SYNCHRONICITY
11月
26日
BECOMING AWARE OF MEANINGFUL COINCIDENCES
Today, I decided to google a podcast on “synchronicity” and found Phillip Merry PhD who wrote 9 KEYS OF SYNCHRONICITY - They’re Hiding All Around Us. The first 3 first keys, “Notice something different that is happening to one’s day. Become aware. Then act on it.”
Merry's 4th key is to celebrate and the following is a fun example in my life:
On one of my trips to Japan in 1991, I was staying in Chiba, not far from where I landed at Japan’s Narita Airport. A few days later, I had a business appointment in Roppongi, one of the eastern districts of Tokyo. My host asked me to wait in his office while he ran to a 30-minute-errand and then he would take me to lunch.
I felt I was not far from Den-en-Chofu and decided to call Mrs. Nihei while I waited. I had gotten to know the Nihei family here when they lived on Mercer Island for a few years as business reps for a Japanese company. Mrs Nihei was not home, but her son Tats answered the phone saying, “Mrs Goto! How wonderful to talk with you. I actually live in Kobe, but I dropped by the house because I made the trip today to make some wedding plans. I would love to get together, but I have to go back to Kobe.”
I responded, “Tats, I’m planning to go stay with my cousin in Kobe next week. Let’s plan to get together there.” Then, I gave Tats my cousin’s name, Harumi Sumitomo and address.
Tats screamed back in response, “HARUMI! Mrs. Goto, I am a representative of the Sumitomo Bank in Kobe and just last week, I went to their home on business and met them for the first time!!”
Following Merry’s second set of suggests I’m putting my awareness into being a servant citizen. Therefore, I’m using my blog to keep me thinking, set intentions and integrating my heart/brain.
I asked my 13-yr-old to watercolor a visual that I can include with my thoughts of living with hope and possibility. I have my next blog planned with Merry’s 9th Key of “Connecting With Source”.
