Week Three Assignments: Synchronicity

On Synchronicity:
I found the article on “The Law of Attraction and Manifestation” to be particularly interesting as I looked further into this topic. There were many things mentioned in that article that I have found to be true in my own life; for instance, “Synchronicities are people, places or events that your soul attracts into your life to help you evolve to higher consciousness or to place emphasis on something going on in your life” – this has proven to be true many times in my spiritual practice, as I become aware of a need in my own life for a mentor or teacher, I find myself drawn to often a series of events which will inevitably lead me to a person or course of study which eventually fills that need.
Likewise, another phenomenon that I have noticed in my personal life occurs when I am feeling a need for a change, either of job or where I will live. I have found that when I feel the need to find another job, that I can apply to many different job postings and go to multiple job interviews, or I can look at multiple places to live and fill out application after application – but that nothing will come of any of it if it is not the path that I am destined to take – which is actually how I ended up studying TCM and ultimately how I ended up here at AIMC.
On Connectivity:
This was another of those fascinating scientific principles which I didn’t know anything about. Again, I did have a spiritual understanding of the interconnectedness of the whole world – this concept is actually an integral cornerstone of my personal belief system – but to find that there is scientific thought devoted to this concept is frankly exciting to me.
So. My understanding of the concept is that every action has a reaction, and that my actions can influence another person who may be on the other side of the planet from me. While that perspective is a bit hard for me to get my head around completely, I do know that if I am having a really really bad day, and I am subsequently cranky or out and out angry about it all – that I can adversely affect all those that I come into contact with; or perhaps on a more positive note, a smile can change the world – one smile can spread like a contagion, and in a very real sense this can change the life of someone I have never met nor will ever meet.