Energy Flow
Colin uses the metaphor of "Hydraulic Engineering" in the understanding of flow patterns. What happens when you disturb or distort natural flow patterns? And, even more important, what is possible when you don’t? Understanding flow patterns would make it easy to understand that power does not flow or speed things up. Power dams and clogs things up. Power causes resistance, hurt, resentfulness and anger. Using free energy flows to enhance more energy flows on a sustainable basis – that’s the challenge. That is synergy.
Hydraulic Engineering
Were I to go back to university to prepare myself for a lifelong career in business, I would study hydraulic engineering. I am sure it would teach me so much about flow.
It would help me to truly understand what happens when you disturb or distort natural flow patterns? And, even more important, what is possible when you don’t?
It would make it easy to understand that power does not flow or speed things up. Power dams and clogs things up. Power causes resistance, hurt, resentfulness and anger. Ask anyone who has felt powerless at the lash of power – it’s not where they want to be or to stay.
Sir Isaac Newton explains why in his Third Law of Motion. “Every force generates an equal and opposite force” is his rule. So, more power – less flow.
Hydraulic engineering would explain the magic exponential of energy flow. Allow energy to flow naturally and encourage it to flow and you create huge potential – quantum capacity. Warm it up a little and it flows like warm honey off a spoon. Freeze it and its flow is sluggish. Somehow encouraging energy to flow brings its own reward too – our own energy flows more freely. Using free energy flows to enhance more energy flows on a sustainable basis – that’s the challenge. This is synergy.
Add that understanding to an understanding of cash flow and I would be equipped for business. Accountants teach us that everything we do has a cash flow discipline that underpins it. We spend or invest with an outcome in mind. That outcome should yield a cash reward greater than its cost. If it doesn’t it’s a failure. Do that on a sustainable basis and you go broke!
It’s rather the same with energy flows too. If, over time, we use up more energy than we generate we go broke too. But the warning letters don’t come from the bank – they come from our spouses, divorce lawyers, a doctor or perhaps even from God.
Cash flow is a linear reality. Energy flow is also a reality, but spiraling upwards it has exponential potential.
That’s what we understand and teach best.
COLIN HALL
September 2005
