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    The Game of Life and How to Play It
    The Game of Life and How to Play It
    The Game of Life and How to Play It
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    The Game of Life and How to Play It

    By Florence Scovel Shinn

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    "The Game of Life and How to Play It" is a spiritual classic by Florence Scovel Shinn. In a down-to-earth and entertaining style, the author deals with several topics, including success, prosperity, faith and Devine Design. The book includes quotes from the Bible and anecdotal explanations of the author's understanding of God and man.
    Contents:
    The Game
    The Law of Prosperity
    The Power of the Word
    The Law of Nonresistance
    The Law of Karma and the Law of Forgiveness
    Casting the Burden
    Love
    Intuition Or Guidance
    Perfect Self-Expression or the Divine Design
    Denials and Affirmations
    Denials and Affirmations
    LanguageEnglish
    Publishere-artnow
    Release dateApr 6, 2019
    ISBN9788027304011
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    Florence Scovel Shinn

    Florence Scovel Shinn was an American artist and book illustrator who became a New Thought spiritual teacher and metaphysical writer in her middle years. In New Thought circles, she is best known for her first book, The Game of Life and How to Play It.

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      The Game of Life and How to Play It - Florence Scovel Shinn

      Affirmations

      CHAPTER I.

      THE GAME

      Table of Contents

      Most people consider life a battle, but it is not a battle, it is a game.

      It is a game, however, which cannot be played successfully without the knowledge of spiritual law, and the Old and the New Testaments give the rules of the game with wonderful clearness. Jesus Christ taught that it was a great game of Giving and Receiving.

      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.

      If he gives hate, he will receive hate; if he gives love, he will receive love; if he gives criticism, he will receive criticism; if he lies he will be lied to; if he cheats he will be cheated. We are taught also, that the imaging faculty plays a leading part in the game of life.

      Keep thy heart (or imagination) with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life. (Prov. 4:23.)

      This means that what man images, sooner or later externalizes in his affairs. I know of a man who feared a certain disease. It was a very rare disease and difficult to get, but he pictured it continually and read about it until it manifested in his body, and he died, the victim of distorted imagination.

      So we see, to play successfully the game of life, we must train the imaging faculty. A person with an imaging faculty trained to image only good, brings into his life every righteous desire of his heart—health, wealth, love, friends, perfect self-expression, his highest ideals.

      The imagination has been called, The Scissors of The Mind, and it is ever cutting, cutting, day by day, the pictures man sees there, and sooner or later he meets his own creations in his outer world. To train the imagination successfully, man must understand the workings of his mind. The Greeks said: Know Thyself.

      There are three departments of the mind, the subconscious, conscious and superconscious. The subconscious, is simply power, without direction. It is like steam or electricity, and it does what it is directed to do; it has no power of induction.

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

      For example: a woman I know, when a child, always made believe she was a widow. She dressed up in black clothes and wore a long black veil, and people thought she was very clever and amusing. She grew up and married a man with whom she was deeply in love. In a short time he died and she wore black and a sweeping veil for many years. The picture of herself as a widow was impressed upon the subconscious mind, and in due time worked itself out, regardless of the havoc created.

      The conscious mind has been called mortal or carnal mind.

      It is the human mind and sees life as it appears to be. It sees death, disaster, sickness, poverty and limitation of every kind, and it impresses the subconscious.

      The superconscious mind is the God Mind within each man, and is the realm of perfect ideas.

      In it, is the perfect pattern spoken of by Plato, The Divine Design; for there is a Divine Design for each person.

      There is a place that you are to fill and no one else can fill, something you are to do, which no one else can do.

      There is a perfect picture of this in the super-conscious mind. It usually flashes across the conscious as an unattainable ideal—something too good to be true.

      In reality it is man's true destiny (or destination) flashed to him from the Infinite Intelligence which is within himself.

      Many people, however, are in ignorance of their true destinies and are striving for things and situations which do not belong to them, and would only bring failure and dissatisfaction if attained.

      For example: A woman came to me and asked me to speak the word that she would marry a certain man with whom she was very much in love. (She called him A. B.)

      I replied that this would be a violation of spiritual law, but that I would speak the word for the right man, the divine selection, the man who belonged to her by divine right.

      I added, If A. B. is the right man you can't lose him, and if he isn't, you will receive his equivalent. She saw A. B. frequently but no headway was made in their friendship. One evening she called, and said, Do you know, for the last week, A. B. hasn't seemed so wonderful to me. I replied, Maybe he is not the divine selection—another man may be the right one. Soon after that, she met another man who fell in love with her at once, and who said she was his ideal. In fact, he said all the things that she had always wished A. B. would say to her.

      She remarked, It was quite uncanny.

      She soon returned his love, and lost all interest in A. B.

      This shows the law of substitution. A right idea was substituted for a wrong one, therefore there was no loss or sacrifice involved.

      Jesus Christ said, Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you, and he said the Kingdom was within man.

      The Kingdom is the realm of right ideas, or the divine pattern.

      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.

      For example: A woman once asked me why her life was now one of poverty of limitation. Formerly she had a home, was surrounded by beautiful things and had plenty of money. We found she had often tired of the management of her home, and had said repeatedly, I'm sick and tired of things—I wish I lived in a trunk, and she added: Today I am living in that trunk. She had spoken herself into a trunk. The subconscious mind has no sense of humor and people often joke themselves into unhappy experiences.

      For example: A woman who had a great deal of money, joked continually about "getting

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