Nature Pays in Different Ways

by Joyce-Anne Locking

Human nature, as described in Wikopedia, the online enclyclopedia, is the concept that there are a set of characteristics, including ways of thinking, feeling and acting that all human beings have in common. It is also human nature, I might add, to expect some abundant form of reward for the work we provide.

There are conditions that apply to the flow of natural rivers of wealth. It is said that money flows back to us if we follow our heart, for example. Millions of books have been written about the topic of how to make money. This is not the reward I intend to explore in this article, however. My topic might better be described as payment in psychic dollars. What I mean to say is "invisible pay" might turn out to be far more valuable than other, more obvious forms of remuneration.

As Wikopedia states, our nature, the human nature, includes thinking, feeling and acting.

It further explains "thought" and "thinking" are mental forms and processes. Thinking allows us to model the world and to deal with it according to our desires. Ideas and imagination play important roles in how we go after what we desire and how we see the value of the "reward."

How does the job or task at hand make us feel? The word "feeling" as defined in Wikopedia, describes experiences, other than just the obvious physical sensation of touch, to encompass sensation such as "a feeling of warmth." In psychology the word "feeling" is usually reserved for the experience of emotion. A gut feeling or gut reaction, is a visceral emotional reaction to something, and often one of uneasiness. Gut feelings are generally regarded as not controlled by conscious thought. The phrase "gut feeling" may also be used as a short-hand term for an individual's "common sense" perception of what is considered "the right thing to do." Gut feelings, like all reflexive unconscious comparisons, can be re-programmed by practice or experiences.

Intuition, on the other hand, is the apparent ability to acquire knowledge without assuming what will happen by the use of reason. "The word 'intuition' comes from the Latin word 'intueri', which is often roughly translated as meaning 'to look inside' or 'to contemplate'." Intuition provides us with beliefs we cannot necessarily justify. For this reason, it has been the subject of study in psychology, as well as a topic of interest in the supernatural. The right side of the brain is popularly associated with intuitive processes such as aesthetic abilities. Some scientists have even contended that intuition is associated with innovation in scientific discovery.

When we act upon our feelings, imagination and projection of thought, we are led to roads leading to results. We choose a line of work or create a path to our own future this way. We accumulate psychic dollars when we our true to ourselves. Wikopedia states the word psychic, from the Greek psychikos--"of the soul, mental" refers to a claimed ability to perceive information hidden from normal senses. It can also denote an ability of the mind to influence the world physically.