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The Fundamental
Principle: Likes Align and Congeal
Things generally tend to work
out best when built one step at a time. There are two
phrases you'll be reminded of throughout the pages of Full
Spirit if you master these two phrases, these are the two
master keys in the toolkit of life: “Focus on
Fundamentals” and “Back to Basics”.
These two key phrases form the foundations for all the areas
we’ll be focusing on. Regardless of the focus, the
fundamentals and basics are the same, threading
themselves continual through every aspect of life.
Building a successful relationship, a healthy body, a
personal fortune, all begins by Focusing on the Fundamentals
and getting Back to the Basics…
Allow me the privilege of
being repetitive for a moment if you will, to be
very clear here, building a multimillion dollar enterprise
is done through the same fundamentals and basics as
improving your diet or building your connection with the
ones you love. These same simple concepts repeated over and
over, build the castle of your life the same way 10,000
bricks repeated over and over create a glorious cathedral.
You might ask, “If it’s so simple, Why doesn’t everyone have
it all already?” Simply put, most people are using the
fundamentals and basics to create the life they don’t want! Could it be more simple than that?
The
Fundamental Principle Explained:
Let’s
first look at the Fundamental Principle. It’s called,
“The
Fundamental Principle,” and it is working every instant
with or without or influence. The Fundamental Principle is the
overriding law at work in each and every aspect of our lives. It is so simple, so basic, so
universally true it governs everything everywhere. This
principle works with or without any effort on our part,
it only makes sense to use it to our advantage.
The
Fundamental Guiding Principle of the Universe is this: “Likes Align
and Congeal.”
 This can be seen everywhere you care to look,
it is pervasive. It is written over and over on every page
of Nature’s Bible, things which are alike have a tendency to
align with one another and gather together. Think for an
instant of a grassy meadow, hundreds of thousands of stalks
of grass standing side by side all reaching towards the sun.
The grass in the meadow seems to be gathered together, at
the edge of the meadow the trees seem to be gathered
together, beyond them, the rocks seem to be so similar all
gathered together, and even there in the meadow amidst the
grass we see the people gathered together. Over and
over we see this repeat itself in nature, with or without or
effort things which are alike naturally gather together.
Reflect for a moment on a
flowing stream, millions of droplets of water gathered
together flowing towards the oceans. The trees gather
at the side of
 the
stream, the sand and pebbles at the bottom, the water all
together, this is what it means when we say: "Likes
Congeal". Then look at the water itself, how it
all flows the same direction, or the trees which all grow
the same direction, this it what it means when we say,
"Likes Align". The Fundamental Principle states
that, "Likes Align and Congeal." When we say Align, we
mean that those things which are alike will have a tendency
to move in the same direction towards the same goal, they
travel together. When we say congeal we mean to say
that those things which are alike will have a tendency
towards coming together.
 My
favorite place to see this is the beach. The beach so
perfectly illustrates the Universal Law that it is hard to
miss! It is important to understand that this is the
Universal Principle, it governs things which are conscious
as well as it governs things which are unconscious.
Look for a moment at this image of the beach, what do you
see? Houses of similar design are all grouped
together, the people have gathered together on the beach
doing similar activities, the water has grouped together
moving in similar way, and the sand has gathered together at
the waters edge. The sand is so special, every grain
so similar, yet unique and individual, just like the people,
all so similar, yet so distinct and individual. Such
the same for the waves, each wave distinct, unique and doing
so much the same as all the other waves. Likes align
and Congeal, conscious or not, with or without effort, this
Fundamental Universal law applies everywhere we care to
look.
It Works
for You No Matter What:
This
principle has been at work in your life since the moment you
came into being. It does not care what you like or dislike,
it only cares what you are like. Your friends, your
loves, your job, your health, all these things and habits
are the physical representation of what you are like on the
spiritual level. You life is your spirit made manifest.
This principle insists that you get what you earn, that
people who are in alignment with you will come into your
life, you will get more of what you already have.
Did
you ever notice how successful business people often join
business associations where they can gather with other
successful people? Or how recovering alcoholics are
benefited so greatly by attending groups with other
recovering alcoholics? Or that at gyms and health clubs,
the people are often very healthy gathered together doing
the activities which make them fit? Or that in a bag of
chips, the small broken bits gather together at the bottom,
and the big unbroken ones at the top?
 What’s
that last one there, a bag of chips? Of course the little
ones go to the bottom, they are smaller, and it is natural
that they sink to the bottom and gather together with little
chips of similar shape and size. How does that show the
principle? How do little chips sinking to the bottom of a
bag relate to rich people living in rich neighborhoods or
joining clubs with other rich people? Do you see it?
Let's stick for moment with
the examples all around us and then we'll look at how this
applies to our individual situations. The
Fundamental Principle doesn’t care, it isn't conscious,
 it
is a simple a matter of fact. Look for a moment at the
picture to the left, of course the grass is gathered
together, the people on the path gathered and aligned, but
look at the trees, do you see how perfectly they have
gathered themselves into neat rows? That is because
they have been planted in rows! They have been groomed
and manicured to grow in neat rows, humans have influenced
them, but what is important here is that the humans have
influenced them in accord with the Fundamental Universal
Principle. Regardless of the how or the why, it has
occurred, the trees have aligned and come together.
 So what
does this mean? It is so simple it can be elusive. Like so
many things right in front of our noses, it can be difficult
to see. We aren't looking at the how or the why,
simply the fact. The trees to the right were not
planted to all grow in similar groups, nor groomed to grow
in neat rows, yet they have aligned and congealed without
anyone's help. The simplicity of this can make it hard to
see: Every aspect of your life is the way it is because
of the way you are. The way you are is creating everything
you are experiencing; the Fundamental Principle insists on
this, it will allow nothing else. What you are like on the
inside, how you see yourself will insist that its reflection
be seen on the outside. If your spirit is full,
your life will be full. If you have a rich attitude,
you will be rich. The Fundamental Principle insists on
this.
What
Guides the Fundamental Principle:
This is a fantastic question,
if you understand that the Fundamental Principle is an
active process of perpetually aligning and congealing with
those persons and things which you like, you will naturally
come to ask, "What guides this? What determines what I
am like?" The answer again is so simple it can be a
little tricky to see, what you are like on the inside
determines what you will experience on the outside, and what
you experience on the outside will influence what you are
like on the inside. The distinction here is that the
inside determines the outside, and outside merely influences
the inside.
This means that the way we are
on the inside will create our situations and circumstance,
and at the same time, what we experience on the outside will
influence the way we feel on the inside. This gives
rise to two approaches for creating your life as a dream come true can be done in many ways. The
Outside-In approach is very popular, it is full with
promises of immediate gratification. It works something
like this: Change your outside situation and you will
feel different on the inside, for example; “Not happy with your, job?
 Get a different one.
Not happy with you finances? Make more money. Not happy
with your relationship? Get rid of it, replace it. Not
satisfied with your body? Exercise, eat different.” Very
simple. Makes good sense to, doesn’t it? Simply change
what is happening on the outside, and then you’ll feel
different on the inside, so easy.
A problem which arises over
and over with the outside-in approach is this: The
outside will always align with the inside, the inside guides
the flow, for example; "Unhappy with your job? Then get a
new one, then become unhappy with that one too."
"Unhappy with your relationship? Then get a new one,
then become unhappy with that one too." The problem
with fixing our emotions by changing our outside world is
simple, it doesn’t work for long, it doesn't last.
 Lasting
change comes from the inside. The Inside-Out approach is different, and its promise of
lasting change is different too. The idea is that by
changing the way we see things from the inside, the outside
world will align with the way we see it. In other words, if
we change the way we are on the inside, our external
world will shift to line up. For example: Not happy with
your job? Do it to the absolute best of your ability. Do
it better than anyone else, learn it completely, become the
best at it, Do More and Better Service than that for which
you are paid, go above and beyond, find joy in doing it to
the best of your ability. Then watch what happens, watch
what comes your way.
 I’ve seen this over and over, a person
dissatisfied with their job changes their attitude and
decides to do it better than anyone could and finds joy in
doing it. Not surprisingly, they congeal with others who are
also doing their best, eventually they attract the
attention of someone who says, “Wow, you are a joyful hard
worker, I’d like to hire you to do…” Suddenly, they have
the job they always wanted! Suddenly they find themselves
missing the job they hated as they move onto the job of
their dreams. It is immediate, and it is lasting.
Immediately they begin to find joy in the work they once
disliked because it becomes a game to them, the game is
seeing how well they can do the job. Immediately the
suffering through a hated job vanishes and is replaced with
a playful striving, the work they hated becomes fun!
They’ve changed the way they are being, the way they are
seeing things, and suddenly, almost immediately the work
changes for them. Instead of finding a better job, they find
joy in the present one, then, after a short time, often a
very short time they find themselves getting that better job
of their dreams.
Which
Approach is Best?
Here at
Full Spirit, we like to make use of every tool, and strongly avoid focusing on what’s wrong with things.
Both the
Outside-In and Inside-Out approach have many strengths which can be used to
compliment tone another. The approach you’ll be
putting to use in the pages and lessons of Full
 Spirit are
makes use of both techniques, changing the way you feel on
the inside, simultaneously changing your outside situations. This technique is known as
Quantum Anchoring,
and we'll talk allot more about it in the Practical Version
of this article: Putting the
Fundamental Principle to Work.
As you change your internal
world to match your ideal, making changes in your outside
world will only help the process by anchoring your new
beliefs to the physical world. We’ll talk allot more
about anchors in other sections. For now, think of it
like this, if you hated your job, and then decided to get a
better one by becoming great at your current one, what good
would it do you if you refused the better one when it came
along? We anchor our internal world in our external world,
first improving our attitude, second improving our
situation. The best practices approach uses of both
techniques, starting at the inside and working outward to
the world that surrounds us. We change what we are
like, and then the outside world aligns with the way we are,
and the life we want congeals all around us. Our
internal attitudes become the seed around which our
situation grows.
Using
the Fundamental Principle
"Focus on Fundamentals!"
If you hear me shout, "Focus on Fundamentals" 10,000 times
it still won't be stressed enough! Applying the
fundamentals in your life is easy, easy, easy! Now
that you understand, "Likes Align and Congeal", and you now
know that it is an indisputable law, a property of nature
which governs everything in your life, you surely want to
know how you can make use of it for the best.
In the article
"GET the Most Out
of Life" you began to understand that
you are always growing, no matter what, you are always
growing either for the better or for the worse, and because
you are here reading this, you have declared that you've
decided to grow for the better. So the first tool in
your toolkit is, "FOCUS ON FUNDAMENTALS: What are
you being like? What do you want to be like?"
I am little more than your
guide, your constant companion on this journey into the
living dream, and as your guide I work for you, stand beside
you asking, "What are you being like? What do you want
to be like?" Then I shout, "FOCUS ON FUNDAMENTALS!" (I'm a
guide who sometimes shouts :-) Every time you find
yourself existing, pause for a moment and focus on
fundamentals by saying to yourself and then asking,
"Likes align and congeal, What am I being like?
 What
do I want to be like?" Memorize that phrase, say
it to yourself ten thousand times everyday, "Likes align and
congeal. What am I being Like? What do i want to
be like?"
Who you are, what you are
being like on the inside determines what your outside
becomes. Your situation does not determine your
feelings, your feelings determine your situation!
Happiness comes to happy people. Smiling faces find
smiles everywhere! It is not riches, or houses, or
possessions which create happiness, happiness creates
riches! Find your happiness inside of you and
everywhere you look you will see it reflected back at you.
"Likes align and congeal, What are you being like?
What do you want to be like?" You are currently,
as you read this, a person who is being like a person on an
adventure, an adventure towards fulfilling the living dream!
You are powerful, motivated, and inspired to create within
yourself the happiness you know you deserve!
From here, jump to the
Scientific Version of this article to go a little deeper:
A Quantum Look at the
Fundamental Principle, or get more info
on putting the Fundamental Principle into practice with,
Making
the Fundamental Principle Work for You!,
or continue in this series with one of these 7 great Quick
Start Articles:
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