A karmic complex is a term coined by the late past life regressionist Roger Woolger. He used this term to describe a wound located in the subtle energy bodies, that had its origins in a past life trauma. (These past life wounds are usually taken from one lifetime to the next, until they are fully resolved.) Surrounding the wound are negative thoughts, feelings, impulses, behaviours and attitudes. 

To give an example of how a karmic complex can look: let’s say that someone is trying to manifest more prosperity in their life. However, when they take actions in the physical realm to earn more money, they find themselves procrastinating and unable to follow through on their plans. 

This example is a real one, belonging to a client I read for who allowed me to share her past life story in this blog post. 

To give a quick summary of the past life story… 

…She had a lifetime in Turkey during the 1400s, and witnessed what we believe was probably the fall of Constantinople. In that life, her family lost their business and home overnight, that they had spent generations building and developing.

The conclusion the soul made as a result of this trauma was “there’s no point achieving things in life, because they can be taken away overnight.” 

As a result, this client did just enough (in terms of work) to survive, but she couldn’t seem to invest beyond that point or get beyond a certain income level. She believed that maybe she wasn’t applying herself enough, but when I tuned in to her akashic soul record and identified the karmic complex, the situation was that her past life self from that lifetime was unintegrated, and influencing her in a variety of ways that translated to behaviours and a mindset that were stopping her from achieving her goals. 

Karmic complexes are the number one reason people struggle to manifest their desired intentions and create change in their lives. 

This is because we manifest our lives according to the entire contents of our energetic field, and so when we have a karmic complex, we are manifesting according to that, as well, since it can be found in our energy field. 

Karmic complexes can be quite difficult to resolve…

…unless you choose your healing modality carefully and strategically. 

Many healing modalities out there do not fully clear karmic complexes — most make a dent in a complex and weaken it, or give insight into the karmic complex. 

However, karmic complexes can be cleared fully, and this is something my Evolutionary Manifesting reading modality is designed to help with. 

This reading modality enables practitioners to identify and describe karmic complexes in detail for people, and also gives info on how the complex is currently manifesting in a person’s life. And it provides guidance on the best way to clear any given karmic complex. 

It isn’t a healing modality as such – more of a reading modality that will provide a complete roadmap to reaching a goal or manifesting an intention and that almost always involves identifying and clearing a karmic complex. 

(I have a course, which teaches students to read for themselves and others in this way, and I also offer Evolutionary Manifesting readings here.)

One of the questions that I have had in the course of working with Evolutionary Manifesting clients is:

How can I know when I have resolved my karmic complex?

Here are some signs you have successfully resolved a karmic complex.

1. Your life has changed

Here is what I have seen, for myself and for others, as a result of clearing a karmic complex:

• Improvement and resolution of health conditions that conventional medicine says will not resolve
• Meeting a new partner and finding yourself in a new, healthy relationship with a high level of compatibility 
• Improvement in a significant relationship (or an end to one or more toxic relationships)
• A positive change of location
• A significant change/improvement in lifestyle
• A positive financial change. 

It’s important to note that this is not about waving a magic wand, and there are no shortcuts — it takes work to overcome a karmic complex. 

The two modalities I recommend for resolving a karmic complex are (1) revision and (2) past life regression, in particular a form of regression called Deep Memory Process. Both of these can involve an investment of effort and time, and sometimes a financial investment (for Deep Memory Process, although revision is a DIY process.)

The scope of the improvements one sees following the resolution of a karmic complex will also depend on the severity of the complex that one resolves, and potentially, the number of karmic complexes that one has resolved. 

I saw amazing results because I had multiple karmic complexes active and I resolved them. 

So, sometimes people can have multiple karmic complexes active, affecting them in more than one life area (this was the case for me.) Other times a person can have a minor karmic complex active, affecting them in just one life area. In the latter scenario, the results of resolving the complex may be less dramatic. 

It’s also worth bearing in mind that resolving a significant karmic complex will  most likely change your life. People who want to maintain the status quo wouldn’t want to engage in this kind of work. 

Let’s have a look at the second sign that you have resolved a karmic complex:

2. Your inner life has changed 

Karmic complexes are reflected firstly and primarily in our inner lives, in the form of thoughts, feelings, impulses and attitudes. 

Then these internal dynamics are reflected in the external world, taking shape in external circumstances and relationship dynamics. 

As within, so without. 

When someone resolves a karmic complex, it inevitably and primarily results in a change in what we are feeling and thinking. The thoughts, attitudes and feelings connected to the complex dissipate and lose their charge. 

To give an example, if someone has a karmic complex connected to worthiness, when the complex is resolved, their self-concept and self-esteem will improve. Such a person may find themselves letting go of relationships or relationship dynamics where they are not valued, and asking for something better. They may also find themselves asking for more or for something better in the area of work or location.

3. Your vitality levels have changed for the better

Some karmic complexes are minor, and some are severe (and many are in between those two extremes.)

For those karmic complexes which are severe, there is usually going to be an improvement in vitality once the complex is resolved.

This is because karmic complexes are inherently draining. When they are severe, they involve energetically draining elements, such as soul loss, and energy body leakage. 

Since we manifest in our external world the contents of our energetic field, we will also be manifesting according to our karmic complex, and this can bring draining relationships and situations into our lives. 

People with multiple karmic complexes or a severe complex active will often find themselves lacking in energy for this reason. 

4. Your soul is now on a different trajectory…

…And the content of your future lifetime here on earth will be different from now on. 

This is not something we can easily ascertain when we have resolved a severe (or multiple) karmic complex, since we are not in the future yet!

However, we will usually get a sense that we are on a different trajectory, because what we are seeing in our external world has shifted, and if we resolve multiple complexes, we may even feel that we are somehow in a different lifetime. 

As mentioned, we don’t just manifest our lives according to what we intend and desire, we also manifest according to what we fear and according to the traumas that live within our energy fields, including the past life ones.

As souls, we keep living the same negative stories over and over, until we resolve them. For example, if we have a poverty story of “I don’t deserve to have enough”, it will manifest in our life circumstances over and over. Not every lifetime will look the same, but it will be a feature of our lifetimes in some way. 

It can take anything from between 1 and 25 lives to overcome a karmic complex. I’ve seen souls resolve complexes from their most recent lifetime and I’ve also seen karmic complexes that are very ancient and still unresolved.

If a complex is ancient, over time we do tend to ‘downgrade’ it naturally, but it’s better if we can resolve it completely, so that we can move on fully from the negative pattern in question, and experience something different going forward.

That is the amazing thing about clearing a karmic complex — in the end, it’s not just about being free to finally manifest what we desire, but it’s also about changing the trajectory of our future as a soul, so that we are less bogged down by karmic patterns and one step closer to getting off the karmic wheel.  

Further reading on karmic complexes:

• My series of articles on this topic, which starts here (follow the links at the end of each article to the next one)