"One of the most powerful synchronicities I've experienced happened years ago, back when I was teaching social-emotional learning to middle school students. I had just led a class using the metaphor of a tree to talk about personal growth and pursuing our dreams. The roots represented our foundation and what helps us stay grounded; the fruit symbolized our gifts and the dreams we came here to share."
"She continued, "Go ahead and imagine your feet are roots from a tree, connecting into the ground, and your bodies have leaves that contain fruit, which represent your gifts that you came here to share.""
"I couldn't believe that after having taught an entire class earlier that day using the metaphor of a tree, I was being guided in a group meditation, only a few hours later, to imagine myself as a tree. The more we tap in and connect to our lives, the more we will see that there really aren't any coincidences, and even something seemingly minor serves a purpose."
Carl Jung defined synchronicities as meaningful coincidences that guide and illuminate lives. Paying attention to small, ordinary moments can reveal unexpected guidance and insight. A person teaching social-emotional learning used a tree metaphor to explain roots as foundation and fruit as gifts. Later the same person attended a workshop with a guided meditation instructing participants to imagine feet as roots and bodies bearing fruit, mirroring the earlier lesson. The recurrence of the tree imagery demonstrated a synchronistic event that felt purposeful. Synchronicities can serve as subtle reminders during doubt or hardship that one remains on their path.
Read at Psychology Today
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]