Six Laws To Raise Your Level

— T.G.L. Iyer

Aristotle said, “We do what we know; we get what we do; therefore, what we get from life, what we receive now is a direct reflection of our present level of understanding.”

To put it in another way, the only thing that holds us down is what we don’t yet know about ourselves. It explains why our ability to learn the truth about ourselves and to increase our level of selfunderstanding is the same as being empowered to raise our own life level. If we want to grow inwardly, that is, to free ourselves from the ties that bind us, we must find new ways to learn the truth about ourselves that have not been discovered yet. These higher discoveries call for higher learning and understanding.

The first law to raise our level is, ‘Nothing can stop us from starting once again’. Life gives a fresh start any moment to everyone only we should know the secret of a fresh start. The second law is ‘Don’t take the easy way’. There is no short cut to knowledge. The complete way is the easy way. Volunteer to follow the hard way and make it easy as we proceed ahead.

The third law is ‘On the other side of resistance is flow’. There are moments in life when we hit a blind alley. We can climb over the wall, break the wall, go through the wall or jump over the wall and we will find that the flow starts on the other side. Learning to go beyond is the same as entering a new terrain.

The fourth law is ‘Never accept defeat’. In fact, success is reached through defeat. The effort should be to defeat what is defeating us. The fifth law is ‘Persistence always prevails’.

The last law is ‘Reward Yourself ’. When we choose a new habit, we should also pick out a suitable reward we can give ourselves. That will be an incentive for practising the new habit. The reward we give ourselves need not be enormous but it should be meaningful to us. It could be a movie, a piece of jewellery, an album or at least a pat on the back. That will turn the habit into a skill and the skill into ability.