See patterns and make connections. Then you will find peace, inside and outside.

I first noticed patterns when I began my love affair with the physical universe. So many cool shapes in galaxies and nebulae, the interaction between the visible (stars) and the invisible (gravity). Always the give and take of matter and energy, the mutual shaping of one by the other.

I love to have conversations where I just riff off the subject (lavender? I loved growing it in England when I lived there; the scent always relaxes me; how about you?) and share my connection to it. Pick a topic, almost any topic, and I will have connection.

Use Patterns to Make Connections

I’ve also found the ability to see patterns and make connections valuable in all my creative activities, including:

• poetry (metaphors to feelings)
• relationships (common ground to peaceful resolution)
• reading Tarot cards (symbolic patterns to messages from the universe)
• website design (color and layout to vision and brand)

What about you? I’d estimate you’ve got some unconscious pattern recognition and connection going on in your brain, too. Think about the patterns at work in your own life and the reality around you. What sorts of feelings, messages, visions and resolutions happen because you consciously or unconsciously make those connections?

Conscious Connection from Pattern Recognition

Let’s make this a more conscious effort. It will change your brain, for one thing, and give others the opportunity to change theirs. It will create a new reality perspective for you and them. All because you saw the patterns and communicated the connections.

This way, instead of growing difference and division in our world, we can grow harmony and peace. See the patterns. Express the connections you see (speak, write!), and those energetic ripples will change the world.

Today, start your pattern practice: Find the intersections, listen to the harmonies, show us the patterns you see. Practice makes progress. And this progress makes peace.