Karma.

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Karma means action. Wherever there is an action there is a reaction. As we are not only physical beings, but also emotional and spiritual as well, any thought, word or action will have an effect. Nothing takes place without causing a ripple of some description in the universe.

Karma is not retribution, reward or punishment that is dealt to you by an external judge or God.

According to Jyotish each soul itself keeps a tally of the total karma due to thoughts, intentions, words and actions.

On death, the soul re evaluates the karma and decides what experiences it needs to further spiritual evolution.

The soul does not have the same view of unpleasant earthly experiences that our conscious mind might have. You might be amazed to think that your soul decided to give you each of the experiences you have had in your life. The good and the more challenging. There are lessons’ to be learned by all of them if you look at it from the bigger picture.

Before the next incarnation the soul waits until the planets are at exactly the correct position over a particular point on the earth, to match the karma that must be experienced in this life, in order to give it the chance for further development.

The chart is the sum total of the karmas’ to be experienced in this life.

In the beginning we were delivered into our earthly rebirth cycle. We forgot that we are spiritual beings and became deeply involved in the physical and material world and the pursuit of pleasure and desires. This state is called Maya. This is the illusion that the physical and material world or sensory gratification will make us happy and content. Eventually through experience and a need to find the “truth” we start to progress back to our spiritual world and eventually reach liberation or

Moksha.

What can we do about our karmas?

At an unconscious level or a soul level you have set this up yourself by your previous or present thoughts, actions and attitudes.

These may have been set in motion long ago and needs to come into fruition in this life for you to experience.

If at some level you can come to a level of acceptance and take full responsibility for your karma, then you are starting to breaking the karmic cycle. At face value, it may indeed feel totally unfair that bad situations happen to you, especially if you are conscious of trying to be a good person. However, if you can accept that at some level this is what you have created, even though you may not be able to remember or understand when, how or why this tookplace, then you will not be making any more difficult karma for your future.

It is also important that you also do not “beat yourself up” over this.

It is likely that in the past you were doing the best you could with what you had, at that time, in terms of knowledge and wisdom.

The only thing you can do is to change your perception of it now. Look for the teaching or the lesson that it is telling you about yourself. Perhaps seek help in coming to an acceptance or understanding through the counselling process and through spiritual practice.

Yildiz is a registered counsellor and NLP practitioner and facilitate the clearing of inhibiting beliefs and emotions that might be holding you back from being the person you have the potential to be now. It is absolutely possible to come to a place of more peace in the present.