Can Meditation Make You Lucky?

Are you lucky? Really, do you feel like you’re a lucky person? Not lucky in the sense that you have a good, or even a great, life, but lucky in the sense that things just seem to fall into your lap?

Whether you are lucky or not, you probably think that luck is just random, that people stumble into good things by accident. You may have heard that luck is “preparation meeting opportunity,” but how then do you explain a mere acquaintance calling you with free tickets to a show you’ve been wanting to see, but couldn’t afford?

What if luck isn’t random after all? What if there is actually a structure underlying luck? Ten years of research by Professor Richard Wiseman of the University of Hertforshire, England suggests exactly this. His research shows that luck is largely composed of four capacities:

1) Creating and noticing chance opportunities. You have to be out in the world, and you have to be relaxed enough to actually notice them.

2) Making lucky decisions by paying attention to your intuition. There is much more happening around us than we can ever grasp in our conscious minds. But beneath our conscious awareness, we are picking up all sorts of cues and clues to what is happening, which we call intuition.

3) Creating self-fulfilling prophecies by having positive expectations. When you expect things to go well, you will unconsciously pick up the cues that match what you expect – you’ll see it when you believe it.

4) Adopting a resilient attitude that transforms bad luck into good. Lemons can be made into lemonade. You can learn from the worst disaster. If you’re always looking for the silver lining in the dark cloud, which is often a life lesson to apply going forward, your luck will improve continuously.

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