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Greetings, Greetings.
My name is Keisunga, and welcome to Radio Headspace on this marvelous Thursday.
Something that was instilled in me, like as far as I can remember, was this notion of having good karma, especially for my father.
He was the one that would always say, Keisunga, do the right thing.
You want your karma to be good.
And what really threw me for a loop is when something would go wrong with him and he would say out loud, my karma is off.
He believed his karma was responsible for whatever negative thing occurred in that moment, which I found very interesting.
The other phrase I would often hear in my household was, now you gotta suffer the consequences.
And I usually heard that statement following something I had done that was labeled bad.
So I was fully aware of the notion of consequences at an early age.
As I continue to navigate this life of mine, intentionally bringing awareness to each moment as it occurs, I recently started to really explore this notion of karma versus consequences.
So today I thought I would share with y 'all what I've come up with so far.
So this idea of karma, karma is defined as the sum of a person's actions in this and previous states of existence, viewed as deciding their fate in the future existences.
It's kind of the idea of what you put out into the world is what you will receive back.
If you put out negativity, you receive negativity and vice versa.
If you put out positivity, you receive positivity back.
Now consequence is defined as a result or effect of an action or condition.
So obviously based on these definitions, there's a lot of similarity between the two.
The way I see it, karma refers to a more long -term idea of cause and effect and not just long -term, but also broad and general.
It refers to the negative or positive energy that you put out that will come back to you.
Whereas I feel like consequence deals more in the present moment and is very specific.
For example, if you don't study, then you won't do as well on the exam, or if you lift the weights every day, then your muscles will develop.
Something that I have noticed over the years is how, whether talking about karma or consequences, it's usually in the context of the negative.
We make comments like, oh, their karma is all screwed up.
Or like I stated earlier, you will suffer the consequences.
Just using the word suffer, that's a bit problematic for me, right?
But this is how we talk to our kids.
And this is the way we talk to each other also.
It happens, but it's very rare for someone to accomplish something that's deemed positive and you hear, well done, your karma is outstanding right now.
Or the consequence of you listening and coming home for curfew is lots of praise and this loving, uplifting hugging kiss.
Why don't we use calmer and consequence in these positive ways?
And furthermore, in the spirit of the mindfulness concept of nonjudgment, I invite you to pay attention to how you may automatically judge a consequence as good or bad, versus just a direct result of a certain action that you may or may not have desired.
These small, subtle, mindful shifts can really make a difference in the long run.
It's all about the mindful awareness that you bring to every single moment, to every single action.
And just a gentle FYI, there's also a short, pausing judgment video in the Headspace app if you want to check it out.
So, mindfully stopping there in this moment.
Thanks for listening today.
I look forward to seeing you back here tomorrow.
Have a happy and healthy day.
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