WHAT IS KARMA?
Most of us hold the belief that we do pass this way again, we do return, in a cycle of movement of incarnation into life, life after death and of reincarnation.
And the purpose?
To complete, to learn our lessons, to grow our spirituality, to open to love, to heal and to be healed, to honour and finalise those agreements with those we are connected to in karmic relationships - here on this earth.
On a soul level, we understand this cycle, and we know why we have chosen our circumstances and situations and what the learnings are within them. We know this, deep with us, but on an everyday level, it's easy to forget, to watch what is happening within our lives and beyond us, out there in the world with all its pain and misery and seeming chaos - with horror, sorrow and judgment.
What do we take from this experience?
Usually a sense of sadness and a deep feeling of helplessness. At that moment we lose our centre, that wise part of us that understands that everything, somehow is in perfect order, that the earth we are living upon is essentially a School - one in which souls wrestle with karma, work things out and complete agreements with each other.
School is about learning and growth, and difficulty and pain is often our greatest teacher.
The Buddhists have a saying that 'pain is inevitable, suffering is not'.
How quickly you process, learn from and travel through the necessary journey of pain will depend on how comfortable you are staying in 'suffering', giving power to the 'Victim' part inside us all.
Trauma is how we learn best. And, in order to go deeper inside ourselves to access the joyful energy of our spirit, it's necessary to go through the pain first - a little like a birthing mother in labour. And, as many of you know, labour is challenging, messy and there are moments when we wish not to feel it, not to continue because the pain is so great.
The key to moving through it is to breathe, to reclaim that centre, and to learn how to go, whilst holding the vision of a healthy happy baby at the end of it all.
So in life, it's important to understand that while there will always be a journey of challenge, there is a gift at the other end, a gift of wisdom, of clarity, of understanding, of moving onwards and upwards.
Life, principally, is about letting go.
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