Am I Done with this Karma Yet?
Solution when you're in a karmic flow
How do you know if you are done with a karmic flow? Let me share a story with you…
In the beginning years of running the jewelry business I had co-founded, I tried unsuccessfully to leave the business many times. I didn’t feel my work was purposeful and I wasn’t happy doing it. I was very uninspired.
When he was alive, I would often talk about it to my spiritual teacher and best friend, John-Roger (J-R), and tell him of my plans to shutter the business. I really didn’t want to be in it, and he was always there to listen and give me advice. Shortly before I had started the business, he had been telling me that I was to learn about how money and wealth worked.
This was obviously a part of that learning, but at the time I really resisted. It’s funny how we often resist those things that are beneficial to what we really want.
I learned so much about business in the 10 years I was building that one. It was incredibly valuable, and now I have so much experience to understand how business and material wealth function. I am incredibly grateful for those lessons and they serve me well now, and give me depth of experience to be able to work with others related to business in my coaching practice.
Sometimes, you may not see the value of what you are in, but it could be the very thing that you are struggling with that will be what gives you the necessary resources for what is coming next in your life. So you might as well be grateful now, since you will be grateful later when you truly see the purpose.
People often asked J-R if they still had karma with a person or job or situation, and he would often say a variation of: “Can you get out of it? If not, then you still have karma.”
I learned this lesson through different experiences in my life, and being in the karmic flow of that business was one of those experiences, because no matter how hard I tried, I just couldn’t get out.
I also learned the solution. It’s a solution that I got from J-R’s teachings, and (duh) I had the perfect opportunity to put it into practice.
The solution: love it. Love that karma so much that you don’t mind if you stay in it. Maybe you start by pretending, but in my experience, you have to actually love it. You have to have such a positive attitude that it becomes something you love.
When you get to that stage, where you are happy whether you continue in that flow or not, that’s usually when it completes and you can get out of it if you choose, or sometimes it uplevels to the next opportunity for your growth.
In the case of that jewelry business, shortly after I was really loving doing it my involvement in it completed.
So this week, there’s an opportunity for you to just love the flow you’re in (whether its work, a relationship or lack thereof, family, etc). Approach it like you will be in it for the rest of your life, and the only choice is your attitude towards it. Be grateful now, because you will be grateful later. Participate so fully that you actually love what you are doing.