You’re Not Being Punished. That’s Not How Karma Works.
Most people hear the word “karma” and picture cosmic revenge.
You cheat, you get cheated.
You hurt, you get hurt.
You fail, you deserve it.
Cute idea.
Also wrong.
Let’s straighten this out before your guilt rots into superstition.
Karma Isn’t a Cosmic Scoreboard
Alan Watts said it best:
“Karma is not the law of punishment. It’s the law of cause and effect.”
In other words, karma isn’t some invisible referee waiting to penalize you for stepping out of line. It’s just momentum. Consequence. Echo. Like throwing a rock in a still pond, not “justice,” just physics.
Your thoughts, emotions, and actions ripple out. They shape your perception, your reactions, your future moments.
No judgment. No morality. Just patterns playing out.
You Are Not a Sinner. You’re a System
Think of yourself not as a “soul in a body,” but as a process.
A system of reactions.
A series of impulses, feedback loops, expectations, fears, assumptions.
What you call “your life” is the net result of how that system keeps looping back on itself. Every disappointment, every anxiety, every victory, is karma. Not retribution. Repetition.
So when life feels heavy, it’s not because you’re cursed. It’s because you haven’t seen the loop yet.
🧠 Add this to your daily practice:
link: The Five-Minute Journal
Spend 5 minutes a day tracing your emotional loops. You'll start seeing where you're reacting on autopilot, and where your karma begins.
You Can’t “Fix” Karma, But You Can Stop Believing It’s Personal
Watts compares your mind to a wheel spinning so fast you can’t see the spokes. But once you slow it down, by watching, observing, not judging, the spokes come into view. So does the pattern.
You don’t stop the karma by forcing the wheel.
You stop it by seeing the wheel.
Want to actually reset your internal rhythm?
🛏️ Ground yourself physically:
Link: Weighted Blanket
Overthinking keeps the wheel spinning. A good night’s rest is a hard reset on your nervous system. Wake up calmer, clearer, less caught.
You’re Not Here to Win. You’re Here to Witness
Here’s the twist:
The “you” who thinks it’s controlling everything? That’s part of the loop.
It’s your ego trying to game the system.
But the more you try to dominate your karma, the deeper it wraps around you.
Watts’ core insight:
“The game is not to beat karma. It’s to wake up from the illusion that you’re separate from it.”
Let that land.
🧘♂️ Shift your sensory environment:
Link: Aromatherapy Diffuser + Essential Oils
Scent bypasses logic. It grounds you. And sometimes you don’t need another thought, you need a new vibe.
You Don’t Need a Plan. You Need Awareness.
This isn’t about fixing your past. Or predicting your future.
It’s about clarity.
It’s about seeing the movie you’re stuck in, the roles you keep playing, and realizing the screen isn’t judging you.
Karma is not punishment.
Karma is programming.
And the moment you become aware of the script, you can choose whether to keep acting it out.
That’s the only freedom that matters.
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