Law Of Cause And Effect

This Universal Law states that nothing happens by chance or outside the Universal Laws. Every action has a reaction or consequence and we “reap what we have sown.” You must have heard a statement that states that "Cause Causes Certain Effects" or   C = E. The Law of Cause and Effect states that for every action there is equal and opposite reaction. You are always at cause. You just do not know it yet. Your results are the effect of your dominant thinking patterns. Think about the results you created in your life for example. By results I mean EVERYTHING, you created for yourself and others (you health, relationships, career, bank account, house, cars, etc...). Have you ever wondered how did you create these results? What caused specific results in your life?

If you think about it logically, it had to be the dominate thought patterns you produced. You DID something, whether it was a decision that you made or action that you took, and that caused the result in your life. "I did nothing" does not count. You can’t do nothing, for as long as you live. Perhaps you spent the day watching TV and you would refer to it as "I did nothing the whole day", but this would not be the correct/precise description of your actions, would it?

Your results are the effect of your thinking and your behaviour. Every thought or action you send into the universe must come back. That is why we say that you should always think positive/creative thoughts, say good things to everyone, treat everyone with respect and love... and all those things will by Law come back to you. If you concentrate on the cause, you never need to worry about the effect - let the nature take care of the effect, as that is what it does by default and effortlessly.

Sadly, most people in the world are on the Effect side of this equation. And just so you know, there is no problem with that, that’s ok. It’s a matter of choice, however on one side we have reasons and on the other side we have results.  Some people have very good reasons for not succeeding. And the reasons might be; "Oooh, my background, my family, the economy, bad government... mmmm .... My husband, my kids, my father, my mother, my education”, and so on... These are all reasons.

But you see, the question is when you are 85, or 90, or 95 years old, and look back at your life, how valuable will those excuses be? How satisfying will it be to say: "Oooo .... if it wasn’t for ....." and you fill in the blanks. That is not satisfying. Be on the Cause side of life, be the Cause (take responsibility) for all your results (good ones and the ones you are not so proud of) in life and your life will never be the same again. You see, most people are on the Cause side of life when they achieve something they are proud of and on the Effect side when they get the opposite results. This is just a way for them to feel better, playing a responsible role, taking the credit for all the good things they created in their lives AND at the same time playing the victim, rejecting the responsibility for all the other results that they do not like!

One would have to be quite a hypocrite to live life like this, yet most people live from day to day by dishing out a believable picture to themselves. We call this rationalisation - rational -lies! The good results in my life - I created them! The ones I don’t like - they happened to me, I am the victim, I got dealt those cards in my life, it's beyond me, its higher power, I had no say, etc... What a childish game I say! Accept the responsibility and look for the learning’s, rather than hide behind your pride and reject the fact that you are the Cause of your dominate thought patterns which cause the Results in your life. You see, if you reject the Cause, you close yourself to learnings - there won't be any lessons for you there if you were not the cause in the first place! And you will probably create the same result again, until you learn what you needed in order to grow and expand.

And by Learnings, I really mean Resources. Learning provides equally valuable resourceful strategies, decisions, beliefs that you can utilise in the future so that whatever happened in the past won’t repeat itself. There won’t be a need for it. You have learned, you’ve grown, you’ve developed, you’ve moved on. That is what I mean when I say learnings. Your comfort zone consists of you living in an illusion that you and everything else in your life can stay the way it is. And in our Nature, nothing can stay the way it is. Everything either grows or dies. You can’t just be... we need learnings in order to grow. The question is "Which side of the Cause and Effect equation are you on? Are you on the Effect side, where things are simply happening to you, where you have no power to change anything, where you are a victim?" Or are you on the Cause side, where you are in charge of your life and the results that you are creating? Mind you though, you can’t play this game half way through - you are either 100% on the Cause side for every single result that you created in your life, whether it’s your health, relationships, bank account or anything else! The moment you exclude any result you created stating that it wasn’t you or that it happened to you... you would be stepping on the Effect side of life, you now, the hypocrite side, changing the rules as you see it fit.

To sum it all up for you again. Every thought therefore is a cause and every condition an effect; for this reason it is absolutely essential that you control your thoughts so as to bring about only desirable end results. The world within is the cause, the world without the effect; to change the effect you must change the cause. You will at once see that this is a radically new and different idea; most men try to change effects by working with effects. They fail to see that this is simply changing one form of distress for another. To remove the discord, we must remove the cause and the cause can be found only in the world within.

Clients/students will come to me on the Effect side - usually. And they will blame the government, the economy or who knows what else for the results that they have achieved or the state of their lives. I need my clients/students on the Cause side first, or there is nothing for me to work with unless they bring me the government or the economy to work with and cause change.

Mind you, this is not to play the blame game - that would be silly. What I am saying is, the sum total of your conscious choices plus your subconscious choices put you where you are today. It is about taking the responsibility (even when you cannot explain it logically) for your results and seeking for learnings, growing, expanding. This is just empowering in every way and a very good and beneficial mindset to adopt

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