Carmen Harra – The Karma Queen
A town with no electricity and no running water seems like the least likely place to birth to a star. But Carmen Harra started dreaming of the world outside her small village of Transylvania, Romania at a young age. As fate would have it, an otherworldly accident endowed Carmen with a gift that would carry her far beyond her modest birthplace… even far beyond this world.
For over 25 years, “The Karma Queen” Dr. Carmen Harra has helped people from all walks of life as a renowned intuitive psychologist, best-selling author, relationship expert, and radio show host. Today she reveals her fascinating story, shares the secrets to better relationships, and explains how we can resolve our karma to experience greater joy.
Dr. Carmen Harra is a world-renowned intuitive psychologist, best-selling author, radio show host, and relationship expert. In the past 25 years, Carmen has helped over 40,000 people rediscover peace of mind, reclaim personal power, and regain joy. Her clients include people from all walks of life, from the lady next door to Hollywood celebrities and eminent politicians. Carmen uniquely combines the normal with the paranormal to deliver powerful positive change: tried and tested cognitive therapy coupled with the ancient arts of numerology, mediumship, and incredible intuition.
Carmen has been featured in such publications as The New York Times, New York Post, and New York Daily News, and on shows like Good Morning America, The View, Good Day New York, the Today show, and many more.
She’s the author of international best-sellers like Everyday Karma, Decoding Your Destiny, The Eleven Eternal Principles, and Wholeliness, among others. Her seventh book, The Karma Queens’ Guide to Relationships, was released by Penguin Books, and she’s now working on her eighth book all about commitment! Carmen has also hosted call-in shows on Hay House Radio, WOR Radio, and WABC Radio. She currently hosts a popular weekly show called Miracle Guidance for Everyday Life every Tuesday on OMTimes Radio.
An Interview with Carmen Harra, the Karma Queen
OMTIMES: You’ve been working as an intuitive psychologist for many years. How did you discover you were intuitive?
CARMEN HARRA: I gained my intuitive abilities when I was five years old. I was born and raised in the beautiful countryside of Transylvania, Romania. One spring day, my family took me on a picnic by the river. My childlike curiosity made me wonder to the riverbank, where I lost my footing and slipped into the icy water. The current carried me away, and since I didn’t know how to swim, my body started sinking. I remember seeing a flash of bright light and looking back upon my sinking body as I ascended. The bright light consumed me, and suddenly, I emerged into a picturesque valley of green and flowers. I heard serene music, and all panic left me; I felt only pleasure being in this splendid place. Several familiar figures were beckoning me towards them, but I don’t know who they were; I just knew that I knew them. Then I was reeled back to the physical world and woke up with my father kneeling over me, sopping wet and trying to resuscitate me.
Life was never the same after this event; I became like an open portal for energy. I started picking up things, sensing things to come. One day my father walked in during the middle of my class at school, and before he could open his mouth to speak, I blurted out, “You’re here because grandpa died!” I had no idea how I knew the things I knew, but they kept coming. As I grew, I grew to revere my abilities. I became fascinated by all matters spiritual. I constantly took out books from the library on numerology, karma, Kaballah, mediumship, and ancient teachings, trying to learn as much as I could.
OMTIMES: How did you come to be known as “The Karma Queen”?
CARMEN HARRA: In my youth, I was a famous singer in Romania. But after I came to America on a singing tour, I knew it was time to reinvent my career and work with what came to me most naturally: my intuition. So I started offering intuitive counseling sessions to clients in New York City, incorporating everything I had learned about the philosophy of karma. Word spread quickly. It was a fairly untouched topic at that time, and I enjoyed tremendous success with my first book, Everyday Karma, published in 2002. I started appearing on TV shows like The View, Good Morning America, and the Today show. I was also featured in such magazines as The New York Times and New York Daily News, with New York Post naming me “The Karma Queen” when referring to my work.
OMTIMES: What is karma, really?
CARMEN HARRA: Karma is so much more than “what goes around comes around.” It is the accumulation of our thoughts, intentions, and actions. In many ways, it is memory imprinted into the soul. So there exists good karma just as much as there exists bad karma. Karma carries over from lifetime to lifetime, like a suitcase we carry with us every time we reincarnate. Only unlike luggage at the airport, it never gets lost! If you want to lighten your load and experience greater joy, you have to be curious and courageous enough to open that suitcase (painful as that may be), sort through its contents, and get rid of what you don’t need—particularly patterns that might corrode your relationships.
OMTIMES: Can you tell us a little bit about your last book, The Karma Queens’ Guide to Relationships?
CARMEN HARRA: The Karma Queens’ Guide to Relationships teaches readers how mastering their personal karma will help them navigate through relationships. It demonstrates how karma affects our human bonds as well as the different kinds of karmic relationships we all experience. Often when a relationship is marked by constant ups and downs or stirs up mixed emotions, we say that it’s “complicated.” But in reality, it’s just karmic! Karmic relationships can be quite intense, as the memory of prior lives is playing out again.
But as my book explains, this is not the only type of relationship we encounter. There are four types of relationships in total: karmic, compromise, transitory, and soulmate. Not all relationships are created equal; different partners come into our lives for different reasons. I believe that understanding the kind of your relationship you’re in is crucial to your wellbeing and reinforces your free will. We all want to be in a soulmate relationship, of course, and my book also shows how to attract and recognize soulful unions.
OMTIMES: What can we do to resolve our karma, and how will this reflect in our lives?
CARMEN HARRA: By healing your karma, you will heal your life. You will experience peace of mind and a deeper understanding of all situations in your life. The only way to resolve karma is to go back and close open doors. This requires action, namely, forgiveness. When we forgive, we detach from bitterness, anger, resentment, and other negative emotions that keep us stagnant and dissatisfied. Resolving karma is a combination of introspection and action. It means telling the ex-partner who hurt you that you forgive him or her, for example. It entails doing things more mindfully than in the past to produce better results—breaking out of karmic cycles by breaking habits and behaviors that have kept you stuck in an unhappy place, job, relationship, or home.
Our karma stays with us until we address and correct it. Our spiritual goal is to liberate ourselves from any outstanding negative karma. It’s all outlined in our karmic contract, which we signed as souls on the other side before reentering the physical world. We forget this contract once our soul enters a body and must rediscover its contents the harder way: through experience.
Working through karma can be very onerous. Clearing old karma can take a long time. Think about clearing the contents of a very old house in which you’ve lived your entire life—there will be ancient stashes of stuff you long forgot you even had. But coming across old photographs and clothes and trinkets will bring back submerged memories and an understanding of how far you’ve come since then. That’s what digging through your karmic suitcase does: it makes you aware of what you’ve worked on and what still requires work. Patience with the process is essential. If you give up quickly out of frustration, you’re just going to end up dealing with the same issues, only in a new relationship. But when you push through and make progress, ah! Then you feel yourself being liberated. You feel yourself mastering your karma, and there is no feeling more powerful than knowing you are in control of your circumstances.
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