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Choosing Your
Karma
by José
Stevens, Ph.D.
The early years of your life tend to
be the most karma-filled. Adolescence is often the most
intense time of all in a life. The hormonal and
developmental changes tend to accentuate the
difficulties of that period and facilitate a climate
wherein much karma can be played out. This is also the
time when you experiment with the different chief
negative features: self-destruction, greed,
self-deprecation, arrogance, martyrdom, impatience, and
stubbornness. Generally by about the age of 21 you
select one of them to settle down with. After the age of
30, karmic intensity is greatly reduced. There are
exceptions to this, as is the case with those people
experiencing lifetimes at the sixth level of any stage
(heavy karma balancing), and those with a goal of
growth.
How
Karma Repayment Works
Karma is supervised and organized by
essence. Often the personality knows nothing of the
purpose and impending unfoldment of the karma. There is
good reason for this. False personality often operates
out of fear. If your conscious personality knew that an
intensely painful karma were about to occur with
someone, it would run as fast as possible in the
opposite direction, thus avoiding the repayment or the
lesson that essence had in mind. Your personality
usually feels like a victim in karmic situations.
Essence planned the karma repayment without flinching.
Even when you are an old soul you need this benevolent
amnesia to meet your more difficult karma.
As mentioned earlier, karma usually
comes with no warning even though it is essence
directed. It frequently comes like a freight train
rounding the bend and coming down the tracks with
inexorable speed. The train is upon you before you can
run away. When you are in the midst of a karmic
situation you feel foggy and unclear, and you may feel
strangely unable to get out of the situation. You often
wonder how this happened to you all of a sudden.
You may walk innocently into a
meeting and within minutes are insulted and humiliated
by the new director on your job. You are instantly
plunged into painful emotions and wonder what you did
to deserve it. The answer is often that you didn't do
anything this lifetime to deserve it. You simply
showed up to balance the record sheet.
Likewise you may be penniless
and lost in a foreign country and a complete stranger
suddenly appears on the scene and takes you in, cares
for you, and gives you an airplane ticket home.
When karma has been completed, a
feeling of freedom and relief ensues. The fog clears and
you gain insight into the preceding events. You become
neutral about the issue that had so recently carried
such intensity for you. You don't care anymore. You may
even wonder how you could have been so upset about the
issue. The purpose of karma completion is to get you
neutral on the issue so that you can move on to new and
more interesting lessons. You have reached the neutral
position on the triadic experience and you are ready for
something new.
Karma
as a Choice
Remember again that karma is not
fate. Fate is a notion of predestination. You choose
karma specifically with the purpose of undergoing an
emotional or learning experience.
Think of karma as ribbons that draw
together experiences and weave a distinct pattern that
is the product of many lifetimes. Remember also that
those ribbons cause you to be in specific places and to
meet certain people, sometimes to your great surprise.
If you have a karmic debt with another individual living
in a foreign country you will suddenly find yourself
drawn, sometimes almost magically, to travel to that
other country where the debt can be repaid. Occasionally
the obstacles in the path of meeting are too great and
the karma must be deferred to another lifetime.
For example, you may decide that this
lifetime you will complete ten major karma, seventy-five
medium karma, and one hundred and fifty minor karma.
Typically you tend to bite off more than you can chew,
so that if you complete most of these karma the lifetime
will feel successful to you no matter how uncomfortable
for your personality. Some karma will be judged too
difficult to complete for now.
 This article excerpted
from
"Tao to Earth"
by
José Stevens
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About The
Author
 José
Stevens, Ph.D., is the founder of Essence Psychology and lectures
internationally on essence and personality, shamanism, and prosperity.
He is the author of Earth to Tao and Transforming
Your Dragons, and co-author of The
Michael Handbook and Secrets
of Shamanism. This article was excerpted with permission from Tao
To Earth, published by Bear & Co., Sante Fe, NM. www.bearco.com
The author's website is at http://www.pivres.com
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