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"Only Your Thoughts Can Upset You"
Karma
How
Universal Law works
We are all subjected to the law of cause and effect. In the
East they call this the law of karma which means that, for
every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Every
thought you think has its consequences. This is the creative
principle that makes the world go round. However, your True
Self is beyond karma because it is beyond thought. Until
such time as we learn to be in the world and not of it, we
are under the influence of karma and must learn the lessons
that it brings. The ultimate lesson karma teaches is that
the world that we perceive with our minds is simply a
figment of our imagination.
It is the mind that
interprets the eye’s messages and gives
them meaning and this meaning does not exist in the world
outside at all
-ACIM
Our karma, or perceptions, set up an endless cycle of birth
and death that continues until one day we step back and
realise the folly of our ways. We then transcend the
illusion of who we thought we were and are reborn into the
Truth. All our karma or sins are transcended and we find
permanent peace.
Unless you be reborn,
you shall not enter
into the kingdom of heaven.
-Jesus
There is a difference between a reaction and a response. A
reaction is when you instantaneously react to a situation
with anger or excitement. A response is the acceptance that
everything is okay. Let it be. It’s all perfect. Honour
whatever happens—it is the perfect outplaying of your
thoughts or karma. By doing this you are taking
responsibility for your predicament and therefore are able
to learn your lessons and move on. There is always a pause
before you respond—whereas a reaction is instant. Any
reaction will create more karma, because you do not see the
relationship between your thought and its results. You
therefore blame something or someone else. By doing this you
dis-empower yourself and create more karma. You choose to be
a victim.
There are
no coincidences
There are no chance encounters. Each person who comes into
your life is there for a reason. They have something to
teach you, and you them, although they don’t usually know
it. Every time you react and call forth the fight or light
principle, you have blown your opportunity to be free. It
might be lifetimes before the Universe can arrange another
opportunity. So start to honour your predicament. Be aware
of the fact that everything that is happening to you, is an
opportunity for you to take responsibility and grow.
The amazing thing is, even if you ‘blew it’ in the past and
didn’t take responsibility for what was happening to you, it
is never too late to learn. Although the latest psychology
will try to uncover the original reactive pattern, this is
not necessary because you can work with the updated version.
There is a very simple technique which I will illustrate at
the end of this book that will enable you to clear all your
past karma with a click of your fingers. After all it was
only a misperception in the first place.
Every encounter with every person presents you with an
opportunity to see if you are labouring under any
misperceptions. You have an opportunity to clear your old
faulty thought patterns. When you realise this, your whole
attitude changes and you begin to welcome whatever comes
your way, no matter how horrendous it seems to be. You lose
your job—“Thank you.” Your wife runs off with your best
friend—“Ah so.” Your house starts falling apart—“Okay.”
It’s all
perfect
Everything that happens to us is the outplaying of our past
thought patterns. If you do lose your job and pause to look
back over the recent months—you will see that things were
not going well for whatever reason. It was time to change.
That job was no longer serving a useful purpose. You are
ready to move on to better things. Likewise if your wife
runs off with your best friend, pause, and look back on the
stress and heartache you have both been through. If you were
not suited and the relationship was not going anywhere, then
it would be better for all concerned that you move on. If
‘indiscretion’ was forgiven, it could take the relationship
to a new level. Either way, at the end of the day it is all
perfect because nothing real has been threatened.
If you get angry because the builder rips you off and you
curse and swear at him, even if it is just in your mind, you
are creating karma. You don’t have to be upset. If he did
rip you off, you have the law courts as a remedy. Whatever
the case, you have attracted him into your life and need to
learn whatever it may be that this situation has to teach.
If he did rip you off and gets away with it, you could look
at it as a previous debt that you are now repaying. He will
also get what is due to him because whatever you do unto
others is done unto you. It is all perfect—so why worry?
You might ask, “How can you say illness is perfect?” Illness
is perfect because it is showing you that you have
misperceived and distorted the natural balance of energy in
the body. It is essential that your body feels pain and
distress so that you are warned of the dangerous negative
thoughts you are entertaining. The dis-ease is a perfect
manifestation of your misperception. Any illness even if it
is viral or bacterial is the manifestation of your karmic
predicament. This is due to the fact that your faulty
thought patterns, over many years, weaken the immune system
making you vulnerable to attacks from germs and viruses.
You choose to be sick
-ACIM
If you don’t deal with your problems or misperceptions, the
patterns just keep repeating themselves. You will continue
with your disease or disorder until you decide to change
your mind. Something like cancer is a perfect example of a
manifested misperception. It is something which eats away at
you, like anger and resentment. When you have negative
emotions, the chaos that results reflects in the cells of
the body. Dis-ease means to be stressed. The body will be
out of harmony because your thoughts are out of harmony.
Sort out your faulty thoughts and health and harmony will
return to the body. Only your mind can be sick and you can
learn to change your mind.
Sickness is my choosing
to be separate from the True-Self
-ACIM
Although we say that you choose to be sick, it
is obvious that no-one in their right mind would choose
pain. You were obviously therefore in your wrong mind.
Choice implies that we are aware of what we are doing when
we do it. When someone is in
their outer
conscious level of mind,
they are not aware of the fact that their thoughts are
creating their reality, so we cannot really say that they
consciously chose their sickness. Their sickness is the
result of their thoughts but they are unaware of what they
are doing to themselves. That is why Jesus said:
Forgive them for they know not
what they do
Many people hold resentment or anger against their parents
for what they did or didn’t do. These misperceptions cause a
myriad of physical and psychological disorders in later
life. They insanely believe that their parents purposefully
gave them a hard time and did all the wrong things. Why on
earth would a parent do such things to their own children?
The parents obviously did their best for their children and
if they did make any mistakes it is because they did not
know any better. They therefore had no choice but to do what
they did. Surely then, they should be forgiven as they have
done nothing wrong? Once the sufferer realises that their
pain is a sign that they have misperceived then they have
the choice to change their minds and to be free.
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