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I believe it's true. I read a book about it I will have to remember what it was called and who wrote it.
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Individually this works when people who are given placebos get better. They think they have real medicine which will make them better, and because they believe they'll get better they do.
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Individually this works when people who are given placebos get better. They think they have real medicine which will make them better, and because they believe they'll get better they do.
In a group I think it would be harder (tho not impossible) to affect change through belief because it's not often that a group of people all believe the same thing or want the same thing to happen. When there's dissonance in the energy/thought being sent out anything that did manifest would be tainted.
I know of one experiment on this. My mom had found a site (last year I think) where the creators of the site wanted people to meditate on world peace for 11 minutes at 11 am and pm every day for 11 days. The idea was that if they could get as many people as possible to do this at the same time, the energy of those thoughts could be magnified. They weren't trying to manifest world peace now, but instead were trying to use positive energy to turn the tide of violence and war so that there would be more peace in the future.
I think our culture of instant gratification works against our ability to make things like this work because we focus on wanting to manifest things NOW rather than affecting a permanent change in the future. And permanent changes take longer to create and root than temporary stop-gaps.
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Depends how you look at it but I tend to agree but only by bending the term "reality" to encompass an individual's perspective.
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Depends how you look at it but I tend to agree but only by bending the term "reality" to encompass an individual's perspective.
The example I find most relevant is like when someone is labelled a trouble-maker and develops a reputation, it can stick to that person no matter how hard they try to change. Much like we can initiate our own karma, I think others can as well. Situations and behaviours form around that person without any direct intention, a stigma that cannot be washed clean because so many factors and opinions continue to lead that person into the continued idea that they are a trouble-maker. If more people had the devotion to break the cycle of judgment for themselves, that person has more opportunity to influence other's perceptions without a stigma attached to it.
For me, I know that people begin to develop opinions about me when I'm not in their presence and much of the contact I share with them is heavily influenced by those opinions rather than my direct behaviour and intention.
People form stereotypes and judgments on others to make sense of the world around them, often these are not entirely accurate. If we can acknowledge that how we think shapes our reality and decide to shift our thinking from time to time, we may get a better idea of what is actually real and what is a product of our beliefs.
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Self fulfilling prophecy.
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Self fulfilling prophecy.
Don't be unreasonable and think that if everyone believed in unicorns then they are real. Everyone believing that the earth was flat, didn't make it so. But movements live the Civil Rights movement happened because enough people believed it could happen.
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I believe that if one person believes in something enough, it manifests itself and becomes reality within the mind of that one.
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No. No matter how many people used to believe the world was flat, it never became flat.
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If this really works, then i would get my friends together and we would all believe into existence $1,000,000,000 in each of our bank accounts. Unfortunately I have my doubts of this working... :)
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Yes. It's sometimes called a self fulfilling prophecy. It can be liberating or crippling, depending on its application.
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It certainly appears that way!
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