i re-read this article last night and some of the author's self defeating skeptisim came through
She has seen evidence of this in her own life, she says, where "many tough things" happened to her. "The Secret" devotes several pages to the weight she gained after her pregnancies. Unaware of the law of attraction, she mistakenly believed that eating made her fat. She now recognizes her error: "Food is not responsible for putting on weight. It is your thought that food is responsible for putting on weight that actually has food put on weight.
well it turns out, ::
Belief in exercise may make it more effective - Yahoo! News People who think they're getting a good workout obtain more benefits than those who perform the exact same activities, but don't think what they are doing is exercise, according to the findings of a study by Harvard researchers.
These results support the idea that the benefits of exercise may involve a placebo effect.