Brian Weiner

You will never know the damage you have done to someone until the same thing is done to you. That’s why karma is there.

Have you ever had a karmic slap?

I have. And sadly, on many more than one occasion.

Did it wake you up the first time? Mine didn’t. I did not even know what karma was. Even more sadly, it was years after I understood karma, that I made it a point to try to operate my entire life regimen with karma as my arbiter. 

You may doubt that karma exists. I certainly did not readily embrace it. It sounded too eastern mysticism for my beliefs at an early age. I had not been exposed to the law of attraction either. So I lived my life by my choices, regardless of some of the potential outcomes.

As life continued and I weathered one karmic slap after another, I started to rethink my position on this topic. How was this even possible? If I did not believe in a deity that was watching my every move, and rewarding or punishing me, then how might karma actually be a thing at all?

Even as I was dubiously induced into listening to The Law of Attraction, I remained wholly skeptical. That which is like unto itself, is drawn.

For me, it did not become a choice of not believing or believing… it became a choice of why not act in accordance, regardless? It became a choice of reflecting on what is the worst that is going to happen by keeping my behaviors so karmically positive and my mindset so karmically positive that I should (presumably) find similar returning in kind. 

I watched my life continue to evolve in the process. Certain things reduced while others increased. Is it all coincidental? I cannot say with any degree of certainty. Is there any connection between what you do, what you think and what returns to you? Again, I have no scientific proof of any of this. So perhaps I am reading what I want to read into the events in my life that have given me cause to operate in this manner. I would never preach anything, and most certainly anything that is not verifiable. I am just a human on a road of discovery.

The more I focused on positive things, the more those kinds of things seemed to gravitate to me. The more I worked to keep every choice I made as being measured by a karmic set of parameters, the more life seemed to treat me accordingly. 

So, do I believe in karma? I do not think belief has anything to do with it. I use karma to measure my choices. I believe it is a wise choice for me, and I recommend it to you. If you counter every thought of consequence by how you believe it will reflect on your overall life, then, at a minimum, you have given a conscious attention to the impact of your choices as relates to you and others… and if that is the only thing that comes out of using karma as a barometer in your life, then is it really such a bad practice and thought process to embrace?

Happy Sunday!