Déjà Vu!
More than 3 years ago, I was in connection with a friend with whom I used to have deep conversations about philosophy and theology. I remember the day of January of that period where I was ill, lying on my couch, seeking comfort and warmth under the blanket. My friend contacted me and when I asked her what she was doing, she responded that she was in the technical center for the car checkup.
We stopped discussing for a while and reconnected again some time after to find myself, the January of the next year, on the same couch, under the same blanket, with the same cold, and when contacted by her, I found out that she was in the same technical center, for her car checkup.
She told me, once we got to know about the situation: ‘‘this is a Déjà Vu’’. I remember what I said then: ‘‘The déjà Vu is here to show us how far we have evolved. And as our action is only in our observation, the Déjà Vu is here to invite us to observe again what we missed before’’.
We’ll distance again for a while before reconnecting, one year after, during January, and this time, it was me who was in the technical center for my car checkup. She shared with me a podcast where I had to discover and know about Carl Young for the first time, and from that moment, I felt that things started to move forward in my life in an entirely new direction.
I observed the situation and compared it to the previous ones and found out that even though it seemed to be an inversion of the same pattern, it was still a change of pattern, and the main part of the change was me: I wasn’t the same at that moment compared to myself years ago.
By starting to change myself through a long journey, my experience through life changed accordingly. And that’s how I learned this gold rule of life, as emphasized by many spirituals: Change yourself from inside, and your outside will change for you.
I also learned this: if you experience a Déjà Vu, either as a real experience in your life, or as a deep feeling from inside, that means and signals a movement coming as a cyclic progress in your life, and it is an invitation to notice the change and act accordingly, at least for me on one of the following three dimensions.
Discover Your Identity
The Déjà Vu is an invitation to see yourself and reflect on it in a different way, yet through the same play, the same pattern. Everything seems the same, but what if …? One small thing can change everything in, a small part in you. And reflecting about this small part inside you, you’re giving yourself the gift of exploring a new part of your own identity. Still maybe it is not so new as you think, but your real part the Déjà Vu is inviting you to acknowledge and integrate.
Heal Your Wounds
The Déjà Vu sometimes makes you confront repeatedly the same pattern, in the same way, through the same wound, triggering the same suffer, till you get to understand where the hurt comes from. This process will get you either to raise your consciousness about your internal unconscious process or get connected to your internal ignored emotions, which helps you to access and heal your wounds at their root level.
Rewire Your Schemas
The Déjà Vu gives you the opportunity to confront your internal schemas about the repeated situation. For every experienced situation, our mind unconsciously has wired a whole schema including our thoughts, behaviors and emotions related to that type of situation. So, when you are confronted with the same one as a Déjà Vu, and make the effort to reflect about it, you give yourself the chance to explore your own internal schema related to that situation. And doing so, you give yourself the opportunity to master it and even rewire it consciously.
The Déjà Vu can sometimes make you feel sadness, despair or oddness. But once you get the meaning from, you’re giving yourself the chance to transform the Déjà Vu as an alley to make the change deeply from inside.
The whole process is about raising your consciousness, growing your potential and letting the flow through yourself!
The Déjà Vu is a gift, make sure to accept it!