What Is Karma And How Does It Work? Part Two: The Calculation

Welcome back to Part Two, Day Two as we attempt to quantify karma. What I call karma, you may call something else. I have heard karma referred to as spirit, universe, god, or maybe you call it something different. What we are aiming for here is to give ourselves a baseline, a spectrum designed around our behavior.

In yesterday’s article, we shared our baseline multipliers with you and today we will share the totality of those calculations. It’s important to remember, as with anything in life, there is a potential positive outcome (+) as well as a negative (-) outcome. There is light in our behavior, and there is dark in our behavior. This is not an exercise in judgement of anyone’s routines or behavior. But you will be surprised how often we are faced with choosing the light, or choosing the dark.

As a refresher, our stages are as follows: The Ego Stage has a baseline multiplier of zero. The Physical/Decision Stage has a multiplier of +1 or -1. The Social Stage has a multiplier of +2 or -2. The Emotional Stage has a multiplier of +3 or -3. The Financial Stage has a multiplier of +4 or -4. The Spiritual Stage naturally should have a multiplier of +5 or -5, right? Wrong!

We are going to measure a years worth of behavior (365). Using our descriptions from yesterday, here are the findings using characters “John” and “Jane”.

When John is in a rough patch, in a funk, and has a bad attitude, he finds himself in the Ego Stage, which has a zero multiplier. 365 x 0 = 0 John finds anything that he does a zero, because anything multiplied by zero = zero. John just thinks bad luck follows him wherever he goes. John’s attitude needs to be more positive. But it’s easy to get stuck.

Jane, on the other hand, practices positivity and even though she has problems, she generally stays positive and practices acceptance. Jane also has an open mind which just by positivity alone, breaks out of the Ego Stage and enters the Physical/Decision Stage which has a multiplier of 1. 365 x 1 = 365.

Jane also has a mentor that she admires. She opens up to the mentor and asks for accountability. This is a massive step for her and scores her a 2x multiplier from the Social Stage. 365 x 2 = 730. Jane meets John and that’s great for John. John opens up to Jane about how he’s feeling, he breaks out of the Ego Stage and begins to emulate Jane’s behavior. They discuss emotional intelligence and together they start a book club. This blasts them both into the Emotional Stage with a 3x multiplier. 365 x 3 = 1,095.

The first book they choose for their newly formed book club is a book about finance that explains how money works. They both stay humble, keep all of their behavior from prior stages, and commit to actively making a couple of changes financially. The Financial Stage has a 4x multiplier. 365 x 4 = 1,460.

John and Jane add a friend to the book club. Let’s call him George. George recommends they read a book that Tony Robbins wrote that’s very inspiring and creates a well-rounded template for daily living. They all commit to being teachable and implementing the new changes they’ve learned.

A couple of weeks go by. They have all been consistently living these changes. They find they are very happy and opportunities seem to be finding them. It almost feels strange so many good things are happening. Our last multiplier took us to 1,460. The trio of book club mates are entering the Spiritual Stage, which multiplies the number they bring into the stage by multiplying it against itself. In this case 1,460 doesn’t get a 5x multiple, it gets 1,460x multiple. 1,460 x 1,460 = 2,131,600.

We are suggesting that living a well-rounded life filled with humility, learning, and positivity…a person has 2,131,600 positive opportunities per year. That breaks down to 177,633 opportunities per month. Further breaking down the time shows us 40,992 per week. Positive opportunities find our positive minds 5,840 per day. 243.33 per hour. 4.05 per minute. And 1 positive opportunity finds us every 15 seconds when we are living a positive, humble, willing life.

The opposite findings are just as powerful. If we are living in a “shadow” state of mind, closed off, having all the answers, and demanding of others, we can just as easily find ourselves in a -2,131,600 situation. The adversarial force works through us. It’s not that we are evil people. It’s simply a matter of attracting like electromagnetic energy associated with our thoughts. If we are going against our intuition, going against our gut, and not being kind and positive, we can attract a negative thought every 15 seconds.

We have all seen people spiral downward in all walks of life. This author was one of those people. Living a -2,131,600 life is painful and experiencing hell at that level of life is extremely hard to break away from.

At a basic level, we are going to attract a positive thought/opportunity every 15 seconds if we are in a positive state of mind…or…we are going to attract a negative thought/opportunity every 15 seconds if we’re negative. Light attracts light (+) and dark attracts dark (-).

Is this karma calculation going to win the Nobel Prize? Probably not. But we hope this starts a larger conversation of exactly how karma might work. The power of the Spiritual Stage multiplier makes the positivity in your life legit and takes the number of opportunities from barely over a thousand, to over two million.

The little things are the big things!

If we stay positive and keep an open mind, we are 1/2 way there already. For a daily template for living, make sure you check out the award winning book Godfidence found here.

For questions, comments, or for additional resources contact Cort@TheHeroAdvocate.com

We will conclude with Part Three tomorrow.