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8 How To Use Meaningful Coincidences

How to Use Meaningful

Coincidences:

Synchronicities can offer

counsel at life's decision

points.

Continued from Page 6

Specific Uses of Certain Coincidences

Provide comfort and support
The most common use of coincidence,
especially in times of distress, is to provide
comfort and support. In this video Kathryn
describes how connections with strangers and a
Santa Fe jeweler helped to her feel that she was
not alone and that everything would be alright.
Pay attention to the feeling she had in response
to the coincidence. Jung labelled it "numinous". summarized by statistician David Hand. Misuse of Coincidences
That feeling marks the coincidence to be When we experience them ourselves, we
significant. may begin to question scientific orthodoxy. The dark side of meaningful coincidences tends
Each of us needs to be scientific in our approach to get less attention than the sunny side. Here
Stimulate good feelings to recognizing and using these abilities. are several ways they can be misused and
Some coincidences are fun or enjoyable Being scientific requires becoming our hurtful.
or aesthetically pleasing. Like fine own personal scientist as described by Gary
entertainment and fine art, they help us feel Schwartz . Test your hypothesis in the real Self aggrandizement
good, that everything is right in the world. For world: Gather evidence. Probe and observe the Repeated coincidences can foster an
example, a 24 year old woman, upon responses. Be careful about bias toward one expanding sense of one's own specialness. "The
experiencing an amazing coincidence, told me, conclusion over another. Compare your Universe is speaking directly to me so often! I
"It was like when your mom pulls the sheet experiences with others. Read accessible must be quite wonderful to be the center of all
over you, and it settles on you, and you feel you research on the subject. this attention." Correction: You are not the only
are in the right place." p.221. You will not have the opportunity to person experiencing many coincidences.
perform a controlled, blind experiment since
Lock and key--providing just what we need coincidence experiences are difficult to Good for me, not good for you
There it is, just what you are looking for systematically organize for study. At least at this Some coincidences have both positive
or even something better. You recognize the fit time. You are functioning in the real world not and negative results, depending on your role in
between idea and object/person/event in controlled environment of the laboratory. them. For example, a husband and wife are
immediately or shortly thereafter. No ambiguity. Psychiatrists must take research done looking for a new house. They find one that he
A missing object mysteriously shows up, or a under controlled conditions and apply the likes and she does not but someone else has put
long lost relative suddenly appears or just the results to the messy data set that many patients in a bid. The couple then finds out that the bid
idea you needed for work or creativity saunters present. As an example of the problem of has been withdrawn. The husband jumps at the
out in front of you. Your task is to grasp it or let becoming your own scientist and yet the need to opportunity. They argue. This becomes the last
it go. do. You finally have to decide what is real based straw in their long standing problematic
upon limited information. relationship and their marriage ends.
Affirming love and connection In another example, robbers try to cash
We seek connections with other. These Helping others through coincidences the forged personal check of a bank teller to
bonds can be and are often supported by Some coincidences directly involve whom they brought the check to cash.
meaningful coincidences. In romantic love other people. We are the intermediaries. It is as
coincidences can be especially impactful which if we are players in someone else's dream.
presents the lover with a two-sided coin. We Tricky people can use coincidences to
have a tendency to believe that highly unlikely Using synchronicity awareness as a spiritual pull cash out of unsuspecting people. They use
coincidences are encouraging us to believe that path simple probabilities to catch their victims.
this relationship will last forever. The feeling One group, presenting themselves as
they generate in us seems to strengthen the Meaningful coincidences demonstrate that our Microsoft, randomly calls people offering to
sense that eternity stretches out in front of us. minds and our environments are connected. help with their computer problems.(Microsoft
Often this is not the case as described in this They suggest that our minds are part of a does not call people.)
post. Greater Mind.
In family relationships and friendship Spiritual practices like meditation, (Continued on Page 9)
coincidences can strengthen bonds through the ecstatic dancing, and fasting encourage us to go
remarkable empathy that emerges through deeply into our mind and body to become
simulpathity. We feel the pain, distress and other consciously present in the Here-and-Now.
feelings of a loved one at a distance. Rob Hopke As a spiritual practice, synchronicity
describes many love synchronicities in his new awareness takes a complementary position. On
book as has SQuire Rushnell. this path you look outward as well as inward.
You discover that external events converging
Expanding awareness of personal powers together in each moment are related to each
Simulpathity and human GPS suggest other. By immersing yourself in awareness of
we have psychic abilities that are not recognized the interconnections at this moment, you can
by modern science. Scientists have well- enter Here-and-now.
reasoned arguments against these potentials as