If you experience a situation that really gets you shook up and upset and doubtful about what is actually happening, you may still be growing and moving right along your spiritual path. The best way to determine if this is so is to look for that little feeling of joy somewhere inside, even through the upset and the pain and the anguish. If there is still a part of you that says, “It’s okay because I’m
learning and growing,” then you are probably clearing a karmic situation.
– John-Roger (From: The Journey of a Soul, p. 34)
And there may be other times when you are upset and shook up and you will know you are not growing or learning.
At these times, you are not releasing or clearing karma; you are just going through things that you have promoted, and you will probably add to the original upset the judgment of being disturbed and upset with yourself for creating the situation. Then you will get to handle that later. Even if you are involved in a situation that is not a situation of karmic release, do not judge yourself or put yourself down. Just go through it, get out the other side as rapidly as possible, and go on. Don’t look back; it doesn’t help. Don’t burden yourself down with guilt and remorse that you are going to have to handle later. Just let it go.
When a situation is a karmic release manifesting itself, you will feel, within all your nervous irritation, a calmness. In all of your imbalance, you will feel a balance. This is not double-talk, as much as it might sound like it. It is more of a description of what is happening simultaneously on two levels of your consciousness. One level is ranting and raving and screaming, and the other level is saying, “Go ahead, get it out of your system so you can move on. You let it build up; now clear the air. Put everything right while you have the chance. Finish it up so we can move ahead.”
If you experience a situation
