driving in traffic, and physically become more stressed, you’re flooding your body with stress hormones.
Subconsciously all of your decisions will filter through this stressed-out state. You’ll be, deep within you, acting for the benefit of your temporary survival (literally, that is how your brain is thinking about it on a deep level), rather than for what you actually consciously want and deserve.
Our beliefs influence our physiology, and our physiology influences our actions and decisions. It all forms this karmic sequence of our beliefs and actions coming back around for each other.
This is why our “commute,” in whatever form it may take, is crucial for setting our karmic state. I habitually walk with my dog before starting my workday, and this sets me into a parasympathetic mindset, where I’m relaxed and primed to enter a flow state without unnecessary stress. Most importantly, though, this allows my decisions to be filtered through a mindset of abundance and confidence, rather than scarcity and stress.
As another example, consider the athlete who’s at the top of their game. What separates them often isn’t an actual physical advantage. After all, two weeks before, they were physically more or less the same person. The difference may lie in that they’re not as stressed about messing up, or losing their spot, and this leads to unencumbered, confident play.
In every area of life, our actions are guided by our physical state, which responds to everything from small shifts in our routines, to our deepest held, subconscious beliefs.
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One liberating aspect of this is that we can change our physiology fairly easily. Getting sunlight, meditating, going for a walk can all shift us into relaxation, which will help us make better decisions.
On a deeper level, though, we want to work to uncover what those deep-seeded beliefs are, because those influence us constantly, and form the foundation of the karmic wheel of our life.
Karma Photo Credit Patrick Schatz