When Coincidences Pile Up, You’re On A Good Path

You know you’re on the right track when coincidences start happening one after another on the horizon. The heart is filled with satisfaction and a prudent enthusiasm for understanding that every effort is bringing its precious results.

In the end, when the mind is firmly and openly focused on what it desires, things don’t happen by chance, but by determination.

Everyone, at some point, has had a similar feeling. That feeling of, almost without knowing how, small casual events begin to happen that have a certain relationship to each other; events that somehow seem to fit our plan.

However, mathematicians Persi Diaconis and Frederick Mosteller of the University of Berkeley explained in a 1989 study that we shouldn’t pay so much attention to coincidences, as they are just weird events with low reliability that almost never help us to predict anything.

However, since the late 1980s, the focus on the coincidence aspect has changed a lot.  Bernard Beitman, a psychiatrist at the University of Virginia, has written a very interesting book entitled Connecting with Coincidence , in which he explains to us that sometimes these lucky events shape our own destinies. 

Edmund Halley, an 18th-century English astronomer, for example, realized that the records that other astronomers had made of the appearance of certain comets in Earth’s orbit, which had been classified as “mere coincidences”, were not at all. .

Halley ventured to predict that those patterns responded to a lone comet that appeared every 75 years, and he was right. He himself saw it pass by his calculations on Christmas Eve 1758.

Sometimes, the relationship of several coincidences means to tell us something that only with openness, trust and commitment can we determine.  

Determination, movement and coincidences

When you’re on your way, you have a pre-set goal. A path that guides your goals and, little by little, acquires harmony.

Preparing for a job interview, seeking resources for a project, seeking stability in an emotional relationship, overcoming a personal problem, among others. All of this requires a series of very precise movements directed in the same direction.

At different points in our life cycle, each of us must make an effort to devise this plan for happiness and stability. It’s part of our sense of self-fulfillment and also part of our personal growth. Thus, one aspect that we cannot and must not discard in our path is the aspect of coincidences.

Josh Tenenbaum, a scientist and cognitive psychologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) , explains that sometimes these events lack any logic and are just lucky events. However, at  other times coincidences are very revealing and indispensable in our lives. 

The coincidences, the mind and our personal growth

Coincidences, according to Dr. Tenenbaum, drive and favor many of the deductions our mind makes. In fact, our brain is programmed to detect any anomalous and casual stimuli, to try to make associations to understand and favor new learning.

• Cambridge University statistician David Spiegelhalter has spent years studying coincidences and the result of his work has been collected by the Atlantic public domain space . Thus, and according to this professor, coincidences can only be understood with an adequate statistical analysis. 

• It is through this method that we realize one aspect: the most striking coincidences have to do with our social relationships. An example of this is finding the person who will later become our partner in different places. Another is to meet someone who casually suggests new projects we’ve just started (just when we needed a change). Another coincidence is realizing how we are advancing in our personal projects thanks to the connection with other people who share the same dreams.

On the other hand, an interesting aspect of Professor Spiegelhalter’s work is that there is little correlation when someone wants something and expects this event to happen without their involvement. In other words, only when we move and provide new situations are coincidences generated that can be used in our favor. 

You know when you’re on your way…

As we can deduce, coincidences are the result of luck, but also the impulse that we generate with our personal and psychological disposition. All of this encourages us to understand certain aspects that are worth reflecting on.

• When you are on your way, these events that you provide are mixed and others happen by a relative coincidence, but at the same time determining. An example of this is the work of scientists and researchers. In their daily task of analysis and experimentation, they often face coincidences that allow them to arrive at an amazing discovery.
• You are on your way when your mind is open to everything that goes on around you. Only a close look and a curious brain that seeks to learn and reach stimuli that are in its favor can see the true coincidences. Coincidences, which sometimes happen one after the other, until we get where we want.

• On the other hand, another aspect to be considered is that there are occasions when coincidences of a negative nature occur. Getting sick on the very day we have a job interview, having a technical failure while presenting an important job, etc. Within “luck”, bad events can also happen. It should be remembered that, by probability, these negative events are also within the possible, more by statistics than by anything else.
• A coincidence can be positive, negative or neutral, but what matters in the end is how we decide to handle this event. How we act, how we respond, what mental focus and how we behave will truly determine our destiny.

To conclude, Albert Einstein said that life, by itself, is an incredible coincidence. Well, knowing how to live it in the best way requires a strong will and knowledge. We must be receptive through a positive and hopeful mental focus. We must allow ourselves to apply our personal vision. We must neither ignore nor deny all the possibilities that gravitate around us.