There’s a word that gets thrown around so much these days, many falsely assume it’s a flakey term straight out of the New Age book section. The word is mindset. Mindsets are actually a well-studied phenomenon, supported by hundreds of peer-reviewed studies. Also called “cognitive commitments” or “belief effects”, they refer to shorthand beliefs or assumptions which, once adopted, point us toward certain expectations. The amazing thing about the mind-body connection is that those expectations, in turn, are tied to real, measurable outcomes.