Process Law #6

By what mysterious Process will this group come to know its true purpose?

Cynthia F. Davidson from Wisdom Wheel Process card
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The Law of Process concerns the how of things, not just the what. Think about how you are learning these Laws, for example, and how you'll apply them, in your daily life. That's Process for you!   

For the next ten days make Process your watch word and see what happens. Talk about Process with family, friends & co-workers, even the Process of having the conversation about it. Catch yourself in the midst of the Process of doing the simplest things; drinking your tea or coffee, deciding what to wear, getting dressed, making a meal, eating or cleaning. Do your day with more mindfulness as the Buddhists would say.

There are so many types of Process: the creative Process, Process mapping, Process improvement, Process management, Process engineering, group Process, the parenting process, mediation and meditation Processes just to name a few. This list was inspired by a quick keyword search through Amazon book titles...a Process in itself!

Ask for the gifts of more Process Awareness, each morning, and evening. 

Write the word Process down where you'll see it often; a Post It note, in your journal or on a rock. 

Experiment with speeding it up, slowing it down, savoring or shortening the  Process, to keep it appropriate to the task(s). 

Look for news about Process in the world and share them in the blog. I'll be exploring ways to increase our interactions, as a Process here. Comments most welcome. Here are some words of wisdom about the intellectual, emotional, physical and spiritual aspects of the Law of Process. 

Process refers to how things are done rather than what is done…  Because process is everywhere and involves everything we do, how do we become aware of it and the consequences of different kinds of processes that we may be using unconsciously?  How does anyone know what to focus on when trying to improve a situation?

Edgar Schein, American Process consultant, The Corporate Culture Survival Guide

We haven’t really paid much attention to thought as a process. We have engaged in thoughts, but we have only paid attention to the content, not to the process.

David Bohm

Thought is more important than art. To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is.

Amiri Baraka

I cannot force a design; I do not see this process as being under my conscious control.

Maya Ying Lin

To learn respect & reverence for process is what counts; we each take our own roads, but it is what one discovers along that road that’s important, and how one is changed by those discoveries.

Judith Guest American novelist and screenwriter

Through writing, through that process, they realize they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative, than they can be in any other part of their life.

Russell Banks

You are a process. The universe is a process. Everything around you is a process.  Be in touch with that process and trust it. Trust the unfolding of your life and see what you have to learn from that. 

Anne Wilson Schaef

The path of transformation is more like a circular spiral than anything linear… There is in the psyche, according to Jung, a natural healing process which moves towards balance and wholeness. In the psyche also are natural patterns of behavior Jung called archetypes, which are available to serve as inner models, even when outer models are absent or unsatisfactory. A woman has within herself all the potentialities of the father archetype and others and these can be reached if she’s willing to risk coming into touch with the unconscious.

Linda S. Leonard in The Wounded Woman

Growth is a spiral process, doubling back on itself, reassessing and regrouping.

Julia Margaret Cameron

I look for the way things will turn out, spiraling from a center, the shape things will take to come forth.

A.R. Ammons

Spiritual growth is not made in reaction against, for all striving against imposed restrictions is imaginary. Spiritual growth is accomplished by inclination toward.  We grow like the sunflower, following the light.

Joy Houghton

The process of my spiritual development was made peculiarly difficult by various occurrences and interruptions.

Franz Liszt

According to Buddhist tradition, the spiritual path is the process of cutting through our confusion, of uncovering the awakened state of mind… in the process of burning out these confusions, we discover enlightenment.

Chogyam Trungpa, from Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism

This law is about our individual Awareness of things we have to accomplish in our life. If we wish to reach a certain goal, we must set a direction and create order, prepare well and proceed in small but sure steps. This law brings to our attention that skipping a single step or taking a short cut often results in failure... Those who keep their Faith and …honor the process…become shining examples and inspire everyone around them.

Margo Kirtikar, Ph.D. Cosmic and Universal Laws

The prize is in the process.

Baron Baptiste


(In 10 days, I'll post #7 The Law of Faith in this sequence of 36. So stay tuned.)

Cause & Effect Law #5

Can we link actual Causes to their Effects? 
Cynthia F. Davidson from the Wisdom Wheel Cause & Effect card
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The Law of Cause & Effect is about karma, and understanding how specific causes lead to predictable effects. Think about the effects you have caused in your life, by having intentions, goals and challenges. As you've probably heard it said, 'Thoughts are things...' So are emotions, and other energies.

During the coming 10 days, try to retrace the relationship(s) between decisions you've made. What were their true origins and outcomes? Reconsider the chain of causes and effects. Have you had what you wanted? Or have you been surprised? Do your actions originate most often from your logical mind, your heart or your intuition? How often do you let spirit lead?  

Make Cause & Effect your watch words for these ten days. 

Ask for wisdom to be shown to you about Cause & Effect, each morning, and evening. 

Write the words Cause & Effect down where you'll see them often; in your journal, on a rock or a Post It note attached to your mirror. 

Talk about Cause & Effect with friends, family & co-workers. 

Experiment with tracing multiple Causes & Effects as you learn more.

Look for news stories which demonstrate how Effects are Caused in the world at large.  

Share what you learn, in the comments box below, or our Wisdom Wheel Facebook page.

Here are some wise words about the intellectual, emotional, physical and spiritual aspects of the Law of Cause & Effect. 

The Law of Cause and Effect is also known as the Law of Karma and is basically understood as ‘you reap what you sow’… Karma is a learning tool of spirit which manifests through physical circumstances. That which one places into the universe, one receives back, ten-fold. Karma does not discriminate…When we think something happens by chance it is only because we do not recognize the law. Nothing escapes the law of Karma. …Karmic law requires that every human wish finds ultimate fulfillment. Therefore, desire is the chain that binds mankind to the re-incarnation wheel. Karma is attracted only where the magnet of the personal ego still exists.

Margo Kirtikar, Ph.D. in Cosmic and Universal Laws

A life without cause is a life without effect.

Anonymous

To all facts there are laws, the effect has its cause.

Lord Lytton


Thoughts are causes and conditions are effects.
Brian Tracy 

Experience only teaches us, how one event constantly follows another; without instructing us in the secret connection, which binds them together, and renders them inseparable.

David Hume, Scottish philosopher

For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and all and infinitely far from understanding either. The ends of things and their beginnings are concealed from him in an impenetrable secret. He is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness out of which he was drawn and the infinite in which he is engulfed.

Blaise Pascal in Pensées

Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson American author

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

A new psychology needs to facilitate people in understanding that emotions, whether love and appreciation, or anger and anxiety,are all energies that have to be accounted for in the human system. Accounted for means they come under the laws of physics and the law of cause and effect. Each of us personally is accountable for the effects of our emotions and attitudes. Negative emotional energies stack up in the human system, then translate into mental, emotional and physical ailments if not brought into balance

Doc Childre in The HeartMath Solution

To cure the violence, we must identify and heal the causes of hatred and violence. If we don't deal with the causes we will never be safe.

Peter Yarrow

The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.

Alfred Adler (1870-1937) Austrian psychiatrist

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

Wayne Dyer (1940 - ) American author and motivational speaker, books include Excuses Begone

God created the law of free will, and God created the law of cause and effect. And he himself will not violate the law. We need to be thinking less in terms of what God did and more in terms of whether or not we are following those laws.

Marianne Williamson

If you want to understand the causes that existed in the past, look at the results as they are manifested in the present. And if you want to understand what results will be manifested in the future, look at the causes that exist in the present.

Buddhist sutra

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

William James

The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.

Wilhelm Stekel

If properly understood, the Law of Karma is a law which gives infinite hope. It says that a man’s destiny is in his own hands. It says that he shall depend upon himself. He is the one to decide on the pattern of the experience to come. He is the master of his destiny. He is the architect of his fate. He has nothing to fear in this universe, nothing except his own wrong actions and thoughts. . . . According to this view, the Law of Karma is not a doctrine of fatalism. On the contrary, it is a doctrine of high orderliness, serving as the basis of the moral order in the whole universe, and the attitude instilled into man by this Law is fearlessness.

Swami Chidananda

(In 10 days, I'll post # 6 The Law of Process in this sequence of 36. Stay tuned.)

Right Relationship Law #4

‘Why are we here?’ Albert Einstein answered that question by saying, ‘We are here for each other.’ So much depends on Right Relationship...

Cynthia F. Davidson from the Wisdom Wheel Right Relationship card
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Many Native Americans use the expression, We are all related, saying Omset Nogama in Migmaw (MicMac) or Mitakuye oyasin in the Lakota Sioux language. How do you express this ideal of interrelationship?

The Law of Right Relationship is about your rightful place in the Grand Scheme of All That Is. Think about how you relate to everything; from the worms to the stars, and how everything relates to you. 
For example, at the elemental level, do you behave with respect towards what your life depends upon; the Air, the Water, the Earth, the creatures and other human beings? 
What feels deeply right about the relationships you have? What feels wrong? 
Are you relating well to your Self (the last Law we studied)? 
During these next 10 days, reconsider your relationships; to your body, your heart, your mind, your spirit. Notice how your emotions affect your thoughts or how your body interacts with your brain. Observe with greater Awareness how everything is interconnected and interrelating. 


Make Right Relationship your watch word. 
Ask for wisdom about Right Relationship, first thing every morning, and last thing every night. 
Write the word Right Relationship down, on your mirror, in your journal, on a rock or a Post It note. 
Talk about Right Relationship and how we are all related with friends, family & co-workers. 
Experiment with Right Relationship and find out as much as you can about it.
Look for news stories that demonstrate it positively or negatively. 
See what happens when you invite Right Relationship into your life with just one other person. 
Share what you learn using the comments box below or our Facebook page.


Here are some wise words from those who've paid attention to the Law of Right Relationship. 

Relationships are the key to a decent world. It seems abundantly clear that every problem you will have – in your family, your business, in our nation or in this world – is essentially a matter of relationships, of interdependence.

Clarence Francis (1888-1985) www.centerforrightrelationship.com

When a man cannot understand himself, when he cannot understand his own imagination and his own problems deeply, then he cannot understand the problems of others. Where there is no understanding, there is no communication between one person and another… By not searching for excellence within, one refuses the gifts already there but not recognized or realized.

Margo Kirtikar, Cosmic and Universal Laws

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986), anti-guru Indian sage

Most people enter into relationships with an eye toward what they can get out of them, rather than what they can put into them. The purpose of a relationship is to decide what part of yourself you'd like to see "show up," not what part of another you can capture and hold. The purpose of a relationship is not to have another who might complete you; but to have another with whom you might share your completeness.

Neale Donald Walsch, Conversations with God (Book 1)

When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on--series polygamy--until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimensions to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.  Tom Robbins, American novelist

The best relationship is the one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.

Unknown

The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention…. A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.

Rachel Naomi Remen in Kitchen Table Wisdom

To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.

Cornelia Otis Skinner in The Ape in Me

If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time.  But if you have come here because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.

Lilla Watson, Australian Aboriginal woman

The hard part of what it means to be interrelated to all things is that our neglect comes back full circle to affect us as negatively as it affects other species. We are held accountable for our actions (or lack therof) toward the Earth, and even to generations yet unborn.

Ed McGaa, Native American spiritual leader

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Mohandas K. Gandhi in My Experiments with Truth

The more identified people are with their respective roles, the more inauthentic the relationships become.

Eckhart Tolle in A New Earth

The point of being in the company of a guru, a wisdom figure, or even a spiritual director is not to be given that person’s truth but rather to be led inside to our own.

Rose Mary Dougherty

Be Impeccable with Your Word;

Don't Take Anything Personally;

Don't Make Assumptions;

Always Do Your Best.

Don Miguel Ruiz in The Four Agreements

 When we start to use these powers of manifestation, focus and prayer, we need to do it in a way that has taken into consideration our place in the fabric of everything. Do it from a place of all spiritual principles; not just the one spiritual principle that says you can manifest your destiny, whatever you – in your ego/personality self - want. That by itself is grossly dangerous.

Christina Pratt

Don't sacrifice your life to work and ideals.

The most important things in life are human relations.

I found that out too late.

Katharinde Susannah Prichard, Australian author

(I post the next Law #5, Cause & Effect, in 10 days. Stayed tuned & share what you're discovering about these Laws.)