Your field of vision
In 1994, a reader in Minnesota wrote into the Pioneer Press newspaper about the curiosity of once you learn of a word, then seeing it in print shortly thereafter.
The reader correlated it to having had a conversation with a friend about the West German radical group, the Baader-Meinhof Gang, formed on the heels of the student protest movements of the late 1960’s.
The next day after this conversation, the friend sent him an article about the group that was just published in a newspaper (decades after the gang’s height of popularity). The reader coined this the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon.
Once learning of something, now in your consciousness, you then see it everywhere. Whether you’re more apt to call this “law of attraction” or feel more comfortable calling it “frequency illusion”, the concept is the same.
Energy flows where your attention goes.
Sure, it can be confirmation bias, where your brain searches for things you already agree with. But what if you have more responsibility with what comes into your field?
What if the universe is completely supportive of your thoughts and doesn’t care what they are – both negative and positive thoughts?
And you can choose which meaning you attribute to the manifestation of these thoughts.
Something negative in your field can be, “Oh, I just have bad luck.” Or it can be, “This is a great opportunity to learn and make a change.”
If you need to learn something, and you haven’t made a change, you’re going to see manifestations of what you need to learn again and again.
Now, don’t pretend that something isn’t coming into your field because you ignore it. That annoying little mite will make its appearance until you do or think something differently.
If you like what’s coming into your field, and you want more of it, confirm it every time with gratitude.
I get it, though, sometimes the things we see takes us years to uncover. How I first learned of the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon was researching the gang it was named after.
In my research, I came across the name of someone I had just known briefly decades ago. A name that is unusual in this country. I see this name in the most unusual places, scattered over time.
What am I to learn? I’m still trying to figure that one out. An enigma wrapped in a riddle, somewhere in the depths of my subconscious – for now.
