Karma

Karma is not, as most people believe it to be, a "debt" one owes to others due to some past interaction which was left somehow "incomplete," or something you did "wrong" to someone else or they did wrong to you, and now the "score will be settled." "Right" and "wrong" actions do not create karma, and cannot take it away. Karma does have to do with your interactions with others, as well as yourself, but not in the sense of a debt owed. Karma is simply your unreceived emotions which are created when a person will not allow their feelings to move - to be felt - at the time they are happening, which is always "in the moment." So, when you have placed restrictions on the reception of your emotions, you in effect create your "karma," which is to say that you then will - consciously or unconsciously - re-create situations in your life so that you will have the opportunity to receive feelings which you have created before and chosen NOT to receive. The reason that karma seems to be related to specific other people is that it is these people who hold specific reflections for us, and these reflections are what stimulate the feelings seeking to be received

So why is it so important to receive your feelings? Why, in fact, do we feel at all? Feeling is the breath of the goddess within you. Without this breath, the goddess freezes, shrinks and dies. Without feeling, space - which is needed for creation of your dream, which is needed to create change - is not created. Without space, there is no room to grow, learn, or change. Many people resent that they feel at all. They are victimized by how they feel, what they feel, when they feel. Many people seek to eliminate the breath of the goddess - to eliminate their feelings. They do this through drug addictions - which can include nicotine, caffeine, sugar - they do this through work and nurturing addictions, they do this through constantly focusing on their thoughts, and constantly judging their feelings as too much or inappropriate. For much of our lives we are taught by example and by education to escape our feelings. When adults express feelings in front of children, they are so afraid that the feelings will somehow damage the child, so they stuff the feelings. And the children learn that feelings are not to be experienced or expressed. The majority of violence - both domestic and public - is created by feelings of deep frustration inside of self. A frustration created by the goddess attempting to breathe and being told she cannot, or being told she is wrong. How do you deal with feelings? Where do they come from? How do you create peace inside, and full expression of yourself, simultaneously?

The first "rule of thumb" in receiving your emotions (which creates what might be called "clearing" karma) is that whatever you're feeling is OK - and not all feelings are "nice." "Nice" is one of the greatest killers in our world from the perspective of the emotional body. The dictum to "be nice . . ." inculcated at an early age and reinforced throughout life, is one of the most common forms of suppression placed on the expression of emotion. Another helpful reminder is to let go of a very common judgement on expression of feelings, which is - are the feelings "appropriate" or "inappropriate." The fact is that the part of you which is the emotional body is designed to support the rest of self, and it does this through the "medium" of feeling. What is feeling? It is simply energy in motion - "emotion," - a movement of something (energy) in your belly, which sometimes feels unknown or uncomfortable to you. That's it. So another thing to remember about reception of your feelings is that, even though it may be uncomfortable in the moment, if you stay present with yourself as the feeling moves, something magical will happen. Believe it or not, the shifts that take place inside of self and in others when feelings are received, are a type of magic in relationship that many people seek.

Finally, the first and last approach to reception - which works every time - is to mentally, physically and energetically SOFTEN inside of self when a situation arises in which your usual reaction is to "leave" (disconnect) or go into victimization, blame and judgement, all forms of non-reception. When you are not energetically present in your body, which exists when you are in any of these states of non-reception, then change cannot take place. Reception is one of the keys to change, and softening is a means of opening to reception. Softening is a vital tool in the process of self transformation which can support you in many ways in the creation of your deepest desires, your fondest wishes, your soul purpose, your dream. Looked at from the logical mind, this makes no sense, yet it is true. Isn't it wonderful that there is a part of you that operates outside the constraints of your logical mind?