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| The Ripple Effect | ||||
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| Imagine this scenario. You are driving home after a not so easy day at work. You're tired you're irritable and you know when you get home your day isn't close to being over. You are exhausted and you're thinking about all the things you have to do, maybe the dog needs to go to the veterinarian or your daughter has karate practice. Maybe you haven't had a chance to get the bills out. You haven't even thought about what you are going to do about dinner and you still have the same headache you had this morning from the argument you had with your spouse-you can't wait to get this day over with! So here you are, grinding it out in traffic, annoyed, getting angry and it happens...someone cuts you off! You hit your breaks to avoid hitting him, he speeds away and you are cursing him under your breath really wanting to give him a piece of your mind. You exit on the same exit you've taken home for years but on this day there's a line of orange cones and a road sign. Road construction! Things are just getting worse. So you sit there seemingly forever watching an endless line of snail paced cars when finally the old rattletrap in front of you gets to the intersection. But he doesn't seem like he's in a hurry. What's he waiting for? C'mon! Move it you #%@&!!! But he waits as the cars go by him holding you back from the million things you have to get done before you can go to bed. He's making you late, and now you've had it! You lay into your horn, yelling at him as if he could hear you from your car and as you speed past him you wave to him with your middle finger swiftly extended! | | ||
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| The man you honked at however had an entirely different experience. You see, he had just been let go from his job and emotionally, wasn't doing well. As he sat at that intersection he was thinking about how he was going to pay for his mortgage next month and was brought out of that thought by your honking and middle finger salute. He's a good man, not perfect by any means but usually if someone had given him a hard time on the road he would have ignored it. But not today. All the way home he's thinking about you, and what he'd like to say to you if he saw you again. And by the time he gets home he's really worked himself up. He opens his door to his wife who is angry at him for something he forgot to take care of the day before and that night they get into a huge argument. Between getting fired, his encounter with you, and his wife yelling at him, he loses control and he slaps her across her face. He's never done it before and he immediately realizes what he's done. But it's happened and no matter how many times he says he's sorry, he can't take it back. She holds her burning cheek crying from the pain and the shock and it's with that memory in mind she angrily signs the divorce papers three years later-- long after you forgot about your encounter with the person on your way home from work. An imbalance has been created and whenever this happens, the universe begins working back towards equilibrium. From the Universes perspective that gets the Karma for the misery caused to everyone this divorce effected? Was it the Man who slapped his wife? Yes absolutely. Clearly he carries a huge responsibility as he allowed himself to lose control of himself. Is his wife karmically responsible? Absolutely, that goes without saying. How about the boss who fired him? Possibly. It depends on what his motivation was for firing him. How about that person who drove right up behind him honked their horn and flipped him off on the day he was already completely on edge? Unfortunately the answer for the horn honker too-- is yes who is paid in kind when he or she loses their Christmas Bonus or is passed up for a promotion they worked so hard to get. The horn honker's experience is due to a phenomena called the ripple effect, a karmic phenomena which holds you responsible for "your part" in creation. As the physical world offspring of God, we are all creators of our reality. We create our own personal realities and we also participate in creating the realities of others which ultimately creates the reality that makes up the world we all live in. This is one of the many aspects that make up our interconnectedness with each other. Because of this phenomena it's impossible to exist in the world and not create affect on those we encounter who go on to affect those they encounter, and so on and so on and so on. Your actions words and thoughts have power and most would be surprised at how far reaching they can be. And you are entirely responsible for your part of their effect. The horn honker may not have been fully responsible for the divorce but she did play a part. She's responsible for her part. So what can you do? TAKE CONTROL OF WHAT YOU CREATE. Guard your thoughts, words, and actions when you are dealing with other people. No one can escape the imbalance they create so make the decision today to put out only loving energy, loving words, and loving actions. There is no better argument than the Ripple Effect for developing the habit of practicing kindness and spreading love whenever possible. What you put out there is going to come back to you. So you might as well put out love. God bless you. Yours in Spirit Pamela 33 | | ||
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