The Game Of Life & How To Play It by Florence Scovel Shinn (A Summary)

The Game Of Life & How To Play It

Summary
A summary of the inspirational book by Florence Scovel Shinn

Diane Corriette

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Introduction

Chapter 1 – The Game

Chapter 2 – The Law of Prosperity

Chapter 3 – The Power of the Word

Chapter 4 – The Law of Non-resistance

Chapter 5 – The Law of Karma and the Law of Forgiveness

Chapter 6 – Casting the Burden

Chapter 7 – Love

Chapter 8 – Intuition Or Guidance

Chapter 9 – Perfect Self-Expression or the Divine Design

Chapter 10 – Denials and Affirmations

Chapter 11 – Affirmations


Introduction
I have experienced prosperity and when I changed my words and mindset I experienced lack
and losing money on a grand scale. The five year experience of being ‘broke’ taught me just
how powerful my mind and words are. It was only by ending the negative thoughts and
focusing on what I want that I was able to begin the journey of getting back into the flow of
life and playing the game so that it was far more fun and abundantly blessed.

During both times – up and down, good and bad, prosperity and poverty – I remained happy
to some degree. I realized that even in turmoil it was still possible to laugh and have fun.
That too helped my turning around process.

I have studied various ‘law of attraction’ and manifestation techniques and books, CDS,
workshops, mp3s etc but reading The Game Of Life & How To Play It by Florence Scovel
Shinn helped it all make sense. It was as if this free book summed up everything I had ever
read, listened to, believed and practised around this topic. I realized that for several years I
had actually been living these principles but not realizing it.

So many people talk about Napoleon Hill ‘Think & Grow Rich’ and Wallace D Wattles
‘Science of getting rich’ but I have never heard of anyone mention Florence Scovel Shinn. I
give thanks to the friend who sent it to me via email and said I would probably enjoy reading
it. 

It has changed my life. Florence does not talk about just getting rich, or just acquiring
wealth. She focuses on helping the reader develop a positive, loving relationship with God –
the God within us – in order to experience a full and happy life. What I add to what Florence
wrote about is the focus on meditation to help us build that relationship.

Overcoming the ‘God’ Word
In the book “The Game Of Life and How To Play It” Florence Shinn uses the word God many
times. Unfortunately, that puts people off reading the actual text and taking away the gems
of wisdom it contains. I guess they are just not ready to hear the message yet.

Instead of the word God you can replace the word with Universe, Infinite Intelligence or my
own favourite that I made up (why not make up your own word for God) – The Energy of
Life. Throughout this eBook I will refer to The Energy Of Life and if you prefer you can use
the word God.

Energy has been proven to exist energetically. Everything when taken down to its most basic
level is energy – even objects. Without getting too deep or into quantum physics I decided
that for me God is an energy. Not a man like we have created him, but as Wallace D Wattles
calls Him – a “Formless Substance” that is there to guide us.


So, if you have trouble reading a chapter or the whole book because you don’t believe in
God then change it to something you can believe in... even if you call Him an invisible gas!
Whatever works for you.

Metaphysics and the wisdom of Florence Scovel Shinn
I am now a metaphysical teacher who focuses on learning about and sharing the principles
of New Thought and Divine Science. After being inspired by the wisdom of Florence Scovel
Shinn I went on my own journey to discover more. I went through an intensive metaphysical
training course and am now an ordained minister. In metaphysics we focus on spiritual law.

New Thought followers, sometimes known as Higher Thought (in England) believe that
"Infinite Intelligence" or "God" is everywhere, spirit is the totality of real things, true human
selfhood is divine, divine thought is a force for good, sickness originates in the mind, and
"right thinking" has a healing effect.

We believe in God, his son Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit. We focus mainly on the teachings
of Jesus Christ and that God is within us, not an entity outside of us but energy within us; a
guiding light. This way you begin to connect with this positive, loving energy and it helps you
in your endeavours to develop a deeper relationship as well as to begin the process of
manifesting your desires.

We also believe in omnipresence, divinity, positive thinking, attraction, affirmation,
visioning, meditation, higher consciousness, choice and prosperity.

If you think you can sit and just ask for money and receive it without having any kind of
connection to this deeper, spiritual side of yourself then you are mistaken. There needs to
be an acknowledgement at the very least and a connection/relationship to make things
happen in your life. So, spend your first few weeks and even months focused on getting to
know yourself and this energy before thinking about asking for a list of stuff.

Ultimately the real connection comes when you realize that being connected to and feeling
love from this energy is more important than any need you believe you have. If you have
ever felt lost or lonely in a room full of people you will really benefit from developing a
loving relationship with The Energy Of Life.

Teachers of Metaphysics/New Thought
Some of the many teachers of this way of thinking/living include:

Historical

 William Walker Atkinson
 James Allen
 H Emilie Cady (another of my favourite people)


 Napoleon Hill
 Charles F Haanel
 Wallace D Wattles
 Parkhust Quimby
 Julia Seaton Sears
 Ernest Holmes
 Charles Filmore
 Myrtle Filmore
 FLORENCE SCOVEL SHINN

More modern teachers on this subject include:

 Michael Beckwith
 Rhonda Byrne
 Dale Carnegie
 Louise Hay
 Dr Wayne Dyer
 Byron Katie
 Esther Hicks
 Christian D Larson
 Earl Nightingale
 Neale Donald Walsch
 Eckhart Tolle
 Diane Corriette 

If you have enjoyed the books and information written by any of the above authors as much
as I have then you too will enjoy learning more about New Thought and metaphysics.

I hope you enjoy reading through my thoughts, teachings and summary of this brilliant book
by Florence Scovel Shinn “The Game Of Life & How To Play It” – when quoting from the
book I have placed those parts in colored boxes and in bold italic font.

Make sure you subscribe at my blog to receive daily inspirations and guidance around this
book. I also send out motivational quotes by Florence Shinn and others plus anything else to
help you embrace and learn the game of life. Play it well and your life will transform –
whether you have £26 million in the bank or £2.00!

With continued blessings always

Diane Corriette

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Chapter 1 – The Game
In this chapter we are taught that life is actually a game rather than a struggle or a battle
that is difficult. Personal development gurus like Dr Wayne Dyer are always telling us this
important fact. That life is in fact simple and will flow just as long as you learn how to flow
with it. Struggle against life and remain negative and this will continue to be your
experience. Embrace the mystery. Allow even negative events to become moments to learn
and grow. Bless those who you believe have wronged you and hurt you for they are your
greatest teachers.

Understand your spiritual nature and your connection to God (The Energy of Life) and you
will find that life becomes far more fun and less of a struggle.

Important lessons from Chapter One
Life is a game and when you treat it light heartedly as a game it becomes more fun than
thinking and experiencing life as a battle/struggle.

The game of life is all about giving and receiving. A knowledge of spiritual law is required to
successfully play this game and a connection to an energy that is greater than our physical
self that lives within us is also necessary.

An important lesson within the game is understanding that you get back what you give.

“Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap.” This means that whatever man sends
out in word or deed, will return to him; what he gives, he will receive.” Give hate and you
will receive it. Give love and happiness and you will receive that.”

What you speak through your words and what you visualize in your mind you materialize in
your life. Again, if your focus is on negativity then you will experience that. If you constantly
talk about “being broke” and
seeing yourself as a financial mess
you will continue to get more of
“A person with an imaging the same. The game starts when
faculty trained to image only you learn how to see yourself as a
good, brings into his life “every wonderful, loving energy that is
righteous desire of his heart”— capable of experiencing more
health, wealth, love, friends, despite what your bank balance
perfect self-expression, his says!
highest ideals.”
There are three areas of the mind.
Subconscious that takes all of our
commands and doesn’t know
truth from lie (so if you say you are hopeless it will believe you and make you so). Then


there is the conscious mind that sees life as it “appears to be” – it will make sure you
experience life so you can continue convincing yourself that you ARE hopeless. Things will
happen to you and you will say “of course that would happen because I am so hopeless!”
Finally there is the super-conscious. This is the place you go into during meditation to turn
everything around. It is the place where you can feel loved by The Energy Of Life and once
you have felt/experienced that love you will always want it.

“Whatever man feels deeply or images clearly, is impressed upon the subconscious mind,
and carried out in minutest detail.”

The Energy Of Life is constantly giving us flashes of what our life could be. Our purpose. The
trouble is we do not always listen/follow our inner guidance. Using meditation it is possible
to get a clear vision of who we are meant to be in this life. I always knew that my role is to
be the ‘teacher’ and so I follow that path. I am only happy when I am teaching/helping
others.

Jesus taught us to seek the kingdom of heaven. This kingdom is within US. It is the kingdom
of right ideas and our divine pattern. Heaven and hell are right here on earth and you live in
them based on how you think, what you visualize and most importantly what you believe.

“Jesus Christ taught that man’s words played a leading part in the game of life. “By your
words ye are justified and by your words ye are condemned.” Many people have brought
disaster into their lives through idle words.”

We have our own inner guidance system or intuition that we can use to help us in life. This
is an aspect of life that many of us ignore. Have you ever had a ‘gut feeling’ to go
somewhere or do something differently and you didn’t, only to find out things would have
worked out better if you had? Learn how to embrace and follow your own inner guidance
system because it will help make life easier and the game of life is easier to play.

“Follow intuition. Have you a ‘hunch’ to do anything, or to go anywhere?” Intuition
means, intuition, or to be taught from within. It is man’s unerring guide, and I will deal
more fully with its laws in a following chapter.”

It is our own desires and spoken word (along with visioning and meditation) that bring to us
what we want. It is important we learn to connect to The Energy Of Life (God), speak words
which only focus on what we want to experience/achieve and see through visioning and
meditation the thing we most desire.

In life we give – because this game is all about giving and receiving – and we spend time in
gratitude for all the things that come into our life and the game is being played effectively.

Small successes grow into larger ones. The key to this all is having a deep connection to
yourself, the God within you.


“There is always plenty on man’s pathway; but it can only be brought into manifestation
through desire, faith or the spoken word. Jesus Christ brought out clearly that man must
make the first move.”

“Infinite Intelligence, God, is ever ready to carry out man’s smallest or greatest demands.
Every desire, uttered or unexpressed, is a demand. We are often startled by having a
wish suddenly fulfilled.”

Wish Without Worrying

Another important aspect of enjoying life is to be able to ask for what you want and to then
have enough faith to allow it to come to you. When you ask and then worry how it will
happen or whether it will ever happen then you squash all hopes of anything coming your
way. If you find your mind focused on the negative or affirming the negative then shout
CANCEL and focus on the good you desire. This was a big lesson I received from reading this
ebook. To make sure I always wish without worrying...

To do that you need to learn how
to surrender and have faith. Both
of these things come through
“Nothing stands between man meditation as you begin to build
and his highest ideals and every your own inner strength. As your
desire of his heart, but doubt relationship with The Energy Of
and fear. When man can “wish Life grows so will your ability to
without worrying,” every desire trust and let go. This is the most
will be instantly fulfilled.” important thing to focus on in the
beginning – not asking for a list of
stuff! You will find every desire is
met as your relationship grows
stronger. In fact now I ask for wealth, health and happiness. No specifics. And I allow the
flow of life to bring those three to me in abundance via the fastest route, for the greater
good of all concerned. Now, I really am loving playing the game of life 

“The object of the game of life is to see clearly one’s good and to obliterate all mental
pictures of evil. This must be done by impressing the subconscious mind with a realization
of good.”

“So let us break all the old bad records in the subconscious mind, the records of our lives
which we do not wish to keep, and make new and beautiful ones.”

“Speak these words aloud, with power and conviction: “I now smash and demolish (by my
spoken word) every untrue record in my subconscious mind. They shall return to the dust-
heap of their native nothingness, for they came from my own vain imaginings. I now make
my perfect records through the Christ within—The records of Health, Wealth, Love and
perfect self-Expression.” This is the square of life, The Game completed.”

“Death and Life are in the power of the tongue.” (Prov. 18:21.)


Chapter 2 – Law Of Prosperity
In this chapter Florence moves us on to understand that our supply comes from our
connection to The Energy Of Life. All we have to do is release our supply through our spoken
word said of course with faith. It is usually the ‘faith’ part that becomes the stumbling block
because it is hard to believe in something when you have never experienced it. In fact
several months after experiencing my supply on a monthly basis I still thought perhaps it
would disappear or it was a ‘fluke’ (In the past I was hard to convince!)

If at the beginning of each month you ask me (as someone who works freelance) how much
money I have coming in to my business each month I would say zero. It is very rare now that
I know exactly where my money is coming in from. Yet, each month, without fail it appears.

Either I get a rebate on something or someone gets in touch with some work. People send
me money via donations because something they read or something I said has helped them.
The most memorable month is when a firm I used 5 years before got in touch. This company
of solicitors had been holding on to money for me ‘on my account in case of extra expenses’
five years after they completed my re-mortgage. I could hardly believe it.

That month I had been playing the game of getting what was mine by divine right. Anything
that I had blocked in the past I asked that it be returned to me. They got in touch via email
to say they owed me £850 (approx $1,346) and paid it into my account a few days later. I
have had anything from that amount to £3,900 (approx $ 6,177 USD) come into my life
without knowing it was coming and by affirming my abundant nature.

All of these I see as my “day of small things” – in Chapter 6 Florence talks about the fact that
before our desire is met and a big demonstration is given we receive little signs along the
way. As long as we continue to have active faith these “signs of land” will sign something big
happening.... but more about that in a later chapter.

The only time my abundance stops flowing (and I am talking here about financial, physical,
spiritual) is when I stop connecting and affirming. Usually when things are good I forget and
then when things slow down or I am not well and I need something I remember The Energy
Of Life and I connect.

This is not a perfect way to have a relationship with anyone – especially The Energy Of Life –
but it is all part of the process. We are never judged anyway and will always be welcomed
back with love. I return faster each time and now more than ever after writing out this
summary and completing my metaphysical training I remind myself to stop and connect...
even if it is just to say hi and give thanks 

“We know now, that words and thoughts are a tremendous vibratory force, ever moulding
man’s body and affairs.”

Eventually though I stopped making it about the money because I realized there is a much
bigger prize available. I wanted to make my search for connection and meaning more


about my purpose to serve and my connection to The Energy Of Life. It is important I keep
stressing that.

If you think sorting your money problems out will sort out your life chances are you are
mistaken. Yes, it will bring relief from financial worries but other things will fill that space
very quickly. By learning how to connect to God you can gain health, wealth, happiness,
love, abundance, vibrancy, charisma, and a host of other energetic ways of being that is a
much better ‘prize’ when playing the game of life.

Important lessons from Chapter Two

We must prepare for whatever it is we ask for even when we have absolutely no idea HOW
it will happen. That preparation must continue even if you see no sign of what you have
asked for in sight at all.

Remember that it is always ‘darkest before the dawn’ and no matter how bad things get
keep your attention on faith on the very
thing that you want. This was an
important lesson I didn’t hold on to back
in 2008 and I experienced my worst
“If one asks for success
financial situation EVER! This line kept
and prepares for
me going long after I wanted to give up. I
failure, he will get the
always knew my ‘dawn’ was around the
situation he has
corner.
prepared for.”
“The children of Israel were told that
they could have all the land they could
see. This is true of every man. He has
only the land within his own mental vision. Every great work, every big accomplishment,
has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before
the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.”

Say your affirmations and rejoice/give thanks for having already received what it is you
desire.

You can only receive what you see yourself receiving. In other words visualize and believe.
Have faith that you will receive it. Act as if it is here and believe nothing else no matter what
your reality is showing you.

“Dig your ditches” by buying something (no matter how small) that will show faith in your
belief that you will achieve success. If you want that new job buy a tie, or a new briefcase. If
you want that new house buy some blankets or plates. Even if money is impossibly low and
you can only visualize yourself buying blankets and plates while giving thanks that is still a
great position to be in.

Your mind and thoughts are free so use them wisely and often to support you in achieving
your goals.


Remember too that connection with The Energy Of Life (God) costs nothing and will help
you gain everything.

You may need help holding on to your vision. Get help from someone else. Get a trusted
family member or friend to hold on to your vision for you so you are not alone. Two people
holding on to a vision produces miracles.

“Jesus Christ knew the truth of this when he said: “If two of you shall agree on earth as
touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in
heaven.” One gets too close to his own affairs and becomes doubtful and fearful.”

“A keen observer of life once said, “no man can fail, if some one person sees him
successful.” Such is the power of the vision, and many a great man has owed his success to
a wife, or sister, or a friend who “believed in him” and held without wavering to the
perfect pattern!”


Chapter 3 – The Power Of The Word
Now we move on to the power behind the words that we say. Florence reminds us that
through our spoken word we are writing our own laws of life and deciding how our life will
be. She provided a great example of someone who keeps talking about always missing the
‘car’ (or cab) and another who talks about a car always being available as they arrive.

Their thoughts helped to create their experience. For years if I am about to catch a train or
bus I always affirm that one will come along within minutes of my arrival.

Important lessons from Chapter 3

The words we speak will help create the life we live. So we can either speak positive words
and continue to see the good in things or we can live in a world where negative words
dominate and our life experiences reflect that.

We have the power to put things right by asking for forgiveness if we find our words and
focus have been dwelling on the negative.

There is only one power and that is the power of God. If you do need to believe in a
necklace or an image or a statue remember it is not that thing that helps you to create
miracles but your belief in it.

Remember the law of non-resistance. Avoid giving power to something that has no power.
Instead face the thing you fear and remember that the power is within you. Hate walking
under ladders for fear of bad luck. It is your fear that makes it come to pass – not the ladder
or you walking under it. Do you believe that opening an umbrella inside or breaking a mirror
will give you 7 years of bad lack. Only your belief makes it so. Go ahead and break mirrors
and open umbrellas indoors – as many as you like – and affirm that it is The Energy Of Life
that is your ongoing and endless supply. Your fearlessness will remove any negative
outcomes you believe mirrors, ladders and umbrellas will bring to you.

Your words and what you say about yourself and other people are important. What you
wish for others you also wish for yourself.

There is an old saying that man only dares use his words for three purposes, to “heal, bless
or prosper.” What man says of others will be said of him, and what he wishes for another,
he is wishing for himself.

You need to retrain your subconscious mind to focus on positive thinking and positive
words. You connect and are one with The Energy Of Life when you can align your
subconscious mind with the perfect ideas of your super-conscious God mind.

Your negative words will also have an impact on your health. Continually allowing negativity
into your life will bring about dis-ease; a body and mind not at ease with itself.


“Continual criticism produces rheumatism, as critical, inharmonious thoughts cause
unnatural deposits in the blood, which settle in the joints. False growths are caused by
jealousy, hatred, unforgiveness, fear, etc. Every disease is caused by a mind not at ease.”

“Any inharmony on the external, indicates there is mental inharmony.”

“As the within, so the without.”

“Man’s only enemies are within himself. “

It is important that we continually send out
good vibrations and our best wishes to
everyone – even if it is someone who we
“...send out goodwill and see as competition or our worst enemy.
blessings to every man,
and the marvellous thing We can only get back what we give out and
is, that if one blesses a someone can not harm us if we continually
man he has no power to send them blessings and good thoughts.
harm him.” From this day onwards continue to focus
on sending out good energy, loving energy,
and blessing those you dislike the most.
You will soon find love in your heart for
everyone.


Chapter 4 – The Law Of Non-Resistance
I remember years ago learning “what you resists persists and what you look at goes away” –
continuing the lesson on non resistance chapter 4 provides us with some great examples.

Important Lessons From Chapter 4

When we resist something or someone we give more energy to it making the situation or
problem even harder to solve or overcome. It takes a lot of energy to resist something and
becoming a non-resistant person means you are giving out positive energy and will get that
return to you.

We are also influenced by the thoughts of others around us. Negative people in our life who
speak and/or send out negative thoughts can affect us if we allow it. However, by holding
ourselves as a beacon of positivity – sending out good vibrations to everyone it is impossible
to feel the effects of the negativity of others in our life.

“However, the man who is centered and established in right thinking, the man who sends
out only good-will to his fellow-man, and who is without fear, cannot be touched or
influenced by the negative thoughts of others. In fact, he could then receive only good
thoughts, as he himself, sends forth only good thoughts.”

“Resistance is Hell, for it places man in a “state of torment.”

Non-resistance is also important for events that happen in our life. Instead of seeing failure
and being negative about it, it is possible to learn a lesson from what has happened. When
you acknowledge the lesson you can see the event as a success instead. Seeing all events –
even the “bad” ones as successful will help us work towards becoming non-resistant people.

If you are a parent avoid worrying about your child getting sick, or mugged, or attacked.
These negative thought patterns can have negative consequences for your child(ren).
Always focus on them being happy, healthy and protected by the Divine.

Don’t think by moving home, or leaving your job or a relationship you will rid yourself of
negative people and situations. You are simply taking the same resistance with you and you
will experience the same issues with people in your new job, new relationship or neighbors
in your new home. Being resistant means moving home or leaving your job. Being non-
resistant means affirming the good in everyone in your job. Sending positive love and
energy towards them and watching as the situation changes. Here is a great video by Zig
Ziglar – while it is about attitude notice how when the women resisted people in her job she
felt the job wasn’t worth having. A change in attitude in the same job bought about a
different experience with the same people. http://youtu.be/cRMogDrHnMQ

“The inharmonious situation comes from some inharmony within man himself.”


It is important that we never resist change but instead embrace new opportunities.

It is important that we focus on our wonderful health rather than keep talking about our
illness and disease (if we have any right now) or our fear about getting an illness or disease.

Fighting for world peace does not bring world peace – it brings more fighting. Mother
Theresa is quoted as saying don’t invite her to an anti-war rally but to a peace rally.

If you want self love you must surround yourself with love from yourself. Not expect other
people to love you or battle with people to stay in love with you. Instead be grateful that
you got to love that person and let them go.

“That means, agree that the adverse situation is good, be undisturbed by it, and it falls
away of its own weight. “None of these things move me,” is a wonderful affirmation.”

When something happens in life that you will deem as “bad” find the good in it and affirm
that everything is as it should be. This will help us live and work with the law of non-
resistance.

It is important to remember that we
should never allow the past to keep us
“When there is, in him, stuck. The past and the future should not
no emotional response keep us out of the present moment. We
must remember the past with fondness
to an inharmonious
then bless and let go of situations that
situation, it fades away
we deem as negative. The best way to
forever, from his
look forward to the future is to bless it
pathway. So we see
knowing that it will bring us endless joy.
man’s work is ever with
himself.” It is not a good idea to keep wishing
things were better right now or living in
the future of what will be because all
you do is keep yourself stuck.

When I kept wishing that my money troubles would disappear all I did was keep them in
place. The more I resisted what was happening the more I kept it happening. When I finally
surrendered and let go of it that is when everything changed. So I know all of this
information on the law of non-resistance to be true in my own life. Look at your life and see
whether you are resisting something right now. Or see into your past whether you have
resisted something that eventually you let go of and what the end result was of that.

You may already have experiences of resistance and non-resistance that you can use to help
you work through this very important area.

The best example I can give you of non-resistance and surrender is a woman desperate to
get pregnant who experiences difficulties. No matter what her and her partner does they
can not get pregnant and she desperately wants a baby. Eventually, after believing it is
never going to happen and letting go of wanting a baby, focusing instead of what is
happening in life right now, she becomes pregnant!


“Make an affirmation immediately upon waking. For example:

“Thy will be done this day! Today is a day of completion; I give thanks for this perfect day,
miracle shall follow miracle and wonders shall never cease.”

Make this a habit, and one will see wonders and miracles come into his life.”

To make something a habit means to surround yourself in it every single day of your life. Not
to say it once or twice then forget about it. Or say it until something wonderful happens and
then not say it again until you find yourself in trouble.

Create affirmations that will rule your day. That you will say upon waking, upon feeling
fearful or doubt, upon going to bed. Get yourself into a routine of saying affirmations and
visioning your success on a regular basis.

“....one should never use an affirmation unless it is absolutely satisfying and convincing to
his own consciousness, and often an affirmative is changed to suit different people.

For example: The following has brought success to many:

“I have a wonderful work, in a wonderful way, I give wonderful service, for wonderful
pay!”

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Chapter 5 – The Law of Karma And Forgiveness
In this chapter we are reminded of the primary goal of playing this game called life and that
is the game is all about giving and receiving. What we give out returns to us and we can only
get back whatever it is we give out. Giving out negativity and fear and expecting goodness
and prosperity to come to you will never work.

You cancel out anything you ask for when you focus on giving out negative energy. Good can
only come into our life when we give out good. Money comes into our life when we give out
money. Love comes into our life when we give out love.... and so on and so forth.

If your life is lacking the first thing to look at is where you are lacking in not giving out what
it is you are hoping to attract.

“Man receives only that which he gives. The Game of Life is a game of boomerangs. Man’s
thoughts, deeds and words, return to him sooner or later, with astounding accuracy. This
is the law of Karma, which is Sanskrit for “Comeback.” Whatsoever a man soweth, that
shall he also reap.”


Your thoughts, actions, and words create the life you are living now. What you think, speak
and do will come back onto you. The more spiritually enlightened you become about this
law the faster the karma will return to you.

When we are aware of spiritual law but we continue to live life and speak words as if we are
ignorant of it then we suffer the most. This I can personally align with because my only
“bad” moments in life were at times when I ‘forgot’ my spiritual teachings and I bought into
what was happening in my reality at that moment. Instead of affirming my spiritual
connection I tried to do it all myself and it just never worked out well for me.

“This is the perfect idea of man, registered in Divine Mind, awaiting man’s recognition; for
man can only be what he sees himself to be, and only attain what he sees himself
attaining.”

“Man sees first his failure or success, his joy or sorrow, before it swings into visibility from
the scenes set in his own imagination. We have observed this in the mother picturing
disease for her child, or a woman seeing success for her husband.”


Chapter 6 – Casting The Burden Impressing The Subconscious
In this chapter we learn about the fourth dimensional realm – the place where pure spirit
resides (our soul) and where miracles happen. Physical awareness is third dimension and
our spiritual or soul awareness is fourth dimension.

Jesus Christ lived on earth from the fourth dimensional realm which allowed him to perform
miracles as he had a direct connection to God, as we all do within us. The forth dimensional
realm is the place of creativity and ideas. When we send out ideas to the fourth dimension
they are going to an infinite plane. Directly to the Mind Of God.

We access this realm firstly through meditation and also through our ability to use our word
to manifest our desires.

This is the place where we use our ‘virtual’ senses – our third eye to see within. Where we
can cast our earthly burdens and have them transformed by the power of The Energy Of
Life.

The key is not to see this as a separate place but to acknowledge the connection between
the two – it lives within us. We are connected via our soul and the God-within to the fourth
dimension and this allows us to ask and receive. When we explore this connection via
meditation and learn to develop it life truly does become magical.

“He [Jesus Christ] had overcome the world vibration, and functioned in the fourth
dimensional realm, where there is only perfection, completion, life and joy.”

An intellectual knowledge of the Truth about the fourth dimension and the way our words
and mind can connection is not enough. Being able to actually live in and bring results into
your life as a result of knowing this information is the key to success.

In the Bible there are many references to ‘casting your burden’ which means transferring
your worries and concerns from yourself to Christ so that he may work on them on your
behalf. In Metaphysics this means taking your concerns and handing them over to The
Energy of Life – your God-Mind within – so that it can be worked on spiritually and a
solution found.

“It seems almost impossible to make any headway directing the subconscious from the
conscious, or reasoning mind, as the reasoning mind (the intellect) is limited in its
conceptions, and filled with doubts and fears. How scientific it then is, to cast the burden
upon the superconscious mind (or Christ within) where it is “made light,” or dissolved into
its “native nothingness.”


Whether it is financial lack, resentment, fear or any other negative emotion that is stopping
you from being able to manifest you can cast these burdens over to God. Create an
affirmation and allow yourself to go free. Three mentioned in this chapter are:

“I cast this burden on the Christ within, and I go free.”

“I cast this burden of lack on the Christ (within) and I go free to have plenty!”

“I cast this burden of resentment on the Christ within, and I go free, to be loving,
harmonious and happy.”

If your limited belief is lack, by casting the burden you cast it onto your super-conscious
mind – your God Mind – the fourth dimensional
realm, where the belief in plenty resides.

“In steadily repeating If your limited belief is resentment, by casting
the affirmation, “I cast the burden you cast it onto your super-
this burden on the Christ conscious God Mind and into the fourth
within, and go free,” the dimensional realm, where the belief in love and
vision clears, and with it joy resides.
a feeling of relief, and
sooner or later comes It is important that you repeat this affirmation
the manifestation of over and over again either silently to yourself
good, be it health, or out loud. During meditation is a perfect time
happiness or supply.” as you are in a deeper realm but any time is
good.

“The statement should be made over and over
and over, sometimes for hours at a time, silently or audibly, with quietness but
determination. “

There is a phase that can happen before your manifestation appears where it appears
everything is going wrong. It is known as “darkness before the dawn”. This happens as your
old limiting beliefs are tested and removed by engaging in your new found tools.

If your bank account looks empty your old limiting habit might be to panic, experience fear
at not being able to pay the bills and talk to all your friends about how ‘broke’ you are.

Now you are going through The Game Of Life & How To Play It you can recognize that this
way of thinking and behaving has been keeping you stuck in poverty and ensures your
account stays empty. Now, with your new tools you understand that despite the
appearance of your bank account you can stand in faith. Affirm your abundance. Cast your
burden and ask for a financial input from The Energy Of Life.


Before you receive your request though you may find things get worse before they get
better. As you do your best to stand firm and use your new way of thinking. The “darkness
before the dawn” period will definitely test your resolve. 

A student asked... “How long must one remain in the dark” and I replied, “until one can see
in the dark,” and “casting the burden enables one to see in the dark.”

In order to impress the subconscious, active faith is always essential. “Faith without works
is dead.” In these chapters I have endeavored to bring out this point.”

It is important you show active faith in making this happen in your life. If you really want
that job go out and buy a new suit for example. In this Chapter Florence uses an example of
a woman who wants to reconcile with her husband and after casting the burden she set a
place for him at the dinner table every night until one day he walked in.

Music is a great way to access the fourth dimension. Play uplifting, spiritual music or any
music that you love and that is positive in nature. Instrumental music, classical music,
baroque music is particular great to help with relaxation and access to the fourth dimension.
It can also help when you are going through your darkness and waiting for the dawn!

You will know that the dawn is coming because you will be sent signs from The Energy Of
Life. These will be small signs that all relate to what you have asked for. Take note of them
and give thanks for them. Express your gratitude for receiving them and focus even more on
your desire as the dawn is on its way.

Invariably, before a demonstration, come “signs of land“. Before Columbus reached
America, he saw birds and twigs which showed him land was near. So it is with a
demonstration; but often the student mistakes it for the demonstration itself, and is
disappointed.”

Florence also encourages us to ‘make-believe’ – this is what we now call ‘fake it till you
make it’ and I am a big believer in using this method to help transform our life. The more
you believe in your desire and you ‘act as if’ you already have it the more active faith you
show and the more chance of it showing up in your life.

“Continually “making-believe,” impresses the subconscious. If one makes believe he is rich,
and makes believe he is successful, in “due time he will reap.”

“There is no peace or happiness for man, until he has erased all fear from the
subconscious. Fear is misdirected energy and must be redirected, or transmuted into
Faith.”

Jesus Christ said, “Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith?” “All things are possible to him
that believeth.”


Walk up to the thing you are afraid of and it will disappear. This is the advice Florence gives
us. By continually being in fear of a thing we keep it in place but by showing active faith we
confront it and help it to disappear.

“Many of my students have come out of the bondage of poverty, and are now bountifully
supplied, through losing all fear of letting money go out. The subconscious is impressed
with the truth that God is the Giver and the Gift; therefore as one is one with the Giver, he
is one with the Gift. A splendid statement is, “I now thank God the Giver for God the Gift.”

We have been separated from The Energy Of Life for so long though thoughts of lack that
we have not been able to access our supply of plenty and it may take ‘dynamite’ to dislodge
these old negative patterns. This means we must really focus on repeating our affirmations
on a regular basis to help ourselves experience the prosperity (financial, spiritual, mental)
that is our birthright.

Whatever we do in life we must watch our thoughts and decide whether we are being
motivated by fear or by faith.

“Man should watch himself hourly to detect if his motive for action is fear or faith.
“Choose ye this day whom we shall serve,” fear or faith.”

When we realize just how much our thoughts of separation have kept us from enjoying our
prosperity – financial (money), spiritual (connection with The Energy Of Life within), mental
(God-power), physical (perfect health) – and we decide to believe that there is no power in
evil....

“The material world will fade away, and the fourth dimensional world, the “World of the
Wondrous,” will swing into manifestation.”


Chapter 7 - Love
In this chapter we learn about love and its power to open us up to the fourth dimensional
world 'the world of the wonderous'

With love Florence teaches us the joy is in the joy of giving. We expect nothing in return
with real love and real love is free from fear and truly selfless. This can be a tall order for
many of us where love is used as a weapon, a way to control those around us, a way to
demand from others and hurt those closest to us.

True love is the strongest magnetic force in the universe that draws to itself its own.

The key to experiencing true love is to be able to provide unselfish love, that demands
nothing and blesses everyone no matter what you feel they have done to wrong you.

When you have people in your life that you believe have done something to you or have
wronged you look to yourself. What have you been doing to attract this kind of experience
to you?

Each person in our life has something to teach us and we will experience freedom and true
love once we learn what the lessons are that
they are here to teach.

We suffer loss through our lack of
appreciation. "Money is God in
No one can be successfully unless they truly manifestation, as
love their work. freedom from want and
limitation, but it must be
No one can attract money if they despise it. always kept in
circulation to put to right
We must be in harmony with what we want
uses. Hoarding and
to be able to attract it.
saving react with grim
It is important to invest in assets and spend vengeance"
money wisely as a way to gain more money
but hoarding should always be avoided.
Hoarding is a product of lack - a belief that
what you have might disappear.

When you allow money to go out fearlessly and cheerfully you open the way for more to
come in.

The great bank of the universe never fails.


"Money in itself, is good and beneficial, but used for destructive purposes, hoarded and
saved, or considered more important than love, brings disease and disaster, and the loss
of the money itself."

God is love. God is supply. When you follow the path of love you follow God.

Unhappiness and disease come from the violation of the law of love. Hate, resentment,
criticism, anger all of these emotions bring sickness and sorrow.

Be loving and kind to those who anger you. Bless them and send them love. When you do
love is what comes back to you. Salute the divinity within all people. See only their good and
your relationship with them will improve.

If you have wronged someone in the past and you are not able to put it right, then it can be
righted by doing some good in the present. Ask for forgiveness and do good to others now.

Sorrow, regret and remorse will poison your body. Let them go - they serve no purpose.
Learn the lessons from what went on and let go of them all.

As a parent always remember to put your child in God's hands and know that they are
divinely protected. There is no need to worry and fear for them. Doing that can bring about
the thing you fear.

"So man is his brother’s keeper (in thought) and every man should know that the thing he
loves dwells in “the secret place of the most high, and abides under the shadow of the
Almighty.”

“There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.” “Perfect
love casteth out fear. He that feareth is not made perfect in love,” and “Love is the
fulfilling of the Law.”


Chapter 8 – Intuition or Guidance
The Energy of Life provides us with both intuitive leads and guidance when we remain open
to receiving messages. The flame that lights the fire to bring those leads and that guidance
to us is in the power of our words through affirmations.

This chapter reinforces the lessons about the power of our word and lets us know that once
we are aware of this power and use it along with our intuitive leads to co-create our life
nothing is greater than being able to do that.

Waiting for, expecting and demanding intuitive leads is the key to success here. This isn’t
about asking and then doing what you believe needs to be done but patiently waiting for
the inspirational guidance that comes from above.

“Infinite Spirit, open the way for my immediate supply, let all that is mine by divine right now
reach me, in great avalanches of abundance. Give me a definite lead, let me know if there is
anything for me to do.”

It is our words that are created and spoken as an affirmation that help to release our supply
from The Energy Of Life.

The importance of giving and in particular tithing to create activity in one’s finances is
important. A student of New Thought must always remember that giving opens the way for
receiving.

What you give – when it is given with love and cheerfulness – will be blessed and returned
to you by Infinite Spirit.

Not only should you give cheerfully but you should also pay your bills cheerfully too.

All money should be sent out and paid out with fearlessness and a blessing because this is
the attitude that will help you become a master of money.

Never ‘reason’ or argue with your intuitive leads/hunches. Just obey and follow them. The
more you learn to follow these leads the more you will receive. They will always lead you
towards your good.

“Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.”

Be aware that what you send out to others you bring to yourself. Many people bring
unhappiness and illness to themselves through their condemnation of others. When you
judge others you open up a door for the same situation to happen to you.


Watch out for indecision as it will create a stumbling block for your life. If you are ever
unsure about what to do remember this affirmation:

“I am always under direct inspiration; I make right decisions, quickly.”

If you hand your will over to God you are not handing out responsibility or free will because
it is God’s desire to give every man ‘every righteous desire of his heart’.

That should make it easier for anyone to focus on working towards God’s will. Our will
should be used to back up the universal will for our life and our mantra needs to be “I will
that the will of God be done” – we can also use our will to hold the perfect vision without
wavering.

“As man becomes spiritually awakened he
recognizes that any external inharmony is
the correspondence of mental inharmony. “I will restore to you the
If he stumbles or falls, he may know he is years the locusts have
stumbling or falling in consciousness.” eaten.” The locusts are
the doubts, fears,
There is no loss in Divine mind. Even if it resentments and regrets
seems we have hit on bad times or lost of mortal thinking.”
anything it is important we affirm our
disbelief in loss and our belief in The Energy
Of Life being our never ending supply.

“When one has made his demands upon the Universal, he must be ready for surprises.
Everything may seem to be going wrong, when in reality, it is going right.”

“These adverse thoughts, alone, rob man; for “No man gives to himself but himself, and
no man takes away from himself, but himself.”


Chapter 9 - Perfect Self-Expression or The Divine Design
For each of us there is a purpose in life. We are either moving towards our purpose or away
from it and in this chapter Florence gets us to begin the process of acknowledging that it
exists.

In this chapter we are taken through how to find the divine design for our own life. This
perfect plan is not just a job but it includes love, health, wealth and self-expression. It is the
complete elements of life which when experienced will bring happiness.

We each have our own interpretation of what happiness is for us. In the past I believed
aiming for riches is what I needed to do. Now my perfect self expression comes through
teaching, speaking, writing and using the internet to make my living. Add travel, living
abroad for months at a time (especially during the cold English winters) and enjoying love
and happiness with family and friends and my life is complete.

I made the personal choice to become open to different ways of bringing in
money/prosperity according to the divine design for my life. Winning competitions, winning
the lottery or bingo, finding money, being given money, receiving donations... there are so
many ways that money can flow into my life and I choose to allow them all to happen rather
than be limited into believing it must come from a business or via work.

I am always open to God's plan for my life and not my own. What you have to do now is
spend time discovering your own perfect self-expression and the lessons in this chapter will
help you with that.

There is a place that you must fill in this life
that no one else can fill. It is known as your
divine design and if you are unaware of what "Infinite Spirit, open the
it is there is an affirmation that will help you way for the Divine Design
open the door to discover it of my life to manifest; let
the genius within me now
The perfect plan for your life is NOT ABOUT a
be released; let me see
job or money. It incorporates health, wealth,
clearly the perfect plan."
happiness, love and perfect self-expression.

Your prefect self-expression should never
seem like work even if you do get paid for it.
You may be familiar with actors saying they
love what they do and the money is a big bonus.


When what you choose to do in life is connected to and brought about by The Energy Of Life
you will always have the supply you need at hand to make it happen.

It is important you demand definite hunches and intuitive leads from The Energy Of Life so
that the way is made easy and successful for you.

Your perfect self-expression may come from you being a road sweeper or a home-maker or
maybe running a multi-million national corporation. It is not what YOU DO THAT matters but
how happy it makes you in life. I know people with high flying jobs earning six and seven
figure incomes a year and they are miserable. The aim here is to remain happy in life and
that happiness allows you to attract health, wealth and love to you as well. All of this
becomes your self-expression and helps you feel content and happy with life.

Ask The Energy Of Life to come into your mind, dreams, meditation sessions and provide
you with ideas and flashes of what the perfect vision for your life is.

Florence recommends that we do not force a mental picture by visualizing however
visualization has become a popular way for many. In the law of attraction and The Secret
they recommend you see what you want and hold on to that image until it materializes.
Florence Shinn is recommending you don't create your own image but you allow God to let
you know what you are here to fulfil.

Which one you choose to follow has to come from your own personal choice. Maybe a
combination of the two may work to help you create your perfect plan. If you need to learn
more about visioning Michael Beckwith provides products on it and is also a wonderful
metaphysical/new thought teacher worth learning with.

Because of its simplicity most people use and prefer visualizing to visioning. As you learn to
rely more on God's purpose and will for your life rather than your own you may find you
move from visualizing to visioning. If you find that you want something, visualize and ask for
it and when you get it you are still not happy maybe it is time to trying visioning instead.

Visualization is forming your own opinion about what you want to manifest in your life

Visioning comes from asking The Energy Of Life to open the doors for you to experience His
will for your life. The life visioning process takes a lot more faith but is far more rewarding.

Some will say that one has more freedom of choice than the other but I believe that God is
never wrong. Whatever He chooses to flash into your mind is probably going to be
something you have always been doing anyway.

As a parent it is important we give our children the space to find their own divine plan
rather than force what we believe they should be doing upon them.

"Every man is Jehoshaphat, and every man is David, who slays Goliath (mortal thinking)
with the little white stone (faith). So man must be careful that he is not the “wicked and

slothful servant” who buried his talent. There is a terrible penalty to be paid for not using
one’s ability. Often fear stands between man and his perfect self-expression. Stage-fright
has hampered many a genius. This may be overcome by the spoken word, or treatment."

When we are planning on making this happen in our life and they do not go to plan we need
to look at whether our own plan/ego got in the way. I spent time believing I could invest in
property without God. In fact I went through a period of believing every good that had come
into my life was not because of Him but because of my own hard work. Three years later
having lost almost everything I had to apologize for speaking such rubbish and ask for
forgiveness. In a financial mess I started my life again and will NEVER stray from The Energy
Of Life or the plan he has for my life. It was my own ego that told me to become a property
millionaire. That was my will.

Now I live my life based on His will. When I had a few properties managing was not fun for
me – I found it a real headache (which is also what created me losing most of them). With
God’s will what we choose to do is natural to us, fun, and excites us whether we get paid for
it or not... that is how I feel about teaching and writing 

"A young boy came often to my class with his mother. He asked me to “speak the word”
for his coming examinations at school. I told him to make the statement: “I am one with
Infinite Intelligence. I know everything I should know on this subject.” He had an excellent
knowledge of history, but was not sure of his arithmetic. I saw him afterwards, and he
said: “I spoke the word for my arithmetic, and passed with the highest honors; but
thought I could depend on myself for history, and got a very poor mark.” Man often
receives a set-back when he is “too sure of himself,” which means he is trusting to his
personality and not the “Father within.”

Once you are spiritually aware if you choose to turn your back on it and rely on your own
strength I believe the karma that results from that is instant and is there is simply teach you
how much easier life flows when you are living in the flow of it. All it takes is to come back
to the spiritual laws that you know govern you and live by them. Life for me, when I flow in
The Energy, flows wonderfully well.

Anger, fear and worry and all ‘deadly sins’ that will result in life being experienced from
those perspectives so let them go and affirm your faith.

The Energy Of Life lives in the world of completion. Do you have unfinished business? Do
you need to complete things or unclear clutter to allow your good to come to you? If you
are always starting and never finishing things you train your subconscious to never finish
and your desires are never finished – they never reach you. If there is delay look at what is
incomplete in your life.

Are you great at giving to others but not good at receiving from people? Again, you block
your flow of energy if you are unable to receive or you always refuse gifts from other


people. If you are happy to give to someone then be happy to receive when someone wants
to give to you.

“Man should receive gracefully the bread returning to him upon the water—freely ye have
given, freely ye shall receive. There is always the perfect balance of giving and receiving,
and though man should give without thinking of returns, he violates law if he does not
accept the returns which come to him; for all gifts are from God, man being merely the
channel.”

Never hold thoughts of lack over another. If I offer you money and you believe I do not have
it to give then you keep me stuck in poverty. I have offered it to you so take it. Even if you
know I have no money right now. The act of giving it to you will help me release the ability
to get more money in. The act of taking what is given will help you release the ability to
accept gifts – money or anything else. When you speak words about a friend being poor you
keep them poor. When you believe they are poor and have nothing to give you again you
are helping to keep them poor. Instead bless them for whatever they can offer no matter
how small it is and affirm their divine right to experience abundance.

“For example: When the man gave me the one cent, I did not say: “Poor man, he cannot
afford to give me that.” I saw him rich and prosperous, with his supply pouring in. It was
this thought which brought it. If one has been a bad receiver, he must become a good one,
and take even a postage stamp if it is given him, and open up his channels for receiving.”


Chapter 10 – Denials and Affirmations
As we come to the end of this important book our focus turns to how to make it all happen.
I use meditation, visioning and affirmations to ensure my life stays spiritual blessed and I am
always connected to The Energy Of Life.

Florence focuses our attention on using affirmations and reminds us that everything that is
ours by Divine right can be ours as long as we learn to use the right words to release it. It is
our spoken word or intention that helps to begin the process. It is our faith that ensures our
desire is given to us and it is our constant belief in the power of giving to receive that helps
smooth the whole thing along.

All of this must come from a pure heart, which to me means do not give money because
you hope it will come back to you. That will not work. When you give because you have it to
give and when the giving becomes enough even if you get nothing back in return but you
simply enjoy the pleasure of giving - that helps to set up the right mind we need to receive.


We will only receive what we speak and continue to speak on a daily basis. If we affirm
prosperity and then spend the next few days telling our friends about how 'broke' and 'poor'
we are then we ruin our chances of receiving.

"All the good that is to be made manifest in man’s life is already an accomplished fact in
divine mind, and is released through man’s recognition, or spoken word, so he must be
careful to decree that only the Divine Idea be made manifest, for often, he decrees,
through his “idle words,” failure or misfortune."

Writing affirmations so they focus on what we desire and in a way that shows we already
believe we have what we want is important

eg "Infinite Spirit, open the way for my right and perfect health. I give thanks it now
manifests under grace in a perfect way.”

When asking for anything from The Energy Of Life it is important to focus on receiving it
'under grace in a perfect way' so that someone does not have to get injured or die so that
you can receive what you ask for. You want to ensure it is given to you in a way that is
perfect for all concerned.

We are limited by our own expectations and the limits of our subconcious mind. You can ask
for a million dollars for as long as you like, if you don't truly believe you are worth that
amount you will never receive it. You need to know yourself. I found it easier to ask for
small amounts (a few hundred) and work up from there. More recently I prefer not to put
any limit on it and I just ask. I see the amount I receive as a direct relation to where my
'money consciousness' is and how much I believe I am worth. Until you are able to 'enlarge
your expectancies' - which can only happen as you connect more to The Energy Of Life via
meditation - you will only ever receive what you believe you are worth.


You must always ask and give thanks, believing and having faith that what you have asked
for will come to you. Begging and pleading is never necessary and sets up a belief of lack or
even disbelief that you will receive.

"Continually affirming establishes the belief in the subconscious. It would not be necessary
to make an affirmation more than once if one had perfect faith! One should not plead or
supplicate, but give thanks repeatedly, that he has received."

If you are inspired or guided towards buying something that relates to what you desire then
go ahead and buy it.

Stand firm and wait. This can often be the difficult part for people if they believe what they
ask for is not coming fast enough for them. Have you ever watched a plant grow? Who has
the patience to do that... and yet when you plant a seed you expect a plant to grow and
then a flower on the plant. Waiting for your request to come in can be a little like watching a
plant grow. Difficult to wait for! Affirm
your belief in what you have asked for.

Never talk badly about it not happening
"I am asked so often the difference or not coming your way. Give to those
between visualizing and visioning. who have less than you have. Give
Visualizing is a mental process money or give of your time. Affirm that
governed by the reasoning or you deserve good and expect it. Give
conscious mind; visioning is a thanks for it and say your affirmations.
spiritual process, governed by
intuition, or the superconscious If we have even faith - and eventually
mind. The student should train his after experiencing results we will have -
mind to receive these flashes of we need only ask for something once
inspiration, and work out the and give thanks knowing it is already on
“divine pictures,” through definite the way to us.
leads. When a man can say, “I
desire only that which God desires "A student once made this wonderful
for me,” his false desires fade from statement, “When I ask the Father for
the consciousness, and a new set anything, I put my foot down, and I
of blueprints is given him by the say: Father, I’ll take nothing less than
Master Architect, the God within.” I’ve asked for, but more!” So man
should never compromise: “Having
done all—Stand.” This is sometimes
the most difficult time of
demonstrating. The temptation comes to give up, to turn back, to compromise. “He also
serves who only stands and waits.”

Sometimes what we ask for will come at the very last minute. Right as we might be ready to
give up. Look at whether you held on and was resisting. Read the chapter on non-resistance
to remind you to let go and let God :)


"When a student is able to let go of his problem (cast his burden) he will have
instantaneous manifestation."

If you find you have been negative about whether you will receive what you have asked for
then follow it up with an affirmation that will affirm you deny what you just said and believe
in your ability to receive.

“God’s plan for each man transcends the limitation of the reasoning mind, and is always
the square of life, containing health, wealth, love and perfect self-expression. Many a man
is building for himself in imagination a bungalow when he should be building a palace."

We must give up thinking we know what is best or we know what action we need to take
based on our ego/rational mind. Instead we need to learn how to connect to our divine
inner wisdom. Listen to the hunches and ‘leads’ we receive from our inner voice/intuition
and follow them. The more you listen the faster and harder they will come to you. When
you fail to listen recognize that. Get a clear understanding of what the result was because
you did not pay attention.

I bought a very nice digital halogen oven from eBay and while buying it I had a very strong
feeling I really shouldn’t. It was almost screaming at me. This wasn’t my first time buying
something. I had bought a juicer and it was working well. I ignored that feeling. 37 days after
buying it for £50 (approx $80) it broke down. The company I bought it from had a 30 day
return policy and I hadn’t taken out the eBay insurance. The item went in the bin and I
learnt a valuable lesson!

When it comes to listening to your inner voice there will be times you listen and times you
don’t. For that one example when I didn’t I can give you 50 when I did. I listen more times
than I don’t but when I don’t there is always a consequence. Now more than ever because
of my spiritual awareness the lessons come to me very quickly.

“Rest in the Lord and wait patiently. Trust also in him, and he will bring it to pass.”

If you are looking for healing/health or to be cured call on the Christ within. The phrase “In
the name of Jesus Christ” is a very powerful one when saying affirmations and should
always be incorporated within any affirmation for health and wellness.

“Christ was both person and principle; and the Christ within each man is his Redeemer and
Salvation. The Christ within, is his own fourth dimensional self, the man made in God’s
image and likeness. This is the self which has never failed, never known sickness or sorrow,
was never born and has never died. It is the “resurrection and the life” of each man! “No
man cometh to the Father save by the Son,” means, that God, the Universal, working on
the place of the particular, becomes the Christ in man; and the Holy Ghost, means God-
inaction. So daily, man is manifesting the Trinity of Father, Son and Holy Ghost.”


It is important that we become the co-creator of our life in partnership with The Energy Of
Life. Using creativity become an artist and paint the divine designs of your life based upon
the images, leads and intuitive hunches you receive from God. Stand in absolute faith that
nothing and no one will stand in the way of your desire being fulfilled – not even yourself!
Affirm your belief in receiving, always remember to give or to follow a hunch to go
somewhere, ring someone or buy something related to your desire. Your ideal will be made
real when you believe that nothing is more powerful than The Energy Of Life to help you
make it manifest.

“All power is given man (through right thinking) to bring his heaven upon his earth, and
this is the goal of the “Game of Life.” The simple rules are fearless faith, nonresistance and
love!

May each reader be now freed from that thing which
has held him in bondage through the ages, standing
between him and his own, and “know the Truth
which makes him free”— free to fulfill his destiny, to
bring into manifestation the “Divine Design of his life,
Health, Wealth, Love and Perfect Self-Expression.”
“Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.”


Chapter 11 – Affirmations
In the book Florence Shinn provides us with a range of affirmations to help us start our
journey towards prosperity and learning how to talk with The Energy Of Life.

I believe in the power of writing our own affirmations so I am not going to repeat them
here. They are available on the blog:

http://inspirationalguidance.com/florencescovelshinn/the-game-of-life-and-how-to-play-it-
affirmations/

It is important you learn how to write and feel your own affirmations into existence as they
have far more power than anything written by someone else.

Writing your own affirmations also helps you to regain power and take charge of your own
life. You are relying on your own words to create power and connect with the God within
you.

If you want to learn how to successfully write affirmations you can read my eBook

Using The Power Of Affirmations which is available for your reading pleasure here:

http://inspirationalguidance.com/store/products/writing-affirmations-ebook/

Remember as you buy this eBook to send out your money with love and with a grateful
heart because all that we give out is returned to us.


Provided by http://inspirationalguidance.com/florencescovelshinn

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