You could say karma is a self regulating balancing mechanism. I came up with that phrase several weeks ago. Karma is a self regulating balancing mechanism. We live within our own restraints, until we move beyond these creations that we've made for ourselves. Karma in a way assists us in truly seeing what we are creating. That's the whole thing about the self regulating balancing mechanism. We go through that on a personal level and also on a collective level. It goes well beyond this physical form. It goes into all of our other lifetimes combined. All the other lifetimes we've had within existence in one way or another, is tied into this self regulating balancing mechanism. There is no one out there imposing this dis-balance upon us. That's the reason why it says self regulating balancing mechanism. It's because there's no one like say, God, or  some kind of being in existence that is keeping up with the check marks. Good check mark. Bad check mark. Good check mark. Bad check mark. And you have good check, more good check marks and bad check marks. So that overrules the bad check marks and all this other stuff. We, within the levels of our own consciousness, keep up with these things that we have created and experienced and the choices we've made. That's the reason how forgiveness, self forgiveness and so on Is so powerful, because we are essentially are bringing things into harmony and balance. Regarding certain events or actions that we've created and lived. Where we are holding onto energetic imbalance. And how we create the balance out of that imbalance is through love, through forgiveness and acceptance. That's the reason why we have to have other incarnations in other forms to truly learn the reason why we have been living through the same scenario over and over. We live through lifetimes, over lifetimes, sometimes trying to comprehend and truly feel out all of the edges of these different experiences to truly comprehend them. If we don't comprehend why we're doing something or why we do this, this is the outcome and so on. We're continually feeling out and experiencing other things to truly wrap our awareness around these experiences. A lot of people might view karma as a bad thing, but really, it's not a bad thing. It's not bad or good. Bad or good is a dualistic view. It's about becoming aware in order to experience more balance and harmony within ourselves, we have to come to terms with our creations!