This is part number two of a post about syncronicities. Only problem is that I haven’t written the first part of the post yet. Well, that’s not entirely true, I’ve come up with THAT post multiple times in multiple different versions but they all still reside in my head. The issue is that I had two very distinct experiences within a three hour period last week and I’m STILL processing. I was giddy as I tried to tell Julie about the chain of events over the phone. I’m sure I didn’t make much sense but I was able to at least convey the gist of events which we will get to in a bit.

Now, let’s talk about how the human brain functions. No, scratch that, I’m only qualified to talk about how MY brain functions, or at least how I perceive that it functions. What I think happens is that information comes into my brain be it through stimulation such as vision, hearing, smell, taste, touch or thoughts (which also can be feelings maybe?). Then my brain proceeds to associate all other related stuff to that information. These can be other occurrences of that information or related things. Think associations, I say Cat you say Dog, I say Silver you say Gold, I say Spinach you say Yuck (no really you say Popeye, I’m actually not sure what other associations you would have with spinach which I do eat?).

Anyway, I call these associations squirrels, because I CHASE THEM, just like every dog I’ve ever shared my home with. I have chased these squirrels down so many rabbit holes – which when you think about it, it’s so unfair – the squirrels get to visit the bunnies (who have to clean up all the dust bunnies) but never have to reciprocate by hosting the rabbits – what a can of worms!

You may now have a slight idea of what happens inside my head. Needless to say doing some of these self help type things can be super difficult because how do you get rid of the squirrels? So, meditations, visualizations anything that leaves the slightest opening for a squirrel to get in are super challenging. 

Back we go to Tuesday morning. I was midway through an interactive zoom and the group was being led through a visualization. I was doing great! I was not questioning what the leader said in my head at all. And I virtually walked into my kitchen and then, …. sigh, and then she started to insert dramatic pauses. So I’m like, ‘hmmm why are we in the kitchen? What are we going to do in here? I wonder if everyone else’s kitchens have dirty dishes in the sink?’ As I survey my kitchen (when really I’m in a chair in the next room) she finally tells us to open the fridge and then another pause. And then, “What do you see?” to which I answer, ‘what does she want me to see? Oh, what should I make for dinner?’ Then she says, “A bowl of lemons! Now take the bowl of lem…” ‘LEMONADE’ I scream ‘It’s a lesson about making lemonade from lemons!!’ But no, instead we cut the lemon. We smelled the lemon. We tasted the lemon. We reacted to the lemon. The lesson was all about when your mind imagines things it will then believe that they actually happened. If you act and believe “As If” that thing will actually come to pass. It’s a good lesson and she taught it very well. After a few more exercises the class was over and my dog Aiko wanted to go for her walk.

So outside we went into the 22 degree day. It was sunny and I was thinking about why I jumped all on the lemonade bandwagon when there were none of the bad connotations of lemons and what to do with them?  And then how I once had a neighbor with a lemon tree & her kids would make really yummy lemonade and sell it on the corner. But, even though the sun was out it was still cold so we crossed over the last street and that’s when I saw something in the snow at the curb outside my house. I scooped it up and took it inside. Here’s a couple of photos:

Yes indeed Mike Dooley, thoughts DO become things.