Natural Law is a cause and effect observation of Nature, including Human Nature. For instance, one Law we have all witnessed is, "When you remove natural consequences, growth and maturity take a step backward." I know you know, the kid who's dad smoothed things over at school, and then with the police, and then with being capable of living on their own. What is your observation of the result of those actions?
The closest thing to Natural Law I have come across in our culture is the teachings of Jesus. I think, if we followed the described words and actions of Jesus, we would be following Natural Law. What I was taught in Sunday School, was that Jesus loved everyone, including those he hurt (for their lack of mercy), and those who hurt him. He taught Trust, Gratitude, Acceptance of differences, Compassion, and Love.
Natural Law teaches by association, and we all are familiar with the elements of Nature...Metal, Water, Wood, Fire, and Earth. You can see those elements in our logo above, with the symbol of "creation energy," which Jesus called "Father," inside the elements of Nature, the black and white circle in the middle.
Do you see any similarities to what Jesus taught, in this brief summary of Natural Law?
Wood energy is everything sprouting upward, and what sprouts (shows up) in life depends on your choices, which is Water energy, the energy of choosing direction. Water demonstrates for us the best direction is the path of least resistance toward your goal.
Fire energy is the blooming, bright hot summer, which in Human Nature, is your most value driven, gift giving expression. Expressing value produces the harvest for this season, our Earth energy: nourishment and protection, which in Human Nature is our people, our loves.
When Natural Law is spoken, every living creature nods. Law: "When you give value, you receive more love."
Metal energy is the end of the cycle and beginning of the next, time for careful reflection upon the past seasons harvest, aka: the results you just observed. Then you look forward to next season with greater wisdom and resources. Law: "Careful reflection upon Results leads to wisdom and resources."
And like the Bible, Natural Law instructs that we are born with Creation energy in us, which in Western Medicine would compare to that spark of energy in our Central Nervous System. When the brain monitor flatlines, they pull the sheet over the face...the spirit is gone, leaving just the structural elements (physical body). Law: "You are a gift from God."
Natural Law suggests that everyone is doing their best with their available resources. And, if tired or hurt, we stop gathering resources. Nature calls that freezing, and it is for the purpose of recovery from the stress of sprouting, blooming and harvesting...so she sleeps. In Human Nature, we have a cycle of sleep, and we can't deny the decrease in activity in Winter.
When we suggest a gift from God is not positively intentioned, it hurts in an un-natural way causing something like freezing, that Human Nature calls paralysis, aka: pulling up, stopping short, the holding back of your fire expression.
Paralysis hurts us by preventing sprouting growth, wood energy, and value driven, gift giving expression, our fire energy. In Nature, we water our garden to encourage growth. In human nature, it requires value based action to create results, and it requires results to share value.
Why would we freeze? Natural Law suggests something called need for APPROVAL. If you reflect on your approval rating instead of your results, you feel stuck, because it is naturally impossible to achieve approval. Sometimes, yes. But approval is fleeting. "What have you done for me lately."
When you reflect on approval, you find strategies. "When I tell Carol how pretty she is, she approves of me." When you reflect on results you find values. "When I tell Carol how pretty she is, she approves of me for 7 minutes. And the time decreases the more often I tell her."
Think of someone who annoyingly tried to please you. It's true, we move away from that energy. Because it defies Natural Law.
Approval seeking, leads to disapproval! "Carol is wrong in her view of politics, and I know 22 people who approve." Approval values opinions. If you pay attention to the Result, you will notice that "Carol was hurt when I told her how stupid she was, and now she is upset with me."
And that Result defies Natural Law AND Jesus.
Natural Law (and Jesus) suggest you can trust your creator, and if you believe either version, it means you can have Faith in your Value. Seeking approval, and finding disapproval, shatters (or at least shakes) that Faith. And that hurt...paralyzes. Even just slightly holding back, is a form of paralysis.
Natural Law would say to our culture:
"Your people need Metal," which represents deep reflection on last season (the RESULTS you witnessed) and careful planning toward What Matters Most..Jesus taught Love, and Protection of the vulnerable is What Matters Most. He was willing to face great disapproval, to share that message. Even if it's a made up story, it teaches Natural Law.
"Your people need Wood," which represents watching the results of your choices or actions. Our culture taught me that 'insanity' is taking the same action and hoping for a different Result. If you deeply reflect and carefully plan, you will find new resources to try. This leads to curiosity... watching and waiting to see what is going to happen from the changes you have made.
What sprouts upward from Approval? Does Dis-Approval achieve what you value most?
"Your people need Fire," which represents heart expression, aka: sharing your gifts with others. Yet so many people, we see in paralysis/frozen. Law: "When you share value, you receive love."
Our eyes see what no one else can see...literally, by being in a different location. That's called a perspective, and that circle representing Creation, suggests all living creatures can see something very valuable from their unique perspective.
Natural Law teaches that ONLY Results determine right or wrong...Not opinions. Speak the value of your actions and results. Your people NEED your Value. No, not everyone Needs your value, so don't be discouraged by NO...they may be happy with their path and resources. There are many paths up the mountain. Look for people struggling, and offer yours.
Natural Law suggests that if you are sharing opinions and ideas towards a common problem, Listen to every perspective for its value, because you are solving a problem alongside a perspective you cannot see. A perspective containing all the elements of life, including Creation.
Which is literally a gift, from God.
And, if you are struggling...humble yourself to "I don't know," so you can see ALL possible perspectives, because you never know who has the resource YOU need.
Lastly, if you are presented with a perspective that suggests you "can't do" what your spirit desires, it just means that person doesn't have what you need. How interesting, suggesting that it isn't possible just because they have not found it! If they weren't seeking approval, they would look outside their perspective, for another Resource, as Natural Law suggests.
