682. Science of Manifesting

So you need to find the thing that you're focusing on. Because if your symptoms are not what you want, if you're not having positive symptoms of belief, of happiness, of energy, then you need to change what it is that you are studying, right? You need to change what it is that you are thinking about all the time. Welcome to the Earn your happy podcast. I'm Lori Harder, founder of The Bliss Project, 3 Time Fitness World champion, fitness expert and cover model, turned self love junkie, lifestyle entrepreneur and author. Each week I'll bring you a guest or a thought that will help you bust through your fears, connect to your soul and get focused and clear so you can elevate your life, business and relationships. We don't wait until we're ready for someone to tell us we're good enough. We take what we want and we anoint ourselves. Get ready to earn, own and unapologetically rock your happiness every single day. Are you with me? Here we go. Foreign. Welcome back to the show. It's time for another quickie because there's always time to fit in inspiration and if you listened to my podcast last week, my quickie last week, I was in a very crazy low place, thankfully. I definitely have done all of the things to kind of lift myself up and out of that place. But I just want to say thank you for all of the love and all of the messages. And also I know that it really is important to share exactly where we're at, all of the people who maybe you listen to in podcasts or, you know, whose books that you read. I think it's so important for all of us to share vulnerably about what the journey really looks like or you feel like when you're going through it that something is wrong with you and there's nothing wrong with you. It's happening to everyone. And it is so important to just be real with your people, with yourself, with your friends so that they can help you, right? It's so much easier to be like, I got this, I got this and you don't got this and nobody is helping because you didn't ask for it. So I just want to say thank you guys so much for just listening and always being there. And today I want to talk about some things that I did. I just want to talk about the science behind manifestation. So I want to talk about why manifestation and positive thinking and doing all the things to get yourself out of those places and getting back to believing it. Right? Like Jamie Kern Lima's new book, which is amazing. Absolutely. Read that book and why believing it is going to get you to where you want to go. So I was reading a blog this morning by abracadabrajournal.com yep, that's what I said. Abracadabra Journal. And it was talking about placebo effect. And we all have heard about placebo effect and the effect that this has on studies, the effect that this has on testing different drugs and things like that. And they used an example of placebo effect of having two groups with the same amount of people in each group, Group one and group two, and talking about how they gave the group one an eczema cream. So this particular group, every group on group one, every person in group one and group two both had eczema that they wanted to treat. They gave group one an actual eczema cream. They gave group two a plain cream that was not supposed to help eczema at all. And group one and group two used it for the same amount of time. Group two was, like I said, told that they were given the same cream and they had the same result at the end of the test, at the end of the amount of days. Now, why does that happen? Because they believed that they were given something that would work for their eczema. So if the results are almost similar, I believe it was just a tiny bit of variance. If the results are almost similar, what would happen if you believed that the strategies and the things that you were doing could work? What would happen if you believed that your plan could work? It doesn't mean that you have to like 100% go into believing. It just means you have to believe it a little bit more than you don't. You just have to believe a little bit more than you don't. That's what my friend Jen Gottlieb always says. You just have to believe it a little bit more than you don't. Saying it again because you guys need to get that. So your thoughts are constantly propelling you or hindering you. Every single thought that you are letting soak into your brain, that you're letting sit there, that you're letting take up real estate, is either helping or hindering you. So I want you to think about what the thoughts are that you're thinking most right now, and that's going to be your result. So it's the choice to say, oh, nope, don't want to be thinking that anymore. What do I want to be thinking and feeling? So something else that this particular blog talks about. This is so interesting. I'm going to read it Right off here it says on the flip side, the placebo effect is also present with negative thinking, which of course elicits negative results. A great example of this is medical student syndrome, which represents the development of symptoms of a specific disease that the medical student is studying. It's been found that around 70 to 80% of medical students develop this syndrome while studying. Okay, let's talk about that. So this goes into the idea of what the hell are you listening to? What are you watching? What type of shows are you watching? Are you watching shows that like, you know, make the world appear to be bad? Are you watching things that are really negative? Are you watching the news all the time? Because that is going to become your reality and you're going to get symptoms just like this medical student syndrome that happens when they are studying a specific disease. 70 to 80% it says of medical students can develop the syndrome while studying specific diseases. So if you are, AKA studying sl, watching something very negative, you're going to get the symptom of that. So I want you to look today. What is the symptom that you have and what is it from? Because a symptom is only from something. So get to the root and figure out why you're having this symptom. Is it a friend who's very negative? Is it someone that you're hanging around that you are catching they're cold, quote, unquote, their negative thoughts? You're catching whatever it is that they are putting down. And you really have to start thinking about that because, you know, and it doesn't mean you have to get rid of everything because the world, you would have to shut out the world, right? You'd have to live in a little box in order to do that. But you just have to make sure that you're around the positive a little bit more than you are around the negative. And what's going to happen is the more that you're around the positive and the more you listen to the positive podcast, the more you listen to positive. Only play, you know, more positive shows or things that are a little more upbeat or read positive books or listen to positive music, you guys. Because I used to, even when I was younger, I used to hang around a group of people that would listen to like really, just really negative, dark music. And I would be so affected by that. And I would notice that my mood would change whenever that would happen and I had to start listening to like super upbeat poppy music or something that was happy. Because your mood is directly impacted, you be you get the symptoms of whatever the thing is.

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So you need to find the thing that you're focusing on. Because if your symptoms are not what you want, if you're not having positive symptoms of belief, of happiness, of energy, then you need to change what it is that you are studying, right? You need to change what it is that you are thinking about all the time. So you guys, I'm sending you so much love today. I would love to hear you know if this podcast impacted you, if you had an aha moment if you are going to change one of the things that you're focusing on or studying like these students. So you guys, I just appreciate you more than I can tell you and until next time, earn your happy. Bye everyone. Thank you guys so much for spending this time with me on the earn your happy podcast. I am so glad that you stopped by. If you could take one second to share this episode with someone you think would love it, that would be absolutely amazing and we would be forever grateful. Also, please leave us a review if you feel so moved by going to itunes and leaving us an honest thought, an honest comment, tell us what you think, tell us what you want to hear more of. It would really help us out on our journey to helping thousands and thousands of people. Until then, don't forget to earn your happy. Thanks again guys. Bye bye.