The Law Of Inertia Applies Everywhere

These ducks learned how to find water, how to swim, 

how to mate, and how to find food.  Makes sense to me

that those abilities were somehow stored in their genes

somewhere - likely in the sub atomic memory banks

that all matter has.

One of the phenomenons of the human mind is that it will want what you feed it.  Same goes for the body.  Being that you’re already in motion of doing whatever it is you’re doing, you’ll want to keep doing it – whether it’s good behavior, bad behavior, or even if it’s mostly that you’re doing nothing.  As I mentioned before, the law of Inertia when something is in motion, it will continue in that direction until something acts on it.  When something is sitting still, it will continue to sit still until something acts on it – again – the human mind and body work the same way.

In reference to the previous chapter, if you’re misdirecting your anger, you’ll want to continue doing so, until something (your own effort) acts on it.  The good news is, it doesn’t take long to form a new path – a month or two on average for most things.  If you can figure out what the problem is – why you are so easily angered, understand that THAT is the cause of the pathology, and understand that the trauma is what is causing your anger, you may be able to deal with it, and eliminate it from your being.  If you were bullied by your dad when you were a little kid (most traumas occur in the first five years of life), you learn that, understand that you’re not that little kid anymore, and that you don’t have to fight with your dad for the rest of your life, you may end your suffering in that area.  It’s not as simple as just that, it takes some studying, learning, and applying – not to be confused with shutting off an emotion (more on this at a later date).  Once again, it’s like learning a song, lines for an actor, or lessons for a curriculum – you need to transfer it from your short term memory bank to the long term memory bank – because once it’s there, it’s now hardwired in place of, or at the very least, parallel to the old, pathological hardwired thought.  So, it’s not “I’m not angry”, it’s more like, “I was angry, but now I understand WHY I was angry, and that reason invaded my mind before my brain was fully developed, so it’s more like a short circuit that needs to be repaired”.  I’ll say this often here – never try to treat a symptom, you must always treat the problem, trying to treat the symptom will only make the problem worse – and may even add more bad than you started with.  This is where total honesty is crucial – you cannot face reality without being totally honest with YOU.  Which brings me to this – most people have been conditioned to think that big bad reality is something to be feared – well, it’s not.  It’s all the demons that lurk in our minds that are causing all the grief – demons that were installed there before our bodies and minds arrived at some semblance of maturity.  Even death is not something that should be feared to the point of obsession – we’ll all gonna leave this body we’re in at some point.  Protect yourself from reckless, death defying behavior, but fighting death obsessively has never done any person any good.  Think about this – in 150 years, every person on the planet will be dead, and in a few million years, this solar system will no longer be here – it will have exploded, the matter that it consisted of will be blasted into space – to meld with other matter to form new solar systems, new life – likely life that will be an improvement over what’s here now.

I believe that everything is random – there is no preconceived plan for any of us as individuals.  I've never seen anything to indicate otherwise.  Part of our life depends on what we do, and part depends on outside forces that act on us.  You can control your life to some small degree, the rest happens as it happens.  I, personally, am not arrogant enough to think that I have much, if any control over my life – again, things happen as they happen.  I believe we must try to achieve some kind of balance – meaning learning the difference between what we can control, and what we can’t, and being ok with all of it.  With all that is around us at this particular time in earh’s timeline, we can contract diseases and conditions, BUT, we can control them to a much larger degree than we have been told, in fact, we can often prevent most of it.  Sometimes, the environment will have more effect on a particular person than other times.  Sometimes the individual will be able to rid himself or herself of dreaded diseases and conditions, other times not.  I also believe that anything we do in this puny life will matter in the long run – what we do will be stored in the sub atomic memory bank and be passed on to the next life form that it becomes a part of (this is what some people have perceived as “previous life”), and will remain part of the memory, as will everything before and after the atoms were part of your particular being, at the particular time you were present in the line of the universe’s life.  The moral of this section is that while it doesn’t always appear easy to do, you can always do good things, and those things will matter, ever how small, for as long as the universe is in existence.  You can change most things about yourself – not by convincing yourself, or suppressing anything, but by studying and learning.  Think about it this way – if you can change some, most, or all of your bad thoughts, that will be stored in the atoms that you are made of, and the atoms that you’ve acted on, and this will carry on to all offspring – resulting in some future organism’s life, whatever you did will steer that organism to a slightly, or maybe not so slightly better direction than it would have if you would have just let what happened to you when you were little cause you to do bad things to yourself and your surroundings.  That’s not to mention what it will do for you.

So, this law of inertia – it applies to behaviors of all kinds – including self inflicted pain and suffering, health conditions and diseases of all kinds, addictions, and others.  If you are the hypochondriac, you can try to look into your childhood to see why you think you’re gonna be sick all the time – there will always be a reason there, you just have to find it.  If you’re an alcoholic or drug user, same, look into your pre-five-year-old life to see why – again, there will always be a reason there – just gotta find it.  One of the basics of these conditions is that we fear pain – both physical and emotional.  We are conditioned to think that such pain is unbearable, and will surely kills us – but damn, if you really think about it, pain is just part of life, and if you can see the true perspective of what pain is, you’ll see that it’s not so devastating after all, in fact, it can be perceived as something good.  I know, sounds crazy and hippie dippie, but well, it’s not, it’s the way it is.  If you’re angry all the time, it’s in your pre-five years – try to find it.  On finding that, it’s not always easy, you may have to hunt for a psychologist who does not belong to the new age B.S. that’s all around you.  Then, once you find it, you’ll need to figure out what to do with it (the traumas).  We’ll get into that later.  I say again, it would be in your best interest to stay as far away from “Cognitive Behavioral Therapy” as you possibly can.  These beliefs I speak of here have some resemblance to Freudian belief system, which seems to have been abandoned.   I believe that that system is much more effective in treating the problem as opposed to the symptom, and makes a hell of a lot more sense than that bunch of Cognitive Behavioral nonsense, in fact, there is some amount of good ideas in that (Freudian) school of thought – but again, take what you need from it, and reject the rest, or maybe save it for later.  In my own life, I found Nichiren Shoshu Buddhism (the traditional faction) to be immensely helpful.  Others find yoga to be the way, meditation, and a whole slew of other methods.  And, there’s no law that says you can’t come up with your own.  I don’t recommend prayer as defined by organized religion, Christian based, Judaism based, deity based systems – because with them you are speaking to something that may or may not be real, and, you’re putting too much control in the hands of something you know nothing about, as well as in the hands of unscrupulous people.

Ok, to sum up, behavior is learned, and almost always developed in the first five years of life.  Pain is not unbearable, and not to be feared so badly that it affects your ability to function.  If you’re an alcoholic, alcoholism is not the problem, it’s a symptom – and to hell with putting a band aid on the symptom, find the problem, and deal with that.  Everything you do in your life will affect all life forms hereafter, any small change for the better will affect it in a good way, and will affect you in your lifetime – also in a good way.

I’ll discuss all of these things in more detail at a later date.  I say again, you can cut and paste what you think applies to you, and read it as you can, as you have time, as you feel.