The 3 Laws of Life!

In my meditation this morning, I’ve found myself focusing on my past teachings about life. What emerged from my meditation were myths.  As I focus in on this word, my inner self reminded me of some of the myths I was taught about religion, societal values, marriage, work, and many other elements that are a part of my everyday life. For some people, these societal teachings have made them who they are today and have worked well for them, probably on all levels of their life.  And I can say some have served me well also. But I couldn’t help to think, if I know then what I know now, would I be in a different place, or would I be a more “successful” person?  

For the past five years, I found myself questioning many of the teachings that are so heavily interwoven into every aspect of my life, as well as society. I began dissecting, and analyzing them for their validity, efficacy and relevance to my life.  What I’ve discovered is that many of these teachings made me felt stagnant, they kept me in a comfort zone and didn’t allowed my mind to be opened to different perspectives.  I felt mostly inhibited, afraid, disempowered and have stifled my personal and spiritual growth.

As I began to question most of these teachings about values, I was led to many books and people that have opened my mind to a new way of thinking.  I began abstracting the common elements that I found and derived with what I call “life laws”. These laws are for living a joyous and rewarding life.  What I found wasn’t much different from some of the teachings I’ve been taught.  For example, they all spoke of a belief in a higher power and love, love for oneself and love for others.  However, the major difference was that the religion that I practiced for many years, ignored the physical, metaphysical and universal laws of life, which made all the difference in how my paradigm was shaped, how I processed information, treated others and myself, and fully understood the lessons from my disappointments, successes, challenges and tragedies.

The “life laws” that I’ve discovered are very simple and most of us have heard them in some form or another.  I haven’t stated them exactly the way I’ve discovered them, but I haven’t changed their connotations. Here are a few:

• What you sow, you will reap: whatever you give to life, whether by actions, words, intentions or deeds, the universe gives it back to you, sometimes with greater returns.
• Guidance is already given, our choices are not. God or the higher power/force has already given us guidance through its divine love. It is up to us to tap into it on a daily basis. There are several ways to do so; I find meditation, prayer, and daily affirmations useful ways to access that guidance. A similar “life law” is what you ask for is what you receive.
• Be mindful of your thoughts: our thoughts form our perceptions, our perceptions form our choices and our choices form our reality. Every action emerges from a thought.  We can re-program our minds so our thoughts fall within the “life laws”.
• Respect and Love of self:  there is a stark difference between self love and selfishness.  Self love comes from divine love.  It is “direct knowing”, knowing that you are a part of greatness and you have a valuable contribution to make in life, it is pure, it is authentic, it allows you to open yourself to others and to share that love.  Selfishness is all consuming of oneself, usually a selfish person will only address matters that affect or relate to them.  The selfish individual doesn’t place much emphasis on how their actions and choices impact others.  Most times selfishness emerges from lack of self love, fear, jealousy, abandonment and many other emotional and psychological issues.
• A consciousness of a higher power.  Whatever we call a higher power, my research shows that there is a powerful force that exists in our universe, which protects, guides and loves not just us, but our planet and everything else that exists in our universe.  It also created the “Universal laws”.  How we relate to this higher power or force is up to each individual. You can choose religion, spirituality, or other means to relate to this force.

I can not end this by saying I’ve mastered all of these “life laws”, or any of the others that I haven’t mentioned here.  The “life laws” have helped me to form a different perspective of life, be less judgmental, more intuitive, open to possibilities, and be conscious of my thoughts and actions.  One of the “life laws” that has made a difference in my life– is the power to choose.  This law has helped me to understand that the higher power has given me the authority to live my life the way I want to. This specific law is in direct contraction to one of my childhood teachings—life is predestined. I must follow a specific path to reach my destiny.  This couldn’t be more false, because if the higher power gave us free will, which means we can choose our path, why then would it writes the entire script for our lives?