There’s a trend going around TikTok where people listen to “Ring My Bell” for eight minutes to manifest abundance. I saw it, thought it looked fabulously silly, and did it anyway.
I was not graceful about this. I danced around my house doing genuinely strange moves for the full eight minutes. Not cute dancing. Weird dancing. The kind you only do when nobody is watching.
And then, not long after, I had an unexpected bonus show up from an affiliate program. A few other payments came in that were completely off my radar. My sister started doing it too and got some surprise money of her own.
Coincidence? Maybe. Probably, even. What I keep coming back to about acting lucky is that it doesn’t really matter whether the magic is real.
Is the luck real, or is it you?
Everyone wants to debate whether luck is real. Whether manifestation works. Whether the universe is listening or whether it’s all just pattern recognition and confirmation bias.
That debate misses the point entirely.
Because what I noticed after my weird eight-minute dance party wasn’t just the unexpected money. It was how I felt for the rest of that day. Open. Light. Like something good was already on its way and I hadn’t seen it yet. And when you feel like that, you move differently. You notice things you would have scrolled past. You say yes to things you might have talked yourself out of. You’re a little more generous, a little less guarded, a little more willing to put yourself in the path of something good.
That feeling is the mechanism. The song is just the thing that got you there.
How Does Acting Lucky Change What You Do?
Think about someone you know who seems consistently lucky. Really think about how they move through the world. They probably talk to strangers more. They follow a random curiosity down a rabbit hole. They say yes to the thing that sounds interesting even when it’s inconvenient. They share what they know freely because they’re not operating from scarcity.
None of that is magic. All of it increases the probability of good things happening.
When you believe something good is coming, you stay open. You keep your eyes up. You don’t walk past the opportunity because you already decided nothing good was headed your way today.
The “unlucky” person isn’t cursed. They’re often closed. They’ve decided, usually after enough hard knocks, that the effort isn’t paying off. So they stop entering. Stop reaching. Stop dancing around their kitchen like a weirdo for eight minutes because what’s the point.
The point is the feeling it creates. And the feeling changes the behavior. And the behavior changes the outcomes.
The Confidence Loop
Here’s something I find genuinely fascinating about this. Acting lucky makes you feel luckier. Feeling luckier makes you act more confidently. Acting confidently makes good things more likely to happen. And when good things happen, even small ones, it reinforces the whole loop.
You can enter this loop from any point. You don’t have to wait until you feel lucky to start acting like it. You can act your way into the feeling, which is basically what the Ring My Bell thing is doing. It’s a ritual that gets you into a state, and the state changes what’s possible for the rest of your day.
And maybe there really is a frequency in the song that legit raises vibrations. Who am I to question that. Have casinos really banned the song Ring my Bell? I am not sure, but I love to believe it’s true either way! It’s certainly not going to hurt anything.
I know some people reading this are going to be skeptical and that’s fine. You can be skeptical and still try the thing. Those are not mutually exclusive. I was skeptical too. I danced anyway. And something shifted, even if I can’t prove exactly what or why.
Ritual Is Just Intention With Choreography
The reason rituals work, whether it’s an eight-minute dance, a gratitude practice, a specific playlist, or making your bed before you start your day, is that they signal to your brain that something is beginning. You’re crossing a threshold. You’re telling yourself: I’m in that mode now.
Your brain takes that signal seriously. It starts filtering differently. It starts noticing things that match the intention you set. That’s not mystical, that’s how attention works. You get more of what you’re oriented toward.
So when I danced around to Ring My Bell and genuinely let myself feel like abundance was coming, I spent the rest of that day oriented toward abundance. I noticed the affiliate payment when I might have closed the email. I followed up on something I might have let sit. I was in a different state, and that state produced different results.
Could it be coincidence? Of course. I’m not going to sit here and tell you the song has powers. But I will tell you that eight minutes of weird dancing made me feel genuinely good, and feeling genuinely good made me a better version of myself for the rest of the day. And that version of me is the one who notices things.
If you want a ritual you can hold, I tried a deck of affirmation cards with a ten-second meditation on the back, and it does the same job in a lot less time.
One Thing Worth Watching Out For
There’s a version of this that doesn’t work, and it’s worth naming. Desperate energy. Trying too hard. Doing the ritual while white-knuckling the outcome, checking your bank account every ten minutes, needing it to work.
That energy is closed, even when it looks like action. It’s scarcity dressed up as effort.
The version that works is lighter than that. You do the thing, you feel the feeling, and then you let it go and get on with your day. You’re not grasping for the result. You’re planted and open.
| The version that works | The version that doesn’t | |
|---|---|---|
| How it feels | Light, planted and open | Grasping, white-knuckling the outcome |
| What you do after | Let it go and get on with your day | Check your bank account every ten minutes |
| What’s underneath | Trust | Scarcity dressed up as effort |
There’s a real difference between those two things and you can usually feel it in your body. One feels tight. The other feels like possibility.
Today’s Action
Pick a song that makes you feel genuinely good. Not one you think you should like. One that does something to your body when it comes on. Play it. Move around. Be a weirdo about it if that’s what the song calls for. Do it for the full duration and let yourself feel like something good is already on its way. Then go plant one seed before the feeling wears off. That’s the whole practice.
One page to track your song, your seed, and whether you followed through, for seven days. Print it and keep the practice going past the first good day.
Download the printableFrequently Asked Questions
Does the Ring My Bell thing actually work?
Who knows, really. What I can tell you is that dancing around for eight minutes in a genuinely silly way made me feel open and abundant, and I had some unexpected money show up not long after. My sister did it too and had the same experience. Coincidence is absolutely possible. But the feeling it created was real either way, and that feeling changed how I moved through the rest of those days. That part I’d bet on.
What if I feel silly doing rituals like this?
Good. Feeling a little silly means you’re out of your head and in your body, which is exactly where you want to be for this to work. The goal isn’t to look cool. It’s to shift your state. Silly does that faster than serious most of the time.
What if I try acting lucky and nothing happens?
Then you had eight minutes of dancing and felt good for a while, which is genuinely not nothing. But also, give it more than one try. One dance party is a seed. A consistent practice is a garden. The results tend to show up when you stop checking for them.
Do I have to use “Ring My Bell” specifically?
No. The song is just the trigger, not the magic. Pick anything that genuinely shifts your body when it comes on. What matters is that it moves you out of your head and into a lighter, more open state. The specific track is the least important part.
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Whether or not the universe is listening, acting like it is changes what you do. And what you do changes everything.
Go be a weirdo. See what happens.
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