A viewer asks: “My question is regarding my nose: I have always been insecure about it and have never truly felt comfortable with my face as a result, even though I know I am beautiful and others think so as well. I want to know if getting surgery such as rhinoplasty is bad and will it affect my karma? There are many good surgeons out there and many people I know who have had it done and are happy. But I am worried it will change my face and also worried about the karmic consequences.” What can we tell her?

We appreciate your consideration of these concerns, as few people have as much awareness of the consequences of actions being many times of a long-term and unexpected nature and may boomerang to haunt a person if they make a karmic misstep. So you are wise to reflect on your choices. It can be stated as a general rule that adulteration of the body in any way is a karmic misstep. This is why people have often said that "the body is my temple" and they choose to not defile it with actions involving vices like overindulgence, harmful habits like drinking, smoking, and so forth. Although not appreciated as such, cosmetic surgery is a kind of defilement. There are mitigating circumstances as with all such maneuvers. For example, correction of a birth defect that helps a person become acceptable in public is an alteration but it is also a correction of another alteration that is deleterious to well-being, happiness, and the karmic future of the person to leave in place and suffer when one might be able to improve things. We must leave this to you because we cannot be leading, to judge whether your nose is that huge a liability to count as a disfigurement that is hindering your life options. That is not what you are describing, but something of a more minor sort, such that you can be beautiful in spite of it. To feel this as a burden, is a healing opportunity of a different sort, having to do with your self-image and confidence. There are karmic roots for that already deeply entrenched and this is more a consequence of having been facially disfigured in a prior lifetime and lived in shame under the onus of that scarring for many years. That old trauma has not yet been resolved, but can be, through use of the Lightworker Healing Protocol and DSMR protocols. To focus on that as an issue for your wish list would be very worth doing, because it is noninvasive will accomplish healing and bring benefits regardless of what you ultimately decide about your nose and whether you need to do something to change it. We know it will help your inner disquiet about appearance. If you look into the literature on plastic surgery, there are numerous accounts of people desperate to have surgical correction of their facial features who may undergo multiple procedures but are never ever satisfied with the results and may keep going with operation after operation, aided and abetted many times by indulgent surgeons willing to take the fee and let the client take the responsibility for the outcome, when all along, the problems are not so severe many times, but inner stirrings from karmic history make a person believe they are ugly and no one can talk them out of it. So, with a karmic underpinning of dissatisfaction, to not address that but turn to something as a physical expedient, like rhinoplasty, might compound the karmic damage already present. This is why we suggest caution and to give divine healing a chance to reach a new level of comfort with your current status. As a general policy, we are not in favor of surgical alteration of the body because this is not part of Creator's plan, but rather to rely on divine assistance for what ails you. We do understand you are in a cultural milieu where such things are commonplace and well-accepted.