How To Turn Bad Luck and Bad Karma to Good

by Robert Wilkinson

Many times I hear people wonder why bad things happen to good people, and why if they're trying with all their hearts to live good and spiritual lives, they still have major difficulties to deal with. Today's post gives us a fresh perspective on such things, and what we can do to change energies from negative to positive.

It helps to remember that even challenges can bring forth our creative imagination, as well as unsuspected powers, talents, and ideas that help us grow into our Higher Self if we take the high road, rather than bemoan our fate and fall into gloomy states of mind. Also that in the process of becoming "perfect," it means we're learning to become perfectly human, with all the confusion, feelings, and occasional sense of being lost in a larger reality we neither created nor know how to deal with.

Often what happens to us is the result of prior acts of omission or commission, whether from this life or another. Or sometimes it's the result of misguided relations that are in our lives to teach us powerful lessons, whether through pleasure or pain, or simply to say yes or no to whatever. But we have the power to change the pattern in the here and now, and that by breaking the link between pain and suffering we grow in our ability to shine the light of loving Truth to our suffering world.

Anyway, to this end, I offer you something I wrote a while ago that still has value in these times. For your consideration, Overcoming Bad Luck, Bad Karma, and Bad Life Circumstances. Enjoy!

© Copyright 2009 Robert Wilkinson

Comments

[ella]

hi Robert, I've often thought over the idea of karma, and it causes so much fear in people, and shame, and when they have done everything with a good heart in this life but still suffer, they conclude they must have lived a bad past life.

I think differently, some people receive a lot of good in this life, simple because they have a high opinion of themselves, and feel they deserve it. The opposite also happens, especially to very sensitive people who feel they can never do as much good as they would like to, yet don't feel deserving of the good life has to offer for themselves. For me that explains the lives of those around me, better than the idea of selfish past actions.

On a bit of a tangent, I've also think the religious concept of original sin is mis-taught, for me the original sin is the loosing faith in our own beauty and 'god's'. Not some black mark on our souls, but just our tendency towards negativity, and fear.

[Robert]

Hi ella - Sometimes bad things happen to good people not because of their karma, but rather the free will of the one who perpetrates the bad behavior. That gives us the opportunity to generate altruistic energy however it's appropriate to the circumstance. You're right that the thoughtform of high self esteem often results in achieving the objects of desire, which seem good. But there are always those lessons another goes through we don't know about, which makes judging another's lot somewhat dicey.

To note, some people who feel they don't deserve it get a good life anyway, while with others they could have a good life if not for their self inflicted wounds. Without getting into the obvious flaws in his parentage I'd say it appears W. had a good life this time, but given how much suffering and destruction he caused this lifetime I'd bet his next one won't be so cushy.

Original "sin" is truly an illusion taught by churchists to perpetuate their power. If "sin" is an archery term that means "missing the mark," then perhaps the only "sin" is our failure to remember we also are part of Nature Herself, and stand naked before "God" as one with All-That-Is. The heresy of separateness is the grand illusion that is the "fall from Grace," since when we remember we are not separate from anything we reclaim our Divine Estate as Eternal Consciousnesses manifesting for a while in form. When we witness the One Life, Love, and Light that everything is, then we realize we are THAT-WHICH-IS and become living vehicles for Divine Light and Love to be made manifest in Intelligent Action.