Clarity Around Karma

At Truth Resonates, the concept of karma is frequently discussed.  We speak often of moving karma, either using the tools of enlightenment, or via other methods. Moving karma is the same thing as releasing attachments — in either case, you are letting go of the energetic attachments between yourself and something else. 

We think of karma as any unresolved energetic relationship that a being has with any other being (and we use a broad definition of being here -- one can have a karma with their car, for example). Since time and space are an illusion, karmic relationships span all incarnations wherever they occurred, and all incarnations (past and future) are in constant communication with each other, subtly influencing all of the others.

When one incarnation develops a karmic tie, it applies to the entire soul-structure — the full range of the being's soul throughout the densities — until such time as it is cleared.  While the karma is in place, the particular movement encapsulated by the karma (the reactive response to the trauma or unresolved energy) becomes unconscious — an action played out as though one is following a script.  When our higher self determines that we are ready to attempt to clear our karma, our higher self will introduce a similar situation into our experience in order for us to have an opportunity to recognize and clear the karma — to release the attachment.  That is why karmic issues  (unlearned lessons) tend to repeat themselves until learned, often with increasing energy.

At its core, the clearing of karma is the process of releasing attachment to the energetic relationship, either by moving the energy directly, forgiving ourself and the other being(s) involved, understanding the context, grasping nuance, giving up the karma to the universe, changing the story, etc.  Each of these movements is fundamentally a way of getting the energy to shift and the pattern to release.  When it releases for us, it releases for all of our incarnations across all of time, as well as the higher-density parts of our soul structure. 

Since karma is an energetic relationship between two or more beings, when we release a karma, we are also releasing it for the other beings involved.  However, this just makes it easier for them to move the karma off of themselves — they still have to choose to do so.  (Someone that chooses to persist in a karma after it has been cleared is in what is known as a ghost loop.)
 
Many people think of karma as some sort of universal scorecard, in which if you put out good energy, the universe returns good energy to you later in life, and if you put out bad energy, the reverse will eventually happen.  Karma does not work that way.  It really is nothing other than an unresolved energetic relationship, and it is fundamentally something we are clinging to.  That means there is no universal rule that karma has to be this way.  It's just the way most of the beings in this reality have agreed to handle attachment.  (Fairies, on the other hand, have a very different system of karma -- their karma is only about contractual obligation, and nothing else). 

At Truth Resonates, we often use the phrase "everyone is the heir of their own karma."  What we mean by that is that everyone is responsible for their own karma.  If your karma has put you into a situation that is causing you suffering, I can have karuna (compassion) for your suffering, and I can choose as a friend to take steps to help alleviate that suffering, but it is always your suffering, not mine.  The only way it becomes my suffering is if I allow it to, by establishing a dependent connection with that person, whereby my energy is artificially holding that person up and allowing them to take an unwholesome stance towards their own growth by hiding from it or clinging to whatever stories they are telling themselves. 

You can have dependent connections with other people, with animals, with objects, with homes, with organizations, and with concepts.  Certain emotions, such as guilt, often arise when one is the energy provider in a dependent connection, even when one has done nothing wrong.  For the energy receiver, the connection has a flavor of borderline personality disorder to it, where the recipient often desires the support and resents it at the same time, or takes it entirely for granted and simply leeches on the person.  Recognizing and releasing dependent connections is a key to mastering the heavenly virtue of sovereignty.   At its core, karma is​ dependent connections — unwholesome attachments to concepts or beings.

The clearing of karma is greatly accelerated with the attainment of enlightenment, which allows you to see karma as karma, as it arises. Once seen, you can come into resonance with it simply by attending to the sensations arising in your body related to the karma.