The 12 Universal Laws

This is the beginning of a series of posts designed to deepen the understanding of the laws that govern our world and how to dance in harmony with them and be able to get the best out of them to improve our lives.

We all know about the one of the most famous Universal Laws, the Law of Attraction. The truth is that there are 11 other Universal Laws that are deeply important and the Law of Attraction is only one of them. This law in order to work needs to be in synergy with the other Laws.

The work done by "The Secret" was correct, if we look at it in a linear way. It was brilliant as a way to introduce the Law to people but because of the interconnection between laws, most people get demotivated due to lack of results.

The use of vision boards, visualisations and affirmations isn't enough for many people. We think that the magic can work based on desires and intentions, which is correct, for a linear approach, but life is never linear. Even after years, we don't totally grasp the entire immensity of their spectrum, how these laws are embedded in our life and how little we really know about them.

“Get over it, and accept the inarguable conclusion that the universe is immaterial, mental and spiritual.” -Richard Conn Henry- professor of physics and astronomy.

Let's see the 12 Universal Laws that make up our reality. These laws are based in philosophical, metaphysical and Quantum physics principles.

Universal Law of Divine Oneness
Universal Law of Vibration
Universal Law of Correspondence
Universal Law of Attraction
Universal Law of Inspired Action
Universal Law of Perpetual Transmutation of Energy
Universal Law of Compensation
Universal Law of Cause and Effect
Universal Law of Relativity
Universal Law of Rhythm
Universal Law of Polarity
Universal Law of Gender

1. universal law of divine oneness

“All energy, matter, space, and time are one, therefore we are all connected to the rest of the Universe we move through.”

This means that everything we do has a ripple effect and impacts the collective, not just ourselves. It is like a musical instrument with a single cord, if we pinch it at any point of the cord, the change is happening to the entire cord instantaneously.

Everything we see, touch, hear, taste and smell in our reality is a form of energy. If we look at the reality, we all know that the smallest things that construct our world are electron and quarks, well... this is a lie.

The building blocks of our reality are quantum fields. Let's just imagine that we have a fabric that we have in tension: this is our quantum field, the electrons and quarks are more like knots within the fabric. Like our cord, if we pinch them we create a change that is going to affect the entire fabric. Therefore, anything we do in our reality is going to affect the entire world around us.

2. Universal Law of Vibration

“Everything in the Universe is in a constant state of movement and never rests. We refer to these movements as vibrations and the speed or rate at which something vibrates is called its frequency.”

It means that everything is in motion, even the object that we perceive in a state of immobility, like a rock. The motion of a vibration is a circular pattern but what defines the amplitude of the vibration is the frequency. Every single thing in this Universe has its own unique frequency.

The constituent of our frequency are emotions and thoughts. The summary of all our emotions and thoughts, including conscious and subconscious, are going to create our own vibration.

Emotions with a low frequency are: sense of powerlessness, depressions, sadness, despair etc. Thoughts with the low frequency are: bad talk and bad self-talk, detrimental beliefs and associations.

Emotions with a high frequency are: love, joy, empowerment, gratitude etc. Thoughts with high frequency are: thought of appreciation and loving self-talk, beneficial beliefs and associations.

3. Universal Law of Correspondence

“What happens around us is a direct reflection of what is happening within us.”

It means that the Universe is a massive mirror and our internal world generates a pattern that is repeating itself both outside and inside. This means that we create this fractal-like structure that the world reproduces at an infinite ratio.

Our inner world is reflected in the actions, words and behaviours of the people around us. At the same time, we are the mirror of somebody else's. The collective perception of reality is going to be reflected into the worldwide events. To simplify this concept, we can say that the war outside us is a reflection of the war within us.

Think for a moment when in the morning you get ready for the day in front of a mirror. It immediately starts with negative self-talk, like "how bad the face look this morning, how ugly is that wrinkle, the size of the bags under the eyes" etc. From there, ending up saying "how stupid was what we said yesterday to the boss, how much we feel like a failure and how much time we waste when we could do everything differently" and so on. This is not only happening in front of the mirror, it also happens every single time we speak to an other person.

This internal war with ourselves is the one that generates the condition to co-create the reality that is the exact copy of the way we relate to ourselves. If we want to change what we see, we need to change the relationship that we have with ourselves.

4. Universal Law of Attraction

“We will attract into our life whatever we focus on because like attracts like.”

Here we are to our superstar Law. At this point, it's starting to be clear why this law was incomplete. In fact, the Law of Attraction only works in direct synergy with the previous Laws.

Here is where we need to pay attention on how and where the focus goes. The Universe is going to manifest all the things present in our signature vibration, recreating an exact copy of our emotions and thoughts in our reality.

This is another example of how this works: The Law of Correspondence reflects an instance present inside ourselves that we may be aware of or not. This leads to trigger a reaction in ourselves that produces a frequency through the Law of Vibration. The informations of our frequency is spread simultaneously in all Universe, thanks to the Law of Divine Oneness. Ultimately, the reality is going to arrange itself due to the Law of Attraction matching the frequency that we hold.

Suddenly, all this doesn't seem so simple anymore, isn't it? It is crucial to understand this complexity if we want to work in harmony with the Universal Laws.

5. Universal Law of Inspired Action

“We need to take real, actionable and inspired steps in our lives to see changes happening towards what we want to manifest in our life.”

It means that all our desires need to be boosted from our inspiration in the process of our decision making, then interact with our reality through an action to obtain a change in the direction of these desires.

An inspired action consists of moving with a flow of energy to allows things to occur naturally. The contrary is acting in an attempt to force things to happen. It doesn't mean that we should refrain from taking any action but we should rather take mostly those actions that the inner-self drives through inspiration.

The reason why the inspiration is so important is because it has an incredible amount of activation energy that carries intensity and passion. It fills us with enthusiasm when we go towards its direction and we need to act while this energy is still there.

The moment we stop ourselves from taking action towards it, passion and energy will fade away with time if we don't feed them. They won't be gone for good but the degree will be quite less, making it harder to take any steps. This is because we create room for self-doubt and past painful associations that will try to stop us from following our inner wisdom.

6. Universal Law of Perpetual Transmutation of Energy

“Energy can neither be created nor destroyed but only transmuted or transferred.”

It means that everything in existence is going to change and turn into something different. No matter how hard we try, we are never going to being able to freeze things in space and time. Change is a natural process that all of us are subject to.

For example, if you are about to read a book, the person that you will be once arrived at the end of that book is different from your present self. This is because you will be a version of you with more knowledge and that makes you a different person. In other words, there is a death of an old self and a rebirth of a new improved one.

The same happens with new experiences or even traumas. When we go through a painful or joyful experience, we are going to always be different afterwards. There will always be something to gain, a lesson to learn, a deeper breakdown or an inner turning point. The difference is made by how we chose to take that experience.

7. Universal Law of Compensation

“We harvest only what we see and we get only what we have put into.”

This means that the perspective where we look at the world from is going to be equal to the one which we are spiralling in. Any type of informations we introduce in the Universe, through words, actions, thoughts and emotions are going to be the things that we are going to receive.

It is not a law built on a punishment-reward scheme but it is more a way to make us responsible for anything we do. We can either choose to see the world as cruel and hard, feeling like its victim and being stuck in our state of powerlessness or we can choose to see if there is any part of ourselves that feeds that reality and take responsibility for those parts to find a resolution within ourselves.

If you think, for example, when someone smiles at you, you are automatically going to feel a shift within you. That very simple act is an acknowledgement towards you that adds positive energy to you. On the contrary, any time you are surrounded by stress and tension is going to penetrate inside you like a poison depleting your energy.

8. Universal Law of Cause and Effect

“Every cause has its effect and every effect has its cause. Everything happens for a reason and nothing is left to chance.”

It means that everything we do and don't do will have a consequence. This Law teaches us that good luck and misfortune are not possible but highlights our level of lack of self-awareness on having a clear vision of how we, as singularity, can affect, alter and change our reality.

We believe that we cannot do nothing that can be impactful for others only because we are feeling so small in comparison to people much more important than us. The reality is that there is no hierarchy for the Universe. Everyone's energy is equally important and impactful for it.

For example, if we pick a flower in a field, this simple and innocent but unaware act will change that ecosystem irremediably and, of course, a numerous amount of lives that depend upon that flower. The plant we mutilated to take that flower, first is going to spend more energy to adjust because of the injury, compromising the other florescence and the production of a new one and, like a chain of events, bees, butterflies and other insects are going to have less pollen.

Because that flower was going to produce several seeds, by removing it we are also removing the potential propagation of that specimen that can be realised from those seeds, therefore we compromise the entire species.

This is from our perspective: an insignificant act that never meant to do any harm because we perceive ourselves as insignificant, too. It is the same reason, for example, why coral reefs start dying and all the lives living with it, therefore affecting the entire ocean and ultimately is going to backfire on us. Unfortunately, it won't affect us directly but rather our future generations that we try to protect and nourish.

9. Universal Law of Relativity

“Everything is neutral and nothing is comparable.”

It means that everything in existence doesn't have negative or positive value in itself but the value is generated when something else enters in relationship with it. It defines the principles of perspective and truth. These two principles are always subjective and never objective. This is because of the angle where the observer watches the object of the observation from.

To explain this concept, let's take two people that we call Mike and Jeff. Mike is living in Boston and Jeff is living in Cyprus. Mike is going to Cyprus to meet Jeff in May. In Boston, the temperature usually is between 10°C and 19°C in that month while in Cyprus is between 17°C and 27°C . The conversation between the two may go in this way:

Mike: "Hey man, I'm boiling here. How can you cope with it?"

Jeff: "Is it? You are lucky that the hot weather is in August.".

The perception of "hot" in our example is made by Mike's perception, it is not the place itself being inhospitable, otherwise there wouldn't be any life there. It is the subjective perception that gives to something a positive or a negative value.

Mike is sweating, suffering and this is his truth which is not shared by Jeff, does this means that what Mike's experience is not true or less true? Of corse it is true, he has a different experience and the body is used to a different scale of temperature, this is his subjective truth.

Therefore, both Mike and Jeff are right, two subjective perspectives that have two subjective truths. This applies to everything we had and will come in contact with and most of the time, in a situation, there are more than only two coexisting perspectives and truths.

10. Universal Law of Rhythm

“Everything in the Universe has a cycle. Everything that goes one way comes back the opposite way and the process repeats itself endlessly.”

It means that there is a rhythm between any pair of poles or opposites. This allows the shift from one element to the other and this doesn't necessarily mean that they are extreme type of forces.

All the cycles, like life, seasons, the phases of development and crisis and patterns are the building blocks of this rhythm. We can also describe it like a pendulum that swings from the left to the right and the other way around.

We can experience positive periods in our life but to determine that, we had to go through negative ones. Our goal is not resisting it but to take the best out of that cycle, phase or pattern and move with it rather than against.

Like the ocean that has its waves, you can either be the surfer and ride those waves or the reef that is going to be eroded by them. We cannot resist or force something that we don't have control over and don't expect to see repercussions on ourselves.

11. Universal Law of Polarity

“Everything is dual; everything has poles; everything has its pair of opposites; like and unlike are the same; opposites are identical in nature but different in degree; extremes meet.”

It means that for anything we conceptualise, there is an opposite and equal force. For example: light and dark, winter and summer, empty and full, hot and cold, autonomy and dependency, day and night, water and fire, motion and stillness and etc.

It teaches us that in order to know something, we need to experience its opposite to understand and feel the difference. How can we know what joy is if we don't experience sadness?

It also doesn't mean that one polarity is better than the other. As we already saw with the Law of Rhythm, it is something that we are going to experience no matter what. In our life, we will always be going to have amazing news or moments that sparks joy in us, likewise, we will always have moments or events of sadness that put us down.

Our goal is not trying to get out of or resisting the unwanted polarity but to embrace it and sink into the experience, like we do with a polarity that is wanted. What we resist, persists. The more we try to make the experience different, the more that experience is going to stay the same for longer time.

The more we allow to open towards the experience and see the reason of the resistance, the more the teachings that we need to learn for our expansion are going to unfold in front of our own eyes.

Are we able to stop the coming of the night? Of course not. Therefore, it is not in our power to change the outside forces but we can understand the reasons of the resistance and healing detrimental associations and beliefs is something we have absolute power upon.

12. Universal Law of Gender

“Gender is in everything, everything has its Masculine and Feminine Principles, Gender manifests as energy.”

Everything that exist has a combination of Masculine and Feminine energy, these two forces need to be in balance in order to manifest a potentiality. A perfect visual representation of this is the Taoism symbol Yin and Yang. Where Yin is the feminine and Yang the masculine.

Some feminine attribute are: receptivity, nurture, intelligence, intuition and etc. Some of the masculine attribute are: logic, expression, practicality, vision and etc. The Yin and Yang symbol consists in a circle divided into two halves by a curved line. One half of the circle is black, typically representing the Yin side; the other is white, for the Yang side. A dot of the opposite colour is situated near the centre of the other's half. The two halves are intertwining across a spiral-like curve that splits the whole into semicircles, and the small dots represent that both sides carry the seed of the other.

For example, the night holds a feminine energy but if the sky is clear with visible stars and a full moon are shining, the night is going to have a more masculine energy because light holds Yang energy but also remaining true to itself with feminine energy still present. Another example is the ocean, even though water has a feminine energy, it has an actualised dominance of masculine energy because of its currents and the wild and harsh aspects of it.

For the last thousand of years, the human race used a masculine energy and identified the aspects of the feminine one as bad and unwanted. This creates an imbalance, forcing the masculinity to slip in its shadow side in order to oppose the unwanted energy. The truth is that these two energies always need to be in balance to express their constructive and beneficial aspects.

The first step

If we want to have the life we have always wanted, we need to understand that the world does not exist outside of ourselves. We are part of the Universe with all that has been said, thought, felt and done and at the same time the Universe and all that has been said, thought, felt and done is part of us. If we learn from the patterns that the Universe works with and hunt down the same patterns that are present within us and take care of those parts of us, we may then see and know how to heal, thrive and be co-creators of our life.