We all refer to good luck as a great influence on our actions and results, and amulets, talismans, symbols and lucky charms remain guardians and triggers of positive events. The question that comes to one’s mind is whether such items do work in the direction the wearer wants them. Certain objects manifest an internal capacity to store and emit energy, whether positive and negative depending on their nature, and many studies have attempted to analyze the level of energy characteristic of living organisms and objects. There are two sources of energy for lucky charms, in general: personal belief and sacred blessing. Here is the working mechanism explained.
Lucky charms charge with a superior amount of energy granted by believers: people who know for sure that a horseshoe symbol will bring them luck transfer the positive energy of their belief onto the object. Moreover, when a sacred ritual involving blessings or other religious rites is used for the charging of an amulet, then part of the beauty and the subtlety of the divine energy specific to the ritual will pass onto the charms as such. Studies actually indicate that around 30% of those who wear lucky charms and believe in them, claim to have improved their good fortune.
Furthermore, lucky charms do not work on their own, as the wearer has to take a proactive approach to all life aspects. Actions come first, and if they contradict the law of positive thinking and harmonious feeling, then, the imbalance becomes manifest in the inefficiency of the lucky charms. From one culture to another, various elements and symbols have been attributed an important part in the guarding of our good fortunes: the horseshoe, the Rudraksh, lockets, the swastika, the om symbol and several others. Mention must be made that what works as a good luck charm in one culture may be interpreted otherwise in a different one.
The most relevant example of lucky charms that characterize one culture only is the swastika. In Indian symbolism, the swastika is the sign of the Hindu God of good fortune, Ganesh, and it is different in representation from the Nazi Swastika by the angle at which it is placed. The Nazi meaning is the best known and few people have ever heard of the Indian good fortune sign. Even so, in Western cultures, the swastika suggests only a dark period in the history of humanity without any touch of positive thought whatsoever. Though not as striking as this example, other lucky charms from one culture remain irrelevant for another.