Welcome to the Happiness Podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. I want to ask you a question. In your life,

have there been times where something happened, where small yet meaningful coincidences happen. For example, you hadn't thought about a friend

for 10 years until today, and then that very day they text you. Or your mother died and you're missing

her and as your heart is in a very sad place, a hummingbird, a butterfly,

comes by and visits you. Or perhaps you have to make a very big decision about whether to stay

with a person or not, because a relationship doesn't seem good for your soul and you ask for

guidance, you ask for direction, and throughout the day the number 333 shows up all over the place.

The examples I just gave are real examples of people that I knew that actually had these experiences.

My guess is if you talk to people, or if you think about your own life, you'll see that lots of us

have these synchronicities, periodically showing up at certain, often critical times of our lives.

My question today is, what of those small, meaningful coincidences in our lives weren't random at all?

What if these synchronicities are actually subtle signals from the universe, affirming that we're on the right path or that we're not

alone. What I'm hinting at, what I'm suggesting today is that the universe is in a constant,

quiet conversation with us. Syncronicity is its language and happiness is a result of listening to that language.

I do want to differentiate between mere coincidences and synchronicity. Seeing two Honda Civic

Center rural is a coincidence. Losing your job because of downsizing and that very same day,

an old college friend reaching out to you that you haven't heard from in years, but his company

had a new job opening and he knew it might be a really good fit for you, even though he had no

idea if you'd be interested or even what you were

doing these days.

That's synchronicity.

So what is synchronicity?

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