50 Actions to Improve your Karma

By Josep Lopez Romero

Good karma can be worked to modify our present energy and improve our current life. But what is karma? Does good karma require that you always tell the truth? How do you clean up bad karma from past mistakes?
According to various Dharmic religions, karma is a metaphysical energy (invisible and immeasurable) that is derived from the acts of people. Each of the successive reincarnations would be conditioned by the acts carried out in previous lives.
This book gives you the keys to improve your karma and keep it in a positive state. Let good karma be your guide.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Josep Lopez Romero
• Release date: May 12, 2020

Josep Lopez Romero

Josep López Romero (1967) is the author of 12 books, including The Courage of the Samurai and The Colours of Dreams, translated into many languages. Apart from his work as a communicator and writer, Josep has also kept very busy during the last two decades providing coaching for authors. Some of his “trainees” have later won international acclaim.@joseplopezcoachingJosep López Romero (1967) es autor de 12 libros, entre ellos "El valor del samurái" y "Los colores de la ilusión", traducidos a varios idiomas. Además de su trabajo como comunicador y escritor, Josep también se ha dedicado durante las últimas dos décadas a practicar el coaching de autores. Algunos de sus "coachees" han obtenido reconocimiento [e-mail]

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50 actions to improve your karma

Josep Lopez Romero

What is karma

The word karma, of Sanskrit origin (Sanskrit is a classical Indian language), etymologically means action. So when we speak of good karma we are referring to good deeds, and more specifically to intentional good deeds.

But karma is something else: it is an invisible energy that is derived from the actions of people and survives from one life to another, understanding that our current life is only one of the multiple reincarnations that we all experience throughout our spiritual existence. . In fact, that energy is transformed in each incarnation based on our actions, which condition future reincarnations.

In a practical sense, it could be something like the debit and the credit in the exploitation account of our life, understanding it not only as our current incarnation, but as the different incarnations until we reach enlightenment through our improvement.

In the following pages we will see how to apply this idea to our daily life to achieve peace and serenity, and ultimately achieve spiritual fulfillment, because true peace and happiness, as you will no doubt know, is not bought in department stores: only It can be earned by creating good karma that reaches all areas of our lives.

The law of karma is one of the foundations of the Dharmic religions, including Buddhism and Induism. However, its monitoring does not necessarily have to do with religious practice of any kind. In fact, it is natural, universal and inevitable, which means that although we have not heard of it, or do not understand it, it affects us equally.

As with the concepts and ideas that come to us indirectly, intermingled in phrases taken on the fly or read in some magazine between advice and advice for your well-being, karma is also sometimes poorly understood in the West. It is often confused with similar, or even conflicting, ideas, as we will see below.

Karma, for example, is not the same as destiny. When someone suffers a misfortune and another says: It is their karma, as if saying it is their destiny, they are not using this expression precisely. According to the law of karma, there is no written destiny for each of us, there is no fatality, that is, something that will happen regardless of our actions. There is free will, which is the freedom to act by reflection and choice.

Also, according to the law of karma, there is causality, that is, the things that happen to us in this life have a cause, sometimes located in our current life and sometimes in previous fleshly existences. Nothing happens for its own sake, but not because it is written, but because everything is a consequence of our previous decisions and actions. There is no accident, for example, in the birth process: the soul that projects a new personality is incarnated in the environment necessary to balance its karma and promote its growth. Even if you are not aware, it is a choice.

Another common mistake when considering karma is believing that it operates as a kind of spiritual current account, so that at one point in our lives we can make many positive deposits and thus have a balance to later commit negative actions or harmful to others. This is a selfish thought. In karma there is no balance, although there is something similar to a vital balance. A bad action is not justified by many good previous actions. In fact, the important thing in the law of karma is not to act to save your own soul, but to come to understand deeply that the life of others is as precious as your own, and therefore act altruistically out of sheer conviction.

Movement is demonstrated by walking, so let's see how to practice these concepts and how to improve your karma through these 50 actions.

1. Take care of relationships

Love is probably the most powerful and intense feeling that we human beings experience. We can express love in many ways, but the most common is through our relationships with other people, with our parents, siblings, friends, colleagues, neighbors, lovers, couples, etc.

Love can be expressed in a selfish and possessive or altruistic way, but in both cases it is an inexhaustible source of generating good or bad karma. So it is essential to spend time and energy caring for our relationships with other people and trying to make them a true expression of love.

You, like everyone, need love to live fully, you could even say, as in the Beatles song, that all you need is love. But love cannot be demanded, it cannot even be taken from another person if that person does not give it to us. The only way to get love, even though it may seem like a paradox, is to give it. If you live your life with an open mind, a warm heart and affection towards everyone, you will create the conditions to experience a full life.

To achieve this, you must pay as much attention to taking care of your relationships as to the rest of the things you do on a daily basis. And make a real effort to also feel affection towards people who do not show it to you, or who express just the opposite. If you can do this, you will be creating the karma necessary to receive love and happiness in the future, and not only that, but you will begin to experience the same in the present life.

I offer you a little exercise. Think about your best friend and remember when you met. Note that until that moment that person was not in your life, that is, he was a person unknown to you and at no time had you assumed that in time a great friendship would develop between you or you. Now think of some person, friend or boyfriend, who at a certain point in your life was fundamental to you and who, after a while, for whatever reason, ceased to be, so that currently it does not mean anything special for you. Both examples can give you an idea of how a stranger can end up being a great friend and how a great friend can become almost a stranger. As the Buddha explained in his teachings, relationships change over time, so it is advisable to consider everyone lovingly so as not to create bad karma.

Each new relationship is both an opportunity and a challenge. Although we do not treat a brother the same as a coworker, the essence of all relationships is the same: open heart and mind. You certainly won't feel appreciation for every new person you meet, but that shouldn't stop you from being nice and polite to