 Spiritual: September 30, 2009 Issue [#3303] |
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Perception and choice significantly influences the quality of life we experience - i.e., we set the course we follow by how we interpret and react to what we perceive the situations we encounter demands.
Samurai ponderings
You don't pay love back, you pay it forward.
Lily Hardy Hammond
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Greetings,
If you think about it, you will recall paying someone a compliment, which then generated a smile, which then you returned. If you think about it, you will recall catching a door for someone, who then muttered 'thanx,' or simply nodded, and you stood a bit straighter. If you think about it, you will recall other such incidents; where, often without conscious thought, you performed a kindness, which then made You feel better, more energized, more alive.
I'd like to share a snippet of my mundane life. In my day job I interact with people in other departments to get work done, often on deadline. Over time, we learn who we can count on to pitch in in a pinch. Over time, we also accept this extra effort, whether we are on the giving or receiving end, as normal. Over time, we take it for granted that we can count on each other.
Every so often, we stop, recognize their effort, and thank them. I did that one frantic Friday afternoon, slammin' to get something out. My friend and co-worker pitched in with a solid favor to facilitate my efforts. I took a couple minutes and thanked her with an email, copying her boss as well as our staff manager. They, in turn, recognized her efforts in reciprocating emails.
Later, during our near-daily 4pm walk around the building during my break, she thanked me for the public recognition. I said it was nothing special, just recognition long overdue for her consistent team spirit. She said my words had made her week. We then talked of our individual plans for the dog days of summer weekend to come. As she greeted another of our friends and they turned to walk up the street, heading for the parking garage (their workday ended at 4), she turned back and waved, offering a final 'thank you,' and a smile. I waved, and smiled, as I went back inside to finish my workday; .
Monday morning, I arrived at work to learn that my friend had failed to wake up. Yes, she went to sleep Sunday night after a mellow fun family weekend; and Monday she just didn't wake up.
I thought of her again, the other day, when I sent a big thank you email to the members of our trial team for their spirited altruistic efforts. I didn't think of the Monday after that dog-day Friday, but her smile and wave as she walked up the street. I think of her also, sometimes, when I catch a door for someone, or grab the elevator eye, or offer to grab a yogurt off the top shelf for somebody shorter. The little courtesies, that take so little effort, return so much more positive energy.
Think about it, just for a moment, and you will recall something you did, or said, that made someone else smile, or even if they didn't acknowledge your act, You felt better for doing it. Faith and science and social science each have explanations for this feeling; this exchange of positive energy. It's an exchange, not a one-way toss. The energy you expend returns to you in kind or amplified; a cycle of energy, a meeting of spirit.
If a butterfly flaps its wings, the spore of the flower is lifted and carried on wind to land in soil fertile and a seedling rises to greet another butterfly another day. A Wiccan tenet, the law of threefold return, explains the energy generated as a law of 'cause and effect' or ' what we reap, we sow' amplified. The energy generated by an act of will, positive or negative, is amplified when the recipient receives the energy, and returned upon the one who generated the energy. I felt energized by my friend's thanks, and stood a little taller as I returned to work. Consider as well the 'power of prayer,' where both the person offering the prayer, exhorting a higher or alternate power, and the recipient of the energy, each reap energy from the prayer.
Sociology chimes in with a secular explanation, calling the energy 'alternate giving,' or 'generalized reciprocity,' as either the gifting of an act to someone who then passes on an act to a third party, or returns it in some way to the original gifter. Science states that matter is neither created nor destroyed, so the energy generated by an act or thought or prayer has to go somewhere and do something and ultimately return to its source in some form or another.
When you do something for somebody, an act physical or formed of thought, it creates energy, which then affects the recipient either physically or spiritually (and I'm not using that as a dogmatic or religious term, but simply outside of the physical senses), and is then carried forward to another, and another, until it is at some point returned to you in some form physical or spiritual.
Until we next meet, keep the energy flowing, your deeds, your thoughts, do make a difference if you pay them forward. You make a difference ~ may it ever be positive. Our editorial team offer weekly inspiration to keep the energy positive in word and deed.
Keep Writing!
Kate
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Try this. Take a few minutes, now, and do something for someone. Send an email, make a call, pick up the scattered newspapers with a smile, say thank you, say a prayer for a friend in need, send healing thoughts to a friend who's ill - you get the picture. Do one of these, or anything else you can think of, for another, to effect positive energy. You will feel the return as you do it in the sense of joy or peace, and you stand or sit a bit taller, perhaps smile.
Brightest Blessings!
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Kate
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