The promise and perils of manifesting

All In The Mind

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Life Sciences, Health & Fitness, Science

4.4 • 785 Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

If you could manifest anything into your life, what would it be? A perfect partner, your dream house, winning the lottery?

Manifesting promises a limitless potential of dreams to achieve — through methods like vision boards and affirmations.

But does manifesting actually help us realise our goals? Is it harmless fun? Healthy positive thinking? Or can manifestation lead the brain down some dark alleys that you might not expect?

In this episode we mention another episode called Visualisation and values — goal setting like a winner. It's part two of our two part series on the athlete's mindset. Part one is called A winning mindset — how top athletes think.

This episode was first broadcast in March 2024.

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0:00.0	ABC Listen, Podcasts, Radio, News, Music, and more.
0:07.8	Hey, Sana here.
0:09.6	This episode is one from our archives.
0:12.4	Considering many of us are probably looking at New Year's resolutions and setting fresh goals,
0:17.4	we thought it was a good time to take another look at the promise and peril of manifesting.
0:23.6	It's 2006.
0:25.6	Australian TV producer Rhonda Byrne has just published a book called The Secret, based on our earlier film with the same name.
0:32.6	This secret gives you everything you want.
0:35.6	And it's about to become a global phenomenon.
0:38.2	You can have, do, or be anything.
0:41.6	Oprah gets on board.
0:43.0	It becomes a New York Times bestseller.
0:45.1	And more than 35 million copies are eventually sold,
0:48.8	making it one of the best-selling self-help books ever.
0:52.7	So what is the secret?
0:54.9	The idea that basically if you put out to this higher power, a desire, a wish, a feeling, a thought,
1:03.2	that the universe, like a magnet, will hear that and then draw those things towards you
1:08.8	in your life in this kind of real cosmic way.
1:11.2	So that's the first thing.
1:12.6	The second thing is that you can harness that power.
1:17.2	The secret isn't the first book to push this kind of idea.
1:20.6	It's just the newest edition in the manifesting canon,
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