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The Pendulum Principle

The phenomenon of entrainment was discovered quite accidentally by Christian Huygens, a notable physicist, in the seventeenth
century. Huygens was the inventor of the pendulum clock, and coined the term entrainment after he noticed, in 1666 that all the
pendulums were swinging in unison, which baffled him, since he had not set them to do so. He then deliberately set the pendulums
swinging at different rhythms, only to find that they soon again began to swing in perfect synchronisation, led by the pendulum with
the strongest rhythm. The accepted explanation for this is that small amounts of energy are transferred between the two systems
when they are out of sync, in such a way as to produce negative feedback. As they become more in sync, the amounts of energy
gradually reduce to zero. In the realm of physics, entrainment appears to be related to resonance.

There is an example of this in music, called the principle of sympathetic resonance. If you have two pianos in a large room and you
strike the note C on one piano and then walk across the room to the other piano, you will find that the string of C on the other piano is vibrating at the same
rate of vibration as the C string on me first piano. By the same principle, you will tend to meet and become involved with people and situations that are vibrating
in harmony with your own dominant thoughts and emotions.

Another example from human biology is the tendency of the menstrual cycles of women living together to coincide. In this case it is possibly pheromones that
are transferred rather than energy.

To prove the truth of “what you give is what you get,” try the following experiment that Peter Tomkins describes in The Secret Life of Plants.

Plant three identical seedlings in three different pots, with an identical amount and type of potting soil in each pot. Place the pots side by side, so the three
plants receive the same light. Feed and water all three plants with identical amounts. The only variance in their treatment is that you talk to each plant differently.

To the first plant say only appreciative things, such as “What a wonderful little seedling you are. Look at how delicate your new leaves are, how strongly your
little roots hold to the earth.”

To the second say nothing.

To the third, say only mean and unappreciative things, such as “What a pathetic excuse for a seedling you are. You’re disgusting. You’re not worth the earth I
planted you in.”

Sounds crazy, but over time, the appreciated plant will grow healthy and strong, the neutral plant will grow fairly well, and the unappreciated plant will be
stunted and fair poorly.
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Like truly does attract like.