Hi All,
It's been said that through our daily meditation, we can lighten our karmic burden and perhaps reduce the number of turns around the wheel we must make.
I've been wondering how this happens. It is suggested that by cleansing our nervous systems this can be accomplished. Throughout my meditations, sometimes I re-live events from my life that I wish I could re-do. Events where I have been less than kind or hurtful or just wrong in some way.
This morning for example, when meditating, I relived two events regarding a business associate from a prior job. Once I was quite sharp, and verbally cutting to him after he had done something I explicitly told him not to do, and he corrupted the company's database. Another time I was rude to him and cut him off after he had done something I thought was hurtful and then I never took his calls again. Childish, I know...
This morning, while meditating, as each of these sad events replayed in my mind, I felt as if I saw the scenes as an outsider, and felt/saw sorrow in my actions and felt his hurt and bewilderment at my actions. After each scene, I gently went back to my mantra. Calmness never left through these experiences this morning as I viewed these scenes I wished I could change.
I wonder if this is one mechanism in which we reduce karmic load. By revisiting wrongs and experiencing them through both party's eyes...
What do others in the group think? How is it that we release karmic debt through meditation? Is it a purely physiological process of just cleansing the nervous system or are there other avenues?
In light, life and love,
Kathy