Grapek - The Game Of Life

Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:18:23 +0000

⁣The GAME of LIFE and How to Play It – by Florence Scovel Shinn
with Jim Grapek, Your Freedom Hub Co-host

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Florence Scovel Shinn wrote her seminal book, The Game of Life and How to Play It, nearly 100 years ago. Yet the principles she articulated have been confirmed by modern neuroscience, psychology, behavioral science, and spiritual traditions. The book is a gem.

If you can see past Shinn’s dated writing style, what she has given us is a precision map for how consciousness -- your consciousness -- actually co-creates reality. The book’s core premise is radical: Life isn’t a battle where strength wins, it’s a game where those who understand the rules (spiritual laws) win. And today most people are losing, not because the
universe is against them, but because they don’t know the rules or are unknowingly violating them.

Co-host Grapek has often mentioned in past shows that thoughts, and words especially, work together to create your reality. Your speech is the doorway between your inner world and your outer reality, which is why monitoring the language you use is one of the fastest ways to identify and interrupt limiting belief patterns. For example, when you say, “My memory is terrible,” or “I’m such an idiot,” or “I’m not in good health,” it activates the subtle, energetic forces of creation to reinforce and amplify those thoughts. So get into the habit of monitoring your thoughts and words and changing them accordingly. (e.g., “My memory is usually very good.)

According to Shinn, winning at the Game of Life means following a few other rules, as well: First, imagination must precede manifestation. Picture what you want. Write it down. Draw pictures, even. And put some emotional excitement behind those goals. Secondly, and here’s the tricky part, imagine you already have what you want. Picture it. Feel it. Act on it. KNOW that it will come when you hold a coherent intention and couple it with faith; faith not in the religious sense, but as unconditional acceptance. It has to come because it is a spiritual law. Reality is nothing more than a sophisticated mirror that reflects back to you what you put out.

A parable Shinn uses to describe this is one of soldiers digging ditches in a dry desert with no rain in sight. Their instructions were to prepare as if the water were already coming. This isn’t blind optimism – it’s a mechanism. You don’t wait for favorable conditions before you believe — you believe and KNOW something first, and the conditions will follow. Done right, they must.