Angelic Sight Newsletter #3

In this newsletter:

+ Karma
+ Choices

Karma

+It's her karma.
+Oh well, I guess he's got bad karma.
+You shouldn't do that. It's bad karma.

I often wonder if people really understand what karma is or do they just like to throw it around because it's hip? Karma defined means, "as you sow, so also shall you reap". Those seeds that you sow, those thoughts that you have, those words that you speak, those actions that you take; so shall you reap (receive) in return.

I like to think of karma as cause and effect. If your actions are good and God-like, then good things will come to you. If your actions are bad and un-Godlike, then bad or negative things will come to you. Here's an example: Several years ago I had a client who was in the music business. He was so focused on the career of one of his peers that he lost focus on his own career. In effect, his actions were sabotaging his career, but he couldn't see that. He wanted the accomplishments of his peer. He wanted everything that this person had worked hard for. Instead of wishing that person well and congratulating them for their success, he bad-mouthed him and gossiped about him at every opportunity he got. He loved to tell people how much this person lacked talent and was a terrible artist. He expended a lot of negative energy/negative karma in putting this person down, criticizing and mocking them. He couldn't see how his actions were affecting his life and career; which were going nowhere. If he had focused on his own path, his own goals, his own desires and his own aspirations, he would have seen that his path was different and that success would find its way to him in the right time. Through my work with this client, I enabled him to see how his actions were hurting himself and only himself. Now he's switched his focus to his own career and he's on his way to his own success.

There seems to be a misconception among a lot of people that karma is a bad thing. It is all in the perception. Through karma, we are able to learn lessons and grow on a soul level. While I agree that karmic lessons are not easy, they do help us achieve the growth we've set out for. Haven't some of the hardest lessons we've learned come out of difficult times? Can any of us say that we learned a major soul lesson by an experience that was easy? I doubt it.

One of the places I see karma arise a lot is in romantic relationships. Most people are surprised to learn that a relationship that ended due to jealousy, infidelity or violence has major karmic issues/ties to it. You may have been the one who was left by your husband, but perhaps the last time around you left him? If you are victimized by a lover, you may have been the victimizer the last time around. Maybe you abandoned him in this lifetime because the last time around he abandoned you. Karmic ties run very deep. Karma also has the ability to help us work out control issues and power issues.

What about a relationship that doesn't have jealousy, infidelity or violence to it and still it ends? It usually means that karmic ally you agreed to meet and be together for only a short period of time. When you've worked through what you need to, you both move on. That isn't a bad thing. If you have faith in what your soul contract was before you came here, then you know that you are fulfilling contractual obligations. Maybe you were only with a person for a specific time period because you are meant to spend the rest of you life with someone else. Someone who will assist you in learning your life's lessons this time around.

Back when I was living on the East Coast, I met a man who I knew I'd known before from a past life. He was somewhat spiritual and didn't realize we met before until we'd dated a few times. He finally figured it out. Anyway as it turns out, he was my brother back in ancient Pompeii and we'd both died trying to escape the volcanic explosion. In this lifetime, we'd agreed to meet again, date and get to know each other but that we had very different agendas. He was destined to marry another woman and also spend his life dealing with panic attacks (a carryover from our sudden death in Pompeii). I, on the other hand, was meant to reconnect him with things like reincarnation, karma and the power of a divine connection. I was also destined to leave the East Coast and live my life in Southern California. While we were only in each other's lives for a brief period of time, the importance of our meeting was karmic. When we parted ways, we both understood that we had gotten what we needed to learn from each other and were moving on to fulfill our pathways.

I always say to clients that it is important for them to realize that there are valuable lessons to learn in each and every karmic relationship. Once you get beyond the pain, hurt and disappointment, there should be a level of gratitude. Yes, gratitude because out of your pain you were able to work through karma. If life is your classroom, then you know that we are always learning, growing and evolving all the time. Karma is a valuable tool in helping us further our life education each time we incarnate here. Embrace the gift that karma is. In the end, the rewards are worth it.

Choices
If you've ever had a reading by me or checked out my website, you know that I'm not the type of psychic who says, "You have to do this!" "You must do that!", "You need to breakup with your girlfriend.", "You have to be a doctor, lawyer, etc." Unlike a lot of psychics, I'm very unconventional in my approach to readings. I believe in choices. I always tell my clients what I see, feel and hear, but yet what they do with that information is up to them. The can choose to employ it in their lives or do nothing with it. I like to think that after a reading with me a client walks away with a lot of choices. Choices regarding things they can do or choose not to do. Ultimately what they do is their choice.

Have you ever considered all the choices you make in a given day? The first choice most people make each morning is whether to get out of bed or hit the snooze. Then comes the choice to have breakfast or not, the choice of what to wear (applies to guys too) and the choice of whether we are going to have a good day or not. Yes, being in a good mood and having a good day is a choice just like being in a bad mood is too. I believe that every morning presents us with the opportunity to begin life anew. There are a lot of people who choose to think, "Ugh! It's only Tuesday." "When is the weekend going to get here?" Yes, a lot of people seem to live for the weekends, but then again that's a choice too. Isn't it? How about living for every day, every moment?

One of the most important choices we make over and over throughout the day is the choice for fear or love. When we greet a co-worker, a boss, a loved one or a stranger are we greeting them from a place of love or fear? Think about it for a moment, what place do you usually come from: fear or love? I think most people would admit (through some posturing) that they come from a place of fear. In fact, about 95% or more of us come from a place of fear all the time. With a majority of people coming from a place of fear, is it no wonder that there is so much hatred and intolerance in this world? What if we were all coming from a place of love? Wouldn't this be an amazing place? Heaven, I think.

When we approach the relationships in our lives, why are we so afraid? In working relationships, there always seem to be fears regarding feelings of inadequacy, competition and the race to be number one. In family relationships, there always seems to be fears regarding feelings of the need to please and to get ahead. Isn't it the American dream that one generation has to live better than the previous? At what expense? In love relationships, there always seems to be fears regarding feelings of compromise and commitment.

For most of us the choice to love or to fear starts as children. Yet can we blame our parents for that? Weren't they raised by parents who also choose fear over love? The cycle continues back from one generation to the next. Do you want to be the generation who chooses to break the cycle?

There's an old expression, "keep your friends close and your enemies closer".   What if we loved our friends and our enemies equally? The choice for love doesn't mean we greet everyone with a hug and a kiss, but how about with a smile or from the warmth of your heart? You'd be amazed how people will respond to you when you are in a place of love in their presence. It's a divine experience.

If there is someone in your life who makes you come from a place of fear, you need to ask yourself why? No one is in our lives by accident. Why is that person bringing up fear instead of love within you? What is the mirror they are showing you? Maybe he or she is a great teacher for you? Can you see the lesson? Can you see what you can teach them?

Realistically, fear doesn't serve us in any way. Fear may keep us safe and protected, but ultimately aren't you missing out on love? By choosing love, our lives are more meaningful, enriched and precious. We came here as souls to grow, experience love and deepen our connection with the divine. Fear isn't part of the divine plan. It comes down to fear inhibiting you, if you choose it. There's that 'choice' word again.  My wish for you is that you choose love. I know it is what I choose.