In the world of yoga, we think of karma as past debt, either good or bad.
We carry this through with us into this lifetime and if you are aware of your baggage and heritage, even unconsciously, you make an effort to heal, close, and reconcile this past karmic debt so that you can step into a better version of your life.
Often these breakthrough moments appear at critical times in our own lives.
We become a parent and birth this perfect little being, and in that moment, we resolve to do things differently and not repeat those karmic lessons of our childhood.
The loss of a loved one is another wakeup call or any big life transition.
Karma beckons us to look inside. Is this behaviour yours or is this some intergenerational karma you are playing out?
Karma often reveals itself in personal interactions.
Sometimes you meet someone so breathtakingly arrogant or small minded and you wonder why you are so triggered.
The world is like a big mirror; it shows you your ugly spots.
You see your limitations and drawbacks; you test yourself in the field.
What in that person have you seen before? Have you behaved like this, in this lifetime or past? This is karma.
Yoga offers us a compassionate laboratory for self-observation.
As the mind grows quieter, we learn to respond to events as they are.
We learn to discriminate between knee jerk reactions triggered by stress or karma and the deeper, neutral voice of spiritual awareness.
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