This article is about my understanding of karmic pattern clearing. From what I know, there are many tools and methods of clearing. The one that I am describing here is simply one of many.
First, let's talk about what Karma is. Karma in Sanskrit refers to the cycle of cause and effect. meaning for each action a person takes in life, this will affect him or her at some point in the future. This rule also applies to a person’s thoughts and words. We speak our reality. The Universe will bring back whatever acts you committed or feeling you caused in another person. This karmic boomerang helps teach you how your actions impact others and to be more compassionate.
The process of karmic pattern clearing often leads to the surfacing and uncovering of tendencies and thought patterns that are stored in our subconscious mind. For that matter, meditation and an understanding of our dreams are helpful skills in our managing the process.
Karmic energies are neither good nor bad. Energy is just the way it is. However, beliefs and influences possibly picked up when young or in some previous lives, will make us regard certain 'characteristics' as either being positive or negative. This tendency to judge is almost natural and instantaneous.
Energy (reaction) very often must run its full course for the 'cause' to be 'discovered' and then 'understood'. When the first reaction arises... a second reaction will often analyze the first one and decides whether the former is good or bad. If the former reaction is deemed as bad or undesirable, our personality will try to 'fix' the situation by preventing (blocking) it from arising again. Well... what we have now is more and more reactions...which can sometimes complicate the entire situation.
A Method of Clearing
This is one method that I employ:
What I will normally do is define all these reactions that come to my awareness. I am training myself to be aware of my tendencies. To aid in my awareness, I do this in situations that I have a strong reaction to.
How can these reactions be defined? There are many ways to do that. Below are some examples:
1. Saying out 'how I feel'. Express them.
2. Writing them down in a record book or journal.
What is the purpose of doing this? By defining these reactions, we are recognizing them and thus they (the thought patterns) become known or conscious to our conscious self. By expressing them, more and more of our karmic tendencies will be uncovered (and eventually understood). This will continue until a time comes when the reactions lose their emotional charge. When they lose their emotional charges... we will be less interested in them... With that, I consider this as having 'cleared the karmic pattern'.
Oh... one more thing to add. The 'external' situation, basically is 'designed' to tell us something about ourselves. Sometimes, we may need to apply the 'mirroring' principle. For example, when we encounter a person whom we do not like... check to see deep within our unconscious or subconscious; do we have the same pattern. This, to me, is the hardest part to swallow. We must acknowledge the characteristics that we avoid in ourselves when we are irritated with someone who is showing us what we refuse to see.
Is there a quick and painless way to clear these karmas?... well...not that I know of. Here's what you can do to move closer towards cleansing yourself:
- Be grateful: For each experience, good or bad.
- Act with love: Towards everyone regardless of what they have done.
- Check your motives: Make sure they come from a place of love for self and others. If you are keeping score, that is ego.
- Watch your attitude: Negative thoughts create angry energy directed at you.
- Forgive: It can be the hardest thing to do, but it is the most important in creating great karma.
Additionally, dream interpretation can also support us in our karmic pattern-clearing effort. Dreams often reveal to us our unconscious and subconscious personality aspects. As such, the ability to decipher dreams greatly assists in the understanding of ourselves and our thought patterns.