She Won The Lottery On Purpose

Cynthia Stafford was a single mother raising five kids, a woman who’s life wasn’t what she wanted, but who believed in the power of her mind.  Her favorite author of books on that subject was Divine Science minister, Joseph Murphy.  Murphy teaches self-healing and manifestation through the power of visualization and focused thought and feeling.  Stafford followed Murphy’s teachings.  She decided she wanted to win $112 million.  Heeding Murphy’s advice, she wrote the figure “$112 million” over and over.  She meditated on it.  She imagined how excited she would be once the money finally came into her life.

Four months of obsessive focus later, she stopped and let go. “Once you’re in the flow of the energy,” she says, “it’s going to happen.”  In May 2007, Stafford won $112 million in California’s Megamillions lottery.

True story.

I’ve never read Dr. Murphy’s writings, but from quotes I’ve seen, his ideas are similar to those of Abraham and many other mind-power writers.  Dr. Murphy says the healing presence of God is within each one of us and with focused direction, it can heal the mind, body, and life situations of “all disease and impediments.”

Here are his steps for tapping into this energy:

1. Don’t be afraid of “the manifest condition,” i.e., accept what is
2. Realize all current conditions are only the product of past thinking
3. Celebrate the power of God (nonphysical energy) that lies within you, i.e. own that power

Dr. Murphy says, “Live in the embodiment of your desire, and your thought and feeling will soon be made manifest.”

Abraham says you have to feel as if you have the thing that you want to have.  You must be it before you can become it or have it.  Since we want what we want because it will make us happy, we must be happy now if we want to get what we want.

Cynthia Stafford is the shining example that odds don’t mean anything.  Your intention is what matters.  What do you intend today?

I intend, as I have since Sunday, to find reasons to feel good.

Access To Good Feelings

I had to get something from Tim’s desk.  Tim has a sign on his desk that says, “I’m too busy to be neat.”  Need I say more about the state of his workspace?  I usually have to dig if I want to find anything.

So I was digging, and unfortunately, my excavation unearthed some rejection letters from agents to whom I’ve been submitting screenplays and other projects.  Tim, bless him, checks our P.O. box and keeps track of my submissions.  He doesn’t take them personally; I do.  I saw those letters, and I felt my energy plummet.  I felt bad, and I knew it.

What was I feeling?  Anger?  Disappointment?  Sadness?  Probably all of the above and other gems like shame and fear.

In the past, I would have wallowed in these feelings for a bit.  But I’m in the first week of my feel good experiment, so I wasn’t going to indulge in that crud.

Find something to feel good about, I commanded myself.  Convincing myself I’m a great writer at that moment wasn’t exactly within my reach.  Telling myself that my work will find the right home didn’t work either.  I needed to get off the topic of writing and selling completely.

I spotted Ducky sprawled on the sofa.  She looked up at me and wagged her stub of a tail.  I approached her, and her whole body wiggled.  I sat down and hugged her.  Ahh.  That felt better.

Abraham says we don’t have to go from feeling bad to perfect joy; all we have to do is feel relief.  Pet my dog—feel relief.  Works every time.

Thank the universe for Ducky!  She’s my fastest access to feeling good most of the time.  This morning, I grinned nonstop for 45 minutes while I watched her play with her friend in the woods.  That’s some seriously great alignment there!

Dogs are poster beings for great vibrations.  Such joy!

If you don’t have a dog, find something that lights you up.  We all need something to flip the switch from sad to glad.  The life we want to live depends on it.

This Lottery Thing

So this lottery thing … how does it work?

Tim and I have spent a lot of time talking about it this week—what it will feel like to claim the money, what we’ll do with the money.  We have BIG plans for our money.  So many organizations and people to whom we want to donate, so many things we want for ourselves, so many experiences we want to have …

Our small town is having financial troubles and they nearly shut down the library at the end of the year.  I was appalled.  How can I live in a town without a library?  Libraries are our access to knowledge, growth, and adventure.  The city council managed to scrape up enough money to run the library with one employee and minimal hours of operation.  When we were in the library last week talking to Michelle, Tim said when he wins the lottery, we’re donating money to the library.  Michelle said they’d rename the library after Tim.  She said we could choose the books, the décor, everything. 

As I’ve said in previous posts, I don’t believe in luck or coincidence or random occurrences.  Some organizing principle is behind everything, even if we can’t see it.  Abraham’s principle—we attract our life experiences with our thought vibration—makes the most sense to me.

Under that principle, it seems to me that we can attract a lottery win.  I’ve been thinking a lot about that lately.  I think about the things I’ve manifested in my life and know that I can manifest this too.

This morning, Tim and I met up with a friend (I’ll call her Sandy) and her dog in the forest.  While Ducky and Sandy’s dog played, we chatted.  Tim made a passing reference to “when I win tomorrow night”  (don’t you just love his knowing?).  Sandy asked if we gambled at the nearby casino.  We said no—we just buy lottery tickets.  She got excited and told us she’d won $1000 in lotteries on three occasions.  She then told us about other people she’d known who had won jackpots varying from $1000 to $400,000.  Tim told her that he wins $2 to $5 every single drawing.  She said she thought some kind of “luck” was brewing there because that kind of consistent winning, even though small, is unusual.

The whole conversation was exciting to me because, though it wasn’t a manifestation of the lottery, it was a manifestation of a conversation about the lottery.  To me, that means we’re starting to vibrate in the vicinity of that win.

Abraham says 99.9 percent of everything that manifests in the world is complete at a vibrational level before we have physical evidence of it.  In other words, it’s there, but we can’t see it, taste it, touch it, smell it yet.

Out at the bay where Tim and I walked Ducky yesterday, rows of old pier pilings can be seen jutting up from the surf.

These pilings were not visible four years ago.  You could stand anywhere along the sand  on the point where we walk and see no signs of any pilings at all.  Now look at them:

They were there all along, but they were buried under the sand.  What if our lottery win is right there, buried under our thoughts and feelings but about ready to pop up for us to see?

What if everything I want is right there?  What if everything you want is right there?

Abraham calls the place where all these wonders hang out the “vibrational escrow,” a holding place for all the desires we’ve had throughout our lives, desires that are meant to be ours as soon as we line up with them.  In other words, when we stop pinching ourselves off from our source energy, our nonphysical selves, it will flow to us.

So I’m still reaching for good thoughts.  And that lottery is percolating right under my nose.  Mmm.  What’s that aroma?  Is that the smell of money?