Omens In The Wind

 

 Omens In The Wind

If you have ever read “The Alchemist” by Paulo Coelho, you would have an idea about what is meant by listening to the omens.

“When you decide to do something, all the universe conspires to help you achieve it.”

– The Alchemist.

This article is not about alchemy as much as I am interested in the subject. However, the lessons taught by the Alchemist are vital to living a happy and successful life. In fact, sometimes you may feel like you are in the middle of a movie that you did not know was being made. People come into your life and say seemingly random things that were on your mind for ages or a song comes on the radio that you were humming all day. You begin to think of someone and not long after you get a message or call from them.  These are not coincidences.

Mathematicians will tell you that coincidences are nothing but a mathematical probability. Theologians will call it fate or destiny. Meta Physicians will say that it is the universe shaping itself to suit your will at that moment in time. It is said that when things like this happen that you are in the creation state and if you were perfectly able to maintain and control that state then you could achieve wondrous things.

This state also goes by another name that is has been around as long as the English language and describes exactly what the spiritual and scientific community have come to understand.

The state I am referring to – is FLOW.

The Flow State

From playing chess to extreme sports, the Flow State is known as a state of complete and utter concentration. The moment when “all the universe conspires in your favour”. Many would argue that it is you in control of this and accessing your higher self. Some would say that it is a higher power working through you. The scientific community became so fascinated by it that they studied it and documented the Flow State as a state of mind where you literally “only focus on what it is you are doing”.

There is are books and seminars held about Flow so I will not delve too deep into it here however I have mentioned it since there are times when we unconsciously enter the Flow State without even knowing it and this is when things come together and people appear “as if they were sent” etc. Do you ever get that feeling? Like people coming along and helping or just being there at the right place at the right time. It is certainly no accident.

The wind is literally like a river that cannot be seen. It is a vital part of nature even though in many ways, like a hurricane, it can be destructive. The moments when things come into play that you did not expect but you did actually hope for, those are the moments where if you take a closer look, there may have been an omen or two pointing you in the right direction.

There are those who like to believe that angels walk among us and guide us accordingly. Similar beliefs say that lesser demons put negative events or circumstances in your path to teach you a lesson, working in tandem with the angels.

Whichever scenario you choose to believe, you cannot ignore the instances in your life where things seem to happen and it is too coincidental to be random. The universe is too geometrically accurate for events and circumstances to be random.

Allowing things to happen and dealing with them as we go is perhaps the fastest way to a more carefree and at times, more powerful way of living. In doing so, we allow ourselves to relinquish the negativity and wondering what will be, plaguing ourselves with “what if” questions, as well as we deal with our problems head-on.

This also brings us to the present moment which also forces us to remain in the only true reality, the here and now. If you have ever read Eckhart Tolle’s “The Power of Now”, you’d know exactly what I am saying. The past is gone, the future has yet to come. The present moment is all we truly have. And living in either the past or the future, we will always feel either regret or resentfulness or we will feel anxious or nervous. These are things that the Past and the Future bring into our lives. Neither is a good thing on any day.

The Flow state is exactly that. It is about becoming completely and irrevocably in the moment.

Become your best self and live for the “Now”. Become all that you wish to be. Decide to become that. Make the decision to become that which you wish you could be.

It can be done. Give yourself the chance to succeed and allow yourself to fail. The trick is to not give up and keep trying until you succeed.

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Thank you.

Duane C. Carter