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By Kim Fraser

    The Divine plan is that we live lives of love, joy, happiness, peace and abundance of all good things. This is our natural state. When our life is something other than that, then something has gone wrong, and we are in a situation of having to find out what that something is, and fix it. In the fixing, we become more skilled, stronger, more able than before. It is the process of growth. Growth involves experiential learning, time, process and mistakes! Difficulties themselves are not bad, just indications that it is time to do some inner work.

    Many people would rather not do that, or do not understand the lesson that they are learning. Instead they prefer to find something to blame, or they justify their position so that they themselves do not need to change. This is the hard way of doing things.

    Even really severe problems come about through our own misuse of energy or poor choices, in one way or another. To believe otherwise is to give your power away. If you 'broke it', you can 'fix it'. There is not an illness, or injury or grudge, which does not have as its genesis, low vibrational choices and circumstances in earlier times.

    Often in our culture, we suffer illness which is the result of not caring for ourselves, not engaging in proper nutrition, sleep, relaxation and exercise. One packet of chocolate biscuits, or one bottle of wine, or a pack or cigarettes, consumed when under pressure may not seem like the end of the world, but if this is habitual behavior, it might spell the premature end of your world, through contributing to a disease process which becomes evident later.

    Sometimes karmic issues are experienced, and until we clear the karma, nothing will change. Sometimes the karma is so severe that we cannot alter physical problems in this life. The way we deal with our afflictions will however, have a direct bearing on how we are placed in our next incarnation.

Ripples in the Pond

    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