Law of attraction versus Karma

While visualizations for manifestations do work, they are largely influenced by subconscious programming which is "karma". For many people visualizations are for manifesting material things; they overlook the spiritual lessons they must learn.

Karma can also be called "memories that are stored in our cells and DNA". So, very often we do end up manifesting things in our life because they are so deeply programmed into our subconscious minds, we do not even know these things are part of our programming. These things can be "wanted" or "unwanted" “pleasant” or “unpleasant”.

Very often people turn to manifesting by visualizations and affirmations when things they do not want or unpleasant things start to materialise in their experience.

Cleaning out karmic patterns is a complex job, and there are some parts of karma that we can easily change and some parts of karma that we just cannot escape from, we have to live it out or, bear the consequences of.  The easy to change parts of our programming are not so deeply ingrained into our minds and our cells. They do not have too much emotional charge. The difficult to change parts of our programming or karma are the patterns that have great emotional charge and are deeply ingrained into our DNA and our cell memories.

So, for example, if it is in your karma that you will be humiliated by a person, then, even though you have spent your time being a nice person, respectful of others, manifesting your fortunes, your dream house, etc, there WILL come a time when you will be subjected to some kind of an insult or humiliation, at that point, what matters is how you choose to deal with that situation. Maybe you chose to be in a situation that called for you being humiliated because you wanted to learn to forgive, you might not recall that consciously but your subconscious mind remembers. Maybe you had already been in that situation before but you reacted in a way that only caused you to feel resentment and anger and rage and want revenge, and thus that desire took hold in your mind and became part of your karma. Now, when you are in a similar situation, your past programming WILL come into play, and at this point, you require great strength of mind and will to change the way you react. You may initially feel all the emotions of resentment and anger and revenge, but it is up to you to act on it, or let it go. This is what can be called “free-will”. You are free to choose your karma. Acting out of past memories, reacting in a way you did in the past, giving in to your anger and rage would be like not learning your lesson. And that situation will again play out in your life, until you choose another way of dealing with it, by choosing to change your actions in that situation.

Another example:  if it is in your karma to live the life of a handicapped person, then that handicap will manifest in your life, and you will have to deal with it. You may choose to curse destiny and god, or you may choose to ask to understand, forgive and heal. Whatever you choose and meditate upon and visualize and affirm, will then manifest in your life. It is also important at this time that you do learn something from the situation that has manifested in your life. A lesson once learnt is rarely forgotten.

If you choose to berate people and feel victimised, more such situations will manifest, if you choose to forgive and be healed, then that will manifest in your life.  The memory of that situation will be erased, and the emotional charge will go, and that will be replaced by another memory or be part of the “void”, or the zero state from where we all originated.

Very often people go on thinking the same thoughts over and over again, without realising that they are doing so, they do not learn to change their thoughts and thus their karma.

I think the two are totally interlinked. Law of attraction works mainly on the sub-conscious thoughts, and karma is part of the sub-conscious mind. Majority of people live their lives out of sub-conscious programming, karma. There are some things that you can change easily and some that only a higher power can change for you, but the desire to change MUST come from the conscious mind. Once that happens, a person turns to methods that can be used to change their programming or karma. These methods can be, using affirmations, Sanskrit mantras, pujas, japas, EFT, visualizations, meditations, subliminal programming etc.