TSHP084: Does Karma Exist?

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Karma is a word that a lot throw around but what are it’s origins and does it really exist as a universal law? What say we investigate it this week?

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What is Karma?

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Karma is the process of learning

What goes around comes around.

Everyone gets theirs in the end.

Concepts of Karma are those of the consequences of action. Karma acknowledges that the things that we do have an effect, this is the consequence. Attached to that is our responsibility for what we do and the effect that it has.

Often karma is mistaken as a law of retribution. But like most laws in the universe karma is neutral it is not concerned whether or not the effects of what we do lead to good things or bad things. Just like gravity, which has a universal effect on all things, karma is always in operation. It is true that if we treat others well then the likelihood is that they will treat us well in turn, this is good karma. If we are treated badly because we have treated others badly, this is bad karma.

But we have a choice to allow the negativity of others to flow by so that we do not become attached to it. This is letting go of emotional negative attachments or the forgiveness as described in step one of the Live In The Present book. We have a choice as to whether or not we become involved in karma’s. In this way we are responsible for how we feel about all that happens to us, even the most horrible and dreadful things.

When things happen to us rather than seeing them as hurtful or bad things, perhaps we should just view things as a neutral event. Or might even see them as useful things from which we might grow.

We don’t have problems we have learning opportunities

Often, when I work with people who are in difficult circumstances, the therapy is about them realising their own responsibility that they have for their situation. Many of us want to blame others for how we are. It will always be true that the things that we experience will have an effect on us, but we have responsibility as to what that effect is.

We are never effected by events, it is our response to those events that is the effect

Because of this we are intimately tied up in our own karma and can never really blame others for how we feel or for what has happened. However we can choose to get our own back, get involved in retribution and vendetta. By doing this we feed and build our negative attachments or karmas.

We are all the sum total of the habits that we have accumulated since our birth. This is our karma and magically we can change it in the blink of an eye by changing our habits and our responses.

Take care, be happy and let go

Sean x

TSHP083: Resolute Resolutions for the New Year

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A New Year is upon us once again and across the globe millions of people will be setting goals of various kind – work, health, happiness…

Trouble is, it’s hard to keep up the motivation to see things through. What you need are some tips to help you along the way.

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New Beginnings Require Endings

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Our collective psyche is filled with the idea that one thing follows another, when someone dies and then a baby is born we see it as an ending and a beginning. We say things like ‘when one door closes another one opens’. The magical idea of endings and beginnings is with us throughout life. In the past, I feel, that we were better at marking these rites of passage as we moved from one stage to another in life.

So here we are at another New Year, another new beginning, it is 2015

Happy New Year!!!

To get into, and to get the most benefit from 2015 you will need to let go of 2014 to enable you to move onto your desired present. Too many of us drag our negative baggage around year after year, long after we should have just let it all go. The bottom line is that baggage wears us down, saps our energy and our joy and stops us moving forward. Holding onto the past often creates a state of depression.

So my suggestion to you, is that before you step into the New Year, take some time and review all that has happened in this last year. Acknowledge it all. All that was good and all that was bad. Don’t question it or worry about it, write it down, a list of the goods and a list of the bad. And then with as much love as you can muster let all the negative stuff go. You might need to burn the list and watch it turn into smoke.

It is useful, though often difficult, to appreciate that even the worst possible disasters and traumas that we endure teach us things and enable us to grow. If we have the ears to hear and eyes to see things all that we learn is never bad, they are all ways of us learning about who we are and what we need. In that sense nothing bad can ever happen to us, unless we allow our self to see it that way.

So before you even think about New year resolutions and what you will do in the future, how about you make a decision to let go of the past. Time to put it down?

Ok, so now you can step into the New Year, into your new future, unencumbered by the past.

Happy New year.

Take care

Sean x