VI. 4th Initiation: Stepping off the Wheel of Kharma
Indigenous peoples often refer to this as “creating right relationship”. By getting off the Wheel of Kharma and creating right relationship, one is no longer bound to involuntary reincarnation. This means that reincarnation is now voluntary, and one may return fully conscious into the physical form as desired.
What is a kharmic exchange? You are in a kharmic exchange any time you find yourself:
-arguing
-blaming
-fighting
-trying to control or impose your will on another person
-exchanging insults
-initiating physical touch when feeling emotionally charged
-receiving non-beneficial intentions, energy or actions from others
-involved in any type of communication, including thinking, that is not loving
and could create a non-beneficial response in the other person.
STEP 1-INTENTION
State your intention to no longer engage in arguments or kharmic exchange with the people around you. Talk with them about what you intend to do when you discover that you are in a kharmic exchange and ask for their support in making this change. Most people do not enjoy kharmic exchange, and will support you when they understand what you are doing and how to assist. Make new agreements not to argue, no matter what with yourself and the ones with whom you consistently engage.
STEP 2-DISENGAGE
As soon as you catch yourself participating in a kharmic exchange, disengage. Go physically to another space away from the other participant(s). Do not communicate anything while you are still in a charged state. Do not touch anyone while you feel charged, even if you think you need to! Touching someone while you have a charge will always create a kharmic exchange.
If your partner discovers the kharmic exchange and chooses to disengage first, honor their space no matter what. The icky feeling that comes back to you when the other disengages is NOT an attack-it is the feeling of your own energy returning to you. Just accept your feelings in the moment and stop communicating. This is a way of changing the way you use energy. It is not comfortable through the initial change process, but will result in great freedom and well-being.
STEP 3-RECLAIM YOUR POWER
When you have disengaged and are in your own space, notice the story that your mind is playing about the incident.
-In this story, are you the victim?
-Are you the righteous one who deserves better?
-Are you the one who has been betrayed?
-Are you trying to control the outcome, protect, or save the other person?
Stop feeding the victim archetype by drawing the “blaming” energy back into your blue circle* and changing it to acceptance. Ask your higher power, guides, or spirit helpers to help you see how you created this experience. Find your role by checking in with your energy and intention-how you were feeling and what you were thinking-just before the kharmic exchange. Were you hungry? Distracted? Tired? Emotionally charged? Was there some feeling you failed to act on?
STEP 4-FORGIVENESS
Once you accept your role in creating the kharmic exchange, you can forgive and release the other player(s) and focus your attention on the area inside your blue circle*. Taking responsibility for creating your own experience, no matter what, is the key to regaining your power.
Transferring blame is the way you give your power away. Forgive yourself, too. Remember-you are a master in training. Every kharmic exchange you correct becomes a stone in your new foundation. According to the Egyptian ascension masters, even Ascended Masters are vulnerable to creating a kharmic exchange as long as they are in a physical body.
STEP 5-GRATITUDE
Express thanks to (or for) the ones who participated in the kharmic exchange with you. Imagine them feeling whole and serene. This is impossible to do while you are still blaming them-if you have a hard time, go back to step 3 and do it again.
If this person is someone you love, imagine the happiest moment you have ever shared with this person, and see the two of you together in harmony.
If it is a stranger or someone not close to you, imagine them walking happily on their life path and send a blessing for them on their journey. Author Carolyn Myss talks about this as a grace cushion, or “grace points”. It builds an energy field of high frequency around you that transmutes anything that is directed toward you that is not yours.
I have experienced this personally to the point of having a punch that was thrown at me glance off my energy field and slide into a refrigerator! Once you build this grace cushion around you with gratitude, it will be very easy for you to not take anything personally from others, even when they intend it as a personal barb. Your energy field will no longer have the victim receptacle to experience this energy.
Notes about stepping off the Wheel of Kharma:
The process of getting off the kharmic wheel involves shifting your center of consciousness from the mind into the heart. This requires trust in a different reality-one that you know about intellectually, maybe even believe in completely, but have not truly experienced. It requires courage to face the uncertainty of outcome that accompanies growth and change. And it requires faith and trust that the Universe is actually benevolent and loving- that “bad things” can not just happen to you randomly. It requires that you take responsibility for creating EVERY PART OF YOUR EXPERIENCE.
The mind knows that it will not be able to carry forward the illusion that everything is under control, or the comfort of the old role, into the new consciousness. It must now confront the truth that it does not have control over life, events, people, or relationships. Your new foundation must be built on the uncertainty of heart-based reality.
When one first emerges from the Wheel of Kharma, the people around him or her have an opportunity to shift their own relationships. If a close friend or partner is not ready to take this step, they will either make an agreement to find another outlet outside the relationship, or they will continue to test the resolve of the initiator and try to hook them back into a kharmic exchange. This is actually a gift which will create more opportunities for the initiator to affirm the commitment to self.
When one partner truly changes and another does not, the relationship will change its form. At this time we must cultivate our willingness to let go of the old form, images, and ideas of what it is supposed to be, and trust that a new and more authentic form will emerge.
*The blue circle referred to in the steps above is an actual circle on the floor, about 2 times the length of your foot in diameter, placed with blue masking tape. Michael and I encourage everyone who is doing this ascension work to make a blue circle and STEP INTO IT every day while you are going through the 4th level of Initiation.
Many blessings on your own 4th Initiation. This stage can be mastered in 3 months if you set your intention to do so and stay committed. Thank you for the work you are doing to create a peaceful and harmonious world!