Table of contents hide 1 Introduction 2 Exercises to apply the concept of karma 2.1 Exercise of retrospection 2.2 Exercise of gratitude and debt 2.3 Exercise to remove fears and hatreds 2.4 Exercise with our negative self 2.5 Extension of retrospective karma 3 Bibliography

Introduction

With most words we have not well defined concepts. Perhaps the word karma is one of those used in multiple senses and is seen as a term brought from the eastern countries and that does not make much sense in the western world.

However, from the time of the Greeks it was claimed that human actions had consequences. That the relations of causes and effects were not limited to the physical world, but that the intentions had moral consequences and that an unscrupulous person was not the same as another who was governed by his ethical principles.

The proposal is to have a more elaborate understanding of what karma is and use this concept to get to know each other better.

Not only did Plato and Aristotle write on this subject, but plays were written that taught the people the value of acting according to moral principles and negative consequences if they lacked character. Sófocles Antígona's work refers to a noble woman who has to face family and state authority to comply with her principles.

All religions have had ways of expressing that immoral desires and actions have social and individual repercussions. Similarly, they offer ways to return to good and restore balance.

The best way to develop a concept is to gain experience. We may ask ourselves, how do you gain experience to develop the concept of karma?

Within esotericism, several authors recommend reviewing our lives to understand what we have done and how these actions have repercussions on our lives. This is a way of understanding what karma is, while advancing in the knowledge of ourselves.

Let's look at some exercises to apply the concept of karma that can be very useful to us.

Exercises to apply the concept of karma

Retrospection Exercise

Max Heindel proposes this exercise as a way to purify ourselves.

1. This exercise is done at night after going to bed and relax. The events of the day are remembered in regressive order, that is, from the moment of going to bed until what was done in the morning when you get up. The author points out that hindsight in itself is an exercise that fulfills part of the restoration work that is achieved with the dream. Knowledge that was destined for later lives is also acquired. In addition, we clear our subconscious mind, with which we could be ready to know the inner worlds.

There are other exercises proposed by Rudolf Steiner:

Gratitude and debt exercise

It consists of making a list of everything we have received, regardless of whether others have done it with good intention or not . It is to recognize in others what they have given us. What has allowed us to learn. This exercise makes us understand that we learn from all people and, most importantly, that we must recognize that we have to be willing to compensate for what we have received.

We must recognize that we have to be willing to compensate for what we have received.

One of the advantages of this exercise is to understand that those who have been an obstacle to our goals, also play a role in our lives and that instead of losing our energy wishing them badly we are in the obligation to learn from those experiences and wish them spiritual growth.

Exercise to remove fears and hatreds

As a complement to the previous exercise, we can focus on those who have treated us unfairly and understand the situation as directed by us. The idea is to imagine that everything happened because we planned it.

The idea is to imagine that everything happened because we planned it.

This exercise takes away our fears and emotions of hate. It is to search because it was convenient for us to happen that way and because we do not prevent that situation from happening . It is important to clarify that we are not saying that we are going to recognize that the situation occurred because of our guilt (guilt takes away energy, since it is an emotion), it is rather to take control of the situation and recognize that just as that situation happened by Our responsibility, by taking responsibility, we have the control to create the new circumstances we want.

Exercise with our negative self

Another exercise that can help us get to know each other better is to make two lists about us, one with all our qualities and the other about what we don't like about ourselves, but that we can't change today . We will work with our negative self, which is on the list of what we don't like about us. We will make an effort to understand that this negative being is created in previous lives and that is why it is so resistant to our attempt to be different. We are referring to aspects of our character that we recognize as harmful.

This is a way to begin to understand that cause-effect relationships or our karma are not a consequence of our current life, but have a deeper background. We need patience, perseverance and good strategies to modify the negative aspects of our character.

Extension of retrospective karma

The first exercise proposed by Max Heindel can be extended. That is, in addition to that daily exercise he proposes, to do an exercise every three months, in which we review everything we have done from the present to what we started three months before .

The importance of this exercise is that in addition to being useful to understand the concept of karma, it allows us to understand to what extent we are fulfilling our plans. In any case, the important thing is that we discover that those responsible for what happens to us are ourselves, even in cases where we allow others to go beyond the limits that we dare not point out.

If we cross a river from the mouth to its birth, we will be amazed at how that great river we saw at the beginning can start as a small fountain . In this case, we will understand that the situations we currently have, whether we like it or not, began with small decisions we make. A person who has learned a language that uses it for a living can go back and see how it began years ago. awkwardly

It is important to understand that the concept of karma is almost always understood as a consequence, but it is not seen as responsibility . These exercises offered here are aimed at observing karma from our own experience. Not as a judgment to others, but as a way of knowing ourselves.

The concept of karma is almost always understood as a consequence, but it is not seen as responsibility.

When life is considered in terms of karma, we are referring to the fact that we are responsible for developing our character. This character development is our job. The only thing we have left through the different lives is our character.

The proposal is to have a more elaborate understanding of what karma is and use this concept to get to know each other better. To see how the dynamic itself is in our life. The concepts are alive when we can apply them in our lives and allow us to make sense of everything we do. The concept of karma must be related to the goals. In everything we do we must have goals.

The previous exercises will help us see if our life has direction or if we are acting in the direction indicated by others. We can't get anywhere, but we know where we are going. Hindsight is a way of seeing if there was a meaning in the origin. When this is not the case, we can stop and see the corrections we must make to reach the good port.

Retrospection is a way to see if there was a meaning in the origin, if we had a goal.

Bibliography

Max Heindel Rosicrucian concept of the Cosmos . Kier Buenos Aires

Rudolf Steiner Karmic relations . Rudolf Steiner editorial. Madrid.

AUTHOR: Jos Contreras, student of the subject on karma and reincarnation. Writer and translator in the big family of hermandadblanca.org

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