Karma

How many times have you heard, “Karma’s a bitch!” If you’re anything like me, you’ve lost count. It’s a catchphrase that people love to use, but I wonder: how many people really know what karma is and how it works?

In a nutshell, karma is the detailed record of your soul’s experience. It’s the listing of all the roles you’ve played, the acts you’ve committed, the compassion you’ve shown, and so on, across lifetimes. All of your good, bad and neutral actions and behaviours are collected and stored in the Akashic Records, which is kind of like some great, cosmic, accounting department.

What this means, ultimately is that karma is neutral. it’s a collection of data — showing what you’ve experienced from lifetime to lifetime. It tracks your soul’s evolution. When you choose to come down to this life, you look at your records noting all the karmic debts and credits you’ve accumulated, and you figure out what you want to bring back to balance in this life, and how you’re going to do that. This forms the basis of your life plan.

We see karma play out in our life as a force that brings to us the fullness of an experience, so that we can understand the totality of it. An example of this would be perhaps you were a doctor in a past life. To fully appreciate the value and complexity of that role, in this life you might be someone that needs to see doctors often. This brings balance to your experience, allowing you to fully comprehend the role of doctor.

All of which is to say it is certainly true that if you’ve caused harm to someone, you will also need to experience that harm. Not because karma is a bitch, though, but because you need to be shown the fullness of the experience.

The other part about karma is that it is working in real time. What this means is that when you experience something you perceive as negative, it is most likely you paying back a karmic debt, rather than someone wronging you. Conversely, when you experience something you perceive as positive, it is most likely you collecting a karmic debt. And when things happen just as you think they should, you are confirming that you learned the fullness of the experience.

So please: stop blaming karma for what’s going on in your life. And stop saying that it’s out to get revenge! Karma is, very simply, a universal law at work in your life whether you believe in it or not.