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.