We all suffer them. However, some people are confronted with more accidents in their lives than others, and some suffer more serious consequences as a result of accidents than others. I have always wondered why. The effects we see that accidents have on our immediate lives is not coherent with the type of accident that has occurred. I have known a man who, coming down from his pigeon loft, missed a step, tumbled down two steps and ended up on the lawn. He was paralysed from the neck down. On the other hand, someone who wrapped his car around a strong tree walked away with a few scratches. I am amazed by those observations and as I now know that, in nature and therefore in life, everything has a reason, I try to understand cause and effect in the case of accidents.

To begin with, it is good to make clear what we are talking about here. An accident is ‘an unexpected event, typically sudden in nature and associated with injury, loss, or harm’. It is unexpected. In other words, it isn’t planned. One cannot foresee it. It happens spontaneously. As we have encountered in other aspects of life, relating to health issues, something that happens spontaneously is trigged by the interaction of energies. It is, if you like, a natural occurrence, even though we don’t see it coming. It is unexpected in the sense that we are not understanding those energetic interactions, are unaware of them, and are therefore surprised by the occurrence itself. It is ignorance that makes us refer to the event as an accident. To nature and the natural forces it is most logical, even unavoidable, and certainly predictable given the present circumstances.

It is also interesting to note that sometimes people who either know the victim well, or people who are observing what the victim has been trying to do, comment afterwards on the accident they suffered in words like “It was an accident waiting to happen”. In other words, these people are not so surprised by what has happened. These people did see it coming. These people seem to have an understanding of the forces that are at work in this specific instance. To them, the event, which is branded an accident, is not unexpected but entirely predictable. So, if some accidents are, to some people, predictable and a logical outcome of what they are watching unfolding, then why don’t have all accidents a logical explanation?

Maybe they do, and it is just us who are unable to see the logic, to see the interaction of forces, of energies, that will, inevitably, lead to an accident. And if there is a logic to it then of course the events that are now called accidents will simply become consequences. You were asking for it, now you got it, kind of thing.

Everything in life is about interactions. Nothing creates an effect unless it influences something else. Hence, an accident is the result of an interaction between two or more forces, energies. It is fair to assume that in the case of personal accidents the energies that play a part in the event are on the one hand those of the individual involved and on the other hand the energies in the field that surrounds that individual.

When we inadvertently drop something or we bump our head against the cupboard door, we don’t think about an interaction between inner energies and outer energies. Nevertheless, that is what it must be, as all effects are created that way. Why haven’t you hit your head against the open cupboard door on all other occasions? Why just now, and only now? What is different in this moment compared to all other similar moments? One could say: “I wasn’t paying enough attention”. Then the question arises, why not? What was distraction you so much that you didn’t notice the open cupboard door? So in terms of interaction of energies we can identify the following two in this example. On the one hand your conscious mind is busy doing something, fully concentrated on that issue, while your unconscious mind is in conflict with what you are doing at that time. It may be that you are even aware of the fact that you are resenting ‘having’ to do this right now. It may be you are doing it but you are really thinking about something totally different. Your mind may be somewhere else! Two diverging energy lines, which results in a ‘blank’ space in between, a gap in your observation. You never saw the open cupboard door and that is why you bumped into it. One could say that you were not in the moment.

In general terms, ‘the cause’ of a personal accident is to be found in the divergence between the conscious and the unconscious mind. One is consciously busy with things that the unconscious mind does not have time for right now or, even worse, knows it is a danger to one’s life. The unconscious mind, experienced mostly as ‘intuition’, governs life, keeps us safe from avoidable danger and drives us towards the sustenance we require in life. Any serious divergence of energy away from these permanently protected goals is likely, at some point, to create an energetic shortcut, which results in an event that we call ‘an accident’. In some occasions we are afterwards able to see the benefit of the accident, which is generally referred to as a blessing in disguise. Of course, the disguise is only a cover-up for our ignorance.

We will classify this type of accident as an internal accident. It is caused by a serious incongruence between energies in the internal fields of the victim, the conscious and the unconscious mind.

Any accident that is the result of our own ‘stupidity’ is caused by us ‘not being in the moment’, in one way or another. The result of the accident, the impact on our life, can be immediate and only lasting a short period of time, or it can drastically change our world, and anything in between. Whatever the case may be, it will always be an appropriate effect in terms of what it is achieving. It may simply be a wakeup call where no real harm is done. It may be that certain functions will be affected for a while, in which case one really needs to look at how the harm or injury impacts one’s life directly and how one might do things in a different way. Or it may be that irreversible changes have taken place, in which case one is forced to do things in a different way. The interaction, orchestrated by the unconscious mind, results in what the individual truly requires at that moment in life. It is not what he or she wants. The changes the impact of the accident bring stops a specific way of life, one that the individual consciously has been pursuing but one that, as deemed by nature, is a danger to the survival of the individual.It may be a serious invitation to find ways to do certain things differently in life, or an invitation to the changes best to make for the future. In the worse-case scenario, the changes are being made for you. The result of the accident affects you in such a way that life will never be the same anymore.

As all interactions are always appropriate and proportionate, it stands to reason that a life changing impact must be a desperate attempt of your unconscious mind to implement those necessary changes in your life. Invariably, your unconscious mind has had previous interactions with the life you are consciously trying to force and, take it from me, it has been sending you messages. The language used is one of ‘not feeling right’, or discomfort in a specific part of the body or mind, or smaller, less significant, reoccurring accidents, all aimed at drawing your attention to the fact that where your life is heading right now is not where you need to be. But you haven’t been listening. You have become so focussed on what you believe ‘to be the right thing’ that you no longer can hear the voice of sense, the call of nature. As the danger to your life, to your survival, keeps increasing so does the power of the energies crashing into one another – messages are becoming ‘louder’, more obvious – eventually resulting in an explosion with non-reversible effects, but aimed at keeping you alive, even at the loss of certain functions or capabilities.

When we form an integral part of the accident event itself, as in our actions clearly contributing to the event, it is not difficult to see that an inner conflict, creating high tension in mind and body, plays a significant part in what happens. However, there are also accidents that happen to people without them playing an obvious role in the unfolding events. When an aeroplane falls from the sky, people on board are likely to be killed without every single one of them having contributed, in some way, to the technical problem that caused the crash. Walking the way home from work you may well be hit by a car, which is, for no obvious reason, spinning out of control. But there are also examples from the natural world, not just from the human world. Not so long ago, if you were in the wrong place at the wrong time, you might have been washed away by a tsunami in Thailand or in the Philippines. You may be struck by lightning. You may be injured by hail stones or falling rocks. You may be lifted of your feet by a tornado.

If it seems that your internal energies, harmonious enough not to seriously disrupt your existence, do not directly play a part in the type of accident, then you are a simple victim, innocent in all senses of the word. But what exactly are you a victim of? Forces, beyond your own capabilities, ‘invade’ your space and bowl you over. You do not possess the necessary power to deflect the incoming energy burst. So, the energy that disrupts your harmonics, the energy balance that keeps all elements of the manifestation that is known as ‘I’ together, is much more powerful than your own personal constructive power. Let’s say that the adhesive that keeps your elements together to form ‘I’ and to perform as ‘I’, is not strong enough to withstand the outer energies it is being exposed to. Also, this energy enters your personal energy field from the outside. Hence, once again we have an interaction between your personal energy field and an outside energy field, which can be natural or human world energy in nature. In this instance, it is the force field outside the field of a person, which contains both the conscious and the unconscious mind of that individual. The point is that when such a force presents itself to your personal energy field, it turns out that you do not possess the flexibility and the ability to make the necessary changes, to absorb the effect of the interaction, within the framework of your manifestation. The limits of the way you were constructed become overstretched and the construction, your life, ends or becomes permanently disrupted, in the same way a ceramic dish breaks into pieces if you drop it on the floor.

These occurrences are due to the fact that within the energy field, in which we as individuals form a separated entity, an energy build-up occurs under specific conditions. This can reach levels to which some of the energy entities within that field, some of which manifesting as matter (living or otherwise), have no adequate response. The power, concentrated in this manner as a result of specific conditions, dislodges certain harmonic manifestations within. In other words, it blows them apart or seriously alters their structure and function.

We will classify this type of accident as an external accident. Here, the forces that interact with one another are your individual energy field and the outside energy field, which may develop an energy build-up within the human world or within the nature world. The latter fields surround the individual energy field and can therefore be called ‘the outside’.

To illustrate this. – Whilst talking to a friend I am walking down the stairs. For no apparent reason I stumble and lose my balance. I fall and inadvertently I push my friend. We both fall down the stairs. Mine is an internal accident and my friend’s is an external accident.

Are we now truly talking of ‘an unexpected event, sudden in nature’? The answer is yes, for as long as we don’t understand the dynamics of energies, the composition of the relevant fields and the mode of energetic interactions instigating and powering such an energy concentration. In other words, if we were to comprehend the energies in the universe, in the living world, in nature, none of these sudden events would be unexpected. Just as one can see a thunderstorm building in the sky in the specific way the clouds are gathering – once one knows the tell-tale signs – one would not only be able to foresee any major force impacting an individual life, but also one would know the kind of effect it would have on that particular individual, in those specific circumstances. The unexpected event would become predictable, logical and unavoidable.

Just as a good technician can ‘sense’ that a machine he knows inside out is not working ‘properly’, so can insight and knowledge in the energies of nature and of life provide us with a foresight others cannot possess. The main problem of getting our knowledge up to the level of the technician and his machine is that we didn’t built this machine, this life. We didn’t, consciously, built our bodies or our minds, so understanding them on a deep and intricate level is no mean feat. However, by acknowledging our ignorance about the subject and subscribing to the role of student, whereby we sit still and observe, we undertake a serious step towards a greater understanding. We should not interfere in these processes if we want to find out what happens next. In order to learn about the effects specific interactions have on each other, it is imperative that we do nothing to disrupt their natural way of interacting with each other. Intervention, in any way, shape or form, disrupts this natural process and our essential learning programme. Nature has its way. It doesn’t need us to help it along.

The good news is that we do not have to finish the course before we are equipped to act. We do not need to understand all of life before we are capable of making useful decisions about how to support our own life. Adhering to two basic principles, we create the possibility of avoiding many direct confrontations and escalations within our personal energy field.

1. Only information gained from your own experiences is valuable in your own life
2. When something appears to cause harm or conflict stop your action, thought, feeling, that is involved in that specific process

But before we start, let’s make one thing clear. There is nothing one can consciously do to avoid an external accident or to minimalize its effect. It is beyond human capability at this point in human development. So I would suggest you stop worrying about it. If it happens, it happens, but living a life in constant fear for an event you cannot alter seems to me a waste of a life. No, let’s busy ourselves with the parts of life that we can alter, the suffering that we can alleviate.

Becoming clever about this, becoming intelligent, has nothing to do with thinking. Stop guessing what the message could be hidden in an event in our life. Things that go wrong or accidents that happen do mean something, but trying to find that answer inside your conscious mind, following logical steps of deduction, is looking for it in the wrong place.

To illustrate this. – One night I was walking home when I came across a man who was clearly looking for something underneath a street light. I asked him what he was doing and he replied: “I lost my keys to the house.” So I started looking too. After some time I asked him where he thought he might have lost them. “There by the front door”, he answered. In despair, I called out, “Then why are we not looking for them by the front door?” “Oh”, he said, ‘There is more light here.”

Life is a teaching facility and its methodology is personal experience. We learn by doing, by trying things out. Basically it boils down to doing something and observing what effect that creates. Examining the effect, readjusting what we are doing and re-observing the effect. Gradually, step by step, we will improve what we are doing. And what if ‘what we are doing’ is how we believe living a life in harmony, at peace with ourselves, should look like? Well, if your life is truly in harmony, you will be free from disease and accidents.

Any event in our life, any accident, will have an effect on the action we were engaged in. Don’t ask the question ‘why’ this happened. Observe what the effect is on what you were doing. What does it to you? And how does that effect impact what you were doing? Now realise that ‘something’ is telling you to stop doing that or stop doing it in that way. Acknowledge that signal and give it credit.

The next step is to remember what you have observed and not to repeat that ‘mistake’. Think about doing it differently and execute that thought. Don’t worry about doing ‘the right thing’. In learning, there is no such thing, just as a stupid question doesn’t exist. All you need to figure out, through trial and error, through experience, is how to handle life and the changing balance of life as it presents itself to you. What does life show you as the priorities in your life? Not what society or your friends tell you. No, what are you experiencing as the priorities in life. What does life show you is a good way of approaching your life in general terms? What does life show you as the best way for you to handle conflicts? Well,

• change your habits, your thoughts, your beliefs, your convictions, and your feelings to match those messages as best as you can.
• don’t be disheartened by so called failures. Failures is how we learn. That is when we pay extra attention.
• keep repeating the method: experience – observe the effect – change – experience – observe the effect – change – …

So simply by observing the circumstances and the effect of those circumstances, as seen by us, we can learn how things work. Why is a different matter altogether. The answer to the ‘why’ question we will become aware of once we have had plenty of well observed experiences. In our analysis and restorative actions we will first go through a number of ‘false’ changes, changes that don’t lead to a permanent balance in life. Only by going through these stages and following the path of learning through experience can we become sure about what it actually is that is ‘right’ for oneself. Life, and living it in the right way, is a marathon, not a sprint. It is all about the long term. Hence, one will have to stay on the case!

Accept accidents as a proper way of communicating with the unconscious.

Avoid accidents by following the instructions from your unconscious gps system.

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