I bring all of this up because, when it comes to belief, I believe that there is a strong correlation between the positive healing power of the placebo effect and the ability to shape our realities and perspective through belief alone. Back to the word that sounds like the name to some kind of meddling cosmic trickster, the Jinx. You know that this presentation will either make or break your chances for sealing the deal and being the one your boss chooses to promote.
The same goes for athletes and video games, artists and musicians. On what is their belief founded besides the blind adherence of those who came before them?
It all feels very cyclical. However, I understand the human need for guidance when it comes to figuring out how best to exist in the world, and I also understand that the more spiritual sort from the brief list I just mentioned are much more aware of the power behind belief and results you see when you will yourself into blocking out objective reality to focus solely on your subjective experience.
Now, understanding how there exists a healthy amount of cynicism when it comes to making blanket claims about the nature of reality and the forces behind it, there comes a point when the cynicism overwhelms the potential benefits of belief itself. Holy shit! Why am I falling?
Jinxed yourself. The trick, like I mentioned in the beginning regarding my lucid life, is in being able to forget about what you want or wish to happen, to strip away every single desire or sense of reward, and simply know that you can. You just are. Guys, maybe this has happened to you. I could do this all night! Oh, wait…no, no, not yet! Again, jinxed yourself. Reminds me of a flying dream I was having earlier….
So, what does this all mean? Trying to exert personal control over what you wish to manifest will have the opposite effect than what you intend, only causing you to try even harder and perpetuate the cycle. You need to believe in yourself to achieve great things, but only to a point. Even people who aren't particularly superstitious often participate in these practices.
A new study from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business finds that these superstitions actually do "reverse" perceived bad fortune. People believe that negative outcomes are especially likely after a jinx. If someone says, "No one I know will ever get into a car accident," for example, it often feels that a car accident is likely to occur.
But people's elevated concerns after tempting fate can be eliminated if they engage in a ritual to undo that bad luck. Noting that many of the most common rituals for undoing bad luck -- knocking on wood, spitting, and throwing salt -- all seem to involve movements that exert force away from a person, researchers set out to test whether the avoidant nature of the action is key for reducing the negative expectations and heightened concern generated by tempting fate.
Instead, we find that avoidant actions that exert force away from one's representation of self are especially effective for reducing the anticipated negative consequences following a jinx" says Jane Risen, associate professor of behavioral science at Chicago Booth. I learned from a friend who grew up in another area that "pinch poke you owe me a coke" was the answer to this situation, or sometimes just "jinx you owe me a coke".
I saw in an old movie and another friend said she'd seen it in person where the two people stopped for a second in their conversation and linked pinkies when this happened, then kept going. I think we played with something like Suzannah's rule--but usually we just got bored with our friend not being able to talk so we'd unjinx them.
Over at The Law of the Playground there are some more versions. OED doesn't have this sense of jinx but does note that the word is ' orig. Better Half says that he knows jinx from his days on a South London playground, where they said jinx and fainites.
Though BH remembered the word as "fainlights", making it difficult to look up. Some kind folks at the American Dialect Society set us straight on the spelling.
Fainites and variations on it--OED lists fains , fains I , fainit Off the playground in BrE, one is more likely to hear snap , which is, as the OED puts it, 'an exclamation used when two similar objects turn up or two similar events take place'. This doesn't have the cursing connotations of jinx and is used off the playground as well. For example, when playing Scrabble, if I announce my score and my opponent has the same score, she might say Snap!
This use of snap comes from a card game of the same name, which is similar to the game I played as a child called slapjack --but there are many variations of this game and other names for it that are of varying similarity to snap. Here are two--including one in which one actually slaps jacks. Essentially, one splits a deck of cards between two people; both lay a card face up on the table and continue doing this, piling the cards on one another, until two cards match e.
The first one to slap the pile and say BrE Snap! For young children, one can buy snap cards with pictures. In my house, slapjack always ended in tears and accusations, and sometimes with being sent to one's room. But is the game? Labels: games , rituals. Email This BlogThis! Share to Twitter Share to Facebook. Anonymous 02 October, Unknown 03 October, Unknown 17 February, Anonymous 04 October, Ginger Yellow 04 October, Anonymous 02 May, Jules 04 October, Unknown 09 October, Unknown 10 October, Hodge 22 March, Ster 19 February, Priyanka Chopra Jonas is blessing our feed with some uber stylish looks.
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