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Speaking personally, if I can create some part of myself that "believes" that, then yes, absolutely. I actually find a great deal of benefit from learning "magical" / New Age techniques for exactly that reason.
I've routinely done things because "my future self" was whispering to my telepathically and telling me that it would all work out, or because my "psychic senses" said it would work.
The rest of me thinks this is crazy, but it works so I let that little part of me continue with it's very interesting belief system :)
Is this something you can explain? I'm looking into this kind of stuff now and trying to find out the basics so that I can put together a 1) maximally effective and 2) epistemically safe method.
It's hard to find people into this kind of stuff that even understand the map-territory distinction, so input from other LWers is valued!
I did Tai Chi lessons for a while, and enjoyed the "charging up with chi/The Force" feeling it would give me, from pucturing flows of energy throught the body and such. Of course the "real" cause of those positive feelings are extra blood oxygenation, meditation, clearing extraneous thoughts, etc.
I was OK with this disconnect between the map and the territory, because there was a linkage between them: the deep breathing, mental focusing, and let's not forget the placebo effect.
I suppose this is not too different in principle to the "mind hacks" bandied about around here.