The Psychology of Manifesting: How to Create the Life You Want

Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson

Being Well

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Mental Health

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🗓️ 27 May 2024

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Forrest and Dr. Rick explore “manifesting:” the idea that our thoughts impact the world around us, and by changing those thoughts we can change our lives. Talking about manifesting is complicated, because on the one hand our thoughts really do matter. On the other, manifesting is closely tied to a small mountain of problematic pseudoscience. They discuss and debate some of the issues with manifesting and the law of attraction before focusing on how to apply key psychological principles to create the life you want. Rick and Forrest talk about creating clarity around our goals, setting intentions, improving self-worth and self-efficacy, and overcoming some of the negative unconscious beliefs that can get in our way, before exploring authenticity, consistent effort, and working with fear and inhibition. Then Rick closes the episode by walking us through a practical example of how to change a belief. You can watch this episode on YouTube. Key Topics: 0:00: Introduction 3:00: Defining manifestation, and separating psychological and supernatural mechanisms of action 6:55: The mind-body connection, and the psychological aspects of manifesting 15:50: Charlatanism, preying on uncertainty, and the problems with the law of attraction 25:20: Changing behavior vs. changing thoughts, and the lure of the supernatural 32:10: If you want to skip the context, start here. 32:35: Getting what we subconsciously believe we are worthy of, and “don’t know” mind 38:50: Identifying wants, surrendering to the best within us, and using pain as a guide 48:55: Embracing the reality of consistent effort 54:55: How to change a negative belief 1:08:10: Recap I am now writing on Substack, check out my work there. Support the Podcast: We're now on Patreon! If you'd like to support the podcast, follow this link. Sponsors Join over a million people using BetterHelp, the world’s largest online counseling platform. Visit betterhelp.com/beingwell for 10% off your first month! If you’re navigating something messy, call The Dr. John Delony Show. Dr. John shares practical advice on how to connect with people, face depression, overcome anxiety, and learn what it means to be well. Listen wherever you get your podcasts. Transform your health with the ZOE Science & Nutrition podcast. Find it wherever you listen to podcasts. OneSkin focuses on delivering more than superficial results for your skin. Get started today with 15% off using code BEINGWELL at oneskin.co. Connect with the show: Subscribe on iTunes Follow Forrest on YouTube Follow us on Instagram Follow Forrest on Instagram Follow Rick on Facebook Follow Forrest on Facebook Visit Forrest's website

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and
0:05.0	welcome to being well, I'm Forrest Tanssen.
0:10.0	If you're new to the podcast, thanks for listening today.
0:12.0	And if you've listened before,
0:13.7	welcome back. If you're listening to a podcast like ours, or if you're interested in personal growth,
0:19.6	psychology, and self-help broadly, you've probably bumped into the idea of manifest it. and The basic idea behind manifesting is that our thoughts impact the world around us,
0:34.6	and we attract to us things that have a similar energy to the thoughts that we think.
0:39.8	So if we think positive thoughts, we get positive things, and if we think negative thoughts, well, not so much.
0:45.0	This means that just by changing how we think we can change our lives.
0:49.0	And we've explored many ideas that are similar to that here on this podcast.
0:53.4	For example, cognitive restructuring is a process in cognitive behavioral therapy
0:57.6	where people work to challenge and deconstruct unhelpful thoughts and replace them with more useful ones.
1:04.0	CBT is pretty much the most research-validated approach to therapy out there,
1:08.4	so there has to be something useful there, right?
1:12.4	Talking about manifesting is complicated
1:15.0	because our thoughts really do matter
1:17.0	and there's a psychology behind the ideas that are
1:20.0	embedded in manifesting that is based on some very useful and very, very real stuff.
1:26.9	And it makes sense to explore that stuff on a podcast like ours.
1:30.0	But the problem at least for me is that manifesting is also closely tied to a bunch of ideas that are the trifecta of extremely popular, largely disconnected from reality, and, at least in my opinion,
1:44.0	kind of actively harmful to people.
1:46.2	So we're going to be waiting through manifesting today
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