The Secret to the Game of Life - Play It!

The adjectives used to describe life change according to the speaker. Some “Think Positively”, some “Think Negatively”, some “do not stop to think, or do not think at all”, and for them - life is “whatever". Many speak of positive and negative people as though they are outside of us, but look in the mirror and see Ms Positive or Mr Negative - visible after blinks. Florence Scovel Shinn was widely known for many years as an artist and illustrator, metaphysician and lecturer, and as having helped thousands of people through her great work of healing and assisting in solving their

problems.

I followed her teachings (usually in the natural, as at that time I did not develop my spiritual muscles at all). I would mouth the Affirmations, but not really connect them with spirit. Seeking spirituality has really benefited my image (positive/negative) a great deal and has also led me to many other masters and orientations. Not until a dramatic event enveloped me in 2000, did those teachings begin to kick in. I became painfully aware of the importance of the metaphysical in our daily lives. According to the metaphysicians, there are three departments of the mind (p4, Wisdom):

the subconscious - whatever we feel deeply or image clearly (visualize), is impressed upon the subconscious mind, and carried out in minutest detail; the conscious mind - the carnal or mortal mind is the human mind that 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 - the God mind, within each man and is the realm of perfect ideas - the perfect pattern, the Divine Design, for there is a Divine Design for each person. Sometimes we get flashes which seem as unattainable, too good to be true. This is where true destiny resides, and each of us has our own true destiny.
I was operating (and still do from time to time) at the first two levels - deeply feeling, visualizing, being overwhelmed by what is going on around me and in the world, only seeing lack and limitation, etc. Any flash from the superconscious would be a temporary set of excited actions, and back again to conscious and subconscious mind sets.

We all know, as behavioural experts, that knowledge does not directly lead to action, unless one can move to superconsious at a rapid pace and allow life to manifest as it should with overwhelming love, abundance, peace, health, happiness… The Game of Life is a game of work, a game where we have to be in an awake state and operate with all three engines firing. We should consider no longer being on automatic as we proceed in life, but by being conscious of every thought, word, action - being in the moment, being conscious, helps us to appreciate now…as we operate fully being present to why we are thinking what we are thinking, why we are saying what we are saying, why we are doing what we are doing…