Understanding the Laws of Life

Many of us see laws as something boring, restricting, or even punishing.

- B.K. HANS

There are different levels of laws: human-made laws, laws of matter/nature, and the spiritual laws. Laws are abstract, invisible, hidden, but they determine our life experiences, in fact our reality. Human laws made by governments have the aim to make societies function more smoothly. These limited and constantly changing laws have a great impact on our lives, but are far from being perfect.

Whereas the laws of matter and spirituality never change and always function accurately, whether we are aware of them or not. If we understand them, we can know how everything functions, foresee the outcome, and can therefore actually plan our future according to our wish and also have a feeling of security.

Questions like, 'Why is this happening to me?', 'What is going on in the world?', 'Why are things simply not fair?', 'How can this be?', indicate that we have not understood those eternal laws of life. Then we are unable to act in accordance with them and our experience of life is often not to our liking.

Therefore, thousands of scientists have made efforts for millennia to discover the laws of matter, to be able to use matter for the benefit of humankind. The resulting innovations, like the mobile phone, would astound our grandparents.

Since our body is made from matter, we are constantly confronted with the laws of matter. Therefore, let us look at some of the laws of matter most relevant to us, those which deal with movement and change.

Newton was the first to discover some of them, the laws of motion.

1. The first law of motion is of inertia - matter has the nature of being inert. By itself it will not move; it just "wants" to sit there for eternity.