Hello

I talk allot about threads which I liken to a thread in an Internet Forum At anytime in our lives there are threads whirling about, mostly unorganized and independent. Occasionally, through , what I can only call "the magic of the divine" two or more threads collide. The accidentally collision creates the magic.

Let me give you an example. I listened to an audio the other evening for a course I am taking. During the talk , the author mentioned the Butterfly Effect. The effect states that one butterfly flapping its wings in a South American Jungle can create a huge change in  weather patterns making long term weather forecasting impossible beyond a week. Keep in mind how fragile a butterfly's wings are.

Yesterday during my lunch break I am reading "Living the 7 Habits" by Stephen Covey.

This line jumped off the page at me. "It is like throwing a pebble in a pond. The waves just keep expanding outward.

Drum roll please. The Butterfly Effect and the ripple in the pond are essentially the same phenomena. What's more you don't need a butterfly or a pond to create those effects.

I postulate, that any action no matter how small creates an effect. You can call it "Nick First Law of Effects".

Every day we do things without thought or intent that create ripples in the universe: A good reason to live our lives more consciously.

However, extrapolating from our first law we arrive at a much bigger implication.

Butterflies have very short life spans, one pebble in a pond does not a tidal wave make, yet add conscious intention coupled with persistence and the tenacity of the human mind and the power of one small action repeated over and over again, adds up to a powerful force of change.

We often feel powerless in the face of all the world's problems, we tend to pull ourselves inward, unable to see a course of action that would lead to meaningful change. In essence we cease to create an effect and become instead, the effect of events .

Yet if my postulated law held up, one small act of kindness repeated over and over again could rise up and wash away the tears of the world.

What small act you ask?

How about a smile?

Create you own tornado of kindness, make like a butterfly, pull you lips upward,
and smile, over and over and over again.

I dare you then to measure the full effect of your action. I'll predict that you cannot see all the ramifications of that one smile. It could change a  day, a life, a nation, a world.

You are powerful.

I will leave you with the words of Nelson Mandela.

You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people wont feel insecure around you. We were born to manifest the glory that is within us. And as we let our light shine we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." 

Don't live to Intend,
Intend to live!

Nick Grimshawe