Step-by-Step Guide to Cleaning Your Karma

(Without Getting Lost in Spiritual Gymnastics)**

Karma isn’t cleaned by rituals, incense, or cosmic loopholes. It’s cleaned by taking responsibility for the way you move through the world. Here’s a direct process that works.

1. Audit Your Regard

Ask yourself:

• Who do I resent?

• Who do I judge quickly?

• Who triggers my defensiveness?

• Who do I treat with less fairness than I expect from them?

Awareness is the doorway to alignment.

2. Repair Your Posture Toward Yourself

You can’t extend healthy regard outward if you’re shrinking inward.

Start with:

• Stop talking to yourself like you’re the problem.

• Reinforce one long-avoided boundary.

• yourself that over-functioning is not noble—it’s self-abandoning.

3. Close the Open Tabs

Karmic clutter thrives in unresolved situations.

List what needs closure:

• someone you hurt,

• someone you owe clarity,

• someone you still blame,

• someone you withdrew from without explanation.

You don’t need to resolve everything. Choose one. Start there.

4. Clean Your Intentions

Before acting, ask:

• Am I trying to understand or win?

• Connect or control?

• Speak truth or punish?

Clean motives create clean outcomes.

5. Repair What Needs Repairing

No theatrics necessary. Use grounded language:

• “I handled that poorly.”

• “I’d like to clarify something.”

• “Here’s why I pulled away.”

• “Thank you for your patience back then.”

Repair means restoring truth, not chasing forgiveness.

6. Let the Rest Go

Once your part is clean:

• release their reaction,

• release the story,

• release the need to be understood.

Your integrity is the closure.

7. Upgrade Your Everyday Regard

Karma is built through habit.

For the next 30 days:

assume good intent unless proven otherwise,

• slow your responses,

• treat people with dignity—especially when stressed,

• do one conscious act of kindness per day.

8. Keep Your Side of the Street Clean

Missteps are inevitable. What matters is correction.

When you slip:

• acknowledge it,

• repair it,

• move forward without self-punishment.

Consistency, not perfection, clears karma.

9. Choose a Future You’re Proud to Receive

Your actions are seeds. They grow into the world you’ll eventually live in.

• “If this version of me multiplied into the world, would I be proud of the world I’m helping create?”

If yes—keep going.

If no—adjust. The universe gives enormous grace to those who realign.

Written by Shanda L Kaus RN

December 4, 2025