Your garbage disposal blinks; the balls your neighbor’s dog plays with keep landing in your backyard; you are kissed by your aunt and you smell her perfume; a bird crashes into her office window; and someone has dumped a box of erasers on your front lawn.
These trivial random incidents intrude into our lives relentlessly. We cannot escape from them. We didn’t even choose them. They pick us out and then trap us in a web of the most common and boring things that have ever existed.
Most of them are so boring, annoying and unpleasant that we consider them a total waste of time and energy. They interfere with our plans. They irritate and distract us.
They can even plunge us into a bad mood.
And yet…many of these ordinary ordinary events that happen to us every day are full of amazing surprises! Seen in the right light, they can be helpful, supportive, compassionate, and even wise.
Treated like geocaches, they could make any day a great one!
The word “geocaching” refers to GEO – physical and human landscapes on earth – and to CACHING, the process of hiding and finding treasures in human landscapes.
Since May 3, 2000, when David Ulmer placed the first cache near Portland, Oregon, millions of thousands of geocachers have been searching for more than a million geocaches. These are registered on various online websites and are placed in more than 100 countries around the world on all seven continents.
Typically using multi-million dollar satellites via a handheld GPS unit, geocachers search for hidden caches on remote hiking trails, dense forests, and even within urban centers. The rewards? Apparently dollar store trinkets. However, every geocacher fan knows that there is more. The thrill of the chase, meeting tough challenges, visiting new places, learning new things.
However, there is a new game where random daily events are becoming the ultimate geocacher’s paradise. Similar to a treasure hunt and because of its wide range of personal rewards, this new sport is becoming a healthy pastime for people of all ages, as well as their families, friends, classes, and work teams. It’s about uncovering many hackneyed daily events that contain caches of considerable personal value. Treasure that is personally relevant treasure. A treasure that is a real treasure, so cleverly hidden that it takes cunning and persistence to hunt it down.
With no monetary expense and using keen perception instead of a GPS unit, you too, as a treasure hunter, can learn to spot trite everyday occurrences that are geocaches and claim their rewards hidden in plain sight.
The challenge of the game is to encourage your mind to go off the beaten path and shift to experience a new dimension where these puzzle caches can be identified and opened.
Geocaching with trivial everyday events is finding secret treasures hidden within them. And this is done by deciphering the drama that represents the insignificant event that happens randomly. You decipher the gesture of the mini-drama so that it speaks to you.
This is a very fun game that can be played alone or with friends and family through the maze of daily life. It’s a simple and easy way to enjoy your everyday world by becoming an exotic, hauntingly compassionate, artistic and entertaining new environment.
The game can be played on three levels.
Level 1: You can play this game just for fun, for mystery, as a new source of entertainment, and for amazing surprises.
Level 2: You can play this game to get moral and emotional support, improve your mood and love of life, and have more joy. You can play this game to get practical advice for greater success in your work or relationships, for direction and self-guidance.
Level 3: You can even play it to strengthen your faith in life, its purpose and meaning, and as a catapult into other dimensions of reality, sacred or exotic.
The method is the same for all three levels. Only your intention is different.
So when you perceive a hackneyed event like a geocache, it becomes a geoCOACH that can even give you personal advice! Or highly personalized information and advice that you can’t get any other way. Or moral and emotional support (go figure!) Or a new way of thinking regarding a particular problem you may have. Or clues to long-forgotten talents or previously undiscovered parts of yourself. Or new spaces and dimensions of experience, some of these numinous, sacred and mystical, others exotic, humorous, useful and fun. And much much more.