Recently I have been thinking that I constantly feel like I'm in a hurry. The feeling is wearing me down and making it impossible for me to do any task, large or small, to the best of my ability. I drop things, knock over bowls full of flour, sew crooked seams, cut and stick myself with all manner of sharp objects, bruise myself knocking into furniture.
I thought of this a lot yesterday, trying to decide why I feel this way and looking for a solution. I said a prayer and asked God to help me see that I don't need to rush through life like I'm on a runaway train trying to get to nowhere.
So last night, I sat down with the book I'm currently reading, Murder Gets a Life by Anne George. (Now I see that even the title is important, though I didn't see that last night.) I'm reading along, the TV is on. Vann is watching a NASCAR race, and I look up from my book from time to time to see where Dale Jr. is, but mostly I'm just reading my book, not paying attention to the race.
In one of the synchronistic moments that happen a lot in my life, I came to the words in the book, "Take your time," (photo above) at the absolute very same moment that the lyric is playing on tv, "Take your time." (It's that commercial for some Master Card of Burger King or something where the Buddy Holly song, "Take Your Time" is playing and people are running around in circles.) And I'm hearing the song, just like I'd been actually paying attention to the tv as well as my book.
So there you go. My answer is to take my time, to actually own my time. I think that means to physically slow down my movements, take possession of the time that God has given me, use it slowly and wisely, experience it and enjoy it. No matter what I'm doing or when I think it should be done, do it slowly and deliberately. If I can learn to do that, I think my mind will follow and I'll no longer feel like I'm in a NASCAR race myself all the time. You think?
Carl Jung coined the word "synchronicity," for these seemingly meaningful coincidences. But Jung is just too cerebral for me. I prefer Deepak Chopra. He writes a lot about synchronicity. Chopra says, "I believe that all coincidences are messages from the unmanifest –
they are like angels without wings, so to speak, sudden interruptions
of life by a deeper level ...." In other words, answered prayers.
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S Is Also for Sisters
The photo shows me and my sisters in the late summer or early fall of 1947. Joanne is holding Pat, who was born that July, and I'm standing in front of them (grimacing). I was three, and Joanne was 12. I can actually remember the day that photo was taken. Really! Not like it was yesterday, or anything that clearly. But I remember being there, uncomfortable with the sun in my eyes. I still can't tolerate sun in my eyes.
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On 09/03/2007, Sister Cage said ...
I love that picture, and I also remember that day. There was also a picture of me holding a cat. Do you remember what color your jumper was? I remember you looked so pretty, but can't see the color of the jumper. My dress was olive green. I think. I loved you little old babies; felt like you were mine.
On 09/03/2007, mom2fur said ...
That picture is so cute!
I know what you mean about rushing around. I'm always losing things, bumping my head, etc. etc. I think we have too much on our plates, you know? Why do we feel as if we need to fill every moment of the day, and that every day must be productive? I mean, really, I lay in bed at night and ask myself if I actually accomplished anything worthwhile in the day. I need to get that 'take your time' message, too!
On 09/21/2007, nita from red tin heart said ...
Susan, what a wonderful picture! I have a sister who is 12 years polder than me, a sister who was 7 years older who died in a car wreck. And a sister who is 11 months younger than me. When we were little we were so close, but she was diagnosed bi-polar several years ago and she quit taking her medicine 1 year ago. I have not been able to be around her since then because she wants to argue all the time and I can't handle that. I still love her and pray she will go back to taking her medicine. My older sister andf I are very close though. I really liked your post about Synchronicity. Very powerful words. xo Nita
On 10/14/2007, Fausto Intilla said ...
a)The Jungian Theory of Syncronicity, is a clear demonstration that
everything in this Universe is predeterminated.The Heisenberg's
Indetermination Principle comes from the human ignorance
(we cannot see the reality in its totality)...so only an ignorant,can believe in Free Will.
b)Matter is a complex form of energy; Energy
is a complex form of Information; Information...is God's Thought.
The Universe is God...so we are parts of God.
c) Every kind of "human desire",is followed by a Chain of "Electron wave
functions collapses" (in agreement with Schrödinger's Theory) which will not
follow ours expectations! ...So the paradox is: if we want to get hold of
something,we shouldn’t have to search for it. (Men stay still,and the mountains move...).
A curiosity: The connection between the electron
wave-function and the human intent has to do with the fact that
experiments have proved that the intentions of the operator of a radio
transmission facility, directly and instrumentably alter the
"footprint", the radiation pattern of the antenna. It has also been
shown that the intent of the human being causes a divergence in
the quantum field (which is the information field).
Any divergence in the information field results in
alterations of "probability", which directly influences
the outcome of any system which contains any element
of chance, directly influencing the resulting observable
events. (See the work of Princeton Engineering Anomalies
Research at http://www.princeton.edu/~pear/).
Notes:
"In agreement with Henri Bergson's thought (see the last pages of "Entre
le temps et l'éternité" of Ilya Prigogine ,Librairie Arthème Fayard,Paris),
we can accept the idea of a "Space-time absolute value", where
all the "Space-time relativ values" are incorporated (in agreement with Einstein’s
theory of relativity); the conclusion is that there is only one Real
Matrix of the Universe...so every other possible /potential parallel
"event/dimension/future" it's only a human illusion.
All the other parallel Universes (or Multi-Universes,as Phd. Everett said)
can only exist in our minds...perhaps whilst dreaming.
Unfortunately several physicists are conditioned by Heisenberg's Principle of
Indetermination...which, as you will know, is enough explain the
existence of Free Will.
Well, the Principle of Indetermination is hardly bound by the limits of
observations made by the human brain.
(We cannot see the reality in its totality...Bohm taught).
If we accept the idea that our Universe really is God,well,in a infinite
Caos of Energy too, there must to be a logical (but not for human
brain),exact,specific,and perfectly organized ...Plan.
How many significant (important) coincidences can happen to a person in his
life,living in a unorganizated and stupid Universe?...I think no-one.
Every synchronism in our life, is like an open-eyes-dream (Jung
taught)...and we can thank the fine intelligence of our Universe...if
they happen."
Fausto Intilla
(Inventor-scientific divulger)
www.oloscience.com
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