Nice post! I've actually never considered playing around with "Lottery" winnings until a few weeks back when certain skeptics on here were talking about getting a winning lottery ticket if we believe in IM. Since then I've been thinking about why I haven't just looked to winning lottery tickets to make my money since it seems like such a simple way of getting money.
I haven't spent a lot of time on it yet, but I did figure out that I do have a lot of conflicting beliefs about lottery winnings which probably prevent me from going that route. For example, I've heard that a massive percentage of lottery winners eventually lose their money within a few years of winning, so I didn't want to be one of those. I figured that earning money the slower way, learning how to make $1000/m, then $2000/m, then $3000/m, then $5000/m, then $10,000/m, then $25,000/m etc. will give you the time and skills to handle earning that kind of money. Secondly, most people that win the lottery instantly get clobbered by their friends wanting to get free money from them because they don't believe that person earned the money anyways so they should get something too. Whereas if someone makes a million working their ass off usually friends and family are a lot more respectful of that. I don't know, there just seems to be a lot of beliefs that would need to be squashed before you get to the point where winning the lottery isn't in conflict with your beliefs.
Just as a fun game though, over the holidays I decided to try something out. I got a bunch of scratch and wins from people, maybe like 10 or 12 of them. Since the most I've ever won on a scratch and win is $2, (I don't play often), I wanted to do an experiment. I created an intention to win $10. I know $10 isn't a lot, but it was the amount I wanted to manifest which would put a smile on my face, but wouldn't necessarily get me addicted to try to make money from lotteries and casino's etc. like for example if I manifested $10k or something.
Anyway, I set an intention to win $10 on these scratch and wins and to see what happens. I scratched the first few, nothing. Then I scratched one and I got $2. I was like, damn! But since I had 4 more left I thought to myself "wait a minute, I didn't say I would win $10 on ONE ticket, I just said I wanted $10...so if the next 4 are all $2 winners I'll have $10!" So I scratched the next one, and it was another $2 winner. I now had $4. I scratched the next one, sure enough, $2 winner, I now had $6. I scratched the next one, $2 winner. $8. I was really excited and started thinking about the possibilities of using scratch and wins to just manifest money that way...and a bit of fear overcame me for a second. I scratched the next one, no win. So I wanted to manifest $10 but I only did $8.
So I was a bit confused. Did I screw up the manifestation with my fear? I didn't put a lot of energy into the manifestation so I didn't get too down on it and I know I have a lot of negative beliefs around lottery winnings anyways so I didn't really let it bother me too much. I went downstairs and started doing something else. THen later on that day, I found an extra scratch and win from christmas which I forgot to take upstairs. Instantly I thought "Oh man, this must be the missing $2 winner right here!", so I scratched it.
guess what? Two bucks. THat completed my $10 winning intention.
Now I know this is just a quick test. I know the odds of winning $10 in $2 denominations isn't that low, so it's nothing spectacular but I don't think I've ever won $10 worth at one time...maybe $2 or $4 tops out of like 20-30 tickets. I also could have won $8, $6, $12 etc., but no , I won EXACTLY $10.
Now that I write this, I might play with this some more. Has anyone else played with IM and lottery? |