Maybe it is true ‘things are speeding up!’ But hey, how fast can we go?

What a wicked week. I am left with little doubt about the conductor orchestrating my life. Synchronicity, as with intuition, is something that I have lived with and appreciated for a long time. It just is. This week has been like polishing the existing diamond.

Monday – a friend ordering computer parts asked if I would like anything. His having mentioned computers, reminded me that my MacBook was playing up. With ‘Apple Care’ about to run out, I called my local shop. It runs out TODAY! I dashed into Byron Bay to get the repairs done under warranty. Whew!

At an early evening Christmas party someone came up and asked my friend if she’d like to attend a show, the Space Cowboy. She was planning an early night. I chirped up, ‘I would’. One minute later I had a complimentary ticket. It was not on my radar to attend, and, because I was early, I got a second row seat. The woman next to me, on holidays from Turkey, started to chat. Turned out she knows my best friend in Istanbul. I’d been thinking to offer workshops there. She owns a yoga studio and has hundreds of women clients – so here we go in 2012. Synchronicity plus!

The show was great. Towards the end he invited me on stage to hold a glass, and focus on bending the stem. Closing my eyes I focussed… Humph – it bent! As I moved back to my seat, he called me back. I’ll go one step further for you, he said and autographed the glass: “A souvenir to remind you that if you focus on anything and believe it is possible, it will be so!” I kissed him, grinning, going back to my seat. That was the message for me!

I ask, ‘Who is doing what here?’ There is something going on, and that is for sure. Is it divine intervention?

Amrita Hobbs, Educator and ConnXionS Creator – www.amritahobbs.com

When things ‘line up’ in life we experience synchronicity. Technically, in this physical world of energy and matter, synchronicity is the coming together of events that are resonating at the same frequency. In our lives, that can manifest in coincidence and downright gob-smacking events that people might chat about over their coffees as ‘weird’ or ‘totally bizarre’ life situations that they can’t explain, but strangely, as common as they are, popular culture has yet to accept that the magic that seems to be happening through mysterious collisions of events is the most natural thing there is!

When we get out of the way and stop our effort, our control and our will from interfering, we experience ‘life’s truth’: we are loved and protected beyond anything we could ever imagine.

‘Something’ wants the best for us always. Why try to name it when the only evidence we need is our experience? Sure, it doesn’t happen all the time, but let’s not discount those moments when we experience moments of beauty and joy. It’s as algorithmic and predictable as the expression of the genetic code of a seed turning into a beautiful flower. However, we have lost that insight a long time ago and have been trying to control and direct proceedings from our very limited perspective and insight ever since. Naturally we can only ever experience fleeting moments of love and beauty when we do it our way and then we chase those moments by trying to recreate ‘events’ where we experienced that sense of perfection as if it’s to be found in specific events. We live a mostly asynchronous life as a result. We are not in the flow as we are supposed to be.

Fortunately, the perfection of that ‘Something’ whatever it is, has all bases covered. Even within our best self-destructive moments, a path is there for us. We experience breakthroughs when we suffer, when we hit the limits of our existence, and then there is transformation that helps us to see beyond life and its events as if they are the most important thing in the world. We learn from our life and we can become grateful for some of the greatest suffering we experience.

BUT..., and here is the most important – but synchronicity reminds us that life is not about suffering (as helpful as it is as a tool for revealing life’s purpose). When we let life bring us into the flow of itself, our experience is connectedness, joy and harmony, beauty... love. That is synchronicity. What it means is that life does have a plan which we can subscribe to, or not, depending on how much we want to choose it.

What does that mean practically? When ‘bad’ stuff happens, realise how much you choose to follow the negative emotions and confirm that event. When you do that, you choose to live an aysynchronous existence. You are choosing suffering. So our first step is so simple but perhaps the most powerful: just by admitting that we have habits that try to keep us in suffering, life itself will reach down into the quicksand and bring us to a better place.

Steve Ray

Co-ordinator

Padmacahaya Victoria

http://www.padmacahaya.org.au

ph: 0419 005 386