Dr. Lila Landowski

Yeah, you can let it go.

So things like that.

Yeah.

So it allows you to give that attention to the thing that you're doing, giving it the attention it deserves.

Yeah, I mean perfect example of how useful it can be.

Otherwise you might be sitting in bed thinking, oh, I have to do that tomorrow.

I better not forget.

I better not forget.

And then you stay up all night.

important thing that I've learned is

something called belief effects.

So belief effects are this thing where you might have heard of the placebo effect, right, where you take like a sugar pill and it might have an effect on you because you think it might do something good for you, even though it's got nothing in it that might be useful.

The same thing applies to how we think about things.

So if you think something bad is going to happen, you're more likely to release a lot of stress hormones that can ultimately have a bad effect on your body.

One of my favourite studies of all time is called the Milkshake Study and it's by Ali Crum in the United States.

And really what that study was is she had a bunch of people that she had chocolate milkshakes and, you know, they either had the chocolate milkshake, which she told them was like rich and decadent and full of calories and all that stuff, and then she had another one which she told them it was like, you know, a normal sort of like nutritious milkshake.

It was the same milkshake, right?

But based on what they thought it was, their body released different amounts of hormones.

And so if they thought it was a rich decadent milkshake, they released less or it changed the amount of the hormone that makes them feel full.

So they felt fuller for longer because they thought it was a rich decadent milkshake.