In life, it’s inevitable to face setbacks and low points. When luck turns sour, everything may seem to go wrong—opportunities slip away, and one misfortune follows another. But what are the signs of bad luck? How can you shift your fortune and turn misfortune into blessings? This article explores the common causes of poor luck, identifies early warning signs of declining fortune, and shares 6 powerful methods to increase luck, eliminate misfortune, and welcome a smoother, more auspicious life.
5 Major Reasons Why Luck Turns Bad
Why do some people live smoothly and successfully, while others frequently face difficulties and misfortunes?
In truth, luck isn’t purely random—it’s deeply related to one’s mindset, energy, and actions. Below are five key factors that often affect your fortune:
Reason 1: Lack of Positive Energy
One’s luck is closely linked to their inner energy. When positive energy is depleted, it can lead to imbalances in body and mind—resulting in fatigue, illness, and persistent negative emotions like depression, anxiety, and irritability.
These conditions weaken your energy further, lower your quality of life, and strain relationships—inviting bad luck, such as frequent mistakes at work, missed opportunities, or unexpected setbacks at critical moments.
Reason 2: Negativity and Lack of Discipline
Your mindset and habits shape your destiny. People who procrastinate, act lazily, or easily give up tend to burn through their energy quickly. If they also lack self-discipline and become easily distracted, they’ll often fail to accomplish goals and miss valuable chances—leading to a cycle of chaos, frustration, and dwindling luck.
Reason 3: Lack of Accumulated Merits
Good fortune often comes from the merits we accumulate through virtuous deeds. A life focused only on short-term gain, lacking generosity or compassion, weakens future blessings. Those with little merit may make poor choices at critical times—choosing the wrong academic path, missing career breaks, or facing turbulent relationships.
Reason 4: Karmic Debt and Ancestral Influence
According to karmic law, your current fate may be shaped by past-life actions—or inherited from your ancestors. Grandmaster JinBodhi has explained that good and bad deeds leave imprints in your DNA, influencing personality, health, and fortune for generations.
If life feels plagued by constant obstacles or bad health, it may be a sign of ancestral karma or inherited karmic debt.
Reason 5: External Environmental Factors (Feng Shui, Astrological Timing, etc.)
Beyond internal causes, external influences like poor Feng Shui or unfavorable astrological cycles (such as the clash with your zodiac year or the Tai Sui God) can drain your energy and destabilize your life. Curses or dark intentions from others may also affect your fortune and well-being.
7 Common Signs of Declining Luck
Bad luck often manifests through subtle or dramatic disruptions in life. Here are seven common signs that your luck is on the decline:
- Persistent Misfortunes: Ongoing failures, misunderstandings, gossip, or sudden challenges.
- Unusual Behavior: Increased irritability, anxiety, extreme mood swings, irrational spending, or speaking harshly.
- Negative Thinking: Pessimism, self-doubt, a sense of powerlessness, or even harmful thoughts toward oneself.
- Health Issues: Unexplained illness, chronic fatigue, or frequent health disturbances.
- Invasion of Negative Energy: Nightmares, insomnia, sleep paralysis, or sensations of being oppressed by unseen forces.
- Facial Changes: A noticeably dull complexion, especially on the forehead or ears; lifeless eyes and an overall drained appearance.
- Sudden Environmental Changes: Houseplants withering without reason, sudden death of pet fish, or other strange energy shifts at home.
How to Change Bad Luck? 6 Effective Ways to Attract Good Fortune
1. Honor and Make Offerings to Ancestors
Your fortune isn’t only tied to your own actions, but also to the karma, energy, and merits of your ancestors. When they are at peace and receive your merit dedication, blessings flow to descendants—bringing smoother lives and greater success.
During Qingming Festival, Ullambana Festival, and other key dates, sincerely offer gratitude and merits to your ancestors by offering lights, chanting, praying, and doing good deeds. According to Grandmaster JinBodhi, when ancestors are released from suffering, living descendants receive blessings of health, prosperity, and improved destiny.
2. Cultivate Diligently
Cultivation revives fading life energy and transforms declining fortune. Grandmaster JinBodhi teaches that beginner cultivation practices can enhance energy and health, while long-term, diligent cultivation fosters wisdom and compassion, improving all aspects of life.
Methods such as the Meditation of Greater Illumination, Energy Bagua, prostration, and seated meditation align your energy with the compassion of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas—cleansing negative karma and bringing peace, clarity, and positive energy.
3. Offering Light and Chant the Buddha’s Name
When luck is low, seek the compassionate blessings of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas. Grandmaster JinBodhi teaches that light offerings and Buddha-name chanting are powerful ways to transform misfortune.
The light represents wisdom and hope. Offering lights with sincerity invites the blessing of the Buddha’s radiant light, helping to clear karma and restore harmony. Chanting purifies the mind, enhances your energy field, and naturally turns your luck around—bringing more light, blessings, and opportunities.
4. Do Good Deeds and Accumulate Merits
As the saying goes, “It is more blessed to give than to receive.”
Those who help others radiate light and positive energy, which in turn improves their luck. Grandmaster JinBodhi encourages everyone to act with compassion, building a bright and pure energy field that attracts blessings, supports one’s family, and ensures a peaceful life.
Charity, kindness, and even small acts of care accumulate vast merits. These create the seeds of future blessings and bring long-lasting good fortune.
5. Wear Blessed Dharma Items
Dharma items blessed by Grandmaster JinBodhi carry auspicious energy that can purify your space, ward off negativity, and boost your luck. Wearing them or placing them at home or work helps remove obstacles and attract prosperity.
You can choose specific dharma items for Feng Shui, protection, or energy enhancement—such as those matching the lucky colors of the year, which are the white, green and blue colors for the 2025 Year of the Snake. Each item carries compassionate blessings, enhances your aura, and supports transformation in life.
6. Cleanse and Organize Your Environment
Your environment affects your energy and luck. Every morning, open windows to let fresh air in and clear out stagnant or negative energy. Let sunlight in to brighten the space and energize the field.
Grandmaster JinBodhi teaches that clutter disrupts energy flow, attracts negativity, and causes mental unrest. Regular cleaning, decluttering, and maintaining a bright and spacious home improves circulation, uplifts the mood, and creates a harmonious atmosphere that draws in good fortune.
Feeling Unlucky? Come to Bodhi Meditation Center to Bathe in Buddha’s Light and Restore Your Energy
Good luck is not a coincidence—it stems from our actions, energy, and accumulated blessings.
When life feels difficult, don’t passively wait for a turnaround. Instead, take proactive steps to change your energy—and your destiny.
Bodhi Meditation Centers offer sacred spaces to meditate, make offerings, accumulate merit, and dissolve karmic debts. Whether you seek improved fortune, better health, or blessings for your family, all are welcome to participate. Even online courses and offerings (such as offering lights or gilding Buddha statues) allow you to align with divine energy and experience real transformation.
Grandmaster JinBodhi teaches that in order to fundamentally change your destiny, you must generate Bodhicitta and walk the path of the Bodhisattva. This is the essence of Buddhist practice—faith, vow, and action. Faith in compassion, a vow to benefit others, and continuous action are the keys to ultimate success.
Further Reading:
How to Change Your Fortune? 4 Secret Methods to Live an Auspicious Life!