"Synchronicities can happen one after the other,
as though a point is being made over and over again."

The Power of Flow, p. 23

One day I was doing some field work in a tractor and listening to the radio. I was in the tractor for about six hours and for some reason the whole day I had "Hello, I Love You" by the Doors in my head, I'm talking big time. Anyways, as I was coming home the song came on. The weird thing about it is that the station that played it, well, I never in a hundred years would've expected them to play it. I truly thought God spoke to me that day.

T.K.
 

A few years ago I had just finished reading the book "Coal Miner's Daughter" the autobiography of Loretta Lynn. I was very caught up in her story and must admit to shedding a few tears by the time I had finished it. The funny thing is, I am not a country music fan especially and wasn't even very familiar with her music. I decided that I would turn on the radio and try to find a country station and that if I listened long enough they might play a Loretta Lynn song. The very first country station that I found was just announcing that the song they were about to play was "Coal Miner's Daughter" by Loretta Lynn.

P.C.H
 

I was listening to a tape by Annie Dillard and out of nowhere thought about a joke I know involving a cigar and a brick. Five minutes later, Annie Dillard told the same joke on her tape. Another time, I thought about a poem my mother told me when I was a child. It intrigued me that it came to mind for no apparent reason and I wrote it down: "She smiled and called him Mister because in sport he kissed her. And so that night, just out of spite, that mister kissed her sister." That afternoon, I went to Barnes & Noble. I picked up a limerick book, opened it, and the page I opened to contained that poem!

Joyce Fama, Connecticut

 

 I have a pattern of synchronicity which presents itself in the song which comes on when my radio alarm clock goes off in the morning. It reflects my dreams and the answers, questions or guidance I’m looking for at the time. This tends to happen after I’ve recently risked, grown or stretched myself in ways I didn’t think possible.

 B.W., Minnesota

I just found your web site. I wanted to tell you my story because it is such a testimonial to Synchronicity. I read The Power of Flow a few years ago. It was wonderful because it gave a name to some incredible experiences that had been happening in my life. Previous to reading the book I had decided to take what seemed like some huge risk to change and live my life in a way that was authentic to who I really am as a person. During this time I felt very drawn to take a trip to a small island off the coast of Fla. that my then husband and I had visited a year earlier. I felt like I could do some deep thinking by myself there. I wish I had time to write about all the synchronicities that occurred while I was there that let me know that I was in the right place, just know it was magical.

The one I wanted to share was, while I was there I took a trip to Apalachacola, an old fishing town just across the bridge. There was a radio station that I could pick up when I was in town that played older songs that you did not usually hear on your oldie stations. I had just pulled into a parking space when a song that I loved but never heard came on. I had this overwhelming feeling that this song would play a role in my life. I even spoke this out loud to myself. I got out a pen and piece of paper and wrote down the song and artist so I would be sure not to forget. It was one of those times when you know something but you don't know why you know it.

Months later I had returned home, still seeking my new path. I decided to take piano lessons because this was something I had always had a desire to do. Again I felt very drawn to take the lessons at a college that was offering continuing education classes. From a practical standpoint this did not make sense because it was not the closest place I could go to take classes. Again, it was one of those things that I knew I needed to do, I just did not know why. While taking the class the teacher and I decided to do one-on-one classes. During one of these classes, we got to talking and I told him about my trip to St. George Island. To my astonishment he said he went there often because he or a friend had a vacation home there. I thought that was very intriguing but I wasn't sure if it had any meaning or not.  About half way through our classes we were coming up on Christmas and he offered me some Christmas selections to work on. For some reason, and I love Christmas music, I asked him if he had something other than Christmas music I could work on.

 A week later when I came back to class he said that when he was going through his selection of songs, and he had been teaching music for years and playing since he was four, he was 38, he came across a song. These were his words,  ''Joy, when I saw this song I thought of you. " It was the song I had written down months earlier. You have to try and understand the gravity of this. This song was a fairly obscure song that seemingly had nothing to do with anything that was going on. I knew and believed with certainty at that time that I had tapped into some force, which I later came to know as Synchronicity and Flow, that seemed to be directing my life. Since this time my life has turned into an unbelievable journey. I am well on my way to living my dreams. I hope this inspires anyone reading this to definitely continue to listen to those inner promptings. They can lead you to magical places.

 Joy

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