Karma Happens

Ann Litts
Mindfully Speaking
Published in
3 min readOct 3, 2020

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It’s not about vengeance after all

Photo by Jared Erondu on Unsplash

When I started looking deeper into the philosophies behind my yoga and meditation practice, I learned about Karma. The real and true meaning of the energy.

Karma is defined by Dictonary.com as:

the sum of a person’s actions in this and previous states of existence, viewed as deciding their fate in future existences. Destiny or fate, following as effect from cause.

Karma can be immediate or take a long time to percolate. However, it is always neutral — just as destiny is neither good nor evil. It simply is. Karma doesn’t seek justice on anyone’s behalf. It’s not punishment for misdeeds and sins. It is the flow of energy put out into Your Life.

It is the times three that witches understand will return to its source — The Rule of Threes.

Christians, as well, tell us we reap what we sow.

Quantum physicists ponder The Butterfly Effect — to illustrate how we are all connected by our energy. Again — same/same.

That is our Karma. It’s all the very same principle.

I used to make the joke — before I understood Karma — that I must have been a serial killer in a former life for all…

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