Round And Round The Karmic Wheel We Go!

I recently attended a psychic development, past life regression, angel communication workshop. (Yes, it was a very busy day!) We did regressions to understand the source of current physical or mental patterns, energy clearing techniques, and some psychic readings. The practitioner did a wonderful job guiding us and giving us great tools to clear our energy fields. But that was it. It didn’t feel complete to me. It felt like surgery was done with no PT or psychotherapy follow up to process what happened.

It seemed to me that there were several assumptions about karma or karmic patterns that didn’t feel right. One, is that by simply clearing the karma in the energy field using external sources like light or angelic help, it is somehow permanently erased, also that karma is a bad thing that needs to be ‘gotten rid of', and that this past bad thing or event is what is blocking us now. 

It took me a couple of days, but I managed to figure out why that bothered me, and it isn’t limited to just past life issues. There didn’t seem to be any integration of the spirit into the mind or body. 

While external energy clearing brings temporary help, (I did experience a sense of a heaviness leaving me at the workshop) I’m not sure how permanent it is. (It certainly wasn’t for me.) Mostly because the ‘karmic’ part isn’t the action, event, mental or physical harm we received at the time, but our reaction to what happened. The event is not what is sitting in our spirit, energy field, or mindbody. We didn’t take the event with us, we took our mad with us. Our internal response is what we are carrying around, and it’s not just in our energy system, it’s in all of who we are; mindbody, energy and spirit, so to focus on releasing the energetic isn’t necessarily going to heal the mindbody or the spirit.

So why would our spirits want to carry a lot of mad around?

As spiritual beings, we are going for growth, which implies that there may be a need for growth. If there is a need for growth, that suggests that we aren’t fully enlightened spiritual beings right out of the gate. So, it’s okay if our spirits get mad, don’t forgive, or let go the first time around. Or even the second, or third. It’s part of the process.

That’s why we bring our mad with us (karmic or otherwise), so it can teach our spirits how to forgive and let go. To grow and have a more complete understanding of, compassion for, and acceptance of all of who we are.

I prefer to think of karma more as a learning tool. One psychic I worked with referred to it as ‘the leftovers’. Which I think is great, because it is whatever has not been previously integrated. To me, if there isn’t full integration among all the parts of who we are, especially our spirits, the pattern won’t be released. It stays in our system (like leftovers hanging around in the fridge) so we can get another opportunity to integrate it at another time. (Integrating it basically means seeing the opportunity as an opportunity and working with it, and not a physical, mental/emotional, or energetic problem to be gotten rid of.)

If you feel you need to integrate at the spiritual level, here are some things you might want to keep in mind...

Don’t try to heal by ‘getting rid of’. 

The whole point of this is to better understand how and why you reacted the way you did so you can make more conscious and empowered life choices. The pattern will release itself as soon as it is integrated into your system. Trying to 'get rid of' an issue in karmic terms is equivalent to procrastinating. You might as well do it now, because you will only have to do it later.   

As much as you can, separate the emotion from the experience, so you can get a ‘bigger picture’.

Releasing karmic patterns (or any pattern for that matter) is all about looking at your experience from a spiritual perspective. This generally means getting impersonal or symbolic. Focus on being open to the lesson this pattern is trying to teach you. If you can see how this current challenge fits your pattern, you will also see what you need to do differently, and what help you will need in order to do that. There is a gift in every challenge, and you can find it.

Let go of the package the lesson came in.

Probably the most difficult and the most important part, and where we tend to hold on to our mad. I find the best way to work with this, is to focus on the gifts that this particular challenge gave us. Are we more courageous, resilient, compassionate? Do we feel stronger and less defended at the same time?

 Karma’s not bad, or a problem, but just like leftovers, if you leave things hanging around for a long time, it can certainly feel like it’s ‘gone bad’.