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When you decide to embrace spiritual development, all parts of your life will come under your scrutiny. You will see things as though for the first time, and hopefully, your self awareness will grow keenly.
Sometimes people become side tracked in their pursuit of the Divine, and instead of looking inward, they look outward. They put their attention on judging the progress or lack of it, in others. By placing attention on how terrible others are, we can ignore our own messy bits! This is not useful, and judgment of others or their unique spiritual path, is always going to be counter productive.

While the 'yin' part of spiritual development is to look within, the 'yang' element is to take positive action in the world. The best way of doing this is to find a way to be of service to others. As well as giving you a buzz as you help improve the lot for others, service is one of the ways in which we can soften the harsh effects of our previous low vibrational behaviour, thought and choices.

The law of karma is not random, nor is it capricious. Through this law we get to see both sides of any situation. If we have caused others to suffer, we get to suffer. If we have helped others, we get to be helped.

Karma (the law of cause and effect) is like a sharp knife that can cut us, and service is one of the ways to make the cut less severe, so that we might suffer a flesh wound rather than a deep and terrible catastrophe.

When you embark on a path of service to others, you are insuring yourself somewhat against your distant past in other incarnations. We have all been everything, the good guy, the bad guy, the saint and the sinner. I do not advocate self judgment; that is a waste of time.  Instead it is better to approach problems or upsets with understanding. All hardships are self induced, if you take a long enough view of things. The mistakes of our past, can return to haunt us at any time. Being of service to others not only makes us feel good, it is the smart choice of those who understand the perfection of spiritual law.

Through service to others combined with intelligent self evaluation and love, your life has a greater probability of flowing with ease and grace. Like ripples in a pond, our actions reverberate throughout our own personal universe, affecting many seemingly distant things. May that which you create this month bring you ripples of happiness and good fortune.

Namaste, Kim