Almost every one of us, at least once in our life, has come across the phenomenon of a forerunner - a strange but trifling incident that suddenly entailed a series of events that changed our destiny. How to decipher the signs of fortune?
Laplace's Shoes
The famous French mathematician and astronomer Pierre-Simon Laplace, an attentive and systematic person, once remarked: if his night shoes were not in place, then on that day street thieves tried to get to his pockets. Such a coincidence could in no way be considered accidental.
He told his academician colleague about this, and they decided to conduct a series of control walks. What happened? If the shoes were in place, nothing happened. When the premonition happened, scientists had to fend off a pack of pickpockets who acted brazenly enough. The veracity of the sign was evident. Or other examples from history. The famous pirate Flint never went to sea unless his pipe was lit twice. And the naval commander, the Duke of Cumberland, ordered the carriage to turn home if on the way to port he saw more than two chimney sweeps on the street. This marked a fierce storm. Another famous British sailor, Admiral Benbow, while still a simple captain of a ship, noticed that a red or spotted cat, crossing his path, promised a sea disaster.
“In appearance, the portents seem to be similar to signs, but they are not,” explains the essence of the phenomenon, psychologist, gestalt therapist Oleg Nikitin. - After all, they are individual for each person. For example, you walk and stumble: once, twice, three times. Thus, something - call it fate, a guardian angel, higher powers or the tricks of the subconscious - warns us to be careful, otherwise we will break our leg or fall under a car. Small signs differ from signs or ordinary accidents in that they are often characterized by the repetition of the same situations, as if a person is tactfully reminded: "You shouldn't do this, otherwise it will be bad." If he doesn't listen, the situation repeats itself so that he understands that all this is not accidental. If again he does not listen to the advice of fate, then the irreparable happens. And we sigh sadly: “Eh,what have I not noticed before? " Materialists believe that small signs are simply the result of life experience. Some scientists, however, are not so categorical in their conclusions - they believe that in critical situations, people are helped by intuition or the ability to foresee events in the near future. But nevertheless, many researchers agree: in order to live successfully and happily, we must learn to perceive these good signs, distinguishing them from the mass of events in everyday life. “These forces are not always able to speak directly, to communicate clear information,” Nikitin explains. - They need mediators - events, objects. Sometimes the portents are specific. For example, some necessary thing, a small object, is lost. Then the loss is found, and we calm down. And this is a foreshadowing of some other, more important, irreparable loss. For many centuries, experts have been confronted with the phenomenon of signs. Numerous attempts have been made to somehow classify them. For example, the French researcher Robert D'Aubuisson even wrote a scientific work "Theory of Small Signs." But it turned out that this task is thankless, since no one has yet been able to "drive" signs from above into some kind of framework. Therefore, it is best to try to understand them with specific examples, and then draw possible conclusions.
HOW SIGNS COME
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Annoying obstacles
According to the head of the International Institute of Positive Psychology, Denise Lynn, who is trying to deal with this phenomenon, any familiar object that suddenly turns out to be in the wrong place can be interpreted as a sign. And he cites a very striking example as proof.
A businessman from the city of Adelaide (Australia) was about to sail on a packet boat to Bombay - and was three times late. The first time the alarm did not ring. The second time - my beloved dog fell ill and had to wait for the veterinarian. The third time, the passport suddenly disappeared. And it soon became clear that the first packet boat was captured by the Malay pirates, the second disappeared without a trace, and a fire broke out on the third, which claimed the lives of half of the passengers.
Council. It is necessary to draw conclusions from this kind of stubborn and annoying obstacles: to identify in time the recurrence of predictions. Then it is much easier to protect yourself.
Stranger Conversations All the people you meet - sometimes in the most mysterious ways - carry messages for you. They, oddly enough, have an answer to your agonizing question. Even a casual conversation with a stranger at a bus stop can be incredibly rich in information.
For example, once Nikolai P. went from Moscow to Pskov to sell the house of his deceased parents. A very noisy man sat down in the compartment. He kept trying to draw Nikolai into a conversation about politics, but he stubbornly pretended that he was sleeping. And suddenly a young man heard a phrase from a stranger, which his father often repeated: "If you help the earth, the earth will help you." A neighbor had already told another fellow traveler how he worked on a collective farm. Childhood warm memories of the village so overwhelmed Nikolai that he immediately decided not to sell the house, but generally move from the capital to the provinces. So he did, and he doesn't regret it.
Council. Pay attention to the stranger's random words and try to decipher the meaning of the message sent to you.
Feeling of Joy An important signal is the feeling of joy, pleasure in what is happening to you. If you do something with enthusiasm, then it is a sign of fate that you are doing the right thing and going in the right direction. If you feel uncomfortable, then your solution to the problem is wrong.
For example, Anna D. was preparing to go on a sea cruise. She had been collecting money for the trip for over two years, but when it came time to buy a tour package, she felt a strong reluctance to do so. Why - she herself could not explain. But she postponed the date of the trip, after which she sighed with relief. Imagine her surprise when, finally, having gone on a cruise, on the very first day she met a young man on the ship, whom she fell in love with and whom she happily married.
Council. Listen to your emotions before deciding on something. If your desire causes inconvenience and fears and there is an opportunity to refuse it, it is better to refuse.
Watch the printed words, look for signs in them. Pay special attention to those words that come across your eyes over and over again. Printed words that carry a personal message for you can appear in newspapers, magazines, they can be written on posters and float across the TV screen. Those words that are your personal sign should either be constantly repeated in your life, or suddenly engraved in your memory.
For example, Katerina R. wanted her salary increased at work. But she was afraid to even stutter about it, since she had not worked in the firm for long enough. But then one day, on the way to the office, she passed along a row of shops. They were always closed in the morning, but that day for some reason on all the closed doors were signs with the words "Open". This word prompted her to think that the road was open to her. On the same day, she went to the boss, and her request for a salary increase was granted. She was told that if she had asked for an increase even a day earlier, she would certainly have been refused.
OTHER SIGNS
If you are dating a person who extraordinarily reminds you of some acquaintance with whom you had problems in the past, then it's time to explain with him. And, as a rule, this means that your wounds, inflicted on each other, have begun to heal. * When you think of someone - it means that it is time to make contact with him. Typically, this person expects a call or lead from you. Even if you don't know why you need to contact a certain person, do it without hesitation. * Any illness is an important sign of the work of your subconscious. Illness can be a way that the body lets you know about an imbalance in your life, and carry, for example, such a simple message: “Do not rush, do not overexert yourself. Stop and look around. * Lost glasses, keys or documents are not always signs of sclerosis or carelessness,but important omens. If you see that some household item is not where it usually is, then you should think about why this happened and what it might mean. Most often, it is possible to calculate a possible nuisance.
Svetlana KUZINA