synchonisity in our lives, nature, and beyond

When I was in Home Depot last summer, I was on the phone with my husband.  He said I needed to get a measuring tape to keep in my car.  The good kind, not a cheap one.  I said I would go and look for one.  I was in the conduit section and needed to measure something.  But, I turned around as I was talking to him, and, low and behold, there's the exact brand he wanted me to get sitting in a PVC fittings box. 

Synchronicity is defined as an apparently meaningful coincidence in time of two or more similar or identical events that are causally unrelated.  People often take them as personal messages from the universe that mean something.  It could be significant, or it could be something small.  There are many areas of synchronicity, numbers, nature, objects, stars, weather, spirituality, dreams, thoughts, etc.

Some people totally ignore the synchronicity in their lives, and others delve into complete superstition regarding it.  I feel that it's important to be aware of it because it's not just happenstance that synchronicity exists.  Our ancestors used to live by it, and while a lot of that is dismissed as superstitious myths, there is actually a lot of truth in the things they did.  If you watch nature, you can see how animals and plants "magically" seem to know when the weather is changing, and it isn't just a warming or cooling of temperatures.  

Anyone who has been in a teaching career, especially with young children, knows that the seasons, the moon, etc., do affect how the children act.  Full moons tend to make the children a little goofy.  Windy days tend to make them hyper, and in spring, every single middle schooler tends to act very odd and extra childish.  I've seen 8th graders hijack the playground equipment from small kids and play around like toddlers.  This tends to happen around mid-April in my area when things start to get warm, and the trees are budding.  But I've heard from other teachers in warmer areas that their 8th graders do this around mid-March when spring is beginning in those areas.  If it was just anticipation of the end of the year, it would happen later in the year for all students instead of when spring is arriving.  Why do I think that is because we are in sync with the natural rhythms of our planet? It's just that children are more susceptible to it because they haven't "forgotten" we are a part of nature. They aren't fully aware of it, but their bodies are.  

Adults are susceptible to the changes as well; it's just that the majority of us ignore it or suppress it and retrain ourselves to be completely numb to it.  It's been my experience that when these young children are wound up from a shift in the weather, the adults tend to feel drained and exhausted.  They tend to get frustrated more easily from the "antics" the kids are pulling.  I think it's nature's way of telling us to pay attention something is happening. But we've forgotten how to tap into that natural rhythm and are now out of sync with the planet. 

 

I'm not exactly sure how we go about getting back in sync with nature in a society so dependent on technology that takes away from nature.  But, I know that I will be trying by spending more time outdoors, listening to the sounds, feeling the air, and "tuning in" to what nature is trying to tell me.