So many
people’s health problems stem from feelings of regret, depression or discouragement
due to actions or decisions from the past. However, I am here to tell you there
are no bad decisions and there are no mistakes. There are only the consequences
of our decisions.
This understanding
came to me through studying a Universal Principle: the Law of Polarity. The
Principle of Polarity states that everything is dual. There are two sets of
opposites for everything found on the physical, mental or spiritual plane. Polarity
is the difference in direction or dimension of the extreme opposites of one
thing. There is no light without darkness, no good without bad, cold without
warm. Each is the same just in varying degrees; there are no absolutes. What is
truth for one is half-truth for another.
Opposites
are the two extremes of the same thing. Using temperature as an example, when
would you believe that hot becomes cold? You might say 32 degrees would be the division
because water freezes at that point, however ice also begins to melt at that
temperature. I remember the winter months that I lived on the Gulf Coast of
Florida. Locals wore coats and rarely visited the beach. Yet, snowbirds from
Canada wore tee shirts and even swam in the Gulf during the same months. All
were in the same location at the same time, but their realities were different.
If opposites are truly the same, then Love and Hate are just
extremes of the same emotion. Where does
love begin and hate stop? When does hot become cold? How far east do you travel
before reaching west? The answer is not a marked point on a scale as much as how
we feel or think about a condition at that particular time and the amount of
energy ( attention and judgment) we give to the thought.
How does all of this affect your life? Since all things
contain the principle of polarity, any thing can be changed. It is done with
the power of your mind, because the mind controls emotions. The first step is
in choosing to do so. You may not be able to change the thing you have
done or that has been done to you. However, it is in changing your belief about
the outcome that the negative effect is negated. Sometimes we make a decision
and the outcome is not all we hoped. This is because the person who asks for a
thing is never the same person who receives it. There is a process of becoming
that must take place…otherwise you would already have the thing you asked for. As being the captain of your own ship, decide
where you want to go, set your course and keep your eye on the designation. All
the things that happen in between are part of the journey. If negative thinking
begins the thoughts create a downward spiral that feeds the negativity with repetition.
If the attitude stays positive, regardless
of what passes, the outcome will be greater for it.
A similar situation happened to one of the women in my group
when I was a sales trainer. She wanted to win a company car. She worked a full
time job and sold our product part-time. A new car would be a wonderful reward.
She made the commitment and worked out a plan, but as she began putting the
plan to action her well organized life seemed to begin falling apart. First,
she was laid off from her job, and secondly her husband’s company sent him to
Japan for two months to open an international location. She felt
all of this was a sign that she had made a bad choice. We talked about changing perspective, making a
paradigm shift and seeing all these events as a boost from the Universe. She no
longer had a job; instead, she had a business. She no longer had a paycheck so there
would be no coasting on minimum sales. During
the two months of her husband absence, she had the freedom to work the hours
she chose. All the earlier negative events crumbled to became the stepping-stones
to her success. Yet nothing really changed
except the way she chose to view it.
Our physical world is only the tip of the ice-berg. Our minds, beliefs and emotions affect all
that is unseen. And the Universe will return whatever behavior is given out
from a source to its source through
another principle called the Law of Cause and Effect . This one was my Christmas gift to you...I’ll explain that one
next time.
