As the Pendulum Oscillates

By Elena Blume

A pendulum will not oscillate until given motion.  As it swings forth so also there goes a moment in time and space as it travels forward in positive momentum.  In the past before clocks, the Pendulum was used to measure time.  It was the most accurate measurement of time and also is the early basis of many critical scientific tools which are used today to measure everything from Earthquakes to Acceleration.   While the pendulum’s aperture is readily stable, it is still in fact rather crude in that the effects of friction and even temperature slows it down steadily and slowly until it eventually stops.

Once given motion, however, the Pendulum will move rather consistently given similar circumstance and environment.  Let’s call this motivation.  It is motivational energy and it is created by a force applied to the weight attached to the massless cord or rod.  Once set into motion, the weight will swing back and forth depending on the length for some duration.

How do you define your swing?  What moves you?  What is it that drives you into your next moment?  How can you apply that same motivational energy to yourself again and again to carry you forward?

Prepare for Optimal Motivational Energy

• Mind
  • Diet – Feed your Brain
  • Lifelong Learning – Learn from whatever you can find about the topics that most interest you.
  • Meditation – Rest your mind and release stress through Visualizations during stillness or exercise.
• Body
  • Diet – Feed your body nutritiously.  Do not put things into your body that are not good for your body.
  • Exercise – Build / Maintain muscle.  Lose fat.
  • Anti-aging – Avoid exposing your body to harmful substance, be it the sun without sun lotions, chemicals, smoke.
• Spirit
  • Spirit of Place – Genius Loci (find the place that brings you peace).
  • Spirit of Soul – Find your higher power and connect.
  • Spirit of Journey – Envision where you will go next and be open to the journey.

Once the Pendulum has reached the forward most motion, it is then pulled towards its equilibrium position once more.  This pull is not coming from the same force of the original energy which pushed it forward.  This force is generated internally within the central mass of the weighted object via centrifugal force.  This is a force not easily explained and also debatable, questionable, and apparently open ended in the scientific realm.  What is it?

Well, it is not the Pendulum that is so important, or a lack of understanding of the pendulum.  You are.  You are important and that bit of Motivational Energy, right at that point that becomes automatic and one within you.  That point where the Pendulum swings upon its own for the first time is kind of like riding a bicycle for the first time as someone holds the back of the seat until you are pedaling and riding yourself, completely balanced and moving forward.   It is the Merry-Go-Round. It is the Carousel.  It is the Barrel of Fun.  It is the Magic within you that makes things happen.   *THAT* is the Motivational Energy that will rock your world.    It takes Motivational Energy to get to that point of flow.  Create Positive Motivational Energy for yourself.  Even better yet… create Positive Motivational Energy for others.