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    The Game of Life And How to Play it (Condensed Classics): The Timeless Classic on Successful Living
    The Game of Life And How to Play it (Condensed Classics): The Timeless Classic on Successful Living
    The Game of Life And How to Play it (Condensed Classics): The Timeless Classic on Successful Living
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    The Game of Life And How to Play it (Condensed Classics): The Timeless Classic on Successful Living

    By Florence Scovel Shinn and Mitch Horowitz

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    Within You Is an Awesome Power Ready to Fulfill Your Wishes

    This compact edition of Florence Scovel Shinn’s classic The Game of Life and How to Play It reveals the true you. Your words and thought images are a metaphysical power which, combined with your natural intuitive insights, can bring you prosperity, love, health, and every good thing in life. In this brief volume you will discover:

    How to receive hunches and intuitions from your higher mind.

    How to use affirmations for maximum results.

    Why you must be supremely careful in your choice of words.

    How to dissolve troubles by casting them on the “Christ within.”

    How to discover the Divine Design of your life.

    Abridged and introduced by PEN Award-winning historian Mitch Horowitz, this condensation of the beloved metaphysical classic can, in under an hour, set you on a dramatic and thrilling new direction in life.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherG&D Media
    Release dateOct 9, 2018
    ISBN9781722520267
    The Game of Life And How to Play it (Condensed Classics): The Timeless Classic on Successful Living
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    Florence Scovel Shinn

    Florence Scovel Shinn (1871-1940) was an American artist and book illustrator and a key member of the New Thought movement. After the publication of her first book, The Game of Life and How to Play It in 1925, she became a popular lecturer and writer.

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      The Game of Life And How to Play it (Condensed Classics) - Florence Scovel Shinn

      INTRODUCTION

      Philosopher of Everyday Life

      Ask any fan of motivational or New Thought literature to name his or her favorite books, and chances are the list will include Florence Scovel Shinn’s The Game of Life and How to Play It.

      Shinn’s book has been beloved among self-help readers since it first appeared in 1925. Yet it almost didn’t appear at all. Shinn, a respected illustrator of children’s literature, could not get New York publishers interested in her metaphysical philosophy. Finding no takers, the artist published the book herself.

      Shinn’s outlook is simple and decisive. Within you, she writes, exist three minds: the conscious mind, which you use to navigate daily life; the subconscious mind, which acts on suggestions, good or bad, from your conscious mind; and the superconscious mind, a spark of divine power within you. Your superconscious, she writes, possesses infinite awareness and the creative ability to remake your world. Shinn provides methods to get in tune with this higher mind, and thus win at the game of life.

      What accounts for Shinn’s longstanding popularity? Her ideas were not unique to her time. Contemporaneous metaphysical writers, such as William Walker Atkinson and Wallace D. Wattles, held similar views. Yet listening to Shinn always feels like hearing from a trusted friend—someone who understands our daily struggles and who doesn’t talk above us; but who also isn’t afraid to deliver tough advice and won’t tolerate excuses. She insists that we get out there and test her methods on the field of life.

      Shinn was a lasting influence on many leaders in the positive-thinking movement, including Emmett Fox, Norman Vincent Peale, and Louise Hay. It is notable that each of these figures is from a different generation: Fox, a popular New Thought minister, was a contemporary of Shinn’s; Peale, a Methodist minister, rose to worldwide fame in the 1950s as the author of The Power of Positive

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