Hello and welcome to Universal Laws, Part Four: “The Law of Cause and Effect.”
Now some people believe that the Law of Cause and Effect is really not scientific. It's kind of a ‘new age’ concept—the law of attraction. But Albert Einstein actually has something to say about that. He says,
Everything is energy and that is all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosophy, this is physics.”
So that's his perspective and I think it sheds a lot of light on those who think that the law of cause and effect is not a scientific law. This law is the third universal law that we're talking about today and it's really been with us since the beginning of time. It's the most fundamental law of how the universe works.
We know it by a number of different names. The law of karma, Newton's third law, “for every action there's an opposite and equal reaction,” and of course those colloquial expressions such as ‘what goes around comes around,’ ‘what you sow you reap.’ So this is really not a new concept at all.
Religious Texts
We also find that the same law being taught in a number of the world's religions. In the Bible, book of Matthew, we see, “Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap.”
In the Buddhist scriptures it says, “According to the seed that is sown so is the fruit you reap there. From doer of goodwill gathers good, from doer of evil, evil reaps.”
Foundational to this understanding of the law of cause and effect is the understanding of the law of vibration which we talked about last week.
Returning to the basic premise that everything is energy and according to its vibrational speed and frequency, we have different manifestations—including you—because you are a vibrational being and according to the level of your vibration it's what you're putting out to the universe that will come back to you.
You Are a Creator
You are constantly creating with your thoughts, your emotions, your memories, your words, your actions. All of these are manifestations of energy.
As an illustration, if you had a traumatic experience at some point in your life and you've not completely released it, that energy imprint, or record, is still in your subconscious memory. Each time you think about it and feel it all over again it's no longer something in the past, it's in your present moment. By reliving the past you're recreating the situation all over again. As you recreate that past situation it becomes an even stronger imprint, and it can become like a prison for you.
This is one cause of illness, disease, and emotional bondage—not being able to release and let go of these past traumatic experiences which are energies manifesting in our four lower bodies, meaning our physical body, our emotional body, our mental body, and our memory body.
Well, the good news is that this is also true with your good memories.
You can likewise raise your vibration to a very high level by simply remembering or re-experiencing a very wonderful event that happened in your life. Many people use this “remembering” technique in their meditations to get centered in their hearts, or when their vibrations dip to a lesser level and they want to get back to a higher vibration.
Responsibility for Your Own Life
But in order to grasp fully and understand the law of cause and effect we can't overlook the important fact that we must take responsibility for our lives. This is sometimes a tall order for some people. Society today practically encourages us to blame others for the condition in our lives, whether it be our parents, our teachers, past experiences, the government, or just our particular circumstances.
So, contemplate this concept of taking full responsibility for your own life.
What does that exactly mean to you today? Are you a victim? Do you place yourself in that role?
Take a look at that and next week we will talk about how free will and the law of cause and effect interact.
Until then, keep an open mind, a generous heart, and a powerful spirit.
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