The Law of Cause and Effect

By Tom Payne

The most profound of all the Universal Laws is the Law of Cause and Effect. We all know it, or know of it, but may have discarded the principle as Biblical or old fashioned. But yet it dramatically affects our every waking-moment! The Law of Cause and Effect states that; ’for every current effect in your life, there has been a specific cause. Every thought and every action generates a force of energy that returns to us in like kind. What we sow is what we reap.’

The Law of Cause and Effect is an absolute, ironclad law of the universe. Everything happens for a reason, through and by immutable law; whether we know, understand or even accept the law. There are no accidents, no good luck and no bad luck. We live in a universe governed by rigid, uncompromising laws. You can’t change it this law, cheat it or deceive it. It will operate regardless of your attitude to it. Comply by the law and you’ll find success and happiness; defy or ignore it and you won’t! It’s that profound, and yet that simple.

Jesus, the Bhudda, Mohamed, and all the other great philosophers taught the law. It’s throughout the Bible, it’s taught in the Bhagavad-Gita and the ancient scriptures every culture. The law applies in all three areas of your life; your physical world, your mental world and your spiritual world. For every action there is an appropriate re-action! If you slap your hand against a table, the table reacts with a slap against your hand. If you plant wheat, the ground responds by giving you wheat back, but if you plant weeds you also get more weeds in return.

In a similar way, if you abuse or misuse another human-being, if you steal and cheat your way through life, if you ignore the starving millions, the law of Cause and Effect guarantees a reaction sometime in this life or the next. Someone will abuse or misuse you, or steal from you, or you’ll go hungry. The law demonstrates itself in your life every day, whether you realize it or not. What you put out comes back to you, and it doesn’t just come back in the same volume. What you put out comes back to you multiplied; good or bad! Plant a handful of corn seeds, and you’ll gather a truckload of corn. Even a thistle has over a million seeds in its flowering head, ready to multiply and grow. Your life is the same.

There are specific causes for success. There are specific causes for failure. There are specific causes for health. There are specific causes for illness. There are specific causes for happiness. There are specific causes for unhappiness. To understand how the Law of Cause and Effect has affected your life, thus far, you need to honestly analyze and recognize what from the past has created your present situation. Having done that, if you want more of the effect you must increase the cause. If you want to change the effect, then you must change the cause. Whatever you’re reaping today, agreeable or otherwise, is the direct and irrefutable result of what you sowed yesterday, or sometime in the past.

And the good news is that you have complete control over your future, because what you sow today, you will reap in the future. If you wish to reap a specific harvest or result in any area of your life in the future, you must plant the appropriate seeds today. Your thoughts and actions are the cause, and your life’s circumstances are the effect. What you think today literally creates your reality tomorrow; no ifs, no buts, no exceptions. “As you think, so you become” is as true today as it was in ancient times.

The universal law of Cause and Effect will not, and cannot be deviated from. It rigorously operates whether you accept it or not. Everything in your life is the direct result of the way you think. If you change the quality of your thinking the quality of your life will change as surely as night follows day. Changes in your outer experience will directly follow changes in your inner experience. That’s the law! The only way you can prove the principle to be accurate is by personal application. By changing your internal processes, changes in your outer conditions can, and do happen surprisingly quickly. There’s nothing in your life, no health problem, no relationship problem and no financial problem that you can’t permanently change with the application of this law! Sow a thought and reap an act. Sow an act and reap a habit. Sow a habit and reap a

character. Sow a character and reap a destiny!

Even something that you neglect, avoid, or procrastinate doing has an effect. Doing nothing is a cause in itself that has an effect; the consequences of which are inescapable. It’s not the theory of cause and effect, it the Law of Cause and Effect. By understanding it, and applying it you can immediately change your life for the better.

This article is adapted from Tom Payne’s audio-cassette“The 7 Dynamic Keys that will Transform Your Life”, available exclusively through www.PersonalPowerNow.com.au

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