Qué es un ciclo kármico y 8 cosas que puedes hacer para romperlo
So, you’re on the part of your journey where you’re wondering what is a karmic cycle? Luckily, I have an answer ready for you.
En ciclo kármico es la forma en que el karma actúa en la vida de las personas a través de diferentes situaciones y acontecimientos vitales que debemos sufrir para aprender una lección del alma.
Esa lección acabará liberándonos de los obstáculos internos, entre los que se incluyen los malos patrones de pensamiento que se manifiestan como desgracias en nuestra vida.
Ciclos kármicos se basan en nuestra vida pasada experiencias y la lecciones de vida que no conseguimos en ellos.
Para poner esto en escenarios cotidianos de la vida real, podemos decir que un ciclo kármico se abre o se cierra en ese momento en el que sucede algo realmente bueno y mágico, sólo para ser seguido por lo peor de la historia.
Todas estas cosas hacen que nos hagamos preguntas como ¿Por qué me merezco esto? ¿Por qué siempre me pasa lo mismo? Tienes que averiguar por qué te pasa siempre y solucionarlo.
Before we go into detail of the whys and hows of karmic cycles, let’s talk some more about karma.
¿Qué es el karma?
La palabra sánscrita karma se ha convertido en un término muy extendido en las comunidades espirituales de todo el mundo.
Karma significa trabajar, actuar o escritura and in today’s world, it’s usually used to describe something fated and inevitable.
Esencialmente, es el principio de causa y efecto.
It’s best described by sayings such as ‘what goes around comes around’ and ‘you reap what you sow’, que son básicamente otras formas de decir que todo lo que haces tiene sus consecuencias, sean buenas o malas.
Cuando se trata del concepto espiritual del karma, El karma se considera una ley espiritual. A cada pensamiento, palabra y acto le sigue una consecuencia.
Todo aquello sobre lo que actuamos y la forma en que lo hacemos va a volver a nosotros en consecuencia.
What’s frequently misunderstood is the timing of the consequences.
Por lo general, la gente espera que el karma actúe inmediatamente, lo que no siempre es el caso. A veces tarda minutos y a veces tarda toda la vida.
That’s exactly why karma in action is sometimes seen as cruel or unexpected because we don’t even have to remember what caused it.
The timing depends on many factors but all of them include awareness and the level of consciousness of the person who’s holding the karma.
Para alcanzar una comprensión más profunda del karma, debemos aceptarlo como algo natural y como parte de la realidad humana.
Todo en el mundo está animado por la ley de causa y efecto, incluidas las leyes de la física, la sociología, etc., así que ¿por qué iba a ser diferente la espiritualidad?
La estructura kármica es cíclica
What does this mean? If you look closely, you’ll notice that every unaddressed situation that caused a big disturbance in your life repeats itself in some other similar form after some time.
Ahora bien, dependiendo de tu estado de conciencia y paz interior, esos ciclos pueden repetirse en ciclos de tan sólo 40 minutos (conocidos como galige), within a year’s time or as long as twelve-and-a-quarter to twelve-and-a-half years (known as Surya Kriya).
La reencarnación: La importancia de las vidas pasadas y futuras
Para comprender mejor los ciclos kármicos, debemos entender el significado de la reencarnación.
Without karmic cycles, there would be no need for reincarnation. The reason why we keep coming to this life is that our karmic debts haven’t been paid off yet.
La ley del karma is inescapable. Until all our lessons are learned, we’re bound to repeat the experience of life in this form.
Muchas cosas de nuestra vida actual están condicionadas por lo que hicimos en vidas anteriores, como nuestro cuerpo físico y nuestra estructura emocional y mental.
Eso incluye todas las cosas que preferimos, lo que nos gusta y lo que no nos gusta, nuestros miedos y anhelos, todo lo cual recibimos al nacer.
Everything we have ever done is ‘recorded’ and transferred into our new life. Since karma essentially means ‘action’, it can’t be stopped; it must be performed fully, it’s just a matter of time when we do.
If one fails to fulfill or make their previous wrongdoings right, they’ll pass their karma to another life and pick up where they left off and it’s the same with positive deeds.
Según la reencarnación y el karma, nuestra mente está condicionada por nuestras acciones anteriores.
Cada persona tiene un propósito de alma diferente en su vida
Considering what I previously said, it’s easy to conclude that every one of us has a different life purpose. That’s exactly why we shouldn’t judge other people’s lives or choices.
Often, many things seemingly don’t have any logical explanation but that’s a consequence of the inability to see the bigger picture.
We don’t understand things without context. It’s like reading a torn page of a really big book and trying to make sense of it.
There’s no point in obsessing over understanding the whole book but working with what you have at a given moment and understanding universal principles.
Los principios universales son innatos a cada ser humano y todo el mundo tiene acceso a ellas si practica la autoconciencia.
However, this is why karmic cycles offer a better explanation of evil in the world when compared to the dualistic views present in most of today’s religions.
Diferentes etapas de ciclos kármicos en la vida de un ser humano
It’s said that karma works in cycles that usually have a span of twelve years and they can be divided into sections based on our age. Here’s how they operate in every age period:
Infancia
As a child, we’re completely unaware of our past karma even though our life experiences are already somewhat designed to form our personality in a certain way.
Children are very easily influenced since they have no experience or capacity to understand things fully. Situations they’re exposed to shape them into the people they’re going to become.
Por supuesto, esto plantea una de las cuestiones teológicas y filosóficas más populares sobre el destino, el libre albedrío y sus relaciones mutuas.
Childhood karmic patterns are set to help us grow spiritually, to help us redeem our karma. However, since that’s our most vulnerable stage of life, past life issues have a strong presence and effect.
Juventud
Youth is the initiatory phase where we start being more conscious and start choosing a direction in life regarding the ways we’ll earn money in the future, etc.
También es el momento en el que tu karma pasado empieza a aparecer de forma más significativa. Suele ocurrir algo importante.
It doesn’t always have to be dramatic on the outside but internally, it shakes up your being.
Your lesser developed traits will be highlighted and you’ll be put to the test in some way to learn what you don’t yet know.
Comienzo de la edad adulta
The karmic pattern is supposedly done forming by the age of around 25, when we officially enter adulthood. That’s when karmic patterns really start to show through.
Todo tipo de dolores y dificultades emocionales, mentales y físicas de una vida pasada comenzarán a manifestándose de formas únicas and you’ll be clueless about it most of the time.
Whatever needs to be healed will be given the opportunity to heal, no matter whether it’s the emotional, physical or financial state of the person.
Algunas partes de nuestra vida irán bien gracias al buen karma y otras serán difíciles.
Edad adulta
Aquí es donde las cosas alcanzan su máxima complejidad cuando se trata de patrones kármicos. Lo que ocurre es que a los adultos les cuesta más cambiar y el karma exige cambios.
If you were successful with dealing with karma before this stage, chances are you’ll get to the deepest and most important karmic events sooner and undergoing those events will have transformed your life.
Sin embargo, si no tienes éxito, todo el bagaje se acumulará y empezará a repetirse hasta que aprendas la lección.
Vejez
This is where the karmic cycle’s intensity starts to wear off. Karmically speaking, this phase is least turbulent because individuals have already solved their issues or delayed them for the next life.
Sin embargo, este es un buen momento para disminuir su carga kármica porque la intensidad del karma es más débil en este momento.
Por supuesto, los síntomas siguen ahí, pero son menos intensos.
Cómo depurar karma negativo?
In the words of the Indian yogi and author Sadhguru: “Karma functions through certain tendencies. But with some awareness and focus, you can push it in a different direction.”
Eso significa que puede afectar a nuestro karma. He aquí algunos consejos sobre cómo hacerlo:
Entiende tu karma
We ALL have karma. We experience it daily. The fact that we’re born into this specific body and raised by our parents is part of our karma. It shapes our life.
However, there are some parts of your life that need special attention and that’s probably where your life feels stagnant or uncontrolled.
It doesn’t matter whether it’s career-wise or something about your love life, there’s something you struggle with.
If some problem repeats itself over and over again, chances are that’s where your biggest karma lies.
Lo que tienes que hacer es reconocer ese problema y luego tratar de entenderlo y hacer lo mejor que puedas con él.
Pregúntate por qué empezó de todos modos. ¿Qué tipo de sentimientos evoca en ti?
El primer paso para liberarte de tus cadenas kármicas y crecer hacia tu verdadero potencial es empezar desde la raíz del problema.
Asumir la responsabilidad
Don’t blame everyone or everything for the things that have happened to you. Instead, take responsibility for your life.
It can be tricky when it comes to understanding why something is happening to us but it’s important to try and see things from various perspectives.
Fíjate en tus propios errores y piensa qué puedes hacer de forma diferente la próxima vez.
Of course, this doesn’t mean you should constantly look back and try to change things, just be prepared to not do them again.
Don’t get caught up in a toxic relationship
Las relaciones complicadas a lo largo de la vida son casi inevitables. Todo el mundo tendrá al menos una experiencia de una relación tóxica en la que se mete sin darse cuenta.
It’s important to recognize why some people have the effect they do on us. What do they trigger? Is there a lesson to learn or is the lesson in avoiding them and seeing through them before it’s too late?
This doesn’t mean you need to create ill will between you and another person but you should politely and respectfully distance yourself from and set boundaries with people who bring you more harm than good.
Haz las cosas de corazón
Hay algo que se llama Dharma en la religión hindú.
You’ll find different explanations of what it means but one simply-put explanation is that it’s the life mission of an individual, the thing you do from your soul, your heart.
Algo que te conecte con tu verdadero propósito en esta vida y te ayude a notar los ritmos cósmicos.
Listen to what feels good to you, what inspires you and what you do naturally and follow it all. It doesn’t have to be financially beneficial or particularly useful… just something that makes you fulfilled.
Adoptar medidas positivas
Una de las peores cosas que le puede pasar a cualquiera es quedarse estancado en un punto y ser incapaz de seguir adelante.
It usually comes as a consequence of repeating the same old pattern that doesn’t serve us anymore but we don’t want to see it. It’s a repetitive foolish cycle that needs to be stopped.
Lo único que puede romper este patrón es pasar a la acción, una acción nueva y positiva hacia algo diferente.
Not only that but taking positive action every day, like helping other people when they don’t even ask for it and other good deeds can greatly improve your karmic debt.
There’s a golden rule when it comes to taking action: Don’t do what you don’t want others to do. It’s usually that simple.
Don’t ignore your weaknesses
Todo el mundo tiene sus puntos débiles y sus puntos fuertes. Los puntos fuertes suelen estar relacionados con lo que ya logramos en una vida pasada y los débiles señalan dónde debemos crecer.
In a sense, weaknesses help us get stronger because that’s how we perfect ourself.
All you need is the courage to accept and face your obstacles and that includes contemplating your weaknesses and improving them. That’s where growth lies.
Perdone
Guardar rencor y seguir enfadado con alguien son algunas de las formas de ralentizar tu crecimiento espiritual.
Sometimes we don’t want to admit it but emotions are a big part of every human’s life and they definitely shape our everyday life.
To forgive means to understand that a person who hurt you has their own path and their own karma you don’t understand. Of course, that doesn’t mean you should tolerate bad behavior, just not get attached.
Intenta mirar tus emociones objetivamente, piensa en cómo afectan a tu vida y cómo eso te ayuda o empeora tu vida.
Changing perspective and focusing on yourself and your well-being rather than on the other person is what’s going to lead you to revelation in the end.
Estar presente
Ira, frustración, ansiedad—it all comes from thinking and living in the past or in the future; that’s why it’s important to stay in the present.
To stay in the present means to think about what’s happening at the moment and be mentally there instead of worrying about something we can’t control. The only thing you can control is now.
Esté presente y cuide de sí mismo y de sus pensamientos. Practica algún tipo de alimentación que ayude a tu bienestar.
¿Qué son las relaciones kármicas?
Relaciones kármicas are soul connections with lots of magnetism and passion and all kinds of strong emotions. However, they usually don’t last and often end up ugly.
Son extremadamente difíciles de mantener y su propósito es enseñarte una lección y luego dejarte que le des sentido a las secuelas.
En esencia, son experiencias de aprendizaje realmente intensas por las que casi todas las personas pasan al menos una vez en la vida.
Naturally, because of everything that’s been said, karmic relationships get a bad rap. Nevertheless, if we view them from a higher perspective, it’s clear they’re part of the spiritual process.
When you meet a karmic relationship person, chances are you’ll feel as if something has struck you. You’ll have an uncontrollable urge to go right to them and see what that’s all about.
¿Cómo se manifiesta este tipo de relación?
The thing with a karmic relationship is that you don’t even notice you’re in one. You definitely feel a conexión magnética con alguien and it’s so strong that you don’t question why it happened.
If it’s in the form of a romantic relationship, it’s usually followed by break-ups and get-togethers, lots of fights, and reconciling…
It seems like you can’t live without each other but every time you’re together, you somehow end up irritating each other.
Usually, everyone around you notices that the relationship you’re in is somewhat toxic. You have the feeling like the other person is meant for you, despite the warning signs, and it’s difficult to break up.
However, karmic relationships aren’t just romantic ones. Any kind of relationship can be karmic, including with your friends, your colleagues, your professors, etc.
Desde un punto de vista superior, un relación kármica es algo que acordasteis incluso antes de entrar en esta vida.
Estas relaciones tienen el propósito de ayudarte a ti y a la otra persona a encontrar un camino en vuestra vida actual.
Ultimately, they are just guides and they don’t last long. They’re here to balance something out and even if it seems very dramatic at first, chances are you’ll see it differently after everything settles down.
A veces, debido a su intensidad, la gente confunde a esta persona con un llama gemela or a soulmate but that’s not the case.
Tanto las almas gemelas como las llamas gemelas son muy diferentes de las relaciones kármicas.
A alma gemela es alguien que te entiende a un nivel más profundo, alguien que te quiere incondicionalmente, alguien con quien tienes una relación genuina y sincera, sin malentendidos ni dramas.
Sus mentes están en equilibrio.
While your soulmate is someone who’s made out of the same energy as you, a twin flame is the other half of you.
Por lo tanto, las relaciones entre llamas gemelas son mucho más dinámicas y, a veces, incluso más profundas que los vínculos entre almas gemelas.
Signs you’re in a relación kármica
Banderas rojas desde el primer día
There’s a high chance your karmic partner has shown some unacceptable behavior right from the start of your relationship but you decided to ignore the red flags.
A lot of people do that at the beginning, with people they’re strangely attracted to. Usually, we get a hunch that something isn’t right but choose to ignore it because we’re blinded by passion.
Justifying your partner’s bad behavior
You’re so caught up in this relationship that you turn a blind eye to bad behavior. This doesn’t do anything but lead to bigger problems.
Bad behavior isn’t something that’s just going to vanish, it’s not something that happens ‘only once’. It’s a serious issue that needs to be addressed.
Mucho egoísmo
This one is pretty obvious. If your partner constantly puts their needs before yours, doesn’t listen to you or continues to put you through uncomfortable situations without thinking how you feel, it’s bad news.
Of course, everyone has bad days but if this kind of behavior is regular, then something isn’t right.
Luchas constantes sin soluciones
Las peleas interminables sin solución son una marca registrada de las relaciones kármicas. Sois como las cerillas y el fuego, siempre provocándoos mutuamente por cosas sin importancia.
Las pequeñas cosas causan una gran perturbación y ocurre todo el tiempo.
This behavior isn’t normal; in fact, it’s toxic. The fact that there’s never a solution to the problem means that neither of you wants to find one and there’s something else that’s bothering you.
Defensividad
If you constantly feel like you have to defend yourself, which implies that you feel attacked, it’s clear that something isn’t right.
With a person who genuinely cares for your well-being, you won’t feel attacked. On the contrary, you will feel appreciated, respected and safe.
Inquietud
An emotional roller coaster isn’t exactly normal. There’s a certain appeal when it comes to passionate and strong emotions but in the long run, it just doesn’t work. It makes you feel restless and confused.
When you’re with a person who’s meant for you, you won’t feel restless; you will feel at home. You will feel at peace and safe.
Comportamiento abusivo
When we’re caught up in senseless passion, it’s easy to ignore abusive behavior and brush it off as something unimportant, even when it hurts you physically, mentally or emotionally.
Please, don’t forget that verbal abuse is still abuse. If you’re experiencing any kind of abuse, get out of that relationship because that is not normal, it’s not passion or love; it’s just power play, projections and ego.
And please don’t think that there’s something to learn from abuse, other than it’s not normal and shouldn’t be tolerated.
La necesidad de cambiar
Don’t forget: There’s not one person on this planet who’s perfect. You shouldn’t change yourself for anyone, especially not a person who’s constantly picking on your flaws.
A karmic partner can sometimes trigger lots of insecurity and try to change the other person. That’s how you know it’s not love.
There’s no point in changing everything we are just to feel loved. We should be loved despite our flaws.
Feeling like you’re not good enough as you are
When you’re around your karmic partner, you feel like you need to be better or something you’re simply not.
This is probably because they keep provoking a reaction or putting you down in passive-aggressive or openly patronizing ways. In case you were wondering, this isn’t normal either.
If you feel mentally exhausted every time you spend some time with this person, it’s possible they are not only your karmic lesson but an energy vampire too. Take care of yourself and your energy.
Necesidad malsana
You constantly worry about the other person’s love for you and search for proof they don’t love you or vice versa.
You don’t feel confident on your own but need another person to feel validated. They trigger your insecurity and you constantly need their approval.
This kind of behavior is not healthy and doesn’t help you grow.
Tendencias a conductas adictivas
Para que una relación funcione y sea feliz, tiene que haber comprensión mutua, aceptación de responsabilidades y madurez emocional.
Uno de los temas comunes de las relaciones kármicas es la adicción. Una o ambas personas son adictas a algún tipo de comportamiento destructivo que las mantiene dentro de un bucle tóxico.
If there’s no genuine will to change, this kind of person will always bring you down and you’ll end up stuck in the loop too.
Sacan lo peor de ti
¿Sientes que te has olvidado de tu verdadero yo? ¿Te has convertido en una persona muy negativa e insatisfecha que siempre encuentra algo de lo que quejarse?
Si alguna vez has tenido una pelea con una persona kármica, probablemente hayas experimentado la rabia como nunca antes. Probablemente hubo muchos gritos, maldiciones, agresividad no dirigida, etc.
Las parejas kármicas son, en efecto, las que desencadenan nuestro lado salvaje y agresivo.
That’s probably due to something from a past life that we know nothing about but that does not excuse our actions in present circumstances.
Concluye: Hazlo lo mejor que puedas
Now that we have learned what a karmic cycle is, we know it’s inevitable. There’s just so much we can do to ease our life on earth. Till our last moment here, we’re bound to karma and karmic laws.
It’s important to keep in mind that everything is transient.
That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t care about what we do now but on the contrary, we should make sure to have the best possible experience while it’s happening.
La atención plena requiere disciplina, concentración y buena voluntad. Estas cosas no son fácilmente accesibles cuando la vida te reparte una baraja dura. Sin embargo, ten en cuenta que las cosas malas también pasarán.
Nothing ever stays the same. Remember that your mind doesn’t always tell you the truth. Sometimes it’s fear that talks instead of your true self. Don’t mistake fear for your inner voice.
Al fin y al cabo, la única persona que puede liberarte de las cadenas kármicas eres tú mismo.
Every other person who’s karmically connected to you affects you but can’t control your actions. What people do to you and how they treat you is their karma; how you react to that is yours.
Put out what you want to receive and let go of what you can’t control.
