Karma is all about energy — how energy flows to and away from you. It’s a belief in the tradition of Buddhism that karma is the result of your own past actions and your own present doings. You are responsible for your own happiness and misery and the architect of your own fate. In this philosophy, everything in your personal life begins and ends with you.

Do you understand that everything you do and say comes back to you? This the ebb and flow of karma. Every action creates a reaction.

It’s like bowling: We grab the ball (we think a thought), we hurl the ball down the lane (we take action on the thought), and the ball hits the pins and knocks down the pins (our thoughts create a brilliant idea, and they manifest). Throwing the ball down the lane is metaphorically like throwing out a thought or idea; it will eventually create a ding in our energy fields. That energy will return to us in some way. Like the bowling ball returning up the shut.

For example, if you want to take a course or buy a car and find out the price and your first reaction is it’s “too expensive,” what you have done is create the same thing for you. The karma now set up is for someone to say the same to you. Every action creates a reaction. Another example, you’re drawn to only free services. You now set up this same reaction for someone to take advantage of you. This is especially potent if you are freelancer or practitioner and charge for your services.

The easiest way for your life to flow easily is to help others. Offer assistance to everyone. In fact, go out of your way to help others. What this will do for you is set up the energy “flow” to come back to you. Others will go out of there way to help you.  Whatever you do for someone else you are essentially doing for yourself.

Every thought and action sends out energy. One of the main reasons to quiet the mind is to stop the flow of limiting thoughts or energy from coming back to you.  What can you start doing now to help others and then help yourself? Share below.