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Lucky Girl Syndrome: What is manifestation trend on TikTok? Does it work?

'Lucky Girl Syndrome' is essentially the belief that affirmative mantras and a positive mindset in life will bend everyday events in your favor

While scrolling through TikTok's FYP, odds are you’ve come upon one of the thousands of videos on Lucky Girl Syndrome. This is what now Gen Z is going crazy about. 'Lucky Girl Syndrome' is essentially the belief that affirmative mantras and a positive mindset in life will bend everyday events in your favor.

On TikTok, people are calling Lucky Girl Syndrome the reason they’ve won various bets, became first-time home buyers, and gotten a raise. Astrologists are tying Lucky Girl Syndrome to birth charts and others are sharing the positive mantras they tell themselves to have a lucky day. But what actually is it? 

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What is 'Lucky Girl Syndrome'?

Women on the platform claim to have called in anything and everything, from a long-awaited raise and promotion to a new home. The theory behind the Lucky Girl Syndrome is pretty simple! 

It states that if you repeat positive affirmations and truly believe in yourself, good things will come to you. TikTok videos with hashtag #LuckyGirlSyndrome have been watched a collective 149.6 million times. While the trend is called Lucky Girl Syndrome, the practice is not exclusive to only one gender.

Does manifestations work? 

It may or may not! The trend is about raising your vibration to a more positive or higher frequency. When we’re navigating life at a higher frequency, good things start to happen because we are more open to them. Optimism and mantras can help, but they don’t solve everything. A user wrote on Twitter, "Love this lucky girl syndrome around tiktok lately Everything works out for us!"

Carol Dweck, a Stanford University professor, for instance, has found that how students perceive their own abilities can influence their motivation and achievement. Those who have a “growth” mindset, which is a belief that intelligence can be developed, outperform those who believe their intelligence is fixed, according to Dweck.

Some people believe in the power of manifestation because it’s consistent with whatever positive experiences they notice each day. However, there was an incidence when someone called the trend “toxic spirituality” which ends up leaving people to blame themselves for anything that goes wrong in their lives.