From the desk of... Mary Robinson Reynolds
Re: Serendipity, Synchronicity & those uncanny Coincidences?!
The other day, I Googled "Serendipity, Synchronicity" to see what I could find that had been written about it, as it is one of the subjects I love to ponder when it comes to being present enough to notice what's going on "right in front of me" when I'm traveling out and about in the world.
I found a really great article by Artist Starlark, Jeanne Lloyd which I will share just an excerpt of for you today. She writes ...
Synchronicity - Serendipity - Intuition
The uncanny coincidence. The unlikely conjunction of events. The startling serendipity.
Who hasn't had it happen in their life?
You think of someone for the first time in years, and run into them a few hours later.
An unusual phrase you'd never heard before jumps out at you three times in the same day.
On a back street in a foreign country, you bump into a college roommate.
A book falls off the shelf at the bookstore, and it's exactly what you need.
Is it only, as skeptics suggest, selective perception and the law of averages playing itself out?
Or is it, as Carl Jung believed, a glimpse into the underlying order of the universe? He coined the term synchronicity to describe what he called the "acausal connecting principle" that links mind and matter. He said this underlying connectedness manifests itself through meaningful coincidences that cannot be explained by cause and effect.
Such synchronicities occur, he theorized, when a strong need arises in the psyche of an individual. He described three types that he had observed: the coinciding of a thought or feeling with an outside event; a dream, vision or premonition of something that then happens in the future; and a dream or vision that coincides with an event occurring at a distance.
No one has come up with a definition that has superceded his, although there has been debate on whether events linked to precognition and clairvoyance should be included as synchronicity.
"There's something about turning one's choices over to intuition that seems to avail oneself to synchronicity," says Allan Combs, Ph.D., a psychology professor at the University of North Carolina at Asheville who co-authored Synchronicity: Science, Myth and the Trickster (Marlowe). "In practice, that can mean moving from moment to moment when making decisions, even small decisions -- especially small decisions! If you expect the unexpected, synchronicity will emerge."
So what does Serendipity, Synchronicity & uncanny Coincidences have to do with you? Just about everything ...
Today is a great time to visit with you about the inconsequential TIME FACTOR involved in noticing when there is someone next or near to you that you could reach out and positively impact with even just a little bit of Acknowledgment!
There can be only one thing keeping you from reaching out and enriching other's lives with the transformative Power of Acknowledgment, and that would have to be about fear.
It was Marianne Williamson in A Return to Love who said this about fear:
Fear is trusting in your own power.
Reaching out ...
Mary Robinson Reynolds
Author & Founder, Heart Productions & Publishing
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