The Power of Synchronicity to Transform Your Life
Colour plays a crucial role in connecting individuals with profound shifts in their awareness and personal growth. It serves as a powerful vehicle that can lead one through the paths of conscious metamorphosis, allowing for deep and meaningful transformation to take place within the self.
Have you ever experienced a synchronicity?
A chain of coincidences that seemed too perfectly orchestrated that could not be put down to mere chance?
It’s as if the universe is trying to grab your attention and convey a message.
Synchronicity is a concept first introduced by the Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung to describe seemingly meaningful coincidences that appear to have no causal relationship, yet are experienced as a causal parallel of events.
The basic idea behind synchronicity is that two or more events that occur at the same time can have a meaningful connection, even though there is no apparent causal link between them. These coincidences are seen as carrying a symbolic or deeper significance beyond mere chance. As Albert Einstein once said ”Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one”.
Jung believed that synchronistic events arise from the collective unconscious of humanity and reveal an underlying pattern or a causal orderedness in the universe. He saw them as examples of the intrinsic interdependence and interconnectedness of all phenomena.
Some key points about synchronicity:
1. It describes meaningful coincidences that cannot be explained by conventional cause-and-effect principles.
2.It implies a causal connection between events that are seemingly unrelated.
3. It hints at a causal ordering principle that underlies the human experience of events.
4. Jung believed synchronicities carry symbolic meanings related to the psychological state of the person experiencing them.
Carl Jung did not provide a formal classification of different types of synchronicities, but based on his writings and examples, synchronistic events can be broadly categorized into a few kinds:
1. Coincidence of a thought or dream with a subsequent external event
One of the most common forms is having a thought or dream about someone/something and then having that person or situation manifest in waking life shortly after, in a way that cannot be simply dismissed as chance.
2. Coincidence of a psychic phenomenon with external reality
This includes meaningful coincidences related to extrasensory experiences like precognitive dreams, visions, psychic impressions etc. that are later confirmed by events in the physical world.
3. Coincidence of symbolic parallels
This refers to symbolic similarities or analogies between an inner psychological state/content and outer events or natural phenomena happening simultaneously. For example, dreaming of a flood while outside a river overflows its banks.
4. Coincidence of numbers/figures
Seeing recurring patterns of the same numbers like 66 and 11:11 and 22:22, or geometrical figures and symbols repeatedly appearing in a way that seems highly improbable and meaningful to the observer.
5. Coincidence of life events/biographies
Parallels or analogies between the lives/biographies of two different individuals or across generations that cannot be simply chance occurrences.
6. Collective coincidence
This is where we have simultaneous coincidences happening to multiple people who share an emotional bond or are part of the same group/collective event.
So in essence, synchronicities manifest across a spectrum from internal psychological experiences finding parallels in external events, to pure objective coincidences laden with subjective meaning and significance.
While synchronicity defies conventional rationality, Jung felt it formed an important part of a holistic worldview that re-introduces an element of mystery, magic and possibility into life. Synchronicities offer us personal proof that reality is sometimes malleable, unstable and sensitive to our consciousness.
If we consider this perspective, that the universe as a mirror reflecting back to us our thoughts, feelings and deepest desires, just imagine what might be possible when we get into alignment with our greatest self. Perhaps you are reading this and pondering how synchronous the experience you are having which has led you to this very post!
How to develop synchronicity
1. Pay attention- in order to do this it is necessary to first slow down and create those “press pause” moments so you can start to notice the recurring patterns in your life.
2. Keep a journal to record and reflect on your experiences
3. Energy follows thought so the more attention you give combined with conscious intention the faster you get a result.
The absence of synchronicities
Are you living a mundane,comfortable yet dull existence where life is much the same each day?
Or do you fill your life with permanent busyness, so much so, that you never stop to dare to dream, to reflect and end up merely reacting to life circumstances. If so, I encourage you to step out, stretch, try something new and contact me for a coaching session with colour so you can experience more of these occurrences in your life.And so you can start to see the everyday possibilities and miracles that show up when we are paying attention and are aligned.
Colour Mirrors and Colour Therapy supports you to get back into the flow of your life by getting you back to your core nature. As a Colour Teacher of Teachers I train coaches, authors,artists, alternative healers and therapists to become practitioners and teachers of this system themselves. As a systemic coach I support entrepreneurs and business leaders to co-create, grow and shape their futures by revealing what’s getting in the way of their progress.
“Attention activates the energy field, and intention activates the information field”