What you send out comes back to you. That's how Florence Scovel Shinn described The Law of Karma in 1925. But, she also gave another piece - you can neutralize the karma you create in the world by forgiveness. Sometimes we get into the habit of retelling the story of our pain over and over again. When someone asks how you are, you tell them everything that's wrong. You lay in bed at night thinking about it. Every time you do that you're throwing another boomerang (that's bound to return). Stop the cycle by offering forgiveness, whether to yourself, someone else, or just to let go of the situation Forgiveness isn't saying you condone bad behavior, but it's releasing you from it's grip so you can move on. Curious if you've ever seen this work in practice, or does it stay a theory for most people? In Living the Game of Life we dive deeper into this and the other principles in Florence Scovel Shinn's The Game of Life and How to Play It.

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Forgiveness has a terrible reputation. Most people hear the word and assume it means excusing, or worse condoning, what happened. Letting someone off. Pretending it didn't cost you. So they refuse — reasonably — and then carry the thing for another decade. Florence Scovel Shinn framed it completely differently in Chapter 5 of The Game of Life and How to Play It. She treats forgiveness as a neutralizing act. She doesn’t say it’s your moral obligation or a generous thing to do. 𝗜𝘁’𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹. In her framework, 𝘂𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 = 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻. It clogs the channel, and everything downstream of it moves slowly. Health, money, opportunity, peace. 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗶𝘀𝗻'𝘁 𝗮 𝗳𝗮𝘃𝗼𝗿 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗱𝗼 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻. 𝗜𝘁'𝘀 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗰𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿. That reframes the whole question. It stops being 𝘥𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘥𝘰 𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘬𝘦𝘦𝘱 𝘱𝘢𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴. 𝗔 𝘀𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗽𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲, 𝗶𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸: Notice where your attention goes when it's got nowhere else to be. Where does your mind wander on your drive home, in the shower, or that moment before sleep. Whoever shows up there uninvited — that's the one still taking up space inside you. You don't have to feel kindly toward them. You just have to stop holding on. Catch it. Name it. Release them to their own good, and take your attention back. That's it. That's the whole practice, and it works on the fifteenth repetition better than the first. I published the 100th Anniversary Edition of Florence's book, and I run a community called Living the Game of Life where we read it slowly and put it to work — with companion guides, group discussion, and people who are moving through similar things. We also open 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗟𝗶𝗳𝗲 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 twice a year for a guided journey through the full book. Come sit with us.

"𝗜𝗳 𝗶𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗯𝘆 𝗱𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁, 𝗜 𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝗶𝘁." That line is from Chapter 5 of Florence Scovel Shinn's The Game of Life and How to Play It, and it's the most useful sentence I know for anyone who is currently holding something too tightly. A launch. A client. A specific opportunity. A particular person. Shinn's warning in this chapter is one I don't see repeated nearly enough in manifestation circles: she cautions against forced manifestation. Bending your will around one specific outcome, one particular door, one exact yes. She said 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗲𝘀 "𝗶𝗹𝗹-𝗴𝗼𝘁" 𝘀𝘂𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀. The thing arrives, but it arrives with a price tag. It was built on strain or someone else's loss, and it doesn't hold. Her alternative is what she called divine selection. Instead of demanding the specific thing, you ask for the thing or its equivalent — and you hold the vision without insisting on the specifics. Now, I want to be careful here, because I work with a lot of women who are already insight-rich and action-poor. 𝗡𝗼𝗻-𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗻𝗼𝗻-𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻. Shinn is not telling you to sit down. She's telling you to stop focusing only on one particular route while the actual road stays open beside you. There's a real difference between: "𝗜𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁, 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗵, 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗮𝘆." → 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗲 "𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝗿 𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗶𝘃𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗻𝘁, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜'𝗺 𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗱𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸." → 𝗱𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 One of those is force. The other is flow. Feel which one you've been running because noticing is the first step. I'm the publisher of the 100th Anniversary Edition of Florence's book, and I host a free community called Living the Game of Life where we work through this material as a practice, not a theory. We also run 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗟𝗶𝗳𝗲 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 twice yearly for people who want to move through the entire book with a group and live guidance. The door's open!