Playing The Game
October 13th, 2009 
WORD COUNT: 977 Short, Yet Spirited Words
TIME to PLAY: * Less than 5 Minutes! *
Many years ago I read that “life was a lot like a game”. I have to admit, that concept didn’t sit well with me, at that particular point in my life. For I was knee-deep in over responsibility. Now I can look back and see how that perspective could have helped me
lighten up a bit sooner!
Maybe you can relate to this as well? There was an aspect within my consciousness that thought the game concept trivialized life. But what’s “real life”?
Is real life only what we see and feel, or is the material realm merely an illusion, like some philosophies contend? Yet if everything is spiritual, both the stuff we see, and don’t see has meaning, and is real!
Let’s go back to the game concept. How do you win a game? You learn the rules and play! And in the Game called Life, we have opportunities to play and learn, in every moment.
The key to enjoying and succeeding in the game, rests in never losing site that we’re much more than five sensory beings. We are eternal explorer-adventurers playing in the sandbox of time and space!
The aspect of ourselves that knows and sees from a higher, broader perspective is always with us. All we have to do, is intend to see through the eyes of the Higher Self. It is then that the seemingly trivial events, and circumstances take on a deeper meaning. When we see with our spiritual eyes, we truly understand that everything happening externally… is a reflection of what’s going on within us internally, or energetically!
We’re always creating with our thoughts, even when we forget that! And in life, someone else doesn’t have to lose, in order for you to win!
Here’s a perfect illustration of the power of thought within the context of the game of life. It came up this past weekend, and I know my Guides were smiling with me, as it unfolded. I was being reminded to take a more playful approach on an upcoming venture!
I was playing a board game with some friends. The rules bestowed great power to anyone who drew a ten. This particular card allowed you to split a ten to move you, and anyone else on the board, a total of ten spaces, forward or backward. So needless to say, it made the game very interesting as people could put you (or you could put others) into precarious positions. This was especially useful if a player on another team was getting close to winning the game!
I have to admit I’m not a big fan of the Wild Card 10 Rule, because who wants to be at the mercy of someone else’s “luck of the draw”? But, is it merely luck?
Interestingly in the first game, after two hours of play, and drawing too many cards to count from the draw pile, I received only one ten. In case you’re interested in the odds of that happening, let’s just say it’s highly, highly, did I say highly… unlikely.
In the first game we used the Wild Card 10 rule. As we were starting the second game, we decided to forgo the Wild Card Rule in the interest of time. So in the second game, a ten was just a ten, no funny moves!
As we started the second game I mentioned to a friend; “now watch this game, I’ll have a handful of tens”. As I looked at my hand of five cards, I had to laugh. I was holding four tens! Interesting, isn’t it? And with each draw, more often then not, I’d draw another ten!
Considering there were only eight tens in a pile of 104 cards, and five other players were also drawing cards, the probability of this happening … is even more highly, highly, did I say highly, unlikely than the scenario in the first game! Something was up and I knew at once that my Guides were smiling with me.
Okay I created this… I get it! At any moment, we are either pushing something away, or letting it in! We all get that on the conceptual level. But it’s not so easy to remember it every minute of every day. In the first game, I had decided I didn’t like playing with the tens. Add guess what, I repelled the tens! No surprise there, as anything that is likened to itself… is drawn!
Then in the second game I was focused on the tens, and guess what? Even though I no longer wanted them, I was focusing on them and not needing them, and so, I had a handful of tens! I have to laugh, because it’s a truly funny, and powerful lesson.
How many times do we do this in our own lives without conscious intent? For what we focused upon does expand in our experience. Yet if we attach a strong need to having it, we hold ourselves apart from what we want. For the vibration of need resonates with lack.
And as I thought about this game, I also realized that if we could see our daily choices with more playfulness, it would be a lot easier to shift our perspectives, and therefore the cards we draw!
A lighter, yet mindful approach, enables more fun, as we shift our game playing strategies with greater ease and mastery! Also an occasional wild card, does make the game more interesting, don’t you think?
It’s a lot easier to see how our intentions are determining what we receive, when we have a playful attitude. And as we consider our choices from the perspective of our Higher Spiritual Self, we can shift our attention and intention with the joy of a conscious creator
at play!
So how will you play your game today? What cards do you want in your hand? What route will you take on the board? What partners will you play with, and what will you learn?
Decide, Be, Strategize and Play!
Your friend and partner in daily discovery,
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