Florence Scovel Shinn's affirmation "if it's mine, it's mine; if it's not, I don't want it" shifts manifestation from striving to acceptance. The key is knowing the difference between head-driven desire, which is ego-based, and heart-driven desire, which is authentic and soulful.
What if you ask for something and it's not given to you?
You know, there's a great teacher in the early 1920s. I just did an episode about her, Florence Scovel Shinn. She wrote a book called The Game of Life and How to Play It. One of my top 5 books. It's a great book. And still alive? No, I'm not going to do her affirmation justice. I just want to give her some credit. But the idea is, is like, if it's mine, it's mine. And if it's not mine, I don't want it. So if I ask for something now, I may go kicking and screaming for a while. But, but at some point, I, I realized it's not for me. It's not for me. And, and at some point—
Why do you have the desire in your heart then if it's not for you?
Well, I, I think there's 2 types of desires. I think there's a desire that comes from a head, and I think a desire that comes from the heart.
For sure.
Yeah. I think authentic desires aren't things that we invent. They're, they're, they're transmissions that we receive. And, you know, that's part of the discernment that we develop as we do the healing work. Is you start to feel the difference. And so, yeah, you know, it's— she has another really wonderful affirmation that says, what's— what was mine from the beginning is mine now and ever shall be mine. So whatever is mine can't be taken away, and whatever isn't mine, I don't need it.
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