LAW #7

We are all powerful creators.

If what we create is not what we want, we must reorient ourselves and realign with spiritual laws.

 

When we look at nature, we are looking at an expression of souls. On one hand, we may see beauty, but at the same time, there may be pollution and barrenness. Nature reflects humanity’s soul more accurately than even our cities do.

For our real selves, our truest nature, is nature. We are not just part of nature, we are nature. Our true nature is creation.

When we look at nature, we see what already exists in us. It reflects that higher part we are trying to reach through meditation, and also the lower part we must work to overcome.

If nature seems like an enemy to us, it’s just that we don’t understand its laws. Nature, in fact, is completely trustworthy. And the laws that govern nature are the same that govern us.

This makes it unreasonable—unnatural—to distrust ourselves.

Mobility in relaxation

This whole universe is infused with a vibrant substance that powers everything. It works behind the scenes for physical power—including electrical and atomic power—and mental power alike. It is something we can mold and impress using our consciousness.

One outcome of our molding activities is matter, in varying degrees of density. But we also create something more subtle than matter. We create our life experiences.

Every experience is shaped by a movement made up of both mobility and relaxation. When these two principles are in harmony, life continues.

When they are out of balance, death ensues.

What this means is that having the flexibility to relax into what is, in this moment—even if what is right now isn’t what we want—will ultimately bring us what we want. First, we will get a good feeling about ourselves as we fall into harmony with the movement already happening in our own psyche. Later, what we desire can come to us, according to the law of cause and effect.

But we must be able to embody a climate of inner knowing that fulfillment is potentially ours. Just by knowing this, whatever it is can be ours—because we know this. But if we don’t know this, we need to let go of whatever untruth is blocking our knowing.

We must relax so our wish can materialize. For if we insist on staying wound up in a state of “I have to have it,” we’ll never get it.

It’s a spiritual law that we must first give up whatever it is we want to gain. Without the willingness to let go, we are so tense inside that the good stuff can’t come to us.

If it did come, it couldn’t get in.

 

“A human being living in complete and utter harmony with the life force would not die. Wherever the life force has not been violated, happiness, complete harmony and peace would be yours.”

– Pathwork Guide Lecture #48

 

How we mold life

This impressionable substance is highly creative and very potent, and our souls are also made from it. We could call it our soul substance.

It’s only when we press limits into our soul substance that those limitations must seem real to us. Then the life-limiting rules we set for ourselves and blindly follow will find their validation.

When we start to question our own self-made rules and limits, we discover that unlike spiritual laws, these are not immutable laws. Almost like magic, our self-set limits start to dissolve. We can then find new laws that match our more truthful beliefs.

This creative substance is so moldable, there’s no end to how far it can reach. It can go all the way to the edge of our consciousness. This makes life limitless in its possibilities for unfolding richer, better experiences.

On the other hand, life’s ability to unfold in the direction of evil is not limitless. Indeed, there’s a limit we hit when life stops, or at least appears to cease. To us, non-life seems real. Nothing exists, it seems, in non-life.

Of course, that’s only true on this plane of existence. It couldn’t possibly be true in the greater scheme of things. Because in absolute reality, life is life. Life simply can’t be non-life.

Creating requires balance

Once we’ve become aware of our misconceptions and have allowed ourselves to express our negative feelings—not by acting them out, but by doing our personal work—we are ready to start the process of recreating our lives.

First, we must get clear about what we want. Next, we must focus on our intention to change. It may help to express our desires and intentions in writing.

We will also need to develop a clear vision of what it looks like to function in a productive and healthy way.

Then we need to unwind our past destructive patterns. Our conscious ego must initiate this change. The work will involve strengthening our will, formulating new ideas, and impressing our soul substance with the truth. Our goal is to start creating constructive circles.

Our ego is also tasked with actively reaching out to the great power at the core of our being. Having opened the door, it needs to get quiet, become receptive, and listen. The ego’s job is to get out of the way so the wisdom within can reveal itself.

This can be a real balancing act. It’s not always easy to find just the right amount of gas versus brakes. We need to sense when our work is to be active in uncovering untruths and finding new wisdom to imprint. At other times, the ego must step aside and cede the floor to our Higher Self, staying calm and being receptive.

This might sound surprising, but one of best things we can do is to call on the greater universal self for help in getting better at perceiving it. We can ask for assistance and inspiration in learning to meditate more deeply and in a more meaningful way.

Help is right there for the asking. Just as soon as we recognize the limitations of our ego minds, we can start to tap into the vastly greater intelligence that is accessed through our solar plexus.

 

“As I have said before, you create your own reality, and the more unconscious your belief, the greater its consequence is.

The greater the guilt and therefore the fear of its pain and its supposed unforgivability, the stronger must be the defense against the truth of the issue. Then the heart and mind must close even tighter.

Then even this fact of close-mindedness and close-heartedness must be denied, justified and fought against.”

– Pathwork Guide Lecture #247

 

Minding our misunderstandings

Our wrong conclusions about life, which the Guide calls “images,” draw events and circumstances to us like moths to a flame. This is as inevitable as a magnet—or the law of gravity.

What we unconsciously believe has an effect on the universal currents that float through our personal space, making certain life experiences unavoidable.

Maybe we have a conscious cherished desire that is contradicted by an unconscious image. The unconscious image always trumps the conscious desire, so it wins every time.

It’s hard to overstate the impact our images can have on our lives. For in the end, it doesn’t matter what other people are producing in their consciousness, our life experiences depend ultimately on what we’re producing.

 

“That is how the image brings out a problem; and only if something becomes a problem will the person pay attention to it instead of looking away…

This is when the person begins to turn upward and inward.”

– Pathwork Guide Lecture #38

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