{"id":1922,"date":"2016-09-02T20:00:54","date_gmt":"2016-09-03T03:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/?p=1922"},"modified":"2018-04-23T02:59:20","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T09:59:20","slug":"bad-things-happen-to-good-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/bad-things-happen-to-good-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Awakening People: Why Do Bad Things Happen to Good People?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andrea Schulman of Awakening People writes:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Have you ever asked the question \u201cwhy do bad things happen to good people?\u201d Or (even more confusingly) \u201cwhy do good things happen to bad people?\u201d<\/p>\n

Often we just throw our hands up and say \u201clife\u2019s not fair!\u201d<\/p>\n

However, this is an incorrect statement because life indeed is fair.\u00a0 We all create our realities using the same rules as everyone else. It\u2019s just that the rules have nothing to do with being good or bad!<\/p>\n

To understand these rules, the first thing we should keep in mind is that many of us have been raised to believe that good deeds are rewarded and bad deeds are punished. We are programed to believe that if we act as if we are \u201cgood,\u201d good things will happen and if we act \u201cbad,\u201d bad things will happen.<\/p>\n

Now, this type of programming is used to manipulate our actions so that we will behave the way our parents, teachers and governments want us to behave. However, even though our parents, teachers and governments believe that good and bad can be defined and receive consequences, the universe does not.<\/p>\n

The truth is, the universe isn\u2019t punishing or rewarding anyone. Again, I\u2019ll say it again for more effect: the universe isn\u2019t punishing or rewarding anyone.<\/p>\n

The universe is only ever responding to your thoughts through the Law of Attraction. You get what you expect, regardless of how good or bad you are. That\u2019s it. If you expect that \u201cgood\u201d things are going to happen to you, it doesn\u2019t matter if you are mean or nasty.\u00a0 Your expectations will still yield positive results. The same is true in reverse. You may be the nicest, kindest and most helpful person, but if you have negative expectations about how things are going to turn out in life, that is what you will get.<\/p>\n

So, although we have been taught that we should be good and do good by others to get good things, what really matters is what we think will happen to us. This is why we all know a few \u201cbad apples\u201d who have the best luck, and a few \u201cgood apples\u201d who are always getting beat up by life\u2019s circumstances.<\/p>\n

If you don\u2019t believe me, look for evidence in your surroundings. Check out your friends, relatives and coworkers, especially the ones who seem to have especially good or bad luck. You will find that it isn\u2019t how \u201cgood\u201d or \u201cbad\u201d they are that determines their realities, but rather it is their expectations.<\/p>\n

For example, I have a personal friend who is one of the nicest, kindest, and most generous people I know. She\u2019s absolutely wonderful. However, she always seems to be getting sick, she has money problems, relationships issues and problems at work.<\/p>\n

Why does this friend suffer so much? Well, she\u2019s always talking about her bad luck and her problems. She\u2019s always worried about the future. She\u2019s always concerned about how things are going to turn out. Therefore, the universe delivers her a reality that is chock full of bad luck, worry and concern.<\/p>\n

On the opposite side of the spectrum, I think back to a manager I had several years ago who was rude, arrogant and irresponsible. She was hated by just about every member of the staff. However, she was given promotion after promotion, and good things just seemed to drop into her lap.<\/p>\n

Why did this manager do so well? Well, she was always talking about how great she was, and how much everyone loved her and how deserving she was. None of the rest of us agreed, but what we thought was irrelevant because we weren\u2019t the ones creating her reality-she was.<\/p>\n

Now this doesn\u2019t mean that good deeds are irrelevant. For many of us, being kind to others and helping our fellow man helps us feel good and lifts our spirits. If you feel uplifted by helping others, helping others is a great idea-because it makes you feel good about you!\u00a0 Feeling good about you will definitely help you receive good things from the universe.<\/p>\n

Read more HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Andrea Schulman of Awakening People writes: Have you ever asked the question \u201cwhy do bad things happen to good people?\u201d Or (even more confusingly) \u201cwhy do good things happen to bad people?\u201d Often we just throw our hands up and say \u201clife\u2019s not fair!\u201d However, this is an incorrect statement because life indeed is fair.\u00a0…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":1923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[291],"class_list":["post-1922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-consciousness","tag-karma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1924,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922\/revisions\/1924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}