The Law of Karma vs. Positive Thinking
The Law of Karma in its most basic sense can be viewed as a spiritual and
material cause-and-effect cycle that leads the human soul through its chain
of reincarnations – every action must have a reaction, an effect. (When
we speak of action we refer to deliberate, intentional, conscious action and
not unconscious or involuntary action).
We have seen this Law being applied in the physical universe as well,
formulated by Sir Isaac Newton which states that every action must have
an equal and opposite reaction. As you sow so shall you reap. Similarly, in
the Law of Karma if we do a righteous action, eventually we will get a
righteous result, and if we do an unrighteous action eventually we will get an
unrighteous, bad result.
This can be applied to any aspect of our lives and I would just like to look at
this from a health aspect for now. Scientific evidence has been shown to
prove that certain medical conditions have been linked to certain emotional
blockages….. There has been many books written about this Quantum Healing
by Deepak Chopra, Anatomy of the Spirit by Caroline Myss, Your Body Speaks
Your Mind by Deb Shapiro , You Can Heal Your Life by Louise L. Hay … just to
name a few. As Practitioners we understand the Mind-Body link concept by
either having experienced it ourselves or seen a shift/change in our clients.
So allow me pose to you a scenario… If for instance, in this current life we
were meant to get a ‘bad’ reaction (a certain health condition) as a result of
some ‘bad’ action we have done in our past life, can this be changed? Surely
if something was ‘meant’ to be then that is beyond our control. So, on that
basis, what is the use of positive thinking? Can positive thinking and NLP
help to relieve past ‘karmic’ actions? Can we change our Karma? Or are
we destined to live out the consequences (positive and negative) or past
actions? Hmmm… now there’s something to think about!