Take a moment right now and think about someone that you hurt. Don’t dismiss this exercise. Truly, take a moment right now and consciously visualize the hurt you have caused someone else.
 
Don’t lie to yourself and pretend that you have not hurt someone. Don’t erase them from this process by you believing that they deserved it or anything like that.
 
Take a moment right now and think about someone that you hurt. Bring what you did to them very consciously into focus.  
 
Now, expand this thought process. Think about other people that you have hurt. Truly, how many people have you hurt? Have there been a lot? What did you do to them?
 
Now, that you have at least some of these examples in your mind, ask yourself, “Why did you hurt them?” Truly work through this. Did you do it consciously? Did you do it because you wanted to hurt them, (for whatever misplaced reason you may have possessed)? Did you do it because you were uncaring or unthinking about their feelings? …Because you just didn’t care if they hurt? Or, did you do it by accident?
 
Again, how many people have you hurt? Have there been a few or a lot?
 
Once you did hurt them, how did that make you feel? Did you feel sorry? Did you feel sad that you hurt them? Did you care at all? Did you feel justified? Did you feel empowered? Did You feel good about yourself? Did you take pride in your ability to hurt that other person? But, more importantly, now that you are taking a conscious note of how you felt, how do you feel about how you felt?   
 
Why do I suggest that you bring these hurtful actions, on your part, into mental focus? Because few people ever think about the pain they cause to others. Certainly, they think about the pain they have felt when someone has hurt them. But, they rarely, if ever, think about the pain they have caused to someone else unless they are reveling in their power over that other individual. And, if someone is operating from that perspective, they are a pretty messed up individual, don’t you think?
 
Okay, now that you have at least some of these hurtful actions in your mind, what does you hurting others, and the reason you did hurt someone else, say about the person that you are? In fact, who are you? What gave you the power or the desire to hurt anyone in the first place? Do you like it when you have been hurt? Probably not. So, this should be a game plan for what you do to others.
 
Now that the “What you’ve done,” is on your mind, think about this. Those people that you have hurt are only those that you are focusing on. Imagine how many other people you have hurt, throughout your life, and you did not even realize that you did hurt them. What is that number?
 
The reason I periodically discuss this subject is that I am frequently questioned from others about why their life is not where they want it to be, why their life did not turn out the way they hoped, why they are encountering negativity in their life, and all of that kind of stuff. My answer is always the same, “Karma.” And, this is something that most people do not want to look at or acknowledge; namely, the actions that they took which created their own karma.

In fact, this is where a lot of people go astray in their system of belief, stating, “I may have hurt that person but I've helped a lot of other people.” That’s not how karma works. You cannot erase your bad karma, instigated from something you have done to hurt one person, by doing something good for someone else.

If you have hurt someone, you have hurt someone. It is as simple as that. If you have not fixed that damage, that damage is forever present in the life of the individual you hurt.  No matter what you reason, logic, or motivation for unleashing that hurt, hurt only does one thing, it hurts. And hurt, if it is not fixed, hurts forever. Thus, your karma is forever sent in a negative direction.
 
Most people never wish to think about any of this. How about you? Most people never want to look at themselves for the true state of their existence. How about you? If you do not chart those you have hurt, if you do not undo that damage, what do you think should be the result to your life?