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September 1, 2025 13 mins

What's on Repeat in Your Life? Music as a Manifestation Tool (Living Lucky® Podcast)

Ever felt like a song was your personal theme music? 🎶 In this electrifying Living Lucky® Podcast episode, Jason and Jana Banana dive into the science of music's powerful, unconscious influence on our reality. You’ll never listen to your favorite songs the same way again!

This is a self-help and personal development masterclass on harnessing the hidden power of your playlist. Get ready for these "nuggets of wisdom":

  • The Unconscious Blueprint: Discover how the songs you play on repeat become vibrational blueprints for your future, programming your mindset without you even realizing it.
  • Tater the Cheerleader: Hear the incredible, true story of how Jana’s college earworm about a dog became a living reality years later with her 18-year-old dog, Tater, a powerful example of manifestation.
  • Thoughts + Feelings + Actions = Reality: Learn the Living Lucky® formula for creating your life and how music is the secret weapon that supercharges the "feeling" component, changing your state and energy.
  • Amplify Your Desires: Understand how music amplifies what you’re already feeling. Instead of using it to reinforce sadness, learn to intentionally choose songs that align with the life you want to create—from finding a new home to winning a championship.
  • Music as a Daily Hack: We share a simple, science-backed way to incorporate music into your daily routine to prime your mind for success and break limiting beliefs.

Your playlist is more than just entertainment; it's a powerful tool for programming your life. Take control of your soundtrack and start creating the reality you desire.

  • How music affects your reality.
  • The science of music and mindset. Using music for manifestation. How to program your subconscious with music. What is an emotional blueprint? How to change your energy with music. The connection between music and personal growth. Creating a success playlist. How to use music to overcome limiting beliefs How does music affect the subconscious mind? Can music help you manifest your goals? What is the science behind music and emotion? How do vibrations and music relate? What are some practical ways to use music for personal development? How can I use my playlist to improve my life? What is an earworm and how does it affect me?

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Jana Shelfer (00:00):
Are you ready to create a life you crave?
Let's spin that doom loop ofnegativity into an upward
success cycle and start LivingLucky®.

Jason Shelfer (00:14):
Good morning.

Jana Shelfer (00:15):
I'm Jana, I'm Jason and we are Living Lucky®.
You are too.
Music, music, music, music,music music.
My whole life I've been drawn tomusic and the scientific
research is proving that themusic we listen to seeps into
our unconscious mind and ithelps us create our reality.

Jason Shelfer (00:39):
Yes, yes, there's .
I've seen more and more justnotices about how the habits
that we need to add into ourlives yes and more and more.
All those little habits, hacks,or the 10 habits that you
should pick up for every singleday have included listening to
music tell y'all a little secret.

Jana Shelfer (01:03):
It's not only the vibration of the instrumental
part of the song, it's not onlythe lyrics of the song.
It is the feeling and theemotion that it brings to your
soul.
It's what it emotes inside ourbodies.

Jason Shelfer (01:24):
Yeah, I think it's a little bit of all of that
because, there are so manysongs that I was thinking I
really like this song, I likethe hook, I like the way it
feels.
Put it in the car when I'mgoing on starting my vacation.
Yes, you know that feelingamplifier.
And then you start listening tothe lyrics and you're like oh

(01:45):
crap, I didn't know that.
The lyrics were like kind ofself-destructive, angry, bitter,
all this stuff about how lifeisn't fair and I need to escape
it.

Jana Shelfer (01:58):
I'm telling you, I can look back at my life and
I've probably had 10, at least10 favorite songs that have just
spoken so deeply to my soulthat I actually listened to them
on repeat over and over andover.

Jason Shelfer (02:14):
Have you ever had a song like that I just
remember, like in high school,like ACDC Back in Black, okay.
Like in that, that also in there, in a lot of Guns N' Roses
songs.
So there's, ok, like in that,also in there, and a lot of Guns
N' Roses songs.
So there's there.
I don't know off the top of myhead what those songs are, but I
do know that when I go back andlisten to the lyrics on several
of the songs that I wouldlisten to on repeat yes, and I'm

(02:36):
talking like when we hadrecords I would wear the record
out.
When we had tapes, I would wearthe tapes out, me too.
And recognizing now okay well,where was I in life at that
point?
Also what kept showing up inthe future.
And I'm not saying that musicis the only thing that does this
, but music creates kind of ourthought patterns or it falls

(03:00):
into that rhythm of ourselvesand who we are and who we're
becoming, and what we keepsaying over and over and over
again in our head is what westart creating in our worlds.

Jana Shelfer (03:10):
Yes, and so have you heard of an earworm?

Jason Shelfer (03:13):
Yes, where a?

Jana Shelfer (03:14):
song gets stuck in your the banana song is an
earworm.

Jason Shelfer (03:19):
Yes, ring, ring, ring, ring, ring, ring, ring
banana song, banana phone,banana phone.

Jana Shelfer (03:23):
Yeah, that's it, banana phone but there's also, I
mean, other songs that getstuck in our yeah our minds and
we sing them.
We don't even realize it.
One of them, for me, is let itgo.
Let it go and sometimes I'lljust sing that, not even
realizing what I'm singing, butsomething will be bothering me
and I'll just be like, let it go.

Jason Shelfer (03:44):
Let it go, cause I'm on my way to Mexico, and a
lot of times we will make up ourown words that fit our own life
fit our own life?
Yes, and then we real well.
There's so many songs out therethat we just make up the words
to because that's what we thinkwe hear.

Jana Shelfer (04:02):
Okay, so what I really want to dive into today
is that music speaks to oursouls.
It speaks on a level that wecannot see, we cannot we
articulate the best.
It's something we feel.

Jason Shelfer (04:19):
You can definitely feel it, and we feel
it deep, deep within.
So so much, yeah, even whenwe're not thinking about it,
there's something that musicwill speak to our soul, because
we've told ourselves in the pastthat these songs speak to me.

Jana Shelfer (04:35):
So this weekend, jason and I were in Tallahassee
right now.
We went out to this lake towater ski and because we were
using someone else's boat, theydidn't really want Tater, our
dog, to be on the boat, so Taterstayed on the dock.
I'm out skiing.
All of a sudden, I look overand Tater is sprinting along the

(04:58):
sidelines.
I mean, she is being my bestcheerleader ever and she's just
running laps up and down,following me as I ski up and
down this lake and if this isthe first Living Lucky® episode
that you've gotten, let me justfill you in on Tater.

Jason Shelfer (05:12):
She's next month she'll be 18 years old.
The temperature on friday wasprobably in the 90s.

Jana Shelfer (05:20):
And she was sprinting.

Jason Shelfer (05:21):
She was out there doing like 100 yard, 400 yard
dashes.

Jana Shelfer (05:25):
And it just brought such joy to my heart and
I told Jason.
I said it brought out the puppyin her as soon as we got in the
car.
I said it reminds me of thissong that I used to listen to on
repeat over and over in my carbecause I had a CD and for some

(05:46):
reason this was an unexpectedsong on this CD.

Jason Shelfer (05:48):
It was side B.

Jana Shelfer (05:49):
So I decided to find that song Now.
I had no idea how to even findthat song or what the name of it
was, so I started with AI.
I started trying to sing lyricsthat I remembered and next
thing you know, it popped up onmy phone.
I'm like this is the song,Jason, and we listened to this
song, and every lyric in thissong has become my reality.

(06:16):
It has become my reality.
It's a song about dogs.
It's a song about dogs beingyour cheerleader.
It's a song about a dog beingyour best friend and following
you everywhere.
And at the time of my life whenI was listening to this song
over and over, I didn't evenhave a dog.

Jason Shelfer (06:35):
It wasn't even on your radar.

Jana Shelfer (06:37):
I was just lonely at college going gosh, if only I
could have a puppy you knowwhat I'm saying.
And it's so weird to me I hadthis aha moment of wow.
I listened to this song so muchthat it actually became my life

(06:58):
.
Yeah, and once I had thatrealization, I thought we what
else is out there we can?
Create what we're going to seenext.

Jason Shelfer (07:10):
That's why I like I'm a huge fan of, like the
greatest showman, the trolls,like all these high energy, like
and it's like I'm going to bepositive and it it frustrates
the hell out of some people mypositivity.

Jana Shelfer (07:25):
Yeah, they.
Some people call it toxicpositivity, but that's not it.

Jason Shelfer (07:29):
It's not it.
It's like I choose to believethat the best thing will happen,
and I would rather bedisappointed in that than than
choosing to believe that theworst thing is going to happen
and be right all the time.
You know what I'm saying, solet me just bring this to
everyone's attention.

Jana Shelfer (07:47):
When we realize the effect that music has on us,
it amplifies, exemplifies whatwe're already feeling.
Right, I mean, I've gonethrough a breakup before.

Jason Shelfer (07:59):
Oh my God, me too .

Jana Shelfer (08:00):
And next thing you know I'm like, Turn around,
Find me the saddest song outthere.
Every now and then I get alittle bit lonely I just want to
draw up and cry.
I never know how that's probablyhow Driving and Crying got the
name of their band right andthen, all of a sudden, you start
creating more loneliness, moresadness in your life.

Jason Shelfer (08:21):
It is basically running down the hallway of the
feeling that you want to feel.
Yes, and just like almostcovering yourself up in it yes,
it's a blanket of vibrationalrhythm and knowing that you're
not alone in it because someoneis singing about it.

Jana Shelfer (08:38):
Now there's also the opposite of that.
When we go to a Tony Robbinsconference, next thing you know,
All I do is win, win, win, nomatter what, what, what.
Right and you're jumping up anddown and it changes your state.
It changes your state of being,it changes your energy.

Jason Shelfer (09:02):
Which creates a new way of showing up.

Jana Shelfer (09:04):
So, jason, and I have said many, many times, it's
about the thoughts and beliefsthat you have.
It is about the feeling or thevibration that you are
experiencing.

Jason Shelfer (09:18):
Or creating.

Jana Shelfer (09:19):
And then it's about the action you take.
Yes, the combination of thosethree things.
So more and more science iscoming out that you should
really put music into your dailyroutine and listen to at least
six songs a day routine andlisten to at least six songs a

(09:40):
day and I suggest listen tosongs of the reality you want to
create, so big, and that's allit is is priming.

Jason Shelfer (09:45):
I mean, if you think about music, I mean so
back in, when the cavemen orIndians, like all the like,
whenever people would startanything, even in before
football games and stuff, thereare jumping up and down the
field, there's chanting, rightthere's.
There's all this stuff aboutlike getting in that state of
what I want to be my nextreality.

Jana Shelfer (10:07):
Yes.

Jason Shelfer (10:08):
Yes, Like going to war, the war cry, the war
chants, like all of it.
There's so much in justcreating that feeling, that
energy of what's about to happennext.
And I think that's where a lotof times what we do is we grab
an emotion that we're feeling ata time and say let me just

(10:28):
blanket myself in this.

Jana Shelfer (10:30):
But we can also grab an emotion of what we want
to feel.

Jason Shelfer (10:36):
And where we know our best self lies Is when you
start creating your reality.

Jana Shelfer (10:40):
So, for example, I have this world championship
ski tournament coming up in 80days, 80.
And I have realized, as of thismorning, I need to start
inundating my music withchampion, champion winner,

(11:01):
winner.
All I do is win, win, win, nomatter what, what, what that's?
right Like I need to put myselfin that state of being and I
need to train like that.

Jason Shelfer (11:16):
I need to just live in that.
That emotion, that vibration,it's a vibration yes it is
that's what music is, and I lovethat you said amplify amplifies
the feeling.
Yes, I mean, that's there's inmusic.
We have amps.
I mean everything is about thatvibration of life, that rhythm
of life.
What rhythm of life do you want?

Jana Shelfer (11:32):
to be in.
So I must say that music as ofright now has not been in my
Hasn't been a priority for me.
It hasn't been in my morningroutine.
It is as of today.
I will start when I go for mywalk.
I'm going to listen to somemusic.

Jason Shelfer (11:48):
I remember for about a year when we got up in
the morning, I would listen toeither songs from the Greatest
Showman or songs from Trolls,and you can call that silly or
immature or whatever.

Jana Shelfer (12:01):
Some people call it cheesy and corny, that's us.

Jason Shelfer (12:03):
You know what Best life ever Like.
You talked about it on thedrive here.
I got this feeling down in mysoul.

Jana Shelfer (12:12):
It is electric and I'm not gonna let it go.

Jason Shelfer (12:15):
I mean, we're just dancing, just even thinking
about it you were talking abouton the drive up here to
Tallahassee that all the thingsthat we were talking about and
thinking about for the last 10years are just showing up and
coming to fruition rightthroughout the last year and a
half.

Jana Shelfer (12:34):
And the thing about music is it speaks to our
unconscious mind, so we don'teven realize how much of an
impact it's having on us.
Now it's the same way with thethe news we read and the the tv
we watch and the people we'rearound.
Everything has an effect on howwe show up, and so it is our

(12:59):
job as humans, in order to beour best self possible, to be
conscious of everything that isaround us, and I'm going to
start today with music.
Thanks for joining us.

Jason Shelfer (13:15):
Keep Living Lucky®, bye-bye.

Jana Shelfer (13:18):
If the idea of Living Lucky® appeals to you,
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