Raising Your Energy to Meet Karma

Dear friends,

Human nature is what it is. We have our natural tendencies, but if we work at it, we can do better than that. It can be thought of as similar to working out. We have the body we are born with, but through effort and training we can greatly improve on it.

It is entirely natural to face challenges in our lives. It is, in fact, why we incarnate in the first place: to learn lessons and develop strength and the will to choose better.

But the natural tendency is to shrink and wait for hard circumstances to blow over. Imagine a ten foot wave coming at you. You can rise to equal its height and strength or wait it out until it shrinks in size to something more easily manageable. Waiting for it to shrink down is a perfectly natural desire, but it may not actually serve us.

Better is to increase our energy, awareness, resolve, and discipline to really learn the lesson that challenge is presenting. Otherwise we may merely feel we have dealt with the situation and mastered it. But then later, when we are in a similar situation, we are a bit surprised thinking, "I thought I was done with that?!"

There is an Eastern idea that talks about burning every log completely. It means to have the total commitment to throw yourself into your actions with 100% dedication. A "smoky fire" represents doing something half-heartedly, and leaving some things less than fully burnt.

Let us face, with joy, whatever challenges come our way, knowing that they are always for our highest good. Spirit does not want to break us, but to strengthen us. Help us remember that what comes is designed to burn off all impurities that keep us from the Bliss we all seek.

Blessings,
David G., manager
For the staff at East West