Making Wishes What Do You Wish For Most Of All?
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What do you wish for? If you could make a wish come true what would it be? I expect most of us have made a wish at some time in our lives.
There are all sorts of things people wish for, health, happiness, fame, wealth, luck, the list goes on and on. Wish Making is a key element in many fictional and fantasy stories. Often wishes are granted by Genies, the fantasy characters who grant you the famous 'three wishes', frequently they are granted by fairies, or witches and wizards.
Its not just spirits that grant wishes, wishes can be granted at special places too. We've all heard of wishing wells I'm sure, but how many of us know their special Celtic name of Clootie? More often than not Clootie's are natural springs rather than the traditional stone deep well with its bucket.
I've always tried to keep an open mind about wishes, not sure if there is anything in the idea. There are a couple of occasions where I have wished for something and it seems to have come true. Before my partner and I got together I really wished for it to happen. Luckily for me we have now had many years of happiness together. I also wished for the safety of my youngest son who was literally two days from leaving home to join the British Parachute Regiment. In a bizarre and (in normal circumstances) unpleasant situation he was assaulted at a fast food take away, having his jaw broken. This meant he was unable to join up. I was filled with a mixture of dismay and relief that whilst he was badly hurt he was unable to go dangerous front line unit.
There are some psychologists who suspect there is a connection between wish making and things happening in the real world. They think it has something to do with conceptualization and goal setting. Sports psychologists have produced several examples where wishes about sports injury recovery seem to have increased the speed at which sports men and women recover.
Some psychologists believe that expressed wishes are indications of deeply repressed desires. Freud's interest in slips of the tongue is probably the most important work in this area.
Why not see if you can make your wishes come true.
There are all sorts of things people wish for, health, happiness, fame, wealth, luck, the list goes on and on. Wish Making is a key element in many fictional and fantasy stories. Often wishes are granted by Genies, the fantasy characters who grant you the famous 'three wishes', frequently they are granted by fairies, or witches and wizards.
Its not just spirits that grant wishes, wishes can be granted at special places too. We've all heard of wishing wells I'm sure, but how many of us know their special Celtic name of Clootie? More often than not Clootie's are natural springs rather than the traditional stone deep well with its bucket.
I've always tried to keep an open mind about wishes, not sure if there is anything in the idea. There are a couple of occasions where I have wished for something and it seems to have come true. Before my partner and I got together I really wished for it to happen. Luckily for me we have now had many years of happiness together. I also wished for the safety of my youngest son who was literally two days from leaving home to join the British Parachute Regiment. In a bizarre and (in normal circumstances) unpleasant situation he was assaulted at a fast food take away, having his jaw broken. This meant he was unable to join up. I was filled with a mixture of dismay and relief that whilst he was badly hurt he was unable to go dangerous front line unit.
There are some psychologists who suspect there is a connection between wish making and things happening in the real world. They think it has something to do with conceptualization and goal setting. Sports psychologists have produced several examples where wishes about sports injury recovery seem to have increased the speed at which sports men and women recover.
Some psychologists believe that expressed wishes are indications of deeply repressed desires. Freud's interest in slips of the tongue is probably the most important work in this area.
Why not see if you can make your wishes come true.
Contents at a Glance
What Do You Wish For Most?
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Making A Wish Tweets
Wishing Music
| Track | Artist | Album | |
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| When You Wish Upon a Star (From "Pinocchio") | Cliff Edwards & Disney Studio Chorus | Disney's Greatest, Vol. 1 | |
| When You Wish Upon a Star | Jenny Oaks Baker | Wish Upon a Star | |
| Wishing Well | Free | 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Free | |
| Wishing On a Star | Rose Royce | The Very Best of Rose Royce |
Who do you want to make a wish for?
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Wishing Wells on Amazon
Make a wish for your pet
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Wish Making Links
- 10 Most Famous Wishing Places
- Wishes for happiness, fame and everything inbetween
- Places to make a wish
- UN Special article on places to make wishes around the world
- Wish Tree
- Wish Trees
- The Clootie Well
- Scottish Wishing Well
- John B. Watson: The Psychology of Wish Fulfilment
- John B. Watson. "The Psychology of Wish Fulfilment."
Scientific Monthly 3 (1916): 479-4 - Chapter VI. The Wish in Dreams. Sigmund Freud. 1921. Dream Psychology: Psychoanalysis for Beginners
- Chapter VI. The Wish in Dreams. Sigmund Freud. 1921. Dream Psychology: Psychoanalysis for Beginners
- Where Has Our Birthday Wish Gone? From Wishes and Goals to the Journey of a Flourishing Life
- Positive Psychology News Daily
- Psionic Wishing Machine
- Transformational Technology For Mind Body And Soul™. Life Technology™ is a world leading pioneer researcher in the fields of alternative, holistic, and spiritual healthcare, vibrational medicine and subtle energy enhancement technology.
What have you used to make a wish come true?
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Wishing Well
Wishing Well: Empowering Your Hopes and Dreams
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Have You Kissed The Blarney Stone?
The Blarney Stone is where you get the 'gift of the gab'. The ability to be eloquent in your speech. If you've go to Ireland it's a must place to visit.
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Wishing Flickr Photos
Make A Wish Blog Posts
- Voorhees student rededicates Make a Wish walkway
- By Hunterdon County Democrat For the last eight years, three sisters (Becky, Kaity and Tori) of the Sansone Family of Lebanon Township have supported the New Jersey Chapter of the Make a Wish Foundation in a special way. The sisters raised money for ...
- Gadberry gets wish to 'see the world'
- Mother Tammy Gadberry and daughter, Jamie, right, stood outside their limousine Sunday before it whisked them away for the first part of their journey that includes a European cruise courtesy of the Make-A-Wish Foundation. The younger Gadberry was ...
- Local Auction To Benefit Make-A-Wish Foundation
- All proceeds will benefit the local Make-A-Wish Foundation chapter to help grant the wishes of children diagnosed with a life-threatening medical condition. "Every day, patrons come into our restaurants and admire the memorabilia that pay homage to ...
- Make-A-Wish Fun Day scheduled
- If 10-year-old Jason Crews could have one wish, he would put a smile on the face of every child in Eastern North Carolina. For now, he is making a start by raising money for children with life threatening medical conditions through the Make-A-Wish ...
Make A Wish Foundation
a great British Charity
The Make A Wish Foundation is a fantastic charity that does incredible work for children.
Make A Wish For Creative Inspiration
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GrowWear
Aug 29, 2011 @ 5:53 pm | delete
- Wishing is a lot like hope, very much needed. :)
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puerdycat
Aug 29, 2011 @ 1:07 pm | delete
- Have always love "wishing" and expecially stars and wishing wells. Great idea~ thanks!
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MaxReily
Aug 29, 2011 @ 12:51 pm | delete
- Very enjoyable lens. It's a serious choice, when you think of what you'd REALLY wish for most if you knew your wish would really come true. Fun, and I hope all the wishes of everyone reading this lens come true! Liked, tweeted and +1d.
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sousababy
Aug 29, 2011 @ 7:02 am | delete
- Really great lens, very inspiring and causes us to do some soul searching. Googled+1'd too. Thanks for an uplifting start to my Monday morning. Sincerely, Rose
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