Ending Karmic Relationships: The Eagle & the Mouse

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Ending Karmic Relationships:
The Eagle and the Mouse
By Linda Lubin
Wednesday, July 27, 2011

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Raise your hand if you are a bit worn out from all the endings in your life.

I see lots of hands up

I've written about this many times, as it is a theme for most all of us who are on a path of awakening. And of course it is also true for most who are not on this path, the only difference being that they do not realize why it is happening.

It has taken me years of unpacking the layers of meaning in all of this letting go, and I want now to share with you a particularly important layer that may help you to reframe what you are going through as you shed, and shed, and shed so much in your life.

This layer of meaning primarily has to do with relationships. In choosing to incarnate at this time of planetary awakening, many of us chose to move onto the path of spiritual mastery. We know we may not achieve it in this lifetime, but we also know that the energy on the planet at this time will give us the opportunity to take a quantum leap forward.

One of the main ways of moving onto this path and staying on it involves releasing karmic contracts. Before we came into this life we made contracts with many individuals with whom we have had past lives. Often these are individuals who we have been with scores, even hundreds of times. The karma between us keeps magnetizing us back together to repeat the same cycles of drama in lifetime after lifetime. This time however, we knew we'd be given the opportunity to wake up, and to see the karma for what it is, and to then release ourselves from it.

In order to move forward on the path of spiritual mastery, we know that we must let go. All cords and contracts must be dissolved. Therefore you may find one or more core relationships are now ending (or have ended in the last three years), or you many have many relationships that are coming to a close. Some end naturally and organically with little fuss - someone just gracefully exits from your life with no drama on either side. And others end with great pain, grief, and sometimes acrimony. Either way it's getting you where you need to go. While no one likes to suffer, most of us do find that some of these endings involve a great deal of suffering.

I want to make clear that this does not mean we are ending all contact with others, or all relationships in general. It is the ending of those karmically based relationships where this is playing out. Eventually we find that people who we do not have this history with will begin to move into our lives and our relationships with them will have a very different tone. We are still human, so these relationships won't be perfect or idealistic. However they can be much cleaner and less fraught than the ones we are leaving.

What I am saying here applies to all kinds of relationships: marriages and partnerships, yes, but also siblings, parents, children, friends, neighbors, coworkers, even the person who cuts your hair!

When we have been together with an individual from lifetime through lifetime, we find it hard to let go. Sometimes what happens is this: we contract to come together, things go very well for a time, and then they go badly. When this happens, it may be that we have contracted with this person to have them behave in a way that coaxes us to move out of their orbit.

Depending on the nature of the relationship, things may then eventually shift so that you can comfortably - and even lovingly - remain connected to this person, though you no longer need them. You feel released from the relationship, because you have dissolved the karma. Other times this will not be possible and you will need to let go completely.

I have seen this played out in my own life over and over and over. It has been playing out yet again with one person who I have had endless lifetimes with. I wouldn't be surprised if I've had more lifetimes with this one person than anyone else. [Oh no! Now everyone reading this who knows me personally will be wondering ... "is she talking about me?? Will the real karma dude or dudette please stand up:)] Yet as I pull myself up to the "eagle eye perspective" I can see the landscape on which this "drama" is unfolding and it all makes sense in a way that it doesn't at all if I'm just the mouse on the ground.

If you try doing the same, you may find yourself having an easier time of it. Imagine the drama unfolding on the stage of an amphitheater. You are near the stage, totally immersed in the acting. You get up and move further back, and begin to feel a little bit of detachment. You keep moving back until you get to the back row where the people around you are more engrossed in their snack food than in the play. You see it's just a play, not real at all. However, if you still feel a tightness in your chest, then see yourself rising up and up into the sky until you are floating over the scene. Now you get it. Now you see the stage, and the actors, and the props, the lighting, the makeup. You see what's going on backstage. The drama now becomes merely entertaining or at least interesting. But it doesn't trap you into it's energy. You are free now. You can fly, soar, and float. Spread your wings. Become the eagle.



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