Chapter 10 Denials And Affirmations

In this final chapter Denials and Affirmations, from The Game of Life and How to Play It, by Florence Scovel Shinn, she takes us step by step through powerful affirmations and how denials work. Her real life examples are sometimes comical but still thought provoking. Please pull up a chair and join me for this final chapter.

Transcript

Hello,

And welcome to today's Read Aloud.

Today we will be reading the final chapter of the Game of Life and how to play it by Florence Scoville-Shinn.

It's chapter 10.

It's entitled,

Denials and Affirmations.

Thou shalt also decree a thing,

And it shall be established unto thee.

All the good that is to be made manifest in one's life is already an accomplished fact in divine mind,

And is released through one's recognition or spoken word.

So one must be careful to decree that only the divine idea be made manifest,

For often one decrees through their idle words,

Failure,

Or misfortune.

It is therefore of the utmost importance to word one's demands correctly.

As stated in a previous chapter,

If one desires a home,

Friend,

Position,

Or any other good thing,

Make the demand for the divine selection.

For example,

Infinite Spirit,

Open the way for my right home,

My right friend,

My right position.

I give thanks it now manifests under grace in a perfect way.

Infinite Spirit,

Open the way for my right home,

My right friend,

My right position.

I give thanks it now manifests under grace in a perfect way.

Infinite Spirit,

Open the way for my right home,

My right friend,

My right position.

I give thanks it now manifests under grace in a perfect way.

The latter part of the statement is most important.

For example,

I knew a woman who demanded $1,

000.

Her daughter was injured,

And they received $1,

000 indemnity.

So it did not come in a perfect way.

The demand should have been worded in this way.

Infinite Spirit,

I give thanks that the $1,

000,

Which is mine by divine right,

Is now released and reaches me under grace in a perfect way.

Infinite Spirit,

I give thanks that the $1,

000,

Which is mine by divine right,

Is now released and reaches me under grace in a perfect way.

Infinite Spirit,

I give thanks that the $1,

000,

Which is mine by divine right,

Is now released and reaches me under grace in a perfect way.

As one grows in financial consciousness,

One should demand that the enormous sums of money which are theirs by divine right reach them under grace in perfect ways.

It is impossible for one to release more than one thinks is possible,

For one is bound by the limited expectancies of their subconscious.

One must enlarge their expectancies in order to receive in a larger way.

One so often limits themselves in their demands.

For example,

A student made the demand for $600 by a certain date.

He did not receive it,

But heard afterwards that he came very near receiving $1,

000,

But he was given just $600 as the result of his spoken word.

They limited the Holy One of Israel.

Wealth is a matter of consciousness.

The French have a legend giving an example of this.

A poor man was walking along a road when he met a traveler who stopped him and said,

My good friend,

I see you are poor.

Take this gold nugget,

Sell it,

And you will be rich for all your days.

The man was overjoyed at his good fortune and took the nugget home.

He immediately found work and became so prosperous that he did not sell the nugget.

Years passed,

And he became a very rich man.

One day he met a poor man on the road.

He stopped him and said,

My good friend,

I will give you this gold nugget,

Which if you sell will make you rich for life.

The medicant took the nugget,

Had it valued,

And found it was only brass.

So we see the first man became rich through feeling rich,

Thinking the nugget was gold.

Everyone has within themselves a gold nugget.

It is their consciousness of gold,

Of opulence,

Which brings riches into one's life.

In making their demands,

One begins at their journey's end.

That is,

One declares they have already received.

Before ye call,

I shall answer.

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 they have received.

The desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose.

This rejoicing,

Which is yet in the desert state of consciousness,

Opens the way for release.

The Lord's prayer is in the form of command and demand.

Give us this day our daily bread,

And forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors.

And ends in praise,

For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever.

Amen.

Concerning the works of my hands,

Command ye me.

So,

Prayer is command and demand,

Praise and thanksgiving.

The student's work is in making themselves believe that with God all things are possible.

With God all things are possible.

With God all things are possible.

This is easy enough to state in the abstract,

But a little more difficult when confronted with a problem.

For example,

It was necessary for a woman to demonstrate a large sum of money within a stated time.

She knew she must do something to get a realization,

For realization is manifestation.

And she demanded a lead.

She was walking through a department store when she saw a beautiful pink enamel paper cutter.

She felt the pull towards it.

The thought came,

I haven't had a paper cutter good enough to open letters containing large checks.

So she bought the paper cutter,

Which the reasoning mind would have called an extravagance.

When she held it in her hand she had a flash of a picture of herself opening an envelope containing a large check.

And in a few weeks she received the money.

The pink paper cutter was her bridge of active faith.

Many stories are told of the power of the subconscious when directed in faith.

For example,

A man was spending the night in a farmhouse.

The windows of the room had been nailed down.

And in the middle of the night he felt suffocated and made his way in the dark to the window.

He couldn't open it,

So he smashed the pane with his fist,

Drew in droughts of fine fresh air,

And had a wonderful night's sleep.

The next morning he found he had smashed the glass of a bookcase.

And the window had remained closed during the whole night.

He had supplied himself with oxygen simply by his thought of oxygen.

When a student starts out to demonstrate,

One should never turn back.

Let not that one who wavers think that they shall receive anything of the Lord.

A colored student once made this wonderful statement.

When I ask the Father for anything,

I put my foot down and I say,

Father,

I take nothing less than I have asked for,

But more.

So one 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.

One also serves only stands and waits.

Demonstration often come at the eleventh hour,

Because one then lets go,

That is,

Stops reasoning.

And infinite intelligence has a chance to work.

One's dreary desires are answered drearily,

And one's impatient desires long delayed or violently fulfilled.

For example,

A woman asked me why it was she was constantly losing or breaking her glasses.

We found she often said to herself and others with vexation,

I wish I could get rid of my glasses.

So her impatient desire was violently fulfilled.

What she should have demanded was perfect eyesight,

But what she registered in the subconscious was simply the impatient desire to be rid of her glasses.

So they were continually being broken or lost.

Two attitudes of mine cause loss.

Depreciation,

As in the case of the woman who did not appreciate her husband,

Or fear of loss,

Which makes a picture of loss in the subconscious.

When a student is able to let go of their problem,

Cast their burden,

They will have instantaneous manifestation.

For example,

A woman was out during a very stormy day,

And her umbrella was blown inside out.

She was about to make a call on some people whom she had never met,

And she did not wish to make her first appearance with a dilapidated umbrella.

She could not throw it away as it did not belong to her.

So in desperation she exclaimed,

Oh God,

You take charge of this umbrella.

I don't know what to do.

A moment later,

A voice behind her said,

Lady,

Do you want an umbrella mender?

There stood an umbrella mender.

She replied,

Indeed I do.

The man mended the umbrella while she went into the house to pay her call,

And when she returned she had a good umbrella.

So there is always an umbrella mender at hand on one's pathway when one puts the umbrella or situation in God's hands.

One should always follow a denial with an affirmation.

For example,

I was called on the phone late one night to treat a man whom I had never seen.

He was apparently very ill.

I made the statement,

I deny this appearance of disease.

It is unreal,

Therefore cannot register in his consciousness.

This man is a perfect idea in divine mind,

Put substance expressing perfection.

There is no time or space in divine mind,

Therefore the word reaches instantly in destination and does not return void.

I have treated patients in Europe and have found that the result was instantaneous.

I am asked so often the difference between visualizing and visioning.

Visualizing is a mental process governed by the reasoning or conscious mind.

Visioning is a spiritual process governed by intuition or the super conscious mind.

The student should train their mind to receive these flashes of inspiration and work out the divine pictures through definite leads.

When one can say,

I desire only that which God desires for me.

I desire only that which God desires for me.

I desire only that which God desires for me.

Their false desires fade from the consciousness and a new set of blueprints is given him by the master architect,

The God within.

God's plans for each one of us transcends the limitation of the reasoning mind and is always the square of life containing health,

Wealth and perfect self-expression.

Many of us are building for ourselves in imagination a bungalow when really we should be building a palace.

If a student tries to force a demonstration through the reasoning mind,

One brings it to a standstill.

I will hasten it,

Saith the Lord.

One should act only through intuition or definite leads.

Rest in the Lord and wait patiently.

Trust in Him and He will bring it to pass.

I have seen the law work in the most astonishing manner.

For example,

A student stated that it was necessary for her to have $100 by the following day.

It was a debt of vital importance which had to be met.

I spoke the word declaring spirit was never too late and that the supply was at hand.

That evening she phoned me of the miracle.

She said the thought came to her to go to the safe deposit box at the bank to examine some papers.

She looked over the papers and at the bottom of the box was a new $100 bill.

She was astounded and said she knew she had never put it there for she had gone through the papers many times.

It may have been a materialization as Jesus Christ materialized the loaves and fishes.

One will reach the stage where one's word is made flesh or materialized instantly.

The fields ripe with the harvest will manifest immediately as in all of the miracles of Jesus Christ.

This is a tremendous power alone in the name Jesus Christ.

It stands for truth made manifest.

He said whatsoever ye ask the Father in my name He will give it to you.

The power of this name raises the students into the fourth dimension.

Where they are freed from all astral and psychic influences.

And one becomes unconditioned and absolute as God.

Unconditioned and absolute.

I have seen many healings accomplished by using the words in the name of Jesus Christ.

Christ was both person and principle.

And the Christ within each person is our redeemer and salvation.

The Christ within is our own fourth dimensional self.

The one 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 of us.

No one cometh to the Father save by the Son.

Means that God the universal working on the place of the particular becomes the Christ in us.

And the Holy Ghost means God in action.

So daily one is manifesting the Trinity of Father,

Son and Holy Ghost.

One should make an art of thinking.

The master thinker is an artist.

And is careful to paint only the divine designs upon the canvas of their mind.

And one paints these pictures with masterly strokes of power and decision.

Having perfect faith that there is no power to mar their perfection.

And that they shall manifest in their life the ideal made real.

All power is given to us through right thinking.

To bring our heaven upon our earth.

And this is the goal of the game of life.

The simple rules are fearless faith,

Non-resistance and love.

May each reader be now freed from the thing which has held them in bondage through the ages.

Standing between them and their own.

And know the truth which makes them free.

Free to fulfill their destiny.

To bring into manifestation the divine design of their life.

Health,

Wealth,

Love and perfect self-expression.

Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.

Thank you for listening.

Namaste.

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