Law of Compensation

This is another hidden law of nature not mentioned in “The Secret.”

This law states, “Whatever you do will come back to you, nothing less, nothing more.” It is also known by various names, such as The Law of Cause and Effect, or Karma, or Law of Universal Justice.

The American psychic and prophet, Edgar Cayce, put it simply as “meeting yourself.”

This law is absolute, perfect, objective and resolute. It works whether we are aware of it or not, whether we like it or not. It is a natural law, just as the law of gravity is.

Karma, by which this hidden law is known in the East, is a Sanskrit word that means action. Usually, when we talk of action we refer to physical action. But in the case of karma action can also refer to mental actions, such as “desires, choices and intentions.”

Karma is more strict than human or man-made laws. If I intend or desire to kill you, for example, even if I do not actually do it, I have already incurred a karmic debt to you that I must pay in the future.

It matters not that I did not act on it. The harm has already been done on the spiritual or mental level. And that must be compensated or paid for.

The reason for this is that everything begins with the mind. Nothing exists on the physical plane that did not originate on the mental plane. Therefore, the mental is as real as the physical.

Perhaps this explains the biblical passage in which Jesus Christ said: “It is written, ‘Thou shall not commit adultery,’ but I say unto you: whoever looks at a woman with lust has already committed adultery with her in his heart.”

Mental action can bring about karmic consequences, as much as physical action does.

A mother of four came to my class on Soulmates, Karma and Reincarnation, where I conduct two hypnotic regressions to help participants remember their past lives.

This woman could not understand why she hated her second son. She would punish him for the slightest fault or infraction but not the others who did a similar offense. She was feeling guilty about her attitude toward the boy.

During regression, she found herself in a previous life in Africa as a slave. The slaves had a master who was very cruel and would whip or punish them for the slightest excuse.

She hated that cruel slave master so much that she cursed him and said she would always hate him and never forgive him. Now this slave master came as her son. She now has the opportunity to exact her revenge against him or to forgive what he did to her.

She chose to forgive and soon, the relationship with her second son improved so much. Had she chosen to continue her hatred the cycle would continue.

Karma is the immutable law that refers effects back to their rightful causes. Everything comes back to its source. It has been said by a physicist that if you throw a stone up in the sky and if there is nothing to obstruct its path, it will eventually come back to your hand where it originated. That is the law of karma at work.

Everything we do will come back to us in full measure, nothing less and nothing more.

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The power of positive affirmation

This story was told to me by the wife of the man involved.

Jose was a lowly clerk in a government agency in Quezon City. His salary was barely enough to support his wife, but Jose was consumed by a desire to own a Canon SLR 35mm still camera with a zoom.

Its cost was way beyond his meager income. Digital cameras were not yet in vogue at that time.

So he contented himself by looking at the Canon camera in a store near his office. Every day, after office hours, he would go to that shop and just stare at the camera displayed there.

He imagined owning the camera and using it with delight. Every day he never failed to stop by the shop just to look at the camera of his dream. He would just stand in front of the glass display case for a few minutes and leave quietly.

I cannot recall how many weeks he did that routine.

A surprise

Then, one evening, a cousin who had just arrived from Saudi Arabia where he was an overseas Filipino worker telephoned.

“Pinsan!” the cousin exclaimed. “I bought you something from Saudi. I hope you like it.”

“What is it?” Jose eagerly asked.

“Well, I bought a camera for you.”

“What kind of camera?”

“It’s a Canon SLR 35mm camera with a zoom!”

Jose almost fainted. He never told his cousin he had been dreaming of such a camera for a long time but could not afford it. His strong desire, affirmation, visualization and intention to own that camera became a reality in no time at all!

Professional gamblers, as well as successful businessmen, are very much aware of the power of positive affirmation or suggestion. When betting on a number or launching a new project they do not let a negative thought enter their minds. They believe it is bad luck to think of negative things.

We Filipinos have an intuitive knowledge of the power of thought. If somebody during a trip says, “Be careful or we may have an accident,” another is likely to exclaim, “Don’t say that. It might come true!”

Scientific proof

Scientific studies conducted in the west proved the power of intention or positive affirmation. It has been scientifically shown for example that intention can retard the hatching of a fruit fly’s larvae and affect the alkalinity of water.

A Japanese researcher named Masaru Emoto of Yokohama has shown, after years of meticulous experiments, that one’s intention and emotion can affect the molecular structure of water crystals.
He cursed a container of water and froze it. Under a microscope, he saw the water crystals scattered and in disarray. When he expressed loving thoughts before the water, the molecular structure became harmonious and beautiful.

The experiment was repeated over a long period of time using different emotions. Sometimes, a piece of paper with words written on it was left on the water. The results were similar. It seems there is an innate intelligence in water and in nature in general.

In my Inner Mind Development Institute, I have the following motto: “The mind knows no limits aside from those it accepts.”

This is another way of stating the Law of Affirmation or Intention. We are the ones that put limits to what we can do or accomplish. Remove the mental limitations and we can accomplish anything we want.

“This world,” as Buddhist masters have been telling us, “is largely our own mental creation.” We create our own reality. We are, in a very real and literal sense, co-creators with God.

Ancient mystics of the East have been saying this for thousands of years. And now modern western particle physicists are saying the same thing.

It is because of the tremendous power of the human mind that the Bible forbids us to curse anyone, because a curse can result in real physical injury or harm to others.

A curse is similar to a spell inflicted on a victim. It brings serious karmic consequences to the perpetrator. That is why we are forbidden to curse anyone. If we do this, we suffer somehow a karmic debt for which we have to pay later in life.

I have received letters from readers telling me that whenever they wished for something, they always got it. They wondered why that was so. That is due to the operation of the Law of Affirmation or Suggestion, one of the secret laws of nature.

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Power of suggestion

In my seminars, I have summarized the Law of Attraction in the following simple steps:

1. Be sure you know what it is you really want. What is your goal specifically?

2. You must slow down your brain waves to at least the alpha level (from 7 to 14 cycles per second on the EEG or electro-encephalogram). But you do not need an EEG machine to know that. All you have to do is go into a relaxed, passive meditative state.

3. Once you have reached the alpha state, visualize or form an image of your goal using all your five senses. To make things happen, you must engage also the right hemisphere of your brain that only understands pictures, images and symbols.

Your left brain is your analytical, logical and critical side. The right brain is your intuitive and imaginative brain.

4. You must mentally program or visualize your goal at least twice a day, once in the morning after waking up, and once before going to sleep.

You must visualize your goal as already achieved and not how you are going to achieve it.

5. To make your brain programming successful, there are three important factors you must keep in mind. You must have a strong desire for your goal, you must believe in the method or programming you are doing and you must expect the result to happen without any doubt at all.

If doubt enters your mind, you will not achieve your goal because you are putting a monkey wrench to its achievement.

The Law of Affirmation

Closely related to the Law of Attraction is the Law of Affirmation or Suggestion. This law states that whatever we affirm or suggest becomes a physical reality.

Rhonda Byrne, in her book “The Secret,” discusses affirmation or suggestion or intention as part of the Law of Attraction but it is really a separate law in itself.

The Law of Attraction states that “like attracts like.” We do not have to affirm it verbally for it to work. We attract what we are, whether we say it or not. It is like the theory of vibrations, similar energies or vibrations attract themselves to one another.
In a social setting we say, “Birds of the same feather flock together.” I recall here the true and documented case of an American woman who married and divorced five different men, all of whom turned out to be drunkards. She could not understand why she attracted this type of men.

Positive affirmation or suggestion, however, is one of the keys to the achievement of any goal we have. Realize that thoughts are things, thoughts have energy, thoughts have power.

In the 18th century, a French pharmacist turned healer, Emile Coué, became famous because of his discovery of the power of positive suggestion or affirmation.

Parisian medical doctors considered Coué a quack. But when terribly ill patients started getting healed after visiting his clinic, they sent spies to find out how he cured the patients.

The spies reported that, whatever illness the patient had, Coué asked him to repeat to himself the following statement 16 times a day: “Every day in every way, I am getting better and better.” And they indeed got better.

That was long before Anton Mesmer discovered what became known as “mesmerism” and “later hypnosis.” And, long before psychology was established as a science, Coué already knew the tremendous power of suggestion in helping people heal themselves.

Coué told the story of an asthmatic who went to another town and stayed in a hotel he had never been to before. That evening, he felt the start of an asthma attack. Usually, when that happened, all he had to do was open a window and breathe fresh air.

But he was in a strange place. It was dark and he did not remember where the light switch was. In desperation, he began walking in the dark touching all the walls in search of a window.
When he touched a glassy area, which he assumed was the window, he hurled a chair and broke it. He breathed deeply and his asthma subsided, enough for him to go back to sleep.

The next morning he looked at what he broke. It was an old grandfather clock. His hotel room did not have a window. The thought of breathing fresh air stopped what could have been a fatal asthma attack.

Such is the power of suggestion or affirmation!

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Beyond the secret Law of Attraction

Everyone wants to be in on a secret, no matter what it is. We want to feel we are in the know. We do not want to feel left out.

And that’s how Rhonda Byrne, an Australian divorcee and former television producer, became a multimillionaire almost overnight. Her life was in shambles until she wrote a book about a long-known principle or philosophy she called “The Secret.”

According to a Newsweek report, the book sold 1.5 million while the DVD version 1.7 million copies in three months. It became a phenomenal bestseller in the United States, United Kingdom and Australia.

Even in the Philippines, where the average population is not known to be avid book readers, “The Secret” did quite well. People bought copies for themselves and as gifts to friends and relatives.

Is the book really worth its price, containing substantial information, or is it just a product of good marketing strategy?

Going over the book that a friend gave me, I found nothing that is really new or that I did not know before. The book talks mainly about the Law of Attraction, which is only one of the four hidden laws of nature.

Calling it “The Secret” was a stroke of marketing genius. And showing people how the secret works in daily life insured its success with a reading public always hungry for something new and practical.

The following passage in the book’s foreword proved irresistible:

“A year ago, my life had collapsed around me. I’d worked myself into exhaustion, my father died suddenly, and my relationship with my colleagues and loved ones were in turmoil. Little did I know at the time, out of my greatest despair was to come the greatest gift.

“I’d been given a glimpse of a Great Secret—The Secret to life. The glimpse came in a hundred-year-old book, given to me by my daughter (“The Science of Getting Rich” written by Wallace Wattles in 1910). I began tracing The Secret back through history. I couldn’t believe all the people who knew this. They were the greatest people in history: Plato, Shakespeare, Newton, Hugo, Beethoven, Lincoln, Emerson, Edison, Einstein.

“Incredulous, I asked, ‘why doesn’t everyone know this?’ A burning desire to share The Secret with the world consumed me, and I began searching for people alive today who knew The Secret.

“One by one they emerge. I became a magnet: as I began to search, one great living master after another was drawn to me. In a few short weeks I had traced The Secret back through the centuries and I had discovered the modern practitioners of The Secret.”

The Secret that Byrne talks about in the entire book is the Law of Attraction, which she describes this way:

“If you can think about what you want in your mind and make that your dominant thought, you will bring it into your life.”

According to her, “People who have drawn wealth into their lives used The Secret, whether consciously or unconsciously. They think thoughts of abundance and wealth, and they do not allow any contradictory thoughts to take root in their minds. Their predominant thoughts are of wealth. They only know wealth, and nothing else exists in their minds. Whether they are aware of it or not, their predominant thoughts of wealth are what brought wealth to them. It is the law of attraction in action.”

The Law of Attraction works in all aspects of our life, including our spiritual life.

Unfortunately, the book focuses mainly on attracting riches and wealth, which is what most people want to hear about and that is why the book has become so successful. Who does not want to be rich?

But there are other equally important hidden laws of nature that the book fails to mention or emphasize such as the Law of Affirmation or Suggestion, the Law of Compensation and the Law of Causality.Nevertheless, I must credit Byrne and congratulate her for bringing to a large number of people around the world the tremendous powers of human thought and emotion.
I have been teaching this in my inner-mind development seminars in the Philippines for the last 25 years. With her book, the same teaching has reached a wider audience.

In my seminar, I define the Law of Attraction as “like attracts like.” We attract what we are, or what we think we are. If you want to be loved, you must be lovable; if you want to be happy, you must think of happiness; if you want to be prosperous, you must think of prosperity.
That is exactly what Byrne is saying in “The Secret.”

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