Welcome to Healing from Within. I am your host Sheryl Glick RMT Reiki Master Energy Teacher, author of a trilogy with the newest edition A New Life Awaits: Spirit Guided Insights to Support Global Awakening which shares stories and messages from spirit that show us our physical life challenges are not merely economic political or societal but often a disconnect from our soul guided inner essence. Today I am delighted to welcome Bernard Beitman M.D. author of Meaningful Coincidences who like Carl Jung, the father of spiritual psychology has systematized the study of coincidence

As listeners of Healing From Within are well aware Sheryl and her accomplished guests share intimate, amusing, prophetic stories that open the mind and heart to the true nature of life in its duality of physical and spiritual aspects, for in knowing the complete nature of Self, we learn to create or manifest the best quality of life both here and beyond.  However, one discovers they are more than their physical body is the real gift that is offered to those souls who chose to have a challenging physical life.

In today’s episode of Healing from Within Bernard Beitman M.D. graduate of Yale Medical School who did his psychiatric residency at Stanford University tells us having both an academic mind and a spiritual soul heart he merges the best of all worlds to explore the human condition, healing, and the pursuit of happiness most prominently interested in  the anatomy of a coincidence and defines coincidence types through their fundamental constituents -external events and physical events. Through meaningful coincidences emphasizes that synchronicity and serendipity though mostly positive also have their shadow side. By detailing how to record your experiences, he explains how to find patterns guiding life decisions which helps you to be ready to use them when they occur.

Dr. Beitman and Sheryl share coincidences as they are a always present event in their lives. Sheryl tells Bernard her first book Life Is No Coincidence The Life and Afterlife Connection was an awakening process that allowed her to shed many former beliefs to understand life as a duality and  how coincidences or messages from spirit guided her to study Reiki Energy healing, develop a practice as a medium and intuitive healer and helped others begin to see the value of seeing life not only through the senses but through an intuitive connection to Universal source.  Bernard Beitman M.D. is like a Vitruvian Man merging the best of western medicine in alignment to the history and spirituality of humanity.

When Bernard is asked to think back to his childhood and remember a person place or event that may have signaled to him or those around them what his life path or destiny might be in adulthood Dr. Bernard writes, “Please allow me to introduce myself. I am a psychiatrist. I am paid to distinguish between reality and crazy. I walk that line in my life and in this book. A meaningful coincidence is the coming together of two or more events in a surprising, unexpected, and improbable way that seems to have significance to the person experiencing it, either at the moment,  or in retrospect. Coincidences have been a regular companion throughout my life beginning at age nine when my dog got lost, and I got lost. Then we found each other. Coincidences were deeply solidified in my consciousness when, at age thirty-one, I found myself uncontrollably choking while, three thousand miles away, my father was choking on his own blood and dying. The experiences of meaningful coincidences have expanded my awareness of my mind and heart, of the heart and mind of others, and of the natural world around us. Coincidences have contributed to my psychological and spiritual development, guided me in my academic career, and helped grow my relationships.  They have jolted me out of the conventional views of how the world works. They have made me stop, think, and wonder. In high school,