Soul Mining with Sacha & Deepak
This is my amazing friend Sacha Jones, whom I love very much. I have things that I want to tell you about her but, for now I want to tell you about some things I heard a few Sundays back, things that made me sit in a content silence after I heard them and smile into the soft dark of my living room, things I would not have heard if Sacha had not invited me along with her that day.
Because I don’t want you to turn away from this piece, I’ll keep it simple and quick and not tell you everything. Just the highlights. I learned that my consciousness is a collection of karma, memories, and desire. Isn’t that beautiful?
I learned that I must learn to be comfortable with uncertainty and ambiguity and unpredictability. I can be alright without knowing the very next thing. I don’t have to act immediately on every “problem” that comes along. I don’t have to understand everything right away. Sometimes I can do nothing, and nothing is fine—I can’t tell you how that takes the pressure off.
I learned never to ignore a coincidence.
As a young girl I used to examine every coincidence closely, but years of negative responses from people around me telling me to brush it off as nothing made me start to ignore these odd occurrences.
What is it with people when it comes to the extraordinary, the magical, the mysterious? Why is the idea of something incomprehensible or unknowable, or simply more intelligent than us so upsetting to some? Especially when there are so many things here on Earth that many of us can’t comprehend—take String Theory, for instance—should we be afraid of that, brush that off, too, because most of us can't understand it or it doesn't fit into our scheme of things? Can’t we be rational and spiritual creatures at the same time? Einstein certainly could.
So I had lost the art of looking at coincidences. Then I heard Deepak Chopra tell me to pay attention and I found it again.
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| Deepak Chopra, September 2011 |
Because I couldn’t write fast enough to catch everything he said, I found a quote from Chopra’s book "The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire" In it he says
"When a coincidence arises, don’t ignore it. Ask yourself, What is the message here? What is the significance of this? You don’t need to go digging for the answers. Ask the question, and the answers will emerge. They may arrive as a sudden insight, a spontaneous creative, or they may be something very different. Perhaps you will meet a person who is somehow related to the coincidence that occurred. An encounter, a relationship, a chance meeting, a situation, a circumstance will immediately give you a clue to its meaning. “Oh, so that’s what it was all about!” The key is to pay attention and inquire."
"Live the question. Life will move you into an answer," is what Chopra told us and I have since experienced a coincidence, just this past Sunday evening, and I paid attention to it, and it did me good.
I learned all of this at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition’s conference that Sacha invited me to. She is a graduate of the Institute and a marvelous holistic health counselor. I came to her as a client and found a dear friend. If it seems like I’m shamelessly promoting Sacha. I am! Not because she took me with her to see Deepak Chopra but because she has so lovingly come along with me on my journey, helping, educating, guiding me, and I want to share her with you, my dear ones. Visit Sacha here
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