SYNCHRONICITY, DREAMS, AND GOALS

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   What are the chances to make your dreams come true and to achieve your goals?   
   Last Friday getting back home, a newspaper left behind on a bench at the train station caught my attention. The tittle on the front page said "Making Sense of Coincidence - What science has to say about seemingly random events in our lives" and it continued on the interior pages talking about a study by a psychiatrist form the University of Virginia. The study talked about Carl Jung and its synchronicity concept. I became interested and I got it to read during the trip back home.

   The study reported an interesting example. A widow said to the spychietirst that "when I began dating again, I was concerned with what my late husband would think. One day while visiting his grave, I accidentally cut my ring-finger with some grass clippers. I had to go to the emergency Department where they removed my wedding ring. My boyfriend and I took it as a sort of sign that it was OK to proceed inner relationship"

  The psychiatrist says that "she had cut her own finger! Yet she felt the necessary removal of the ring at the hospital was a sign from her husband." He claims that "coincidences can alert us to our own wishes. They can aid in self-reflection and have been used in psychotherapy since the days of Carl Jung, who worked with a type of coincidence he called synchronicity." 
   
   Due to the fact that our brain filter and interpret reality, we also create our opportunities. The psychiatrist says that "whith synchronicity, something in the mind is reflected in the outside world." When we feel unconfident, we claim for a sign to confirm us that what we want is either right or wrong. It triggers our permission to set goals. One, two three, ready, go!