Karma isn't the only thing that can set up thought patterns and actions in your life. How you think affects the way you feel. Our own thought patterns effect the health of our body, mind and spirit. Basically you're creating an uneasiness or ''dis-ease'' in your body, by the way you think and feel and approach each situation in your life. So each emotional thought pattern is really an underlying ''cause'' of a physical illness, or emotional situation in your life.
We all set up recurring thought patterns in our subconscious that affect how we live our life. These patterns could be self doubt, a lack of confidence, or emotional perspectives based on how you interact with others. These thoughts can come from societies preconceived notions about the kind of person you are, from family and friends, and from your own views about situations you have experienced in your life.
If you are a person who has been through many failed relationships, you could develop a thought pattern that causes you to expect failure in any new relationship that comes your way. Which is a way to set up a self fulfilling prophecy, even when your own ''expected perception'' is wrong.
Allowing these thought patterns to reside in your subconscious, allows them to dictate your choices in life, which at times can be detrimental to self-growth and enlightenment.
Making Change In Your Life
So how can you change old patterns and release karma? What simple exercise can you do each day to help the evolution of your spirit? Through the process of Acknowledgment, Acceptance , Forgiveness, Action and Letting Go.
Acknowledgment
You can't release something until you know it exists or are willing to admit it exists. So you first have to acknowledge the situation.
Acceptance
Once you've faced the fact it does exist, you have to accept it. That's part of unconditional love of the self. To accept the characteristic or action without judgment and to just accept it with love.
Forgiveness
Now that you've accepted the pattern, give yourself a break and forgive yourself for taking on this pattern. You're human and we all do this. No one expects you to be absolutely perfect. So don't expect that from yourself. It is what it is, you've acknowledge the pattern and you want to change it. There's no reason to feel regret or guilt, you can't change the past. But you can change the future. Focus on that.
Action and Letting Go.
Now the Action to correct these thought patterns, or repay this karmic debt can be implemented. In affecting change in your life, you are letting go of the past and moving toward self-growth and enlightenment.
