How To Clear Your Karma

Karmic cycles are repetitive patterns in consciousness that emerge through a belief that is contrary to the laws of the Universe.

Some religions and spiritual teachings refer to humanity as the ‘children of God.’ When I use the term ‘God,’ I do not mean some off-world deity that is separate from us mere mortals. To me God is the All. It is the Creative Force. Being a ‘child’ of this Creative Force means that we have the same nature and creative capacity.

Many wisdom traditions also equate words, thoughts and consciousness with God’s ability to create. In other words, thought has a creative function in the Universe. Thoughts are words, images, and stories that are repeated in the mind and they have creative power.

Another way of saying this is that whatever we choose to think or believe about ourselves and others, and about the world around us, ultimately becomes true for us. This is important when discussing how to clear away old karmic patterns.

Karma are patterns of thought that are repeated in the mind and influence how we create our life experiences. Free will means that we have total freedom in what we choose to think and believe.

This is not to say that a specific thought, or even a behavior, is wrong or bad. In fact, the Universe or God always takes us at our own value and says yes to all our thinking and feeling patterns.

Karma is a secondary spiritual law to the Law of Attraction, that allows us to evolve continually into our higher potentials. From an esoteric or spiritual perspective this relates to the expansion of love, joy, and peace within our mind.

Karma and the Law of Attraction are also separated by a protective buffer, in that we often experience less damage than our minds can produce through thought, and we also receive more good than our minds can produce through thought. In metaphysics this is known as the Law of Grace.

We are not held back by the love we didn’t receive in the past, but by the love we’re not extending in the present ~ Marianne Williamson

The Law of Grace is a higher law under the Law of Karma. This law keeps things in balance and allows individuals to move toward greater expressions of love. True, we can experience significant challenges through so-called negative thinking and feeling patterns, but divine grace always keeps us in check and gives us another opportunity to choose again. Most people do not have to reach ‘rock bottom’ to shift their thinking and feeling patters.

So, how can we clear our karma? First, we must recognize that universal law is law. It is immutable, which means that it does not just bend to our will as we please. In the same way it would not matter how many times we jump into the air, the Law of Gravity will always keeps us grounded.

However, there are higher natural laws that allow us to transcend the Law of Gravity, and similarly there are higher universal laws that allow us to transcend the Law of Karma. For example, the Laws of Aerodynamics allow us to defy gravity and fly. Comparably, the Laws of Grace allows humans to rise out of any negative karmic spiral.

There three primary laws to the Law of Grace. The first is the Law of Love, the second, the Law of Joy, and the third is the Law of Peace. Metaphysicians also refer to the Law of Love as the ‘Law of Forgiveness.’ This ‘love’ is however not the same as the emotional or romantic attachment we have to others in our daily lives. In fact, metaphysicians would rather describe that kind of love as ‘to like,’ because from a metaphysical perspective spiritual or divine love is not a feeling or emotion.

Therefore, if an ancient spiritual teaching states that we must ‘love our enemies’ it is not about ‘liking’ our enemies, but loving them from a metaphysical perspective. It is an impersonal experience. It is associated with our capacity to unconditionally accept others without trying to steer them in the direction we believe that they should go.

Forgiveness therefore means that we release our emotional attachment to another person’s behaviors. This does not mean that the person who ‘loves’ unconditionally becomes a doormat. No, real love does not participate in destructive behavior, because real love is all-inclusive and must also include ourselves.

When you think about grace, think about its wings – its ability to lift us up and take us beyond what our experience is saying we have to live under and be controlled by ~ Tony Evans

Real love says no to any behaviors that violate love. Spiritual author Marianne Williamson says, “Sometimes love says, I do love you. Now give me my keys and get out of my house.” Forgiveness is not saying that another person was right in their bad behavior, but instead it is a recognition that every person is just doing the best they can with the understanding and awareness that they currently have.

The Law of Love clears out all karma, because whatever we put out naturally comes back to us. Karma is not the experience we are having, but the mental energy that created the experience. Things like fear, worry, resentment, blame, guilt, criticism, judgment, desire for vengeance, and so on. These patterns are the ‘karma’ that we are working through and as we forgive such things, we open the door to a glorious experience.

Since the Law of Attraction always manifests our current state of consciousness, when we forgive the new pattern of resolution is then put out into the universe and will return to us as matching manifestations. It untangles our own karmic attachments to those negative mental qualities or ‘bad karma,’ and we instead create an entirely new experience.

This is why religions and esoteric traditions often hold that ‘when you forgive you are forgiven.’ Buddhists, for example, believe that all forgiveness is self-forgiveness. Forgiveness assists us in clearing out the patterns within ourselves that attracted the negative circumstances in the first place.