The Path of Synchronicity: Align Yourself
With Life’s Flow By Dr Allan G. Hunter
Synchronicity, or Just Dumb Luck?
Most of us have noticed them – those moments when things go just exactly right. These are the times when the right person turns up at exactly the per- fect moment to save the situation; those occasions when it feels as if the stars have aligned miraculously to move you to where you need to be. You can call it luck, or Karma, or coincidence, or the Guiding hand, or God. You could thank your Guardian Angel, the spirit of your ancestors, your patron Saint, or simply call it a miracle.
Sometimes we call this ‘friends’. We look at our dearest friend of dozens of years and know that we couldn’t have trodden the path we did without that person’s help – that he or she was exactly the person we needed. And perhaps that friend is truly a miraculous gift.
We have plenty of words we can use to attempt to describe this. But how do we understand it? And if we understand it, then what do we do about it? The day after I got married my wife and I boarded a plane for England, and, for the first and only time in my life in which I’ve made hundreds of flights, we were upgraded for free to first class. We sprawled in our luxurious leather seats, sipped champagne, and felt blessed. Simple luck, perhaps? Or a hint from the universe?
Then there is Bob M., an independent bookstore owner and a friend of mine, who was three months behind on his rent, and his store was about to be shuttered on him for good. He decided
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he’d play the lottery that night and if nothing happened he’d shoot himself. Since he also worked as a security guard, he had his revolver ready. That night his four numbers came up – and the amount he won was exactly enough, to within a few cents, to pay the backlog of his rent. He was delighted, joyous, relieved – and also puzzled. For he wondered what this was telling him about the nature of the universe he lived in, and what it might mean.
Just coincidence, right?
Or, as he said to me, should I be spend- ing more time in church?
His situation raises some important ques- tions. Does fate solve all our problems for us? Well, we know that isn’t always true. So why does it solve some of them and not others? Answering these questions may mean we have to think in new ways about our experiences, and sometimes it means we’ll have to visit an idea several times before it lets us feel its meaning.
Are these merely anecdotal stories of good luck and coincidence? Or are they suggesting that when we look at such events on their own they are hard to understand, but that often we can trace an underlying pattern. And it is the pattern of small and large nudges we get from chance and luck and fate that we may need to pay attention to. If we become conscious of what is happening to us we’ll see such gifts everywhere, and realize that synchronicity is beckon- ing to us.
June/July 2011
Second, we must be prepared to notice when this energy gives us help, and be alert to the many ways it can operate. If we’re unaware of its methods we may stop noticing how it comes into our lives. If we’re ignorant we can’t work with what arrives in terms of opportunity. Plenty of people are waiting for their ‘big break’. It’s a waste of time. The big break only ever happens because there
“If you’ve ever found yours angry, or sad, or lost this is al of emotion that comes from the Shadow part of you – the you’d prefer not to acknowle free enough to follow where will have to make the desce what Carl Jung called
And once we see it, we may have to respond to its call.
What we’ll find may surprise us, so I’ll spell it out now. We’ll see that to get into the flow of synchronicity we need to do three things.
The Three Things We Must Do: First, we must trust that there is an energy in the universe that exists, and that it has a plan to use us to benefit our world. That trust has to be a deep trust.
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