How to Recognize If You Have a Bad Karma and What to Do to Heal It

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Andreea Vaduva, B.Sc. (Hons)

Do you feel like you may have bad karma?

Karma (a concept taken from Indian spirituality) is the repetition of certain events with the purpose to heal and change you spiritually. The effect of past actions is unavoidable and sometimes a situation can repeat itself over and over again until you finally understand what you need to heal or change about yourself.

You will continue to attract the same negative energy through people or environment until you discover the weak area of your personality, of your spirit or of your actions.

For example, you have recently changed your job. It is a different office, different people, but the tense atmosphere and connection with your co-workers are similar to the previous job. The same struggle and lack of improvement can appear in your personal relationships: you have constant arguments with your partner, your issues with the family members seem to appear now and again – sometimes, for the same reason that occurred in the past.

So all these familiar and repetitive vibrational situations that seem to never break through, try to show you that a change is necessary in order for you to heal from the past and move forward to where you want to be.

Here are a few steps which should give you an insight into how to heal your bad karma:

1. Recognize the Karma

Wherever you will go or whoever you will meet, you will face the same situation under different circumstances. For example, you tend to argue when somebody has a different opinion than you which usually leads to heated arguments and you do not think there is anything wrong with being strongly opinionated.

This type of situations you create keeps people away from you or they might find it difficult to be themselves around you. You feel isolated in a way and you wonder why you cannot create a stable friendship.

This is one of the karmic obstacles that can prevent you from evolving spiritually, but a karmic obstacle can be anything repetitive that happens or you do in your life.

2. Be awake

In order to recognize your bad karma, you need to be awake, in touch with your spiritual needs and realize who or what your obstacles are. Sometimes we allow people to hurt us, we allow certain situations to repeat or we are simply not fully aware of our strengths.

Why? Because we are not spiritually awake; we let things happen without being in charge of our karma.

3. Make a change

Once you realize the reason why bad karma keeps repeating in your life, the next step is to make a change. If you have unhealthy relationships and there is no longer a way to save them, give up on people who hurt you.

If you understood where the mistake in your personality or action is, make a change, be kinder, be forgiving, be calm or be more confident, be tougher. Put into practice what you wish to happen, define what you expect from yourself and from your life or simply apply the suggestions that life makes you through repetitive sounds, words or situations.

4. Control your attitude…..

Your attitude about life, people or situation is sent out in the world and it will come back at you. Be relaxed, be positive, because what you give is what you get. Any negative thought you have about yourself or the world should be changed in positive thinking.

5. …and your reaction

The way we think or feel about something is reflected in our behavior. Certain situations repeat in our lives in order to help us change the way we deal with people around us, with objects or with the environment.

A classic example of bad karma, suggested by New Ager David Isaacson, is the family connection: the man yells at his wife, who yells at her son, who kicks the dog who bites the father. If you control your thinking, you control your reaction and therefore, you control your karma.

Karma is not a punishment but a teacher

Be responsible and awake, try to recognize your obstacle and remove it. As long as there are unresolved or unchanged energies in your life, you will not break the circle.

If you feel that you deal with bad karma or you have managed to change it, please share or debate with us!

References:

  1. Mind Body Green
  2. Wiki How

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  • Karma,
    Karma is positive and negative. Both r accepted by the Newton's third law called "Every action is equal and opposite reaction".
    Mostly ours last birth sins are affected in this birth. So, be spiritual, help needy people, speak kind words to all, think good - be good- do good. Karma is only one who follows right to equality.
    Thanks by,
    Sundar

  • I think it may relate to me. Bad Karma seems to follow me wherever I go. I am kind to people. I am not a bad person. I run a small non-profit social Meetup group. Some of our members have mental health issues; bipolar, autism, ADHD and various anxieties. Our group is accepting of everyone and greatly supportive. I have been told this by other members. I don't gossip about anyone. Gossip destroys lives and is frankly boring. People have told me how much the group means to them and although sometimes organising gets on top of me I keep going because people need the group.
    However, it seems that no matter how nice I am to others I get crapped upon constantly. I know I'm a people pleaser, however some people seem to misunderstand me, or mis-hear what I've said and instead of coming to me and telling me they go away and gossip about me. I am very approachable and easy to talk to, but these people wait several months before coming to me to complain, well after the event has passed. Then a clique formed. It was destroying my group from withing. And so, after months of deliberation, I decided to close it down rather than remove the clique. But most of the members didn't agree with my decision and when I opened the new group, they abandoned me and joined the cliques new group. Imagine how that felt especially as some of these people had become friends. I realised later I should have removed the clique. I didn't really know what to do. I vowed never to put up with gossip in the new group and make sure a clique did not form. So far so good.
    Recently I organised a group holiday for 10 people. But I got overly stressed trying to make sure everything ran smoothly and that all were enjoying themselves. Making sure we all kept together when we went out. No one got lost or was left out. I hired a cottage in Cornwall. I did an online Tesco food order. I had to organise sleeping arrangements. It was a huge order for 10 people over 7 days. People volunteered to cook some nights. But the holiday didn't go well. This was the 8th holiday I'd organised, but it didn't feel like a holiday. All the others had gone smoothly. Due to the stress, and I know I put too much upon myself, I became snippy. I apologised to the group and checked my behaviour. All seemed well. But two of the members sulked and didn't speak to me. Cut a long story short I later discovered that I had upset these two women really badly, but they wouldn't tell me what I had done and haven't spoken to me since just saying, through texting, that I had treated them particularly badly. And then accused me of spreading malicious gossip about their personal lives to several people in the group. Completely untrue. They have threatened me with legal action. I know gossiping isn't illegal, but it was very unpleasant to be treated this way. They are both guidance counsellors. I cannot understand why they didn't just speak to me. I make a point of not gossiping about anyone. People have shared confidences with me that I have never shared. I cannot get to the bottom of this situation. And I am completely dumfounded. I never crap upon others. I treat other people the way I want to be treated. I accept anyone, gay, black, trans, bi, even aliens, I don't care what you are as long as you don't harm animals, children or our environment.
    And my neighbour is being unpleasant. But I guess a lot of people have unpleasant neighbours.
    So for many years it appears Bad Karma follows me always.
    Any advice would be very much appreciated.

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Andreea Vaduva, B.Sc. (Hons)