 7 are at end).

On the Human Level

To become all that we are meant to be – to become our Best Self, we need to follow the principles of the Law of Balance that pertain to us and ensure we live in a way that promotes a sense of equilibrium in our lives and harmony in our beings.

To do so we must look after our physical, mental/emotional, and spiritual worlds – and keep them in proper balance.

Our Physical World is comprised of looking after our body with our eating and drinking habits, our physical activity, and our energy output.  If we are unbalanced or over indulge in any areas of our everyday life, such as eating/drinking unhealthily or over eating/drinking, over working, over socializing, or being unnecessarily lazy or apathetic, the Law of Balance will bring us back to center – at one point or another.

This may come about as a desire to better our self, an inspiration that leads to a spiritual awakening that shifts our focus, or, if we continue to abuse our self something may happen that brings about an unwanted change, like an illness or a great loss where we have no choice but to shift our focus.

This article/blog post is based in concepts from my books

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and “Why We Are the Way We Are”  About Book  here

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Our Emotional World affects us both physically and spiritually. It is now common knowledge that we are what we think and that if we are fearful or negative, or focus on our issues or on disease (ours, others, real, or imaged) we anchor these in, or invite new ones into our life. If we focus on divisiveness – on our differences with others and emphasize these and ignore the Oneness we all share, we will create conflict with those around us.

All these scenarios bring chaos in our lives and cause us emotional turmoil; however, we have been unaware that underlying influences have been causing us to act in ways that were counter-intuitive to our peace and happiness, and in creating harmony with others.

Unbeknownst to us, Unconscious Influences run our lives – without our consent. How we feel, how we react, and often what we do, or don’t do, are based not only on our past experiences – the positive and negative ones – and the inner-heart beliefs and habitual patterns these created, but also on what we inherited from our ancestry and Humanity’s history – from our familial, generational, cultural, and religious / spiritual backgrounds.

Until recently it was not widely known that it is our emotional world – our wounds and what we focus on that keeps us in negative and habitual thought patterns and in highly reactive or passive states.

Nor did we know that it is these ways of being that invite conflict and unwanted circumstances into our lives. Conflict and unwanted circumstances often lure us into focusing solely on them, creating an imbalance of focus, which invites more negativity into our life. Vicious cycles begin.

Negative and emotionally imbalanced responses create pull-and-push scenarios keeping the vicious cycles going, making it difficult to break out of them.

It is only when we honestly look at and address our feelings, attitudes, and behaviors, aim to understand where other people are coming from, and examine our approach to life and others, that we can start to override our negative unconscious habitual responses.

It is not our fault that we are stuck in these negative and reactive states and patterns. Humanity’s past history lured us into fearful, survival, and negative thinking patterns that caused us to close our hearts and keep our psyches in overdrive.

In the Western world most of us now are no longer in survival mode, however we have retained the habit of an overactive mind, which has been supported by today’s society with its focus on physical needs and achieving.

As such, our minds have become consumed with our physical and mental well-being, with little time or energy to consider our spiritual well-being. Recent society has also touted the importance of mind and money matters over feeling and heart matters, discouraging us from being open-hearted.

We now know that we can and must override our negative, habitual patterns to find peace in our lives, as well as help create a peaceful world.

We have also recently learned that it is through our heart-connection that we access the spiritual world, so we must ensure we open our hearts and keep them open so that we can develop a strong spiritual connection.

(This article on the Law of Balance (in 3 parts)  is from a series of 8  on Universal Laws that was first published in the Starlit Path Magazine from March 2018 to December 2019. Here is the link to the magazine). Below are links to the other 7 in the series.

~ Rosemary McCarthy,  first published June, 2019, updated May 2020.

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Link to posts on the other Universal Laws (some are long, so are broken up into  more than 1 post)

Link to full post on Part 1/8 – An Intro – Understanding Universal Law HERE

Link to Part 2/8 – Universal Law of Openness HERE

Link to Part 3/8 – Law of  Authenticity HERE

Link to Part 4/8 – Law of Attraction HERE

Link to Part 5/8 –  Law of Cause And Effect  HERE

Link to Part 6/8 –  Law of Balance HERE

Link to Part 7/8 –  Law of Expansion HERE

Link to Part 8/8 – Recap of Universal Laws HERE

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The Universal Law of Balance – Part 1 of 3 (and Part 6 in series of 8 on Universal Law)

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The Law of Balance was set in place because our Universe is one of duality and polarity. Of yin and yang. I see the Law of Balance as having two aspects that affect us, but at different levels of our existence.

(See here for Part 2.  here for Part 3 .Links to the other 7 articles on Universal Laws)

There is the cosmic balancing law that works to hold the Universe and everything in it in proper balance, which affects us on the ethereal/psychic level and in consideration with our soul’s journey. This usually happens without our awareness.

  • The more human day-to-day way this Universal truth applies to us is that to function at our highest potentials while in physical form we need keep the various aspects of our being – our mind, body, and soul, or the mental, physical, and spiritual parts of us in proper balance. Our mental and physical aspects are intended to support what the spiritual part of us, or our soul, came here to do.

This article/blog post is based in concepts from my books

“Your Journey to Peace … “ About Book  here 

and “Why We Are the Way We Are”  About Book  here 

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On the Ethereal Level

At this level, the Law of Balance deals with our soul’s growth and its journey back to fully embracing the Oneness we are all a part of. To that end, each lifetime acts like a classroom whereby we are given lessons to learn and circumstances we are born into that allow for soul growth.

The specific lessons and circumstances of each lifetime are dependent upon which part of our soul’s journey we are to experience and fulfill here and now, as well how we managed and responded to what was set out in our past or most recent lifetime(s).

Although special circumstances may be preordained – like for the lives of the Masters, for most of us the deciding factors from the past or recent lifetimes taken into account are usually some combination of;

  • 1) how we handled the lessons we were to learn;
  • 2) how we navigated the circumstances we were born into, or situations that arose, and
  • 3) the balancing out of any harsh circumstances / situations that were not in our life plan.

1) How we managed the lessons we were to learn in the past lifetime(s) will dictate the circumstances of this lifetime. For example, if in our past life our lesson was to embrace our Oneness by overcoming a propensity to control and we were unable to override this urge to control others to their detriment or control situations that brought about negative results, in our next lifetime we will likely be at the beck and call of controllers. And if we were able to override our propensity to control, it is like we passed that test, and we will have new lessons to learn / or tendencies to override in the next lifetime.

2) How we dealt with the circumstances we were born into or situations that arose in our most recent lifetime(s) will dictate what our circumstances will be in this one. For example, if we were born into wealth and were stingy and/or wielded the power wealth brings with it over others, we will likely be born into impoverished or difficult circumstances next time. Conversely, if we were born into poverty and lived a life of integrity, generosity, and compassion for others, our life situation will likely be much better next time around.

 

3) Sometimes we are the victim of horrific circumstances / situations that were not in our life plan, and this is often balanced out next time around. As duality and free will play out, people are often caught in dire or war situations and suffer loss or physical or mental abuse by happenstance. Depending on how this is managed and the extent of the pain, these souls are often compensated in the next lifetime and are born into a nice and safe situation. They may have what might be considered an easy life.

These are some of the reasons it is so important not to judge others for their attitudes and behaviors or be disapproving of people’s life circumstances. As most of us go through life, we are simply attempting to navigate our life lessons or left-over karma as best we can, while some of us are benefiting from an earned ease of life. This balancing out in our various lifetimes is akin to the Eastern concept of karma.

See here for Part 2.  here for Part 3 .

(This 6th article (in 3 parts) is from a series of 8  on Universal Laws that was first published in the Starlit Path Magazine from March 2018 to December 2019. Here is the link to the magazine). Links to other 7 below.  

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Link to posts on the other Universal Laws 

Link to full post on Part 1/8 – An Intro – Understanding Universal Law HERE

Link to Part 2/8 – Universal Law of Openness HERE

Link to Part 3/8 – Law of  Authenticity HERE

Link to Part 4/8 – Law of Attraction HERE

Link to Part 5/8 –  Law of Cause And Effect  HERE

Link to Part 6/8 –  Law of Balance HERE

Link to Part 7/8 –  Law of Expansion HERE

Link to Part 8/8 – Recap of Universal Laws HERE

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Appreciating Our Planet, Investing in Our Future – Part 3/3

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In Part 2, I introduced the Dongria Kondh tribe in India, and discussed a bit about their battle against a resources company to prevent a planned bauxite mine that would have had a huge impact on their land and way of life. Here I continue that story and sum up the themes I discussed.

You can read Part 1 here; Part 2 here, 

The tribe eventually received support from various sources, one of them being Survival International, who helped create a documentary film “Mine: Story of a Sacred Mountain,” about the tribe’s life and this struggle. Survival brought in well-known British stars Joanna Lumley to narrate the film and Michael Palin help promote their cause. (6)

This article/blog post is based in concepts from my books

“Your Journey to Peace … “ and “Why We Are the Way We Are”

(Available in print and e-book, About links and  book cover images are below)

The film shows that the Dongria Kondh people are autonomous and actually thrive in the area their people have occupied for centuries, contrary to the popular belief that rural tribes and those living isolated from civilization are all characterized by hardship. The proposal to go ahead with the mining project was denied.

This denial has set a precedent and now has an international impact for future companies whose intention is to encroach on tribal lands for profit.

The extensive research that was done throughout the tribe’s struggle brought to light the necessity of fully investigating the effects projects of large corporations have on tribal and native peoples and their way life.

Our Countries’ Harmonies Are Linked to Indigenous Peoples’ Healing

In North America, most of us were not taught and therefore have not been aware of the extent and repercussions of the abuses the Indigenous peoples suffered when colonists came from Europe in search of a better life and took over their land.

The settler’s conquests paved the way for comfortable lives for themselves, and now ours. To ensure we create a good and safe future for all of us it is important to acknowledge and address what our ancestors did as they settled.

It is arrogant, even ignorant of us to complain about immigration and how those seeking a better life are changing the cultural landscape while we have not righted the wrongs made when our ancestors not only changed the Indigenous peoples’ cultural landscape, but in many cases eradicated some tribes completely.

If we want a harmonious future with those who are now immigrating into our countries as well as ensuring that our laws and the spirit of them are upheld, we must connect the dots between how we acted in the past towards the Indigenous people we usurped, the karma this was created, and what we want for our future.

Past karma can be overcome – when we choose to hold to positive attitudes around similar concepts and if we address the repercussions of past negative attitudes and their actions.

We Must Be Wise, Hopeful, and Open to Alternatives

Most of us understand that we have to change our ways to protect our environment and we do what we can, but fully embracing sustainable living while at the same time keeping our mouths fed and our houses heated and/or cooled is a complicated issue; it will not happen overnight. In the meantime,

  • we can educate ourselves;
  • we can start making wiser decisions;we can support others in their quests for environmentally safer choices;
  • we also have to believe in the possibility of creating a cleaner and safer world for our children and their children;
  • while at the same time face the fact that some of what is familiar to us may disappear;
  • and we do this by being open to alternatives.

For example, we can exchange our lush green lawns and properties that require much watering to those characterized by various decorative alternatives to grass and plants.

Kelowna, B.C. (a dry, arid area in the Okanagan valley) has some beautiful properties that use a combination of different colored pebbles, small rocks, mulch, and small flowering and cactus-like plants and shrubs to create beautiful gardens. I’m sure other dry arid places have adopted similar practices.

With a little foresight and imagination there are many alternatives we can implement that are better for the Planet and that will also satisfy us – we just have to be a little flexible and open to new ideas.

Ideas and insights like this will start to be birthed in us once we make the decision to do what we can for our home. Gaia wants to survive – to thrive.

The energy of the planetary evolution we are in is inspiring us to reach for viable alternatives.

There is enough of what we need for all of us to go around, we just have to use what our Planet has bequeathed to us wisely – as the Indigenous peoples are asking us to do. (See below for links to my articles: Planetary Evolution and The Concept of Enough) ).

Eisenstein also tells us that the Indigenous mission has not been to change the world, but to act as a signpost showing us the way.

And although many tribes have disappeared, and most of them and many of us are saddened by this, their assignment was only to continue to exist long enough to show us how we as humans can live in reciprocity with nature and Gaia.

He says that as a whole, they have no awareness of this, but they do feel and have felt sorrow and the unfairness of what we have put upon them and the Planet.

As we all should! Not to focus on past mistakes based in ignorance – but using newfound knowledge and understanding to look to creating a better future for all of us.

See here for link to article, Our Planetary Evolution, and here for The Concept of Enough.

(See bottom of page for Endnote).

~ Rosemary McCarthy© August 29, 2019.

 

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(6) Mine, Story of a Sacred Mountain, narrated by Joanna Lumley, (Survival International) http://www.survivalinternational.org/films/mine

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Appreciating Our Planet, Investing in Our Future – Part 2/3

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The traditional teachings among most native people worldwide reveal their understanding of the concept of enough. I list some of these in part 1.

(You can read Part 1 here  And here for my blog post The Concept of Enough)

Embedded in the Indigenous peoples’ histories is the belief that we are all our Planet’s stewards.

We would do well to listen to the Indigenous peoples and their concerns about maintaining fresh air, clean water, and healthy land. To carefully study and reflect on their approaches to nature.

We must do this for them so that they can maintain their connections to the land and cultures, and therefore their sense of empowerment, but we also must do it for all people.

As a collective society, it is the Indigenous people who have maintained the knowledge of how to keep our Planet healthy. Their beliefs about it are our road-map to achieving a good and healthy future for our children and our survival as a whole – just as they intended eons ago.

This article/blog post is based in concepts from my books

“Your Journey to Peace … “ and “Why We Are the Way We Are”

(Available in print and e-book, About links and  book cover images are below)

We Disempowered the Indigenous Peoples

Indigenous people all over the world tap into and sustain their empowerment through their connection to the land and cultural traditions.

Wherever we have overtaken their lands and/or forced our ways upon them we disempowered them, to say the least. The effects of centuries of abuse, misuse, control, and marginalization has done extensive damage that echoes through their generations.

We must work acknowledging the accumulative effects of past abuses, with compassion for the plights they now suffer, with fairness in mind, and a goal towards equal rights.

  • We must ensure that future projects for profit (or those in the name of progress we want to promote) no longer infringe on rural, native, or Indigenous peoples’ health, culture, community, or way of life;
  • we must also acknowledge what we are still doing to undermine them, or their healing. Their welfare must be kept at the forefront of any decision-making that impacts the environment as a whole, their health, general welfare, cultural traditions, and their land;

  • we must do this so that Indigenous peoples can regain and maintain their connection to the land, which is essential to their sense of empowerment. This is what will allow them to thrive again;
  • we need to create partnerships with the Indigenous groups within our countries and work together to create a harmonious future that will benefit us all, and our future generations, on the lands we now share.

Programs and Movements Are Being Created Around the World

We are starting to address Indigenous peoples concerns: for the repercussions Indigenous peoples suffered at our hands, as well as to support their struggles against further encroachment on their heritage lands for greed and profit.

In 2012, a movement called Idle No More, was started in Canada countering a specific bill that would directly affect the First Nations concerns.

It spread to the United States, where it grew into one of the largest protests ever regarding Native American issues, and various other protests arose in solidarity around the world.

Many who were not of Indigenous heritage joined the Idle No More protests – some to show support for the native peoples’ concerns and others because of general environmental issues that affect all of us and our future.

In 2015 Canada set up a commission to bring to light and address the abuse and other ill effects for First Nations children that resulted from the Indian Residential School system that was set up by Government and Church over 150 years ago, with the last school closing only in the mid 1990’s.

These schools were aimed to alienate the First Nations children from their families and undermine their culture. The children who were forced to leave their reserves and attend these schools (where they were also badly treated) were heavily affected.

So were their descendants: the repercussions from alienating these children from their families and culture caused far-reaching negative effects.

In India, and after years of struggle, in 2010 the Dongria Kondh tribe won their battle against a resources company to prevent a planned bauxite mine that would have had a huge impact on their land and way of life.

They received support from various sources, one of them being Survival International, who helped create a documentary film “Mine: Story of a Sacred Mountain,” about the tribe’s life and this struggle. Survival brought in well-known British stars Joanna Lumley to narrate the film and Michael Palin help promote their cause. (1)

The film shows that the Dongria Kondh people are autonomous and actually thrive in the area their people have occupied for centuries, contrary to the popular belief that rural tribes and those living isolated from civilization are all characterized by hardship. The proposal to go ahead with the mining project was denied.

This denial has set a precedent and now has an international impact for future companies whose intention is to encroach on tribal lands for profit.

The extensive research that was done throughout the tribe’s struggle brought to light the necessity of fully investigating the effects projects of large corporations have on tribal and native peoples and their way of life.

Next week, in Part 3 I will continue this theme that the Indigenous people are our road-map back to harmonious living. with my article Our Countries’ Harmonies Are Linked to the Indigenous Peoples’ Healing.

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~ Rosemary McCarthy© August, 2019.

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(1)Mine, Story of a Sacred Mountain, narrated by Joanna Lumley, (Survival International) http://www.survivalinternational.org/films/mine

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Newsletter July 2019 – No Longer Missing My Kitchen Window

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My July newsletter message was inspired by a realization that I no longer missed looking out of the kitchen window of my house that I sold a few years ago. Although not a big loss, overcoming the emotional attachments we have to even small things we love and find joy in is a huge spiritual growth.

Here is a bit of the message. The links to read it all as well as to sign up for my future  newsletters are below.

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We live in an ever-changing world, and change is a natural part of everyday life. So is loss.

When changes that affect our habits or way of life are of our choosing, we are usually moving in a life-affirming direction and slip into our new roles or situations easily. However, when changes are thrust upon us – either by another, through happenstance, or caused by our bad life choices, we often find it difficult to adjust.

What is familiar to us helps us feel secure, and when what we are used to slips away without our consent and threatens our habits, daily life, lifestyle, or security it may throw us into emotional turmoil. We may become angry, depressed, and/or blame others or the world. We may feel that life is not fair. We may start to feel destabilized – as if we have nothing to hold onto.

However, minor changes that on the outside might seem like we should get over quickly can also have strong and long-lasting effects. Especially if we lose something we love and that brings us joy, like selling our house and missing our garden.

It is normal to miss something we have been accustomed to, but sometimes we develop a sense of sadness that may linger for a longer than what is normal or appropriate. It is our emotional and spiritual strength that allows us to get through loss and change more easily. If we are not dealing with change or loss fittingly, building up our emotional and spiritual strengths helps us do so. And it is working through change and loss that helps us to grow spiritually.

Spiritual growth is simply our ability to feel and express love and its qualities more than we were able to before:

  • being less reactive,
  • more forgiving,
  • able to make peace with others and changed circumstances more easily than we used to,
  • being more accepting of all others who look, think, believe, or act differently that we do rather than being judgmental of them – than we were able to before.

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Appreciating Our Planet; Investing in Our Future – Part 1/2

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Gaia, our Planet, is a living, breathing organism. She is a conscious, living being. She is our home. She is meant to sustain us. To nurture us. She gives to us freely and asks for nothing in return.

However, most of us in the industrialized world have somehow forgotten the importance of our connection to her.

Both Physical and Emotional Abuses Affect Our Planet

Although some of the changes our Planet is going through are simply part of her evolutionary process, many are because of our greed, ignorance, and modernization – what we have physically done to her by defiling her land, polluting her air and water, damming up her waterways, and raping her natural resources.

Our Planet has also been affected by the emotional abuses we have put upon her. Humanity’s hate, greed, killing, judgment, and control over each other have also affected her energetic body.

Just as mistreatment of our physical and emotional bodies affects all aspects of our well-being, it is the same with our beautiful Planet.

In attempting to re-balance herself, Gaia’s energy flow has shifted and swayed, often causing violent weather patterns.

Humanity once lived in harmony with nature and lived sustainably with the Planet’s natural elements. The further we fell into duality the more we aligned with attitudes of lack and greed.

This article/blog post is based in concepts from my books

“Your Journey to Peace … “ and “Why We Are the Way We Are”

(Available in print and e-book, About links and  book cover images are below)

Our lives became based on acquiring, amassing, and trotting over whomever and whatever to get what we wanted, or thought we needed to survive. Thom Hartmann expresses this beautifully in The Last Hours of the Ancient Sunlight.

Modern civilizations have come to truly

believe that the paths to a better life are 

consumerism and to use our cleverness to

manipulate the “machine of nature”

to our advantage. (1)

For the most part, the Indigenous peoples around the world have maintained a connection with Mother Nature – they still hold a close, reciprocal relationship with her.

Maintaining harmony and a connection to nature was actually a conscious decision Indigenous people made as a group, eons ago, so that when we lost this connection they could show us the way back.

Indigenous People’s Road Map to Harmonious Living

The Indigenous peoples’ gentle nature and connection to the earth are linked to the healing of Humanity.

In his article “The Three Seeds,” Charles Eisenstein tells us that thousands of years ago when we chose to play the game of “separation” with nature, the prophets at that time suspected we would lose our way and left “three seeds” to help us find our way back. (2)

The first seed was the “wisdom lineages.” These preserved and protected the essential knowledge, and became the mystical branches of the religions or belief systems: the Zen masters / gurus in the Eastern religions; Hasidism / the Kabbalah in Judaism; Sufism in Islam; the mystical branches of Christianity. The sages and holy men within these spiritual branches upheld the humility and mystical, experiential aspects of their faiths. (3)

The second seed was the “sacred stories: myths, legends, scriptures, fairy tales and folklore.” These tales, crouched in imagery and allegory, transcend the conscious mind, as they are supernatural conduits that convey the hidden knowledge of the ages. They infuse us with awe, wonder, and hope, so that however far we wandered into the “Labyrinth of Separation,” we always had a lifeline to find our way back. (4)

The third seed was the “indigenous tribes” who consciously chose to forgo the journey of separation with Gaia and growth into a technological society that destroyed nature. They instead continued to live close to the land and in harmony with nature so they could eventually provide us with a road map back to living in accordance with the “laws of nature.” The various tribes hold different aspects of the knowledge we have lost, such as how to commune reciprocally with nature and the animal kingdoms; read and understand dreams; raise our children; and see beyond our limited third-dimensional idea of time. (5)

Traditional teachings among most native people worldwide reveal their understanding of the concept of enough.

  • Those who live off the land, free of material obsessions, believe the earth will provide them with basic necessities;
  • They understand our deep connection to it;
  • They appreciate that the earth nourishes us with water, air, and food and understand that maintaining the purity of these is crucial;
  • They recognize Mother Earth as a gift from our Creator and that every molecule on it lives and breathes.

(For more information on this notion of enough see here for my article/blog post “The Concept of Enough.”)

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Endnotes:

(1)Thom Hartmann, The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: Waking Up to Personal and Global Transformation (Northfield, VT: Mythical Books, 1998), 191.

(2)Charles Eisenstein, “The Three Seeds,” Golden Age of Gaia, June 9, 2012, www.the2012scenario.com/2012/06/charles-eisenstein-the-three-seeds.

(3)Ibid.      (4)Ibid.    (5)Ibid.

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The Universal Law of Cause and Effect (Part 5 in series of 8 on Universal Law)

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The premise of the Law of Cause and Effect is that for every cause there is an effect!

(This is the 5th article is from a series of 8 on Universal Law. Link to other 7 are at end).

Most belief systems tell us that creation codes were set out at the beginning of the Universe and that cosmic forces are always at play – and that many affect us. Often called the Universal Laws, many of them are similar and/or overlap.

For example, the Law of Cause and Effect is not dissimilar to the Law of Attraction, but it is just a little more specific.

I base the Law of Cause and Effect I am putting forth here on concepts in A Course in Miracles, but it is also deemed one of the ancient Hermetic Laws. The idea is basically the same: for every cause, there is an effect.

For us, the Law of Cause and Effect explains how we can become the cause of our life experiences, rather than at the effect of unconscious influences that run our lives or of the world around us.

This article/blog post is based in concepts from my books

“Your Journey to Peace … “ here  for About  

“Why We Are the Way We Are” here for About

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The Eastern concept of karma is another well-known concept that offers an explanation of how some of the laws of the Universe, including the Law of Cause and Effect, play out for us.

The Law of Cause and Effect is really just a different way of explaining karma, whose premise is what we send out into the world will be returned to us – good or bad.

Many have confused God’s revenge with the karmic Law of Cause and Effect playing out in our lives.

What we experience are just the creation codes of the Universe playing out.

  • Thoughts create attitudes.
  • Attitudes create actions.
  • For every action there is a reaction.
  • For every push there is a pull.
  • For every pull there is a push-back.

The Bible tells us that we will sow what we reap – that the quality of what we put out there (cause) is what will be returned to us (effect).

Within complete Oneness there is no duality. No Karma. No Cause and Effect. No Action and Reaction. Because as Arten tells us in Gary Renard’s The Disappearance of the Universe, most of our reactions and actions come from a need to release because the world of duality we live in is characterized by “tension and release.” (1)

Cause and Effect and the Universe

As everything in our Universe is expanding and in a state of flux, something is directing things – causing them to move, change, grow, or come into existence.

The Universal Law of Cause and Effect

Stanislav Grof tells us in The Holotropic Mind that when physicists explored the micro world, they concluded that objects are actually an interweaving “complex web of unified events and relationships.” Something causes something to happen. In science they use the term Causality. Cause = Effect. (2)

Grof then concluded that “consciousness does not just passively reflect the material world; it plays an active role in creating reality itself.” The hypothesis is that there must be a consciousness that is directing – creating. (3)

Cause and Effect and Us

We are consciousness. We are reality. We therefore have an active role in the creation process. In our creation process. Active role = Intention. Intention is Decisiveness. Decisiveness can Direct. We can Direct. We can Direct our Thoughts and Actions at will. We can become the Cause rather than be at the Effect of our unconscious choices or the world around us.

What are the root-causes of our experiences? Are they conscious, or unconscious? Directed, or whatever …? Are we aware? Do we think about it? Do we care? Are we responsive, or Reactive? Do we want to choose our life experiences, or allow them to happen willy-nilly?

Do we want to be the cause of our life experiences, or be at the effect of our unconscious mind or the world around us? The Law of Cause and Effect builds on the premise of the Law of Attraction. We now understand through the Law of Attraction that we bring into our lives that which we ask for with our vibrations.

So, it only follows that if we want a different experience than what we are getting, we need to change our vibrations to reflect what we want. To Direct them so we can be the cause of our experiences.

It also follows that if we act and react unconsciously, unaware of the vibrations we are emitting, we are at the effect of our unconscious – we are not the cause – not the Directive of our life.

To invite better experiences into our life, we do not even have to be aware of this vibrational shift or the idea of cause and effect. The understanding of this vibrational aspect and of cause and effect has not in the past been at the forefront of psychology programs or Western religious teaching. However, in the past few decades many of us have gone searching for truths that were kept hidden from us.

The Universal Law of Cause and Effect

Much has recently been discovered and we now understand that attitudes and the vibrations they give off affect all areas of our life. And any who have made conscious positive shifts in attitudes have raised their vibrations and experienced the benefits of being the cause of new experiences, rather than at the effect of past ones – those that were not giving them what they wanted.

The Law of Cause and Effect plays out in our lives – whether we are aware of it or not.

So, we might as well use it to our advantage – to create the life we want.

When we become conscious of the affects our thoughts, attitudes, and behaviors have, or will have, on ourselves, our life, and on others and choose those that will give us the affects we want we are using the Law of Cause and Effect as intended – to be the Directors of our life creations – of our life.

(This article is the 5th from a series of 8  n Universal Laws that I first published in the Starlit Path Magazine from March 2018 to December 2019. Here is the link to the magazine). Links to other 7 are below.

Rosemary McCarthy© first published March 2019, updated May 2020.

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Endnotes

(1)Arten, quoted in Gary Renard, The Disappearance of the Universe, 2002, http://www.garyrenard.com/Preview.htm#law.

(2) Stanislav Grof, The Holotropic Mind: The Three Levels Of Human Consciousness And How They Shape Our Lives (New York: Harpercollins, 1993), 164.

(3) Grof, The Holotropic Mind, 6.

Link to posts on the other Universal Laws (some are long, so are broken up into  more than 1 post)

Link to full post on Part 1/8 – An Intro – Understanding Universal Law HERE

Link to Part 2/8 – Universal Law of Openness HERE

Link to Part 3/8 – Law of  Authenticity HERE

Link to Part 4/8 – Law of Attraction HERE

Link to Part 5/8 –  Law of Cause And Effect  HERE

Link to Part 6/8 –  Law of Balance HERE

Link to Part 7/8 –  Law of Expansion HERE

Link to Part 8/8 – Recap of Universal Laws HERE

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Understanding / Overcoming Our Reactive States

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Understanding and overcoming our reactive states helps heal our relationship. We can move from being highly reactive to responding calmly to others and situations – appropriate to what is going on at the moment. However, it does take some self-examination and connecting of the dots between our reactions and what lies beneath them.

(This post is a companion to “Connecting the Dots: Worksheet 5b.” Here is the link

Many of us are outwardly reactive. We may be aggressive, controlling, critical, or blame everyone ).and everything for our frustrations and feelings of disempowerment. We may be needy and expect others to answer our every emotional whim.

And we often get angry at those around us for not getting down in the muck and joining us in our misery and reacting to our neediness or hissy-fits!

Negative and inappropriate reactions are just the surfacing of past emotions: hurts, conflicts, or confusions about love that were never addressed or answered. These caused emotional turmoil within us, and until addressed they show up one way or another in our attitudes and behaviors and how we approach life.

This article/blog post is an excerpt from my Book 1 of my new ‘Our  Journeys to Peace’ Series

“Why We Are the Way We Are”

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Confusion About Love

The lack of love or the confusion about love we may have experienced when growing up is what keeps us from creating healthy relationships. (I further discuss relationships in book 3 of the series, Relationships in an Evolving World. (Links are below).

If we have not been shown love, or have received conflicting messages about love, we will be confused about love.

For example, a child whose parent professes God’s love for them but the parent doesn’t show the child love will become hurt and frustrated from the lack of love in their life and feel conflicted about love. If the child is urged to love his or her neighbor but the parent does not do so, the child will become confused about the meaning of love.

Deep within us, we have a memory of unconditional love — which we all still long for, and this combined with the lack of love or any conflicting messages about love keep us confused about love — how to give it and how to let it in.

Confusion about love — what unconditional love is,

how to give it — and how to receive it,

is why our relationships are so difficult.

It takes a bit of self-examination and quiet time in honest reflection to begin to first understand and then connect the dots to, our unaddressed emotional world that causes our reactions and frustrations, and to unravel it all.

Connecting the dots helps us recognize why we are bringing past hurts and confusions to present situations. Making this connection helps us to consciously overcome any negative, habitual propensities. It helps us choose differently.

 

Understanding / Overcoming Our Reactive States

We now know that if we want to overcome our habitual thought-processes we need to consciously choose our thoughts and attitudes  It is the same for our reactions.

Our thought-processes come from our mind, which often runs amuck. If we have unhealed emotional pain we are working under the guise of unconscious influences, which cause our emotions to run amuck.

In the same way we have to  consciously train the mind to override negative programming, we also have to become aware of how our habitual emotional are luring us to react and start to shift from anger, blame, neediness, etc. to taking responsibility for attitudes and reactions – and ultimately for our peace and happiness.

The influence of negative factors needs to be released if we want to be the creator of our life experiences rather than being at the effect of our unconscious influences.

Until we override these influences we will automatically react to situations, as our internal tensions from the buried emotions and conflicts within us need an outlet. I call our automatic reactionary or non-reactionary state our Default Position.

Our Default Position

Our Default Position: The reactionary, non-reactionary, or responsive way we deal with others and situations. Our approach is either aggressive, passive, or neutral.    Whether negative or positive our Default Position plays out in all our communications with others. It can waver depending on our mood or stress level at that moment.

Next week, I will further discuss “Our Default Position.”  To access, Follow my Facebook page or sign up for my free monthly newsletter. Bot links are below.

© Rosemary McCarthy June 2019, updated October 2019

Here is link to companion post ” Connecting the Dots: Worksheet 5b.”

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Worksheet 5b: Connecting the Dots:

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Negative or inappropriate reactions are the result of living on the surface level of our emotional world. We are either disconnected from our current emotions out of fear of what we may find, or we are unaware that past emotional upsets or hurts are causing us to react badly.

This post is a companion to “Understanding / Overcoming our Reactive States”  see here  for link.

Having no true connection to the honesty of our feelings and the depth of our emotions, we react from unconscious emotional states that have no bearing upon current situations, rather than respond to what is in front of us,

Connecting the dots between what we are feeling and how we are reacting can help us overcome negative, inappropriate,  and ineffective behaviors.

Worksheet 5b: My Reactions and their Root Causes

Example # 1: I feel hurt: He/she forgot. I feel he/she doesn’t love, value, or appreciate me. I don’t feel loved, valued, or appreciated.

Connecting the Dots:

  • I feel hurt when others don’t meet my expectations.
  • I need validation of love from people.
  • I feel unloved when I don’t get it.
  • Others haven’t always loved, valued, or appreciated me.

I recognize now that I am projecting the lack of love and validation that I had growing up into present circumstances and am  putting unfair expectations on those around me.

Example # 2: I am impatient and fly of the handle easily: I’m always busy and have lots to do. I don’t have time for anything that delays my plans. I am impatient with people who are calm. It’s not my fault – I just get caught up in things.

Connecting the Dots:

  • Being busy makes me feel useful.
  • I like the validation.
  • I feel I must do everything and for everyone.
  • I am impatient because what I am doing is vital to me feeling good – and been perceived as useful – important.
  • What others are saying or doing doesn’t help me, so I am impatient with them.
  • I can’t say no. I don’t like to say no – as it makes me seem not nice. I want people to like me.
  • I feel I must prove myself – and being useful helps this.
  • People say I am a busy body and that I have unhealthy boundaries.
  • I need to prove to others I am of value – that I am important.
  • I wouldn’t feel valued by just BEING.
  • i wasn’t valued growing up … OR … I wasn’t made to feel important … OR … I was told I was lazy … OR … I was criticized … OR … those around me were impatient with me.

Example  #3: I’m always screaming at my family: No one listens to me. No one helps me. There is never enough time for all there is to do. No one realizes all that I do. When I ask for help, they won’t help, or don’t do it right. It has to be done—and done right.

Connecting the Dots:

  • I like organization and structure
  • I need to control my environment — to be in charge of everything.
  • It makes me feel safe.
  • I did not feel safe growing up.
  • My environment did not have structure.

I recognize now that I am projecting past emotional wounds onto others and situations, which is not fair to them and causing unnecessary conflict in my life.

Connecting the Dots to Other Possible Reactions

  • I get angry when someone cuts me off in traffic; I take this as a personal affront; I had am angry and critical parent growing up. I recognize now that the one cutting me off may just be having a bad day – it is not personal.
  • When someone lets me down I feel hurt; this makes me feel unimportant to them; I have been let down often by others and it made me feel unimportant and unloved; I recognize now that things often come up and people can’t always keep their promises.
  • I feel taken for granted when my boss yells at me because I work hard; It makes me feel undervalued; I realized that my boss woks hard and may just be stressed or overwhelmed and his yelling at me is just a tension release.

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The Importance of Balancing Our Lives

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To be happy and feel good we need to attend to our body, mind, emotions, and spiritual connection. To the subtler parts of our existence. We need to keep these parts of ourselves in balance – at least most of the time, as a sustained unbalanced life will not serve our ultimate peace and happiness.

Modern society has devalued the importance of the subtler aspects of living: of taking the time to reflect and connect to what makes us feel peaceful and happy and of listening to the urges of our soul. Instead, we have been encouraged to follow a work-for-gain lifestyle and embrace the competitive market place that goes along with it.

When we ignore the subtler, reflective, and feeling parts of ourselves, which  convey our soul’s guidance, we fall into the trap of following what society has deemed important.  Unknowingly, we get caught up in social and economic forces that do not have our best interest at heart, and fatigue, stress, and apathy often set in, causing us to undermining ourselves from becoming our Best Self.

These social and economic forces are part of Humanity’s history that has been based on false realities. Of separate motivations grounded in fear, greed, competition – on me-against-you.

Fighting for our survival became paramount in our existence. We were reactive, rather than responsive.

Although today most of us do not have to fight for our physical survival, we have translated this survival mode to one of business – of getting ahead.

And we have maintained the competitiveness and reactive states of that survival mode.

Rather than responding calmly and only addressing what is currently happening, many of us react to others and situations aggressively – often bringing in past issues or unaddressed emotions from our past.

Our business, competitiveness, focus on getting ahead, and our reactive states have left no room to connect to our subtler and reflective natures.

This article/blog post is based in concepts from my books

“Your Journey to Peace … “ and “Why We Are the Way We Are”

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With the reflective and feeling parts of ourselves disregarded, we lead unbalanced lives. We have become disconnected from the subtleties of our True Self.

This can cause us to be uncompassionate. Selfish. Unable to see how our attitudes and behaviors affect those around us.

An unbalanced life undermines our peace and happiness. And we are usually in denial that we are behaving in ways that hurt us or those around us.

The classic example are workaholics, who spend all their time focusing on success, money, and/or power and leave no time for relaxation, family life, or spiritual growth.

Workaholics are usually unaware or in denial of the consequence of their single-mindedness on themselves and the effects of their  pursuits on others.

Or, they may have their eyes wide open and simply not care about anything or anybody else at this point in their lives, which is of course their own choice. They just may have to face the consequences – at one time or another.

It is the unconscious driving forces from Humanity’s and our personal past histories that creates a distorted picture of reality causing us to allow for imbalances in our lives.

We are now starting to understand that we do not have to be greedy or in competition with others. That there is enough love, success, and material goods to go around – for us and everyone. That the Universe operates under the principle of abundance.

The Importance of Balancing Our Lives

However, to be open to the universal gifts offered we have to maintain a connection to universal flow. This connection is weakened when we are unbalanced. And when we live unbalanced lives the important things that ultimately fulfill us suffer.

This is usually related to health, family life, career, or our happiness and ability to connect to the subtleties in life. To feel joy. To feel peaceful.

We need to ask ourselves whether or not our life choices and decisions will bring us peace of mind, contentment, and ultimately make us happy.

Most of us have at least – at one time or another gotten caught up in the business of life and feeling the necessity of being in competition with others.

In his transformative healing sessions, Gerry Clow reminds us that as a society we have tipped the scales way off center as we have replaced the subtler aspects of life with the harsher ones:

“Most of our lives we are reactive, rather than reflective. We spend our time searching, not sourcing; looking, not listening; finding, but not feeling. We involve ourselves in life, forgetting often how to evolve ourselves in life, not realizing it’s essential – and healthy – to be on both pathways at the same time.” (1)

We inherited these attitudes. But we now know how destructive they are to our personal happiness and spiritual growth. It is time for us, individually and as a collective, to realize the importance of living conscious, balanced lives so that we can all become our Best Self. To do so we must:

  • Make the necessary changes to bring about living a balanced life.
  • Support and promote balanced life philosophies for others.
  • Let go of our competitive and combative ways.
  • Place importance on empowerment for everyone—instead of yielding to those who wield control and power over us.
  • Make time for the subtler aspects of living.
  • Ensure we are connecting to and engaging our True Self—and following its guidance.

(1) Gerry Clow, RPP, RCST www.handclow2012.com (2014). http://handclow2012.com/transformative-healing/(2018).

© Rosemary McCarthy, June 2019, updated October 2019

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