{"id":4715,"date":"2016-01-25T09:13:20","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T16:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carolynhidalgo.com\/\/?p=4715"},"modified":"2023-03-22T10:11:20","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T10:11:20","slug":"what-are-synchronicties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carolynhidalgo.com\/staging\/what-are-synchronicties\/","title":{"rendered":"What are Synchronicities?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Are you wondering what synchronicities are? Let me explain\u2026<\/p>\n

Last\u00a0Friday\u00a0evening\u00a0my husband asked \u201cdo you want\u00a0to watch an episode of Anthony Bourdin\u2019s Parts Unknown\u00a0about\u00a0Iran?\u201d Sure, I was curious, and besides\u00a0it was a show he loved:\u00a0great food ideas and exploring new places.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s \u201d\u00a0the\u00a0episode<\/a><\/span>\u00a0\u201d (40 minutes). Whatever ideas you had about Iran, I suspect they may\u00a0change after\u00a0watching this. I\u2019m very aware of how our media is slanted towards its own\u00a0agenda, playing heavily on our fears, but I had no idea how much of a picture has\u00a0been painted of a people I knew relatively NOTHING about.<\/p>\n

What I couldn\u2019t see was the total complexity here, extremes of joy, and beauty, mixed with sadness, and control. Their culture, traditions, and history they\u2019ve had to face.<\/p>\n

I look at what we deal with in our own country, and that old cliche hits home. We are so much more similar than different facing our own struggles, and craziness.<\/p>\n

During the episode, Anthony spoke candidly with American Washington Post Correspondent, Jason Rezaian, and his wife about living in Iran the past 5 years. During filming of\u00a0the episode, Jason was\u00a0arrested, and by time it aired, he was still a prisoner after 10 weeks. My heart sank.<\/p>\n

I was so compelled to find out what happened to him, I quickly googled him, desperate to know\u00a0if\u00a0he\u2019d been released. I found myself staring at a photo of him in\u00a0this article<\/a>\u00a0beside Jeff Bezos (founder of Amazon.com & owner of Washington Post), whose private jet he\u2019d just flown home in.<\/p>\n

The article was published\u00a0THE EXACT SAME DAY I\u2019d watched the episode! Jason had\u00a0been in prison for a year and a half. It felt like a miracle seeing his relieved grin.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m often asked \u2018what is a synchronicity\u2019? For me, when I\u2019m tapped into something meaningful that captures my attention. I\u2019ll often see 11:11 pop up somewhere or a version of \u201c11\u201d like 3:11, seeing exit 111 on the highway, or this week having snapshot of our Charity Gala\u00a0appearing on page 11 in our local newspaper.<\/p>\n

I started seeing\u00a011:11\u00a0as a child; I suspect it was around the same time I had fallen at age 6 about 20 feet over a cliff on a bicycle, and lay unconscious beside a tree that happened to be growing from the side. It\u00a0saved me dropping another 40 feet to rocks below.<\/p>\n

Soon\u00a0after watching\u00a0this tv\u00a0episode, I glanced over to\u00a0see 11:11 on the\u00a0clock. I have NEVER seen it if I\u2019m ever trying to look for it.\u00a0It\u2019s a sign for me that \u2018this is not your only reality\u2019 \u2013 this physical world that you see. There\u2019s something bigger going on.<\/p>\n

A force that exists wanting me to pay attention because I\u2019m noticing it at all. A synchronicity I can\u2019t ignore. It\u2019s asking me to slow down, and ask myself what\u2019s real, and what\u2019s an illusion?<\/p>\n

Who is the real enemy? Ourselves \u2013 when we do not choose to open our eyes. Where we don\u2019t know where we\u2019re completely blinded. When we simply fail to see the bigger picture.<\/p>\n

Having just written about being willing to see \u201cboth sides now\u201d in my last post\u2026I\u00a0know I\u2019m\u00a0being shown\u00a0just how true that\u00a0is. How anything negative I\u2019d heard or seen in the media about Iran or read about had given me a very limiting\u00a0picture of how I assumed it must be living there.<\/p>\n

I\u00a0had\u00a0noticed how friendly, and genuinely happy anyone I\u2019d met from Iran seemed to be. I assumed it was because they left their country! Mostly recently, it was my new dentist. She was fun, kind, and laughed\u00a0a\u00a0lot. \u00a0I certainly have a deeper respect for their culture, traditions, and history that makes them who they are.<\/p>\n

Yes, there are some completely insane things that go on, arrests without a fair trial, control over certain behaviours that don\u2019t make sense, punishment that seems completely unreasonable (putting it mildly) \u2013 ways that I\u00a0hope will eventually change for the better, which applies to\u00a0our side of the world too.<\/p>\n

I see the Iranian people in their own country with wider eyes\u00a0now. I hope you will too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Are you wondering what synchronicities are? Let me explain\u2026 Last\u00a0Friday\u00a0evening\u00a0my husband asked \u201cdo you want\u00a0to watch an episode of Anthony Bourdin\u2019s Parts Unknown\u00a0about\u00a0Iran?\u201d Sure, I was curious, and besides\u00a0it was a show he loved:\u00a0great food ideas and exploring new places. Here\u2019s \u201d\u00a0the\u00a0episode\u00a0\u201d (40 minutes). Whatever ideas you had about Iran, I suspect they may\u00a0change after\u00a0watching […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spirituality-serenity"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolynhidalgo.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolynhidalgo.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolynhidalgo.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolynhidalgo.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolynhidalgo.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carolynhidalgo.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9381,"href":"https:\/\/carolynhidalgo.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4715\/revisions\/9381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolynhidalgo.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolynhidalgo.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolynhidalgo.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}