The Universe is constantly seeking balance. This is true at
every level from the largest stars all the way down to the atoms that make up
everything in the known Universe. This truth is what inspired Newton’s third
law of motion that states for every action there is an equal and opposite
reaction. Between the action and the reaction there is a moment of dynamic
equilibrium where neither force is acting upon the other. It is in that space
that the energy transfers or shifts and the action becomes the reaction. That
is the space of balance.
Since we are a part of the Universe, what is true for the
Universe is true for us. This search for balance is probably easiest to
understand when you look at the level of our human existence. Take for example
the rotation of our planet. At noon we are at the part of the planet that is
closest to the sun. At midnight we are at the part that is the farthest from
the sun. That balance is achieved by the steady rotation of our planet which is
the result of the magnetic attraction and repulsion of energy around the core
of our planet. We need equal attraction and repulsion to achieve the steady
balanced energy of rotation.
FEEL IT FOR YOURSELF
If we scale that view up a step larger you can see how
balance is achieved by our planet as it rotates around the sun. The delicate
dance between the Sun and the Earth happens because our tiny planet is pulled
then pushed up one side of the Sun’s gravitation field and then back down the
other. Here is a fun and easy exercise to help you feel the energy of that
balance. Put a small weighted round object (like an orange or ball) into a tube
sock and hold the open end of the sock in your hand. Swing the ball around in a
vertical circle and put your awareness on your hand. With focus you can feel
the two points in your swing where the energy has to begin going up one side
and also down the other to achieve the rotation. You can feel those shift points
at the top and bottom of the rotation. Those two points balance each other out
and result in rotation of the ball around your hand like the Earth revolves
around the Sun. It is physics in action.
As a point of reference, on December 21, 2012 the Sun and the
Earth will reach one of those points. Imagine the galactic center in the middle
of the Milky Way is your hand and the Sun is the ball in the sock.
Simultaneously to that event, our planet will reach that shift point in
relation to our Sun on the exact same date. Here imagine that the Sun is your
hand the Earth is the ball. The energetic shift you can feel with the sock and
ball is the same shift our Earth and Sun will be experiencing simultaneously.
BALANCE IN MOTION
To take this examination to a smaller, more humanistic
scale, think about our movement as we walk. For us to achieve locomotion, the
movements of the left side of our body must be balanced by the movements of our
right side. As one arm swings forward, the other swings back. As one leg moves
forward, the other moves back. Even balancing that out top to bottom, you
notice that the opposite arm and leg move together so that we can achieve a
smooth and easy movement. Try not swinging one arm as you walk for a while,
then try not swinging both arms and watch how unbalanced your movement becomes.
When you begin to examine any activity or action with
consciousness, you’ll begin to see where balance is being sought at every
level. For a moment think about what it is like to walk on something that
requires us to have balance to do it, such as walking along a ledge or across a
beam or log. When we are balanced there is an ease and harmony to our movement.
When we are out of balance, our arms flail and we wobble trying to regain
balance lest we fall. Balance is the desired state because it takes less effort
and therefore less energy for us to get from one end to the other with ease.
It can be seen from the example above that the “out of
balance” condition results in wasted energy, struggle and dis-ease of movement.
Understanding that will allow you to begin to notice the places in your life
where you are out of balance. If you feel your energy is drained, life is a
struggle or there is dis-ease in your body then you know that you are out of
balance in some area of your life. This is Newton’s transitive property of
physics in action. If A = B then B = A. Bringing yourself back into balance
(vitality, peace, health) begins with an understanding of that principle.
ENERGY FOLLOWS AWARENESS
The key to changing anything in our lives begins with having
the awareness that something needs to change. We will never consciously change
anything that we are unaware of. So dis-ease (struggle, emotionality,
exhaustion, etc) is the alert that something needs to change. The next step is
owning the fact that “I created this condition” either consciously or unconsciously. When we allow our consciousness to remain
in an unconscious state, we stay in victim mode wallowing in pity and blaming
the world for our condition. As our souls evolve we learn that the same power
we used to unconsciously create the out of balance condition is the exact same
power that we can use to consciously create the desired condition. This
understanding can never be completely comprehended and fully understood while
in the un-evolved victim (blame mode) mentality.
What is true for the microcosm (the parts) is also true for
the macrocosm (the whole). If we raise our awareness up from the individual to
the species level, it is easy to see that we are terribly out of balance there.
This can be seen everywhere across the planet. We have wars raging out of
control, political fighting and infighting, drought, famine, global pandemics,
wide-spread poverty, skyrocketing murder rates, unregulated theft, as well as
social, economic, political and environmental systems collapsing or on the
brink of collapse. These are all key indicators that we are severely out of
balance as a species and therefore something must change. So there is our first
step: awareness.
When the list above is viewed as a whole, it seems like it
would take a monumental effort focused on any one of those to begin to
implement even the tiniest change. But what if rather than focusing on any one
problem, we held our awareness at the species level and examined things from
that perspective with the simple understanding that we are out of balance. Imagine
what awareness might arise from that state of neutral observation. Remember
this level of awareness requires that we move beyond our individual situations
of petty day to day worries and struggles. We have to begin thinking of
ourselves as one cohesive collective consciousness (humans) and examine things
from that perspective.
LIFE IS LITERALLY A DELICATE BALANCE
When viewed in the light of the collective, as an entity we
are out of balance with the very thing which we depend upon for life, the
environment. We exist in this environment because we have adapted and evolved
out of it. The condition that the environment is in is what allows us to exist.
Without our environment, we would not and cannot exist. Take away the air that
we depend upon to breath, the water we drink, or the land we live upon, and it
is game over for our species. Take away any one of those things and our
existence would not be possible. However if you take humans out of the equation,
life would continue just fine without us. We are not nearly as essential as we
like to think. In truth we seem to be causing more harm than good.
We are a product of the environment; it is not something we
created to make our lives easier. If the environment changes too much, just
like other species from the past, we will go extinct because the systems to
support us are no longer present. As powerful a species as we think we are,
it’s important that we remember our place in the grand scheme.
Every species which has ever existed has done so by evolving
out of the system which sustains it. When the environment changes, new species
arise that thrive on some output from the system. They in turn generate output
that other species thrive upon. That process repeats itself over and over and
remains in a constant state of flux. Within our ecosystem, new species of life
are constantly emerging while others go extinct. That is the natural flow of
life.
LIFE GIVES ITSELF FOR LIFE
Nature has a mechanism for keeping its systems in balance
that keeps the cycle of life flowing. When one species becomes too much of a consumer,
eventually either its food source dries up or a larger predator species thrives
to bring things back into balance. For example, once upon a time on this planet
only single cell life-forms existed. There was no oxygen, no other life-forms
and no protective ozone layer. Those single-cells thrived because they had no
predators. They consumed the energy available and produced their output which
was toxic to them. Eventually they had over populated the planet and consumed
all of the energy available. Through the process of mutation some of the single
cells began to work together to create more complex multi-cellular life-forms.
These life-forms then began to thrive because they consumed the single cell
life-forms and their output.
This process continued for millions of years over and over
again as life evolved into more and more complex species until eventually early
humans appear on the scene along with dinosaurs. They were food for us but we
were also food for them which helped to keep both species in check. Then several
million years ago, a large asteroid hit our planet and dramatically altered the
environment as a result of the impact. Scientists estimate that 95% of all
species alive at the time were wiped out. The 5% which survived did so because
they adapted to the new environment in some way and they went on to repopulate
the planet until the next asteroid hit and started that cycle all over again.
It is important to remember that every living thing on this
planet is a consumer, a producer and a food source for life. Each species
ingests other smaller species, air or water and eventually becomes food for a
larger species to keep “the cycle of life” going. That cycle must logically
include death to keep it going. Imagine how crowded things would be on this
planet if nothing ever died.
HUMAN SEPARATED FROM NATURE
Humans are a part of the cycle of life but unfortunately we
have separated ourselves out from the very thing which created us. As our
consciousness has evolved over the ages, we have constructed stories and myths
to attempt to explain our history, existence and purpose. We see ourselves as
separate from and superior to nature. We consume our planets resources in an
unregulated fashion and we are beginning to rapidly overpopulate our planet due
to the lack of larger predators in our environment. As long as we remain on
land, our main predators come in the form of microscopic organisms and viruses.
If you put us back in the ocean or deep into the forest, the equation shifts
and it again becomes survival of the fittest.
In every area of our lives, we consume. The only place we
give back, as an organism, is through the carbon monoxide that we exhale and
the shit that we produce which ultimately nourishes micro-organisms at the
bottom of the food chain. When we die, unfortunately we take these bodies and
put them in steel boxes which get encased in metal chambers and buried in the
ground so that nothing can get to them. These bodies eventually decompose. At
that point because they are in a closed system, all of the nutrients which they
can offer back into the food chain is buried in a hole along with the fears
which put them there. It is the final slap in the face to the very system which
gave us life and produced the body in the first place. Cremation and the
scattering of the ashes back into the environment keeps the cycle flowing.
MOTIVATED BY FEAR
Our resources are beginning to show signs of collapse
because we aren’t using our evolved consciousness to work with the system from
which we emerged. Because of our fear of the unknown, death, and our
self-created and self-serving myths about the nature of our existence, we are
draining our resources. Through our technology and the use of machines, we keep
others alive who would perish if left to their own devices. We force them to
languish in a suspended state of animation because those of us who are still
living believe we cannot bear to live without them. Our fear of letting go
causes them to live out the rest of their lives in protracted state of pain or
slow decay.
The truth is that we can and do survive because eventually
we are forced to let them go when even the machines can’t keep them alive. Just
think for a moment of the resources (energy, time, money, people) required to
keep a single human perpetually alive on a machine from which they have no
chance of living without. Millions languish in this suspended state of
animation just in our country alone. (I’m not talking about machines used to
help us heal from temporary situations. Here I’m referencing those which
languish on life-support systems who have no chance of ever regaining
consciousness or an independent existence.) We keep them here because of our fears
and needs, not theirs. Death is a piece of life. It is the balancing component
to birth and what keeps the cycle of life flowing.
Our fears also show up as over-population. Emerging from the
need to have “more of us”, most religions teach that no birth control should be
used. They cloak this fear under tons of religious dogma which essentially
comes down to the belief that God is expecting us to multiply. They teach that
if we do something to interfere with that process (contraception or abortion)
then we are supposedly playing God. But isn’t “playing God” what we should be
doing? Much in the way that children “play adult” as they grow up because they
know they will eventually become adults, I believe that as humans we are growing into Gods.
As our consciousness evolves, we must begin to recognize that we are in fact
beginning to attain the powers and abilities that we have previously been
attributing to the Gods (in any religion).
If we don’t learn to consciously use the powers that we are evolving
into, we’ll be nothing more than the child who perpetually lives at home with their
parents because they are never willing to step into their own power and create
a life for themselves.
ENERGY FOLLOWS AWARENESS
This out of balance condition that we find ourselves in
cannot continue much longer. When we look at all the things which are happening
on a global scale (drought, severe weather, starvation, water shortages, war,
poverty) it is clear that something has to give because we are in a crisis
situation. That crisis however is also the driver for our change because
“crisis precedes transformation”.
The good news is however that the transformation is already beginning because
of emerging needs. We are learning new ways to do things which aren’t as
destructive to the environment (renewable fuels, low emission vehicles,
conservation projects, wildlife protection programs, pollution reduction and on
and on).
There is no simple solution for our problems. If there were,
we would surely have figured it out by now. The first step in solving our
problems however is recognizing that there is a problem (“awareness”). If we
own the fact that we created it (consciously or unconsciously) then we can
learn to use that same power (“energy”) to create a better way to solve the
problem that works for us all. It should come as no surprise to anyone who is
waking up and paying attention that 2012 has to be a year of transformation and
change and our cycle of destruction must come to a head because we simply
cannot continue in our present mode. Through cooperation and communication we
can make a difference. When we seek balance in all of our individual actions,
we’ll begin to see balance from our collective actions. It’s not going to be an
easy journey but it is time for us to wake up the human consciousness from the
collective unconscious and transform our way of life as we know it now. It all
begins with awareness.
Where are the places in your life that you are out of
balance? What prevents you from making a change there to come back into balance
with life?
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