Please Stop Calling Karma a Bitch

Karma’s a bitch….we’ve all heard that statement, or maybe even thrown it out like a dagger to pierce someone else’s or our own “bad” behavior. Poor Karma, she has taken the heat for way too long now and it’s time she be rescued, redeemed, and liberated to restore her good name. Karma tends to be used as a threat or an excuse to justify justifications of irresponsibility. She is constantly placed in either the good pile or the bad pile, but rarely where she belongs, in the neutral pile.

Karma is. Karma is action. Whether the action is conscious or unconscious is up to us. This means that our life is our doing. The Karma of your life is always yours. Karma is not the victim or victor. Karma is not the slave or savior, you are.

If our life is on autopilot and our actions aren’t really actions at all, but reactions or repetitive acts of habitual thoughts, comments, and behaviors, based on all of the external forces of which we have no control, then our karma will be shit, or if you prefer, a bitch. But, if your life is consciously being driven by you, the only one who can drive your life, then your karma will be incredible. I say in-credible on purpose. Not because every moment of every day is going to be the fireworks of your first kiss at the top of the ferris wheel, but because it will be noteworthy or credible. In other words: in the credit of your own conscious dedication to awareness and improvement of self. 

We absolutely do not have to haul around Karma in a sad Santa’s sack, like it’s stuffed with all of the Christmas presents of our past that we never got. This will gift us nothing but tired arms, a messed up back, and the feeling that we have been gypped or dealt a bad hand. That sack will guarantee us an overweight charge at the airport, a physical struggle to go or do anything at all, a mental mindfuck in believing we are in necessity of this nonsense, and the emotional escapade that will turn all of our travel into turmoil.

If karma is action, then this means we get to do this life. But if we sit, moping, in non-action, then this life will do us. This does not mean that if you have a bad thought, something bad will happen to you. If you have a bad thought, karma, is asking you to notice the thought, ask yourself if it’s adding joy to your life, and if it’s not, move right along, It’s when bad thoughts become our baseline and we allow those bad thoughts to accumulate, unnoticed, that Karma will throw her bitchy disdain around. 

We must realize that no one is coming to pick the bad thoughts out of our brains. No one is coming to design our life and dream our dreams, and live our love, and thank the heavens! Because the love of which you live, the grace of which you gift, the dreams of which you dare, and the roller coaster of which you ride, all get to be directly experienced by you, not some random bitch we have conveniently named Karma.  We can dress her up as the excuse or the empowerment, the robber or the releaser, the boss or the bully. How you dress her is your decision, throw a sheet over her and she will emerge as a ghost, who feels like she is haunting you. Dazzle her up with some iridescent eye shadow, a kimono, and some fabulous turquoise jewelry, and she will chauffeur you down the red carpet runway of your life. 

May we all choose to walk our red carpets, consciously. May we all choose to star in our own movies and hold our supporting cast sacred. May Karma be in the front row, the B no longer for bitch but for, beautiful, bountiful and blissful.

Muchas gracias dear one. Forever in awe of you choosing to place importance on my work. May you know and feel the divine love that you are. 

Peace, Peace, Peace,

Shanti, Shanti, Shanti, 

Namaste,

Andrea Dawn