Believing is Seeing
January 29th, 2008 by Richard CockrumOne of my favorite lines from the movie The Santa Clause is
Seeing isn’t believing. Believing is seeing.
Part of the mainstream of society is starting to take it’s first steps towards realizing the effectiveness of this belief.
NPR reported on a study on hotel maids performed by Ellen Langer. Langer decided to study the effect of perceptions, what we know as beliefs, in a group of hotel maids. Most of these maids, even though they were active the entire work day, believed that they didn’t get much, if any, exercise.
The maids were divided into two groups. Both groups performed their normal duties. One group was just observed by researchers as they went about their work. The other group was also observed as they worked, but this group was told how many calories each of their actions was using, and alerted to the fact that their work met the surgeon general’s definition of an active lifestyle.
Results at the end of the study - the second group lost weight, decreased their blood pressure, and decreased their waist-to-hip ratio (they lost stomach fat). The first group was in the same physical condition they were in when the study started.
As their beliefs changed, so did the physical bodies of the second group of maids. Believing was literally seeing. Physical change that could be measured, poked, and prodded came about due to the influence of beliefs.
Your world is in your control.
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January 30th, 2008 at 11:39 am
Rick,
I read that study too. I couldn’t help but think that the placebo effect is scientific proof of the law of attraction. What else could explain it?
January 30th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
That’s one of the thoughts that went through my mind when I first read the study, too, Steve. The two - placebo effect and law of attraction- are related. I don’t care if the mainstream thinks of it in terms of the law of attraction, the placebo effect, or the effect of suggestion, as long as people start taking control of and responsibility for their own lives, their own outcomes, through the use the tools we come to earth with.