Understanding Karma: Your Pathway to Healing, Forgiveness, and Freedom (The UNDERSTANDING Series)

On our journey through life, or through lifetimes, we accumulate Karma—both good and less-good. This is part of being human. “Earth School” as it is sometimes referred to is about learning. We (our souls) are here to engage with life in a way that we grow, so that the collective can also grow.

Life, however, can get messy in all the (very) human ways. Sometimes we behave kindly and sometimes we don’t. Sometimes we receive things that hurt, and sometimes we receive things that heal. Throughout our life, we are both recipient and perpetrator.

By understanding Karma and how we can engage with it on a regular basis, we get to have an impact on how often the good outweighs the less-good. We get to choose how we show up for ourselves and others, which is the best gift we can both give and receive.

Martina E. Faulkner is a cross-genre author whose work focuses primarily on exploring what it means to be human, both the unique and the universal. She holds a trifecta in the mental health/healing world as a therapist, certified life coach, and Reiki Master Teacher. This distinctive background allows her to draw on her professional and personal experience in her writing, whether fiction, nonfiction, or poetry.A self-proclaimed Anglophile, Martina drinks tea daily, loves walks in nature, and enjoys looking at beautiful images from the British Isles while dreaming up her next book. You can read her regular column ('Unique and Universal') on Substack, follow her on Instagram and Facebook @martinaefaulkner, or visit martinaefaulkner.com.As a children's author Martina's debut children's book (When the World Went Quiet) was given as a gift to Sir David Attenborough, who referred to it as "charming."