Is Karma The Same Thing As Law of Attraction?
Reader question: Can you explain the difference between karmic law and law of attraction? Are they the same thing? This is a great question! The word “karma” has, for better or worse, made it into the popular lexicon. It’s usually used as a way to explain the doling out of divine justice. As in, if something bad or unexpected happens to you, maybe it was “karma” (payback from the Universe for something you have done in the past). Conversely, if something good happens, the same definition of a past good deed is usually used (“I must have good karma!”). To make things even more complicated, the Hindu religion (which is where the Sanskrit word karma originates) claims that there is past life karma. Your good and bad deeds in a past life could contribute to what you are experiencing in this life. So is this popular definition of karma accurate? And how do we reconcile it with the Law of Attraction? To put it simply, the biggest difference between what we know about how energy actually operates through the Law of Attraction and the classical definition of karma is this: your current point of attraction is a direct result of your energy frequency in THIS moment. It has nothing to do with a past life or past good or bad deeds in this life. So does this mean that if you could shift your energy frequency in the now moment, that you would be absolved of any past karma? Basically, yes. Every frequency, every outcome, every circumstance already exists in billions of difference vibrational realities simultaneously. You are simply, in any given moment in time, TUNING IN to a specific frequency and its [...]