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All too many people hear the word
"Karma" and traipse off feeling afraid. They think of "Karma" as this
great big axe in the sky just waiting to descend up on them. They're
afraid of what they've done and they're afraid of what they haven't done, but
fear is not what Karma is about. Karma is about awareness and ~Spiritual~
Growth. Any Karmic repercussions that occur are never personal.
They're just the law of the Universe....in action. The Laws of the
Universe are to ~Spirituality~ what the laws of Physics are the the Physical
Plane.
If you loose your grasp on something and it falls to the ground. Is it
your "fault"??? Of course not, and barring some strange or exceptional
extenuating circumstances, very few people would think that either.
Gravity is a force of the Universe. It just IS! It doesn't pick and
choose who it's going to effect and when it does come into effect it isn't done
with any personal connection. It's merely the next link in the chain.
The Laws of Karma are the ~Spiritual~ equivalent of that.
Let's take for example someone that lives deeply entrenched in the personal
realm. To them, everything is personal and everything is about them.
When they react, they react as those what has happened to them is personal.
They're unaware that the ~Spiritual~ Realm has laws that exist, just like the
physical realm does and they're also unaware that whether they know about them
or not or "believe" in them or not, their actions (or lack there of) will be
factors in their lives. That's where the awareness factor comes in.
If you've looked around my web site you've probably seen it mentioned here and
there that at one point in time I had cancer. It's going to be 8 years in
September that I'm healed and well and boy oh boy did I learn a lot during my
trek on that path. While I can't say when it happened that I totally
understand and was aware of the fact that my health was always TOTALLY in my own
hands, I did find it exorbitantly shocking to find out that the American Cancer
Society had a hotline called: "Y Me ???" I honestly and never ever
thought that although I have heard since then, some that do. The thing
that puzzles me about that "Y Me?" question is that some people feeling that way
actually try to offer up reasons why someone ELSE was a better candidate.
They're looking outward instead of inward. It doesn't matter how much
money you gave to the church or how many times you brought the garbage out for
the elderly woman next door. Someone's getting cancer isn't a punishment
or a judgment or the lack of a blessing. It's one link, in a chain of
events.
As I said, and quite truthfully too, when I found out that I had had cancer, I
was shocked. (Who wouldn't be?) But never ever ever did I feel punished or
doomed or anything else negative. Over the course of time I've learned
plenty but looking back now I can see that I was at least partially open to
learn. While some things I read and saw and came in contact with didn't
sit 100% loftily with me, they didn't make me wild with negative feelings
either.
One day, as I was sitting in the oncologists office waiting for my appointment,
I picked up a magazine. On the cover of the magazine I grabbed, were
pictures of various women. The caption read: "Breast Cancer, The
Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me". I almost put that magazine down as
fast as I picked it up but I didn't. I forced myself to read it. I
wasn't angry or upset by the caption but I was befuddled. I mean, I knew
that I would be FINE (another important point in Karma).....and I knew that what
had happened wasn't a punishment of any kind, but it was quite another thing to
think of it as the "Best thing that ever happened" to me.
One by one, each woman in the article said how their life opened up after they
had had a bout with cancer and how they had learned so much about themselves and
how they were now in such a completely different place then they ever were
before. They didn't say that they liked having had cancer but they did say
that the experience was a major factor in rising their awareness level.
Because they HAD cancer, they were now getting more out of their life henceforth
the "it's the best thing that ever happened" caption. In all sincerity I
think the magazine just that caption to dramatize the whole thing but then again
if they didn't, maybe I wouldn't have read that article. I did think the
phrase was nutty when I picked up the article and it did take me years to come
to the place where I totally understood what the women were saying....but it did
bring a valuable message home....so I guess that's the only important part.
As I traveled on the road of a cancer survivor I learned so many things.
Maybe "learned" isn't so much the right word as is "absorbed". It's like
FINALLY, everything that I truly knew within me....I understood ~Spiritually~.
It's one thing to see the theoretical value in something and it's quite another
thing to actually come to ~Spiritually~ know the value in it.
The road that I traveled on during that period of time wasn't easy but it *was*
rewarding. I'm through and past it all now.....and I know that the fact
that I didn't take it personally ....was responsible. What I did
take personally was the need to see the message that what I was going through
was sending me.
Wow, how wild is this! I was about to conclude my post on this page when I
took a look up to the top of it. I started the post with the word "All"
and I ended it with "me". That pretty much sums up (in a lot less words
*LOL*) what I was trying to say. The journey I went on 8 years ago wasn't
from an outside source. It was "all me". All I had to do was look
within......to find the answers. The answers I found did have an effect on
the outside of me (I was HEALED! *S*)...but it was another link....in the chain!
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