Powerball Winners—What Do
You Really Want to Do When You Grow Up?
I’ve read numerous stories about recent Powerball winners
from $40-233 million . The stories are almost always the same. The person says
he or she has dreamed about winning the lottery for years. Then, suddenly, they
are on the receiving end of a gift that will position them to release from all
financial worry for the rest of their lives, if they manage the money wisely.
I’ve also read of stories where lottery winners spend all of
their cash quickly and end up more destitute than they started. Is it possible
that no matter how much money we have, if our minds aren’t ready to be rich,
than wealth will not abide with us? Should we stop wishing for a windfall of
cash and start believing that prosperity is in our future?
I, too, have dreamed of winning the lottery. I look at
buying a ticket each week as investing in the unknown and in the unlimited
possibility of God. Some people would think my rational is faulty. But, I make
my own rules in my life. If buying a dollar lottery ticket once a week makes me
envision a financially secure future, then purchase the ticket is what I will
do.
As I travel through the many streams and tributaries of my
dream of winning millions, I recognize that the first thing that I imagine
doing is always quitting whatever job I have been doing solely for financial
gain. I notice that, even though I would no longer need to work, my desire to
continue work at what I love would continue.
My next vision consists of whom I would help financially. I
often think of buying four condos on the beach and moving all my family close
to me, if they were interested in enjoying life with me—which I’m fairly
certain they would. Then, I think about friends and causes I would financially help.
This is where life gets tricky. I’d imagine that many people who didn’t even
want to be casual friends (that includes family) would soon try to re-enter my
life. Suddenly, I would become the Bank of America, without the proper
boundaries.
Lastly, I imagine starting a business that would benefit
everyone in the family. I get the impression that money without purpose is
probably blank and meaningless. You can only splurge for so long before you
realize that compassion, friends, true love, and spiritual purpose is what life
on this earth is about. So, even this part of the dream becomes clear. My
sisters and I had always imagined having an Italian restaurant and deli. For
some reason, I believe making that into a reality for them would be great.
I’ve heard people exclaim about certain circumstances in
their lives, such as a healing from a disease, meeting the love of their lives
or experiencing the majesty of God was like winning the lottery. We imagine
that one in a billion chance of being the special person lucky enough to be on
the receiving end of millions of dollars to be the person God looked down on
and chose specifically for that gift.
What if that weren’t true at all? I have heard stories that
lottery winners had dreamed about the numbers before they won. Maybe in those
cases, I feel as if the winner was purposeful. But it seems to me that, in many
ways, something such as gambling is simply a matter of being in the right place
at the right time. Is God the cause of such things, or are we in charge of that
kind of lottery?
A few times I have had a client come in to be hypnotized and
exclaim that he/she wants to be able to dream of the winning lottery numbers. I
rarely refuse people when they have an idea about hypnosis helping them in some
way that I’m not sure is possible, mostly because the position for them to
learn is not in my hands. It’s in God. This bring me to my final conclusion.
What if someone could be hypnotized to be open to spirit enough to see the
future? What if I could put myself into a trance and imagine the winning
numbers in the newspaper the day after the big winner is announced. Then I go
to the store and purchase the ticket with the numbers I saw. What if a person
could do that?
If that kind of thing were possible, don’t you think
thousands, if not millions, of people would be winning the lottery every week?
I just don’t believe that these kind of things are possible to see, even if you
are psychic. Psychic talent should be used to help people make sense of their
human lives and the future, not provide a way to release people from chance.
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