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Speaker 1: I am Joshua PE Warren, and each week on this show,
Speaker 1: I'll be bringing you brand new mind blowing content, news, exercises,
Speaker 1: and weird experiments you can do at home, and a
Speaker 1: lot more. On this edition of the show, How to
Speaker 1: Get Lucky and the Top Three Simple Manifestation Tips. Is
Speaker 1: being lucky the same thing as being a good manifestor well,
Speaker 1: what is love? I recently read an email to you
Speaker 1: that I see you from a man named Donald who
Speaker 1: took my Haunted Boulder City Ghost and UFO tour just
Speaker 1: outside of Las Vegas, Nevada. That's Haunted Bouldercity dot com.
Speaker 1: And he had a wonderful time. Afterward, he and the
Speaker 1: tour guide, Nick Weird, they sat around and had all
Speaker 1: kinds of interesting conversations, and he wrote at the end
Speaker 1: of his email to me, Nick and I were discussing luck,
Speaker 1: and I don't remember if you have done a podcast
Speaker 1: on that. If not, that would be a good subject.
Speaker 1: I did well on a Roulette wheel, and I don't
Speaker 1: believe it was just luck, because when I was determined
Speaker 1: that I was going to win, with no doubt in
Speaker 1: my mind, I did. It took a few days, but
Speaker 1: I was able to double the money brought to play with. Well, well, well,
Speaker 1: would you call that luck or something else? You know,
Speaker 1: I have talked about luck and the concept of being
Speaker 1: lucky and how to manifest lucky and fortunate things off
Speaker 1: and on for years, and I've mentioned it many times
Speaker 1: on this podcast. But you know, he's right. I don't
Speaker 1: think I've ever just sat down and said, Okay, here's
Speaker 1: your one stop shop for this topic on luck and
Speaker 1: manifestation tips. So that's what I'm giving you in this podcast.
Speaker 1: This is when you'll want to bookmark and hopefully send
Speaker 1: to all your friends. It's actually quite a complex and
Speaker 1: nuanced subject to dig into, but I'm going to do
Speaker 1: my best here. So back to the questions. Is being
Speaker 1: lucky the same thing as being a good manifestor or
Speaker 1: is there a difference there? Well, let's just start with
Speaker 1: the definition of luck. I think that's how you get
Speaker 1: to the bottom of anything. According to Wikipedia, luck is
Speaker 1: the phenomenon, the phenomenon, and belief that defines the experience
Speaker 1: of improbable events, especially improbably positive or negative ones. The
Speaker 1: naturalistic interpretation is that positive and negative events may happen
Speaker 1: at any time, both due to random and non random
Speaker 1: natural and artificial processes, and that even improbable events can
Speaker 1: happen by random chance. In this view, the epithet lucky
Speaker 1: or unlucky is a descriptive label that refers to an
Speaker 1: event's positivity, negativity, or improbability. Okay, so now that we
Speaker 1: have that clinical language out of the way, what are
Speaker 1: we really talking about here? So I am. I've been
Speaker 1: reading a lot lot of books about the subject, and
Speaker 1: I'm going to try to combine the best of some
Speaker 1: of these. But let me just start by saying that,
Speaker 1: you know, I have said on this podcast before that
Speaker 1: I think you can believe in luck even if you
Speaker 1: can't explain it. So sometimes examples are the best way
Speaker 1: to dig into these things. Here's a story. I read
Speaker 1: this once before, but it's a story attributed to Napoleon.
Speaker 1: Napoleon was trying to figure out, according to this story,
Speaker 1: which generals took place in charge of an upcoming campaign.
Speaker 1: And Napoleon said to his assigning officer, well, how about
Speaker 1: General Francois who took the bridge the other day, you know?
Speaker 1: And the officer said, well, I think he just got lucky.
Speaker 1: So Napoleon says, well, how about General Bindeuvois who took
Speaker 1: the castle with no losses? And the officer said I
Speaker 1: think he just got lucky to and Napoleon, and exasperated,
Speaker 1: said oh, how about General bo who took the English armory.
Speaker 1: Oh oh, said the officer, he got really lucky. Well fine,
Speaker 1: then exclaimed Napoleon, get me lucky generals. You get the
Speaker 1: point of that. It's a point of perspective and opinion,
Speaker 1: isn't it. Do we have to be able to define
Speaker 1: exactly what luck is in order to believe in it.
Speaker 1: Thomas Jefferson is quoted as saying, I'm a great believer
Speaker 1: in luck. I'm a great believer in luck, and the
Speaker 1: harder I work, the more luck I have. That's interesting.
Speaker 1: I'm a great believer in luck, and the harder I work,
Speaker 1: the more luck I have. It almost is implying that
Speaker 1: luck is not just some external thing that falls from
Speaker 1: the heavens like golden manna, like gold dust on your
Speaker 1: shoulders and makes life easy for you. It almost seems
Speaker 1: like maybe you can do something to make yourself more lucky.
Speaker 1: The American playwright Tennessee Williams said, luck is believing you're lucky.
Speaker 1: So these things do imply that there is some work
Speaker 1: involved or something that has to do with you and
Speaker 1: how you behave that applies to this concept of luck. Now,
Speaker 1: like I say, I've read a lot of books about
Speaker 1: the topic of luck, and I'm going to try to
Speaker 1: give you some some of what I think are that
Speaker 1: the most valuable nuggets from these different sources, as well
Speaker 1: as my own experiences, And it seems to me that
Speaker 1: to most people, there are really two different types of
Speaker 1: being lucky. One form is being lucky when just good
Speaker 1: things happened to you in your life in general, and
Speaker 1: the other form literally has to do with gambling. You know,
Speaker 1: we're just taking a chance on something, a game of chance,
Speaker 1: whether it's you know, the roulette will or a slot
Speaker 1: machine or a card game, or playing the lotto or
Speaker 1: your scratch offs contest. I mean, it almost seems like
Speaker 1: that those are two different forms of being lucky. But
Speaker 1: are those two actually connected. Let's start with lucky things
Speaker 1: in general, happening in your life. Okay, we'll just talk
Speaker 1: about that first, and then I'll get into gambling luck
Speaker 1: and how those two may be connected. All right, So
Speaker 1: one of the books that I've read is a book
Speaker 1: by doctor Richard Wiseman. And this man is a scientist
Speaker 1: who surveyed and studied thousands of people over the years,
Speaker 1: different people. Some describe themselves as lucky, others as unlucky,
Speaker 1: and he wrote a book about his findings. The book
Speaker 1: is called The Luck Factor, The Scientific Study of the
Speaker 1: Lucky Mind. And he said essentially that it boils down
Speaker 1: to one thing what do you think it is? He said,
Speaker 1: it basically boils down to personality, and you might be
Speaker 1: thinking right off the bed, oh man, well that means
Speaker 1: I am. I am out of luck then, because my
Speaker 1: personality stinks and there's nothing I can do but hang on,
Speaker 1: hang on. You may we may resolve that. If you
Speaker 1: have that feeling, maybe you are the person who needs
Speaker 1: to hear this podcast most of all, because I don't
Speaker 1: think your personality is something that you're just stuck with.
Speaker 1: And if you believe that, that's a problem, all right.
Speaker 1: So anyway, he says that basically, when he's talking about personality,
Speaker 1: he means that you know, being in a certain state
Speaker 1: of mind, and that is a state of optimism of openness,
Speaker 1: and that actually allows you to take more chances in
Speaker 1: life and to be more observant because you're always if
Speaker 1: you if you're optimistic, you're always thinking that if somewhere
Speaker 1: something positive is going to happen here to me. And
Speaker 1: you know, even the luckiest people are not lucky all
Speaker 1: the time. But what they do is they realize that
Speaker 1: when one door closes, another door opens. And he also
Speaker 1: said that it helps to feel more extroverted because extroverts
Speaker 1: naturally have a more positive attitude. And what's weird is
Speaker 1: that I myself, I am not a lot of people
Speaker 1: think I'm mister extrovert. But because I've done all these
Speaker 1: TV shows and I used to do live events and stuff,
Speaker 1: I actually don't get out and interact that much with
Speaker 1: people anymore. But I guess I still am kind of
Speaker 1: an extrovert because I'm communicating with you through this show.
Speaker 1: But what do you think he says about neuroticism. Do
Speaker 1: you think lucky people are more or less neurotic? Okay,
Speaker 1: when we come back from this break, I'm going to
Speaker 1: get into that, and then I'm going to say to you, Okay,
Speaker 1: if you think your personality is not quite what it
Speaker 1: should be, well fine, here is what you can do
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Speaker 1: to Strange Things of the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast
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Speaker 1: of Weird, Joshua P. Warren, beaming into your wormhole brain
Speaker 1: from my studio in Sin City, Las Vegas, Nevada, where
Speaker 1: every day is golden and every night is silver. I
Speaker 1: Gietato zoom May and I'm talking of course about how
Speaker 1: to get lucky. But shortly, I'm going to tell you
Speaker 1: some actual manifestation tips. Whether or not being lucky is
Speaker 1: the same as being a good manifestor as something we'll
Speaker 1: dig into, but I'm going to give you some tips.
Speaker 1: All right. Before the break, I was talking about this man,
Speaker 1: doctor Richard Wiseman, and what he learned, and he was
Speaker 1: saying that lucky people, Okay, some people out there are
Speaker 1: more neurotic than others. And I'm not a psychologist, but
Speaker 1: my understanding is that neuroticism has to do with well,
Speaker 1: if you have a high score for neuroticism, you are
Speaker 1: more likely than average to be moody and experience feelings
Speaker 1: like anxiety, worry, fear, anger, frustration in the jealousy, pessimism, guilt,
Speaker 1: a depressed mood, and a feeling of loneliness. Okay, so
Speaker 1: the more neurotic you are, the more you feel like
Speaker 1: those things. I don't believe that any human being has
Speaker 1: zero neuroticism. I mean, that'd just be my guess, but
Speaker 1: lucky people are very very low on the neuroticism scale.
Speaker 1: And if you are, if you think that you're high
Speaker 1: on the neuroticism scale, I can see why that you
Speaker 1: might feel very frustrated to even hear me say that,
Speaker 1: because you think, to yourself, hey, if I have to
Speaker 1: be an extrovert and have a positive attitude, sorry, you know,
Speaker 1: there's just nothing I can do about that. And there
Speaker 1: are other things that, of course doctor Wiseman talks about
Speaker 1: in his book. But you know, here's the thing about
Speaker 1: about trying to change what happens to you, to change
Speaker 1: your tendency to be neurotic. You actually can have some
Speaker 1: control over this. People who are lucky, they always tend
Speaker 1: to smile a lot more. And I wrote about this
Speaker 1: in my book Use the Force, and I call it
Speaker 1: the magic of smiling, because even if you do not
Speaker 1: feel like smiling, you should especially smile then because there's
Speaker 1: something about this mind body environment relationship. And when you
Speaker 1: force a smile on your face, then even if you
Speaker 1: don't feel that it's an authentic smile. If you force
Speaker 1: a smile and you do it consistently, then what you
Speaker 1: begin to find is that the mind and the spirit
Speaker 1: will eventually match that and it elevates it. And even
Speaker 1: if you just pass yourself in the mirror and you
Speaker 1: glimpse in the mirror and you'll start feeling a little
Speaker 1: bit better by doing the simple act of smiling. And
Speaker 1: especially you'll realize that when you smile at other people,
Speaker 1: that other people will treat you better and will actually
Speaker 1: open some doors for you and give you some more opportunities.
Speaker 1: So one of the easiest things you can do to
Speaker 1: to shape yourself into a more optimistic, extroverted, lucky person
Speaker 1: is just a smile. And you know it's interesting. There's
Speaker 1: this other book that I've read. It's called Conscious Luck.
Speaker 1: Eight Secrets to Intentionally Change Your Fortune by Gay Hendrix
Speaker 1: and Carol Klein, and they give you I mean, this
Speaker 1: is a lengthy book. This is like a two hundred
Speaker 1: and okay, so it's almost two hundred pages, and they
Speaker 1: give you the eight secrets to intentionally Change your fortune.
Speaker 1: I don't want to read all of them to you,
Speaker 1: because I bet the authors wouldn't like it if I
Speaker 1: did that. But what I will tell you is that
Speaker 1: the first thing it says is you have to commit
Speaker 1: to being a very lucky person. You have to start
Speaker 1: thinking of yourself as a lucky person, even if you
Speaker 1: don't believe it at first. You have to start thinking
Speaker 1: of yourself as being a lucky person, and I think
Speaker 1: smiling helps you feel like a happier person. Another one
Speaker 1: is to take bold action consistently. Take bold action consistently.
Speaker 1: I think that plays a role in the gambling part
Speaker 1: of this that I'm going to get to in a minute.
Speaker 1: One of the other ones is practice radical gratitude and appreciation.
Speaker 1: The more appreciative of you you are, of your life
Speaker 1: and the good things that you have, and the more
Speaker 1: you focus on those things, then the more or you
Speaker 1: will sort of attract to you. And this also goes
Speaker 1: into something I talk about in my book Use the Force,
Speaker 1: which is, if you start to treat the universe as
Speaker 1: if it is a loving, supportive, generous place, it will
Speaker 1: begin to behave as a loving, supportive, generous place toward you,
Speaker 1: maybe not toward everybody, but toward you. And if you
Speaker 1: start believing that you are lucky, basically, if you start
Speaker 1: feeling lucky, even if you don't believe it's true, if
Speaker 1: you start believing it, then it seems to change the
Speaker 1: things that happen around you. You can change your personality
Speaker 1: to transform yourself into a luckier person. But you know,
Speaker 1: all throughout history there have been people who said, you know,
Speaker 1: I'd rather just have a lucky charm, and I think
Speaker 1: I couldn't do a show about luck without talking about
Speaker 1: a good luck charm. It is any item that is
Speaker 1: believed to bring good luck and it helps to put
Speaker 1: you in that mood. Apparently, according to the experts here,
Speaker 1: when it comes to the history of lucky charms, the
Speaker 1: earliest ones that come from ancient African culture are called
Speaker 1: a moho. Excuse me, a mojo. Okay, you know what
Speaker 1: a mojo is. You hear to hear about somebody's mojo,
Speaker 1: which is a bit of a misusage, But a mojo
Speaker 1: is basically a bag that has various items in it
Speaker 1: that you consider magical. It's some think of it as
Speaker 1: being a prayer in a bag, and in fact, if
Speaker 1: you look back at the etymology of that word, the
Speaker 1: word mojo comes from this word moyo, which is an
Speaker 1: African word meaning quote to the spirits that dwelt within
Speaker 1: the magical charms end quote. So it's literally a bag
Speaker 1: that you put stuff in that makes you feel better.
Speaker 1: It makes you feel lucky, and believe it or not,
Speaker 1: even if it's just a placebo effect, that's fine because
Speaker 1: anything that makes you feel lucky starts to make you luckier.
Speaker 1: Here's something that's kind of intriguing. There's this other book
Speaker 1: that was written by let's see Sherman Ricky. It's a
Speaker 1: very short book you can get on Amazon. It's called
Speaker 1: Are You Lucky or Not? And Sherman Ricky lists some
Speaker 1: very interesting stories about good luck charms. You know how
Speaker 1: you've heard about like a horseshoe being lucky. You see
Speaker 1: someone's house and they have an iron horseshoe hanging above
Speaker 1: the front door, and a lot of people say it's
Speaker 1: got to be turned up so that the two points
Speaker 1: are pointing toward the heavens, so it kind of looks
Speaker 1: like a bowl that's supposed to fill with good luck.
Speaker 1: Apparently that came from that's the story of the lucky
Speaker 1: horseshoe came from Saint Dunstan, who was an English bishop
Speaker 1: who lived in the nine hundreds. And this story it
Speaker 1: relates to how Dunstan nailed a horse shoe to the
Speaker 1: devil's foot when he was asked to reshoe the devil's
Speaker 1: cloven hoof, and this caused the devil great pain, so
Speaker 1: Dunstan only agreed to remove the shoe and release the devil,
Speaker 1: after the devil promised never to enter a place where
Speaker 1: a horseshoe is over the door. So that's supposed to
Speaker 1: be the origin of the lucky horseshoe. Did you know that?
Speaker 1: How about some of these other things that people consider
Speaker 1: lucky in different cultures, there's a long list source. You
Speaker 1: have lucky numbers, like the number seven, which you find
Speaker 1: especially within you know, Christianity, God created the earth in
Speaker 1: seven days. Chinese the number eight, which is sort of
Speaker 1: like the infinity sign, and Norse and that part of
Speaker 1: the world. You have acorns. We have also in Chinese bamboo,
Speaker 1: in certain cultures, lady bird beetles, and Native American cultures
Speaker 1: dream catcher, my goodness, course, the four leaf clover, the
Speaker 1: let's see here, Jade. I'm going to get to the
Speaker 1: rabbit's foot in a minute. But here's something kind of
Speaker 1: cool when you when you go through this guy's book,
Speaker 1: he says the four leaf clover is one of the
Speaker 1: most powerful good luck charms, similar to the horseshoe, because
Speaker 1: it's hard to find a clover with four leaves. The
Speaker 1: probability is one out of ten thousand. And then in Thailand,
Speaker 1: elephants are considered lucky because they symbolize power, strength, wisdom, prosperity,
Speaker 1: and stability. Goldfish represent fortune in China and Japan because
Speaker 1: they are some of the most beautiful and attractive of
Speaker 1: the fishes. In India and Thailand and China, they consider
Speaker 1: the laughing Buddha good fortune because he is he's happy,
Speaker 1: because he's bringing abundance, and boy, we all need to
Speaker 1: laugh more, don't we. Here we go acorns in England
Speaker 1: because that great oaks rise from little acorns, and so
Speaker 1: it's considered to be a symbol of growth, prosperity. Hope,
Speaker 1: when we come back, I'm gonna tell you the really
Speaker 1: weird thing I didn't know about why a rabbit's foot
Speaker 1: is considered lucky. But then I'm gonna shift and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna talk about how this applies to gambling. And then Okay,
Speaker 1: what's the connection between all this and manifesting stuff? And
Speaker 1: what are the top three manifestation tips? Very simple but effective.
Speaker 1: I'm Joshua P.
Speaker 2: Warren.
Speaker 1: You're listening to strange things on the iHeartRadio and Coast
Speaker 1: to Coast AM Paranormal podcast network, and I will be
Speaker 1: back after these important messages. Welcome back to strange things
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Speaker 1: I am your host, Joshua P. Warren, and this is
Speaker 1: the show where the unusual becomes usual. I don't know
Speaker 1: if people carry around a rabbit's foot for luck anymore,
Speaker 1: but when I was a kid, they were everywhere. You
Speaker 1: used to be able to buy them in vending machines.
Speaker 1: And you know, even though people, I guess find that
Speaker 1: gruesome nowadays to carry around a severed foot of an animal,
Speaker 1: people still eat rabbits, so it's not like the rabbits
Speaker 1: are not being being killed. Let's just face it. But
Speaker 1: where did that come from? A lucky rabbit's foot? Well, apparently,
Speaker 1: it says in a variety of cultures, the rabbit's foot
Speaker 1: is carried as an ambulant and believed to bring good luck,
Speaker 1: including Europe, China, Africa, and North and South America. And
Speaker 1: this is one thing that I never thought about before.
Speaker 1: It has been suggested that the rabbit's foot could be
Speaker 1: connected to a European good luck charm called the hand
Speaker 1: of Glory, which is a hand cut from a hanged
Speaker 1: man and then pickled. Now that is I remember A
Speaker 1: long time ago reading about the hand of Glory. Sure enough,
Speaker 1: this was like a big thing in Europe that if
Speaker 1: you could get a hold of the hand of a
Speaker 1: hanged man, you could somehow turn it into a candle.
Speaker 1: There were different preparations, and then this candle would have
Speaker 1: mystical powers. It could do all kinds of things. In
Speaker 1: some cases, thieves wanted them because it could make you invisible,
Speaker 1: it could unlock any door, It could cause others to
Speaker 1: freeze in place so they couldn't do anything. I believe
Speaker 1: there was even a hand of glory in the Harry
Speaker 1: Potter series, but I never thought about that being connected
Speaker 1: to a rabbit's foot. And it turns out that apparently
Speaker 1: one of the big reasons that, especially in North America,
Speaker 1: people believed a rabbit's foot was lucky was because they
Speaker 1: tended to believe that it wasn't actually the foot of
Speaker 1: a real rabbit, it was the foot of a shape
Speaker 1: shifted witch, which is even stranger to me because you'd
Speaker 1: think that, you know, people didn't like witchcraft, so why
Speaker 1: did they want to carry around a witch? Is Paul
Speaker 1: Basically because that was literally the most widely held belief
Speaker 1: is that people thought witches can shape shift until you know,
Speaker 1: obviously black cats and all these other things, ravens and such,
Speaker 1: but that they would often turn into a rabbit, and
Speaker 1: if you caught one in the rabbit state, it could
Speaker 1: not transform back. Uh, And then you could cut its
Speaker 1: foot off, and now you have all this magical power.
Speaker 1: Pretty strange stuff, isn't it. Well enough about the whole
Speaker 1: lucky charm phenomenon, because you know, I'm not inspiring anybody
Speaker 1: to go out and carry those things around, but I
Speaker 1: think you should carry things with you that make you
Speaker 1: feel lucky, that make you feel good. So how does
Speaker 1: all this apply to gambling. Well, it turns out that
Speaker 1: the more you feel lucky, the more open you are
Speaker 1: to giving yourself opportunities to be lucky. So, for example,
Speaker 1: this again the scientist Wiseman. He said that he and
Speaker 1: I'm I don't have this right in front of me,
Speaker 1: but I remember him saying something like that. He interviewed
Speaker 1: one woman who just had a phenomenal amount of contest
Speaker 1: winnings every year, Like every year she would win like
Speaker 1: ten or fifteen contests, and everybody was like, my goodness,
Speaker 1: Ye're the luckiest woman. And she said, yes, I am lucky,
Speaker 1: but the reality was. Turns out she was entering like
Speaker 1: one hundred contests a year, and most people would not
Speaker 1: even enter that many contests because they would say, I'm
Speaker 1: never gonna win, right, But she says, no, I can win,
Speaker 1: and that gives her the inspiration to even give herself
Speaker 1: the opportunity. There was a man who was in the
Speaker 1: same boat. Everybody said, this guy wins contests all the time,
Speaker 1: super lucky. Turns out this guy was always entering contests.
Speaker 1: It's that kind of a concept, like I know you
Speaker 1: hear this all the time where people are like, look,
Speaker 1: the odds of winning the Latto or next to zero,
Speaker 1: but if you don't buy a ticket, they are zero.
Speaker 1: So by going and spending money to buy a lotto ticket,
Speaker 1: that is actually part of the process of making yourself
Speaker 1: feel lucky. And I think this applies to gambling in general.
Speaker 1: No matter what type of gambling that you're going to do,
Speaker 1: you go out and you are more open because you
Speaker 1: feel lucky, and that can give you the latitude to
Speaker 1: take some more risks, which increases your odds of winning
Speaker 1: because you can't lose all the time. Now, look, I'm
Speaker 1: not saying that this means that you should go out
Speaker 1: and take risks that you cannot afford. But it does
Speaker 1: mean that you should take some risks that you that
Speaker 1: you can afford and have an open mind and have
Speaker 1: an optimistic mind and feel good about it. And this
Speaker 1: seems to be part of the process of I don't know,
Speaker 1: just like believing that it can happen and feeling good.
Speaker 1: And there there literally comes a point where you say
Speaker 1: to yourself, I am lucky and I and you reach
Speaker 1: a point of I guess faith is what it boils
Speaker 1: down to. You reach a point of faith, especially if
Speaker 1: you really need something and you really want something. You know,
Speaker 1: last year, Lauren and I we were ready to buy
Speaker 1: a new house here in Las Vegas, and at that time,
Speaker 1: the competition here was absolutely brutal, especially if you wanted
Speaker 1: a house with a swimming pool, like like we did,
Speaker 1: because everybody in Las Vegas wants a house with a
Speaker 1: swimming pool. And I mean it was just like so
Speaker 1: many people were vying for the same houses, and there
Speaker 1: was always somebody out there who had more money than you.
Speaker 1: I mean, because you're talking about corporations that would come
Speaker 1: in and buy up property in order to turn around
Speaker 1: and sell them. So these are like multi billion dollar corporations.
Speaker 1: How do you compete with that? But we reached the
Speaker 1: point where we're just like, you know what, we want
Speaker 1: to do this now. We're ready to do this now,
Speaker 1: and it's going to happen, and we're going to do
Speaker 1: everything we can to be open minded. But we started
Speaker 1: that process of we feel lucky, we know God is
Speaker 1: going to help us. We got tools and talismans that
Speaker 1: helped us maintain our thinking, and it very quickly fell
Speaker 1: into place once we got serious about it. So, even
Speaker 1: having said all this, I do think there are times
Speaker 1: when something spiritual happens that steps in and gives you
Speaker 1: a boost. You've heard that phrase God helps those that
Speaker 1: help themselves, so think about that. It applies to this.
Speaker 1: And that's why when it goes back to Donald Donald,
Speaker 1: the guy who wrote the email I read at the
Speaker 1: beginning of the show, he said, when I determined I
Speaker 1: was going to win, with no doubt in my mind,
Speaker 1: I did. It took a few days, but I was
Speaker 1: able to double the money I brought to play with.
Speaker 1: You See, he made himself lucky because he didn't give up,
Speaker 1: because his optimistic personality gave him the confidence to keep
Speaker 1: taking chances until he got what he wanted. Now, like
Speaker 1: I say, nobody gets lucky all the time. But I
Speaker 1: really think that to summarize this whole luck thing, what
Speaker 1: it boils down to is this, as Tennessee Williams said,
Speaker 1: luck is believing you are lucky. So start believing it,
Speaker 1: even if it does not feel true. Start smiling, especially
Speaker 1: when you don't want to smile. And if you start
Speaker 1: to treat the universe as if it is a loving, supportive,
Speaker 1: generous universe, it will begin to behave as a loving, supportive,
Speaker 1: generous universe toward you. And I've been talking about all
Speaker 1: of these different books that I've been reading, but you know,
Speaker 1: here's something that you can read for free right now.
Speaker 1: All of these same basic lessons are in the book
Speaker 1: that I wrote called Use the Force, a Jedi's Guide
Speaker 1: to the Law of Attraction, And you can read it
Speaker 1: for free right now if you go to Joshua Pwarren
Speaker 1: dot com and you'll see a picture of the book
Speaker 1: cover there, and when you click on that you will
Speaker 1: be able to go in. You don't have to sign
Speaker 1: up for anything. You just go in and you'll see
Speaker 1: a free link to the pdf, which you can click
Speaker 1: you can read it, or you can download it in
Speaker 1: English or or in Spanish. It's available right there, right
Speaker 1: now for free. And all the time people contact me
Speaker 1: and they say, you know what, I read that book
Speaker 1: Use the Force, and it changed my life. And then
Speaker 1: a few years later things started to sort of crumble again,
Speaker 1: and I realized, oh man, I need to go back
Speaker 1: and reread it. And so then they go back and
Speaker 1: they reread it and everything picks back up again. You if,
Speaker 1: even if you've read the book or listen to it
Speaker 1: on audible, you need to have a refresher reading once
Speaker 1: in a while or a refresher listen. And that's only natural.
Speaker 1: It's it's like they say, if you tell somebody you're
Speaker 1: in a relationship, I love you one time, that doesn't
Speaker 1: mean you never have to tell them that again. Right, No,
Speaker 1: you've got to maintain that. You got to stay on
Speaker 1: top of it. And if anything, if you get into
Speaker 1: a really great manifestation state, then you didn't you just
Speaker 1: take it for granted. Oh boy, that house of cards
Speaker 1: will start falling so fast. It's like the bigger they are,
Speaker 1: the harder they fall. So you've got to stay on
Speaker 1: top of it and maintain it and keep these messages
Speaker 1: in your mind. All right, I've given you all that information,
Speaker 1: and I really think luck is believing you were lucky.
Speaker 1: But when we come back from this break, now, is
Speaker 1: being lucky the same as manifesting things. I'm going to
Speaker 1: give you the top three simple manifestation tips when we
Speaker 1: come back, and everybody also needs to be refreshed on
Speaker 1: this as well. I'm Joshua pe Warren. You're listening to
Speaker 1: Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM
Speaker 1: Paranormal Podcast Network, and I will be right back. Welcome
Speaker 1: back to the final segment of this edition of Strange
Speaker 1: Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal
Speaker 1: Podcast Network. I am your host, Joshua P. Warren, and
Speaker 1: I asked the question, is being lucky the same as manifestation? Well,
Speaker 1: before I tell you the three simple traditional steps to manifestation,
Speaker 1: there is a really interesting novel creative of manifesting something
Speaker 1: a being that will go out there and do things
Speaker 1: for you, called a minion. And I don't want to
Speaker 1: get into that technique here because, believe it or not,
Speaker 1: I talked about it in the very first episode of
Speaker 1: this podcast. Episode one of Strange Things is called Meet
Speaker 1: the Wizard of Weird. But within that you will find
Speaker 1: tips on how you can create a minion to go
Speaker 1: out and help you achieve things that you want to
Speaker 1: do on a spiritual level in the spirit realm. And
Speaker 1: that is that's for people especially who are maybe more
Speaker 1: artistically inclined. But all right, here are the three things
Speaker 1: that you need to do for basic powerful manifestation. Number one,
Speaker 1: you need to sit down and write what you want
Speaker 1: and try to make it somewhat emotional meanings. Put some
Speaker 1: description in there, so you put like I am attracting
Speaker 1: I like those words. I am attracting more money so
Speaker 1: I can pay my rent and be happy, right, or
Speaker 1: I am attracting a perfect partner so I can go
Speaker 1: have fun vacations on a warm summer day. You know so,
Speaker 1: But you don't want to be too specific or you'll
Speaker 1: cut your options off. So like, for example, if you're
Speaker 1: looking for a car, you don't have to put every
Speaker 1: little detail of the make and model in the year.
Speaker 1: You just say, you know, looking for a good, reliable
Speaker 1: car that'll do this for me and do that for me,
Speaker 1: And that way you give the universe the opportunity to
Speaker 1: help you attract that thing to you. So that's number one,
Speaker 1: is to find what you want and write it down
Speaker 1: or you know, in some way record it. You know
Speaker 1: I am attracting blah blah blah, give it some emotion,
Speaker 1: like some descriptions, some adjectives be specific, but not overly specific.
Speaker 1: Number two, and this is for most of us, visually
Speaker 1: represent what you want. So if you have let's say
Speaker 1: you want a certain kind of a car, or you
Speaker 1: want a certain kind of a house, or you want
Speaker 1: a certain kind of a partner, you can either sit
Speaker 1: down and draw a picture of it, or you can
Speaker 1: just get online and you can find a picture that
Speaker 1: looks similar to what you want and save that picture.
Speaker 1: And you want to either print it out and post
Speaker 1: it in a place where you'll see it a lot,
Speaker 1: or just maybe keep it on your phone or your
Speaker 1: desktop or your tab. Just you want to see it
Speaker 1: as often as possible so it reminds you and you
Speaker 1: have a visual there. And I also like to take
Speaker 1: that sentence and somehow put it on top of the
Speaker 1: image that you pick and try to just pick one image,
Speaker 1: not just not like a whole giant vision board. Just
Speaker 1: try to pick one image if you can. That kind
Speaker 1: of says it all. And then step number three is repetition. Okay,
Speaker 1: so you want to think about it as often as possible.
Speaker 1: And one little tip that I always give is if
Speaker 1: you have a calendar of some kind that you keep
Speaker 1: and it does not allow you to or let me
Speaker 1: put it this way, if you have a calendar and
Speaker 1: you go onto that calendar and you maybe once a
Speaker 1: week put a note that says, move or change or
Speaker 1: modify my manifestation in some way. So whatever your picture
Speaker 1: is or whatever your affirmation is, you just want to
Speaker 1: move it to a different location so it stays fresh
Speaker 1: on your mind, and that helps with the repetition. Now, look,
Speaker 1: if you are visually impaired and step number two of
Speaker 1: this is something that you can't quite do, it's okay
Speaker 1: to substitute something else that conjures up images in your mind.
Speaker 1: Could be a piece of music or in aw you know,
Speaker 1: you can create something that triggers that response to you.
Speaker 1: And I don't know what everybody's condition is, so you're
Speaker 1: going to have to sort of like figure that out
Speaker 1: for yourself to a certain extent. But those three things
Speaker 1: are once again, define what you want and write it
Speaker 1: down in a fairly descriptive way but not too specific.
Speaker 1: Number two, find a visual representation of it and look
Speaker 1: at that visual representation as often as possible, which is
Speaker 1: step number three. Repetition as often as possible, and think
Speaker 1: about it and try to visualize yourself there. And so
Speaker 1: I think that what you're still doing, however, is you're
Speaker 1: making yourself ultimately feel lucky by doing this. So what
Speaker 1: that means to me is that manifestation techniques are almost
Speaker 1: a refined version of feeling lucky. Manifestation is almost like
Speaker 1: focused luck. I like that term. I just invented it.
Speaker 1: Manifestation is focused luck. However, it doesn't always have to
Speaker 1: work exactly that way because of the inverse manifestation method.
Speaker 1: I do not want you to feel hopeless. If you've
Speaker 1: listened to this whole podcast and you go, this is
Speaker 1: all great, but I just can't do it. I can't
Speaker 1: be positive, I can't focus on positive stuff, I can't
Speaker 1: visual what I want. I know other people can do
Speaker 1: it good for them, doesn't work for me. Well, that's
Speaker 1: what the inverse manifestation method is all about, and that
Speaker 1: is about visualizing what you don't want and then neutralizing it.
Speaker 1: That's why if you go to my curiosity shop at
Speaker 1: joshuap Warren dot com for now and I'm almost sold out,
Speaker 1: I have this thing called the psionic d materializer or
Speaker 1: the bad buster. And what you do is you take
Speaker 1: that visualization of what you don't want and you put
Speaker 1: it into the bad buster and you neutralize it. That's
Speaker 1: called the inverse manifestation method, and for some people that
Speaker 1: can be a last resort. In fact, even with some
Speaker 1: of the wishing machines wishing machine techniques, one of the
Speaker 1: earliest wishing machine techniques was not to put in what
Speaker 1: you want and get and turn the knobs to get
Speaker 1: a rate for it, but to put in what you
Speaker 1: don't want and tune the machine to the opposite rate.
Speaker 1: So you see, there is this other way of manifesting
Speaker 1: if you just feel there's no way, and it's not
Speaker 1: the best way of manifesting, because the less you think
Speaker 1: about negative things, the better, period. But that's your backup plan.
Speaker 1: If you just cannot overcome the negative thought, find an
Speaker 1: inverse manifestation technique, like tuning a wishing machine to the
Speaker 1: opposite of what you want. You put in what you
Speaker 1: don't want and retune it or use something like the
Speaker 1: bad Buster. Now, I also know there are people out
Speaker 1: there who believe that, you know, hey, I'm just cursed.
Speaker 1: I've talked about this. If you are somebody who believes
Speaker 1: that no matter what you do, there's a dark cloud
Speaker 1: over you and it's overwhelming and there's no way that
Speaker 1: you can ever get out from under it, go back
Speaker 1: and listen to episode eighty one of this podcast. It
Speaker 1: is called if you Are Cursed, and that will give
Speaker 1: you some information about what you can do if you
Speaker 1: feel like you are that type of person. So I'm
Speaker 1: doing my best here to try to help out everybody
Speaker 1: with just you know, based upon my own experiences. And
Speaker 1: when it comes to gambling, you know, I was thinking
Speaker 1: about have I ever won? Because you know I live
Speaker 1: in Vegas. Have I ever won when I don't feel lucky?
Speaker 1: And the fact of the matter is I don't think
Speaker 1: I have. I don't think I have. Other lucky things
Speaker 1: have happened to me in my life, my general life
Speaker 1: when I didn't feel lucky. But I think that you know,
Speaker 1: sometimes if you go into a casino and you're like,
Speaker 1: I'm just not feeling it, you should probably turn around
Speaker 1: and walk out the door. So I think you have
Speaker 1: to feel you know, I wouldn't say you have to,
Speaker 1: but I personally have always felt lucky just before I
Speaker 1: won something. So there you go. Here endeth the lesson
Speaker 1: that basically what is luck. Luck is believing you're lucky
Speaker 1: and you use whatever tools help you with that. I
Speaker 1: want to leave you with one last thought here. You know,
Speaker 1: of course, my tours in Ashville, North Carolina are very
Speaker 1: very popular, Haunted Ashville Ghost Tour, and one of the
Speaker 1: stories that we talk about on that tour is the
Speaker 1: story of Helen's Bridge, which I wrote about in my
Speaker 1: book Haunted Asheville. Well, I recently found out that there
Speaker 1: is a Helen's Bridge horror movie coming out, and I
Speaker 1: don't have permission to say anything more about it than that,
Speaker 1: but that's pretty interesting. If you are in the Ashville area.
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Speaker 1: this whole podcast with something that should make everybody feel
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