Jane Hamill | Podcast

Today, let's talk about creating a mantra for you that will make you feel better. Mantras can be a powerful thing. Or can they? Back in high school, at the suggestion of my mom, I went to listen to a lecture in a danky church basement from a priest (a priest!!) and he basically told us about a dead-simple way to make our lives better. A priest's lecture is NOT exactly something you want to do when you're a teenager, but this was the way before Netflix and it was winter in the Midwest, so WTH. Well, the priest's talk ended up being pretty interesting. He started telling us about this theory... ...If you have something in your life that you don't like or something isn't going well and you want to change it, all you have to do is repeat a certain mantra out loud - as if the thing you WANT has already happened. Even if you THINK it's stupid, you still say the mantra out loud. Whaaa??? There's no way that would work. I was totally skeptical so I decided to prove him wrong. I'll explain in this episode:  What som