Coincidences: Gifts from the Universe

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Welcome to the joyful journey podcast. If

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that, my friends, is the joyful journey. Let's dive in. Hey,

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joyful journey errs Anita Adams, here are your hosts of the

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joyful journey podcast. And today we are going to explore

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coincidences. Are they random acts of chance? Or is the

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universe really conspiring to grab your attention to point you

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down a certain path? As I'm a seeker of magical moments and

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love following the nudges, I believe there is nothing random

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about a coincidence. And when the universe dishes out these

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gifts, it's our job to get curious and explore why when you

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pay attention to these remarkable concurrence of events

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or circumstances, and allow them to move you by simply being

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curious, you step into flow, and things began to align themselves

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that move you closer to your goals and that grandest vision

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of your life. I want to share a personal story that illustrates

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how this works as I had. Well it was kind of a remarkable

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concurrence of events this summer. My husband and I are out

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a week into our month long kayak trip making our way to Nelson

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island where we plan to camp for the night. The sun is blaring

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down and we've just passed secret Cove along the Sunshine

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Coast. I'm tired, hot and hungry, a lethal combination

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according to my husband, who suggests and perhaps for his own

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safety, that we take a break and refuel with some trail mix. I

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think that's a good idea. We pull into a sheltered bay and as

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we Bob in our kayaks, I try to wiggle free my bag of treats

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that is wedged between the darn seat in the sidewall of my boat.

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And in the process I rip a hole in the bag, peanuts, raisins,

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banana chips, almonds, and most upsetting of all Smarties go

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flying everywhere. I try to save as much as I can of these tasty

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morsels by quickly scarfing, the falling goodies into my mouth,

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which it really is a reasonable thing to do when you have a very

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limited and unreplaceable supply of these treats. Unfortunately,

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the inch of seawater at the bottom of my boat while they

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just renders the majority of these filled this build mix on

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salvageable. And soon there's colors of the rainbow that begin

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to appear as the Smarties melt the bottom of my boat with my

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goodie bag now sporting a big hole further evasive action is

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needed. It's time to beach the boats to secure another Ziploc

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from the back hatch and save what's left of my precious

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treats. We land the boats and well I sought out my mess. Tom

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walks up the beach to study his maps and calculate for the

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umpteenth time how far we are traveling and how long it will

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take to get us to our next destination. Soon I hear voices

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and I turn to see Tom chatting away with a pretty blonde lady

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and acute brown summer dress. Once I finished cleaning up my

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boat and safely store away the remaining of my mix. I wander up

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to say hello and much to my surprise discover I know this

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pretty lady Adele Anderson and I had met at a conference in LA

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almost two years ago. We had connected shortly after the

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conference and had planned on a Zoom meeting to get to know each

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other more. But then the pandemic hit and all was

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forgotten. That is Intel. My bag of trail mix explodes and a

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pretty lady comes down from her house to say hello to the

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strangers who land on her beach. Coincidentally or not. The name

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of the conference

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we attended in LA was called Design Your Destiny I can't help

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thinking that destiny had some designs for us when some bizarre

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circumstances unfolded and brought the two of us together

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again on this hot summer day. So do you think this is a random

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act of chance? Or is there something much bigger at play

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here? I believe in the ladder of course, and I suspect if you're

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listening to this podcast you do to the idea of a coincidence

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being a random act of chance wasn't enough of an explanation

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for the famous Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung either.

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Instead, he believed these events were produced by the

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force of synchronicity, a concept he introduced to

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describe circumstances that appear meaningfully related, yet

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lack a casual connection. He also considered these meaningful

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events as glimpses into what he called the wellness Mundus or

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one world. One is Mundus is the theory that there is an

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underlying order and structure to reality and network that

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connects everything and every one. Coincidences then could be

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considered a way to experience that one world connectedness. As

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I said, at the beginning of this episode, I believe that a

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coincidence is a gift from the universe. And it's our job to

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wrap these gifts and explore their meaning. So why did I land

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on Adele's beach at the time, I had no idea, but I understood it

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was mine to explore. When I returned from my trip, I sent

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Adele a message requesting a meeting, the intent was simply

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to just get to know her more, and in getting to know her more

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maybe revealed. I shared in my first episode that while on this

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very same kayak trip, I got a loud and clear message that it

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was time to do what I felt called to do, which is teach

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people to listen to their inner wisdom and to create a retreat

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and a podcast as a means to do that. While on my Zoom call with

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Adele, I learned that she is an NLP trainer that's a neuro

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linguistic programmer who offers retreats and hosts a podcast to

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teach people how to reprogram their thinking. Hmm, so

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interesting. Is this why we were meant to connect I asked myself,

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I shared my goals with Adele and she then generously shared her

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knowledge and connections with me. That enabled me to quickly

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move forward with my vision. It turns out, Adele ended up

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playing an important role in helping me launch both my

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podcast and retreat by simply sharing her insights and

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connecting me with the right people. I believe it's because

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of Adele that I was able to move forward so quickly with my

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vision, and that they both got off to such a strong start.

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What's more, when I learned Adele's personal story about how

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she got into being an NLP trainer. I recognize she would

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make for fascinating and inspiring guests for this show.

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Guess what you get to meet Adele in the next episode. As I

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interview her about how to reprogram limiting self beliefs,

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she really does have an intriguing story to share that

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includes a plane crash and seeing her life flash before her

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eyes as she goes back to a very specific point in time, that

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then helps save her life and getting her out of that plane.

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Make sure you tune in for that episode. What I want to leave

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you with today is this idea of looking for the gifts that the

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universe gives you that show up as seemingly random and

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unconnected coincidences. Don't shrug them off or ignore them.

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Instead, get curious. ask, Why is this person suddenly showing

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up in my life? Or why is this thing happening?

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If you hear about an author, for instance, and then walk by a

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bookstore and see something by that same author displayed in

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the window by the book, if you were thinking about an old

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friend that you haven't spoken to in years, then someone else

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mentioned that person the next day, call that old friend, if

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you're kayaking and suddenly find yourself with an exploded

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bag of trail mix, and that then forces you to land your boat on

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the very beach of someone you met two years previously, make

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the effort to get to know that person better. At the very least

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you might discover an interesting book to reconnect

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with an old friend, or develop a new friendship, or it might lead

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you to something truly remarkable. And you'll think,

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Wow, I'm so glad I bought that book. It's changed the way I see

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the world. Holy. My heart is so full from reconnecting with that

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old friend. She's exactly who I need in my life right now. Wow,

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I am so grateful. I took the time to get to know that pretty

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lady whose beach I landed on, she's helped me move my vision

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forward so much faster than I ever thought possible. Curiosity

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is truly a beautiful thing. So my joyful journey are get

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curious with all those seemingly random acts of coincidences.

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You'll never know what the gift is until you take the time to

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unwrap it. And the more you start paying attention to these

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things, the more magic you'll make happen to do you have any

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fun or interesting stories about a strange coincidence that

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happened to you? If so, send it to me by email at a Anita at

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joyful inspired living.com I'd love to read about your story,

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and I might even share it on a future episode. Alright by

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joyful journey or have an awesome day. And don't forget

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the next episode is with Adele Anderson, who will be joining us

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to share her wisdom on how to reprogram limiting self beliefs.

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We'll catch you next time. Thank you for joining us today on the

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