@js24@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world • 1 year agoManifesting is just like praying. In both you strongly wish something to happenmessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up198arrow-down113file-text
arrow-up185arrow-down1message-squareManifesting is just like praying. In both you strongly wish something to happen@js24@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world • 1 year agomessage-square13fedilinkfile-text
minus-square@TomJoadcakelink9•1 year agoBe honest: Who do you think is more likely to hit the game-winning free-throw? a guy who looks at the hoop thinking “aw crap I’m gonna airball, and everyone is gonna laugh at me” a guy who looks at the hoop thinking “okay I’m gonna swish this, and my whole team is going to celebrate” Many top-achievers describe the power of visualizing success (positive manifestation). Many people who pray are cultivating healthy virtues (patience, kindness, strength). Have you ever heard the term “self-fulfilling prophecy”?
minus-square@Dblock1111@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink14•1 year ago“The man who thinks he can and the man who thinks he can’t are both right.” — Confucius
minus-square@RGB3x3@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink4•1 year ago“They don’t think it be like it is, but it do.” — Oscar Gamble
minus-squarerockerfacelinkfedilink4•1 year agoPlacebo effect is real. So is the opposite. Not in the way that it magically changes the universe, but it can influence your own body
minus-square@TomJoadcakelink5•1 year agoA friendly thought for you: If your beliefs can change your body (which is part of the universe), and your changed body can further change the universe… then transitively… your beliefs can change the universe, right? And if that is true, then perhaps belief can be more than a placebo… Maybe it is a real, effective, psychological muscle.
minus-squarerockerfacelinkfedilink1•1 year agoI mean, placebo is still a placebo. My point was that a placebo doesn’t automatically mean 0% effective. I’m not using it as a negative term here. But I do get your point, I think.
minus-square@ThatWeirdGuy1001@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilink1•1 year agoI only believe in manifestation in the sense of “if you say we’re slow and we get busy I’ll kick your ass” stuff. Don’t tempt fate essentially.
Be honest:
Who do you think is more likely to hit the game-winning free-throw?
Many top-achievers describe the power of visualizing success (positive manifestation).
Many people who pray are cultivating healthy virtues (patience, kindness, strength).
Have you ever heard the term “self-fulfilling prophecy”?
“The man who thinks he can and the man who thinks he can’t are both right.”
— Confucius
“They don’t think it be like it is, but it do.”
— Oscar Gamble
Placebo effect is real. So is the opposite. Not in the way that it magically changes the universe, but it can influence your own body
A friendly thought for you:
If your beliefs can change your body (which is part of the universe), and your changed body can further change the universe…
then transitively… your beliefs can change the universe, right?
And if that is true, then perhaps belief can be more than a placebo… Maybe it is a real, effective, psychological muscle.
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I mean, placebo is still a placebo. My point was that a placebo doesn’t automatically mean 0% effective. I’m not using it as a negative term here. But I do get your point, I think.
I only believe in manifestation in the sense of “if you say we’re slow and we get busy I’ll kick your ass” stuff.
Don’t tempt fate essentially.