from mind to reality

I recently started watching Emily In Paris just to have something fun to watch during lunch. I must admit I chose it because I expected it to be silly and I wanted a show I wouldn’t get too sucked into. But I’ve actually become rather fascinated by it.

Not least because of the incredible amount of synchronicities that happen to the main character.

Just to name a few (without spoilers):

• She runs into people she knows on the street, *a lot* — and it’s not like Paris is such a small town! Plus, the timing of some of the encounters! Ou la la!

• Every time she has a challenge at work, some conversation or event with a friend sparks a brilliant idea that easily solves it

• Events seem to have impeccable timing — receiving a gift just as the boss walks by, a friend first not seeing then seeing a noteworthy item in the kitchen, getting a phone call from a love interest just when someone else will overhear it…

I mean, girl must be so tapped into universal energy, she’s sloshing around in it!

It got me thinking — if only life worked that way. Why can’t I walk down the street and magically meet people I have a lot in common with?

How come I don’t run into people I know just when I need it?

Why doesn’t my life have so many interesting coincidences?

Yeees, yes, I know it’s a series. I know they had to make the story this way, to hook viewers.

But the thing is, it can give the subsconscious mind the idea that life should work that way.

And not just made-up series, but also real people on social media.

Like those TikTok videos about someone meditating, then a long-lost friend or their crush texting them 2 minutes later.

Or them sitting on a plane next to the CEO of their dream company and getting hired by touchdown.

They make it sound so easy and matter-of-fact. If you manifest right, then this is what should be happening to you!

And we kind of feel like something’s wrong with us when we don’t have synchronicities in that quantity. Like our life is lackluster in comparison.

But real life does have these synchronicities — they’re just interspersed among infinitely more commonplace moments.

(Emily In Paris condenses several days of action into just 30 minutes, so of course we’re seeing only the interesting highlights. If we lived her whole day as she did, it would probably feel much more normal).

And the way real life works, we get this energy form the universe (in the form of synchronicities) when we give the universe energy too. We get opportunities to do this in the form of challenges and tests.

How often did you encounter one of these and got upset? Perhaps it even made you give up. Maybe you felt like it wasn’t fair, like it’s the opposite of what you wanted.

But actually, it might have been exactly what you wanted. Just not the way you expected it to be delivered.

When you push through the obstacles and doubts, when you keep at it, you show the universe you’re serious. And that’s when the universe can start to work with you too.

The key takeaway:

Want more synchronicities in your life?

Don’t expect the universe to just give them to you for free.

Put some skin in the game first by taking action on what you want. Work through obstacles and challenges.

Be open to noticing any intuition that comes up.

And above all, be grateful.

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I’d love to hear your breakthroughs — what kind of synchronicities have you experienced lately? Share in the comments below!