AN EXPLANATION OF KARMA

Karma is often misunderstood with some people considering it as a system of punishment and reward, as though the universe is keeping score and handing out consequences. In truth, karma is way more simple and compassionate than that. It is not about judgment at all. It is the natural response of life seeking harmony after an imbalance has been created.

Karma starts the moment an imbalance of energy occurs. This usually happens through choice. When a soul acts in a way that harms another, whether through action, words or intention, an energetic distortion is created. Something has been taken, ignored, dismissed, or violated. There is a difference between accidental harm and deliberate harm, but not in a moral or judgmental way. The difference lies in consciousness, intention, and awareness at the moment the action occurs. 

Accidental. When harm is caused accidentally, or through genuine inexperience, the energetic imbalance is usually light and quickly resolved. A young or less aware soul may simply not have the capacity to foresee the outcome of its actions and in those cases life responds through gentle learning and education and will provide situations that build awareness, not ones that impose suffering. The soul learns, adjusts, and the energy rebalances quickly because there was no intent to harm and no inner knowing being overridden.

Deliberate. This is different as it involves choice made with awareness. When a soul knows an action will cause harm and proceeds anyway, the energy imbalance is deeper. It is not the action alone that creates karma, it is the conscious separation from empathy in the moment of choice. The more awareness present when harm is chosen, the more energy must be rebalanced later.

Karma is most active in the 3rd and 4th dimensions where polarity, time, and separation are strongly felt. That imbalance of energy does not disappear just because time passes or a lifetime ends. Energy carries memory, and until balance is restored, that energy continues to need resolving. This is why karma can move through lifetimes. It is not following the personality, it is following the unresolved energy. A soul has karma because something remains unfinished. Life then provides opportunities for that energy to be felt and understood from a different angle.

Karma and learning. Learning involves experiencing something we may not have previously understood. Perhaps someone who once dismissed or silenced another person may then find themselves unheard or overlooked. Someone who once caused emotional pain may later feel deep rejection or abandonment. This is not revenge. It is experiential learning. The soul gains understanding through direct feeling. Once the experience is fully felt, the imbalance begins to dissolve. But karma is not necessarily a replay of ‘like for like’, i.e. you don’t need to be hit on the head because you once hit someone. What matters is the energy of it, not the exact scenario. The universe is interested in balance, so the experience only needs to bring awareness, empathy, and energetic completion. Karma also does not require learning in the intellectual sense, but learning usually occurs naturally when energy is balanced consciously. When someone truly understands the impact of their choices, the need for further karmic experience dissolves.

Intent is important. Karma does not operate on surface rules like ‘killing always creates karma’. A scenario where someone is shot to prevent them shooting six others is often misunderstood in karmic discussions. What matters is the energetic context. In that situation, the intention is not harm for personal gain, domination, or separation, but to prevent greater harm. The energetic imprint is one of protection rather than violation.

That does not mean there is no energetic consequence at all. What tends to happen here is that the soul needs to integrate the gravity of that choice, its emotional and energetic impact, and the responsibility it carries. In many such cases, the karma balancing occurs through giving service, healing, or increased sensitivity to life. The soul often emerges more careful, more reverent, and more awake. That is the balancing.

Karma applies to everything that has consciousness which includes animals, plants and the mineral kingdom. Causing harm to nature creates an energetic imbalance. Sometimes this is a collective karma, such as when humans damage the Earth, without awareness or respect. The imbalance may then return through environmental consequences, emotional disconnection, or systemic collapse. This is not punishment but balance seeking restoration.

The rebalancing of karma can happen in many ways. It can occur through direct experience, through compassion, service, forgiveness or through genuine inner change. Once balance is restored, karma ends naturally. It only responds to energy until wholeness is restored.

Good karma. Karma is often spoken about only when something painful is happening, but the same principle applies to ‘good karma’ when actions are rooted in clarity, care, and integrity. Good karma is energy moving in a supportive direction. Supportive karma can be inherited, shared, or carried forward through connection.

Karma resolves when we no longer meet life from the same place that created the imbalance. As awareness grows and the experience is integrated, the need for repetition falls away. At its heart, karma is teaching life itself how to live in harmony.

Love,

Sandy Stevenson

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