The Law of Karma

Everyone has heard the expression, “What you sow is what you reap.” Karma is both action and the consequences of that action; it is cause and effect simultaneously, because every action generates a force of energy that returns to us in like kind. Get good karma!

Here’s how:

Today I will witness the choices I make in each moment. And in the mere witnessing of these choices, I will bring them to my conscious awareness. I will know that the best way to prepare for any moment in the future is to be fully conscious in the present.
Whenever I make a choice, I will ask myself two questions: “What are the consequences of this choice that I’m making?” and “Will this choice bring fulfillment and happiness to me and also to those who are affected by this choice?”
I will then ask my heart for guidance and be guided by its message of comfort or discomfort. If the choice feels comfortable, I will plunge ahead with abandon. If the choice feels uncomfortable, I will pause and see the consequences of my action with my inner vision. This guidance will enable me to make spontaneously correct choices for myself and for all those around me.

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Adapted from The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, by Deepak Chopra. (Amber-Allen Publishing, 1994) Copyright (c) 1994 by Deepak Chopra. Reprinted by permission of the author.
Adapted from The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, by Deepak Chopra. (Amber-Allen Publishing, 1994)

Hello G.

12:08AM PDT on Apr 25, 2012

Thanks.

send a green star

Danuta W.

12:14AM PDT on Apr 17, 2012

Thank you for the article

Jan H.

9:13AM PDT on Apr 16, 2012

Like Justin T. sings it... what goes around... Love that m-video.
Good article. Thanks.

Elisabeth T.

2:43PM PDT on Apr 15, 2012

Interesting article, thanks so much..

Mari G.

12:04PM PDT on Mar 31, 2012

sometimes reflecting on situations later on you can see how karma worked (and if you believe in the 3-fold law it really shines). i had a friend who would over-stay her welcome when she would visit, what should have been a weekend visit turned into a week long event (without really asking if its ok just assuming it was), interferring with the family she was staying with's life, when she would do it to me she would invade on me and my girlfriend's private time, eating people's food and not doing anything to help out. recently my girlfriend and i found us in a situation where we needed a place to stay and she offered for us to stay with her until we could get back on our feet, after just over a month she complained about not having her privacy and missing her life and we have to leave. reflecting upon that, i can see how karma, in the 3 fold sense, worked to show her what she was doing to others, although i doubt she's yet to see it, because the way she felt, she made others feel during her unwelcomed extended visits.

Ra S.

11:37AM PDT on Mar 25, 2012

If we are using karma in its original sense and not some new modern meaning, then there is no such thing as good karma. Karma is purely the bad things you accumulate from wrong actions. The ideal is to accumulate no karma by never doing anything wrong.