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Almost 100 years ago a woman named Florence Scoble Shin wrote a tiny book that has quietly influenced
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Millions of people it predates modern manifestation it predates the law of attraction movement it predates neuroscience and yet
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Many of the principles she taught are now being validated through psychology behavioral science and our understanding of identity
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Today I want to share the five most powerful distinctions I learned from her work
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and explain them through the lens of modern science and my own experience experience coaching tens of thousands of people.
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So let's get into it.
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All right, guys, we hear a lot about other teachers like Napoleon Hill,
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Neville Goddard, but dare I say that I would put Florence Scovelshin head to head with any great New Thought teacher.
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She's definitely on my starting five.
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Her book, The Game of Life and How to Play It, is in my top five all-time reads.
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And she wrote a number of other amazing books like the secret door to success.
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Your word is your wand, the power of the spoken word.
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I'm going to David-splain Florence Scovel-Shin today because there's a good chance
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if you've been wanting to change your mind and change your reality, that Florence has a key that can unlock the next level for you.
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So distinction number one, life is a game governed by spiritual law.
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So Florence opens the game of life and how to play it with a powerful claim.
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She says, most people consider life a battle, but it is not a battle, it is a game.
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So she consistently reframes the entire human experience as a game governed by a set of consistent laws.
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And this is a big deal because if life is a battle, then strength wins.
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But if life is a game, then understanding the rules wins.
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And she argues that every person is playing the game whether they know it
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or not and that the laws governing this game are spiritual rather than merely material.
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And this is a complete break from today's industry of motivation
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and inspiration where you're told to hustle and grind or if you're not working hard enough, you need to just wake up earlier.
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The way Florence describes the game is played is so much more elegant and frankly, so much more in alignment with the way that I would wanna play the game of life.
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And one of her recurring themes is that people suffer not because the universe or God is withholding blessings,
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but simply because they are unknowingly violating spiritual law.
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And that's a radically different way of looking at life because instead of asking, why is this happening to me or what am I doing wrong?
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She says we should be asking, what law am I failing to understand?
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Throughout her book, she tells stories of people whose external circumstances changed only after an internal realization.
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There's a woman who's struggling financially she discovers that resentment and fear have dominated her consciousness.
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And the moment she lets that go, her situation changes.
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Another person remains trapped until they stop fighting the circumstances
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that are showing up in their lives and they learn to let go, which allows a divine order to step in and solve their problems.
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And her stories are almost always following the same pattern.
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There's an internal correction, then an external change.
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And it's never the reverse.
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She is remarkably consistent about this.
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She says, consciousness comes first, experience follows.
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One of the things that I really like about how Florence teaches is that she's always referencing scripture.
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She says, the Bible is a guide for understanding these laws.
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So for example, she references Isaiah, if ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land.
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If you follow the laws, you'll prosper.
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That's basically what this is saying.
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So she interprets scripture all the time, less as religious doctrine and more as how the mechanics of consciousness work.
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And this is one of the reasons I like her
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so much because she takes the seriousness out of life and she says it's a game.
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She removes the blocks and the impossibilities that we all experience.
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And she says, look, the block is a misunderstanding of the law.
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Understand the law and you can remove the block.
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So everything that she talks about is how the internal creates the external.
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And she does it in such a law-based, framework-driven way.
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Of course, I love frameworks that she presents reality as a structure
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that anyone can get good at learning and I don't know about you But that makes me excited.
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It makes me really want to get good at the game
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So distinction number two your word is your wand So
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if there is one idea that Florence returns to over and over again, it is that speech is a powerful Creative force.
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So she wrote a whole book two books actually on the subject She says your words are never neutral
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and your words reveal your beliefs and your thought process.
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And then they reinforce themselves into reality and that they have the ability to be creative or destructive.
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So she talks about observing that most people are continually speaking against themselves without realizing it.
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People say they never have enough.
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They say nothing works out for them.
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They say they're unlucky.
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They say they always attract the wrong people.
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And then they become surprised when life continues to reflect those assumptions.
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So for Florence, your speech is not simply describing your life.
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Your speech is participating in the creation of your life.
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Again, this is why she devoted two entire books to the subject.
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So she believed that words impress themselves, not only on the subconscious mind, but on the field of reality itself.
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And one of her recurring themes is that the miracle
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that someone is often looking for often begins when someone changes the way that they speak.
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Not because saying different words is magical, but because different words are revealing a different consciousness.
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And so she's always showing that when someone stops speaking from fear and starts speaking from faith, their decisions change, their identity changes,
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their expectations change, and eventually their circumstances change.
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But she also says that words are magical because they inform how coincidence and synchronicity show up for you.
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So the word becomes the outward evidence that an inward shift has already begun.
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And she's always referencing scripture.
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She says, death and life are in the power of the tongue.
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And by thy words, thou shalt be justified by thy words thou shalt be condemned
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and so she reads these as spiritual instructions your speech is constantly setting the direction for your consciousness
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and you know this just makes sense
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if we look at it from a modern perspective your words are more crystallized vibrations of your thoughts right
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if your thoughts are vibrational words are amplified frequency of your thoughts.
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So words are the first representation of your thoughts in the physical world.
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And so they become a very real creative force.
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It's like this idea of the word has now become flesh.
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The thought has now become physical through your speech.
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And the stories that you repeatedly tell about yourself become the lens through which you perceive reality.
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And look, let's be honest, most people complain a lot, right?
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Try noticing for the next 24 hours when you say something negative.
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You'll probably be shocked at how frequently that happens.
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Or you speak something that's not in alignment with your desires.
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You say, I just don't have enough time.
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Or my body hurts.
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Or I'm tired.
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Or it's going to be hard.
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All of these words represent your current consciousness.
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And your consciousness creates your reality.
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Like Ford said, the man who thinks he can and the man who thinks he can't are both right.
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And sometimes it's hard to notice your thoughts, but it's much easier to catch your words.
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And so if you just stop speaking your negative thoughts into the world, you choke off the sunlight to your mind and eventually the negative beliefs start to dry up, right?
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That's how powerful your words are.
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They are the doorway between the inner and the outer world, between the visible and the invisible.
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And according to Shin, your speech is the gate that determines what you allow out into your physical reality.
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Distinction number three, non-resistance is the key to creation.
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Now, one of Florence's deepest teachings is that resistance strengthens the very thing resisted.
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And she repeatedly points her readers towards Christ's instruction to resist not evil.
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And at first glance, that sounds passive, but her interpretation is actually anything but passive.
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She suggests that emotional resistance binds consciousness to unwanted conditions.
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I'll say that one more time.
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Emotional resistance binds consciousness to unwanted conditions.
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In other words, fear keeps fear alive.
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Resentment keeps the past alive.
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Conflict perpetuates conflict.
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The energy that you invest in fighting something often becomes the energy that's actually sustaining it.
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So instead of forcing life into submission, she teaches non-resistance.
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Across her books, she tells numerous stories of people who finally get what they want only after letting go of fear
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or control or bitterness or desperation.
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The external breakthrough always follows an internal surrender.
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Again and again, she demonstrates that letting go is not giving up.
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It is creating space for a higher order to enter the system, which creates a resolution to the problem itself.
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In other words, non-resistance creates a space for solutions to emerge and resistance simply perpetuates the problem that you're trying to solve.
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And she's points to teachings in the Bible, like agree with thine adversary quickly, right?
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You first read of that and you're like, agree with my adversary quickly.
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But what that is indicating, it's an instruction related to consciousness that you should be non-resistant, right?
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She interprets these as instructions for consciousness.
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And the objective is not surrendering the circumstances.
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The objective is withdrawing your creative energy from what you no longer wish to perpetuate in your reality.
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Now, of course, I love this teaching.
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It's in alignment with one of my primary teachings I call the golden equation, which is desire plus non-resistance equals desired result, right?
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If there was one equation that distilled down all of personal growth, success principles, spiritual law, it would be that whatever you desire can
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and will materialize itself if you can remain non-resistant to the desire itself.
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But just notice that so often the moment we want something, we start noticing the absence of it.
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Like the mind starts explaining why it's not here yet, right?
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There's not enough time.
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There's not enough money.
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I'm not worthy or deserving of it.
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The doctors say that nobody's ever recovered from it.
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He'll never change.
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So if your thoughts are creating a reality, then you must maintain a non-resistant state to the thing that you want.
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You have to ignore your current reality and hold the vision of the thing desired.
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Florence says this is one of the primary spiritual laws that's fundamental to overcoming challenges
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and achieving the vision and goals that you have for your life.
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And I'm all in with Florence on this one.
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Distinction number four, imagination precedes manifestation.
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So Florence consistently taught that the unseen precedes the seen.
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Of course, this is also a fundamental teaching of the great mystic Neville Goddard.
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She says the inner image precedes the outer condition.
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In other words, this is not a question of which came first, the chicken and the egg.
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Was it the inner vision or the outer manifestation?
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She says 100% of the time, the vision must be held first, the crystallization of it into reality then follows.
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So she encourages people to mentally occupy,
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I love that phrase, mentally occupy the fulfilled state long before physical evidence appears.
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To hold the vision despite your current circumstances, which is easier said than done, but this is how the law works.
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And so she encourages what she calls living in anticipation
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or living in preparation Assuming that what you desire already exists
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and living as if you were the person who had already received it, right?
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This is another way of describing being your future self now
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and she tells stories Of a woman who sets her table
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every night in anticipation of her estranged husband coming back And then after two months of loyal consistent routine,
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right living as if he suddenly reappears and they reunite
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And she shares other stories of placing orders for the furnishing of a new home before the home had been found.
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And miraculously, a woman finds the home of her dreams.
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So she's frequently tying imagination and faith together.
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She has a great quote.
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She says, man's supply is inexhaustible and unfailing when fully trusted, but faith or trust must precede the demonstration.
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She again references scripture where it is said, according to your faith, be it unto you.
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Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
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For faith holds the vision steady and the adverse pictures are dissolved and dissipated and in due season.
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We shall reap if we faint not.
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It's a word salad way of saying stay loyal to your decision and it must materialize into your reality.
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So modern neuroscience supports a lot of what Shin talked about in the 20s.
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Like we know that professional athletes can imagine playing their sport and their muscle fibers respond as if they were actually training.
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Pianists have been studied just imagining playing the piano and their brains become active as if they were actually playing the piano.
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So your mind is so powerful.
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And both on a practical level and a vibrational level, what you consistently hold in your imagination will, given enough time, outpicture itself into your reality.
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But make no mistake, imagination comes first, manifestation follows.
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Distinction number five, faith is not religious, it is acceptance.
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And so Florence's understanding of faith is, I think, profoundly practical because faith is not a belief in some higher deity
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or a God or something really external to yourself.
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What she means by faith is acceptance, unconditional acceptance.
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Faith is what you believe.
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And so if you believe in scarcity, then that is what you have faith in.
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If you believe in abundance, then that is what your faith is placed in.
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So faith is belief, period, full stop.
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Do you believe in fear more or do you have faith in the certainty of the goodness of the future?
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And again and again, she demonstrates that people receive after they have inwardly accepted the reality that they seek.
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In other words, you have a desire and you begin preparing, you begin expecting, you start acting,
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you begin embodying long before circumstances provide confirmation.
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She tells this story in the Bible of the kings of Israel, Judah and Adom, who march their armies into the desert to go to war, but they end up running out of water.
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And so stranded in the scorching heat, their men and their livestock are dying of thirst, desperate.
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They seek out the prophet Elisha for a message from God.
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And Elisha gives them a seemingly bizarre and physically exhausting instruction from the Lord.
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He says, make this wadi full of ditches.
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For thus says the Lord, you shall not see wind, nor shall you see rain.
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Yet that valley shall be filled with water so that you, your cattle, and your animals may drink.
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So the soldiers, already dehydrated and weak, they start manually digging deep trenches in this dry desert dust.
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There's no sign of a cloud.
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There's no wind.
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There's no rain.
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Yet they obey the command and they dig and the next morning, a supernatural flash flood rushes in from a distance, fills every single ditch they've prepared.
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The water saves their lives
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and the reflection of the morning sun on the pools trick their enemies into a tactical blunder
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that ends up giving these two kings a total victory.
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And so Florence highlights this story to prove that you cannot just wish for something.
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You must do all of the work as if you expect it.
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That's what true faith is.
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By digging the ditches, the armies gave the water a place to go.
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And so in Shin's words, the average person asks for a demonstration or a miracle, but immediately checks the horizon to see if wind and rain are coming,
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looking for physical proof or waiting for the economy or timing or circumstances to look favorable before they believe.
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Shin says, quote, the average person is always looking for results.
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He wants to see the wind and the rain before he digs his ditches, but the law is dig your ditches first and then expect the water.
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How powerful is that?
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So Shin gives practical examples of how her students apply this law to materialize their vision.
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There's a woman who's seeking a position and she doesn't sit home worrying.
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She buys a new work bag and plans her commuting wardrobe
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and preparing her desk that she doesn't physically have yet and reorganizing her home, right?
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There's a person wanting to go abroad.
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They buy a suitcase or they apply for a passport, even though they currently have $0 in their bank account.
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Another guy shopping for a home buys a small little decorative piece or a key chain for the house, signaling to the subconscious mind that the move is already a done deal.
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And by performing these physical actions, you're digging your ditches deep with faith
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and you're training your mind to stop looking at your current lack and begin focusing entirely on expected abundance.
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So the external world eventually catches up with these internal decisions and the faith and preparation that comes along with it.
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You dig the ditches and the rain must come.
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So for me, after reading all four of Florence Scovelshin's books, I'm convinced she wasn't simply teaching manifestation.
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She was teaching that consciousness operates according to these laws, right?
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Your understanding of reality, your words, your imagination, your resistance, your faith.
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These are not separate ideas.
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They are different expressions of the same principle.
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Your inner world continually crystallizes into your outer reality.
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And maybe that's why her work has endured for almost a century, because while the language has changed, human consciousness hasn't, right?
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The game is still being played.
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The laws are still operating.
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And the invitation is the same as it was when Florence first wrote those words, learn the rules.
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Learn the rules, master your consciousness, and watch your life begin to reflect it.
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В этом видео 250 предложений и 3327 слов для шедоуинга. Речь длится 19:35. Говорящий говорит в естественном темпе, около 170 слов в минуту, близком к повседневной речи. 82% слов входят в 3000 самых частых слов английского языка; остальные стоит разобрать перед занятием.
Ключевая лексика этого видео
15 слов из видео, которые стоит выучить, с произношением и значением:
| Слово | Произношение | Значение |
|---|---|---|
| consciousness существительное | /ˈkɑnʃəsnəs/ | созна́ние, созна́тельность |
| spiritual прилагательное | /ˈspɪɹɪt͡ʃuəl/ | духо́вный |
| imagination существительное | /ɪˌmæd͡ʒəˈneɪʃən/ | воображе́ние |
| instruction существительное | /ɪnˈstɹʌkʃən/ | инстру́кция, инструкта́ж |
| distinction существительное | /dɪˈstɪŋkʃən/ | разли́чие, отли́чие |
| belief существительное | /bɪˈliːf/ | ве́ра, дове́рие |
| scripture существительное | /ˈskɹɪpt͡ʃɚ/ | писа́ние, свяще́нное писа́ние |
| consistent прилагательное | /kənˈsɪs.tənt/ | после́довательный |
| practical прилагательное | /ˈpɹæk.tɪ.kəl/ | практи́ческий |
| principle существительное | /ˈpɹɪn.sɪ.pəl/ | при́нцип |
| consistently наречие | /kənˈsɪstəntli/ | после́довательно |
| dig глагол | /dɪɡ/ | копа́ть, выка́пывать |
| acceptance существительное | /əkˈsɛp.təns/ | получе́ние |
| alignment существительное | /əˈlaɪn.mənt/ | выра́внивание |
| govern глагол | /ˈɡʌv.ən/ | пра́вить, управля́ть |
Фразовые глаголы, которые вы услышите
| Слово | Произношение | Значение |
|---|---|---|
| end up глагол | зака́нчиваться, зако́нчиться | |
| come back глагол | возвраща́ться, возврати́ться | |
| give up глагол | сдава́ться, сда́ться | |
| wake up глагол | /ˌweɪk ˈʌp/ | просыпа́ться, просну́ться |
Произношение, на которое стоит обратить внимание
Говорящий использует 30 сокращённых и редуцированных форм, например you're, I'm, doesn't. Произносите их коротко, так, как слышите.
- Звуки «th»: worthy /ˈwɝ.ði/, athlete /ˈæθ.liːt/, breakthrough /ˈbɹeɪk.θɹuː/
- Звуки «sh» и «zh»: consciousness /ˈkɑnʃəsnəs/, imagination /ɪˌmæd͡ʒəˈneɪʃən/, instruction /ɪnˈstɹʌkʃən/, distinction /dɪˈstɪŋkʃən/, preparation /ˌpɹɛpəˈɹeɪʃ(ə)n/
- Длинные слова — следите за ударением: imagination /ɪˌmæd͡ʒəˈneɪʃən/, consistently /kənˈsɪstəntli/, fundamental /ˌfʌn.dəˈmɛn.təl/, preparation /ˌpɹɛpəˈɹeɪʃ(ə)n/, repeatedly /ɹɪˈpiːtɪdli/
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- Прослушайте всё видео один раз молча и выпишите незнакомые слова.
- Начните со скорости 0,75×, повторяйте предложение за предложением и вернитесь к обычной скорости, когда станет легко.
- Запишите себя и сравните с оригиналом, обращая внимание на такие слова, как consciousness, spiritual, imagination.
Грамматика в этом видео
Конструкции, которые говорящий использует чаще всего, с точными словами из видео:
| Конструкция | В видео |
|---|---|
| Условные предложения if + предложение, will/would + глагол — условие и его результат | If you follow the laws, you'll prosper · if you know someone who would love |
| Пассивный залог be + причастие прошедшего времени — важно, что происходит, а не кто это делает | being validated · is played · be justified |
| Present Perfect have/has + причастие прошедшего времени — прошлое действие, важное сейчас | have dominated · has already begun · has now become |
| Придаточные определительные who / which + предложение — уточнение о человеке или предмете | man who thinks · people who finally · equation, which is |
Что такое техника Shadowing?
Shadowing — это научно обоснованная техника изучения языка, изначально разработанная для подготовки профессиональных переводчиков и популяризированная полиглотом доктором Александром Аргуэльесом. Метод прост, но эффективен: вы слушаете аудио на английском от носителей языка и немедленно повторяете вслух — как тень, следующая за говорящим с задержкой в 1–2 секунды. В отличие от пассивного прослушивания или грамматических упражнений, Shadowing заставляет мозг и мышцы рта одновременно обрабатывать и воспроизводить реальные речевые паттерны. Исследования показывают, что это значительно улучшает точность произношения, интонацию, ритм, связную речь, понимание на слух и беглость речи — что делает его одним из самых эффективных методов для подготовки к IELTS Speaking и реального общения на английском.