How To Create More Synchronicity In Your Life

Synchronicity is a term originally coined by Carl Jung to describe the phenomena of "meaningful coincidences" such as someone tell you they had a dream about a crow while moments later a crow lands on your window sill. Jung believed that synchronistic events were acausal – that is, free of any rational explanation. These seemingly random occurrences had to have a similar meaning and express themselves by this link rather than by sequential events.

Synchronicity can manifest itself through dreams, animals, numbers, events or even people. The key to recognizing whether these events are truly synchronistic is that they often repeat or cluster in a way that gets your attention, offering you direction in following the high ground in your journey through life. This phenomenon seems to happen more frequently at times of great transition in our lives like when we end a significant relationship, make a career change, or when there is a death in the family.

My belief is that these synchronistic experiences are messages from the Universe or God that are there to help us to live out our true life's purpose or destiny. When we follow our destiny we find synchronicity happening more often in our lives. If we make choices that are out of alignment with our purpose, there is a corrective action that takes place and we find ourselves experiencing difficulty and struggle.

Over the course of thirty years of study I've found some definitive methods for attracting the powerful force of synchronicity into your life, and they include:

(1) Synchronicity occurs in the absence of fear. By walking in faith you attract synchronicity by showing trust in the Universe.

(2) By slowing down our lives so that we take more time to be receptive to synchronistic messages, we allow the force of synchronicity to flow. So often we get wound up in the responsibilities of day-to-day life which drowns out these messages. In order to "hear" them, start by turning of the TV, radio, computer and your cell phone or PDA!

(3) Get outside and reconnect with nature to remind yourself of your connection to divinity and the world. I've personally found a great number of my experiences involved wild animals that showed up at strange times or in large numbers. This is something you can't witness in a climate-controlled condominium!

(4) Keep a synchronicity journal so that you can track the validity of the messages you receive, and also encourage them to appear more often. Just as in human communication, when someone listens more intently, the other party is more likely to speak!

(5) Take action on the messages you receive which in turn proclaims to the higher intelligence, "If you'll lead, I'll follow."