the game of life
​and how to play it
florence scovel shinn
Transcribed for Women by Sarah Anne Shockley

All power is given woman (through right thinking) to bring her heaven upon her earth, and this is the goal of the "Game of Life." The simple rules are fearless faith, nonresistance and love!​
The Game of Life and How to Play It is Florence Scovel Shinn's best-known book and has become a classic of New Thought literature. It clearly and powerfully describes how to overcome adversity and manifest the life of your dreams through understanding and applying specific divine laws and principles in your life. Transcribed from the male-dominant language of Shinn's day to wording more inclusive of the feminine voice. “The Game of Life helped me crystallize my own thinking and moved me forward on the path to where I am today. --Louise Hay
The superconscious mind is the God Mind within each person, and is the realm of perfect ideas...for there is a Divine Design for each woman. There is a place that you are to fill and no one else can fill, something you are to do, which no one else can do.​​

​FLORENCE SCOVEL SHINN (1871-1940) was born in Camden, New Jersey and worked as a book illustrator in the early 1900’s. She became a New Thought author in mid-life. Her best known work is The Game of Life and How to Play It, which she self-published in 1925.
FROM THE TRANSCRIBER:
As a female reader of these classic texts, I found the patriarchal language outmoded and off-putting. Transcribing them into the feminine voice has made a profound difference. They are significantly more empowering to me as a woman and the universal truths more immediate and  accessible. I hope they will do the same for you. - Sarah Anne Shockley