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of our thoughts. Everything that we experience in our lives exists because of the Law of Attraction. If we change the frequency and alter our level of consciousness, everything in our “little r” reality will transform.
But even the Law of Attraction has limits.
e Law of Attraction operates within the highest Universal Law, the Law of Karma. e Law of Attraction allows you to manifest
any possible experience by aligning with the vibrational frequency of that
experience. But the Law of Karma determines if an experience is possible in the rst place.
It’s di cult enough to grasp the Law of Karma from the soul’s perspective; it’s impossible to understand it from the human perspective. e Law of Karma doesn’t punish you for your unkind choices. It doesn’t make you late for work because you cut someone o in tra c. And while it’s true that certain events in your life are karmic and therefore unavoidable, and that these karmic experiences are often quite unpleasant, they’re not about what you think they’re about. Karma is not personal. It’s beyond your control, and it’s none of your business.
Karma only shapes the biggest aspects of your life. Fate plays a limited role in your story. Virtually everything else that you experience is up to you. We create our own lives.
And this is where the confusion about free will and choice comes up. If we truly had free will, why would we choose all of the unpleasant, uncomfortable, and
unfortunate experiences in our lives?
We have free will, but it also doesn’t work like that.
Remember that your life isn’t about your personal enjoyment.
Your life is about your soul’s evolution. Everything in your life creates the optimal environment for your soul to experience what it needs to grow.
Free will does not give you the ability to avoid karmic obligations. Free will doesn’t give you
the ability to control, alter, or change the events or circumstances of your life in meaningful or signi cant ways. Free will, in short, does not give you control over
the content of your life.
Free will gives you control over the
context, not the content.
You can’t choose what happens in your story, but you can choose what it means. You can choose whether or not to be happy.
Happiness has nothing to do with the content of your story. Happiness doesn’t depend on appearance. Happiness is not in uenced by external conditions. Happiness comes from within: it’s exclusively a
consequence of your level of consciousness. e higher the vibration of your consciousness, and the more you align with truth rather than reality, the happier you are.
Free will means that in every moment, you are free to choose your thoughts. You are free to choose how you tell your story to yourself. Each time you choose a better-feeling thought, you reach for more truth and
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