I have been hearing this a lot lately. That every bad thing that happens to us, must be deserved because it is our karma.

So some homeless man on the street deserves what he gets because it is his karma? Someone loses their home because it is their karma? Well then millions of people out there must have bad karma.  I guess all those Americans that got swindled by the banks must have bad karma, I guess all those mass layoffs must be happening to people with bad karma.

When people are using it in a sentence they are implying that there is some "guy in the sky"  keeping track of all the bad things we do, and one day the KARMA police show up on your doorstep and pull the rug out from underneath you. Bad things happen to bad people is also an implication here.

I have a different opinion on why "bad things" happen to people. I honestly feel it is our fears being reflected to us. Unhealed fear has a reflection, it is called bad luck.  It removes the whole good versus bad person scenerio that many people cling to. 

Most of humanity hold the deep seated fear of being homeless. Infact many people live their entire lives to avoid feeling that fear.  But if it is never healed within us, then is has the opportunity to manifest in reality.

If there is zero fear of being homeless then it can not manifest it is against spiritual law. Fear has attracting power because it is an emotion and emotions are magnetic. So really when bad things happen to people, they are literally creating/facing their own unhealed fears.

I would like to suggest that every time something horrible happens to us, it is a cry from our emotional and spiritual selves to heal fear and any other pains within us VERSUS judging people as BAD and deserving of their bad luck. Imagine how it would affect our self esteem if everytime something terrible happened to us, we felt it was our karma, and therefore we must be bad people?

The implication is: if something bad happens to you, then you must have done something bad to deserve it. What goes around comes around, what you dish out comes back to you is all the same implication.

That sounds to me like judging and it takes us away from love, compassion and the desire to help our fellow man.

Lindsay Tietz, Homeopathic Doctor
Owner  Intention to Heal
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