What is the Law of Compensation?
How to take advantage of this universal law of behavior?
How to increase your compensation?
In this article, we will go over one of the 12 universal laws of behaviour: Law of Compensation.
If you want to increase your reward, happiness and improve your life, you should read this article all the way to its end.
Let’s get started!
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What is the Law of Compensation?
The law of compensation is the law that says a person will always be compensated for his efforts and contributions, no matter what the effort, no matter how much or how little.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, in his 1841 in his book called Essays, Emerson discussed the notion of “Compensation”.
Emerson stated that a person will get compensated for his or her efforts and what they have contributed to others.
He says that when you give, your reward may not come back right away, all at once or in the manner that you expected it, but your reward will come.
In other words, if you make an effort in your life, you will get compensated for your efforts.
The Law of Compensation is a restatement of the Law of Sowing and Reaping.
There’s the saying that goes “you reap what you sow”.
You can consider the Law of Compensation to be similar to the Law of Cause and Effect.
Your actions, whatever they may be, will affect what you get.
In life, there’s always action and an equal and opposing reaction.
That’s the Law of Compensation.
Why is the Law of Compensation Important?
What you do in life will dictate how you will get compensated.
What you give will determine what you get in return.
This does not have to be money or financial gains.
If you give more love to the world, you will get more love in return.
You may also give love and get something other than love in return.
If you help others, you may get happiness, financial rewards or fulfilling relationships.
The world works in mysterious ways.
The Law of Compensation can relate to money, relationships, happiness, thoughts, ideas or any other important aspect in your life.
Examples of the Law of Compensation
Here are some examples of how the Law of Compensation can work:
- Give love and you will get love in return
- Give happiness and you will get happiness in return
- Go the extra mile and you may get rewarded in return
- Spread your wealth and get more wealth in return
- Think people are kind, people will be more kind to you
- Think that money is abundant, you will get an abundance of money
- Think that your life is worth living every second, your life will become magical
- Be kind to others in your actions
- Be kind to others in your words
How to use the Law of Compensation to your advantage?
It all comes down to what you have in your mind.
If you focus your thoughts and energy to think positive, be happy, remain at peace, your life will suddenly change.
Look at your life today and recognize that what you have in material goods, in relationships, in wealth and in all aspects of your life is what the world has returned to you for your efforts.
Think about how you can contribute more to the world in your efforts, with your ideas and with your actions.
Implement and execute your thoughts.
Give more to the world, go the extra mile, spread positive thoughts, make people happy, reach out and touch someone’s heart.
The Law of Cause and Effect will kick into gear.
Consider the Law of Cause and Effect as the Law of Karma.
You will notice positive changes in your life.
You will see that you are blessed every day in your life.
The more you get these amazing rewards, the more you’ll want to continue giving to the world.
Get the cycle going and get the Law of Compensation working to your advantage.
What diminishes your compensation?
Just like any other universal laws of behavior, the Law of Compensation will show you diminishing rewards or compensation if you do not put in the effort.
If you don’t invest your time, effort, thought and energy, you cannot expect to receive increasing rewards.
The less you put in, the less the world will return to you.
If you are selfish, the universal laws of behavior will work against you.
If you do something strictly based on what you immediately want, you will not get it.
To overcome diminishing compensations, you must change your mindset.
You should think in such a way that you are not thinking of the reward but focusing on how good you feel by doing good deeds.
You need to achieve a point where you are not bothered by giving to others and not getting something immediately in return.
The Law of Compensation works in mysterious ways.
Give the effort, put your time, work with passion and you will notice things will change in your life.
How do you increase your compensation?
Based on the law of compensation, you can increase your compensation if you increase the value of your contribution or effort.
The law of compensation says that your compensation is correlated with the value of the contribution you offer to the world.
If the value of your contribution to the world goes up, the value of the compensation you’ll get in return will also go up.
You can think of it this way: the total value of your compensation will not exceed the total value of the effort you gave to the world.
Success is in your mind
Your mind can have a profound impact on your overall joy, happiness and satisfaction.
If you experience the world positively, think positive, adopt a happy attitude in your life, you will experience more and more positive feelings.
The more positive feelings you experience, the more you can achieve happiness in your life.
Ultimately, the universal law of compensation says that you will get more compensation with the positive experiences in your life.
Give more to the world
Another component of the Law of Compensation is how much you give to the world.
If you give more than what you are paid for or more than what is expected, you will increase your compensation.
The universal law of compensation says that you will reap great compensation and rewards for the efforts you put in.
If you consistently put more effort and exceed expectations, you will consistently be rewarded with more in your life.
Live happily
We all experience life in a different way.
However, we all have the power to choose how we experience life.
No matter your life circumstances, you can choose to change your mindset.
You can choose to live a happy life.
Happiness is in your mind.
Nobody has a perfect life but we can all work to increase our happiness in life.
Smile to people, tell them how happy you are to see them.
Acknowledge those in your circle and beyond.
Make others happy even though they are not immediately making you happy or the task required to make them happy is not joyful to you.
Be thankful for all that you have.
By making others happy, you will increase your own happiness.
Don’t expect others to make you happy.
You must go out and make others happy instead.
Happiness will come to you.
Laws of Compensation Napoleon Hill
Napolean Hill, in his famous book Keys to Success: The 17 Principles of Personal achievement paraphrases Emerson’s Law of Compensation.
He writes:
The orderliness of the world of natural laws gives evidence that they are under the control of a universal plan. Man is the only living creature equipped with the power of choice through which he may establish his own thoughts and behavior patterns. You have the power to break bad habits and to create good ones in their place – at will. You are where you are and what you are because of your established habits and thoughts and deeds.
Just like the Law of Compensation, Napoleon Hill says that you are where you are in your life because of your habits, thoughts and deeds.
This means, if you have a habit of thinking positive thoughts and giving to the world with meaningful and concrete actions, your life will then evolve to a new level.
You have the power to choose how you lead your life.
You have the power to decide that today is the day that you will make a change in your life.
Once you get to that realization, your life will change.
The 12 Universal laws
The Law of Compensation is one of the 12 Universal Laws that determine how we are compensated in our lives.
Here are the 12 universal laws of behaviour:
- The Law of Action
- The Law of Attraction
- The Law of Cause & Effect
- The Law of Compensation
- The Law of Correspondence
- The Law of Gender
- The Law of Oneness
- The Law of Perpetual Transmutation of Energy
- The Law of Polarity
- The Law of Relativity
- The Law of Rhythm
- The Law of Vibration
By incorporating these universal laws in your life, you can completely change the course of your life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on “Compensation”
Ralph Waldo Emerson was born on May 25, 1803.
Emerson wrote his essay “Compensation” in his book Essays.
He published Essays in 1841 and released the Second Series in 1844.
You can consult an archive of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Essays, First Series [1841].
