Spiritual Portal
Mar 29, 2024 03:20 am
Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
News: See Steve Hydonus perform his song 'Demian' on YouTube!
 
  Home Help Search Gallery Links Staff List Login Register  

Spiritual Inertia

Recent Items

Views: 1
Comments (0)
By: Jitendra Hy-do-u-no-us?

Views: 1
Comments (0)
By: Jitendra Hy-do-u-no-us?

Views: 4
Comments (0)
By: Jitendra Hy-do-u-no-us?

Views: 4
Comments (0)
By: Jitendra Hy-do-u-no-us?
Pages: [1]
  Print  
Author Topic: Spiritual Inertia  (Read 99 times)
0 Members and 19 Guests are viewing this topic.
Jitendra Hy-do-u-no-us?
Surrender Kitty
Administrator
Hero Member
*****

Karma: 327
Online Online

Posts: 17678


Intereststs; Meditation/Spiritual Life


« on: Nov 17, 2020 04:20 am »

Spiritual Inertia

It’s possible to travel at high speed and not be aware you’re moving.  A smooth airplane flight with the window shade closed will trick you into thinking that you’re static.  Now, that same airplane moving at a fraction of the cruising speed during takeoff will throw you back in your seat and you will never mistake this for standing still.  Why do we feel motionless when we’re moving at a constant speed of 500 mph but feel the affects of acceleration?  The answer is inertia.  Our bodies are reluctant to cooperate with changes in our motion, and acceleration causes force to be exerted on us that makes us move differently when we really don’t want to.  This inability to change our own direction without an external force is explained by the physical principle of inertia.  Newton’s first law of bodies in motion states:  A body in motion remains in motion unless an external force acts on that body.  When you’re riding in a car that turns a sharp corner and you’re pressed against the window, it’s inertia.  Most people call it centrifugal force, but that’s not really correct because there is no force pushing you away; rather, the car turned and your body did not comply.  The external force acting on your body making you change your direction of travel is the car door pushing on you. 

There is a spiritual corollary here which I will explain.
Inertia will lead you down the same path you’ve been on.  If you’ve chosen the wrong path, you won’t easily change unless some external force acts on you.  Maybe it’s the allure of material wealth that you place your trust in.  When the market crashed in 2008, that was an external force changing the direction of your life’s path.  Perhaps the death of someone close caused you to ponder the meaning of life – perhaps that external force acted so as to cause a change in your priorities.

Similarly we often encounter other human beings whose values and approach to life are quite different than our own. Because of these outside forces we are challenged in our inertia. We are startled out of our comfort zone. We must somehow reconcile ourselves to others and changing forces or we will find ourselves loosing close friends and/or becoming a relic of the past. In this sense we are able to see such ‘obstacles’ as blessings to our awareness and awakening spiritual progress.

The easy life is not the victorious life.

By Steve Ciccarelli and Steve Hydonus
« Last Edit: Nov 17, 2020 05:05 am by Steve Hydonus » Report Spam   Logged

God Christ Gurus musical sample creations:
https://youtu.be/PU9157Esq-4 Hidden Springs

https://youtu.be/CQgAybAlVO0
Silent Voice Within
https://www.reverbnation.com/stevehydonus
stevehydonus@aol.com
For CD\'s of music by Steve or hydonus@yahoo.com

Pages: [1]
  Print  
 
Jump to:  

Powered by EzPortal
Bookmark this site! | Upgrade This Forum
SMF For Free - Create your own Forum


Powered by SMF | SMF © 2016, Simple Machines
Privacy Policy