Most people associate manifesting with material achievements, things like money, success, relationships, overcoming challenges.

But that's like going to school and thinking you could just manifest straight A's just by focusing on getting an A.

That's not how it works.

When it comes to manifesting, scientifically, it's hard to prove whether or not manifesting is actually

real. But there is one statistic that may offer a clue, which is the placebo effect.

Studies show that in some cases, the placebo effect can work about 50% of the time, meaning

50% of the people who take a sugar pill instead of the actual medication experience the

same benefit as those who took the real thing.

And this means that belief alone can be just as powerful as the

actual medication. Now, let's bring that back to manifestation. Because at the ground level,

manifesting is often treated as something that you put on your vision board or something that you

say with affirmation and you wait for

the thing to happen, right? It's the idea that you put your desires out into the universe and

then they just somehow magically show up. And that's essentially what that documentary,

The Secret, was about and why it's gotten so much criticism over

the years because it gives the impression that if you just think about something and you focus on it,

something like, I don't know, a Lamborghini, that it'll eventually appear in your driveway,

that you'll attract it into your life.

The problem is most people associate manifesting with material achievements or with blessings,

right?

Things like money, success, relationships, overcoming challenges.

But that's kind of like going to school and thinking you could just

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