By James Komolafe.
Nature offers a template to all her natives for a stable and static mechanism in the ordinariness of daily existence. Value system personal judgment and the plethora of human discretion thus becomes a ‘magic wand’ establishing the kind of compliance eliciting a response from nature.
Natures quietness must not be taken for granted! That inner serenity establishing a morality and reinforcing a personal code of conduct is a game of life every native must seek to play for wellness, freshness and productivity. War with nature may not require much hassles, but a tiny ignore to natures’ call may generate a pull of repercussion for a multiplier effect. Nature barks! Nature bites back! Nature offers to her natives’ compensation secretly, silently and on many occasions parade a public demonstration of its deliverables for other natives to extol or condemn. It may not take it lightly on certain elements who cheat on her immediately but would always act as an arbiter who sees it all both in compliance and noncompliance; waits on every native to in order to pay them in their own coin.
On very many occasions, many natives engage the quick fix model as an option available to them without considering the bigger picture. They indulge nature and unduly ignore her requirements in order to honor some instant gratification in the usual business of daily living. Just as the behavioral wholeness mode may not budge immediately, violators of nature may not be without the consequences.
Every native must go with this fact: the field of nature may accommodate the good, the bad and the ugly trends offered her but not without the appropriate consequences. It is simply the law of sowing and reaping at work!
Ten kinds of compensation nature pays to those who cheat on her
- Abnormality; compliance to nature is the normal way of life in the ordinary sense of it. Both nature and her natives work together as complements in order to achieve the much needed variety and the beauty of the lifestyle. The frequent infringement on nature hinders this creativity. To cheat nature therefore is to disallow nature from playing her complementary roles as she makes critical donation to natives’ daily existence. E.g. an alteration to the course of nature could mean doing the wrong thing at the right time and that is exposure to certain ills and nervous breakdown.
- Super imposition; cheating nature is not only by ignoring nature. It is also allowing for some certain influences to fill the vacuum nature ought to occupy. Forfeiting the position of nature is allowing for a substitute that may never add up as nature does. A super imposition is any habit having the capacity to tilt away the good intention of nature in order to replace with the wrong incentives. Every superimposition is a deliberate thought or action seeking to distort a natural order and sequence.
- Violation; cheating nature at any regard is a natural violation to order, decency and the beauty of its variety. It is looking away from a critical request offered by a marshal force of nature. It is silencing nature under the cover of violation to her rules and principles. This is by no means strength but weakness. Such constant act of impunity against nature will never go unpunished. Violence begets violence. Besides lowering immunity in some certain cases, there are other consequences to violation of the laws of nature.
- Deviations; when nature is often ignored and frequently sidelined, people take the wrong road off course. They soon miss out big time on the original concept and arrive at some certain destinations that are completely opposite their game plan. This is a challenge associated with a quick fix. E.g. Natives caught in the jolt of “the end justifies the means” are often tricked into deviations. Once you deviate from the natural pattern of a course, definitely the anticipated destination originally conceived may never be attained.
- Counterfeit as against original; been original is golden when nature is at work. The fake culture and life style takes over an individual who decides to walk away from nature. He becomes unnatural, unfair and uncultured in the personal error of self-sabotage. This offers the initial fuel for personal corruption from within. Every line of corruption is first a departure from the value system within.
- Identity crisis; nature has a way of inscribing and describing peoples identity when she is fully followed. Flouting the natural rules and yet asking nature to produce at her best is an exercise in futility. It is a situation where the native in particular is neither fair to himself nor ethical to nature. The personal entity within is caged and the identity without is unknown. He is a left and right man at the same time whose essence leaves much to be desired! When is not present, something radically conveys that absence in such a complex and complicated manner.
- Addiction; repetitive tendencies in unnatural pathways may lead to an eventual addictive behavior…. A position where one envisages the wrong order and simply cannot help it despite the consequences. Such natives often begin the ‘unfortunate trip’ from the “it does not matter syndrome”! Little would they realize that “a little leaven, leaveneth the whole lump”! You only need a little yeast in dough to make bread. Walking away into addiction is taking one back to a terrain where nature has been abandoned. E.g. Drug abuse and eventual addict begins that way…they tarnish the inner order through abuse and gradually cannot do without the error that leads into health degradation.
- Emotional imbalance; emotion is the pulse of life. You are either stable within or remain unstable without depending on your level of accommodation and affection for the natural order and sequence. Many natives rob Peter to pay Paul in other to satisfy their quest at all cost. Emotion is the inner force of life piloting the direction of one’s vital energies across a lane. It offers a red alert to everyone whose is lawless, communicates a sensitive applause and indicates a negative appeal to the one who is discerning. Many natives a traumatized before they realize it, take emotional journeys into valleys they never intend. There is a way out!
- Domination; disallowing nature is opening up ones’ life to unnatural things to launder their own image readily on one. Such domination could force down certain habits into one way of life and this may be the beginning of certain misbehavior. Many natives are literally not free. They are subservient to inner positions that lead them into personal struggles within themselves. They pulsate with hot breath of struggle keeping them always in the survival modes. Ever on the run and never attaining a desired objective in peace! They simply do not know or understand the secret of personal deliveries. They wait for life to just mere happen to them without their own happenings.
- Diversion or diffusion; ignoring nature is diversion into something else aside from whatever nature has to offer. It is putting nature in such a tight corner where her influences are curtailed. This is most distracting to nature but sabotaging her efforts. Such natives seek personal and corporate validation in a destination lacking the natural supplies of incentives much needed for the execution of their intended and unintended goals. They begin a journey from A and going the round tripping back to the same A. They make all of the motions and less movements. Clouds without the rains. Full of intentions but haggle with less action trying to beat into time. They simply miss out on timing and other simple facilities provided by nature as a support. Working away from nature is not only a diversion but a disservice to mankind.
FINAL NOTE
Know that the universe is friendly. Nature is never an enemy of her natives. When nature appears harsh, check your posture and seek for a repositioning within and without. Watch that little contribution! Keep to that which is orderly from within no matter whose ox is gored. Where your conscience is clean and clear over a matter, you don’t need external validation. Do you need some support? Silence is never golden here. Assumption that things will be okay over time is the menace. A lifestyle change is the key. Behavioral modification is the means. It is time to speak up and out to be helped to bouncing back. You can become your best self. Treat your life with the utmost care. Africa shall be great and Nigeria has a greater future with nature!!!!!! To be continued.
James Komolafe is Cognitive Behavioral Therapist/Doctor of Behavioral Health at The School of Articulation and Behavioral Alignment Resources .(SABA Resources)
08035999220 or james1kom@yahoo.com