Synchronize Psychic Ability To Deal With Life
While shopping for a used car, a woman is shown a black sedan in perfect condition. She rejects the vehicle because of a vague uncomfortable feeling. Later she is told that the car had been used for funerals. Several days before the death of a friend another woman dreams of a casket with a pink ribbon. A man tells me of a first trip to Rome during which he knew what was around every corner.
I have had experiences like this in my own life, and I hear stories like these daily in my Social Work practice. These are examples of synchronicity, a term coined by Swiss psychiatrist, Carl G. Jung. Synchronicity refers to phenomena that are not cause and effect, but that do have relatedness in some meaningful way. We commonly refer to events like these as coincidences; and most of us have experienced them in some form. They can be as simple and usual as knowing who is calling when the phone rings; or as rare and dramatic as a life saving decision not to take a certain flight.
However, it is often in retrospect that we realize that synchronicity has been at work. About 25 years ago, a good friend asked me accompany her to a personal development program being run by a local counseling center. I went only as a favor to her, totally unsuspecting of the synchronicity that was about to affect the rest of my life. That evening I met several people who would profoundly influence my direction for years to come. That one experience led to others that led to my becoming a Social Worker and a therapist. During that program I met a man who would teach me about the psychic dimension of mind, and direct the beginning of my quest to acquire inner wisdom.
Think about your own life. Have you struggled to predict a certain outcome, only to find that what actually evolved was exactly what you needed? Have you resisted something that seemed distasteful, only to find that when you stopped fighting, you derived benefits and blessings you would never have believed? Have you ever had a sense you knew what was going to happen before it did? Have you had a night dream that helped you choose a life path or a daydream that showed you a solution? These occurrences, called “clicks” by one individual describing them to me, are part of our innate intuitive capacity, and offer a potential tool to be cultivated. Synchronicity does not always reveal itself immediately. It may take some time for you to recognize the wisdom or gift involved in an event or situation. However, you can learn to both recognize synchronicity and to use it.
Can you believe in your deepest intuitive level that, despite difficulties, events are working in your best interest?
Try this. Quiet your mind with deep breathing or your favorite meditation. Give yourself the suggestion that everything is working for your best. If your disbelieving mind says “Yah, Right!!” Just allow that negative thought to pass and return to the positive. Say something like this to yourself, “Negative thoughts will have no negative effect on me.” If your mind remains skeptical, let it be. The reality is that today many doctors and educators believe that what we tell ourselves can make a significant impact on our emotions and even on our physical health. So you can trust in the positives while not fighting off the negatives.
All you have to do is keep believing in the power of your psychic inner dimension of mind to produce and deliver the synchronicities of life via your intuition and your ability to recognize synchronicities when the occur.
Why not, then, use your intuition as a tool to see life’s events with the faith that things are happening in a way that is in your best interest. That view can actually alter the way you feel and how you cope. I once knew a woman who had been diagnosed with breast cancer. She had felt like a “nothing” her entire life. But breast cancer gave her a reason to live and to see herself as the courageous woman she could never believe she was. Saying “thank you” even when bad things happen would take some mental practice. But why wait years to see synchronicity at work? Why not believe that it is happening now. You might just give yourself relief from stress and the benefit of staying happier, healthier and of living longer. Perhaps it will be synchronicity for you to give this idea a try!!