If Life is a Game, These are the Rules

by Cherie Carter-Scott

No one saves us but ourselves. 

No one can and no one may. 

We ourselves must walk the path.

Buddha

"If Life Is a Game, These Are the Rules" is a template

for living. Everyone needs to read these words of wisdom.

It's 'simple' yet  important stuff and universal truths  that

all of us can learn to  live happier lives. These truths are

self-acceptance, understanding, love, success, and the

inner knowing that we're all in this gametogether, on the

same team..

" In workshops and retreats, on photocopies and emails,

 on notice boards and fridge doors,the 'Ten Rules for 

Being Human' have been spreading around the world like

wildfire, so, in all probability,you've already seen them.

In case you haven't, they're brilliant, and here they are,

together with Cherie Carter-Scott's summary of how you 

can  use them as a primer for higher consciousness.

Rule One

You will receive a body. You may love it or hate it,but

it will be yours for the duration of your life on Earth.

Rule Two

 You will be presented with lessons.

 You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called ‘life.'

 Each day in this school you will have the opportunity to learn

 lessons.You may like the lessons or hate them,but you have

 designed them as part of your curriculum.

Rule Three

There are no mistakes, only lessons.

Growth is a process of experimentation, a series of trials,

errors, and occasional victories.

The failed experiments are as much a part of the process as the

experiments that work.

Rule Four

A lesson is repeated until learned.

Lessons will be repeated to you in various forms until you have

learned them.When you have learned them, you can then go on to

the next lesson.

Rule Five

Learning does not end. There is no part of life that does not

contain lessons.If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned.

Rule Six

‘There’ is no better than ‘here’. When your ‘there’ has become a

‘here,'you will simply obtain a ‘there’ that will look  better

to you than your present ‘here’.

 Rule Seven

Others are only mirrors of you.

You cannot love or hate something about another person unless

it reflects something you love or hate about yourself.

 Rule Eight

Fill your mind with sacred thoughts, or neurotic ones will plague you.
Marianne Williamson

What you make of your life is up to you. You have all 

the tools and resources you need. What you do with 

them is up to you.

Rule Nine

Your answers lie inside of you. All you need to do is look,

listen, and trust.

Rule Ten

You will forget all of this at birth.

You can remember it if you want by unravelling

the double helix of inner knowing.

 Summary

Your time here on Earth is brief.Time passes and

things change. You have options and choices in

which to make your wishes, dreams, and goals 

become reality.

When you ask yourself, ‘Why am I here?’ or

‘Why is this happening to me? ’ or ‘What's it all

about?’ turn to your spiritual primer.

Ask yourself, ‘What is the lesson?’ If you hear a 

defensive reaction using the words ‘never’ or 

‘always’ in your response,you haven’t yet learned

the lesson. Next, go a little deeper and ask,

‘What is there for me to learn from this experience?’

Each time you view your circumstances as

possessing value, regardless of the apparent

confusion or hardship, you grow.

Your personal evolution will depend on how readily

you embrace  your lessons and integrate them 

into your life. Remember, the only consequence

for resisting lessons,is that they will keep repeating

themselves until you learn them.

When you have learned a lesson, you will always

be tested. When the lesson is learned, the test will 

be easily passed,and you  then move on to more

complex and challenging ones. You can look back

on the incidents in your past and see clearly the 

lessons you have learned,resisted, and are still

repeating. 

‘Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery,

and today is a gift, that is why we call it the

present.’ It is more challenging to look at

your present situation and see exactly what 

your lessons are.Looking into the future is

the most difficult.Wishing that you had already

graduated from the school of life  does not 

accelerate your progress or make the lessons

any easier.Examining the situation for  the real

lesson is the scavenger hunt.

Remind yourself that you are here to learn

lessons. Be present with your process. Pay

attention to what you are  experiencing.Be

diligent with actions which enable you to ‘get'

the lessons  presented to you. Ask for answers

and you shall receive them. Listen with an

open heart. Explore all options. See your

judgment  as a mirror.View each crisis as an

opportunity. Trust yourself. Believe in yourself.

Look within yourself, to your higher self,for

guidance on all your choices.Extend compassion

to yourself.

Remember, there are no mistakes, only lessons .

Love yourself, trust your choices, and everything

is possible!"